Numerical Mysticism

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

“In discussing the original meaning of this word, Godfrey Higgins, in his Celtic Druids, has demonstrated that the numerological powers of the letters forming the word Abraxas when added together result in the sum of 365. The same author al…”

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

“Clement of Alexandria describes a figure of Serapis compounded from the following elements: First, filings of gold, silver, lead, and tin; second, all manner of Egyptian stones, including sapphires, hematites, emeralds, and topazes; all the…”

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

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

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

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

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

“From Levi's Les Mystères de la Kaballe. The Egyptian Sphinx is closely related to the Greek legend of Œdipus, who first solved the famous riddle propounded by the mysterious creature with the body of a winged lion and the head of a woman w…”

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

“The Great Pyramid was built of limestone and granite throughout, the two kinds of rock being combined in a peculiar and significant manner. The stones were trued with the utmost precision, and the cement used was of such remarkable quality…”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“"The Isiac Tablet, writes Levi, is a Key to the Ancient Book of Thoth, which has survived to some extent the lapse of centuries and is pictured to us in the still comparatively ancient set of Tarocchi Cards. To him the Book of Thoth was a…”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“This central globe he called the Tower of Jupiter , the Globe of Unity , the Grand Monad , and the Altar of Vesta . As the sacred number 10 symbolized the sum of all parts and the completeness of all things, it was only natural for Pythago…”

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

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

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

“CONCERNING the secret significance of numbers there has been much speculation. Though many interesting discoveries have been made, it may be safely said that with the death of Pythagoras the great key to this science was lost. For nearly…”

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

“Pythagoras had succeeded too well in concealing his symbols with a veil that was from the first impenetrable, without his oral explanation * * *." This uncertainty shared by all true students of the subject proves conclusively that it is un…”

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

“The original Pythagorean system of numerical philosophy contains nothing to justify the practice now in vogue of changing the given name or surname in the hope of improving the temperament or financial condition by altering the name vibrati…”

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

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

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

“Others demonstrated that if unity be added to an odd number, the latter becomes even, thereby making the masculine to be feminine. Unity, or 1, therefore, was considered an androgynous number, partaking of both the masculine and the femini…”

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

“For example: 1/2 of 28 = 14; 1/4 = 7; 1/7 = 4; 1/14 = 2; and 1/28 = 1. The sum of these parts (14+7+4+2+1) is equal to 28. The perfect numbers are extremely rare. There is only one between 1 and 10, namely, 6; one between 10 and 100, nam…”

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

“On the contrary, an infinite multitude of superabundant and diminished numbers may be found, nor are they disposed in any orderly series, nor generated from any certain end; and hence they have a great similitude to the vices, which are num…”

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

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

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

“The tetrad--4--was esteemed by the Pythagoreans as the primogenial number, the root of all things, the fountain of Nature and the most perfect number. All tetrads are intellectual; they have an emergent order and encircle the world as the…”

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

“Therefore, they chose the five-pointed star, or pentagram, as the symbol of vitality, health, and interpenetration. It was customary for the philosophers to conceal the element of earth under the symbol of a dragon, and many of the heroes…”

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

“These are symbolized by the cube, which has six surfaces and a mysterious seventh point within. The six surfaces are the directions: north, east, south, west, up, and down; or, front, back, right, left, above, and below; or again, earth, f…”

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

“It was also called unwearied, because, like God, it was tireless. The Pythagoreans divided the heavenly bodies into ten orders. They also stated that the decad perfected all numbers and comprehended within itself the nature of odd and eve…”

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

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

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

“Among the manuscripts of Dr. Sigismund Bastrom, the initiated Rosicrucian, appears the following extract from von Welling concerning the true philosophic nature of the Masonic CHiram: "The original word חירם, CHiram, is a radical word cons…”

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

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

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

“HARMONY is a state recognized by great philosophers as the immediate prerequisite of beauty. A compound is termed beautiful only when its parts are in harmonious combination. The world is called beautiful and its Creator is designated the…”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“The sacred emblem of the ancient initiates, here composed of 13 stars,, also appears above the head of the "eagle." The motto, E Pluribus Unum, contains 13 letters, as does also the inscription, Annuit Cœptis. The "eagle" clutches in its r…”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“ALBERT PIKE, quoting from Transcendental Magic , thus sums up the importance of Qabbalism as a key to Masonic esotericism: "One is filled with admiration, on penetrating into the Sanctuary of the Kabalah, at seeing a doctrine so logical, so…”

