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 Book of Ceremonial Magic (A.E. Waite) | Page 16 (part 3)

“Lesser officers: Pammon, Dracon, Gemtzod, Enariel, Rudosor, Salmon . The Seventh Hour. Supreme Ruler--MENDRION. The chief officers include Ammiel, Choriel, Genaritzod, Pendroz, Memsiel, Ventariel . Lesser officers: Zacharel, Razziel, Ta…”

The Book of Ceremonial Magic (A.E. Waite) | Page 16 (part 4)

“These will suffer citation, but the success of the Pauline experiments generally will depend ( a .) upon the construction of the seals attributed to the twenty-four ruling hours of the day and night, which seals must exhibit the proper astr…”

The Book of Ceremonial Magic (A.E. Waite) | Page 18 (part 2)

“Refinements of this kind were evidently outside the magic of the fifteenth century. In the following citation I shall depart from my usual custom of translating at first hand, and make use, with some needful prunings, of the version of Rob…”

The Book of Ceremonial Magic (A.E. Waite) | Page 41

“§ 4. Concerning the External Preparation of the Operator, and firstly Concerning Ablution The rite of lustration, being the sacramental mark of inward cleanliness, is prescribed in all magical ceremonies, and is equally important in Goëtic…”

The Book of Ceremonial Magic (A.E. Waite) | Page 43 (part 2)

“Sun Moon Mars It will be seen from this table that there is a recurring rule of the planets in unbroken succession through the whole week, after which the sequence recommences in the same order, each planet ruling the first and the eighth o…”

The Book of Ceremonial Magic (A.E. Waite) | Page 44 (part 2)

“Fit the knife with a handle of white wood cut at a single stroke with a new sword or knife, and on this handle engrave the following characters:-- Click to view Fumigate as before, and with this knife do all things needful to the Art, the c…”

The Book of Ceremonial Magic (A.E. Waite) | Page 49 (part 3)

“Amen . When shaping this knife recite the Psalm Deus, judicium tuum Regi da . Then write these words upon the Rod: AGLA, ADONAY, ELOE, may the work of this wooden Knife be accomplished by you! Say also over it: CARA, CHERNA, SITO, CIRNA.…”

The Book of Ceremonial Magic (A.E. Waite) | Page 51

“§ 9. Concerning the Time of Operation When the sacrifice of the Art or its substitute has once been completed, the operator is in possession of all the materials that he will require ex hypothesi for the performance of Goëtic works as descr…”

The Book of Ceremonial Magic (A.E. Waite) | Page 54

“CHAPTER IV The Mysteries of Goëtic Theurgy according to the Lesser Key of Solomon the King §1 Concerning the Spirits of the Brazen Vessel, otherwise called the False Monarchy of Demons THE Goëtic Art of Solomon gives instructions for the ev…”

The Book of Ceremonial Magic (A.E. Waite) | Page 55

“Click to view THE SEAL OF BAAL I. BAAL, a king ruling in the East, who imparts invisibility and wisdom. He appears with a human head, or with that of a toad or cat, but sometimes with all at once. He speaks with a hoarse voice. Click to vie…”

The Book of Ceremonial Magic (A.E. Waite) | Page 59 (part 1)

“Click to view THE SEAL OF MALPAS XXXIX. MALPAS, a powerful president, appears at first like a crow, but afterwards, when so commanded, assumes a human form, speaking with a hoarse voice. He brings artificers swiftly from all parts of the…”

The Book of Ceremonial Magic (A.E. Waite) | Page 61 (part 2)

“Click to view THE SEAL OF SEERE LXX. SEERE, a mighty prince under Amaymon, King of the East, appears in the form of a beautiful man on a strong, winged horse. He brings all things to pass suddenly, transports to any place in the twinkling…”

The Book of Ceremonial Magic (A.E. Waite) | Page 62 (part 1)

“§ 2. Concerning the Rite of Conjuration, from the Lemegeton In communicating with the seventy-two spirits, the age of the Moon should be observed, for it is affirmed on the authority of Solomon that all days are profitable save the second,…”

The Book of Ceremonial Magic (A.E. Waite) | Page 64 (part 1)

“CHAPTER VI The Mysteries of Infernal Evocation according to the Grand Grimoire § 1. The Rite of Lucifuge THE Grand Grimoire divides with the Grimoire of Honorius the darksome honour of an intelligible and unmutilated Ritual of Black Magic.…”

The Book of Ceremonial Magic (A.E. Waite) | Page 64 (part 2)

“From the purpose for which it is intended, and from the silence of the Grimoire, it may be inferred that the preparation of the goatskin is exceedingly simple and does not involve the removal of the hair. When the night of action has arriv…”

The Book of Ceremonial Magic (A.E. Waite) | Page 66 (part 3)

