Numerical Mysticism

The Book of Ceremonial Magic (A.E. Waite) | Page 3 (part 1)

“EXPLANATION OF FULL-PAGE PLATES PLATE I FRONTISPIECE--The witch has shot a peasant in the foot with a magic hazel wand. The victim takes off his shoe when he feels his foot beginning to swell. If the peasant yields to the witch the spell…”

The Book of Ceremonial Magic (A.E. Waite) | Page 9 (part 3)

“The missing books are those of Microcosmical Magic, or Spiritual Wisdom; Olympic Magic, that is, the evocation of the Spirits of Olympus; Hesiodiacal and Homeric Magic, being the operations of Caco-daimones ; Roman or Sibylline Magic, conce…”

The Book of Ceremonial Magic (A.E. Waite) | Page 9 (part 4)

“The sources of occult wisdom, it proceeds, are, firstly, in God; secondly, in spiritual essences--that is to say, the Angelical Hierarchy; thirdly, in corporeal creatures, the reference being probably to the signatura rerum of Paracelsus; f…”

The Book of Ceremonial Magic (A.E. Waite) | Page 11 (part 3)

“While it thus ensures against evil, it gives happiness in domestic matters and in the enterprises which contribute to prosperity and to the pleasures of a contented life. The proviso is that [paragraph continues] "the instructions must be…”

The Book of Ceremonial Magic (A.E. Waite) | Page 12 (part 1)

“§ 4. The Seven Mysterious Orisons SUNDAY Pater noster, &c. Deliver me, O Lord, I beseech Thee, me even, thy creature, N., from all evils Past, present and to come, whether of body or soul; grant me peace and health in Thy goodness; inclin…”

The Book of Ceremonial Magic (A.E. Waite) | Page 15 (part 1)

“§ 2. The Lesser Key of Solomon The Lemegeton, or Lesser Key of Solomon, Rabbi and King, is a work of far more exalted pretensions, which deploys all the hierarchies and evokes spirits by milliards. About its antiquity there is no need for…”

The Book of Ceremonial Magic (A.E. Waite) | Page 16 (part 1)

“§ 3. The Pauline Art If the intimation of the last section be accepted as a working hypothesis in respect of the Lemegeton , and if its third and fourth books be therefore set apart as accretions, there is possibly some colourable pretence…”

The Book of Ceremonial Magic (A.E. Waite) | Page 16 (part 2)

“Among the chiefs are Sarfiel, Amatino, Choriel, Mosiel, Lanthros , and among the subalterns Demaros, Osmajloel, Januviel, Vernael, Thribiel . The Ruler of the Ninth Hour is VADRIEL, having ten chief and one hundred lesser officers and serv…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 2 (part 8)

“This statement is rendered more credible by a consideration of the following facts: the tradition of the thousands of ancient parchments saved when the Alexandrian library was destroyed; the thousands of Sanskrit works which disappeared in…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 3 (part 8)

“Moreover, the Secret Doctrine teaches: -- ( c ) The fundamental identity of all Souls with the Universal Over-Soul, the latter being itself an aspect of the Unknown Root; and the obligatory pilgrimage for every Soul -- a spark of the former…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 4 (part 2)

“T HE ROOT REMAINS, THE LIGHT REMAINS, THE CURDS REMAIN, AND STILL O EAOHOO IS ONE. 6. T HE ROOT OF LIFE WAS IN EVERY DROP OF THE OCEAN OF IMMORTALITY, AND THE OCEAN WAS RADIANT LIGHT, WHICH WAS FIRE, AND HEAT, AND MOTION. D ARKNESS VANIS…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 4 (part 3)

“T HEY MAKE OF HIM THE MESSENGER OF THEIR WILL. T HE D ZYU BECOMES F OHAT, THE SWIFT SON OF THE D IVINE SONS WHOSE SONS ARE THE L IPIKA, RUNS CIRCULAR ERRANDS. F OHAT IS THE STEED AND THE THOUGHT IS THE RIDER. H E PASSES LIKE LIGHTNING TH…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 4 (part 4)

“I T IS THEY WHO ARE THOU, ME, HIM, OH L ANOO. T HEY, WHO WATCH OVER THEE, AND THY MOTHER EARTH. [[Vol. 1, Page]] 34 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. 2. T HE ONE RAY MULTIPLIES THE SMALLER RAYS. L IFE PRECEDES FORM, AND LIFE SURVIVES THE LAST ATOM…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 5 (part 1)

“The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 1 [[Vol. 1, Page]] 35 STANZA I. COMMENTARIES ON THE SEVEN STANZAS AND THEIR TERMS, ACCORDING TO THEIR NUMERATION, IN STANZAS AND SLOKAS. STANZA I. 1. " T HE E TERNAL P ARENT (Space), WR…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 6 (part 3)

“The Lotus thus typifies the life of man and also that of the Kosmos; for the Secret Doctrine teaches that the elements of both are the same, and that both are developing in the same direction. The root of the Lotus sunk in the mud represen…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 7 (part 2)

“2.[[3.]] " D ARKNESS" RADIATES LIGHT, AND LIGHT DROPS ONE SOLITARY RAY INTO THE WATERS, INTO THE MOTHER DEEP. T HE RAY SHOOTS THROUGH THE VIRGIN-EGG; THE RAY CAUSES THE ETERNAL EGG TO THRILL, AND DROP THE NON-ETERNAL ( periodical ) GERM, W…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 7 (part 3)

“unable either to measure the first abstraction yielded to you by the Deity, or to get hold of it, you still hope to subject to your measurements the mystery of the Secret Sciences which emanate from that Deity? . . . . And what would y…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 7 (part 4)

“The "fire," "heat," and "motion" here spoken of, are, of course, not the fire, heat, and motion of physical science, but the underlying abstractions, the noumena, or the soul, of the essence of these material manifestations -- the "things i…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 7 (part 5)

“because, firstly, he is that which the Greek philosophers called the Logos, the Verbum of the Thought Divine; and secondly, because in Esoteric philosophy this first manifestation, being the synthesis or the aggregate of Universal Wisdom, O…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 7 (part 7)

“( c ) The ancients represented it by a serpent, for "Fohat hisses as he glides hither and thither" (in zigzags). The Kabala figures it with the Hebrew letter Teth , whose symbol is the serpent which played such a prominent part in the Myst…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 7 (part 8)

“And the numbers of these three words, Hoa Atah Ani, are 12, 406, and 61, which are resumed in the key numbers of 3, 10, and 7, by the Qabalah of the Nine Chambers, which is a form of the exegetical rule of Temura." It is useless to attempt…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 8 (part 1)