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

“The third volume used as a reference was the Sepher Yetzirah , by the late Win. Wynn Westcott, Magus of the Rosicrucian Society of England. The fourth was the Sepher Yetzirah , or The Book of Creation, according to the translation in the…”

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

“Concerning the number (10) of the spheres of existence (Sephiroth) out of Nothing, seal up your lips and guard your heart as you consider them, and if your month opens for utterance and your heart turns towards thought, control them, return…”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“God is One above three, three are above seven, seven are above twelve, yet all are linked together. 9. There are twenty-two letters by which the I AM (YAH), the Lord of Hosts, Almighty and Eternal, designed and created by three Sepharim (…”

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

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

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

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

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

“THE Tree of the Sephiroth may be considered an invaluable compendium of the secret philosophy which originally was the spirit and soul of Chasidism. The Qabbalah is the priceless heritage of Israel, but each year those who comprehend its t…”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“HENRIE STEPHEN, in A World of Wonders , published in 1607, mentions a monk of St. Anthony who declared that while in Jerusalem the patriarch of that city had shown him not only one of the ribs of the Word made flesh and some rays from the…”

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

“Hargrave Jennings sees in the figure of Adam a type of the lingam of Shiva, which was a stone representative of the creative power of the World Generator. "In Gregorie's works * * *," writes Jennings, "is a passage to the effect that 'Noah…”

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

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

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

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

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

“Since Aleph (the first Hebrew letter) has the numerical value of 1, its assignment to the zero card is equivalent to the statement that zero is equal to the letter Aleph and therefore synonymous with the number 1. With rare insight, Court…”

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

“This is also the Adept whom Omar Khayyám calls "the master of the show." His message is that the wise direct the phenomena of Nature and are never deceived thereby. The magician stands behind a table on which are spread out a number of obj…”

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

“The vehicle of the solar energy being numbered seven reveals the arcane truth that the seven planers are the chariots of the solar power which rides victorious in their midst. The four columns supporting the canopy represent the four Might…”

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

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

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

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

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

“In Ecclesiasticus (one of the books rejected from the modern Bible), these bells and their purpose are described in the following words: "And he compassed him with pomegranates, and with many golden bells round about, that as he went, there…”

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

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

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

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

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

“(This is not to be taken as earth years or times.) The 5,000, 000 represents the great hall year; the 700,000 the great Sabbath year, wherein all human beings gradually gain true understanding and become heirs to their original and eternal…”

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

“In his Key to Alchemy, Samuel Norton divides into fourteen parts the processes or states through which the alchemical substances pass from the time they are first placed in the test tube until ready as medicine for plants, minerals, or men:…”

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

“But as the seed is within all these things, a diamond may be grown out of any other substance in the universe. In some substances, however, it is easier to perform this miracle because in them these germs have already been long fertilized…”

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

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

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

“When it is properly developed, this universal solvent in liquid form will dissolve into itself all other metals. In this high state the universal salt is a liquid fire. This salt dissolved with the proper amount of any metal and run throu…”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“The third horse, symbolizing the element of water, was sacred to Neptune. It was of heavy gait and described a very small circle. The fourth horse, signifying the static element of earth, described as immovable and champing its bit, was t…”

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

“The seven heads of the monster represent the seven stars (spirits) composing the constellation of the Great Dipper, called by the Hindus Rishis , or Cosmic Creative Spirits. The ten horns Faber relates to the ten primordial patriarchs. Th…”

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

“THE North American Indian is by nature a symbolist, a mystic, and a philosopher. Like most: aboriginal peoples, his soul was en rapport with the cosmic agencies manifesting about him. Not only did his Manidos control creation from their e…”

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

“New forms of knowledge. The ideas of Plotinus. Different forms of consciousness. Sleep (the potential state of consciousness). Dreams (consciousness en-closed in itself, reflected from itself). Waking consciousness (dualistic sensation…”