“He shall then begin the Office of the Dead with Venite exultemus Domino , &c. He shall recite Matins and Lauds, but in place of the versicle of the ninth Lesson he shall say: Deliver us, O Lord, from the fear of hell. Let not the demons d…”

The Book of Ceremonial Magic (A.E. Waite) | Page 66 (part 4)

“Click to view Or, according to the later edition:-- Click to view Add also these signs.-- Click to view Or, according to the later edition:-- Click to view Lastly, on the eastern side, the said skin must be set to dry in the sun for three d…”

The Book of Ceremonial Magic (A.E. Waite) | Page 69

“CONJURATION OF THE DEMONS In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Take heed! Come, all Spirits! By the virtue and power of your King, by the seven crowns and chains of your Kings, all Spirits of the Hells are force…”

The Book of Ceremonial Magic (A.E. Waite) | Page 74 (part 2)

“You shall reply: I am watering my plant . He will then say: Give me that bottle; I will water it myself . You will answer by refusing, and he will again ask you, but you will persist in declining, until he shall stretch forth his hand and…”

The Book of Ceremonial Magic (A.E. Waite) | Page 78 (part 1)

“§ 7. Concerning the Mirror of Solomon, suitable for all Kinds of Divination The following process is found in the Grimorium Verum and in some other compilations. It is a mode of divination akin to that given in the preceding section. It…”

The Book of Ceremonial Magic (A.E. Waite) | Page 79

“§ 8. Concerning the Three Rings of Solomon, Son of David One more experiment, which is only incidentally connected with Black Magic, may be cited here, as the complement of those given in the preceding sections. It is scarcely a complete pr…”

The Kybalion (Three Initiates) | Chapter VIII (part 2)

“So that while a plane is not "a place," nor yet "a state or condition," yet it possesses qualities common to both. We shall have more to say regarding the subject of the scale of Vibrations in our next lessons, in which we shall consider t…”

The Kybalion (Three Initiates) | Chapter VIII (part 4)

“The Plane of Plant Mind, in its seven sub-divisions, comprises the states or conditions of the entities comprising the kingdoms of the Plant World, the vital and mental phenomena of which is fairly well understood by the average intelligent…”

Psychic Self-Defence (Dion Fortune) | 8. The Risks Incidental To Ceremonial Magic-b

“We now come to the consideration of Positive Evil. This again has a “negative’s and “positive’s aspect. Its “negative’s aspect is pure chaos, unformed substance and unco-ordinated force. It has been aptly called the Cosmic Abortion. To…”

Psychic Self-Defence (Dion Fortune) | 11. The Psychic Element In Mental Disturbance-d

“The older faiths knew this, but popular Christianity, which has no roots in tradition, has forgotten it. Protestant Christianity threw away its occult aspect at the Reformation. All the pagan pantheons have gross aspects of divinities as…”

Psychic Self-Defence (Dion Fortune) | 18. Methods Of Defence II-c

“Touching his forehead he says, “To Thee, O God (touching his solar plexus) be the Kingdom, (touching his right shoulder) and the Power (touching his left shoulder) and the Glory, (clasping his hands) unto the ages of the ages. Amen.” By th…”

Psychic Self-Defence (Dion Fortune) | 18. Methods Of Defence II-d

“It is necessary to reaffirm this circle each time the tides change; that is to say, a circle made after sundown will hold good till sunrise, and a circle made after sunrise will maintain its potency till sunset. After the circle has been a…”

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

“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 Symbolism-r

“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 Antiquity-c

“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 Antiquity-d

“(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 Pyramid-c

“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 Pyramid-d

“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 Pyramid-h

“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 World-b

“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 Signs-j

“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 Isis-c

“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 Isis-e

“"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 Isis-i

“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 Isis-l

“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 Pythagoras-h

“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 Pythagoras-j

“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 Pythagoras-k

“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 Mathematics-a

“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 Mathematics-b

“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 Mathematics-c

“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 Mathematics-d

“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 Mathematics-e

“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 Mathematics-h

“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 Mathematics-i

“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 Mathematics-j

“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 Mathematics-k

“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 Mathematics-l

“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 Mathematics-m

“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 Mathematics-n

“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 Legend-c

“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 Legend-d

“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 Legend-g

“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 Color-a

“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 Color-b

“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 Color-c

“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 Color-e

“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 Color-f

“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 Color-h

“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 Color-i

“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 Color-j

“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 Birds-q

“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 Trees-c

“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 Gems-d

“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 Therapeutics-j

“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 Israel-a

“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 Israel-d

“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 Israel-e

“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 Israel-f

“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 Israel-g

“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 Israel-h

“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 Israel-i

“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 Israel-j

“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 Israel-k

“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 Cosmogony-i

“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 Cosmogony-j

“* * * 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 Sephiroth-a

“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 Sephiroth-d

“(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 Sephiroth-f

“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 Sephiroth-g

“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 Man-a

“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 Man-g

“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 Man-h

“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 Cards-b

“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 Cards-d

“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 Cards-e

“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 Cards-g

“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 Cards-m

“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 Wilderness-g

“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 Wilderness-i

“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 Wilderness-j

“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 Diagrams-b

“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 Diagrams-c

“(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 Alchemy-c

“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 Alchemy-f

“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 Alchemy-h

“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 Alchemy-j

“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 Symbolism-c

“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 Symbolism-d

“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 Symbolism-h

“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 Apocalypse-f

“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 Apocalypse-h

“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 Symbolism-a

“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…”

