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◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | Introductionm

“According to Humanism, man is the measure of all things; Rationalism makes the reasoning faculties the basis of all knowledge; Political Philosophy holds that man must comprehend his natural, social, and national privileges; Empiricism decl…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Ancient Mysteries and Secret Societies Which Have Influenced Modern Masonic Symbolismv

“The Odinic Mysteries were given in underground crypts or caves, the chambers, nine in number, representing the Nine Worlds of the Mysteries. The candidate seeking admission was assigned the task of raising Balder from the dead. Although h…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Ancient Mysteries and Secret Societies Which Have Influenced Modern Masonic Symbolism

“The Bacchic state signifies the unity of the rational soul in a state of self-knowledge, and the Titanic state the diversity of the rational soul which, being scattered throughout creation, loses the consciousness of its own essential one-n…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | Atlantis and the Gods of Antiquityc

“No king had the power of life and death over his kinsmen without the assent of a majority of the ten. THE SCHEME OF THE UNIVERSE ACCORDING TO THE GREEKS AND ROMANS. From Cartari's Imagini degli Dei degli Antichi. By ascending successivel…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | Atlantis and the Gods of Antiquityd

“(Consult Theon of Smyrna for the Pythagorean doctrine of opposites.) The numbers 1 to 10 rule every creature, and the numbers, in turn, are under the control of the Monad, or 1--the Eldest among them. With the trident scepter of Poseidon t…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Life and Teachings of Thoth Hermes Trismegistusf

“It is doubtful that the deity called Thoth by the Egyptians was originally Hermes, but the two personalities were blended together and it is now impossible to separate them. Thoth was called "The Lord of the Divine Books" and "Scribe of th…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Initiation of the Pyramidh

“It was portrayed as androgynous to signify that they recognized the initiates and gods as partaking of both the positive and negative creative powers. Gerald Massey writes: "This is the secret of the Sphinx. The orthodox sphinx of Egypt i…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Initiation of the Pyramidi

“The Mysteries taught that the divine energies from the gods descended upon the top of the Pyramid, which was likened to an inverted tree with its branches below and its roots at the apex. From this inverted tree the divine wisdom is dissem…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | Isis, the Virgin of the Worldb

“While Le Plongeon may be right, the possible historical queen sinks into insignificance when compared with the allegorical, symbolic World Virgin; and the fact that she appears among so many different races and peoples discredits the theory…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | Isis, the Virgin of the Worldg

“At one of her ears was the moon and at the other the sun, to indicate that these two were the agent and patient, or father and mother principles of all natural objects; and that Isis, or Nature, makes use of these two luminaries to communic…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Sun, A Universal Deityc

“His fight with the Nubian lion, his battles with the Philistines, who represent the Powers of Darkness, and his memorable feat of carrying off the gates of Gaza, all refer to aspects of solar activity. Many of the ancient peoples had more…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Sun, A Universal Deityg

“According to the mystics, there are three suns in each solar system, analogous to the three centers of life in each individual constitution. These are called three lights: the spiritual sun, the intellectual or soular sun, and the material…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Sun, A Universal Deityk

“Thus a yellow flower generally yields a medicine that affects the constitution in a manner similar to yellow light or the musical tone mi . An orange flower will influence in a manner similar to orange light and, being one of the so-called…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Zodiac and Its Signsc

“The ornamental border contains groups of names of animal, mineral, and vegetable substances, Their relationship to corresponding parts of the human body is shown by the dotted lines. The words in capital letters on the dotted lines indicat…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Zodiac and Its Signsf

“A new and different sidelight on zodiacal symbolism is supplied by John Cole, in A Treatise on the Circular Zodiac of Tentyra, in Egypt : "The symbol therefore of the Goat rising from the body of a fish [Capricorn], represents with the grea…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Zodiac and Its Signsj

“Pythagoras taught that 10, or the unit of the decimal system, was the most perfect of all numbers, and he symbolized the number ten by the lesser tetractys , an arrangement of ten dots in the form of an upright triangle. The early star gaz…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Bembine Table of Isisb

“Laurentius Pignorius reproduced the Tablet in connection with a descriptive essay in 1605, but his timidly advanced explanations demonstrated his ignorance concerning the actual interpretation of the figures. THE BEMBINE TABLE OF ISIS. Co…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Bembine Table of Isisc

“For as in the Supreme Mind everything is simultaneous and spaceless, the future is therefore present in that Mind; and they thought that while the human mind was absorbed in the Supreme by contemplation, by that union they were enabled to k…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Bembine Table of Isisd

“The cipher appearing upon this card would substantiate this interpretation, for the cipher, or circle, is emblematic of the superior sphere from which issue the lower worlds, powers, and letters. Westcott carefully collected the all too me…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Bembine Table of Isisg

“ζ, η, θ--Serapæan Triad. 7. γ, δ (not shown), ε--Osirian Triad. In the lower section 1. λ, Μ, Ν--Horæan Triad. 2. ξ, Ο, Σ--Pandochæan Triad. 3. Τ, Φ, Χ--Thaustic Triad. 4. Ψ, F, Η--Æluristic Triad. Of these fifteen triads Kircher…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Bembine Table of Isish

“Goodness is sought by all. It is the Prime Cause of causes. Goodness is self-diffused and hence exists in all things, for nothing can produce that which it does not have in itself. The Table demonstrates that all is in God and God is in…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Bembine Table of Isisi

“Yonder, too, exists an earth, not of inanimate matter, but vivid with animal life and all natural terrestrial phenomena like this one, but of other kinds and perfections. There are plants, also, and gardens, and flowing water; there are aq…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Bembine Table of Isisk

“Is not the Holy Temple in the center the great throne of the many-formed Spirit of Nature which is shown in the middle of the Tablet? What are the seven triads but the seven Powers that rule over the world? Psellus writes: 'The Egyptians…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Bembine Table of Isisl

“The relation of these two zodiacs to the subzodiacal spheres has a correlation in the respiratory system of the human body. The great fixed zodiac may be said to represent the atmosphere, the movable zodiac the lungs, and the subzodiacal w…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | Wonders of Antiquityi

“Those about to enter the cave drank first from these fountains, the waters of which seemed to possess peculiar occult properties. The first contained the water of forgetfulness, and all who drank thereof forgot their earthly sorrows. From…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Life and Philosophy of Pythagorase

“Pythagoras highly esteemed the medicinal properties of the sea onion, and he is said to have written an entire volume on the subject. Such a work, however, is not known at the present time. Pythagoras discovered that music had great thera…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Life and Philosophy of Pythagorasg

“Pythagoras taught that everything in nature was divisible into three parts and that no one could become truly wise who did not view every problem as being diagrammatically triangular. He said, "Establish the triangle and the problem is two…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Life and Philosophy of Pythagorash

“This fifth element, or ether, was called by the Hindus akasa . It was closely correlated with the hypothetical ether of modern science, and was the interpenetrative substance permeating all of the other elements and acting as a common solv…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Life and Philosophy of Pythagorask

“The Pythagoreans bound themselves by the following oath: "By Him who gave to our soul the tetractys, which hath the fountain and root of ever-springing nature." *** THE CUBE AND THE STAR. By connecting the ten dots of the tetractys, nine t…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | Pythagorean Mathematicsd

“The first is concerned with the multitude , or the constituent parts of a thing, and the second with the magnitude , or the relative size or density of a thing. Magnitude is divided into two parts--magnitude which is stationary and magnitu…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | Pythagorean Mathematicsj

“Wynn Westcott says of the duad: "it was called 'Audacity,' from its being the earliest number to separate itself from the Divine One; from the 'Adytum of God-nourished Silence,' as the Chaldean oracles say." As the monad is the father, so t…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Human Body in Symbolisma

“THE oldest, the most profound, the most universal of all symbols is the human body. The Greeks, Persians, Egyptians, and Hindus considered a philosophical analysis of man's triune nature to be an indispensable part of ethical and religious…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Human Body in Symbolismb

“It is not improbable that this mysterious figure standing over the primitive altars was made in the nature of a manikin and, like certain emblematic hands in the Mystery schools, was covered with either carved or painted hieroglyphs. The s…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Human Body in Symbolismc

“Philosophically speaking, form, being a part of spirit, is within spirit; but: spirit is more than the sum of form, As the material nature of man is therefore within the sum of spirit, so the Universal Nature, including the entire sidereal…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Human Body in Symbolismd

“The second center (or the link between the superior and inferior worlds) is elevated to the position of greatest physical dignity--the brain. The third (or lower) center is relegated to the position of least physical dignity but greatest p…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Human Body in Symbolismf

“John, who holds a cup from which the poison miraculously departed in the form of a serpent. (See Handbook of Christian Symbolism.) The figure of Christ upon the second phalange of the thumb does not follow the pagan system of assigning the…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Human Body in Symbolismg

“As life precedes light, its only symbol is darkness, and darkness is considered as the veil which must eternally conceal the true nature of abstract and undifferentiated Being. In ancient times men fought with their right arms and defended…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Human Body in Symbolismi

“Man's physical body was looked upon as the robe of his spiritual nature; consequently, the more developed were his super-substantial powers the more glorious his apparel. Of course, clothing was originally worn for ornamentation rather tha…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Hiramic Legendc

“Upon CHiram's refusal to reveal the Master's Word , the ruffian struck him on the throat with the rule, and the wounded Master then hastened to the west gate, where Jubelo, armed with a square, awaited him and made a similar demand. Again…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Hiramic Legendg

“In the human brain there is a tiny gland called the pineal body, which is the sacred eye of the ancients, and corresponds to the third eye of the Cyclops. Little is known concerning the function of the pineal body, which Descartes suggeste…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Hiramic Legendj

“As God is the pervading principle of three worlds, in each of which He manifests as an active principle, so the spirit of man, partaking of the nature of Divinity, dwells upon three planes of being: the Supreme, the Superior, and the Inferi…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Hiramic Legendk

“The three degrees of the Craft bury the Grand Master (the Great Arcanum) in the actual structure they erect, after first having killed him with the builders' tools, by reducing the dimensionless Spirit of Cosmic Beauty to the limitations of…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Pythagorean Theory of Music and Colorb

“At regular intervals along this arm he attached four cords, all of like composition, size, and weight. To the first of these he attached a twelve-pound weight, to the second a nine-pound weight, to the third an eight-pound weight, and to t…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Pythagorean Theory of Music and Colorc

“The allowing arrangement is most generally accepted for the musical intervals of the planets between the earth and the sphere of the fixed stars: From the sphere of the earth to the sphere of the moon; one tone; from the sphere of the moon…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Pythagorean Theory of Music and Colore

“Popular taste, being always tickled by sensuous and meretricious effects, was to be treated with deserved contempt. (See The History of Music .) Even today martial music is used with telling effect in times of war, and religious music, whi…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Pythagorean Theory of Music and Colorf

“The lower octave (Γ to G) comprises that part of the universe in which substance predominate over energy. Its harmonies, therefore, are more gross than those of the higher octave (G to g) wherein energy predominates over substance. "If st…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Pythagorean Theory of Music and Colorh

“The figures on the chart disclose the harmonic relationships existing between the four primary elements according to both Fludd and the Pythagoreans. Earth consists of four parts of its own nature; water of three parts of earth and one par…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Pythagorean Theory of Music and Colori

“The seven Creators, or Fabricators, of the inferior spheres were called by the Jews the Elohim . By the Egyptians they were referred to as the Builders (sometimes as the Governors ) and are depicted with great knives in their hands with wh…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Pythagorean Theory of Music and Colorj

“P, Blavatsky relates the colors to the septenary constitution of man and the seven states of matter as follows: COLOR: Violet PRINCIPLES OF MAN: Chaya, or Etheric Double STATES OF MATTER: Ether COLOR: Indigo PRINCIPLES OF MAN: Higher Manas,…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | Fishes, Insects, Animals, Reptiles and Birdsa

“Part 1 THE creatures inhabiting the water, air, and earth were held in veneration by all races of antiquity. Realizing that visible bodies are only symbols of invisible forces, the ancients worshiped the Divine Power through the lower king…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | Fishes, Insects, Animals, Reptiles and Birdsb

“The upper half of the centaur's body was human and the lower half equine. The pelican of the Hermetists fed its young from its own breast, and to this bird were assigned other mysterious attributes which could have been true only allegoric…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | Flowers, Plants, Fruits, and Treesa

“THE yoni and phallus were worshiped by nearly all ancient peoples as appropriate symbols of God's creative power. The Garden of Eden, the Ark, the Gate of the Temple, the Veil of the Mysteries, the vesica piscis or oval nimbus, and the Hol…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | Flowers, Plants, Fruits, and Treesc

“According to the secret schools, the sacral ganglion is called the four-petaled lotus; the prostatic plexus, the six-petaled lotus; the epigastric plexus and navel, the ten-petaled lotus; the cardiac plexus, the twelve-petaled lotus; the ph…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | Flowers, Plants, Fruits, and Treesd

“The heraldic rose of the Middle Ages generally has either five or ten petals thereby showing its relationship to the spiritual mystery of man through the Pythagorean pentad and decad. CULTUS ARBORUM The worship of trees as proxies of Divin…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | Flowers, Plants, Fruits, and Treesi

“In the Jewish Wars , Josephus describes the method of securing the baaras , which he declares emits flashes of lightning and destroys all who seek to touch it, unless they proceed according to certain rules supposedly formulated by King Sol…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | Stones, Metals and Gemsa

“EACH of the four primary elements as taught by the early philosophers has its analogue in the quaternary terrestrial constitution of man. The rocks and earth correspond to the bones and flesh; the water to the various fluids; the air to th…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | Stones, Metals and Gemsd

“These tables were fashioned from the divine sapphire, Schethiyâ, which the Most High, after removing from His own throne, had cast into the Abyss to become the foundation and generator of the worlds. This sacred stone, formed of heavenly d…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | Stones, Metals and Gemsh