“`The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 1 [[Vol. 1, Page]] 86 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. STANZA IV. COMMENTARY. 1. L ISTEN, YE S ONS OF THE E ARTH, TO YOUR INSTRUCTORS -- THE S ONS OF THE F IRE ( a ). L EARN THERE IS NEITHER FIRS…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 8 (part 2)

“Latent, during Pralaya, and active, during Manvantara, the "Primordial" proceed from "Father-Mother" (Spirit-Hyle, or Ilus ); whereas the other manifested Quaternary and the Seven proceed from the Mother alone. It is the latter who is the…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 8 (part 3)

“"Ten is the Mother of the Soul, for Life and Light are therein united," says Hermes. "For number one is born of the Spirit and the number ten from matter (chaos, feminine); the unity has made the ten, the ten the unity" ( Book of the Keys…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 8 (part 4)

“He designed and hewed therewith the throne of glory and the wheels, and the seraphim and the holy animals and the ministering angels, and of the three He founded his dwelling, as it is said, He makes his angels spirits and his servants fier…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 8 (part 5)

“But inasmuch, O beautiful one, as you came personally to speak to me (in the way you did, i.e. proudly), therefore, O, Sarasvati! you shall never speak after (hard) exhalation." "The goddess Speech" (Sarasvati, a later form or aspect of V…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 8 (part 6)

“The larger lumps coalesce and receive new spawn -- in fiery dots, triangles and cubes, which ripen, and at the appointed time some of the lumps detach themselves and assume spheroidal form, a process which they effect only when not interfer…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 9 (part 1)

“The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 1 [[Vol. 1, Page]] 106 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. STANZA V. 1. T HE P RIMORDIAL S EVEN, THE FIRST SEVEN B REATHS OF THE D RAGON OF W ISDOM, PRODUCE IN THEIR TURN FROM THEIR HOLY CIRCUMGYRATING…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 9 (part 3)

“Fohat, then, is the personified electric vital power, the transcendental binding Unity of all Cosmic Energies, on the unseen as on the manifested planes, the action of which resembles -- on an immense scale -- that of a living Force created…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 9 (part 4)

“This esotericism is the common property of all, and belongs neither to the Aryan 5th Race, nor to any of its numerous Sub-races. It cannot be claimed by the Turanians, so-called, the Egyptians, Chinese, Chaldeans, nor any of the Seven divi…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 9 (part 6)

“It was also taught by his pupil Ecphantus, and by Heraclides, a pupil of Plato. The immobility of the Sun and the orbital rotation of the earth were shown by Aristarchus of Samos as early as 281 B.C . to be suppositions accordant with fac…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 9 (part 9)

“(2.) M ONISM, or the Single Substance Doctrine, is the more subtle form of negative psychology, which one of its advocates, Professor Bain, ably terms "guarded [[Footnote continued on next page]] [[Vol. 1, Page]] 125 THE REAL MEANING OF TH…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 9 (part 10)

“From Meru, the abode of gods, to Eden, the distance is very small, and from the Hindu Serpents to the Ophite Cherubim, the third out of the seven of which was the Dragon, the separation is still smaller, for both watched the entrance to the…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 9 (part 11)

“They circumscribe the manifested world of matter within the R ING "Pass-Not." This world is the symbol (objective) of the O NE divided into the many, on the planes of Illusion, of Adi (the "First") or of Eka (the "One"); and this One is the…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 10 (part 2)

“The whole Kosmos in its objective form is Vaikhari-Vach , the light of the Logos is the Madhyama form, and the Logos itself the Pasyanti form, and Parabrahm the Para form or aspect of that Vach. It is by the light of this explanation that…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 10 (part 4)

“Were a truly learned Occultist-alchemist to write the "Life and Adventures of an Atom" he would secure thereby the eternal scorn of the modern chemist, perchance also his subsequent [[Footnote(s)]] ------------------------------------------…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 11 (part 1)

“The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 1 [[Vol. 1, Page]] 152 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. [[This page continued from previous section ]] A FEW EARLY THEOSOPHICAL MISCONCEPTIONS CONCERNING PLANETS, ROUNDS, AND MAN. Among the eleven St…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 11 (part 6)

“.' You can never impress it too profoundly on the minds of those to whom you impart some of the esoteric teachings. . ." Again, here are more extracts from another letter written by the same authority. This time it is in answer to some o…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 12 (part 1)

“The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 1 [[Vol. 1, Page]] 170 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. [[This page continued from previous section ]] ADDITIONAL FACTS AND EXPLANATIONS CONCERNING THE GLOBES AND THE MONADS. Two statements made in "…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 13 (part 6)

“Others moving in parabolic curves generally escape destruction, owing to their velocity. Some very critical readers will perhaps imagine that this teaching, as to the cometary stage passed through by all heavenly bodies, is in contradictio…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 14 (part 1)

“The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 1 [[Vol. 1, Page]] 213 THE CREATIVE POWERS. STANZA VII. 1. B EHOLD THE BEGINNING OF SENTIENT FORMLESS LIFE ( a ). F IRST, THE DIVINE ( vehicle ) ( b ), THE ONE FROM THE MOTHER-SPIRIT (…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 14 (part 2)

“The later Kabalists however, especially the Christian mystics, have played sad havoc with this magnificent symbol.* For the " ten limbs" of the Heavenly Man are the ten Sephiroth; but the first Heavenly Man is the unmanifested Spirit of the…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 14 (part 3)

“These, Tsanagi-Tsanami , descended into the Universe by the celestial Bridge (the milky way), and " Tsanagi , perceiving far below a chaotic mass of cloud and water, thrust his jewelled spear into the depths, and dry land appeared." Then th…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 14 (part 9)

“In order to form a clear conception of what is meant by the One becoming two, and then being transformed into the "three-fold," the student has to make himself thoroughly acquainted with what we call "Rounds." If he refers to "Esoteric Budd…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 14 (part 11)

“But there is still as little cause to regard them as devils, and this is precisely what the Roman Catholics maintain against all reason and logic. ( b ) The concluding sentence of this sloka shows how archaic is the belief and the doctrine…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 15 (part 1)

“The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 1 [[Vol. 1, Page]] 238 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. STANZA VII. -- Continued. (5) T HE SPARK HANGS FROM THE FLAME BY THE FINEST THREAD OF F OHAT. I T JOURNEYS THROUGH THE S EVEN W ORLDS OF M AY…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 15 (part 2)

“of "Ha Idra Zuta Kadisha." "Becomes one body" means that all is reabsorbed once more into the one element, the spirits of men becoming Nirvanees and the elements of everything else becoming again what they were before -- protyle or undiffer…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 15 (part 13)

“Thus proceed the cycles of the septenary evolution, in Septennial nature; the Spiritual or divine; the psychic or semi-divine; the intellectual, the passional, the instinctual, or cognitional; the semi-corporeal and the purely material or p…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 16 (part 9)