The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Page 2 (part 2)

“ANDROGONY: Key to the 2nd Septenary 133 7th Card--The Chariot (Zain) 135 8th Card--Justice (Cheth) 138 9th Card--The Hermit (Teth) 142 10th Card--The Wheel of Fortune (Yod) 145 11th Card--Strength (Kaph) 148 12th Card--The Hanged Man (Lamed…”

The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Page 2 (part 3)

“Introduction : To our Lady Readers--Astronomy and Astrology--Intuition--Fortune-telling by the Tarot in Seven Lessons 301 1 st Lesson --Simplification of the Rules of Fortune-telling by the Tarot 305 2 nd Lesson --Minor Arcana--Significatio…”

The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Chapter I (part 4)

“Iesus Nazareus Rex Iudeorum are the opposite poles, scientific and religious, physical and metaphysical, of the same doctrine. YOD-HE-VAU-HE (יהוה) is the word which indicates to you both, Freemasons and Kabbalists, the Unity of your origi…”

The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Chapter II (part 1)

“PART I. GENERAL KEY TO THE TAROT, GIVING THE ABSOLUTE KEY TO OCCULT SCIENCE. CHAPTER II. יהוה THE SACRED WORD YOD-HE-VAU-HE. The Kabbalah and the Sacred Word--The Yod--The He--The Vau--The second He--Synthesis of the Sacred Word. ACCOR…”

The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Chapter II (part 2)

“The ancients used a dot in the centre of a circle as the symbol of this idea, the representation of the Unity-principle ( the dot ) in the centre of eternity ( the circle , a line without beginning or end). According to these demonstration…”

The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Chapter II (part 3)

“The Vau The Median letter, the link , which unites the active to the passive. The Affinity between the Ego and the Non-Ego = 6. These three letters express the Trinitarian law of the Absolute. The 2nd He The second He marks the passage f…”

The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Chapter III (part 2)

“The results of this consideration are: (1) That all the numbers in their evolution, reproduce the 4 first; (2) That the last of these 4 first, the figure 4, represents the unity at a different octave. The sequence of the numbers may theref…”

The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Chapter IV

“CHAPTER IV. ANALOGY BETWEEN THE SACRED WORD AND NUMBERS. The Kabbalistic Word and the Series of Numbers--Explanation of the Tetractys of Pythagoras--Figuration of the General Law. NUMBERS AND THE KABBALISTIC WORD. This sequence of numbers 1…”

The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Chapter V (part 2)

“The first series will be formed of the ace, or 1, representing the active , of the 2 personating the passive , of the 3 for the neuter , and lastly of the 4, which represents the transition from one series to another. 1, 2, 3, 4 therefore…”

The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Chapter V (part 3)

“Ut us, however, return to our deduction, and by summing up the results obtained, we shall find-- Representations of the Yod : The King The 1 or Ace The 4 The 7 Representations of the He : The Queen The 2 The 5 The 8 Representations of the V…”

The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Chapter VI (part 1)

“GENERAL KEY TO MINOR ARCANA CHAPTER VI. THE KEY TO THE MAJOR ARCANA. The Major Arcana--1st Ternary--2nd Ternary--1st Septenary--2nd Septenary--The Three Septenaries and the Ternary of Transition. THE MAJOR ARCANA. THE fundamental differ…”

The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Chapter VI (part 2)

“FIRST SEPTENARY.--The application of one law to very different terms has led us so far; we must not abandon this system, but persevere and say-- If in one ternary exist an active term = yod , a passive term = he , and a neuter term = vau ,…”

The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Chapter VI (part 3)

“The second to Man. The third to Nature. Finally, the last ternary indicates the passage from the creative and providential World to the created and fatal world. This ternary establishes the connection between the major and minor arcana .…”

The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Chapter VII (part 1)

“CHAPTER VII. CONNECTION BETWEEN THE MAJOR AND MINOR ARCANA. GENERAL AFFINITIES. KEY OF THE TAROT. Domination of the 1st Septenary--Affinities of the 2nd Septenary in the Tarot, Card by Card--Ditto of the 3rd Septenary--General Affinitie…”

The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Chapter VII (part 2)