“It is said to have been white originally and of such brilliancy that it could be seen many days' journey from Mecca, but as ages passed it became blackened by the tears of pilgrims and the sins of the world. THE MAGIC OF METALS AND GEMS Ac…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | Stones, Metals and Gemsj

“In describing the regalia of a magician, Éliphas Lévi declares that on Sunday (the day of the sun) he should carry in his right hand a golden wand, set with a ruby or chrysolite; on Monday (the day of the moon) he should wear a collar of th…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | Ceremonial Magic and Sorcerye

“On the place where you intend to make the circle, you must first draw a great cross with a large sword with which no one ever has been hurt. Then you must make three concentric circles. The innermost circle is made of a long narrow strip…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | Ceremonial Magic and Sorceryi

“The aforesaid Bond of spirits, together with the seal and character of the planetary angel, must be written m virgin Parchment and laid before the Spirit [for signature] when he appears; at that time the invocant must not lost confidence bu…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | Hermetic Pharmacology, Chemistry, and Therapeuticsc

“The seven-pointed star of the sacred metals is arranged that one black point is downward, thus symbolizing Saturn, the Destroyer. Beginning in the space immediately to the left of the black point, reading clockwise discloses the cryptic wo…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | Hermetic Pharmacology, Chemistry, and Therapeuticse

“Reprinted by P. Davidson in The Mistletoe and Its Philosophy.) Von Helmont is only one of many who have accidentally hit upon the secrets of the early priestcrafts, but none in this age give evidence of an adequate comprehension of the anc…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | Hermetic Pharmacology, Chemistry, and Therapeuticsf

“In other words, germs were minute creatures born out of man's evil thoughts and actions. The fourth cause of disease was what the Orientals called Karma , that is, the Law of Compensation, which demanded that the individual pay in full for…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | Hermetic Pharmacology, Chemistry, and Therapeuticsh

“DILIGENCE, I at last obtained my desire; and, being warned by MR. HONESTY, a stranger in our days, to publish it to the world, I have done it." (From the Introduction to the 1835 Edition of The Complete Herbal.) Doctor Johnson said of Culp…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | Hermetic Pharmacology, Chemistry, and Therapeuticsj

“In the eleventh century this order, by capturing the fortress of Mount Alamont, established itself at Irak. Hassan Sabbah, the founder of the order, known as the "Old Man of the Mountain, " is suspected of having controlled his followers b…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Qabbalah, the Secret Doctrine of Israelc

“This rare cut shows the name of God in seventy-two languages inscribed upon the petals of a symbolic sunflower. Above the circle are the seventy-two powers of God according to the Hebrew Qabbalah. Below two trees, that on the left bearing…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Qabbalah, the Secret Doctrine of Israelf

“Chapter Two 1. There are twenty-two basic (sounds and) letters. Three are the first elements (water, air, fire), fundamentals, or mothers; seven are double letters; and twelve are simple letters. The three fundamental letters אמשhave as…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Qabbalah, the Secret Doctrine of Israelg

“Heaven was created from the elementary fire (or ether) ש, the earth, comprising sea and land, from the elementary water, מ, and the atmospheric air from the elementary air, or spirit, א, which establishes the balance among them. Thus were…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Qabbalah, the Secret Doctrine of Israelh

“Surrounding the black star are the signs of the zodiac symbolized by the twelve Simple Letters. In the midst of this star is the Invisible Throne of the Most Ancient of the Ancients--the Supreme Definitionless Creator. *** 8. NOTE. Knut…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Qabbalah, the Secret Doctrine of Israeli

“The simple letters correspond to twelve directions: east height, northeast, east depth; south height, southeast, south depth; west height, southwest, west depth; north height, northwest, north depth. They diverge to all eternity and are th…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Qabbalah, the Secret Doctrine of Israelj

“He caused the letter ס(S) to predominate in sleep, crowned it, combined it with the others, and fashioned by them Sagittarius (the Archer) in the universe, the month Kislev in the year, and the stomach in the human body (male and female).…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | Fundamentals of Qabbalistic Cosmogonyc

“The dot was called God, as being the supreme individualization of the Universal Essence. Concerning this the Zohar says: "When the concealed of the Concealed wished to reveal Himself He first made a single point: the Infinite was entirely…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | Fundamentals of Qabbalistic Cosmogonyd

“It was called the First Crown and from it issued the other circles of the Atziluthic World : A 2, A 3, A 4, A 5, A 6, A 7, A 8, A 9, and A 10. In the three lower worlds these circles are intelligences, planers, and elements, but in this fi…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | Fundamentals of Qabbalistic Cosmogonye

“Out of B 1 are taken nine globes--B 2, B 3, B 4, B 5, B 6, B 7, B 8, B 9, and B 10--which constitute the World of Briah . These ten subdivisions, however, are really the ten Atziluthic powers reflected into the substance of the Briatic Wor…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | Fundamentals of Qabbalistic Cosmogonyg

“According to the Qabbalists, the life of the Supreme Creator permeates all substance, all space, and all time, but for diagrammatic purposes the Supreme, All-Inclusive Life is limited by Circle 3, which may be called "the boundary line of D…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | Fundamentals of Qabbalistic Cosmogonyi

“By the man of Ezekiel's vision is symbolized the World of Atziluth ; by the throne, the World of Briah ; by the firmament, the World of Yetzirah ; and by the living creatures the World of Assiah . These spheres are the wheels within wheels…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | Fundamentals of Qabbalistic Cosmogonyj

“* * * The Zohar is a genesis of light; the Sepher Yetzirah is a ladder of truth. Therein are expounded the two-and-thirty absolute symbols of speech--being numbers and letters. Each letter produces a number, an idea and a form, so that ma…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Tree of the Sephirothb

“The ten Sephiroth composing the body of the prototypic Adam, the numbers related to them, and the parts of the universe to which they correspond are as follows: No.: 1 THE SEPHIROTH: Kether--the Crown THE UNIVERSE: Primum Mobile ALTERNATIVE…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Tree of the Sephirothd

“(2) Abba , the Great Father , is the term generally applied to Chochmah--Universal Wisdom--the first emanation of Kether, but, according to Ibn Gebirol, Chochmah represents the Son, the Logos or the Word born from the union of Kether and Bi…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Tree of the Sephirothe

“*** The Lesser Face is properly symbolized by the six-pointed star or interlaced triangles of Zion and also by the six faces of the cube. It represents the directions north, east, south, west, up, and down, and also the first six days of C…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Tree of the Sephirothf

“This is located where the horizontal line connecting Chochmah and Binah crosses the vertical line joining Kether and Tiphereth. While Daath is not mentioned by the first Qabbalists, it is a highly important element and its addition to the…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Tree of the Sephirothg

“Thomas Maurice reproduces the above engraving, which is modification of the elaborate tree on the preceding page. The Sephiroth are here superimposed, decreasing in size as they decrease in power and dignity. Thus, the Crown is the greate…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | Qabbalistic Keys to the Creation of Manh

“Bede the Venerable, declared that Noah in all things typified Christ as Noah alone of his generation was just, so Christ alone was without sin. With Christ there was a sevenfold spirit of grace: with Noah seven righteous Persons. Noah by…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | An Analysis of Tarot Cardsb

“W. F. C. Wigston has discovered evidence that Sir Francis Bacon employed the Tarot symbolism in his ciphers. The numbers 21, 56, and 78, which are all directly related to the divisions of the Tarot deck, are frequently involved in Bacon…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | An Analysis of Tarot Cardsm

“The key to the lesser Tarots is presumably the Tetragrammaton , or the four-letter name of Jehovah, IHVH. The four suits of the minor trumps represent also the major divisions of society: cups are the priesthood, swords the military, coins…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | An Analysis of Tarot Cardsn

“Milton Pottenger believed that the United States of America was laid out according to the conventional deck of playing cards, and that the government will ultimately consist of 52 States administered by a 53rd undenominated division, the Di…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Tabernacle in the Wildernessb

“It is not strange that the erudite Moses, initiated in Egypt, should teach the Jews a philosophy containing the more important principles of Egyptian esotericism. The religions of Egypt at the time of the Israelitic captivity were far olde…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Tabernacle in the Wildernessc

“Socrates subtly reminded his disciples that Death was, in reality, the great initiation, for his last words were: "Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt?" (As the rooster was sacred to the gods and the sacrific…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Tabernacle in the Wildernesse

“Josephus hints that there was a third compartment which was formed by subdividing the Holy Place, at least hypothetically, into two chambers. The Jewish historian is not very explicit in his description of this third room, and the majority…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Tabernacle in the Wildernessg

“It was upon this mercy seat between the wings of the celestials that the Lord of Israel descended when He desired to communicate with His High Priest. The furnishings of the Tabernacle were made conveniently portable. Each altar and imple…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Tabernacle in the Wildernessh

“Mystics have taught that man's physical body is surrounded by a series of invisible bodies of diverse colors and great splendor. In the majority of people the spiritual nature is concealed and imprisoned in the material nature, but in a fe…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Tabernacle in the Wildernessj

“The twelve prophets, the twelve patriarchs, the twelve tribes, and the twelve Apostles--each group has a certain occult significance, for each refers to the Divine Duodecimo, or Twelvefold Deity, whose emanations are manifested in the tangi…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | Rosicrucian Doctrines and Tenetsj

“The mount upon which stands the House of the Rosy Cross is still concealed by clouds, in which the Brethren hide both themselves and their secrets. Michael Maier writes: "What is contained in the Fama and Confessio is true. It is a very c…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | Fifteen Rosicrucian and Qabbalistic Diagramsb

“The focal point, D to E , between the three higher and the three lower spheres, is called "The Reservoir." It receives impressions from both the superior and the inferior regions and is common to both. Figure 2 is the Qabbalistic symbol of…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | Alchemy and Its Exponentsf

“Trismosin claimed to have lived to the age of 150 as the result of his knowledge of alchemy. One very significant statement appears in his Alchemical Wanderings, which work is supposed to narrate his search for the Philosopher's Scone: "St…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Theory and Practice of Alchemyd

“Realizing, therefore, that alchemy is a mystery in three worlds--the divine, the human, and the elemental--it can easily be appreciated why the sages and philosophers created and evolved an intricate allegory to conceal their wisdom. Alche…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Theory and Practice of Alchemye

“If one thing in the universe grows, then everything in the universe grows. If one thing can be multiplied, then all things can be multiplied, "for the superior agrees with the inferior and the inferior agrees with the superior." But as the…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Theory and Practice of Alchemyh

“It is clearly stated that "the soul that sinneth, it shall die," but "the spirit shall return unto God who gave it." The table of analogies, as nearly as they can be established, is as follows: The Triune Power in Four Worlds WORLD OF : 1.…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Theory and Practice of Alchemyi

“*** The following table shows the angles to which the parties of three (salt, sulphur, and mercury) go in search of CHiram : The Four "Corners" of Creation : The Fixed Signs of the Zodiac East : Aquarius South : Leo West : Scorpio North : T…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Theory and Practice of Alchemyk

“v ., 9 to 14; Fixation , C . ii ., 12, and C . viii ., 4; Multiplication , C . vi ., 7; Augmentation and Projection , C . viii ., 8, etc., etc." A tiny particle of the Philosopher's Scone, if cast upon the surface of water, will, accord…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Theory and Practice of Alchemyn

“The knowledge of Nature's secret operations constitutes the principal sense of all these ancient writings, but ignorance framed out of it that external or veiled mythology and the lower class of people turned it into idolatry. THE KEY TO A…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Theory and Practice of Alchemyv

“Then put this dissolution as before into a round Glass, fill it two thirds parts full, seal it hermetically as before, let your Sigillum be well dried. Set it in the furnace of Balneum Vapori, make a fire and let it remain forty days, as b…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Hermetic And Alchemical Figures of Claudius De Dominico Celentano Vallis Novig

“The verse at the top of the page reads: "Not only must this material be fixed, but it must be allowed to enter into everything so that this material may be well completed and have infinite virtue. Then by making it thick, it becomes at onc…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Chemical Marriagee

“was awestruck by the glory of the throne room and especially by the magnificence of the Queen's robes, which were so dazzling that he could not gaze upon them. Each guest was presented to the King by one of the virgins and after this cerem…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Chemical Marriagej

“The newly created Knights of the Golden Stone were obliged to subscribe to five articles drawn up by His Royal Highness: (1) That they would ascribe their Order only to God and His handmaid, Nature. (2) That they should abominate all uncle…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Cryptogram as a factor in Symbolic Philosophya

“NO treatise which deals with symbolism would be complete without a section devoted to the consideration of cryptograms. The use of ciphers has long been recognized as indispensable in military and diplomatic circles, but the modern world h…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Cryptogram as a factor in Symbolic Philosophyh

“Hence, the first circle deals with divine principles, the second circle with mundane affairs, and the third circle with man. On the at the top of the picture sits Themis, the presiding spirit of law, and at her feet three other queens--Jun…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | Freemasonic Symbolisma

“IN several early Masonic manuscripts--for example, the Harleian, Sloane, Lansdowne, and Edinburgh-Kilwinning--it is stated that the craft of initiated builders existed before the Deluge, and that its members were employed in the building of…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | Freemasonic Symbolismc

“Summarizing the relationship between the human body and the theory of architectonics, Vitruvius writes: "Since nature has designed the human body so that its members are duly proportioned to the frame as a whole, it appears that the ancient…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | Freemasonic Symbolismd

“They had means of intercommunication all over the then known world, and from them, doubtless, sprang the guilds of the Traveling Masons known in the Middle Ages." (See The Obelisk and Freemasonry .) The fraternity of the Dionysiac Architect…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | Freemasonic Symbolisme