◆Tertium Organum (P.D. Ouspensky) | Page 4 (part 2)

“Not that Ouspensky is a trafficker in the obvious—far from it: those who know most, think most, feel most, will get most out of his book—but a great sanity pervades his pages, and he never leads away into labyrinths where guide and follower…”

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

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

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

“p. 23 CHAPTER II A new view of the Kantian problem. The books of Hinton. The "space-sense" and its evolution. A system for the development of a sense of the fourth dimension by exercises with colored cubes. The geometrical conception o…”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Form pertains to all things . We say that everything consists of matter and form . Under the category of "matter," as already stated, the cause of a lengthy series of mixed sensations is predicated, but matter without form is not comprehe…”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“p. 243 CHAPTER XX The sense of infinity. The Neophyte's first ordeal. An intolerable sadness. The loss of everything real. What would an animal feel on becoming a man? The transition to the new logic. Our logic as founded on the obse…”

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

“This sensation of light and of unlimited joy is experienced at the moment of the expansion of consciousness (the unfoldment of the mystical lotus of the Hindu yogi), at the moment of the sensation of infinity, and it yields also the sensati…”

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

“Penetrating there, it first of all renounces its fundamental axioms of identity and difference. In the world of infinite and fluent magnitudes, a magnitude may be not equal to itself; a part may be equal to the whole; and of two equal magn…”

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

“_______ Where are our "idols?" From what shall we liberate ourselves in order to pass to an understanding of the multi-dimensional world? First of all we must get rid of our assurance that we see and sense that which exists in reality, and…”

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

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

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

“At length a universal cry of execration went up against Magic, the mere name became a crime and the common hatred was formulated in this sentence: “Magicians to the flames!” - as it was shouted some centuries earlier: “To the lions with the…”

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

“Here I must pause, and I fear that already I have said too much. I testify in fine that there is one sole, universal and imperishable dogma, strong as supreme reason; simple, like all that is great; intelligible, like all that is universal…”

◆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) | Introductionh

“Thereafter he meets with the sphinx, that symbol of symbols, the eternal enigma of the vulgar, the granite pedestal of the sciences of the sages, the voracious and silent monster whose unchanging form expresses the one dogma of the Great Un…”

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

“They sought the secret of the Great Work, the Philosophical Stone, the perpetual motion, the quadrature of the circle, the Universal Medicine - formulae which often saved them from persecution and hatred by causing them to be taxed with mad…”

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

“If the pyre of Urban Grandier be extinguished, the sullen proscriptions of silence and of calumny remain., We do not defy but are resigned to them. We have not sought the publication of this book of our own will, and we believe that if the…”

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

“He will fail to understand it, and it will trouble him, while if he should divine the meaning, there will be a still greater source of disquietude. If you hold by anything in the world more than by reason, truth and justice; if your will b…”

◆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 Templea

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Now, created spirits, being called to emancipation by trial, are placed from their birth between these four forces, two positive and two negative, and have it in their power to affirm or deny good, to choose life or death. To discover the…”

◆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) | 7. The Fiery Sworda

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Peter, “I dreamed that I was the vicar of God.” “And I,” said Jeshu, “that I was God himself.” “For me,” said Judas hypocritically, “I dreamed that, being in somnambulism, I arose, went softly downstairs, took the gosling from the spit, and…”

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

“You are possibly without the materials; I should like to show you a complete magical cabinet, but I must exact beforehand the most inviolable silence. If you will not give me this pledge upon your honour, I shall give orders for you to be…”

◆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) | 19. The Stone Of The Philosophers – Elagabalusb

“Such is the meaning of the arcanum of Solomon, represented by the two Pillars of the Temple, JAKIN and Boaz. The Sun and Moon of the alchemists correspond to the same symbol and concur in the perfection and stability of the Philosophical S…”

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

“DENTES FURCA AMENS THE AUTHOR of this book has dared many things in his life, and never has fear retained his thought a prisoner. It is not at the same time without legitimate dread that he approaches the end of the magical doctrine. It i…”

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

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

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

“Here is the common translation of the sacred text: “Now, the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made.” But this is what Moses says: This signifies, according to the version of Fabre d'Olivet: “Now, or…”