“Each element of this septenary thus rules over-- Arcanum 13 (+) Knight of Sceptres, (+) Knight of Swords, (-) Arcanum 16 (-) Knight of Cups, (+) Knight of Pentacles, (-) Arcanum 14 (+) Three of Sceptres, (+) Three of Swords, (-) Arcanum 17…”

The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Chapter VII (part 3)

“Arcana 21-22 Ten of Sceptres ---- of Swords ---- of Cups ---- of Pentacles GENERAL FIGURE OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE TAROT, SHOWING ALL THE AFFINITIES. The absolute law. Yod He Vau He is in the centre of the figure. Each of the letters o…”

The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Chapter VIII (part 1)

“PART II. SYMBOLISM IN THE TAROT. APPLICATION OF THE GENERAL KEY TO SYMBOLISM. CHAPTER VIII. INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF SYMBOLISM. The Symbols--The Primitive Terms--Key of Symbolism--Definition of the Sense of one of the Symbols--The…”

The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Chapter VIII (part 2)

“4--Passage from one series to another. We can then represent the series in this way-- And what is true for each of the terms of a ternary is also true for the ternary taken as a whole , and this leads us to new considerations. For the fir…”

The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Chapter VIII (part 3)

“We may therefore say, more explicitly-- The 5th arcanum is: The reflex of yod considered negatively. But what is yod considered negatively? To find this out, I look in my left column at the letter yod , I seek in the secondary vertical co…”

The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Chapter IX (part 1)

“CHAPTER IX. HISTORY OF THE SYMBOLISM OF THE TAROT. INQUIRY INTO ITS ORIGIN. The Tarot is an Egyptian Book--Its Transformations--Mantegna's Pack--Venetian Tarot--Florentine Tarot--Bolognese--Hindu Tarot--Chinese Tarot--Modern Tarots--Ette…”

The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Chapter IX (part 2)

“6 The Knight. 16 Thalia. 26 Music. 36 Strength. 46 Jupiter. 7 The Doge. 17 Melpomene. 27 Poetry. 37 Justice. 47 Saturn. 8 The King. 18 Euterpe. 28 Philosophy. 38 Charity. 48 8th sphere. 9 The Emperor. 19 Clio. 29 Astrology.…”

The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Chapter IX (part 5)

“But the labours of Court de Gébelin , and above all of Fabre d'Olivet , are the most remarkable in this respect. In his Langue Hébraïque Restituée , this learned Initiate established the existence of primitive hieroglyphic signs from which…”

The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Chapter IX (part 6)

“Seven doubles (double because they express two sounds, the one positive strong, the other negative soft); The B (Beth) ב The G (Gimel) ג The D (Daleth) ג The Ch (Caph) כ The Ph (Pe) פ The R (Resh) ר The T (Tau) ט 3rd. Lastly, twelve simple…”

The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Chapter X

“CHAPTER X. THE SYMBOLICAL TAROT. THE FIRST SEPTENARY, 1ST TO 7TH ARCANA. THEOGONY. Scheme of Work--Key to the 1st Septenary--The 1st Card of the Tarot the Origin of all the others--The three Principles of the Absolute--The Trinity--Figure o…”

The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Page 13 (part 1)

“THE FIRST CARD OF THE TAROT. ORIGIN OF THE SIGNIFICATION OF ALL THE OTHERS. We see from our preceding work that if we know the exact meaning of the first card of the Tarot we can, from that, discover the signification of all the others.…”

The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Page 13 (part 2)

“But our conclusions do not stop here. If we study these three primitive principles more attentively we shall find in the first: Providence or the Element of Wisdom, represented in philosophy by the word God . Destiny or Being shows us its…”

The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Page 14 (part 2)

“The men of the 2nd He , the multitude from which the other classes are continually recruited: the People. The four great symbols are placed upon the table at random, and Man rules them and must arrange them; in the twenty-first arcana we s…”

The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Page 14 (part 3)

“The Hebrew letters placed upon the upper line of this key indicate the origin of the card under consideration, the Hebrew letters placed above it indicate the exact meaning of the card. 1. א The Juggler . AFFINITIES SIGNIFICATIONS Primit…”

The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Page 15

“THE HIGH PRIESTESS. THE HIGH PRIESTESS. 2. ב 2nd Hebrew letter (Beth). ORIGIN OF THE SYMBOLISM OF THE SECOND CARD OF THE TAROT. The Beth hieroglyphically expresses the mouth of man as the organ of speech. Speech is the production of man's i…”

The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Page 16

“THE EMPRESS. THE EMPRESS. 3. ג 3rd Hebrew letter (Gimel). ORIGIN OF THE SYMBOLISM OF THE THIRD CARD OF THE TAROT. The hieroglyphic meaning of the letter Gimel is the throat, the hand of man half closed in the act of prehension. Hence it sig…”

The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Page 17 (part 1)