“Thus in one chamber the voice of the priest was amplified until his words caused the very room to vibrate, while in another the voice was diminished and softened to such a degree that it sounded like the distant tinkling of silver bells. A…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | Freemasonic Symbolismf

“The construction of temples of the Ionic order to Juno, Diana, Father Bacchus, and the other gods of that kind, will be in keeping with the middle position which they hold; for the building of such will be an appropriate combination of the…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | Freemasonic Symbolismg

“But Freemasonry most of all owes to the Dionysiac cult the great mass of its symbols and rituals which are related to the science of architecture. From these ancient and illustrious artisans it also received the legacy of the unfinished Te…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | Freemasonic Symbolismh

“The soul, constructed from an invisible fiery substance, a flaming golden metal, is cast by the Master Workman, CHiram Abiff, into the mold of clay (the physical body) and is called the Molten Sea. The temple of the human soul is built by…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | Mystic Christianityj

“After Arthur had drawn the sword of Branstock from the anvil and thus established his divine right to leadership, Merlin further assisted him to secure from the Lady of the Lake the sacred sword Excalibur. After the establishment of the Ro…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Mystery of the Apocalypsec

“These represented the four corners of creation and the multitude of eyes with which they were covered are the stars of the firmament. The twenty-four elders have the same significance as the priests gathered around the statue of Ceres in t…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Mystery of the Apocalypsed

“Thus, the church of Ephesus stands for the Arch-Indian branch; the church of Smyrna, the Arch-Persians; the church of Pergamos, the Chaldean-Egyptian-Semitic; the church of Thyatira, the Grecian-Latin-Roman; the church of Sardis, the Teuton…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Mystery of the Apocalypsee

“In the heavens above the twenty-four elders with their harps and censers bow before the throne of the Ancient One, from whose hand the Lamb is taking the book sealed with seven seals. The seven spirit, of God, in the form of cups from whic…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Mystery of the Apocalypsei

“As nearly all the ancient Mysteries included a test of the neophyte's moral character, the temptress (the animal soul) is here portrayed as a pagan goddess. THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE. From Solis' Biblische Figuren. In the alleg…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Faith of Islamg

“Little is known of the history of the Caaba prior to its rededication as a Mohammedan mosque, other than that the building was a pagan temple. At the time the Prophet captured Mecca, the Caaba and surrounding court contained 360 idols, whi…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | American Indian Symbolismj

“The fame of the two dancers--who were in reality Hunahpu and Xbalanque--finally came to the notice of the twelve princes of Xibalba, who thereupon desired these two miracle-workers to perform their strange fears before them. After Hunahpu…”

◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | American Indian Symbolismk

“Pisces, their ashes turning into man-fishes , and later back into human form." It would seem more appropriate to assign the river of blood to Aries and that of mud to Taurus, and it is not at all improbable that in the ancient form of the l…”

◆Tertium Organum (P.D. Ouspensky) | Page 4 (part 3)

“Just as Goethe's Werther , with its sex-sentimentality, is said to have provoked an epidemic of suicides, so may Tertium Organum —which restores love to that high heaven from whence descend every beauty and benison—inaugurate a renascence o…”

◆Tertium Organum (P.D. Ouspensky) | Chapter III (part 1)

“p. 34 CHAPTER III What may we learn about the fourth dimension by a study of the geometrical relations within our space? What should be the relation between a three-dimensional body and one of four dimensions? The four-dimensional body a…”

◆Tertium Organum (P.D. Ouspensky) | Chapter III (part 2)

“In analogy with all this, the solid, in order to leave as the tracing of its movement, the four-dimensional figure (hypersolid) shall move in a direction not confined in it; or in other words it shall come out of itself, set off from itself…”

◆Tertium Organum (P.D. Ouspensky) | Chapter III (part 3)

“How from them is it possible to imagine a man, with all the richness of his physical and spiritual life? It is impossible. Our relation to the four-dimensional world will be analogous to the relation of that consciousness which sees five…”

◆Tertium Organum (P.D. Ouspensky) | Chapter IV (part 1)

“p. 38 CHAPTER IV In what direction may the fourth dimension lie? What is motion? Two kinds of motion—motion in space and motion in time—which are contained in every movement. What is time? Two ideas contained in the conception of time.…”

◆Tertium Organum (P.D. Ouspensky) | Chapter IV (part 7)

“In addition to all this it is necessary to remember that through the same slit through which we see the world we observe ourselves and see in ourselves changes similar to the changes in the rest of things. 2. Why can we not extend that sl…”

◆Tertium Organum (P.D. Ouspensky) | Chapter IV (part 8)

“We have that sense, therefore we sense motion. The time-sense is the sensation of changing moments. If we did not have this time-sense we could not feel motion. The "time-sense" is itself, in substance, the limit or the surface of our "s…”

◆Tertium Organum (P.D. Ouspensky) | Chapter V (part 1)

“p. 52 CHAPTER V Four-dimensional space. "Temporal body"— Linga Sharîra . The form of a human body from birth to death. Incommensurability of three-dimensional and four-dimensional bodies. Newton's fluents. The unreality of constant qu…”

◆Tertium Organum (P.D. Ouspensky) | Chapter V (part 3)

“If we look at our two hands we see this clearly, though the two hands represent a complex case of a symmetrical similarity. Now there is one way in which the right hand and the left hand may practically be brought into likeness. If we tak…”

◆Tertium Organum (P.D. Ouspensky) | Chapter VI (part 2)

“These will be considered as temporal phenomena, beginning at that moment when they become visible, and ending— ceasing to exist —at that moment when they become invisible. The one-dimensional being will not be in a position to imagine that…”

◆Tertium Organum (P.D. Ouspensky) | Chapter VI (part 3)

“Sensing lines only, the plane being will not sense them as we do. First of all, he will see no angle . It is extremely easy for us to verify this by experiment. If we will hold before our eyes two matches, inclined one to the other in a…”

◆Tertium Organum (P.D. Ouspensky) | Chapter VI (part 4)

“As has been said, the two-dimensional being will regard the straight lines only as immobile matter; irregular lines and curves will seem to him as moving. So far as really moving lines are concerned, that is, lines limiting the cross-secti…”

◆Tertium Organum (P.D. Ouspensky) | Chapter VI (part 6)

“To the plane being the idea that some phenomena come whence others go, and vice versa, will seem equally absurd. He will tenaciously think that the future is that wherefrom everything comes, and the past is that whereto everything goes and…”

◆Tertium Organum (P.D. Ouspensky) | Chapter VI (part 7)

“He would lack "necessary words." For instance, "section"—this would be for him a quite new and inconceivable word; then "angle"—again an inconceivable word; "centre"—still more inconceivable; the third perpendicular—something incomprehensib…”

◆Tertium Organum (P.D. Ouspensky) | Chapter VI (part 8)

“Suppose now the spiral to be still and the film to move vertically upward, the whole spiral will be represented in the film in the consecutive positions of the point of intersection. FIG I FIG II If instead of one spiral we take a complica…”

◆Tertium Organum (P.D. Ouspensky) | Chapter VII (part 2)

“But in the matter of dimensions it is as if mathematics sees more than we do, or farther than we do, through some boundaries which arrest us but not it—and sees that no realities whatever correspond to our concepts of dimensions. If the th…”

◆Tertium Organum (P.D. Ouspensky) | Chapter VII (part 3)

“Thus on the one hand, Bonola, who ascribed to Lobachevsky views opposite to Kant, and their nearness to "sensualism" and "current empiricism," is quite wrong, while on the other hand, it is not impossible to conceive that Hinton entirely su…”

◆Tertium Organum (P.D. Ouspensky) | Chapter VII (part 4)

“Along with Hinton, I postulated that our space itself bears within it the relations which permit us to establish its relations to higher space, and on the foundation of this postulate I built a whole series of analogies which somewhat clari…”

◆Tertium Organum (P.D. Ouspensky) | Chapter VIII (part 3)

“In addition to the simple sensations of these sense organs (color, sound, touch, smell and taste), in addition to the simple emotions of pleasure, pain, joy, anger, surprise, wonder, curiosity and many others, there is passing through our c…”

◆Tertium Organum (P.D. Ouspensky) | Chapter VIII (part 4)

“That is to say, Kant's idea would be proven experimentally if we could be convinced that for the being possessing sensations only, the world is one-dimensional; for the being possessing sensations and perceptions the world is two-dimensiona…”

◆Tertium Organum (P.D. Ouspensky) | Chapter VIII (part 8)

“We live side by side with animals and yet cannot establish such communication. Evidently the distance between us and them is greater, and the difference deeper, than between men divided by the ignorance of language, stone walls, and enormo…”

◆Tertium Organum (P.D. Ouspensky) | Chapter IX (part 4)

“For the animal it will be one phenomenon , just as for us all similar, simultaneous phenomena proceeding from a single point will be one phenomenon. Therefore the animal will see the world as a surface, and will measure this surface in two…”

◆Tertium Organum (P.D. Ouspensky) | Chapter IX (part 6)

“Probably it feels heat, cold, light, darkness, hunger—and it instinctively (i.e., urged by pleasure-pain guidance) strives to reach the uneaten edge of the leaf on which it rests, and instinctively avoids the dead leaf. Its movements are g…”

◆Tertium Organum (P.D. Ouspensky) | Chapter IX (part 8)

“Thus in all its relations to the world the animal is quite analogous to the imagined, unreal two-dimensional being living upon a plane. All our world appears to the animal as the plane through which phenomena are passing, moving upon time,…”

◆Tertium Organum (P.D. Ouspensky) | Chapter X (part 1)

“p. 112 CHAPTER X The spatial understanding of time. The angles and curves of the fourth dimension in our life. Does motion exist in the world or not? Mechanical motion and "life." Biological phenomena as the manifestation of motions goi…”

◆Tertium Organum (P.D. Ouspensky) | Chapter X (part 4)

“This happens because the circle inevitably ends in the same point at which it began, and the "life" of the separate being, beginning with birth, must end in death, which is the return to the point of departure. But during its transit throu…”

◆Tertium Organum (P.D. Ouspensky) | Chapter X (part 5)

“To the two-dimensional being time is necessary for the understanding of the most simple phenomena—an angle, a hill, a ditch. For us time is not necessary for the understanding of such phenomena, but is necessary for the explanation of the…”

◆Tertium Organum (P.D. Ouspensky) | Chapter X (part 6)

“The mind will have to open its doors to objects each possessing such an enormous, such an infinite number of signs and characteristics that to comprehend them by means of the reason is absolutely impossible. And if one wants to comprehend…”

◆Tertium Organum (P.D. Ouspensky) | Chapter XI (part 2)

“I talked with him in January, 1912, and from our conversation I saw that he was stopping half way, as it were, between the ideas of the fourth dimension approximating p. 126 those expressed by me in the first edition of Tertium Organum and…”

◆Tertium Organum (P.D. Ouspensky) | Chapter XI (part 7)

“Matter, i.e., everything finite, is an illusion in an infinite world. 1 Among many attempts at the psychological investigation of the fourth dimension I shall note one in the book by Johan Van Manen, Some Occult Experiences . In this book…”

◆Tertium Organum (P.D. Ouspensky) | Chapter XII (part 3)

“The forces which are actually manifesting themselves in certain definite actions are called free, or live forces; but as regards free forces it is necessary to differentiate those forces which are liberating, setting free, from the forces w…”

◆Tertium Organum (P.D. Ouspensky) | Chapter XIII (part 3)

“Just as it is impossible for a savage to attain to an understanding of the nature of a watch by a study of its phenomenal side—the number of wheels, and the number of teeth in each gear—so also for the positivistic scientist, studying the e…”

◆Tertium Organum (P.D. Ouspensky) | Chapter XIII (part 4)

“Materialism and energetics are those "obvious" theories which cannot be true without proofs , because they cannot not have proofs if they contain even a little grain of truth. But there are no proofs at the disposition of these theories; q…”

◆Tertium Organum (P.D. Ouspensky) | Chapter XIII (part 6)

“These chains of events go on continuously, inter-weaving among themselves, entering one into another, sometimes hidden from our eyes, and sometimes visible. I find an admirable description of this idea in the chapter on "Karma" in Light on…”

◆Tertium Organum (P.D. Ouspensky) | Chapter XIV (part 1)

“p. 156 CHAPTER XIV The voices of stones. The wall of a church and the wall of a prison. The mast of a ship and a gallows. The shadow of a hangman and of an ascetic. The soul of a hangman and of an ascetic. The different combinations o…”

◆Tertium Organum (P.D. Ouspensky) | Chapter XIV (part 2)

“And if we take men as we know them—the sailor, the hang-man, the ascetic: men who seem to us similar and equal —and consider them from the standpoint of their differences in function, we shall see that in reality they are entirely different…”

◆Tertium Organum (P.D. Ouspensky) | Chapter XV (part 3)

“Now if a merely negligible percentage of energy goes into the creation of the future by begetting, then the remainder must go into the creation of the future also, but in another way. We have in the physical world many cases in which the d…”

◆Tertium Organum (P.D. Ouspensky) | Chapter XV (part 6)

“I shall quote in this connection a poem in prose by Edward Carpenter, from the book Towards Democracy . THE OCEAN OF SEX To hold in continence the great sea, the great ocean of Sex, within one, With flux and reflux pressing on the bounds o…”

◆Tertium Organum (P.D. Ouspensky) | Chapter XVI (part 2)

“Studying man from one side only I should stand in the same position in relation to him as, according to Kant, we stand with relation to the world surrounding us. We know merely the form of our knowledge of it. The world-in-itself we do no…”

◆Tertium Organum (P.D. Ouspensky) | Chapter XVI (part 3)

“______ In "man" we have found that one side of his noumenon is his psychic life, and that therefore in the psyche lies the beginning of the solution of the riddle of the functions and meanings of man which are incomprehensible from an outsi…”

◆Tertium Organum (P.D. Ouspensky) | Chapter XVI (part 5)