“It cannot be called so by men in their WAKING STATE; therefore they have named it in their ignorance ' God-Spirit. ' (xix.) " It exists everywhere and forms the first U PADHI ( foundation ) on which our World ( solar system ) is built. Ou…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 18 (part 1)

“The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 1 [[Vol. 1, Page]] 310 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. § II. THE MYSTERY LANGUAGE AND ITS KEYS. R ECENT discoveries made by great mathematicians and Kabalists thus prove, beyond a shadow of doubt,…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 18 (part 2)

“Thus, in the seventeenth chapter mentioned by Maspero, one finds (1) Osiris saying he is Toum (the creative force in nature, giving form to all Beings, spirits and men), self-generated and self-existent, issued from Noun , the celestial riv…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 18 (part 4)

“Hence, it is the Occultists and Kabalists who are the "true" heirs to the KNOWLEDGE, or the secret wisdom which is still found in the Bible; for they alone now understand its real meaning, whereas profane Jews and Christians cling to the hu…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 18 (part 6)

“Starting from this, it becomes easy to understand how nature herself could have taught primeval mankind, even without the help of its divine instructors, the first principles of a numerical and geometrical symbol language.* Hence one finds…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 18 (part 7)

“Baron Humboldt says that we are to look for the country of Aztalan, the original country of the Aztecs, as high up at least as the 42nd parallel north; whence, journeying, they at last arrived in the vale of Mexico. In that vale the earthe…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 18 (part 8)

“"There may have been not one, but twenty different races upon the earth before the time of Adam, just as there may be twenty different races of men on other worlds" (p. 55). . . . Who, then, or what were those races, since the author s…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 19 (part 4)

“We shall speak further on of the intelligent "principle," or rather of the invisible immaterial properties, in the visible and material elements, that "sprung from the primordial Chaos." For, "What is the primordial Chaos but AEther?" it is…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 19 (part 5)

“Thus they translate verse 16: "He also, having made the subtile parts of those six (the Great Self and the five organs of sense) of unmeasured brightness, to enter into the elements of Self ( Atmamatrasu ) created all beings." When, accordi…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 19 (part 8)

“"Therefore, it was taught in the inner temples that this visible universe of spirit and matter is but the concrete image of the ideal abstraction; it was built on the model of the first DIVINE IDEA. Thus our universe existed from Eternity…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 20 (part 1)

“The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 1 [[Vol. 1, Page]] 342 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. § IV. CHAOS -- THEOS -- KOSMOS. T HESE three are the containment of Space; or, as a learned Kabalist has defined it, "Space, the all containin…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 20 (part 2)

“This "First-Born," however, was only the aggregate of the Host of the "Builders," the first constructive Forces, who are called in ancient Cosmogonies the Ancients (born of the Deep, or Chaos) and the "First Point." He is the Tetragrammaton…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 20 (part 3)

“exoteric, of course, yet in its main idea as identical as possible with the Egyptian cosmogony, which shows in its opening sentences Athtor,* or Mother Night (which represents illimitable darkness), as the primeval element which covered the…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 20 (part 4)

“The Holy is the seventh of all," etc. (p. 415). This, besides showing a strange identity with the cosmogony of the Puranas ( e.g ., Vishnu Purana 1st Book), corroborates with regard to number seven, all our teachings as briefly given in…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 21 (part 2)

“In his "Revelation," speaking of divine mysteries expressed by means of letters and numbers, Marcus narrates how the "Supreme Tetrad came down unto me (him) from the region which cannot be seen nor named, in a female form , because the worl…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 22 (part 1)

“The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 1 [[Vol. 1, Page]] 359 THE EGG-BORN GOD. § VI. THE MUNDANE EGG. W HENCE this universal symbol? The Egg was incorporated as a sacred sign in the cosmogony of every people on the Earth, a…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 22 (part 2)

“And Porphyry, who quotes from the Pythagorean Moderatus , **** says that the numerals of Pythagoras were "hieroglyphical symbols, by means whereof he explained ideas concerning the nature of things," or the origin of the universe. Now, if,…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 23 (part 4)

“In the Zohar we read as follows: -- "As Moses was keeping a vigil on Mount Sinai, in company with the deity, who was concealed from his sight by a cloud, he felt a great fear overcome him, and suddenly asked: 'Lord, where art thou . . .…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 24 (part 3)

“This is corroborated by the writer of the said intensely learned and Kabalistic revelation himself, when he closes the above-quoted passages by adding: -- "If to these organs as symbols of creative cosmic agencies the idea of the origin of…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 25 (part 1)

“The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 1 [[Vol. 1, Page]] 386 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. [[This page continued from previous section ]] § IX THE MOON, DEUS LUNUS, PHOEBE. T HIS archaic symbol is the most poetical of all symbols, as…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 25 (part 3)

“would be either the phallus or the phallus and yoni, . . . or male and female. Indeed, the words translated by the generalizing terms male and female, in the 27th verse of the 1st chapter of Genesis are . . . sacr and n ' cabrah , or…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 25 (part 4)

“But the signification is, that it is androgyne or hermaphrodite, that is phallus and yoni combined, the number 10, the Hebrew letter Jod , the containment of Jehovah. She, or rather she-he, gives the minutes of the same circle of 360 degre…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 26 (part 2)

“Moreover, the modern symbologists and Orientalists -- from first to last -- [[Footnote(s)]] ------------------------------------------------- * The Natural Genesis , by Gerald Massey, Vol. 1, p. 340. [[Vol. 1, Page]] 406 THE SECRET DOCT…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 26 (part 3)

“So has Sefekh Abu who builds the house on high, as Wisdom (Sophia) built hers with seven pillars. . . The primary Kronotypes were seven, and thus the beginning of time in heaven is based on the number and the name of seven, on account of…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 28 (part 2)

“Thus, in the Rig Veda, wherein Brahma is not even named, Cosmogony is preluded with the Hiranyagharha , "the Golden Egg," and Prajapati (Brahma later on), from whom emanate all the hierarchies of "Creators." The Monad, or point, is the orig…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 28 (part 5)

“The whole Kosmos in its objective form is Vaikhari Vach; the light of the Logos is the madhyama form; and the Logos itself the pasyanti form; while Parabrahmam is the para (beyond the noumenon of all Noumena ) aspect of that Vach." ( Notes…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 28 (part 6)

“Isis is also mystic Nature and also Earth; and her cow's horns identify her with Vach. The latter, after having been recognised in her highest form as para , becomes at the lower or material end of creation -- Vaikhari. Hence she is mysti…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 28 (part 8)

“Moreover, the three metaphysical Sephiroth or " the periphrasis of Jehovah " are not Jehovah; it is the latter himself with the additional titles of Adonai, Elohim, Sabbaoth, and the numerous names lavished on him, who is the periphrasis of…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 28 (part 9)

