cosmology
Apocatastasis
The doctrine of the periodic restoration or recurrence of all things to their original state after vast cycles.
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The Secret Doctrine | Page 3 (part 1)
“The Secret Doctrine by H.
P.
Blavatsky -- Vol.
1 [[Vol.
1, Page 1]] PROEM ------- PAGES FROM A PRE-HISTORIC PERIOD.
A N Archaic Manuscript -- a collection of palm leaves made impermeable to water, fire, and air, by some specific unknow…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 3 (part 2)
“The latter is either "awake" or "asleep." The Svabhavikas, or philosophers of the oldest school of Buddhism (which still exists in Nepaul), speculate only upon the active condition of this "Essence," which they call Svabhavat, and deem it f…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 3 (part 3)
“The esoteric symbol of Kali Yuga is the five-pointed star reversed, thus -- the sign of human sorcery, with its two points (horns) turned heavenward, a position every [[Footnote(s)]] ------------------------------------------------- * See t…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 3 (part 4)
“The orthodox Brahmins, those who rise the most against the Pantheists and Adwaitees, calling them Atheists, are forced, if Manu has any authority in this matter, to accept the death of Brahma, the creator, at the expiration of every "Age" o…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 3 (part 5)
“But this view does not prevent him from believing in its existence so long as it lasts, to wit, for one Mahamanvantara; nor from applying Akasa, the radiation of Mulaprakriti,* to practical purposes, connected as the World-Soul is with all…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 3 (part 6)
“." For clearer understanding on the part of the general reader, it must be stated that Occult Science recognises Seven Cosmical Elements -- four entirely physical, and the fifth (Ether) semi-material, as it will become visible in the air to…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 3 (part 7)
“Herbert Spencer has of late so far modified his Agnosticism, as to assert that the nature of the "First Cause,"* which the Occultist more logically derives from the "Causeless Cause," the "Eternal," and the "Unknowable," may be essentially…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 3 (part 8)
“Moreover, the Secret Doctrine teaches: -- ( c ) The fundamental identity of all Souls with the Universal Over-Soul, the latter being itself an aspect of the Unknown Root; and the obligatory pilgrimage for every Soul -- a spark of the former…”
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Pistis Sophia | Document FIRST-d
“It happened while I am sitting being distant from you [9 ] a little upon the mountain of the Olives, thinking of the arrangement of the service concerning which they sent me, that it was finished: and the Last mystery dispatched not to me m…”
Pistis Sophia | Document FIRST-g
“Now therefore we all together we wait for thee at the last Boundary, namely, the last mystery (reckoning) from within, he also is a part of us.
Now therefore we have dispatched to thee thy vesture [17 ] which is thy very own from at first,…”
Pistis Sophia | Document FIRST-m
“But answered Philippos, said he to Jesus, My Lord, because of which mystery removedst thou the binding of the Rulers with their Aeons, with their Destiny, with their Sphere, with all their Places, and in confusion thou causedst them to be c…”
Pistis Sophia | Document FIRST-o
“It happened therefore while the Rulers of the Aeons, with those of the Destiny, with those of the Sphere are abiding, doing this kind (of thing) [36 ] turning them round, eating the purgation of their matter, having not been allowed to make…”
Pistis Sophia | Document FIRST-z
“But it happened while Jesus is saying these words unto his disciples saying to them, This is the fourth repentance which said the Pistis Sophia.
Now therefore he who understandeth, let him understand.
It happened therefore, Jesus having s…”
Pistis Sophia | Document FIRST-ad
“And also let them trust unto him, if they should come unto the Place of the Height: because it (is) he who will see and redeem us, 38 and there is a great mystery [69 ] of deliverance in him: and he is he who will deliver all the powers out…”
Pistis Sophia | Document FIRST-ai
“Thou hatedst those who keep that which is vain without cause; but I, I trusted, I shall be glad about the Lord, and I shall be delighted over thy mercy: because thou lookedst upon my humility and thou savedst my soul out of the necessities,…”
Pistis Sophia | Document FIRST-aj
“Because they ensnared me with a power of face of lion, I having not done evil to them, this (power) from which they will take away its light: they oppressed the power which (is) in me, this which they will not be able to take away.