“Let us endeavor to consider the activity of the brain and the activity of the psyche from the standpoint of the existence of those two data, the "world" and "consciousness," accepted by us at the very beginning. If we consider the brain fr…”

◆Tertium Organum (P.D. Ouspensky) | Chapter XVI (part 9)

“In our language only an eternally becoming universe exists. The "Eternal Now" cannot be expressed in language. Thus our language pictures to us beforehand a false universe— dual , when in reality it is one ; and eternally becoming when it…”

◆Tertium Organum (P.D. Ouspensky) | Chapter XVI (part 10)

“By trying to think out of the usual categories, by trying to look at things and at ourselves from a new angle and simultaneously from many sides, by trying to liberate our thinking from its accustomed categories of perception in space and t…”

◆Tertium Organum (P.D. Ouspensky) | Chapter XVI (part 12)

“He clearly affirms: I confess that I am very much inclined to assert the existence of immaterial natures in the world, and to put my soul itself into that class of beings. These immaterial beings . . . are immediately united with each o…”

◆Tertium Organum (P.D. Ouspensky) | Chapter XVI (part 14)

“The mystery of infinity —the greatest of all mysteries—it tells us that all the visible universe and its galaxies of stars have no dimension : that in relation to infinity they are equal to a point , a mathematical point which has no extens…”

◆Tertium Organum (P.D. Ouspensky) | Chapter XVII (part 2)

“If in general life and feeling exist, they must exist in all. Life and rationality make up the world. If we consider nature from our side , from the side of phenomena, then it is necessary to say that each thing, each phenomenon , possess…”

◆Tertium Organum (P.D. Ouspensky) | Chapter XVII (part 7)

“The activity of the life of such a composite being as a forest is not the same as the activity of different species of plants and animals, and the activity of the life of a species is again different from the life of separate individuals.…”

◆Tertium Organum (P.D. Ouspensky) | Chapter XVII (part 9)

“In ourselves, visual consciousness goes with our eyes, tactile consciousness with our skin. But although neither skin nor eye knows aught of the sensations of the other, they come together and figure in some sort of relation and combinatio…”

◆Tertium Organum (P.D. Ouspensky) | Chapter XVIII (part 2)

“Evolutionists, followers of Darwin, say that the struggle for existence and the selection of the fittest created the mind and feeling of contemporary man—that mind and feeling SERVE LIFE, preserve the life of separate individuals and of the…”

◆Tertium Organum (P.D. Ouspensky) | Chapter XXI (part 6)

“Of course absurdity , as such, is indeed not an index of the attributes of noumena, but the attributes of noumena will certainly be expressed in what are absurdities to us. To hope to find in the world of causes anything logical from our s…”

◆Tertium Organum (P.D. Ouspensky) | Chapter XXI (part 9)

“There cannot be anything which is measured by years, days, hours—there cannot be before, now, after. Moments of different epochs, divided by great intervals of time, exist simultaneously, and may touch one another. Along with this, all th…”

◆Tertium Organum (P.D. Ouspensky) | Chapter XXII (part 7)

“Now we have established that illogicality (from our standpoint) is the necessary condition of the knowledge of truth or of the real world. This does not mean that everything that is illogical is true and real, but it means absolutely, that…”

◆Tertium Organum (P.D. Ouspensky) | Chapter XXII (part 9)

“In like manner he beheld the whole creation, and from that foundation he afterwards wrote his book, " De Signature Rerum ." In the unfolding of those mysteries before his understanding he had a great measure of joy, yet returned home and to…”

◆Tertium Organum (P.D. Ouspensky) | Chapter XXII (part 10)

“But it does not bear fruit presently; and, though it blossoms, they fall off; also many a cold wind, frost and snow, puff upon it, before it comes to any growth and bearing of fruit. Boehme's books are full of wonderment before these myste…”

◆Tertium Organum (P.D. Ouspensky) | Chapter XXII (part 12)

“"The cause of all things is neither soul nor intellect; nor has it imagination, opinion, or reason, or intelligence; nor is it reason or intelligence; nor is it spoken or thought. It is neither number, nor order, nor magnitude, nor littlen…”

◆Tertium Organum (P.D. Ouspensky) | Chapter XXII (part 16)

“Having become indifferent to objects of perception, the pupil must seek out the Rajah of the senses, the Thought-Producer, him who awakes illusions. The mind is the great slayer of the real. Let the Disciple slay the Slayer. For— When to…”

◆Tertium Organum (P.D. Ouspensky) | Chapter XXII (part 18)

“This is at the same time a religious sect and a philosophical school of high idealistic character, which struggled against materialism and against the narrow fanaticism and the literal understanding of the Koran. The Sufis interpreted the…”

◆Tertium Organum (P.D. Ouspensky) | Chapter XXII (part 24)

“The comparison of the sensation of woman experienced by man, or vice versa , with the feeling for nature is met with very often. And it is really the same sensation as is given by forest, prairie, sea, mountains, only in this case it is ev…”

◆Tertium Organum (P.D. Ouspensky) | Chapter XXIII (part 10)

“The mind becomes overcrowded (as it were) with concepts and these are constantly becoming larger, more numerous and more and more complex; some day (the conditions being all favorable) the fusion, or what might be called the chemical union,…”

◆Tertium Organum (P.D. Ouspensky) | Chapter XXIII (part 15)

“Simple Consciousness and flashes of thought. Animals possessing complex organisms. Absence of consciousness of death. Body, instincts, desires, voices of the body, emotions. Reasoning. Moments of self-consciousness and flashes of cosmi…”

◆Tertium Organum (P.D. Ouspensky) | Chapter XXIII (part 16)

“329 cases it is more correct to regard them all as the highest types in their own evolution. The absence of intermediate forms makes this view much more probable than that which is usually accepted, and which gives such rich material for d…”

◆Tertium Organum (P.D. Ouspensky) | Page 29 (part 1)

“p. 337 TABLE OF THE FOUR FORMS OF THE MANIFESTATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS For ease of online reading, I have exchanged the rows and columns in this chart.—JBH 1ST FORM 2ND FORM 3RD FORM 4TH FORM THE SENSE OF SPACE AND TIME The sense of one-dime…”

◆Transcendental Magic I: The Doctrine (Éliphas Lévi) | Introductionc

“The original alliance between Christianity and the Science of the Magi, once demonstrated fully, will be a discovery of no second-rate importance, and we do not doubt that the serious study of Magic and the Kabalah will lead earnest minds t…”

◆Transcendental Magic I: The Doctrine (Éliphas Lévi) | 1. The Candidatee

“Every figure is a character, every character derives from and returns into a word. For this reason the ancient sages, of whom Trismegistus is the organ, formulated their sole dogma in these terms: “That which is above is like unto that whi…”

◆Transcendental Magic I: The Doctrine (Éliphas Lévi) | 1. The Candidatef

“There is only one dogma in Magic, and it is this: The visible is the manifestation of the invisible, or, in other terms, the perfect word, in things appreciable and visible, bears an exact proportion to the things which are inappreciable by…”

◆Transcendental Magic I: The Doctrine (Éliphas Lévi) | 2. The Pillars Of The Templea

“CHOKMAH DOMUS GNOSIS SCIENCE is the absolute and complete possession of truth. Hence have the sages of all the centuries trembled before such an absolute and terrible word; they have hesitated in arrogating to themselves the first privileg…”

◆Transcendental Magic I: The Doctrine (Éliphas Lévi) | 2. The Pillars Of The Templeb

“Such is the mysterious language of the Kabalists in the Talmud, and on account of vulgar ignorance and malignity, it is impossible for us to explain or simplify it further. What then is creation? It is the house of the creative Word. Wha…”

◆Transcendental Magic I: The Doctrine (Éliphas Lévi) | 2. The Pillars Of The Templec

“The undiscerning disciples of Zoroaster divided the duad without referring it to unity, thus separating the Pillars of the Temple and endeavouring to halve God. Conceive the Absolute as two, and you must immediately conceive it as three to…”

◆Transcendental Magic I: The Doctrine (Éliphas Lévi) | 2. The Pillars Of The Templed

““By the fear of the unknown must the crowd be restrained,” he observes in another place; and Christ also said: “Cast not your pearls before swine, lest, trampling them under their feet, they turn and rend you.” The Tree of the Knowledge of…”

◆Transcendental Magic I: The Doctrine (Éliphas Lévi) | 3. The Triangle Of Solomona

“PLENITUDO VOCIS BINAH PHYSIS The perfect word is the triad, because it supposes an intelligent principle, a speaking principle and a principle spoken. The Absolute, revealed by speech, endows this speech with a sense equivalent to itself,…”

◆Transcendental Magic I: The Doctrine (Éliphas Lévi) | 3. The Triangle Of Solomonb

“The primeval sages, when seeking the First of Causes, behold good and evil in the world. They considered shadow and light; they compared winter with spring, age with youth, life with death, and their conclusion was this: The First Cause is…”

◆Transcendental Magic I: The Doctrine (Éliphas Lévi) | 3. The Triangle Of Solomonc

“These shells, envelopes petrified or carnified, were such an expression possible, are the source of errors or of evil, which connects with the heaviness and hardness of animal envelopes. In the book Zohar , and in that of the Revolution of…”

◆Transcendental Magic I: The Doctrine (Éliphas Lévi) | 3. The Triangle Of Solomond

“Matthew, and in several Hebrew copies, as follows: “The sacred word MALKUTH substituted for KETHER, which is its kabalistic correspondent, and the equipoise of GEBURAH and CHESED, repeating itself in the circles of heavens called eons by th…”

◆Transcendental Magic I: The Doctrine (Éliphas Lévi) | 4. The Tetragrama

“GEBURAH CHESED PORTA LIBRARUM ELEMENTA IN Nature there are two forces producing equilibrium, and these three constitute a single law. Here, then, is the triad resumed in unity, and by adding the conception of unity to that of the triad we…”

◆Transcendental Magic I: The Doctrine (Éliphas Lévi) | 4. The Tetragramb

“The Great Magical Agent is the fourth emanation of the life-principle, of which the sun is the third form - see the initiates of the school of Alexandria and the dogma of Hermes Trismegistus. In this way the eye of the world, as the ancien…”

◆Transcendental Magic I: The Doctrine (Éliphas Lévi) | 4. The Tetragramc

“The perfect word, that which is adequate to the thought which it expresses, always contains virtually or supposes a tetrad: the idea, with its three necessary and correlated forms, then the image of the thing expressed, with the three terms…”

◆Transcendental Magic I: The Doctrine (Éliphas Lévi) | 4. The Tetragramd

“Being and nothingness are two absolutely irreconcilable ideas, with this difference, that the idea of nothingness, which is altogether negative, issues from the very idea of being, whence even nothingness cannot be understood as an absolute…”

◆Transcendental Magic I: The Doctrine (Éliphas Lévi) | 5. The Pentagramb

“Here let us state distinctly that this work is being performed continually in the world by some of the flower of mankind; that there is hence a permanent revelation by intuition; and that there is no insuperable barrier which separates soul…”

◆Transcendental Magic I: The Doctrine (Éliphas Lévi) | 5. The Pentagramc

“The secret of this Great Work does not remain for discovery; it has been known and practised by a great number of initiates, above all by the celebrated Apollonius of Tyana, who has left a theory concerning it, as we shall see in the “Ritua…”

◆Transcendental Magic I: The Doctrine (Éliphas Lévi) | 6. Magical Equilibriuma

“TIPHERETH UNCUS SUPREME intelligence is necessarily reasonable. God, in philosophy, may be only a hypothesis, but He is a hypothesis imposed by good sense on human reason. To personify the Absolute Reason is to determine the Divine Ideal.…”

◆Transcendental Magic I: The Doctrine (Éliphas Lévi) | 6. Magical Equilibriumc

“Love is one of the great instruments of magical power, but it is categorically forbidden to the Magus, at least as an intoxication or passion. Woe to the Samson of the Kabalah if he permit himself to be put asleep by Delilah! The Hercules…”

◆Transcendental Magic I: The Doctrine (Éliphas Lévi) | 7. The Fiery Sworda

“NETSAH GLADIUS THE septenary is the sacred number in all theogonies and in all symbols, because it is composed of the triad and the tetrad. The number seven represents magical power in all its fullness; it is the mind reinforced by all ele…”

◆Transcendental Magic I: The Doctrine (Éliphas Lévi) | 7. The Fiery Swordb

“The scenes which succeed one another in this wonderful prophetic epic are so many pantacles, the keys of which are the ternary, the quaternary, the septenary and the duodenary. Its hieroglyphic figures are analogous to those of the Book of…”

◆Transcendental Magic I: The Doctrine (Éliphas Lévi) | 7. The Fiery Swordc

“The talismans of the seven spirits are engraved either on precious stones, such as the carbuncle, crystal, diamond, emerald, agate, sapphire and onyx, or upon metals, such as gold, silver, iron, copper, fixed mercury, pewter and lead. The…”

◆Transcendental Magic I: The Doctrine (Éliphas Lévi) | 8. Realizationa

“HOD VIVENS CAUSES manifest by effects, and effects are proportioned to causes. The Divine Word, the One Word, the Tetragram, is self-affirmed by tetradic creation. Human fecundity proves divine fecundity; the JOD of the Divine Name is the…”

◆Transcendental Magic I: The Doctrine (Éliphas Lévi) | 9. Initiationa

“JESOD BONUM THE INITIATE is he who possesses the lamp of Trismegistus, the mantle of Apollonius, and the staff of the patriarchs. The lamp of Trismegistus is reason illuminated by science; the mantle of Apollonius is full and complete self…”

◆Transcendental Magic I: The Doctrine (Éliphas Lévi) | 10. The Kabalaha

“MALKUTH PRINCIPIUM PHALLUS ALL religions have preserved the remembrance of a primitive book, written in hieroglyphs by the sages of the earliest epoch of the world. Simplified and vulgarized in later days, its symbols furnished letters to…”