“THE EMPEROR. THE EMPEROR. 4. ד 4th Hebrew letter (Daleth). ORIGIN OF THE SYMBOLISM OF THE FOURTH CARD OF THE TAROT. The hieroglyphic meaning of Daleth is the womb. It suggests the idea of an object giving plentiful nourishment, the so…”

The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Page 18 (part 1)

“THE POPE. THE POPE. 5. ה 5th Hebrew letter (He). ORIGIN OF THE SYMBOLISM OF THE FIFTH CARD OF THE TAROT. The hieroglyphic meaning of He is aspiration, breath. It is by aspiration that life is incessantly maintained and created. Hence…”

The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Page 19 (part 1)

“THE LOVERS. THE LOVERS. 6. ו The 6th Hebrew letter (Vau). ORIGIN OF THE SYMBOLISM OF THE SIXTH CARD OF THE TAROT. The hieroglyphic sign for the Vau is the eye, all that relates to light and brilliancy. The eye establishes the link bet…”

The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Page 19 (part 2)

“The 4 balances the 5 and the 6. The 5 ---------- the 4 and the 6. The 6 ---------- the 4 and the 5. Its signification proceeds from this:-- In the Divine . The Equilibrium between Will and Intelligence-- BEAUTY (characteristic of the Ho…”

The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Page 21

“7. ז 7th Hebrew letter (Zain). ORIGIN OF THE SYMBOLISM OF THE SEVENTH CARD OF THE TAROT. Hieroglyphically the Zain expresses an arrow, and therefore it suggests the idea of a weapon , of the instrument which man uses to rule and conquer , a…”

The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Page 22

“JUSTICE. JUSTICE. 8. ח 8th Hebrew letter (Heth). ORIGIN OF THE SYMBOLISM OF THE EIGHTH CARD OF THE TAROT. Hieroglyphically the Heth expresses a field. From it springs the idea of anything that requires labour, trouble, an effort. Continued…”

The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Page 23

“THE HERMIT. THE HERMIT. 9. ט 9th Hebrew letter (Teth). ORIGIN OF THE SYMBOLISM OF THE NINTH CARD OF THE TAROT. Hieroglyphically the Teth represents a roof, and suggests the idea of a place of safety, a protection. All the ideas arising from…”

The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Page 24

“THE WHEEL OF FORTUNE. THE WHEEL OF FORTUNE. 10. י 10th Hebrew letter (Yod). ORIGIN OF THE SYMBOLISM OF THE TENTH CARD OF THE TAROT. The hieroglyphic meaning of the Yod is the finger of man; the forefinger extended as a sign of command. This…”

The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Page 25

“STRENGTH. STRENGTH. 11. כ 11th Hebrew letter (Kaph). ORIGIN OF THE SYMBOLISM OF THE ELEVENTH CARD OF THE TAROT. The hieroglyphic meaning of the Kaph is the hand of man, half closed and in the act of prehension, like the Gimel. But the Kaph…”

The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Page 26

“THE HANGED MAN. THE HANGED MAN. 12. ל 12th Hebrew letter (Lamed). ORIGIN OF THE SYMBOLISM OF THE TWELFTH CARD OF THE TAROT. Hieroglyphically the Lamed designates the arm, and therefore it is connected with anything that stretches, that rais…”

The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Chapter XII

“CHAPTER XII. THIRD SEPTENARY. ARCANA 13-19. Key of the 3rd Septenary--The Mem and Death--The Nun and Temperance--The Samech and the Devil--The Ayin and the Lightning--struck Tower--The Tzaddi and the Moon. Summary of the 3rd Septenary--Cons…”

The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Page 29

“DEATH. DEATH. 13. מ 13th Hebrew letter (Mem). ORIGIN OF THE SYMBOLISM OF THE THIRTEENTH CARD OF THE TAROT. The hieroglyphic meaning of the Mem is a woman, the companion of man, it therefore gives rise to ideas of fertility and formation. It…”

The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Page 30

“TEMPERANCE. TEMPERANCE. 14. נ 14th Hebrew letter (Nun). ORIGIN OF THE SYMBOLISM OF THE FOURTEENTH CARD OF THE TAROT. The hieroglyphic sense of the Nun is the offspring of the female; a son, a fruit of any kind, all things produced. This let…”

The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Page 31 (part 1)

“THE DEVIL. THE DEVIL. 15. ס 15th Hebrew letter (Samech). ORIGIN OF THE SYMBOLISM OF THE FIFTEENTH CARD OF THE TAROT. The Samech expresses the same hieroglyphic sign as the Zain (7th arcanum), that is to say, an arrow; a weapon of any k…”

The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Page 32

“THE FIRE OF HEAVEN (lightning). THE LIGHTNING-STRUCK TOWER. 16. ע 16th Hebrew letter (Ayin). ORIGIN OF THE SYMBOLISM OF THE SIXTEENTH CARD OF THE TAROT. The Ayin expresses the same hieroglyphic as the Vau (6), but materialized. It is the si…”

