Cosmic Sympathy

◆Iamblichus: On the Mysteries | Chapter I

“Hermes, the God who presides over language, was formerly very properly considered as common to all priests; and the power who presides over the true science concerning the Gods 18 is one and the same in the whole of things. Hence our ancest…”

◆Iamblichus: On the Mysteries | Chapter III

“In the first place, therefore, you say, “ it must be granted that there are Gods .” Thus to speak, however, is not right on this subject. For an innate knowledge of the Gods is coexistent with our very essence; and this knowledge is superio…”

◆Iamblichus: On the Mysteries | Chapter Va

“In the next place, let us direct our attention to the solution of your inquiries. There is, therefore, the good itself which is beyond essence, and there is that good which subsists according to essence; I mean the essence which is most an…”

◆Iamblichus: On the Mysteries | Chapter Vb

“Again, however, according to another mode of considering the subject, it is necessary to ascribe to the Gods the whole of that which is united, of whatever kind it may be; that which is firmly established in itself, and which is the cause o…”

◆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 IXb

“For in things which are of a kindred nature, according to essence and power, or which are, in a certain respect, of the same species, or homogeneous, a certain comprehension, or conservation, may be discovered. But in such things as are en…”

◆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 XVb

“Or what passion can accede to a thing of this kind, the purity of which the most worthy human manners cannot easily equal? You say, however, “ that the things which are offered in supplications are offered as to sensitive and psychical nat…”

◆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 II — What Magic Is, What Are the Parts Thereof, and How the Professors Thereof Must Be Qualified | Chapter II, Section 1b

“It instructs us also concerning Faith, Miracles, the virtues of Words and Figures , the secret operations and mysteries of Seals; and, as Apuleius saith, it teacheth us rightly to understand and to be skilled in the Ceremonial Laws, the equ…”

◆Agrippa: The Philosophy of Natural Magic, Chapter VI — Of the Wonderful Natures of Water, Air and Winds | Chapter VI, Section 1b

“Josephus also makes relation of the wonderful nature of a certain river betwixt Arcea and Raphanea, cities of Syria, which runs with a full channel all the Sabbath day and then on a sudden ceaseth, as if the springs were stopped, and all th…”

◆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 X — Of the Occult Virtues of Things | Chapter X, Section 1a

“CHAPTER X. Of the Occult Virtues of Things . There are also other virtues in things, which are not from any Element, as to expel poison, to drive away the noxious vapors of minerals, to attract iron or anything else; and these virtues are…”

◆Agrippa: The Philosophy of Natural Magic, Chapter XI — How Occult Virtues are Infused into the Several Kinds of Things by Ideas Through the Help of the Soul of the World, And Rays of the Stars; and what Things Abound Most with this Virtue | Chapter XI, Section 1

“CHAPTER XI. How Occult Virtues are Infused into the Several Kinds of Things by Ideas Through the Help of the Soul of the World, And Rays of the Stars; and what Things Abound Most with this Virtue . Platonists say that all inferior bodies ar…”

◆Agrippa: The Philosophy of Natural Magic, Chapter XII — How It Is That Particular Virtues Are Infused into Particular Individuals, even of the Same Species | Chapter XII, Section 1

“CHAPTER XII. How It Is That Particular Virtues Are Infused into Particular Individuals, even of the Same Species . There are also in many individuals, or particular things, peculiar gifts, as wonderful as in the species and these also are f…”

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

“Augustine expresses it, 'If you join together the initial letters of the five Greek words, Ἰησοῦς Χριστος Θεου Υιὸσ Σωτήρ, which mean Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior, they will make ΙΧΘΥΣ, Fish, in which word Christ is mystically understoo…”

◆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 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 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 Colord

“Pythagoras induced the musician to change his air to the slow, and rhythmic Spondaic mode, whereupon the intoxicated youth immediately became composed and, gathering up his bundles of wood, returned quietly to his own home. There is also a…”

◆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 Colorg

“A word whispered in one of these apartments was so intensified that the reverberations made the entire building sway and be filled with a deafening roar. The very wood and stone used in the erection of these sacred buildings eventually bec…”

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

“The same multiplied by 20 gives 432,000, the fourth age, Kali-Yuga ." (It will be noted that these multipliers decrease in inverse ratio to the Pythagorean tetractys: 1, 2, 3, and 4.) H. P. Blavatsky declares that Orpheus taught his follo…”