◆Transcendental Magic I: The Doctrine (Éliphas Lévi) | 10. The Kabalahb

“MALKUTH.-The Kingdom, meaning the universe, entire creation, the work and mirror of God, the proof of supreme reason, the formal consequence which compels us to have recourse to virtual premises, the enigma which has God for its answer - th…”

◆Transcendental Magic I: The Doctrine (Éliphas Lévi) | 10. The Kabalahc

“Here follows the religious and kabalistic key of The Tarot, formulated in technical verses after the mode of the ancient lawgivers: 1 א A Conscious, Active Cause in all we see, 2 ב And number proves the living unity. 3 ג No bound hath He w…”

◆Transcendental Magic I: The Doctrine (Éliphas Lévi) | 10. The Kabalahd

“5 GEBURAH. The four Fives. Four times four sins avenged His justice sum. 6 TIPHERETH. The four Sixes. Four rays unclouded make His beauty known. 7 NETSAH. The four Sevens. Four times His conquest shall in song be shown. 8 HOD. The…”

◆Transcendental Magic I: The Doctrine (Éliphas Lévi) | 11. The Magic Chaina

“MANUS FORCE THE GREAT Magical Agent, by us termed the Astral Light, by others the soul of the earth, and designated by old chemists under the names of Azoth and MAGNESIA, this occult, unique and indubitable force, is the key of all empire,…”

◆Transcendental Magic I: The Doctrine (Éliphas Lévi) | 12. The Great Worka

“DISCITE CRUX THE Great Work is, before all things, the creation of man by himself, that is to say, the full and entire conquest of his faculties and his future; it is especially the perfect emancipation of his will, assuring him universal d…”

◆Transcendental Magic I: The Doctrine (Éliphas Lévi) | 13. Necromancya

“EX IPSIS MORS We HAVE said that the images of persons and things are preserved in the Astral Light. Therein also can be evoked the forms of those who are in our world no longer, and by this means are accomplished those mysteries of Necroma…”

◆Transcendental Magic I: The Doctrine (Éliphas Lévi) | 14. Transmutationsa

“SPHERA LUNAE SEMPITERNUM AUXILIUM St. AUGUSTINE questioned seriously whether Apuleius could have been changed into an ass by a Thessalian sorceress, and theologians have long debated about the transformation of Nebuchadnezzar into a wild b…”

◆Transcendental Magic I: The Doctrine (Éliphas Lévi) | 14. Transmutationsb

“Many persons will believe that they are dreaming when they read such things as these, and may ask whether we are really awake ourselves; but we need only request men of science to reflect upon the phenomena of gestation and upon the influen…”

◆Transcendental Magic I: The Doctrine (Éliphas Lévi) | 16. Bewitchmentsa

“FONS OCULUS FULGUR WHEN A man gazes unchastely upon any woman he profanes that woman, said the Great Master. What is willed with persistence is done. Every real will is confirmed by acts; every will confirmed by an act is an action. Ever…”

◆Transcendental Magic I: The Doctrine (Éliphas Lévi) | 16. Bewitchmentse

“The method of ceremonial bewitchments varies with times and persons; all subtle and domineering people find its secrets and its practice within themselves, without even actually calculating about them or reasoning on their sequence. Herein…”

◆Transcendental Magic I: The Doctrine (Éliphas Lévi) | 17. Astrologya

“STELLA OS INFLEXUS Of ALL THE ARTS which have originated in ancient magian wisdom astrology is now the most misunderstood. No one believes any longer in the universal harmonies of Nature and in the necessary interconnection of all effects…”

◆Transcendental Magic I: The Doctrine (Éliphas Lévi) | 17. Astrologyb

“Paracelsus was perhaps the last of the great practical astrologers; he cured diseases by talismans formed under astral influences; he distinguished upon all bodies the mark of their dominant star; there, according to him, was the true Unive…”

◆Transcendental Magic I: The Doctrine (Éliphas Lévi) | 17. Astrologyc

“Hence the head is subject in an absolute manner to astral influence, and evidences its several attractions by its diverse protuberances. The final word of phrenology is to be found therefore in scientific and purified astrology, the proble…”

◆Transcendental Magic I: The Doctrine (Éliphas Lévi) | 17. Astrologyd

“Hence I conclude that, for myself and for this year, experience confirms fully the precision of Cardan's astrological calculus, which connects furthermore with the climacteric years of ancient astrologers. This term signifies arranged in s…”

◆Transcendental Magic I: The Doctrine (Éliphas Lévi) | 17. Astrologye

“In the modern Tarot the plate is entitled the Glittering Star; it is analogous to a number of Hermetic symbols, and is also in correspondence with the Blazing Star of Masonic initiates, which expresses most of the mysteries of Rosicrucian s…”

◆Transcendental Magic I: The Doctrine (Éliphas Lévi) | 20. The Universal Medicinea

“CAPUT RESURRECTIO CIRCULUS THE MAJORITY of our physical complaints come from our moral diseases, according to the one and universal dogma, and by reason of the law of analogies. A great passion to which we abandon ourselves corresponds alw…”

◆Transcendental Magic I: The Doctrine (Éliphas Lévi) | 21. Divinationb

“In philosophy, it gives absolute certitude; in religion, the universal secret of faith; in physics, the composition, decomposition, recomposition, realization and adaptation of Philosophical Mercury, called AzOTH by the alchemists; in dynam…”

◆Transcendental Magic I: The Doctrine (Éliphas Lévi) | 21. Divinationc

“It is by imagination assuredly that we see, and this is the natural aspect of the miracle; but we see true things, and in this consists the marvellous aspect of the natural work. We appeal to the experience of all veritable adepts. The au…”

◆Transcendental Magic I: The Doctrine (Éliphas Lévi) | 22. Summary And General Key Of The Four Secret Sciencesa

“SIGNA TROT PAN LET us now summarize the entire science by its principles. Analogy is the final word of science and the first word of faith. Harmony consists in equilibrium, and equilibrium subsists by the analogy of contraries. Absolute…”

◆Transcendental Magic I: The Doctrine (Éliphas Lévi) | 22. Summary And General Key Of The Four Secret Sciencesb

“Let the wise man seek it not, since he has already found it; let the profane seek for ever: they will never find. Metallic transmutation takes place spiritually and materially by the positive key of analogies. Occult medicine is simply th…”

◆Transcendental Magic II: The Ritual (Éliphas Lévi) | Introductiona

“KNOWEST thou that old queen of the world who is on the march always and wearies never? Every uncurbed passion, every selfish pleasure, every licentious energy of humanity, and all its tyrannous weakness, go before the sordid mistress of ou…”

◆Transcendental Magic II: The Ritual (Éliphas Lévi) | Introductionf

“But when science and philosophy, reconciled with faith, shall unite all the various symbols, then shall the magnificences of the antique worships be restored to the memory of men, proclaiming the progress of the human mind in the intuition…”

◆Transcendental Magic II: The Ritual (Éliphas Lévi) | Introductionh

“This living speech is the condemnation of the wicked, and hence they seek to destroy it; but it is they only who die, and the Word of Truth remains to judge their memory! Orpheus may have been rent by bacchantes; Socrates may have quaffed…”

◆Transcendental Magic II: The Ritual (Éliphas Lévi) | 1. Preparationsc

““But how act?” Rise daily at the same hour, and that early; bathe at a spring before daybreak, and in all seasons; never wear soiled clothes: wash them yourself at need; practise voluntary privations, that you may be better able to bear tho…”

◆Transcendental Magic II: The Ritual (Éliphas Lévi) | 2. Magical Equilibriuma

“EQUILIBRIUM is the consequence of two forces. If two forces are absolutely and invariably equal, the equilibrium will be immobility and therefore the negation of life. Movement is the result of an alternate preponderance. The impulsion g…”

◆Transcendental Magic II: The Ritual (Éliphas Lévi) | 2. Magical Equilibriumb

“The same manual gesture may assimilate and give forth alternately what we are accustomed to call the fluid, and the magnetizer will himself be warned of the result of his intention by an alternative sensation of warmth and cold in the hand,…”

◆Transcendental Magic II: The Ritual (Éliphas Lévi) | 2. Magical Equilibriumc

“Thus, the Magus should not live altogether in his laboratory, among his Atha-nors, Elixirs and Pantacles. However riveting be the glance of that Circe who is called occult power, we must be able to confront her on occasion with the sword o…”

◆Transcendental Magic II: The Ritual (Éliphas Lévi) | 3. The Triangle Of Pantaclesa

“THE Abbot Trithemius, who in Magic was the master of Cornelius Agrippa, explains, in his Steganography, the secret of Conjurations and Evocations after a very natural and philosophical manner, though possibly, for that very reason, too simp…”

◆Transcendental Magic II: The Ritual (Éliphas Lévi) | 3. The Triangle Of Pantaclesc

“We may remark, in passing, that the author of the Apocalypse, that key of the Christian Kabalah, composed the number of the beast, that is to say, of idolatry, by adding a 6 to the double senary of ABRACADABRA, which gives 18 kabalistically…”

◆Transcendental Magic II: The Ritual (Éliphas Lévi) | 4. The Conjuration Of The Fourb

“Prayer of the Sylphs Spirit of Light, Spirit of Wisdom, Who breath gives and takes away the form of all things; Thou before Whom the life of every being is; a shadow which transforms and a vapour which passes away; Thou who ascendest upon t…”

◆Transcendental Magic II: The Ritual (Éliphas Lévi) | 4. The Conjuration Of The Fourc

“Prayer of the Undines Dread King of the Sea, Who hast the keys of the floodgates of heaven and dost confine the waters of the underworld in the caverns of earth; King of the deluge and the floods of springtime; Thou Who dost unseal the sour…”

◆Transcendental Magic II: The Ritual (Éliphas Lévi) | 4. The Conjuration Of The Fourd

“The earth is exorcised by aspersion of water, by breathing and by fire, with the perfumes proper for each day and the Prayer of the Gnomes King invisible, Who, taking the earth as a support, didst furrow the abysses to fil them with Thine o…”

◆Transcendental Magic II: The Ritual (Éliphas Lévi) | 4. The Conjuration Of The Foure

“Fulfil, Judgment, by fire in the virtue of Michael. Angel of the blind eyes, obey, or pass away with this holy water! Work, Winged Bull, or revert to the earth, unless thou wilt that I should pierce thee with this sword! Chained Eagle, o…”

◆Transcendental Magic II: The Ritual (Éliphas Lévi) | 4. The Conjuration Of The Fourf

“But we live in a century when no one has the courage to confess the wonders that he has witnessed, and did anyone say: “I have myself beheld or performed the things which I am describing,” he would be answered: “You are diverting yourself a…”

◆Transcendental Magic II: The Ritual (Éliphas Lévi) | 7. The Septenary Of Talismansa

“CEREMONIES, vestments, perfumes, characters and figures being, as we have stated, necessary to apply imagination to the education of the will, the success of magical works depends upon the faithful observation of all the Rites, which are in…”

◆Transcendental Magic II: The Ritual (Éliphas Lévi) | 7. The Septenary Of Talismansb

“We have observed previously that in this sense the planets are only signs; they have the influence which universal faith attributes because they are more truly the stars of the human mind than the orbs of heaven. The sun, which Antique Mag…”

◆Transcendental Magic II: The Ritual (Éliphas Lévi) | 7. The Septenary Of Talismansc

“The altar of perfumes and the tripod of sacred fire must be encircled by wreaths of laurel, heliotrope and sunflowers; the perfumes are cinnamon, strong incense, saffron and red sandal; the ring must be of gold, with a chrysolith or ruby; t…”

◆Transcendental Magic II: The Ritual (Éliphas Lévi) | 7. The Septenary Of Talismansd

“We have defined a Pantacle as a synthetic character resuming the entire magical doctrine in one of its special conceptions. It is therefore the full expression of a completed thought and will: it is the signature of a spirit. The ceremoni…”

◆Transcendental Magic II: The Ritual (Éliphas Lévi) | 7. The Septenary Of Talismanse

“Crosses of honour and other kindred decorations are veritable talismans which increase personal value and merit; they are consecrated by solemn investiture, and public opinion can impart to them a prodigious power. Sufficient attention has…”

◆Transcendental Magic II: The Ritual (Éliphas Lévi) | 8. Warning To The Imprudentb

“The milder and calmer you are, the more effective will be your anger; the more energetic you are, the more valuable will be your forbearance; the more skilful you are, the better will you profit by your intelligence and even by your virtues…”

◆Transcendental Magic II: The Ritual (Éliphas Lévi) | 9. The Ceremonial Of Initiatesa

“THE science is preserved by silence and perpetuated by initiation. The law of silence is not therefore absolute and inviolable, except relatively to the uninitiated multitude. Such knowledge can be only transmitted by speech. The sages t…”

◆Transcendental Magic II: The Ritual (Éliphas Lévi) | 10. The Key Of Occultismb

“The sphinxes of Ezekiel are identical with those of the sanctuary and the ark, being a fourfold reproduction of the Egyptian Tetrad; the wheels revolving in one another are the harmonious spheres of Pythagoras; the new temple, the plan of w…”

◆Transcendental Magic II: The Ritual (Éliphas Lévi) | 10. The Key Of Occultismc

“His feet represent the equilibrium of BRIAH, or the world of forms; his legs are the two Pillars of the Masonic Temple, JAKIN and BOAZ; his body, veiled by clouds, from which issues a hand holding a book, is the sphere of YETZIRAH, or initi…”

◆Transcendental Magic II: The Ritual (Éliphas Lévi) | 11. The Triple Chainb

“Mystification combined with it after wards, and even educated and intelligent persons were so infatuated with the novelty that they hoaxed themselves, and became the dupes of their own absurdity. The oracles of the tables were answers more…”