The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Page 33

“THE STARS. THE STARS 17. פ 17th Hebrew letter (Phe). ORIGIN OF THE SYMBOLISM OF THE SEVENTEENTH CARD OF THE TAROT. The Phe expresses the same hieroglyphic meaning as the Beth (2nd card), but in a more extended sense. For, whilst the Beth si…”

The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Page 34

“THE MOON. THE MOON. 18. צ 18th Hebrew letter (Tzaddi). ORIGIN OF THE SYMBOLISM OF THE EIGHTEENTH CARD OF THE TAROT. The hieroglyphic idea connected with the Tzaddi is the same as that of the Teth (9th card); but it chiefly signifies a term…”

The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Page 37

“THE SUN. THE SUN. 19. ק 19th Hebrew letter (Qoph). ORIGIN OF THE SYMBOLISM OF THE NINETEENTH CARD OF THE TAROT. HIEROGLYPHICALLY the Qoph expresses a sharp weapon, everything that is useful to man; defends him; makes an effort for him. The…”

The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Page 38

“THE JUDGEMENT. THE JUDGEMENT. 20. ר 20th Hebrew letter (Resh). ORIGIN OF THE SYMBOLISM OF THE TWENTIETH CARD OF THE TAROT. The hieroglyphic meaning of the Resh is the head of man , and it is therefore associated with the idea of all that po…”

The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Page 39

“THE FOOL. THE MATE. 21. סה 21st Hebrew letter (Shin). ORIGIN OF THE SYMBOLISM OF THE UNNUMBERED CARD OF THE TAROT. The Shin expresses the same hieroglyphic meaning as the Zain (7th arcanum) and the Samech (15th): this is an arrow, an object…”

The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Page 40

“THE WORLD. THE WORLD. 22. ת 22nd Hebrew letter (Tau). ORIGIN OF THE SYMBOLISM OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CARD OF THE TAROT. The Tau has the same hieroglyphic meaning as the Daleth (fourth card), the womb; but it is chiefly the sign of reciprocity,…”

The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Page 41

“THE TERNARY OF TRANSITION.…”

The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Chapter XIV (part 1)

“CHAPTER XIV. GENERAL SUMMARY OF THE SYMBOLICAL TAROT. THEOGONY--ANDROGONY--COSMOGONY. Involution and Evolution. Theogony --The Absolute according to Wronski, Lacuria, and the Tarot--Theogony of divers Religions identical with that of th…”

The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Chapter XIV (part 3)

“An indeterminable and unnamable principle, of which we are content to assert the existence only-- 2. This synthetic principle, when analyzed , is found to consist of a Trinity thus constituted-- Neuter ∞ SYNTHETIC PRINCIPLE Negative - NEGA…”

The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Chapter XIV (part 6)

“The second, symbolized by Eye, is the origin of feminine Grace, of Authority. We have seen that Power and Authority find their equilibrium in Love. Each man, a reflected molecule of humanity made in its image, contains in himself an Adam,…”

The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Chapter XIV (part 7)

“That the social organization of China has been maintained for so many centuries, is solely due to the principle of basing everything upon the family. The characteristics of the human Ternary are: Adam, Necessity, the image and reflection o…”

The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Chapter XIV (part 8)

“This is the God adored by materialist science, and we see that unconsciously its homage is offered to the Divinity itself under its most material form, even whilst it foolishly boasts of Atheism. DEATH, CORPOREAL LIFE, and the DESTINY whic…”

The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Chapter XIV (part 9)

“In order to know, I seek in the vertical column containing the word Mother , and at the bottom I find Man or Humanity. The Mother is the Active preserving Principle of Humanity . 3. I add to the word Humanity the word placed in the small…”

The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Chapter XIV (part 10)

“3 4 of 4 in 4 2 3 4 1 3 4 1 2 4 1 2 3…”

The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Chapter XV (part 1)

“PART III. APPLICATIONS OF THE TAROT. CHAPTER XV. GENERAL KEY TO THE APPLICATIONS OF THE TAROT. The Principle and the Forms--The Twenty--first Card of the Tarot is a Figure--principle--The Tarot--The Year--The Month--The Day--The Human L…”

The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Chapter XV (part 2)

“The twenty-first card of the Tarot is a figure-principle of the same nature as the prism which we have just studied, and a few examples of the various methods in which it can be applied will fully enlighten us upon this point. We have seen…”

The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Chapter XVI (part 1)

“CHAPTER XVI. THE ASTRONOMICAL TAROT. Egyptian Astronomy--The Four Seasons--The Twelve Months----The Thirty--six Decani--The Planets--Absolute Analogy with the Tarot--Figure containing, the Application of the Tarot to Astronomy--Key to the…”

The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Chapter XVI (part 2)