“For if the said Forces had nought to do with "Creation" so-called, why call them Elohim (Alhim) in plural; "divine workmen" and Energies ([[' Energeia ]]), incandescent celestial stones (lapides igniti coelorum), and especially, " supporter…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 28 (part 10)

“, a fiery serpent, the Gnostic Agathodaemon probably.* As explained, the "sacred animals" and the Flames or "Sparks" within the "Holy Four" refer to the prototypes of all that is found in the Universe in the Divine Thought , in the R OOT, w…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 28 (part 11)

“astronomically, with the one here intended." Now the secret reading of the first verse of Genesis being: "In Rash (B'rash) or head, developed gods, the Heavens and the Earth" -- it is easy to comprehend the esoteric meaning of the raven , o…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 29 (part 1)

“fThe Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 1 [[Vol. 1, Page]] 445 GOD IS OUR HIGHER SELF. [[This page continued from previous section ]] § XIII. THE SEVEN CREATIONS. " T HERE was neither day nor night, nor sky nor earth, nor dar…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 29 (part 2)

“First from ONE emanated number TWO, or Air, the creative element; and then number THREE, Water , proceeded from the air; Ether or Fire complete the mystic four, the Arba-il. (Ibid.) In the Eastern doctrine Fire is the first Element -- Ethe…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 29 (part 8)

“If the student of Esoteric philosophy thinks deeply over the subject he is sure to find out all the suggestiveness of the term Ambhamsi, in its manifold relations to the Virgin in Heaven, to the Celestial Virgin of the Alchemists, and even…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 30 (part 1)

“The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 1 [[Vol. 1, Page]] 460 [[This page continued from previous section ]] § XIV. THE FOUR ELEMENTS. M ETAPHYSICALLY and esoterically there is but One E LEMENT in nature, and at the root of it…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 43 (part 4)

“energetic gas which chemists have only isolated within the last month or two, would float about free and uncombined." "Outside this space of free atomic matter would be another shell, in which the formed chemical elements would have cooled…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 46 (part 2)

“For Roman Catholics, Satan is at the foundation of Kosmos, Christ in its centre, and Antichrist at its apex. For both, the Hierarchy of Being begins and ends within the narrow frames of their respective theologies: one self-created persona…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 46 (part 3)

“The Monad -- only the emanation and reflection of the Point (Logos) in the phenomenal World -- becomes, as the apex of the manifested equilateral triangle, the "Father." The left side or line is the Duad , the "Mother," regarded as the evil…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 47 (part 3)

“The first of these is the law of evolution, or, to phrase it for our purpose, the law of correlated successiveness or organized history in the individual , illustrated in the changing phases of every single maturing system of results. . .…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 48 (part 2)

“He traces the invention of it to the palmy days of the golden age of Iran, remarking that one of the said traditions maintains that the genii of the planets are represented under the same shapes and figures they had assumed, when they showe…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 48 (part 5)

“A "Day" of Brahma equals 4,320,000,000 years, as also a "Night" of Brahma, or the duration of Pralaya, after which a new S UN rises trium- [[Footnote(s)]] ------------------------------------------------- * Every scholar is aware, of course…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 49 (part 3)

“This sentence, moreover, in Stanza VI ., "Fohat sets in motion the primordial World-germs, or the aggregation of Cosmic atoms and matter, some one way, some another, in the opposite direction" -- looks orthodox and Scientific enough. For t…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 52 (part 9)

“113 to 355, have to be specialised.* But this last ratio is but a modified form of light or 20612 to 6561, as a '[[ pi ]]' value, being only a variation of the same (that is 20612 to 6561 is 31415 to one, or Alhim or God) -- and in such a m…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 68 (part 4)

“Of the Primary, when Earth is in possession of the three Elemental Kingdoms, we cannot speak for several reasons, one of which is, that, unless one is a great seer, or naturally intuitional, he will be unable to realise that which can never…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 72 (part 7)

“Noah is either a myth along with the others, or one whose legend was built upon the Kabirian or Titanic tradition, as taught in Samothrace; he has, therefore, no claim to be monopolized by either Jew or Christian. If, as Faber tried to dem…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 77 (part 4)

“And this ideal conception is found beaming like a golden ray upon each idol, however coarse and grotesque, in the crowded galleries of the sombre fanes of India and other Mother lands of cults. This will be demonstrated in the following Se…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 78 (part 3)

“2, Page]] 463 CHRISTIAN SYMBOLISM Chaldean "Nuah, the Universal Mother" (female Noah, considered as one with the ark), and of the female triad, Ana, Belita and Davikina; called, when blended into one, "Sovereign goddess, lady of the Nether…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 78 (part 4)

“2, Page]] 465 THE "FOUR-FACED" BRAHMA. made plain to any one who reads " The Source of Measures, " or " Hebrew Egyptian Mystery, " and understands the undeniable, clear, and mathematical proofs that the esoteric foundations, or the system…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 78 (part 5)

“Adam is spoken of in [[Footnote(s)]] ------------------------------------------------- * It is on that step that one arrives on the plane of the level or floor and open entrance to the King's chamber, the Egyptian "Holy of Holies." ** The c…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 81 (part 7)

“When the Chaldeans broke into the sanctuary and beheld this most astounding emblem, they naturally enough exclaimed, 'Is this your God, of whom you boast that He is such a lover of purity?' " (p. 441.) King thinks that this tradition "savo…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 82 (part 2)

“It is now supposed that the name of Prometheus has been unriddled, and the modern mythologists and Orientalists see in it no longer what their fathers saw on the authority of the whole of classical antiquity. They only find therein somethi…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 83 (part 1)

“The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 2 [[Vol. 2, Page]] 529 WHO INVENTED WRITING? § XXI. ENOICHION-HENOCH. T HE history of the evolution of the Satanic myth would not be complete if we omitted to notice the character of the…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 84 (part 2)

“As each Persian Dev is chained to his planet (see Origen's Copy of the Chart), so each Hindu Deva (a "Lord") has its allotted portion, a world, a planet, a nation or a race. Plurality of worlds implies plurality of gods. We believe in the…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 84 (part 12)

“In this extraordinary sculpture and painting one sees the disc of the Sun beaming upon an ansated cross placed upon a cross of which those of the Calvary were perfect copies. The ancient MSS . mention these as the "hard couches of those w…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 84 (part 13)

“The three nails with the three wounds are in number 6, which denotes the 6 faces of the cube unfolded (which make the cross or man-form, or 7, counting three horizontal and four vertical bars) on which the man is placed; and this in turn po…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 85 (part 1)

“The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 2 [[Vol. 2, Page]] 563 THE SEVEN THUNDERS. § XXIII. THE UPANISHADS IN GNOSTIC LITERATURE. We are reminded in King's "Gnostics" that the Greek language has but one word for vowel and voic…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 86 (part 1)