◆Transcendental Magic II: The Ritual (Éliphas Lévi) | 12. The Great Worka

“TO be ever rich, to be always young and to die never: such, from all time, has been the dream of alchemists. To change lead, mercury, and the other metals into gold, to possess the Universal Medicine and the Elixir of Life - such is the pr…”

◆Transcendental Magic II: The Ritual (Éliphas Lévi) | 12. The Great Workc

“The kabalistic figures of Abraham the Jew, which imparted to Flamel the first desire for knowledge, are no other than the twenty-two Keys of the Tarot, imitated and resumed elsewhere in the twelve Keys of Basil Valentine, There the sun and…”

◆Transcendental Magic II: The Ritual (Éliphas Lévi) | 15. The Sabbath Of The Sorcerersa

“We recur once more to that terrible number fifteen, symbolized in the Tarot by a monster throned upon an altar, mitred and horned, having a woman's breasts and the generative organs of a man - a chimera, a malformed sphinx, a synthesis of d…”

◆Transcendental Magic II: The Ritual (Éliphas Lévi) | 15. The Sabbath Of The Sorcerersb

“All the Kabalah and all Magic, as a fact, are divided between the cultus of the immolated and that of the emissary goat. We must recognize therefore a Magic of the Sanctuary and that of the wilderness, the White and the Black Church, the p…”

◆Transcendental Magic II: The Ritual (Éliphas Lévi) | 17. The Writing Of The Starsa

“WE have finished with infernus, and we breathe the fresh air freely as we turn to daylight after traversing the crypts of Black Magic. Get thee behind us, Satan! We renounce thee, with all thy pomps and works, and still more with all thy…”

◆Transcendental Magic II: The Ritual (Éliphas Lévi) | 17. The Writing Of The Starsb

“It was included in the work of Montfaucon on the religions and superstitions of the world, and also in the treatise upon Magic published by the mystic Eckartshausen. Scholars, moreover, are not agreed upon the configuration of the letters…”

◆Transcendental Magic II: The Ritual (Éliphas Lévi) | 17. The Writing Of The Starsc

“The Assyrians or Chaldeans, incited by Nebuchadnezzar or Salmanasor, gave fullest evidence of this truth by the destruction of the most splendid and most holy temple and city in the universe, and by the complete overthrow of a people whom G…”

◆Transcendental Magic II: The Ritual (Éliphas Lévi) | 17. The Writing Of The Starsd

“This day is consecrated to mental enterprises and should be favourable for opportune innovations. 2. Pope Joan, or Occult Science. The second day, the genius of which Enediel, was the fifth of creation, for the moon was made on the fourt…”

◆Transcendental Magic II: The Ritual (Éliphas Lévi) | 17. The Writing Of The Starse

“Birth of Benjamin. Day of preference and tenderness. 24. Influence of Jupiter. Birth of Japhet. 25. Influence of Mercury. Tenth plague of Egypt. 26. Influence of Mars. Deliverance of the Israelites and passage of the Red Sea. 27.…”

◆Transcendental Magic II: The Ritual (Éliphas Lévi) | 17. The Writing Of The Starsf

“Hence they inferred that after a cycle of twelve periods Greece would be destroyed and desolated. A short time before the sack of Jerusalem and its temple by Nebuchadnezzar, the Kabalists remarked eleven stars disposed in the following man…”

◆Transcendental Magic II: The Ritual (Éliphas Lévi) | 19. The Mastery Of The Suna

“WE come now to that number which is attributed in the Tarot to the Sign of the Sun. The denary of Pythagoras and the triad multiplied by itself represent wisdom in its application to the Absolute. It is with the Absolute therefore that we…”

◆Transcendental Magic II: The Ritual (Éliphas Lévi) | 20. The Thaumaturgec

“Insufflation is one of the most important practices of occult medicine, because it is a perfect sign of the transmission of life. To inspire, as a fact, means to breathe upon some person or thing, and we know already, by the one doctrine o…”

◆Transcendental Magic II: The Ritual (Éliphas Lévi) | 21. The Science Of The Prophetsa

“THIS chapter is consecrated to divination, which, in its broadest sense, and following the grammatical significance of the word, is the exercise of divine power, and the realization of divine knowledge. It is the priesthood of the Magus.…”

◆Transcendental Magic II: The Ritual (Éliphas Lévi) | 21. The Science Of The Prophetsc

“The Tarot was the sole book of the ancient Magi; it is the primitive Bible, as we shall prove in the following chapter, and the ancients consulted it as the first Christians at a later date consulted the Sacred Lots, that is, Bible verses s…”

◆Transcendental Magic II: The Ritual (Éliphas Lévi) | 21. The Science Of The Prophetsd

“A modern investigator, the Chevalier D'Arpentigny, has imparted to chiromancy a fresh degree of certitude by his remarks on the analogies which really exist between the characters of persons and the form of their hands, as a whole or in det…”

◆Transcendental Magic II: The Ritual (Éliphas Lévi) | 21. The Science Of The Prophetse

“Next came the reign of Anael, the spirit of Venus, on 24 June, in the year of the world 354, when love began to be the instructor of mankind; it created the family, while the family led to association and the primitive city. The first civi…”

◆Transcendental Magic II: The Ritual (Éliphas Lévi) | 21. The Science Of The Prophetsf

“This empire will be political and religious; it will offer the solution of all problems agitated in our own days, and will endure for 354 years and 4 months, after which it will be succeeded by the return of the reign of Orifiel, an epoch o…”

◆Transcendental Magic II: The Ritual (Éliphas Lévi) | 22. The Book Of Hermesa

“THE END of our work is upon us; it is here that we must give the universal key thereof and utter its final word. The universal key of magical works is that of all ancient religious dogmas - the key of the Kabalah and the Bible, the Little…”

◆Transcendental Magic II: The Ritual (Éliphas Lévi) | 22. The Book Of Hermesb

“Gaffarel thus expresses himself: “He (Philo the Jew) speaking of the history concealed in the before-mentioned chapter of JUDGES, says that Michas made three “images of young boys and three young calves, three also of a lion, an eagle, a dr…”

◆Transcendental Magic II: The Ritual (Éliphas Lévi) | 22. The Book Of Hermesc

“Hence came those Tarots, the antiquity of which, revealed to the erudite Court de Gebelin by the science of hieroglyphs and numbers, so exercised later the doubtful perspicacity and persistent investigation of Etteilla. Court de Gebelin, i…”

◆Transcendental Magic II: The Ritual (Éliphas Lévi) | 22. The Book Of Hermesd

“It is a word which expresses kabalistically the dogmatic and natural absolute; it is formed of the characters of the Monogram of Christ, according to the Greeks and Hebrews. The Latin R or Greek P is found between the alpha and omega of th…”

◆Transcendental Magic II: The Ritual (Éliphas Lévi) | 22. The Book Of Hermese

“Symbol, THE EMPRESS, a woman, winged, crowned, seated and uplifting a sceptre with the orb of the world at its end: her sign is an eagle, image of the soul and of life. She is the Venus-Urania of the Greeks and was represented by St. John…”

◆Transcendental Magic II: The Ritual (Éliphas Lévi) | 22. The Book Of Hermesf

“חBalance, attraction and repulsion, life, terror, promise and threat. Hieroglyph, JUSTICE with sword and balance. ט Good, horror of evil, morality, wisdom. Hieroglyph, a sage leaning on his staff, holding a lamp in front of him and envel…”

◆Transcendental Magic II: The Ritual (Éliphas Lévi) | 22. The Book Of Hermesg

“Other Tarots substitute a spinner unwinding destinies, and yet others a naked child mounted on a white horse and displaying a scarlet standard. רVegetative principle, generative virtue of the earth, eternal life. Hieroglyph, THE JUDGEMENT…”

◆Transcendental Magic II: The Ritual (Éliphas Lévi) | 22. The Book Of Hermesh

“Who does not perceive in the golden table, crowned and supported by Cherubim which covered the Ark of the Covenant, the same symbols as those of the twenty-first Tarot Key? The Ark was a hieroglyphical synthesis of the whole kabalistic dog…”

◆Transcendental Magic II: The Ritual (Éliphas Lévi) | 22. The Book Of Hermesi

“On a table in front of him, between an open book and a closed purse, are ten deniers or talismans, arranged in two lines of three each and a square of four; the feet of the table form two ח and those of the Juggler two inverted ר. The obve…”

◆Transcendental Magic II: The Ritual (Éliphas Lévi) | 22. The Book Of Hermesj

“Thus the universal tradition of the one religion was broken for a moment, darkness or doubt spread over the whole earth, and it seemed in the eyes of ignorance, that true catholicism, the universal revelation, had disappeared for a space.…”

◆Transcendental Magic II: The Ritual (Éliphas Lévi) | 22. The Book Of Hermesk

“The second beast, emblem of the northern conquerors, who reigned by iron during the second age, was like unto a bear; it had three rows of sharp teeth, images of three great conquering families, and they said unto it: Arise, devour much fle…”

◆Transcendental Magic II: The Ritual (Éliphas Lévi) | 22. The Book Of Hermesl

“In the schools of seers the terrestrial globe was represented by an egg of pasteboard or painted wood, and when young children were asked, ‘What is this egg?’ they answered, ‘It is the earth.’ Those older children, the barbarians, hearing t…”

◆Transcendental Magic II: The Ritual (Éliphas Lévi) | 22. The Book Of Hermesn

“Faith, hope and charity are three such inseparable sisters that they may be taken one for another. Thus in religion universal and hierarchic orthodoxy, restoration of temples in all their splendour; reestablishment of high ceremonial in it…”

◇Tertium Organum (P.D. Ouspensky) | Chapter VI (part 1)

“p. 59 CHAPTER VI Methods of investigation of the problem of higher dimensions. The analogy between imaginary worlds of different dimensions. The one-dimensional world on a line. "Space" and "time" of a one-dimensional being. The two-di…”

◇Tertium Organum (P.D. Ouspensky) | Chapter X (part 7)

“An age of great inspiration and unconscious productiveness is invariably followed by an age of criticism and consciousness. The one affords material for the analyzing and critical intellect of the other. Thus all those great characters wh…”

◇Tertium Organum (P.D. Ouspensky) | Chapter XIV (part 4)

“He hears "the voices of stones," understands the whisperings of ancient walls, of tumuli, of mountains, rivers, woods and plains. He hears " the voice of the silence ," understands the psychological difference between silences, knows that…”

◇Tertium Organum (P.D. Ouspensky) | Chapter XVII (part 3)

“The snail is a complex centre of transmutation of some physical energies into others. This centre possesses a consciousness of its own. It is for this reason that the snail is indivisible. Its psyche is infinitely higher than that of the…”

◇Tertium Organum (P.D. Ouspensky) | Chapter XVII (part 8)

“Doesn't this show a singularly indigent imagination? Isn't this brave universe made on a richer pattern, with room in it for a long hierarchy of beings? Materialistic science makes it infinitely richer in terms, with its molecules, and et…”

◆Iamblichus: On the Mysteries | Chapter IVb

“This, therefore, subsists contrarily to what you suppose, for the purpose of discovering the peculiarity which you now investigate. In short, whether you think that there is one genus of the Gods, one of dæmons, and in a similar manner of…”

◆Iamblichus: On the Mysteries | Chapter VI

“What, therefore, shall we say concerning the media? I think, indeed, that from what has been before said, they will be manifest to every one; for these give completion to the indivisible connexion of the extremes. Nevertheless, it is necess…”

◆Iamblichus: On the Mysteries | Chapter VIIIa

“But neither must we admit that cause of the distinction of these genera which you subjoin, viz. “ that it is an arrangement with reference to different bodies; as, for instance, 39 of Gods to etherial bodies, but of dæmons to aerial bodies…”

◆Iamblichus: On the Mysteries | Chapter IXa

“I consider you, therefore, as asking, for it is your inquiry, “ Why, since the Gods dwell in the heavens alone, there are invocations by theurgists of terrestrial and subterranean Gods? ” For 45 what you assert in the beginning is not true…”

◆Iamblichus: On the Mysteries | Chapter XIa

““ How therefore ,” you ask, “ are many things performed to them in sacred operations, as if they were passive? ” I reply, that this is asserted through an ignorance of sacerdotal mysticism. For of the things which are perpetually effected…”

◆Iamblichus: On the Mysteries | Chapter XVII

“We will exchange, therefore, this division for the doubt which may be adduced by you against the present opinion. “ For ,” it may be said by you, “ how, conformably to what we assert, can the sun and moon, and the visible natures in the hea…”

◆Iamblichus: On the Mysteries | Chapter XVIIIa

“Your next inquiry doubts, “ how some of the Gods are beneficent, but others malefic .” This opinion, therefore, is assumed from the predictors of nativities. It is, however, entirely remote from the truth. For all the Gods are good, and i…”

◆Iamblichus: On the Mysteries | Chapter XIXa

“In the next place, therefore, we shall answer your question, “ What it is which conjoins the Gods that have a body in the heavens with the incorporeal Gods. ” What this is, therefore, is evident from what has been before said. For 72 if t…”

◆Pseudo-Dionysius: The Divine Names | Chapter 11, Section 1f

“472 Contemplation, Act of Contemplation, and Object Contemplated are all united together, and so imply a fundamental Unity which exists ultimately in God. 473 Cf. p. 174, n. 3. 474 D.‘s paradox is the paradox of sanity. We must hold a…”

◆Pseudo-Dionysius: The Divine Names | Chapter 13, Section 1b

“abundant and inexhaustible supple, whereby It perfects all perfect 498 498 “Perfect,” a term taken from the Mysteries expressing the final state of the initiated. things and fills them with Its own Perfection. 2. And the title “One” impl…”