◆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 Therapeuticsg

“All ancient peoples believed in the compassionate intercession of the Deity for the alleviation of human suffering. Paracelsus said that faith would cure all disease. Few persons, however, possess a sufficient degree of faith. The sixth…”

◆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) | 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 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…”

◆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 XIII (part 7)

“153 has really entered a cul de sac out of which there is no escape, and the official recognition of the fact that the direction it has taken is entirely the wrong one, is only a question of time. _____ We may say—not as an assumption, but…”

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

“They may vary infinitely, i.e., may seem various, ever new from some new standpoint, but they cannot utterly vanish, any more than they can cease, come to an end. All that is highest to which we shall come in the understanding of the meani…”

◆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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 7)

“It was in the early spring, at the beginning of his thirty-sixth year. He and two friends had spent the evening reading Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, Browning, and especially Whitman. They parted at midnight and he had a long drive in a han…”

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

“The Philosophical Stone, the Universal Medicine, the transmutation of metals, the quadrature of the circle and the secret of perpetual motion are neither mystifications of science nor dreams of delusion. They are terms which must be unders…”

◆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) | 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) | 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) | 5. The Pentagrama

“GEBURAH ECCE HEREUNTO we have exposed the magical dogma in its more arid and abstruse phases; now the enchantments begin; now we can proclaim wonders and reveal most secret things. The Pentagram signifies the domination of the mind over th…”

◆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) | 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 Equilibriumb

“Let us permit it to enjoy the easy triumph of denying what it does not know. We shall demonstrate later on that death is preceded always by a lethargic sleep, and hence takes place gradually; that resurrection is possible in certain cases;…”

◆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) | 8. Realizationb

“The revealers have therefore done scarcely more than divine, by the accuracy of their calculations, the appropriate moment for moral reactions. The law of realization produces what we call magnetic breathing; places and objects become impr…”

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

“The Astral Body is not always of the same sex as the terrestrial, that is, the proportions of the two forces, varying from right to left, seem frequently to belie the visible organization, producing seeming aberrations of human passion and…”

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

“Had not Urban Grandier been immolated, one of two things would have occurred: either the possessed nuns would have died in frightful convulsions or the phenomena of diabolical frenzy would have so gained in strength and influence, epidemica…”

◆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) | 11. The Magic Chainb

“The knowledge of great secrets and the consciousness of power. It was sufficient for those exalted souls. Must one be like unto them in order to know what they knew? Assuredly not, and the existence of this book is perhaps a case in poin…”

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

“I will go further and affirm that magical circles and magnetic currents establish themselves, and have an influence, according to fatal laws, upon those on whom they can act. Each one of us is drawn within a sphere of relations which const…”

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

“But the high place is before all things necessary for such a personage, because, in these days of meanness and trickery, any message issuing from the lower ranks is suspected of interested ambition and imposture. Ye, then, who are nothing,…”

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

“Superstitions are instinctive and all that is instinctive is founded in the very nature of things, to which fact the sceptics of all times have given insufficient attention. It follows that we attribute the strange phenomena of table-turni…”

◆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) | 14. Transmutationsc

“She accused him when he wished to withdraw from her, and the conversion of this young woman was a revenge, for there is nothing more cruel than depraved passions. An influential society, which intervened in the trial of Grandier for the de…”

◆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. Bewitchmentsb

“For this reason, it is important that children should sleep always alone. In conventional seminaries certain pupils absorb the intelligence of the others, and in every given circle of men one individual emerges who avails himself of the wi…”

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

“Eudes de Mirville, because it is not enough to enumerate phenomena and to prejudge their cause if we would influence serious people; we must study, explain and demonstrate such cause, and this is precisely what we are ourselves attempting.…”

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

“But Paracelsus arrived at magnetism long before Mesmer and had carried to its final consequences this luminous discovery, or rather this initiation into the Magic of the ancients, who better than us understood the Great Magical Agent and di…”

◆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 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 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 Equilibriumd

“Nor is such observance vain, for in the magical work all instruments of art are magnetized by the operator; the air is charged with his perfumes, the fire which he has consecrated is subject to his will, the forces of Nature seem to hear an…”

◆Transcendental Magic II: The Ritual (Éliphas Lévi) | 6. The Medium And Mediatora