“The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 2 [[Vol. 2, Page]] 573 THE GNOSTICS AND PYTHAGORAS. § XXIV. THE CROSS AND THE PYTHAGOREAN DECADE. T HE early Gnostics claimed that their Science, the G NOSIS, rested on a square, the ang…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 86 (part 2)

“To study it on the exoteric lines one has to read Ragon's Cours Interpretatif des Initiations; on the esoteric -- the Hindu symbolism of numerals; as the combinations which were applied to it are numberless. It is on the occult properties…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 86 (part 3)

“"I am the fish and seat of the great Horus of Kem-our," says the mummy-form God with the crocodile's head ( ch. lxxxviii., 2 , " Book of the Dead ") . With the Peratae Gnostics it is Chozzar (Neptune), who converts into a sphere the dodec…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 86 (part 4)

“But this is a mystery which the writer dares not dwell upon at length, not being sure of being understood. Thus the mystical side of the interpretation must be left to the intuition of the student. Let us note one more thing in relation t…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 86 (part 5)

“Thot was the inventor of the Egyptian alphabet, and the letter tau closed the alphabets of the Jews and the Samaritans, who called this character the "end" or "perfection," "culmination" and "security." Thence -- Ragon tells us -- the words…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 86 (part 6)

“of the river Jordan, which had the same mythical use with the Hebrews that the Nile had with the Egyptians,* it was the source of descent, and held the waters of life" (Unpub. MS .) It was, to put it plainly, the symbol of the personified…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 86 (part 9)

“Tacitly admitting the All-Presence of the boundless Circle and making of it the universal Postulate upon which the whole of the manifested universe is based, the Sage keeps a reverential silence concerning that upon which no mortal men shou…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 87 (part 1)

“The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 2 [[Vol. 2, Page]] 590 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. § XXV. THE MYSTERIES OF THE HEBDOMAD. W E must not close this Part on the Symbolism of Archaic History, without an attempt to explain the perp…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 87 (part 2)

“Numbers 3 and 4 are respectively male and female, Spirit and Matter, and their union is the emblem of life eternal in spirit on its ascending arc, and in matter as the ever resurrecting element -- by procreation and reproduction. The spiri…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 87 (part 3)

“Now it is a mysterious fact that in the higher and now terrestrial Vertebrata . . . many normal and abnormal processes have one or more weeks (septenates) as their periods . . . such as gestation of mammals, the duration of fevers," e…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 87 (part 4)

“The author explains, "Note that in Hebrew, Jared , the father of Enoch, is construed to be ' the mount of descent, ' and it is said to be the same with Ararat on which the cubical structure of Noah, or foundation measure rested. Jared, in…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 87 (part 5)

“For: -- "The quaternary of the intellectual world (the world of Mahat ) is T'Agathon, Nous, Psyche, Hyle; while that of the sensible world (of matter), which is properly what Pythagoras meant by the word Kosmos -- is Fire, Air, Water, and E…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 87 (part 6)

“The Tetraktis reflecting upon its own essence, the first unit, productrix of all things, and on its own beginning, saith thus: Once one, twice two, immediately ariseth a tetrad, having on its top the highest unit, and becomes a Pyramis, who…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 88 (part 4)

“" Occultism defines and limits the number of primordial races to seven, because of the "seven progenitors," or prajapatis, the evolvers of beings. These are neither gods, nor supernatural Beings, but advanced Spirits from another and lower…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 88 (part 5)

“The Vayu Purana shows, and Harivansa corroborates, that the Maruts -- the oldest as the most incomprehensible of all the secondary or lower gods in the Rig Veda -- "are born in every manvantara (Round) seven times seven (or 49); that in eac…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 88 (part 7)

“Furthermore, it is not only in the Hindu Scriptures and philosophy that one finds references to the Seven Earths, but in the Persian, Phoenician, Chaldean, and Egyptian Cosmogonies, and even in Rabbinical literature. The Phoenix* -- called…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 88 (part 8)

“Kenealy believed that, in India, Karttikeya is the secret symbol of the cycle of Naros, composed of 600, 666, and 777 years, according to whether it is solar or lunar, divine or mortal, years that are counted; and the six visible, or the se…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 88 (part 9)

“183); the Arabs anciently divided the year into six seasons, each composed of two months; in the Chinese astronomical work called Kioo-tche, it is said that two moons make a measure of time, and six measures a year; and to this day the abor…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 88 (part 10)

“"If the fourth (paroxysm) be severe, and the fifth less so, the disease will end at the seventh paroxysm, and . . . change for the better . . . will be seen on the fourteenth day , [[footnote continued on following page]] [[Vol. 2, P…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 88 (part 11)

“The seven Rishis and the fourteen Manus of the seven Manvantaras -- issue from Brahma's head; they are his "mind-born sons," and it is with them that begins the division of mankind and its races from the Heavenly man, "the Logos" (the manif…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 88 (part 12)

“For, verse 1,152 of the "Greater Holy Assembly" (Kabala) says -- "We have learned that there were ten (companions) who entered into the Sod, ('mysterious assembly or mystery'), and that seven only came forth"*** ( i.e. , 10 for the unmanif…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 88 (part 13)

“Shall we still doubt the fact of Arjuna going over to Patala (the Antipodes, America) and there marrying Ulupi, the daughter of the Naga (or rather Nargal ) King? But to the Zuni priests. These receive an annual tribute, to this day, of c…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 89 (part 1)

“The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 2 [[Vol. 2, Page]] 630 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. [[Page continued from previouis section ]] F. T HE S EVEN S OULS OF THE E GYPTOLOGISTS. If one turns to those wells of information, " The Natu…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 89 (part 5)

“It has worshipped "great sages" and given hospitality to terrestrial wisdom: but once that "another forest shone forth" upon it, it is Intelligence (Buddhi, the 7th sense, but 6th principle) which is transformed into the tree -- that tree w…”

The Secret Writing According to John (Apocryphon of John), Codex II, 1 | Barbelo

“This is because [we do] not [understand unspeakable things, and we] do not understand what [cannot be measured], apart from him who originated [from] him, that is, [the] Father, because he [alone] is the one who [explained] it to us, given…”

The Secret Writing According to John (Apocryphon of John), Codex II, 1 | The Four Lights

“[IV, 11] Eternal Life also <with> his Will, and Mind with Precognition, attended and extolled the unseen Spirit and Barbelo, given that they had come into being on her account. The holy Spirit also completed the self- generated God, his Son…”

The Secret Writing According to John (Apocryphon of John), Codex II, 1 | Yaltabaoth-a

“Further, being an aeon, Sophia of Reflection thought a thought [IV, 15] on her own, together with the conception of the unseen Spirit and Precognition. She willed to bring forth a likeness from out of herself, apart from the agreement of th…”