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

“There are also some substances which produce ecstasy and dispose towards the magnetic sleep; there are some which place at the service of imagination all the most lively and highly coloured reflections of the elementary light; but the use o…”

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

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

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

“Nature is not outraged with impunity, and no one can play safely with unknown and incalculable forces. It is this consideration which has led and will ever lead us to deny the vain curiosity of those who would see in order that they may be…”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“The chafing-dish containing the sacred fire should be in the centre of the oratory and the altar of perfumes hard by. The operator must turn towards the east to pray, and the west to invoke; he must be either alone or assisted by two perso…”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

◇Tertium Organum (P.D. Ouspensky) | Page 4 (part 1)

“p. 1 INTRODUCTION TO THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION IN naming his book Tertium Organum Ouspensky reveals at a stroke that astounding audacity which characterizes his thought throughout—an audacity which we are accustomed to associate with the Rus…”

◇Tertium Organum (P.D. Ouspensky) | Chapter II (part 2)

“By a remarkable analysis the great geometers above mentioned have shown that space is not limited as ordinary experience would seem to inform us, but that we are quite capable of conceiving different kinds of space. ( A New Era of Thought…”

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

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

◇Tertium Organum (P.D. Ouspensky) | Chapter IV (part 6)

“It is necessary to admit that by one term, time , we designate really two ideas—"a certain space" and "motion upon that space." This motion does not exist in reality, and it seems to us as existing only because we do not see the spatiality…”

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

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

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

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

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

“The pioneers of natural science do not enjoy such a serene point of view, and to this circumstance the natural sciences are indebted for their continuous development. I venture to lift the brilliant and familiar veil and throw open the san…”

◇Tertium Organum (P.D. Ouspensky) | Chapter XI (part 5)

“The transition from one point to another of this film corresponds to our concept of the flow of time. This fourth dimension we will call, therefore, time. The film of a cinematograph can replace the reel of any tape-measure, and contrariw…”

◇Tertium Organum (P.D. Ouspensky) | Chapter XI (part 6)

“I admit that the matter of our world, collected in one place, will not take more than one-tenth of the volume of the planetary sphere: Ii think that this figure is considerably exaggerated. After calculations of volume it will appear that…”

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

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

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

“This was the difference between the fifth and the sixth, that in the fifth the excrescences were in one sense exteriorized and yet rooted in the same unit; but in the sixth they were differentiated but not exteriorized; they were only in di…”

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

“The chief of these conditional data consists in the fact that in problems of this mathematics there is always taken the t of the universe only , i.e., one section only of the universe is taken, p. 249 which section is never taken in conjun…”

◇Tertium Organum (P.D. Ouspensky) | Chapter XX (part 5)

“Consequently, the number of points in the cube, a 3 is equal to ∞ ∞∞ , this expression is equal to the expression ∞ ∞ and ∞, i.e., this means that an infinity continues to grow, remaining at the same time unchanged . ______ Thus in transfi…”

◇Tertium Organum (P.D. Ouspensky) | Chapter XXI (part 2)

“Science cannot deny the fact that mathematics grows, expands, and escapes from the limits of the visible and measurable world. Entire departments of mathematics take into consideration quantitative relations which did not and do not exist…”

◇Tertium Organum (P.D. Ouspensky) | Chapter XXII (part 14)

“How many arguments, how many religious struggles, how much of violence toward the thoughts of others would be rendered unnecessary and impossible if men would only understand that nobody possesses truth, but all are seeking for it, each in…”

◇Tertium Organum (P.D. Ouspensky) | Chapter XXII (part 25)

“I sensed the enormous heavy body— my body —all its motions, shudderings, waverings and vibrations, fire, pressure of steam and weight of engines were inside of me , the unmerciful and unyielding propelling screw which pushed and pushed me f…”

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

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

◇Tertium Organum (P.D. Ouspensky) | Page 28 (part 1)

“p. 333 CONCLUSION In conclusion I wish to speak of those wonderful words, full of profound mystery from the Apocalypse and the apostle Paul's Epistle to the Ephesians , which are placed as the epigraph of this book. The Apocalyptic angel…”