“Creative Decan . Yod . TWO. 2nd Decan or Passive Decan of the Month. Forming or Preserving Decan . He . THREE. 3rd Decan or Equilibrist Decan . Vau . FOUR. Transition between the third Decan of the actual series, to the first Deca…”

The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Chapter XVI (part 4)

“The Tarot is a deduction of the sideral book of Henoch , who is Henochia; it is modelled from the astral wheel of Athor , which is As-taroth , resembling the Indian ot-tara , the polar bear or arc-tura of the north; it is the major force (…”

The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Chapter XVI (part 5)

“For instance, the 2nd NORTH א ב ג ד ה ו ז ח ט י כ W 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 E E Juggler The High Priestess Empress Emperor Pope Lovers Chariot Justice Hermit The Wheel of Fortune Strength A S ש ת ר ק צ פ ע ס נ מ ל S T 0 21 20 19 18 17 16 15…”

The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Chapter XVI (part 6)

“With regard to the arcanum 0 (ש), which is unnumbered in the Tarot, although it is eminently passive in itself, it must not be included in the feminine series, for reasons easily discerned in the study of the exact signification of each arc…”

The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Chapter XVI (part 7)

“It is impossible for us to retrace through the darkness of the middle ages the origin of the twenty-two significative figures known as atouts , in the pack of seventy-eight cards by which the Gypsies claim to reveal the secrets of fate. St…”

The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Chapter XVII (part 5)

“It is called DEATH and RESURRECTION, and it represents absolute Inertia, only found in Death; but here Involution stops and Evolution commences, for the equilibrium of the two principles, active and passive, is never prolonged. This would…”

The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Chapter XVII (part 6)

“He is the animal that in the morning (that is to say, in the infancy of humanity) goes on four feet (4 being the number of realization, expresses matter and its instincts, the visible world); at noon (that is to say, in the maturity of his…”

The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Chapter XVII (part 8)

“If, on the contrary, he be worthy of the higher regions, this baptism of fire renders him one of the Magi; the sources of terrestrial life are at his disposition; he becomes a Therapeut. Having reached this point, he will then learn to kno…”

The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Page 46 (part 1)

“THE DIVINE NAME IN THE TAROT. By Ca. BARLET. The totality of the symbols which form the Tarot is distributed through a series of 78 plates or cards, instead of being presented in a single figure; the reason for this is, that the signific…”

The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Page 46 (part 2)

“(Love, the fertile Power, the Being, ו); and in order that this Trinity may be repeated in the whole septenary of our distribution we will make it the root of 3 great divisions, representing the 3 terms of the Trinity, which will divide the…”

The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Page 46 (part 3)

“This representation, which geometricians name projection upon the plane of the Equator, gives the second figure (the 4 circles of the centre only); to it, for the sake of clearness in the symbols, has been added an equilateral triangle insc…”

The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Page 46 (part 4)

“outside the sphere)-- We will first separate some of the cards: the Knave of each of the 4 colours (ה), which, as the realization of the Trinity, King (י), Queen (ה), Knight (ו), serves as the transition from the quaternary to the ternary;…”

The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Page 46 (part 5)

“He first descends through the spiritual decade (Sceptre and Cup) (see the figure), traversing numbers of increasing complexity: King, 1, 4, 7, then 10 By this 10, the multiple unity, limit of materialization, which unites the two portions o…”

The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Page 46 (part 6)

“The watery trigon ( , , ), corresponding to the Pentacle and to the letters ההה, comprising, this time, the final E of the name of 4 letters twice repeated, and the E of the name of 3 letters--the dominant character, the inferior feminine.…”

The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Page 46 (part 8)

“The first E, the celestial Mother (arcana II.), is found in the arcana VI., X., XIV. and XVIII., that is to say, Beauty, Form, the Angel of Temperance, which balances the movements of life, and the aurora of the divine Sun; Diana the Moon.…”

The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Chapter XVIII (part 1)

“CHAPTER XVIII. THE KABBALISTIC TAROT. Deductions by Etteila upon the Book of Thoth--Example of the Application of the Tarot to the Kabbalah, the Hierogram of Adam by Stanislas de Guaita. DEDUCTIONS BY ETTEILA UPON THE BOOK OF THOTH. WE…”

The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Page 48 (part 1)

“EXAMPLE OF THE APPLICATION OF THE TAROT TO THE KABBALAH. THE HIEROGRAM OF ADAM, BY STANISLAS DE GUAITA. In asserting that the hierogram of Adam conceals the most profound arcana of the living Universe, we shall not astonish those who have…”

The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Page 48 (part 2)

“Lastly, in יהוה (IEVE), as in אדמ-הוה (Adam-Eve), Vau (ו) represents the fecundity of this union, and the last He (ה) symbolizes natura naturata (issued from natura naturans , increased by the mixed principle). These four letters, יהוה (IE…”