The Secret Writing According to John (Apocryphon of John), Codex II, 1 | Yaltabaoth-b

“The first <is> Athoth – he has the face of a sheep; the second is Eloaiou – he has the face of a donkey; the third is Astaphaios – he has the face of a [hyena]; the fourth is Yao – he has the face of a seven-headed [dragon]; the fifth is Sa…”

The Secret Writing According to John (Apocryphon of John), Codex II, 1 | The Authorities Create Adam-b

“Ararim, the left shoulder joint; Areche, the belly; Phthave, the navel; Senaphim, the abdomen; Arachethopi, the right ribs; Zabedo, the left ribs; Barias, the *right hip;* *Phnouth, the* left hip; Abenlenarchei, the marrow; Chnoumeninorin,…”

The Secret Writing According to John (Apocryphon of John), Codex II, 1 | The Authorities Create Adam-c

“heat, cold, wetness, and dryness. However, the mother of all of them is matter, but he who rules over heat, Phloxopha; but he who rules [IV, 28] over cold, Oroorrothos; but he who rules over dryness, Erimacho; but he who rules over wetnes…”

Gospel of Judas | Jesus and Judas

“And when Jesus [said] these things, he left, [taking] Judas Iscariot with him. He said to him, "The water on the exalted mountain is [from] 43 […] it didn't come to [water … the well] of the tree of [the fruit …] of this realm […] after a t…”

Gospel of Judas | Jesus Reveals Everything to Judas-a

“Jesus said, "[Come] and I'll teach you about the [mysteries that no] human [will] see, because there exists a great and boundless realm whose horizons no angelic generation has seen, [in] which is a [great] invisible Spirit, which no [angel…”

Iamblichus: On the Mysteries | Chapter V-a

“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 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 XVIII-b

“A certain thing of this kind also may take 71 place in the harmony and crasis of the universe: for the same things may be the salvation of the whole, through the perfection of the things inherent and the recipients; but may be noxious to th…”

Iamblichus: On the Mysteries | Chapter VII

“Moreover, in the manifestations there is an indication of the order which the powers that are seen possess. For the Gods are surrounded by either Gods or angels; but archangels have angels either preceding or coarranged with them, or follow…”

Iamblichus: On the Mysteries | Chapter XII

“It appears, therefore, that the divination of oracles accords with all the hypotheses which we have before adduced concerning prediction. For if a power of this kind was inseparable from the nature of places, and of the bodies which are the…”

Iamblichus: On the Mysteries | Chapter XVII-a

“In the next place you inquire “ concerning the mode of divination, what it is, and what the quality is by which it is distinguished ,” which we have already explained, both generally and particularly. But you, in the first place, represent…”

Iamblichus: On the Mysteries | Chapter XXVIII-a

“You adduce, however, as a thing by no means to be despised, “ the artificers of efficacious images .” But I should wonder if these were admitted by any one of the theurgists who survey the true forms of the Gods. For why should any one exc…”

Iamblichus: On the Mysteries | Chapter VIII

“The same absurdities likewise happen from assigning, as the causes of what is effected by sacrifices, either certain numbers that are with us, such, for instance, as assuming the number 235 sixty in the crocodile, as adapted to the sun; or…”

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) | 1b

“If the reader turn to the introduction, to the Table showing the Sephiroth arranged in three pillars, he will see that Malkuth is, as it were, the antithesis of Kether; and hence it is said that "Malkuth is Kether after another manner." And…”

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) | 1d

“5; "And thou shalt place upon me thine hand:" KPKH, Khephakha . (Where this word KPKH, if it be written according to the usual p. 100 custom KPK, Khephakh , yieldeth the number 120. But now by adding the paragogic H of the female, there…”

The Book of Concealed Mystery (Siphra Dtzenioutha) | 1e

“31: "And He was wise above every man." Because these are not classed with man. 21. (But when it is said) "And the Tetragrammaton gave him wisdom," then is understood the supernal He . (Because he gave unto him the influx of the wisdom of…”

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…”

Pseudo-Dionysius: The Divine Names | Chapter 10, Section 1a

“CHAPTER X Concerning ” Omnipotent ,” ” Ancient of Days “; and also concerning ” Eternity “ and ” Time .” 1. Now ‘tis time that our Discourse should celebrate God (Whose Names are many) as “Omnipotent” and “Ancient of Days.” The former titl…”

Pseudo-Dionysius: The Divine Names | Chapter 10, Section 1b

“For where Scripture speaks of things as “eternal” it doth not always mean things that are absolutely Uncreated or verily Everlasting, Incorruptible, 171 Immortal, Invariable, and Immutable ( e.g. “Be ye lift up, ye eternal doors,” 461 461…”

Pseudo-Dionysius: The Divine Names | Chapter 10, Section 1c

“It is spoken of by ail the Christian Mystics as the root of our being, or as the spark, or the Synteresis, etc. Our perfection consists in this ultimate reality, which is each man’s self, shining through his whole being and transforming it…”

Pseudo-Dionysius: The Divine Names | Chapter 10, Section 1d

“If Time be thought of as an infinite series of finite numbers Eternity is the sum of that series and not its process. But the name may be applied loosely to the process, though this is generally to be avoided. According to St. Thomas, Et…”

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 1c

“Emily Brontë: “Every existence would exist in Thee.”) And if all things be conceived as being ultimately unified with each other, then all things taken as a whole are One. 507 507 All things possess the same Super-Essence, and that is why…”

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

“And hence, when we speak of the All-Transcendent Godhead as an Unity and a Trinity, It is not an Unity or a Trinity such as can be known by us or any other creature, though to express the truth of Its utter Self-Union and Its Divine Fecundi…”

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

“But be these matters as God wills 513 513 This anthropomorphic phrase is not inconsistent with the conceptions D. has been expounding; because he regards the limits of individual human capacities, etc., as timelessly existent in the Super-…”

The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Papyrus of Ani) | Chapter 5 (part 1)

“THE LEGEND OF OSIRIS. The main features of the Egyptian religion constant. The chief features of the Egyptian religion remained unchanged from the Vth and VIth dynasties down to the period when the Egyptians embraced Christianity, after t…”

The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Papyrus of Ani) | Chapter 5 (part 2)

“In course of time he became king of Egypt, and devoted himself to civilizing his subjects and to teaching them the craft of the husbandman; he established a code of laws and bade men worship the gods. Having made Egypt peaceful and flouris…”

The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Papyrus of Ani) | Chapter 8 (part 6)

“, the litany from the tomb of Seti I., published by Naville, La Litanie du Soleil , Leipzig, 1875, p. 13 ff. 2. E.g. , Hymn to Amen-Ra, translated by Goodwin from papyrus No. 17, now preserved in the Gizeh Museum (see Les Papyrus Égypt…”