“TWO things, as we have shown, are necessary for the acquisition of magical power - the emancipation of will from servitude and its instruction in the art of domination. The sovereign will is represented in our symbols by the Woman who crus…”

◆Transcendental Magic II: The Ritual (Éliphas Lévi) | 6. The Medium And Mediatorb

“Archimedes postulated a fulcrum outside the world in order to raise the world. The fulcrum of the Magus is the intellectual cubic stone, the Philosophical Stone of AzOTH - that is, the doctrine of absolute reason and universal harmonies by…”

◆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) | 11. The Triple Chaina

“The Great Work in Practical Magic, after the education of the will and the personal creation of the Magus, is the formation of the magnetic chain, and this secret is truly that of priesthood and of royalty. To form the magnetic chain is to…”

◆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 Workb

“Here then is the great Hermetic Arcanum, and we reveal it for the first time clearly and devoid of mystical figures: that which the adepts term dead substances are bodies as found in Nature; living substances are those which have been assim…”

◆Transcendental Magic II: The Ritual (Éliphas Lévi) | 13. Necromancya

“We have declared boldly our opinion, or rather our conviction, as to the possibility of resurrection in certain cases: it remains for us now to complete the revelation of this arcanum and to expose its practice. Death is a phantom of ignor…”

◆Transcendental Magic II: The Ritual (Éliphas Lévi) | 13. Necromancyb

“An analogous and more recent fact has been certified to ourselves by ocular witnesses: a friend, betraying the confidence of one who had just died, tore up a trust-deed he had signed, whereupon the dead person rose up and lived to defend th…”

◆Transcendental Magic II: The Ritual (Éliphas Lévi) | 14. Transmutationsb

“The life of beings is a progressive transformation, and its forms can be deter-mined, renewed, prolonged further, or destroyed sooner. If the doctrine of metempsychosis were true, might one not say that the debauch represented by Circe rea…”

◆Transcendental Magic II: The Ritual (Éliphas Lévi) | 16. Witchcraft And Spellsa

“WHAT sorcerers and necromancers sought above all in their evocations of the impure spirit was that magnetic power which is the possession of the true adept, but was desired by them only that they might abuse it shamefully. The folly of sor…”

◆Transcendental Magic II: The Ritual (Éliphas Lévi) | 16. Witchcraft And Spellsb

“They are persuaded, and often rightly, that the victim of their infamous operations experiences as many tortures as if his own heart had been pierced at all points. He begins to waste away and dies after a time of an unknown disease. Anot…”

◆Transcendental Magic II: The Ritual (Éliphas Lévi) | 16. Witchcraft And Spellsc

“Say to a reasonable man that equilibrium is the law of motion and life, that liberty, which is moral equilibrium, rests upon an eternal and immutable distinction between true and false, between good and bad; tell him that, endowed as he is…”

◆Transcendental Magic II: The Ritual (Éliphas Lévi) | 16. Witchcraft And Spellsd

“For bewitchment by the waxen figure, a more perfect figure must be made, and set about as far as possible with things belonging to the person; seven talismans must be hung round the neck; it must be placed in the middle of a great Pantacle…”

◆Transcendental Magic II: The Ritual (Éliphas Lévi) | 16. Witchcraft And Spellse

“Thomas, that daring innovator who first substituted the absolute law of reason for arbitrary divinity, by formulating an axiom which we cannot repeat too often, since it comes from such a master: “A thing is not just because God wills it, b…”

◆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) | 18. Philtres And Magnetismc

“Potions which enfeeble mind and disturb reason establish the empire already acquired by an evil will, and it was thus that the empress Caesonia is said to have fixed the savage love of Caligula. Prussic acid is the most terrible agent in t…”

◆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) | 20. The Thaumaturged

“Rabelais, who was a greater magician than he seemed, made pantagruelism his special panacea. He compelled his patients to laugh, and all the remedies he administered subsequently succeeded the better in consequence. He established a magne…”

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

“The soul, scrutinizing by means of the whole nervous system the circle of the Astral Light, which influences a man and from him receives an influence; the soul of the diviner, we repeat, can comprehend by a single intuition all the loves an…”

◆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) | 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 Hermesp

“Magnetism enables us to understand today the miracles of old Magic; the facts of second sight, aspirations, sudden cures, thought-reading, are now admitted and familiar things, even for our children. But the tradition of the ancients has b…”