◆Pseudo-Dionysius: The Divine Names | Chapter 13, Section 1f

“Thus in the form “1 x 1” the first figure represents the unity underlying all numbers, the second figure represents unity as a particular number among other numbers. The first figure may thus be taken as a symbol of the Godhead, the second…”

◆Pseudo-Dionysius: The Divine Names | Chapter 4, Section 1b

“Hence have they their celestial orders, their self-unities, their mutual indwellings, their distinct Differences, the faculties which raise the lower unto the higher ranks, the providences of the higher for those beneath them; their preserv…”

◆Pseudo-Dionysius: The Divine Names | Chapter 4, Section 1d

“Nay, even the foundation and the boundaries of the heavens (as we forgot to say while 91 thinking of other matters) owe their origin to the Good. Such is this universe, which lessens not nor grows, and such the noiseless movements (if nois…”

◆Pseudo-Dionysius: The Divine Names | Chapter 4, Section 1e

“260 260 The light permeates water but it does not permeate a stone. It passes over the stone and permeates the water beyond it. Yea, and it contributes to the birth of material bodies and brings them unto life, and nourishes them that the…”

◆Pseudo-Dionysius: The Divine Names | Chapter 4, Section 1h

“Hence comes the bare existence of all things, and hence their unions, 277 277 ἑνώσεις, διακρίσεις, ταὐτότητες, ἑτερότητες. their differentiations, their identities, their differences, 278 278 Hence parts are united into wholes and wholes a…”

◆Pseudo-Dionysius: The Divine Names | Chapter 4, Section 1j

“For from It and through It are all Being and life of spirit and of soul; and hence in the realm of nature magnitudes both small, co-equal and great; hence all the measured order and the proportions of things, which, by their different harmo…”

◆Agrippa: The Philosophy of Natural Magic, Chapter I — How Magicians Collect Virtues from the Three-Fold World is Declared in these Three Books | Chapter I, Section 1

“CHAPTER I. How Magicians Collect Virtues from the Three-Fold World is Declared in these Three Books . Seeing there is a Three-fold World—Elementary, Celestial and Intellectual—and every inferior is governed by its superior, and receiveth th…”

◆Agrippa: The Philosophy of Natural Magic, Chapter II — What Magic Is, What Are the Parts Thereof, and How the Professors Thereof Must Be Qualified | Chapter II, Section 1a

“CHAPTER II. What Magic Is, What Are the Parts Thereof, and How the Professors Thereof Must Be Qualified . Magic is a faculty of wonderful virtue, full of most high mysteries, containing the most profound contemplation of most secret thing…”

◆Agrippa: The Philosophy of Natural Magic, Chapter IV — Of a Three-Fold Consideration of the Elements | Chapter IV, Section 1

“CHAPTER IV. Of a Three-Fold Consideration of the Elements . There are, then, as we have said, four Elements, without the perfect knowledge whereof we can effect nothing in Magic. Now each of them is three-fold, that so the number of four ma…”

◆Agrippa: The Philosophy of Natural Magic, Chapter V — Of the Wonderful Natures of Fire and Earth | Chapter V, Section 1a

“CHAPTER V. Of the Wonderful Natures of Fire and Earth . There are two things, saith Hermes, viz., Fire and Earth, which are sufficient for the operation of all wonderful things: the former is active, the latter passive. Fire, as saith Di…”

◆Agrippa: The Philosophy of Natural Magic, Chapter VII — Of the Kinds of Compounds, what Relation They Stand in to the Elements, and What Relation There Is Betwixt the Elements Themselves and the Soul, Senses and Dispositions of Men | Chapter VII, Section 1a

“CHAPTER VII. Of the Kinds of Compounds, what Relation They Stand in to the Elements, and What Relation There Is Betwixt the Elements Themselves and the Soul, Senses and Dispositions of Men . Next after the four simple Elements follow the…”

◆Agrippa: The Philosophy of Natural Magic, Chapter VII — Of the Kinds of Compounds, what Relation They Stand in to the Elements, and What Relation There Is Betwixt the Elements Themselves and the Soul, Senses and Dispositions of Men | Chapter VII, Section 1b

“The earth signifies a slow and firm motion; the water signifies fearfulness and sluggishness, and remissness in working; air signifies cheerfulness and an amiable disposition; but fire a fierce, quick and angry disposition. The Elements, t…”

◆Agrippa: The Philosophy of Natural Magic, Chapter VIII — How the Elements Are in the Heavens, in Stars, in Devils, in Angels, and lastly in God Himself | Chapter VIII, Section 1a

“CHAPTER VIII. How the Elements Are in the Heavens, in Stars, in Devils, in Angels, and lastly in God Himself . It is the unanimous consent of all Platonists, that as in the original and exemplary World, all things are in all; so also in t…”

◆Agrippa: The Philosophy of Natural Magic, Chapter VIII — How the Elements Are in the Heavens, in Stars, in Devils, in Angels, and lastly in God Himself | Chapter VIII, Section 1b

“Also according to orders of Angels, some are fiery, as Seraphim, and Authorities and Powers; earthy, as Cherubim; watery, as Thrones and Archangels; airy, as Dominions and Principalities. Do we not also read of the original maker of all th…”

◆The Book of Concealed Mystery (Siphra Dtzenioutha) | 1a

“CHAPTER V. 1. (It is written) Isa. i. 4: "Woe unto the sinful nation, unto the people heavy with iniquity, unto the seed of evildoers, &c." (Here the author of the "Siphra Dtzenioutha" reasoneth concerning the small word HVI, "woe," whi…”

◆The Book of Concealed Mystery (Siphra Dtzenioutha) | 1c

“And to it also pertain the following names, namely, the name) IH, Yah (whensoever it is written in full with A in this manner:) IVD HA, Yod Ha (and containeth the number of the numeral powers of the letters of the Tetragrammaton, namely, 26…”

◆The Book of Concealed Mystery (Siphra Dtzenioutha) | 1f

“[The letters of the Hebrew alphabet are divided into three classes, the three mothers as they are called, AMSh; the seven duplex letters, BGDKPRTh, so called because they are sometimes tenues and sometimes aspirates, according to whether th…”

◆The Book of Concealed Mystery (Siphra Dtzenioutha) | 1g

“The four wheels are their correlatives under the second Sephira, on their four sides--namely, the four elements of the air, fire, water, and earth, which are the abodes of the spirits of the elements, the sylphs, salamanders, undines, and g…”

◆The Book of Concealed Mystery (Siphra Dtzenioutha) | 1h

“35: "Ye shall not do iniquity in judgment, in dimension, in weight, and in measure." (Where these four are mystically intimated.) 37. (There is one) rigorous judgment (of severity),another that is not rigorous (that is, of the kingdom). T…”

◆The Book of Concealed Mystery (Siphra Dtzenioutha) | 1i

“And IVBL, Yobel , "jubilee," is H, He (the first He of the Tetragrammaton); and He is the spirit rushing forth over all (because the mother is the world to come, when in the resurrection all things will receive the spirit); and all things s…”

◆The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch, Charles translation) | Chapter V

“CHAPTER V. 1. Observe ⌈⌈ ye ⌉⌉ how the trees cover themselves with green leaves and bear fruit: wherefore give ye heed ⌈ and know ⌉ with regard to all ⌈ His works ⌉ , and recognize how He that liveth for ever hath made them so. 2. And ⌈ all…”

◆The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch, Charles translation) | Chapter XI

“CHAPTER XI. 1. And in those days I will open the store chambers of blessing which are in the heaven, so as to send them down ⌈ upon the earth ⌉ over the work and labour of the children of men. 2. And truth and peace shall be associated toge…”

◆Orphic Hymns | Front Matter, p. 4 (part 1)

“SECT. II. LET us now proceed to his theology; exchanging the obscurity of conjecture for the light of clear evidence; and the intricate labyrinths of fable for the delightful though solitary paths of truth. p. 13 And here I must acquain…”

◆Orphic Hymns | Front Matter, p. 4 (part 5)

“And in the same place, Proclus has preserved to us another copy of Orphic verses, which are also found in the writer (de Mundo); previous to which he observes, that the demiurgus, or artificer of the world, being full of ideas, comprehended…”

◆Orphic Hymns | Front Matter, p. 4 (part 9)

“For we preserve as sacred to those divinities, a perpetual fire in our temples; since this element is most similar to their lucid frames. But with respect to fumigations from herbs produced by the earth, they called the censer or pan, in w…”

◆Orphic Hymns | Front Matter, p. 4 (part 11)

“As the husbandman, therefore, performs sacred rites, by presenting handfuls of pulse and fruits, so ought we to sacrifice our purest thoughts, and other goods of the soul, thanking the divinities for the sublime contemplations they afford u…”

◆Orphic Hymns | Front Matter, p. 4 (part 14)

“If this is the case, do not they who deny that prayers are to be offered to the Gods, and who prevent their souls from being united with the divinities, that is with beings more excellent than themselves, appear similar to those who are dep…”

◆Orphic Hymns | Front Matter, p. 5 (part 4)

“Now Nature is called in these hymns, or rather initiations πολυμήχανε μῆτερ, or much-mechanic Mother, and παντοτεχνεσ or universal Artist; and Minerva is denominated μητερ τεχνῶν, or Mother of Arts. Likewise Nature is expressly called ἀθαν…”

◆Orphic Hymns | Front Matter, p. 5 (part 6)

“Sebazius and Jupiter evidently agree, for Sebazius is expressly called ὐι# ( ) Κρονυ, son of Saturn. And Amphietus is celebrated as moving in concert with the circling hours, Ἐυάζων κινῶν τε χορῦσ ἐνὶ κυκλάσιν ὥραις which corresponds with…”

◆Orphic Hymns | Front Matter, p. 5 (part 7)

“And in that to Death οἴ πάντων ϑητῶν οἴηκα κρατύνωεις. 100:a Lib. iv. p, 128. 101:b The reader may observe that this two-fold power is divided into male and female; the reason of which distribution we have already assigned from Proclus.…”

◆Plato: Phaedo | Section 1u

“For when I consider the matter either alone or with Cebes, the argument does certainly appear to me, Socrates, to be not sufficient. Socrates answered: I dare say, my friend, that you may be right, but I should like to know in what respect…”

◆Plato: Phaedo | Section 1†

“But we who live in these hollows are deceived into the notion that we are dwelling above on the surface of the earth; which is just as if a creature who was at the bottom of the sea were to fancy that he was on the surface of the water, and…”

◆Plato: Phaedo | Section 1‡

“And upon the earth are animals and men, some in a middle region, others dwelling about the air as we dwell about the sea; others in islands which the air flows round, near the continent: and in a word, the air is used by them as the water a…”

◆Plato: Republic | Section 1j

“And if a necessity be laid upon him of fashioning, not only himself, but human nature generally, whether in States or individuals, into that which he beholds elsewhere, will he, think you, be an unskilful artificer of justice, temperance, a…”

◆Plato: Republic | Section 1a

“GLAUCON - SOCRATES Still, I must implore you, Socrates, said Glaucon, not to turn away just as you are reaching the goal; if you will only give such an explanation of the good as you have already given of justice and temperance and the othe…”

◆Plato: Republic | Section 1b

“You mean the sun, as you and all mankind say. May not the relation of sight to this deity be described as follows? How? Neither sight nor the eye in which sight resides is the sun? No. Yet of all the organs of sense the eye is the most…”

◆Plato: Republic | Section 1k

“True, he replied. The spangled heavens should be used as a pattern and with a view to that higher knowledge; their beauty is like the beauty of figures or pictures excellently wrought by the hand of Daedalus, or some other great artist, wh…”

◆Plato: Symposium | Section 1k

“And this is what the physician has to do, and in this the art of medicine consists: for medicine may be regarded generally as the knowledge of the loves and desires of the body, and how to satisfy them or not; and the best physician is he w…”

◆Gospel of Philip | Section 1a

“(Above image of the Gospel of Thomas courtesy of the Institute for Antiquity and Christianity, Claremont Graduate University) Visit the Bookstore for a complete selection of translations and books about The Nag Hammadi Library The Nag Hamma…”

◆Gospel of Philip | Section 1c

“And Jesus said, “Whoever will not eat my flesh and drink my blood has no life within him.” What does he mean? His flesh is the word and blood the holy spirit. Who has received these has food and drink and clothing. I condemn those who sa…”

◆Gospel of Philip | Section 1i

“His seed was Jesus, and the plant was the cross.” The tree of life in the middle of that garden of paradise is an olive tree, and from the olive tree comes chrism, and from that oil comes the resurrection. THE WORLD EATS BODIES The world e…”

◆Gospel of Philip | Section 1j

“In the world these are the true people. They are the attendants of the bridal chamber. POWER AND WEAKNESS In this world, power and weakness mingle when man and woman have sex. Joining is different in the eternal realm, though we use the…”

◆Gospel of Philip | Section 1m

“If we know the truth, we shall find the fruits of the truth within us. If we join it, it will fulfill us. THE STRONG AND WEAK, THE MANIFEST AND HIDDEN Now we have the manifest things of creation. We say, “The strong are they who are held…”

◆Gospel of Thomas | Logion 5

“Jesus said, "Recognize what is in your sight, and that which is hidden from you will become plain to you . For there is nothing hidden which will not become manifest."…”

◆Gospel of Thomas | Logion 20

“The disciples said to Jesus, "Tell us what the kingdom of heaven is like." He said to them, "It is like a mustard seed. It is the smallest of all seeds. But when it falls on tilled soil, it produces a great plant and becomes a shelter for b…”

◆Gospel of Thomas | Logion 24

“His disciples said to him, "Show us the place where you are, since it is necessary for us to seek it." He said to them, "Whoever has ears, let him hear. There is light within a man of light, and he lights up the whole world. If he does not…”

◆The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Papyrus of Ani) | Chapter 6 (part 12)