The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Papyrus of Ani) | Chapter 8 (part 9)

“The priests of Annu at a very early period grouped together the nine greatest gods of Egypt, forming what is called the paut neteru or "company of the gods," or as it is written in the pyramid texts, paut aat , "the great company of gods";…”

The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Papyrus of Ani) | Chapter 8 (part 10)

“The passage reads:-- mes Pepi pen au atf Tem an xepert pet an Gave birth to Pepi this father Tmu [when] not was created heaven, not xepert ta an xepert reth an mest neteru an xepert met was created earth, not were created men, not were born…”

The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Papyrus of Ani) | Chapter 8 (part 11)

“, p. 160. 9. Ibid. , p. 161. 10. Ibid. , p. 163. 11. Ibid. , p. 187. 12 The variant version says, "I developed myself from the primeval matter which I had made." and adds, "My name is Osiris, ###, the substance of primeval mat…”

The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Papyrus of Ani) | Chapter 9 (part 1)

“THE ABODE OF THE BLESSED. The Egyptian heaven. The gods of the Egyptians dwelt in a heaven with their ka's , and khu's , and shadows, and there they received the blessed dead to dwell with them. This heaven was situated in the sky, which…”

The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Papyrus of Ani) | Chapter 10 (part 14)

“see also Maspero, Hymne au Nil, publié et traduit d'après les deux textes A Musée Britannique , Paris, 1868. 4to. 2 Pyramid of Unas, l. 219; Pyramid of Teta, ll. 60, 286; Pyramid of Pepi I., ll. 444, 593, etc. 3. Pyramid of Pepi I.,…”

Plato: Phaedo | Section 1l

“But if, said Socrates, you are still incredulous, Simmias, I would ask you whether you may not agree with me when you look at the matter in another way; I mean, if you are still incredulous as to whether knowledge is recollection. Incredul…”

Plato: Phaedo | Section 1m

“And yet from these equals, although differing from the idea of equality, you conceived and attained that idea? Very true, he said. Which might be like, or might be unlike them? Yes. But that makes no difference; whenever from seeing one…”

Plato: Phaedo | Section 1ab

“For any man, who is not devoid of natural feeling, has reason to fear, if he has no knowledge or proof of the soul's immortality. That is what I suppose you to say, Cebes, which I designedly repeat, in order that nothing may escape us, and…”

Plato: Phaedo | Section 1af

“Very true, he said. Again, would you not be cautious of affirming that the addition of one to one, or the division of one, is the cause of two? And you would loudly asseverate that you know of no way in which anything comes into existence…”

Plato: Phaedo | Section 1ah

“Are there not other things which have their own name, and yet are called odd, because, although not the same as oddness, they are never without oddness?-that is what I mean to ask-whether numbers such as the number three are not of the clas…”

Plato: Phaedo | Section 1ai

“And now, he said, I think that I may begin again; and to the question which I am about to ask I will beg you to give not the old safe answer, but another, of which I will offer you an example; and I hope that you will find in what has been…”

Plato: Phaedrus | Section 1o

“Zeus, the mighty lord, holding the reins of a winged chariot, leads the way in heaven, ordering all and taking care of all; and there follows him the array of gods and demigods, marshalled in eleven bands; Hestia alone abides at home in the…”

Plato: Phaedrus | Section 1p

“And there is a law of Destiny, that the soul which attains any vision of truth in company with a god is preserved from harm until the next period, and if attaining always is always unharmed. But when she is unable to follow, and fails to b…”

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 LXXIV — Of the Proportion, Correspondency, and Reduction of Letters to the Celestial Signs and Planets, According to Various Tongues, and a Table Thereof | Chapter LXXIV, Section 1a

“CHAPTER LXXIV. Of the Proportion, Correspondency, and Reduction of Letters to the Celestial Signs and Planets, According to Various Tongues, and a Table Thereof . God gave to man a mind and speech, which (as saith Mercurius Trismegistus)…”

Agrippa: The Philosophy of Natural Magic, Chapter LXXIV — Of the Proportion, Correspondency, and Reduction of Letters to the Celestial Signs and Planets, According to Various Tongues, and a Table Thereof | Chapter LXXIV, Section 1b

“He, therefore, that will find them out, must by each joining together of the letters so long examine them, until the voice of God is manifest, and the framing of the most sacred letters be opened and discovered; for hence voices and words h…”

The Heroic Enthusiasts, Part I (Gli Eroici Furori) | INTRODUCTION-h

“The primal idea of Pythagoras, which Bruno worked out to a more distinct development is this: numbers are the beginning of things; in other words numbers are the cause of the existence of material things; they are not final, but are always…”

The Heroic Enthusiasts, Part I (Gli Eroici Furori) | First Dialogue-c

“Hence he cries: "O mountain of Parnassus, where I abide! Muses, with whom I converse! Fountain of Helicon, where I am nourished. Mountain, that affordest me a quiet dwelling-place! Muses, that inspire me with pro found doctrines. Fount…”

The Heroic Enthusiasts, Part I (Gli Eroici Furori) | First Dialogue-d

“Some are called in vain to put in a ready appearance, and are chiefly those which proceed from the lower instincts, and which obey the reason either not at all, or very little; and forcing himself to prevent their actions and condemn those…”

The Heroic Enthusiasts, Part I (Gli Eroici Furori) | First Dialogue-g

“"Steals it from me," he says of Jealousy, not simply in order that it may not be present to me; removing it from my eyesight, but in order that good may not be good, but an acute evil; sweet, not sweet, but an agonized longing; while the he…”

The Heroic Enthusiasts, Part I (Gli Eroici Furori) | Third Dialogue-g

“Such over-boldness rarely grief escapes." "Fear not the utmost ruin then," I said, "Cleave confident the clouds and die content, That heaven has destined thee to such illustrious death." Cic . I understand when you say: "Enough that thou h…”

Orphic Hymns | Hymn V. PROTOGONUS, Or the FIRST-BORN

“V. TO PROTOGONUS, Or the FIRST-BORN. The FUMIGATION from MYRRH. O Mighty first-begotten, hear my pray'r, 1 Two-fold, egg-born, and wand'ring thro' the air, p. 119 Bull-roarer, glorying in thy golden wings, 3 From whom the race of Gods and m…”

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 XI. HERCULES

“XI. TO HERCULES. The FUMIGATION from FRANKINCENSE. HEAR, pow'rful, Hercules untam'd and strong, To whom vast hands, and mighty works belong, Almighty Titan, prudent and benign, Of various forms, eternal and divine, Father of Time, the theme…”