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

“CHAPTER XI Concerning ” Peace “ and what is meant by ” Very Being “ Itself , ” Very Life ,” ” Very Power ,” and similar phrases . 1. Now let us praise with reverent hymns of peace the Divine Peace which is the Source of all mutual attract…”

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

“Plotinus says the Godhead is indivisibly divided. doth not leave Its own Unity, but, even in the act of going forth to all things, remains entirely within Itself through the excess of that all-transcendent Unity: concerning these things ‘t…”

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

“Hence the Good God is called the Fount, first, of the Very Primaries: then, of those creatures which share completely therein; then, of those which share partially therein. 484 484 Migne’s text here is corrupt, I have emended it. (1) The…”

◆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 2, Section 1e

“even as the lights of lamps (to use visible and homely similes) being in one house and wholly interpenetrating one another, severally possess a clear and absolute distinction each from each, and are by their distinctions united into one, an…”

◆Pseudo-Dionysius: The Divine Names | Chapter 2, Section 1j

“And since that Supra-Divine Being hath in loving kindness come down from thence unto the Natural Estate, and verily took substance and assumed the name of Man (we must speak with reverence of those things which we utter beyond human thought…”

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

“and because It is the Cause of the harmony and splendour in all things, flashing forth upon them all, like light, the beautifying communications of Its originating ray; and because It summons all things to fare unto Itself (from whence It h…”

◆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…”

◆The Kalevala | Rune IIe

“Here a few days pass unnoted And as many nights fly over. When the seventh day had journeyed, On the morning of the eighth day, Wainamoinen, wise and ancient, Went to view his crop of barley, How his plowing, how his sowing, How his labors…”

◆The Kalevala | Rune IIId

“Thou wert never seen or heard of When the earth was first created, When were made the ether-spaces, When the air was crystal-pillared, When the Moon was placed in orbit, When the silver Sun was planted, When the Bear was firmly stationed, W…”

◆The Kalevala | Rune Vc

“Finally the ancient minstrel, Mind depressed, and heart discouraged, Spake these words, immersed in sorrow: "Fool am I, and great my folly, Having neither wit nor judgment; Surely once I had some knowledge, Had some insight into wisdom, Had…”

◆The Kalevala | Rune Xf

“Modestly pleads Ilmarinen For the maiden's willing answer, These the words of the magician: "Wilt thou come with me, fair maiden, Be my wife and queen forever? I have forged for thee the Sampo, Forged the lid in many colors." Northland's f…”

◆The Kalevala | Rune XIIIc

“As he nears the woodland corner, There he bears a frightful uproar, From the Northland's distant borders, From the dreary fields of Lapland, Hears the dogs as they are barking, Hears the children loudly screaming, Hears the laughter or the…”

◆The Kalevala | Rune XVa

“'S RESTORATION. Lemminkainen's aged mother Anxious roams about the islands, Anxious wonders in her chambers, What the fate of Lemminkainen, Why her son so long has tarried; Thinks that something ill has happened To her hero in Pohyola. Sa…”

◆The Kalevala | Rune XVd

“Lemminkainen's anxious mother Takes the magic rake and hastens To the river of Tuoni, Praying to the Sun as follows: "Thou, O Sun, by God created, Thou that shinest on thy Maker, Shine for me in heat of magic, Give me warmth, and strength,…”

◆The Kalevala | Rune XVIIf

“"I shall set my forge and bellows Deeper, deeper in thy vitals; I shall swing my heavy hammer, Swing it with a greater power On thy heart, and lungs, and liver; I shall never, never leave thee Till I learn thine incantations, Learn thy many…”

◆Orphic Hymns | Front Matter, p. 3 (part 1)

“A Dissertation ON THE Life and Theology of ORPHEUS. SECT. I. THE great obscurity and uncertainty in which the history of Orpheus is involved, affords very little matter for our information; and even renders that little, inaccurate and pr…”

◆Orphic Hymns | Front Matter, p. 3 (part 2)

“Hence, in the vision of Herus Pamphilius, in Plato, the soul of Orpheus, being destined to descend into another body, is reported to have chosen rather that of a swan than to be born again of a woman; having conceived such hatred against th…”

◆Orphic Hymns | Front Matter, p. 3 (part 3)

“Afterwards, when Neanthus, the son of Pittacus the tyrant, found that the lyre drew trees and wild beasts with its harmony, he earnestly desired its possession; and having corrupted the priest privately with money, he took the Orphean lyre,…”