◆Gospel of Philip | Section 1k

“If you become light, light will share you. If you are of those from above, one of those from above will rest in you. If you become a horse or a donkey or bull or dog or sheep or another animal that is wild or tame, then neither a person n…”

◆Gospel of Thomas | Logion 106

“Jesus said, "When you make the two one, you will become the sons of man, and when you say, 'Mountain, move away,' it will move away."…”

◆Pistis Sophia | Document FIRSTa

“But it happened after that Jesus rose out of those who (are) dead, and he spent eleven years speaking with his disciples, and teaching them only as far as the Places of the First precept (Law?), and as far as the Places of the First Mystery…”

◆Pistis Sophia | Document FIRSTb

“Because of this therefore they were thinking of that Mystery that it is the completion of all completions; and that it is the head of the Universe; and that [4 ] it is the whole Pleroma: since Jesus is wont to say unto his disciples that th…”

◆Pistis Sophia | Document FIRSTc

“And all the Angels with their Archangels and with all the Powers of the Height were all hymning unto the inner part of the inner parts. So that all the earth heard their voices, not ceasing even unto the nine of the morrow. But the discip…”

◆Pistis Sophia | Document FIRSTd

“It happened while I am sitting being distant from you [9 ] a little upon the mountain of the Olives, thinking of the arrangement of the service concerning which they sent me, that it was finished: and the Last mystery dispatched not to me m…”

◆Pistis Sophia | Document 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 FIRSTg

“Now therefore we all together we wait for thee at the last Boundary, namely, the last mystery (reckoning) from within, he also is a part of us. Now therefore we have dispatched to thee thy vesture [17 ] which is thy very own from at first,…”

◆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 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 XVIIIb

“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 XVIIa

“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 XXVIIIa

“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, [97] as adapted to the sun…”

◆The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch, Charles translation) | Page 3 (part 3)

“36, 37.) Thus "the times and periods of the course of the world's history have been predetermined by God. The numbers of the years have been exactly fixed. This was a fundamental postulate of the Apocalyptists, who devoted much of their e…”

◆The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch, Charles translation) | Page 3 (part 5)

“More difficult is the question whether any portions of it are pre-Maccabæan; Charles gives various reasons for his belief that considerable parts are pre-Maccabæan; we are inclined to agree with him, though it may be questioned whether the…”

◆The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch, Charles translation) | Page 3 (part 6)

“That sounds almost as though the author of the Book of jubilees had written it. That it is not a merely scientific interest which impels the writer to give expression to his astronomical theories may be seen from the words at the conclusio…”

◆The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch, Charles translation) | Page 3 (part 7)

“xix as Burkitt says, "most of the most convincing proofs that the Greek text of Enoch is a translation from a Semitic language fit equally well with a Hebrew or an Aramaic original"; his opinion is that Aramaic was the original language, "b…”

◆The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch, Charles translation) | Page 3 (part 9)

“The Apocalyptist prophesies further of the repentance of the Gentiles (chapter l.), an universalistic note of significance, and speaks of the Resurrection of the dead in a notable passage: And In those days shall the earth also give back th…”

◆The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch, Charles translation) | Page 3 (part 10)

“The author's reckoning of the year at 364 days may be partly due to his opposition to heathen systems, and partly to the fact that 364 is divisible by seven, and amounts to fifty-two weeks exactly." 1 In any case, he is opposed to the lunar…”

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

“None of the angels could enter and could behold His face by reason of the magnificence and glory and no flesh could behold Him. 22. The flaming fire was round about Him, and a great fire stood before Him, and none around could draw nigh H…”

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

“XX. Name and Functions of the Seven Archangels . CHAPTER XX. 1. And these are the names of the holy angels who watch. 2. Uriel, one of the holy angels, who is over the world and over Tartarus. 3. Raphael, one of the holy angels, who is over…”

◆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 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 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 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.,…”

◆The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Papyrus of Ani) | Chapter 12 (part 1)

“FUNERAL CEREMONIES. In illustration of the ceremonies which accompanied the burial of the dead the reader will find extracts from different texts printed in the Appendix on p. 264 ff. To these may be added an extract from the curious rit…”

◆The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Papyrus of Ani) | Chapter 16 (part 2)