“Every khu and every god stretcheth out his hand unto this Pepi when he cometh forth into heaven by the Ladder of God . . . . that which he seeth and that which he heareth make him wise, and serve as food for him when he cometh forth int…”

◆The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Papyrus of Ani) | Chapter 10 (part 10)

“There is no one word which will exactly describe the Egyptian conception of Maat both from a physical and from a moral point of view; but the fundamental idea of the word is " straight," and from the Egyptian texts it is clear that maat mea…”

◆The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Papyrus of Ani) | Chapter 23 (part 6)

“Text [CHAPTER LVI.]: CHAPTER OF SNIFFING THE AIR UPON EARTH. [He saith]: "(2) Hail, Tmu, grant thou unto me the sweet breath which is in thy two nostrils. I embrace the mighty throne which is in Unnu,[4] and I watch and guard the Egg of t…”

◆The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Papyrus of Ani) | Chapter 38 (part 6)

“Vignette: The goddess Neith. Text: (11) The fore-arms of Osiris Ani, triumphant, are the fore-arms of the lady of Sais. Vignette: The god Sut. Text: (12) The backbone of Osiris Ani, triumphant, is the backbone of Sut. Vignette: A god.…”

◆The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Papyrus of Ani) | Chapter 43 (part 22)

“If the name of Osiris flourisheth in This, the name of Pepi shall flourish, and this pyramid shall flourish, and this his work shall endure to all eternity. If the name of Osiris Khent-Amenta flourisheth, the name of Pepi shall flourish, a…”

◆The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Papyrus of Ani) | Chapter 43 (part 54)

“222) 8. Ibid. , t. viii., p. 88 (l. 565 ff.). 9. Ibid. , t. iii., p. 214 (l. 268).] {p. lxxiii} Further, this identification of the deceased with the God of Heaven places him in the position of supreme ruler. For example, we ha…”

◆The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Papyrus of Ani) | Chapter 43 (part 84)

“The seat of the god Khepera was in the boat of the sun, and the pictures which present us with this fact[1] only illustrate an idea which is as old, at least, as the pyramid of Unas, for in this monument it is said of the king:- ap-f em apt…”

◆The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Papyrus of Ani) | Chapter 43 (part 86)

“tav 346.] {p. cxiii} Ausar or Osiris , the sixth member of the company of the gods of Annu, was the son of Seb and Nut, and the husband of his sister Isis, the father of "Horus, the son of Isis," and the brother of Set and Nephthys. The v…”

◆The Kalevala | Rune Ib

“Surely would the winds destroy it, Far away the waves would wash it." Then the daughter of the Ether, Now the hapless water-mother, Raised her shoulders out of water, Raised her knees above the ocean, That the duck might build her dwelling,…”

◆The Kalevala | Rune IIc

“Straightway to the oak-tree turning, Thither stalks the mighty giant, In his raiment long and roomy, Flapping in the winds of heaven; With his second step he totters On the land of darker color; With his third stop firmly planted, Reaches h…”

◆The Kalevala | Rune IVg

“As the tear-drops fall and mingle, Form they streamlets three in number, And their source, the mother's eyelids, Streamlets formed from pearly tear-drops, Flowing on like little rivers, And each streamlet larger growing, Soon becomes a rush…”

◆The Kalevala | Rune IXd

“"Surely thou wert void of greatness, Having neither strength nor beauty, When the moose was trampling on thee, When the roebuck trod upon thee, When the tracks of wolves were in thee, And the bear-paws scratched thy body. Surely thou hadst…”

◆The Kalevala | Rune IXe

“If thou heedest not this order, I shall offer other measures, Know I well of other forces; I shall call the Hisi irons, In them I shall boil and roast thee, Thus to check thy crimson flowing, Thus to save the wounded hero. "If these means…”

◆The Kalevala | Rune XVe

“Then the mother, well reflecting, Spake these words in bitter weeping: "From these fragments, with my magic, I will bring to life my hero." Hearing this, the raven answered, Spake these measures to the mother: "There is not in these a hero,…”

◆The Kalevala | Rune XVf

“Now the mother speaks as follows: "Where may I procure the balsam, Where the drops of magic honey, To anoint my son and hero, Thus to heal my Lemminkainen, That again his month may open, May again begin his singing, Speak again in words of…”

◆The Kalevala | Rune XVIa

“'S BOAT-BUILDING. Wainamoinen, ancient minstrel, The eternal wisdom-singer, For his boat was working lumber, Working long upon his vessel, On a fog-point jutting seaward, On an island, forest-covered; But the lumber failed the master, Beam…”

◆Corpus Hermeticum 1: Poimandres | Section 1b

“But when He raised His head, I see in Mind the Light, [but] now in Powers no man could number, and Cosmos grown beyond all bounds, and that the Fire was compassed round about by a most mighty Power, and [now] subdued had come unto a stand.…”

◆Corpus Hermeticum 1: Poimandres | Section 1f

“All this befell me from my Mind, that is Man-Shepherd, Word (Logos) of all masterhood, by whom being God-inspired I came unto the Plain of Truth. Wherefore with all my soul and strength thanksgiving give I unto Father-God. 31. Holy art T…”

◆Corpus Hermeticum 2: The Serapeum | Section 1b

“A: How is it, then, that things down here, Thrice-greatest one, are moved with those that are [already] moved? For thou hast said the errant spheres were moved by the inerrant one. H: This is not, O Asclepius, a moving with, but one again…”

◆Corpus Hermeticum 3: The Sacred Sermon | Section 1

“The Sacred Sermon 1. The Glory of all things is God, Godhead and Godly Nature. Source of the things that are is God, who is both Mind and Nature - yea Matter, the Wisdom that reveals all things. Source [too] is Godhead - yea Nature, Energy,…”

◆Corpus Hermeticum 4: The Epistles | Section 1b

“And having raised themselves so far they sight the Good; and having sighted it, they look upon their sojourn here as a mischance; and in disdain of all, both things in body and the bodiless, they speed their way unto that One and Only One.…”

◆Corpus Hermeticum 5: The Discourse of Hermes to Asclepius | Section 1b

“Would that it were possible for thee to get thee wings, and soar into the air, and, poised midway 'tween earth and heaven, behold the earth's solidity, the sea's fluidity (the flowings of its streams), the spaciousness of air, fire's swiftn…”

◆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…”

◆Corpus Hermeticum 8: The Eight Sphere | Section 1b

“Now the third life - Man, after the image of the Cosmos made, [and] having mind, after the Father's will, beyond all earthly lives - not only doth have feeling with the second God <i.e., the Cosmos>, but also hath conception of the first; f…”

◆Tao Te Ching | Chapter 5

“Heaven and earth do not act from (the impulse of) any wish to be benevolent; they deal with all things as the dogs of grass are dealt with. The sages do not act from (any wish to be) benevolent; they deal with the people as the dogs of gras…”

◆Tao Te Ching | Chapter 23

“Abstaining from speech marks him who is obeying the spontaneity of his nature. A violent wind does not last for a whole morning; a sudden rain does not last for the whole day. To whom is it that these (two) things are owing? To Heaven and E…”

◆Tao Te Ching | Chapter 25

“There was something undefined and complete, coming into existence before Heaven and Earth. How still it was and formless, standing alone, and undergoing no change, reaching everywhere and in no danger (of being exhausted)! It may be regarde…”

◆Tao Te Ching | Chapter 34

“All-pervading is the Great Tao! It may be found on the left hand and on the right. All things depend on it for their production, which it gives to them, not one refusing obedience to it. When its work is accomplished, it does not claim the…”

◆Tao Te Ching | Chapter 61

“What makes a great state is its being (like) a low-lying, down- flowing (stream);--it becomes the centre to which tend (all the small states) under heaven. (To illustrate from) the case of all females:--the female always overcomes the male…”

◆Tao Te Ching | Chapter 66

“That whereby the rivers and seas are able to receive the homage and tribute of all the valley streams, is their skill in being lower than they;--it is thus that they are the kings of them all. So it is that the sage (ruler), wishing to be a…”

◆Tao Te Ching | Chapter 68

“He who in (Tao's) wars has skill Assumes no martial port; He who fights with most good will To rage makes no resort. He who vanquishes yet still Keeps from his foes apart; He whose hests men most fulfil Yet humbly plies his art. Thus we say…”

◆Tao Te Ching | Chapter 76

“Man at his birth is supple and weak; at his death, firm and strong. (So it is with) all things. Trees and plants, in their early growth, are soft and brittle; at their death, dry and withered. Thus it is that firmness and strength are the c…”

◆The Masnavi, Book I (Rumi) | PROLOGUEb

“Knowest thou why thy mirror reflects not? Because the rust has not been scoured from its face. If it were purified from all rust and defilement, It would reflect the shining of the SUN Of GOD.6 O friends, ye have now heard this tale, Whic…”

◆The Masnavi, Book I (Rumi) | STORY Ia

“The Prince and the Handmaid. A prince, while engaged on a hunting excursion, espied a fair maiden, and by promises of gold induced her to accompany him. After a time she fell sick, and the prince had her tended by divers physicians. As,…”

◆The Masnavi, Book I (Rumi) | STORY Vc

“The skill taught by God to the silkworm Is a learning beyond the reach of the elephant. The earthly Adam was taught of God names, 4 So that his glory reached the seventh heaven. He laid low the name and fame of the angels, 5 Yet blind ind…”

◆The Masnavi, Book I (Rumi) | STORY Vd

“But the light that lights the heart is the Light of God, Which is distinct from the light of reason and sense. At night there is no light, and colors are not seen; Hence we know what light is by its opposite, darkness. At night no colors…”

◆The Masnavi, Book I (Rumi) | STORY Ve

“"In yourselves are signs; will ye not behold them?" (Koran li, 21). 12. See Gulshan i Raz, I. 92. Mr. Mansel (Bampton Lectures, p. 49) says: "A thing can be known as that which it is only by being distinguished from that which it is n…”

◆The Masnavi, Book I (Rumi) | STORY IXb

“Woman is a ray of God, not a mere mistress, The Creator's self, as it were, not a mere creature! Moses and Pharaoh, alike doers of God's will, as Light and Darkness. Poison and Antidote. Verily, both Moses and Pharaoh walked in the right…”

◆The Masnavi, Book I (Rumi) | STORY IXc

“When love of God kindles a flame in the inward man, He burns, and is freed from effects. He has no need of signs to assure him of love, For love casts its own light up to heaven. Other details are wanting to complete this subject, But tak…”

◆The Masnavi, Book I (Rumi) | STORY IXd

“I knew of myself what ye thought, But I desired that ye should speak it; As this boasting of yours is very improper, So shall my mercy be shown to prevail over my wrath: O angels, in order to show forth that prevailing, I inspired that pret…”

◆The Mabinogion | Tale THE LADY OF THE FOUNTAINk

““My lord,” said he, “I know the meaning of all this, and my request is, that thou wilt permit me to throw the water on the slab, and to receive the first adventure that may befall.” And Arthur gave him leave. Then Kai threw a bowlful of wa…”

◆The Mabinogion | Tale PEREDUR THE SON OF EVRAWCl

“And in the morning he arose, and when he went forth, behold a shower of snow had fallen the night before, and a hawk had killed a wild fowl in front of the cell. And the noise of the horse scared the hawk away, and a raven alighted upon th…”

◆The Mabinogion | Tale THE DREAM OF RHONABWYf

“And they began to play. And while they were thus, and when they were best amused with their game, behold they saw a white tent with a red canopy, and the figure of a jet-black serpent on the top of the tent, and red glaring venomous eyes i…”

◆The Mabinogion | Tale THE DREAM OF RHONABWYg

“And upon his feet were hose of fine Totness, and shoes of parti-coloured leather, clasped with gold, and the youth was of noble bearing, fair of face, with ruddy cheeks and large hawk’s eyes. In the hand of the youth was a mighty lance, sp…”

◆The Mabinogion | Tale THE DREAM OF MAXEN WLEDIGc

“And in the dream I beheld a maiden, and because of the maiden is there neither life, nor spirit, nor existence within me.” “Lord,” they answered, “since thou judgest us worthy to counsel thee, we will give thee counsel. And this is our cou…”

◆The Mabinogion | Tale THE DREAM OF MAXEN WLEDIGd

“Thou shalt have of us therefore the choice, lady, whether thou wilt go with us and be made empress of Rome, or that the emperor come hither and take thee for his wife?” “Ha, lords,” said the maiden, “I will not deny what ye say, neither wil…”

◆The Mabinogion | Tale TALIESINa

“In times past there lived in Penllyn a man of gentle lineage, named Tegid Voel, and his dwelling was in the midst of the lake Tegid, and his wife was called Caridwen. And there was born to him of his wife a son named Morvran ab Tegid, and…”

◆The Mabinogion | Tale TALIESINj

“And the king caused them to fetch Elphin in haste from his dungeon, and placed him before Taliesin. And it is said, that immediately he sang a verse, so that the chains opened from about his feet. “I adore the Supreme, Lord of all animati…”

◆The Descent of the Goddess Ishtar into the Lower World | Section 1b

“"Why, O gatekeeper, dost thou remove the girdle of my body, studded with birth-stones?" "Enter, O lady, for such are the decrees of Ereshkigal." The sixth gate, he bade her enter, opened it wide, and removed the spangles off her hands and f…”

◆The Descent of the Goddess Ishtar into the Lower World | Section 1c

“Sprinkle Ishtar with the waters of life and take her out of my presence. Namtar went, knocked at the strong palace, Tapped on the threshold of precious stones. He brought out the Anunnaki and placed them on golden thrones, He sprinkled Is…”

◆The Poetic Edda: Voluspo | Section 1f

“Lothur : apparently an older name for Loki, the treacherous but ingenious son of Laufey, whose divinity Snorri regards as somewhat doubtful. He was adopted by Othin, who subsequently had good reason to regret it. Loki probably represents…”