◆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 2)

“For a self-motive being, is the cause of motion to those, which are moved by another, in the same manner as that which is immovable, inserts in all beings the power of moving. And again, that which is moved only, must depend on those natur…”

◆Orphic Hymns | Front Matter, p. 6 (part 3)

“Thus a bond among men, is the impediment and retention of action: but in divine concerns it insinuates a conjunction and ineffable union with causes; and hence the Saturnian bonds signify the union of the deiurgus of the universe, with the…”

◆Orphic Hymns | Hymn VII. THE SUN

“VII. TO THE SUN. The FUMIGATION from FRANKINCENSE and MANNA. HEAR golden Titan, whose eternal eye With broad survey, illumines all the sky. Self-born, unwearied in diffusing light, And to all eyes the mirrour of delight: Lord of the seasons…”

◆Orphic Hymns | Hymn VIII. THE MOON (part 1)

“VIII. TO THE MOON * . The FUMIGATION from AROMATICS. HEAR, Goddess queen, diffusing silver light, Bull-horn'd and wand'ring thro' the gloom of Night. 2 p. 125 With stars surrounded, and with circuit wide Night's torch extending, thro'…”

◆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 Thomas | Logion 19

“Jesus said, "Blessed is he who came into being before he came into being. If you become my disciples and listen to my words, these stones will minister to you. For there are five trees for you in Paradise which remain undisturbed summer and…”

◆Gospel of Thomas | Logion 48

“Jesus said, "If two make peace with each other in this one house, they will say to the mountain, 'Move Away,' and it will move away."…”

◆Pistis Sophia | Document FIRSTe

“And having come, coming unto the World I came unto the midst of the Rulers of the Sphere, I was the likeness of Gabriel the angel of the Aeons, and knew me not the Rulers of the Aeons. But they were thinking that I am Gabriel the angel. I…”

◆Pistis Sophia | Document FIRSTf

“And when your time was finished they produced you in [14 ] the World, there not being soul of the Rulers in you; and ye took your part out of the power, this which breathed in unto the Confusion the last Helper, this (power) which is mixed…”

◆Pistis Sophia | Document FIRSTŽ

“But answered Maria the mother of Jesus, said she, My Lord, thy power of light prophesied about these [106 ] words once by Solomon in his nine(teenth) ode and said it, The Lord upon my head as a crown, and I shall not become 58 outside of hi…”

◆Pistis Sophia | Document SECOND}

“[182 ] And they are coming unto the Place of those of the Middle, and those of the Middle will baptise them (with) the spiritual unction, and seal them with the seal of their mystery and they will pass through in unto those of all Places of…”

◆Pistis Sophia | Document SECOND€

“Answered Jesus, said he to Iohannes, Fairly (done) however at least because ye seek after everything in an exactness with a certainty. [189 ] But now therefore, Johannes hear, that I may speak with thee, Every one who receiveth mystery of…”

◆Plato: Phaedrus | Section 1m

“For prophecy is a madness, and the prophetess at Delphi and the priestesses at Dodona when out of their senses have conferred great benefits on Hellas, both in public and private life, but when in their senses few or none. And I might also…”

◆Plato: Phaedrus | Section 1q

“Thus far I have been speaking of the fourth and last kind of madness, which is imputed to him who, when he sees the beauty of earth, is transported with the recollection of the true beauty; he would like to fly away, but he cannot; he is li…”

◆Plato: Phaedrus | Section 1r

“But he whose initiation is recent, and who has been the spectator of many glories in the other world, is amazed when he sees any one having a godlike face or form, which is the expression of divine beauty; and at first a shudder runs throug…”

◆Plato: Phaedrus | Section 1u

“And the beloved when he has received him into communion and intimacy, is quite amazed at the good-will of the lover; he recognises that the inspired friend is worth all other friends or kinsmen; they have nothing of friendship in them worth…”

◆Plato: Phaedrus | Section 1{

“To the debatable, clearly; for if not, do you think that love would have allowed you to say as you did, that he is an evil both to the lover and the beloved, and also the greatest possible good? Soc. Capital. But will you tell me whether…”

◆Plato: Republic | Section 1c

“And have we not a right to say in his defence, that the true lover of knowledge is always striving after being--that is his nature; he will not rest in the multiplicity of individuals which is an appearance only, but will go on--the keen ed…”