The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Page 52 (part 1)

“SECOND LESSON. MINOR ARCANA. SIGNIFICATION FROM THE DIVINING POINT OF VIEW. THE Tarot pack is composed of 78 cards or plates; 22 of them bear symbolical names (the Juggler, Sun, Moon, Hanged Man, etc.), and they should be separated from…”

The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Page 52 (part 3)

“It symbolizes a Bachelor. QUEEN OF CUPS. A fair woman, a friend . The woman loved. The Mistress. KNIGHT OF CUPS. A young fair man, a friend . The young man loved. The Lover. KNAVE OF CUPS. A fair child . A messenger. Birth . AC…”

The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Page 53

“THIRD LESSON. MAJOR ARCANA. SIGNIFICATION FROM THE DIVINING POINT OF VIEW. WE now know the signification of the minor arcana, and need only study the major arcana. As we have already stated, the major arcana consist of 22 symbolical cards,…”

The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Page 54

“FOURTH LESSON. BASIS OF THE APPLICATION OF THESE DATA. ARRANGEMENT OF THE CARDS. WE are now in a position to handle the Tarot as a means of divination. But before we attempt to read it, we must settle how to arrange the cards upon the table…”

The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Page 55 (part 1)

“FIFTH LESSON. FORTUNE-TELLING BY THE TAROT. I.--RAPID PROCESS: What must we do if we wish to draw out the horoscope of any matter? 1. You should take the minor arcana and separate the suit of cards that refers to the kind of consultatio…”

The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Page 55 (part 2)

“II.); Decline or Obstacle (arc. III.); Fall (arc. IV.). Lastly, the 3 major arcana placed in the centre indicate the especial character of the horoscope in the Past (V.), in the Present (VI.), and in the Future (VII.). The future is ind…”

The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Page 56 (part 1)

“SIXTH LESSON. Etteila's original and unpublished Method of Fortune-telling by the Tarot (from one of his rarest works). WE have explained a method which is original in a great measure, but as we have no intention of monopolizing the art o…”

The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Page 56 (part 2)

“We will rather pass on to complete this study of fortune-telling by the Tarot. SECOND DEAL: Reshuffle all your cards (78) and let them be cut for you. Take the 17 first cards and arrange them thus-- 17.........................1 Look quick…”

The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Chapter XXI (part 2)

“The Magian arranges and directs the games as he likes; he awards the fines according to the nature of the faults, such as showing the cards to other players, biding them from the spectators, any indiscretion in the utterance of the oracles,…”

The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Chapter XXII (part 1)

“CHAPTER XXII. CONCLUSION. HAVING reached the end of our journey we must cast one rapid glance over the road we have followed, in order to give some account of the scope of our work. Seeing that materialistic science was giving way, in sp…”

The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Chapter XXII (part 2)

“The gigantic labours of Dupuis were fruitless, because he did not understand that the solar Myth was only a representation of the general law of evolution , and not that of the especial evolution of the sun. The method of occult science is…”

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 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) | 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 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 1)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tertium Organum (P.D. Ouspensky) | Chapter X (part 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 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 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 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 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) | 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…”

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) | Introduction-b

“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) | Introduction-f

“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) | Introduction-g

“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) | Introduction-h

“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) | Introduction-j

“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) | Introduction-m

“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 Candidate-b

“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 Candidate-e

“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 Temple-a

“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 Temple-b

“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 Temple-c

“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 Temple-d

““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 Solomon-a

“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 Solomon-b

“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 Solomon-c

“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 Solomon-d

“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 Tetragram-a

“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 Tetragram-c

“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 Tetragram-d

“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 Tetragram-e

“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 Equilibrium-a

“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 Sword-a

“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 Sword-b

“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 Sword-c

“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. Initiation-a

“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 Kabalah-a

“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 Kabalah-b

“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 Kabalah-c

“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 Kabalah-d

“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 Work-c

“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. Necromancy-c

“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. Astrology-c

“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 – Elagabalus-b

“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. Divination-a

“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. Divination-c

“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) | Introduction-e

“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. Preparations-d

“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 Equilibrium-c

“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 Pantacles-b

“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 Pantacles-c

“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 Talismans-a

“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 Talismans-b

“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 Occultism-b

“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 Occultism-c

“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 Chain-b

“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 Work-c

“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. Necromancy-e

“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 Stars-b

“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 Stars-d

“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 Stars-e

“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 Stars-f

“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 Sun-a

“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 Prophets-d

“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 Prophets-e

“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 Prophets-f

“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 Hermes-a

“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 Hermes-b

“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 Hermes-c

“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 Hermes-d

“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 Hermes-e

“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 Hermes-g

“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 Hermes-h

“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 Hermes-i

“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 Hermes-j

“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 Hermes-l

“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 Hermes-n

“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…”

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 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.…”