“Four goddesses bore the name of Meskhen, and they were supposed to assist the resurrection of Osiris; they were associated with Tefnut, Nut, Isis, and Nephthys (see Lepsius, Denkmäler , iv., Bl. 59a; and Mariette, Dendérah , iv., pl. 74 a…”

◆The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Papyrus of Ani) | Chapter 17 (part 1)

“PLATE IV. Vignette: Ani, found just, is led into the presence of Osiris. On the left the hawk-headed god Horus, the son of Isis, wearing the double crown of the North and the South, takes Ani by the hand and leads him forward towards "Osi…”

◆The Kalevala | Rune Ib

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

◆The Kalevala | Rune IIc

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

◆The Kalevala | Rune IId

“Down from heaven came the eagle, Through the air be came a-flying, That he might this thing consider; And he spake the words that follow: "Wherefore, ancient Wainamoinen, Hast thou left the slender birch-tree, Left the birch-tree only stand…”

◆The Kalevala | Rune IIIc

“Slowly perches swim in Autumn, Wry-backed, hunting deeper water, Spawn in shallows in the summer, Bounding on the shore of ocean. Should this wisdom seem too little, I can tell thee other matters, Sing thee other wizard sayings: All the No…”

◆The Kalevala | Rune IVg

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

◆The Kalevala | Rune VIc

“Swift as light it speeds its journey, Strikes the steed of Wainamoinen, Strikes the light-foot, ocean-swimmer, Strikes him near his golden girdle, Through the shoulder of the racer. Thereupon wise Wainamoinen Headlong fell upon the waters,…”

◆The Kalevala | Rune VIIIc

“But the stream flows like a brooklet, Rushing like a maddened torrent, Stains the herbs upon the meadows, Scarcely is a bit of verdure That the blood-stream does not cover As it flows and rushes onward From the knee of the magician, From th…”

◆The Kalevala | Rune IXa

“OF IRON. Wainamoinen, thus encouraged, Quickly rises in his snow-sledge, Asking no one for assistance, Straightway hastens to the cottage, Takes a seat within the dwelling. Come two maids with silver pitchers, Bringing also golden goblets…”

◆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 1|

“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 1€

“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 1‚

“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 1ƒ

“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…”

◆Orphic Hymns | Hymn V. PROTOGONUS, Or the FIRST-BORN (part 1)

“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 a…”

◆Orphic Hymns | Hymn XI. HERCULES (part 1)

“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 th…”

◆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 LXXV. THE MUSES (part 3)

“So in the poetic chain, it is requisite there should be something divine, which, through proper mediums, may connect the last to the first monad. This Fury Homer, as well as Plato, calls at one time in the plural number Muses, and at anoth…”

◆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…”

◆The Golden Verses of Pythagoras | Section 4 (part 2)

“Wherein have I done amiss? What have I done? What have I omitted that I ought to have done? 43. If in this examination thou find that thou hast done amiss, reprimand thyself severely for it; 44. And if thou hast done any good, rejoice.…”

◆The Golden Verses of Pythagoras | Section 13 (part 7)

“Πὰρ δ᾽ αὐτῇς Χάριτές τε καὶ Ἵμερος οἰκί᾽ ἔχουσιν ἐν θαλίῃς· ἐρατὴν δὲ διὰ στόμα ὄσσαν ἱεῖσαι 65 μέλπονται πάντων τε νόμους καὶ ἤθεα κεδνὰ ἀθανάτων κλείουσιν, ἐπήρατον ὄσσαν ἱεῖσαι.] Αἳ τότ᾽ ἴσαν πρὸς Ὄλυμπον ἀγαλλόμεναι ὀπὶ καλῇ, ἀμβροσίῃ μ…”

◆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) | First Dialoguec

“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 Dialogued

“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) | Third Dialogueg

“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…”

◆The Heroic Enthusiasts, Part I (Gli Eroici Furori) | Fifth Dialoguea

“. I. Cic . Now show me how I may be able for myself to consider the conditions of these enthusiasts, through that which appears in the order of the warfare here described. Tans . Behold how they carry the ensign of their affections or…”