◆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 1p

“Indeed, I am not going to attack you, said Eryximachus, for I thought your speech charming, and did I not know that Agathon and Socrates are masters in the art of love, I should be really afraid that they would have nothing to say, after th…”

◆The Mabinogion | Tale THE LADY OF THE FOUNTAINd

“Under this tree is a fountain, and by the side of the fountain a marble slab, and on the marble slab a silver bowl, attached by a chain of silver, so that it may not be carried away. Take the bowl and throw a bowlful of water upon the slab…”

◆The Mabinogion | Tale THE LADY OF THE FOUNTAINf

“And Owain made it known to him, and said, “I am in quest of the Knight who guards the fountain.” Upon this the yellow man smiled, and said that he was as loth to point out that adventure to Owain as he had been to Kynon. However, he descri…”

◆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 KILHWCH AND OLWENc

“Thou wilt fare no worse there than thou wouldest with Arthur in the Court. A lady shall smooth thy couch, and shall lull thee with songs; and early to-morrow morning, when the gate is open for the multitude that come hither to-day, for the…”

◆The Mabinogion | Tale KILHWCH AND OLWENp

“It is needful for me to wash my head, and shave my beard, and I require the tusk of Yskithyrwyn Penbaedd to shave myself withal, neither shall I profit by its use if it be not plucked alive out of his head.” “It will be easy for me to compa…”

◆The Mabinogion | Tale KILHWCH AND OLWENq

“Throughout the world there is not a leash that can hold him, except the leash of Cwrs Cant Ewin.” “It will be easy for me to compass this, although thou mayest think that it will not be easy.” “Though thou get this, there is yet that which…”

◆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 MATH THE SON OF MATHONWYa

“THIS IS THE FOURTH PORTION OF THE MABINOGI Math the son of Mathonwy was lord over Gwynedd, and Pryderi the son of Pwyll was lord over the one-and-twenty Cantrevs of the South; and these were the seven Cantrevs of Dyved, and the seven Cantre…”

◆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 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 10: The Sermon on the Mount | Section 1f

“But God is o'er them all, and God contains them all. God's rays, to use a figure, are His energies; the Cosmos's are natures, the arts and sciences are man's. The energies act through the Cosmos, thence through the nature-rays of Cosmos u…”

◆Corpus Hermeticum 12: The Prayer | Section 1d

“Now it is units that give birth to number and increase it, and, being decomposed, are taken back again into themselves. Matter is one; and this whole Cosmos - the mighty God and image of the mightier One, both with Him unified, and the con…”

◆Corpus Hermeticum 12: The Prayer | Section 1e

“Observe this too, my son; that each one of the other lives inhabiteth one portion of the Cosmos - aquatic creatures water, terrene earth, and aery creatures air; while man doth use all these - earth, water air [and] fire; he seeth Heaven, t…”

◆Corpus Hermeticum 14: The Discourse of Hermes to Ammon | Section 1c

“Footnotes 257:1 εὖ φρονεῖν. I do not know the exact meaning of this expression. Everard translates “to be truly wise”; Parthey, “ recte sapere ” following Patrizzi; Ménard, “ sagesse ”; Chambers, “to be rightly wise.” I would suggest that…”

◆Corpus Hermeticum 15: The Hymn of Hermes | Section 1b

“It sendeth forth of its 4 abundance, and in the place [of what it sendeth forth] receiveth the subsistence from above. 5 For thus the Demiurge 6 —I mean the Sun—eternally doth order Heaven and Earth, pouring down Essence, 7 and taking Matt…”

◆Corpus Hermeticum 15: The Hymn of Hermes | Section 1c

“For there are many choirs of daimons round Him, like unto hosts of very various kinds; who though they dwell with mortals, yet are not far from the immortals; but having as their lot from here unto the spaces of the Gods, 2 they watch o’er…”

◆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 Enoch (1 Enoch, Charles translation) | Chapter XLIII

“XLIII. XLIV. Astronomical Secrets . CHAPTER XLIII. 1. And I saw other lightnings and the stars of heaven, and I saw how He called them all by their names and they hearkened unto Him. 2. And I saw how they are weighed in a righteous balance…”

