cosmology
Christ Force
In Western Hermetic Qabalah, the specific harmonizing cosmic force symbolised by Tiphareth, the central Sephira of the Tree of Life — the equilibriating, compensating, healing, redeeming, and purifying factor of the universe, recognised by the occultist as one power among the hierarchy of supreme cosmic forces rather than assigned the exclusive position it holds for the Christian mystic. Distinct from logos (the ordering principle through which the universe was created, not this specific mediating/healing Sephirotic force) and trinity (a claim about the Godhead's internal three-personed structure, not a single emanation's function within a tenfold system).
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The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 10 (part 1)
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THE CHRIST.
"The inner element which holds the whole body of this world has become the eternal body of Christ; for the whole of Divinity in the word and heart of God has entered therein in eternity; and the same Divinit…”
The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 10 (part 2)
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1.) "The name Jesus was incorporated into the image of eternity as a future Christ, that it may become a redeemer of men, and out of the dying in the wrath regenerate them again into the pure being of divine and paradisiacal power." ( S…”
The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 10 (part 13)
“202:2 "Jesus" means "Wisdom." Divine wisdom is love.
202:3 Woman, being on the whole more refined, more submissive and intuitional than man, is also more receptive for the germ of true spirituality.
203:1 Whether a person is of the male o…”
The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 10 (part 15)
“"The Spirit of Christ in His children is not bound to a certain form, so that He could say nothing but what is found in the writings of the apostles; but as the Spirit was free in the apostles, and as they did not all use the same expressio…”
The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 11 (part 1)
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INCARNATION—THE CELESTIAL VIRGIN.
The doctrine of the incarnation of Christ, or, to express it in other words, of the awakening of the germ of divine self-knowledge in man, is so grand, that it is impossible to form a…”
The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 12 (part 2)
“1 "It was the will of God to transmute humanity, after it had become earthly, again into the celestial quality, to turn the human earth (material element) into heaven, to make out of the four elements only one, and to transform the wrath of…”
The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 12 (part 7)
“All this He gave up entirely into the Father's hands as being the end of nature, the great mystery of the Father; but not so that it should be dead, but so that the Spirit of God should be therein all its life, and the divine regimen exist…”
The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 12 (part 10)
“Every object or person we see in the world is nothing but a symbol of existing ideas; every event taking place in external life is the outcome of invisibly acting forces.
The historical correctness of the occurrences described in the Bible…”
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The Secret Doctrine | Page 61 (part 5)
“These "originals" -- called to this day in China "the Dragons of Wisdom" -- were the first disciples of the Dhyanis, who were their instructors; in short, the primitive adepts of the Third Race, and later, of the Fourth and Fifth Races.
Th…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 61 (part 7)
“it was already an old one.
That Arjuna, Krishna's companion and chela, is said to have descended into Patala, the "antipodes," and therein married Ulupi, * a Naga (or Nagini rather), the daughter of the king of the Nagas, Kauravya.** And n…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 73 (part 7)
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The Secret Doctrine | Page 73 (part 9)
“Hence Io, refusing to yield to Jupiter's passion, becomes "horned." The cow was in every country the symbol of the passive generative power of nature, Isis, Vach, Venus -- the mother of the prolific god of love, Cupid, but, at the same time…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 79 (part 2)
“As Evil and punishment are the agents of Karma, in an absolutely just retributive sense, so Evil was the servant of the good (Hibbert Lect.
1887, pp.
101-115).
The reading of the Chaldeo-Assyrian tiles has now demonstrated it beyond a sh…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 81 (part 7)
“When the Chaldeans broke into the sanctuary and beheld this most astounding emblem, they naturally enough exclaimed, 'Is this your God, of whom you boast that He is such a lover of purity?' " (p.
441.) King thinks that this tradition "savo…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 86 (part 4)
“But this is a mystery which the writer dares not dwell upon at length, not being sure of being understood.
Thus the mystical side of the interpretation must be left to the intuition of the student.
Let us note one more thing in relation t…”
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The Gospel According to John (American Standard Version, 1901) | 1:1-1:29
“[1:1] In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
[1:2] The same was in the beginning with God.
[1:3] All things were made through him; and without him was not anything made that hath been made.
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The Gospel According to John (American Standard Version, 1901) | 6:18-6:40
“[6:18] And the sea was rising by reason of a great wind that blew.
[6:19] When therefore they had rowed about five and twenty or thirty furlongs, they behold Jesus walking on the sea, and drawing nigh unto the boat: and they were afraid.…”
The Gospel According to John (American Standard Version, 1901) | 9:40-10:24
“[9:40] Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and said unto him, Are we also blind?
[9:41] Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye would have no sin: but now ye say, We see: your sin remaineth.
[10:1] Verily, veri…”
The Gospel According to John (American Standard Version, 1901) | 13:27-14:11
“[13:27] And after the sop, then entered Satan into him. Jesus therefore saith unto him, What thou doest, do quickly.
[13:28] Now no man at the table knew for what intent he spake this unto him.
[13:29] For some thought, because Judas had…”
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Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, Book IV | Sutra 26
“Thereafter, the whole personal being bends toward illumination, toward Eternal Life. This is part of the secret of the Soul, that salvation means, not merely that a soul shall be cleansed and raised to heaven, but that the whole realm of th…”
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Psychic Self-Defence (Dion Fortune) | 20. Methods Of Defence IV-b
“From being in the midst of turmoil one is suddenly raised high above it and sees all the circumstances of one’s life spread out like a bird’s-eye view, as one might see the land from a high place, and one knows intuitively the out come of t…”