Now the…”
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The Kybalion (Three Initiates) | Chapter V (part 4)
“And at the end of the Grand Cycle of Aeons, when THE ALL shall draw back into itself all of its creations--you will go gladly for you will then be able to know the Whole Truth of being At One with THE ALL.
Such is the report of the Illumin…”
The Kybalion (Three Initiates) | Chapter VII (part 3)
“This Involuntary stage of Creation is sometimes called the "Outpouring" of the Divine Energy, just as the Evolutionary state is called the "Indrawing." The extreme pole of the Creative process is considered to be the furthest removed from T…”
The Kybalion (Three Initiates) | Chapter XI (part 1)
“CHAPTER XI RHYTHM "Everything flows out and in; everything has its tides; all things rise and fall; the pendulum-swing manifests in everything; the measure of the swing to the right, is the measure of the swing to the left; rhythm compensat…”
The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | Fishes, Insects, Animals, Reptiles and Birds-i
“The serpent mounds of the American Indian; the carved-stone snakes of Central and South America; the hooded cobras of India; Python, the great snake o the Greeks; the sacred serpents of the Druids; the Midgard snake of Scandinavia; the Naga…”
The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | Fifteen Rosicrucian and Qabbalistic Diagrams-c
“(This is not to be taken as earth years or times.) The 5,000, 000 represents the great hall year; the 700,000 the great Sabbath year, wherein all human beings gradually gain true understanding and become heirs to their original and eternal…”
The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Mystery of the Apocalypse-f
“The third horse, symbolizing the element of water, was sacred to Neptune.
It was of heavy gait and described a very small circle.
The fourth horse, signifying the static element of earth, described as immovable and champing its bit, was t…”
The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Mystery of the Apocalypse-g
“At the lower right is the angel with the key to the bottomless pit, who with a great chain binds Satan for a thousand years.
In the heavens above is represented one like unto the Son of Man, who carries a great sickle with which he reaps t…”
The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Page 33
“THE STARS. THE STARS 17. פ 17th Hebrew letter (Phe). ORIGIN OF THE SYMBOLISM OF THE SEVENTEENTH CARD OF THE TAROT. The Phe expresses the same hieroglyphic meaning as the Beth (2nd card), but in a more extended sense. For, whilst the Beth si…”
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Plato: Phaedo | Section 1j
“I reckon, said Socrates, that no one who heard me now, not even if he were one of my old enemies, the comic poets, could accuse me of idle talking about matters in which I have no concern.
Let us, then, if you please, proceed with the inqu…”
Plato: Phaedo | Section 1o
“For admitting that she may be generated and created in some other place, and may have existed before entering the human body, why after having entered in and gone out again may she not herself be destroyed and come to an end?
Very true, Si…”
Plato: Phaedo | Section 1an
“And some burst forth again on the opposite side, and some on the same side, and some wind round the earth with one or many folds, like the coils of a serpent, and descend as far as they can, but always return and fall into the lake.
The ri…”
Plato: Phaedrus | Section 1p
“And there is a law of Destiny, that the soul which attains any vision of truth in company with a god is preserved from harm until the next period, and if attaining always is always unharmed.
But when she is unable to follow, and fails to b…”
Plato: Timaeus | Section 1n
“Thus then, and for this reason the night and the day were created, being the period of the one most intelligent revolution.
And the month is accomplished when the moon has completed her orbit and overtaken the sun, and the year when the su…”
Plato: Timaeus | Section 1p
“Now, when they should be implanted in bodies by necessity, and be always gaining or losing some part of their bodily substance, then in the first place it would be necessary that they should all have in them one and the same faculty of sens…”
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Pseudo-Dionysius: The Divine Names | Chapter 10, Section 1a
“CHAPTER X Concerning ” Omnipotent ,” ” Ancient of Days “; and also concerning ” Eternity “ and ” Time .” 1.