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

“p. 69 LI. The Resurrection of the Dead, and the Separation by the Judge of the Righteous and the Wicked . CHAPTER LI. 1. And in those days shall the earth also give back that which has been entrusted to it, And Sheol also shall give back th…”

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

“LVII. The Return from the Dispersion . CHAPTER LVII. 1. And it came to pass after this that I saw another host of wagons, and men riding thereon, and coming on the winds from the east, and from the west to the south. 2. And the noise of the…”

◆The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch, Charles translation) | Chapter LXXXII (part 2)

“In the beginning of the year Melkejâl rises first and rules, who is named †Tam’âinî† and sun, and all the days of his dominion whilst he bears rule are ninety-one days. 16. And these are the signs of the days which are to be seen on earth…”

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

“C. The Sinners destroy each other: Judgement of the fallen Angels: the Safety of the Righteous: further Woes for the Sinners . CHAPTER C. 1. And in those days in one place the fathers together with their sons shall be smitten And brothers o…”

◆The Lesser Holy Assembly (Idra Zuta Qadisha) | Idra Zuta, Chapter 1 (part 1)

“CHAPTER VIII. CONCERNING THE FOREHEAD OF MACROPROSOPUS. 87. THE forehead of His skull is the acceptation of acceptations, whereunto is opposed the acceptation of Microprosopus, like as it is written, Exod. xxviii. 38: "And it shall be…”

◆Sefer Yetzirah (The Book of Formation) | Section 1e

“He produced Oin, predominant in Anger, crowned, combined, and formed Capricornus in the world, Tebet in the year, and the liver in man. 11. He produced Tzaddi, predominant in Taste, crowned, combined, and formed Aquarius in the world, Seb…”

◆The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Papyrus of Ani) | Chapter 4 (part 21)

“If the name of Nut flourisheth in the temple of Shenth in Annu, 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 flourisheth in This, the name of Pepi s…”

◆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 18)

“The charms against serpents in the pyramid texts of the Vth and VIth dynasties have their equivalents in the XXXIst and XXXIIIrd Chapters of the Book of the Dead, which are found on coffins of the XIth and XIIth dynasties;[2] and in the XVI…”

◆The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Papyrus of Ani) | Chapter 43 (part 100)

“The pyramid texts afford scanty information about the fiends and devils with which the later Egyptians peopled certain parts of the Tuat, wherein the night sun pursued his course, and where the souls of the dead dwelt; for this we must turn…”

◆The Egyptian Heaven and Hell | Chapter 4 (part 5)

“was employed in building his pyramid and funeral temple, the hereditary governors and nobles of important provinces in Upper Egypt were not slow to avail themselves of the opportunity which peace and the renewed prosperity of p. 11 the cou…”

◆The Egyptian Heaven and Hell | Chapter 4 (part 11)

“The net result of the facts stated in the last two paragraphs proves that Seti I. relied for salvation upon the protection, part magical and part religious, afforded by the sacred writings of two great schools of religious thought, the lea…”

◆The Egyptian Heaven and Hell | Chapter 6 (part 4)

“A perusal of the above Chapter shows that it is the expression of beliefs and ideas concerning the future life which belong to a very early period of civilization, and to a time when the Egyptians held most primitive views about their gods.…”

◆Gnostic John the Baptizer — Portents at John's Birth | Section 1

“p. 35 PORTENTS AT JOHN'S BIRTH (§ 18). 1 In the Name of Great Life may hallowed Light be glorifed. A CHILD was planted out of the height, a mystery revealed in Jerusalem. 2 The priests saw dreams; chill seized on their children, chill se…”

◆Gnostic John the Baptizer — Portents at John's Birth | Section 15

“When the youth saw her alone, he set himself free and fell down from the cloud. He set himself free and fell down from the cloud and kissed the mouth of Enishbai. When Anōsh, the treasure, saw him [do this], he spake unto Yahyā in Jerusalem…”

◆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 Poetic Edda: Hovamol | Section 1l

“| and hear thou my rede,- Profit thou hast if thou hearest, Great thy gain if thou learnest: I bid thee be wary, | but be not fearful; (Beware most with ale or another's wife, And third beware | lest a thief outwit thee.) [129. Line 5 is a…”

◆Tao Te Ching | Chapter 60

“Governing a great state is like cooking small fish. Let the kingdom be governed according to the Tao, and the manes of the departed will not manifest their spiritual energy. It is not that those manes have not that spiritual energy, but it…”