◆The Heroic Enthusiasts, Part II (Gli Eroici Furori) | First Dialogueg

“Wherefore not only can we never discourse about things divine, but we cannot even think of them without detracting from, rather than adding to the glory of them; so that the best thing to be done with regard to them is, that man, in the pre…”

◆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 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 13: The Discourse of Hermes to Tat | Section 1b

“Thou seest me with eyes, my son; but what I am thou dost not understand [even] with fullest strain of body and of sight. 4. Tat: Into fierce frenzy and mind-fury hast thou plunged me, father, for now no longer do I see myself. Hermes: I…”

◆Corpus Hermeticum 13: The Discourse of Hermes to Tat | Section 1c

“Gnosis of God hath come to us, and when this comes, my son, Not-knowing is cast out. Gnosis of Joy hath come to us, and on its coming, son, Sorrow will flee away to them who give it room. The Power that follows Joy do I invoke, thy Self-c…”

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

“1 The daimons, therefore, exercise the whole of this terrene economy, 2 using our bodies as [their] instruments. And this economy Hermes has called Heimarmenē. 3 17. The World Intelligible, 4 then, depends from God; the Sensible from the…”

◆The Mabinogion | Tale PWYLL PRINCE OF DYVEDk

“And the penance that was imposed upon her was, that she should remain in that palace of Narberth until the end of seven years, and that she should sit every day near unto a horseblock that was without the gate. And that she should relate t…”

◆The Mabinogion | Tale BRANWEN THE DAUGHTER OF LLYRi

““And take you my head,” said he, “and bear it even unto the White Mount, in London, and bury it there, with the face towards France. And a long time will you be upon the road. In Harlech you will be feasting seven years, the birds of Rhia…”

◆The Mabinogion | Tale BRANWEN THE DAUGHTER OF LLYRj

“And there they remained fourscore years, unconscious of having ever spent a time more joyous and mirthful. And they were not more weary than when first they came, neither did they, any of them, know the time they had been there. And it wa…”

◆The Mabinogion | Tale MATH THE SON OF MATHONWYb

“Swine are they now called.” “Who owneth them?” “Pryderi the son of Pwyll; they were sent him from Annwvyn, by Arawn the king of Annwvyn, and still they keep that name, half hog, half pig.” “Verily,” asked he, “and by what means may they be…”

◆The Mabinogion | Tale MATH THE SON OF MATHONWYe

“But first I will cause thee to have compensation, and then will I have amends made unto myself. As for thee, I will take thee to be my wife, and the possession of my dominions will I give unto thy hands.” And Gwydion and Gilvaethwy came no…”

◆The Mabinogion | Tale TALIESINa

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

◆The Mabinogion | Tale TALIESINc

“Elphin of notable qualities, Be not displeased at thy misfortune; Although reclined thus weak in my bag, There lies a virtue in my tongue. While I continue thy protector Thou hast not much to fear; Remembering the names of the Trinity, Non…”

◆The Mabinogion | Tale TALIESINh

“I have been with my Lord in the manger of the ass: I strengthened Moses through the water of Jordan; I have been in the firmament with Mary Magdalene; I have obtained the muse from the cauldron of Caridwen; I have been bard of the harp to L…”

◆The Poetic Edda: Hovamol | Section 1m

“I ween that I hung | on the windy tree, Hung there for nights full nine; With the spear I was wounded, | and offered I was To Othin, myself to myself, On the tree that none | may ever know What root beneath it runs. [138. In the manuscrip…”

◆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 Poetic Edda: Voluspo | Section 1e

“Fili, Kili, | Fundin, Nali, Heptifili, | Hannar, Sviur, Frar, Hornbori, | Fræg and Loni, Aurvang, Jari, | Eikinskjaldi. 14. The race of the dwarfs | in Dvalin's throng Down to Lofar | the list must I tell; The rocks they left, | and throu…”

◆The Poetic Edda: Voluspo | Section 1f

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

◆The Poetic Edda: Voluspo | Section 1n

“Of Byleist (or Byleipt) no more is known. 52. Surt : the ruler of the fire-world. The scourge of branches : fire. This is one of the relatively rare instances in the Eddic poems of the type of poetic diction which characterizes the skal…”

◆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 | 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…”

◇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 | 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…”

◆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…”

◆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 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.…”