Orphic Hymns | Hymn XXX. THE CURETES

“XXX. TO THE CURETES. A HYMN. LEAPING Curetes, who with dancing feet And circling measures, armed footsteps beat: Whose bosom's mad, fanatic transports fire, Who move in rythm to the founding lyre: Who traces deaf when lightly leaping tread,…”

Orphic Hymns | Hymn XLIV. DIONYSIUS BASSAREUS TRIENNALIS

“XLIV. TO DIONYSIUS BASSAREUS TRIENNALIS * . A HYMN COME, blessed Dionysius, various nam'd, Bull-fac'd, begot from Thunder, Bacchus fam'd. Bassarian God, of universal might, Whom swords, and blood, and sacred rage delight: In heav'n rejoicin…”

Orphic Hymns | Hymn LI. TRIETERICUS

“LI. TO TRIETERICUS. The FUMIGATION from AROMATICS. BACCHUS fanatic, much-nam'd, blest, divine, Bull-fac'd Lenæan, bearer of the vine; From fire descended, raging, Nysian king, From whom initial ceremonies spring: Liknitan Bacchus, pure and…”

Orphic Hymns | Hymn LII. AMPHIETUS BACCHUS

“LII. To AMPHIETUS BACCHUS. The FUMIGATION from every AROMATIC except FRANKINCENSE. TERRESTRIAL Dionysius, hear my pray'r, Awak'ned rise with nymphs of lovely hair: Great Amphietus Bacchus, annual God, Who laid asleep in Proserpine's abode,…”

The Golden Verses of Pythagoras | Section 3

“p. vii INTRODUCTION The ripe sayings of the Ancient Wisdom, as spoken again in the world of Greece--a world so much vaster than the area of the Greek peninsula--are somewhat fading from the minds born anew into the hurrying life of the twen…”

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 1e

“To the first zone he gives the Energy of Growth and Waning; unto the second [zone], Device of Evils [now] de-energized; unto the third, the Guile of the Desires de-energized; unto the fourth, his Domineering Arrogance, [also] de-energized;…”

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 1c

“It is Itself Its Source, since It may have no other Source. The Oneness then being Source, containeth every number, but is contained by none; engendereth every number, but is engendered by no other one. 11. Now all that is engendered is…”

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 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…”

Corpus Hermeticum 10: The Sermon on the Mount | Section 1d

“Spirit pervading [body] by means of veins and arteries and blood, bestows upon the living creature motion, and as it were doth bear it in a way. For this cause some do think the soul is blood, in that they do mistake its nature, not knowin…”

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…”

The Soul of the Indian | Chapter III-e

“The sacred beast, bird, or reptile, represented by its stuffed skin, or by a rude painting, was treated with reverence and carried into battle to insure the guardianship of the spirits. The symbolic attribute of beaver, bear, or tortoise,…”

Myths of the Cherokee | Myth 1a

“HOW THE WORLD WAS MADE The earth is a great island floating in a sea of water, and suspended at each of the four cardinal points by a cord hanging down from the sky vault, which is of solid rock. When the world grows old and worn out, the…”

Myths of the Cherokee | Myth 1b

“When the animals and plants were first made—we do not know by whom—they were told to watch and keep awake for seven nights, just as young men now fast and keep awake when they pray to their medicine. They tried to do this, and nearly all w…”

Myths of the Cherokee | Myth 3d

“When the Wolf chief asked him his business, he said: “I have two bad boys at home, and I want you to go in seven days from now and play ball against them.” Although Kana′tĭ spoke as though he wanted them to play a game of ball, the Wolves k…”

Myths of the Cherokee | Myth 15d

“Certain persons, however, having knowledge of the proper atonement rites, may kill wolves with impunity, and are hired for this purpose by others who have suffered from raids upon their fish traps or their stock. Like the eagle killer (see…”

Myths of the Cherokee | Myth 49c

“As with the blacksnake, it is believed that toothache may be prevented and sound teeth insured as long as life lasts by biting the greensnake along its body. It must be held by the head and tail, and all the teeth at once pressed down four…”

Myths of the Cherokee | Myth 50a

“THE UKTENA AND THE ULÛÑSÛ′TĬ Long ago— hĭlahi′yu —when the Sun became angry at the people on earth and sent a sickness to destroy them, the Little Men changed a man into a monster snake, which they called Uktena, “The Keen-eyed,” and sent h…”

Myths of the Cherokee | Myth 65d

“At last he pointed it in the direction of the hunting camp on the other side of the mountain, and this time when he drew back the staff he sniffed it several times as if it smelled very good, and then started along the ridge straight for th…”

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…”

Enuma Elish: The Epic of Creation | 1h

“She recited an incantation, she pronounced her spell, And the gods of the battle cried out for their weapons. Then advanced Tiamat and Marduk, the counselor of the gods; To the fight they came on, to the battle they drew nigh. The lord sp…”

Enuma Elish: The Epic of Creation | 1i

“He opened great gates on both sides, He made strong the bolt on the left and on the right. In the midst thereof he fixed the zenith; The Moon-god he caused to shine forth, the night he entrusted to him. He appointed him, a being of the ni…”

Enuma Elish: The Epic of Creation | 1k

“May he hold the Beginning and the Future, may they pay homage unto him, Saying, "He who forced his way through the midst of Tiamat without resting, Let his name be Nibiru, 'the Seizer of the Midst'! For the stars of heaven he upheld the pa…”

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 42

“The Tao produced One; One produced Two; Two produced Three; Three produced All things. All things leave behind them the Obscurity (out of which they have come), and go forward to embrace the Brightness (into which they have emerged), while…”

Tao Te Ching | Chapter 67

“All the world says that, while my Tao is great, it yet appears to be inferior (to other systems of teaching). Now it is just its greatness that makes it seem to be inferior. If it were like any other (system), for long would its smallness h…”

Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, Book I | Sutra 27

“His word is OM. OM: the symbol of the Three in One, the three worlds in the Soul; the three times, past, present, future, in Eternity; the three Divine Powers, Creation, Preservation, Transformation, in the one Being; the three essences, im…”

Gnostic John the Baptizer — Portents at John's Birth | Section 8

“[What follows is presumably the beginning of the Letter.] Gnosis of Life 8 who is far from the height [writes]: "I have come unto thee, O Soul, whom Life has sent into this world. In robes of the Eight 9 went I into the world. I went in t…”

The Poetic Edda: Voluspo | Section 1b

“The roving Norsemen of the tenth century, very few of whom had as yet accepted Christianity, were nevertheless in close contact with Celtic races which had already been converted, and in many ways the Celtic influence was strongly felt. It…”

The Masnavi, Book I (Rumi) | STORY XIII

“The Prophet's Scribe. The Prophet had a scribe who used to write down the texts that fell from his lips. At last this scribe became so conceited that he imagined all this heavenly wisdom proceeded from his own wit, and not from the Prophet.…”