Now ‘tis time that our Discourse should celebrate God (Whose Names are many) as “Omnipotent” and “Ancient of Days.” The former titl…”
Revelations of Divine Love | Chapter XXVII
“Often I wondered why by the great foreseeing wisdom of God the beginning of sin was not hindered: for then, methought, all should have been well." "Sin is behovable—[playeth a needful part]—; but all shall be well" After this the Lord broug…”
Revelations of Divine Love | Chapter XXXIV
“"All that is speedful for us to learn and to know, full courteously will our Lord shew us" Our Lord God shewed two manner of secret things. One is this great Secret [Counsel] with all the privy points that belong thereto: and these secret t…”
Revelations of Divine Love | Chapter XXXV
“"I desired to learn assuredly as to a certain creature that I loved.... It is more worship to God to behold Him in all than in any special thing" And when God Almighty had shewed so plenteously and joyfully of His Goodness, I desired to lea…”
Revelations of Divine Love | Chapter LXII
“"God is Very Father and Very Mother of Nature: and all natures that He hath made to flow out of Him to work His will shall be restored and brought again into Him by the salvation of Mankind through the working of Grace" For in that time He…”
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The Bhagavad Gita | Chapter VIII, Section 1a
“CHAPTER VIII.
Ar g una said: What is that Brahman, what the Adhyâtma, and what, O best of beings!
is action?
And what is called the Adhibhûta?
And who is the Adhiya g ña, and how in this body, O destroyer of Madhu?
And how, too, are yo…”
The Bhagavad Gita | Chapter VIII, Section 1b
“This same assemblage of entities, being produced again and again, dissolves on the advent of night, and, O son of P ri thâ!
issues forth on the advent of day, without a will of its own .
But there is another entity, unperceived and eterna…”
The Bhagavad Gita | Chapter IX, Section 1a
“CHAPTER IX.
Now I will speak to you, who are not given to carping, of that most mysterious knowledge, accompanied by experience, by knowing which you will be released from evil.
It is the chief among the sciences, the chief among the myst…”
Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, Book IV | Sutra 34
“Pure spiritual life is, therefore, the inverse resolution of the potencies of Nature, which have emptied themselves of their value for the Spiritual man; or it is the return of the power of pure Consciousness to its essential form. Here we…”
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Iamblichus: On the Mysteries | Chapter XXII
“What then [it may be said], does not the summit of the sacrific art recur to the most principal one of the whole multitude of Gods, and at one and the same time worship the many essences and principles that are [rooted and concentred] in it…”
Iamblichus: On the Mysteries | Chapter VIII-m
“Thus, for instance, if the allotment of the soul was as far as to philosophy, the soul would be able, though it should not choose a philosophic but some other life, to energize in that life somewhat philosophically.
There are also said to…”
Iamblichus: On the Mysteries | Chapter VIII-o
“In the next place, departing from intellect, and descending into reasoning and dianoia, it no longer apprehended real beings by simple intuitions, but syllogistically and transitively, proceeding from one thing to another, from propositions…”
Iamblichus: On the Mysteries | Chapter VIII-av
“It is well observed by Ficinus, in lib.
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Eunead.
ii.
Plotin.
“that the fire which is enkindled by us is more similar to the heavens than other terrestrial substances.
Hence it participates of light, which is something incorporeal, i…”
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The Poetic Edda: Voluspo | Section 1o
“The sun turns black, | earth sinks in the sea, The hot stars down | from heaven are whirled; Fierce grows the steam | and the life-feeding flame, Till fire leaps high | about heaven itself.
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Now Garm howls loud | before Gnipahellir, Th…”
The Poetic Edda: Voluspo | Section 1p
“More fair than the sun, | a hall I see, Roofed with gold, | on Gimle it stands; There shall the righteous | rulers dwell, And happiness ever | there shall they have.
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There comes on high, | all power to hold, A mighty lord, | all lands…”
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The Kalevala | Rune XLIX-e
“Then again the wicked Louhi Changed her withered form and features, And became a dove of good-luck; Straightway winged the starry heavens, Over field, and fen, and forest, To the meadows of Wainola, To the plains of Kalevala, To the forge o…”
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Corpus Hermeticum 8: The Eight Sphere | Section 1a
“That No One of Existing Things doth Perish, but Men in Error Speak of Their Changes as Destructions and as Deaths <The idea of cyclic change central to CH III, "The Sacred Sermon", also takes center stage here.
A current of ancient specula…”