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Tripartite Soul
Division of the human being into three principles: spirit (pneuma), soul (psyche), and body/matter (hyle or soma).
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◆Iamblichus: On the Mysteries | Chapter I
“It is also necessary to demonstrate to you, in what dæmons, heroes, and souls differ from each other, and whether this difference is according to essence, or according to power, or according to energy. I say, therefore, that dæmons are prod…”
◆Iamblichus: On the Mysteries | Chapter VI
“Moreover, the gifts arising from the manifestations are not all of them equal, nor have the same fruits. But the presence [44] of the Gods, indeed, imparts to us health of body, virtue of soul, purity of intellect, and in one word elevates…”
◆Iamblichus: On the Mysteries | Chapter XXVIa
“Since, however, prayers are not the smallest [but on the contrary a very great] part of sacrifices, especially give completion to them, and through these the whole operation of them is corroborated and effected; and since, besides 271 this,…”
◆Iamblichus: On the Mysteries | Chapter VII
“From these things, therefore, it is easy to answer your next question. For the peculiar dæmon does not rule over one of the parts in us, but, in short, over all the parts at once, and extends to every principle within us, in the same manner…”
◆Iamblichus: On the Mysteries | Chapter VIIIl
“Opinion, likewise, and the phantasy, are said thus to energize when they discover arts, and accomplish admirable works, such, for instance, as Phidias effected in the formation of statues, and another in another art, as also Homer says [157…”
◆Iamblichus: On the Mysteries | Chapter VIIIo
“In the next place, departing from intellect, and descending into reasoning and dianoia, it no longer apprehended real beings by simple intuitions, but syllogistically and transitively, proceeding from one thing to another, from propositions…”
◆Iamblichus: On the Mysteries | Chapter VIIIq
“On the contrary, divinely-inspired poets, as Hermeas well observes, knock, as it were, at the gates of the Muses, and thus being filled from thence exclaim, Εσπετε νυν μοι Μουσαι And, Μηνιν αειδε θεα— And, Ανδρα μοι εννεπε Μουσα .
For bein…”
◆Iamblichus: On the Mysteries | Chapter VIII
“For these conceptions and these works teach us, that in reality we, through sacred operations, approach to divinity, but that divinity does not draw near to us.
Hence Proclus in Alcibiad.
εν ταις κλησεσι, και εν ταις αυτοψιαις προσιεναι π…”
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◆The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 2 (part 7)
“The light of God has also the quality of the fire, but in it the wrath is changed into love; hate and bitter pain into mild beneficence and sweet desire or satisfaction." ( Menschwerdung , i.
5–16.) "The fountain of love is a clasping and…”
◆The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 3 (part 8)
“Without it the form of the spirit would not be knowable; it is the corporeity of the spirit.
To be sure, it is not a bodily, tangible substance, like the bodies of men, but has nevertheless substantial and visible qualities which the spiri…”
◆The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 4 (part 4)
“We may say that the world, as we know it, is constituted entirely of forms of heat, or of motion, or of electric conditions, or light, &c., &c.
All this is true in so far as it refers to the relations which it bears towards ourselves.
All…”
◆The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 4 (part 6)
“"The created world was before the mysterium magnum, for all things were then in a spiritual condition in wisdom, as in a continual play or wrestle of love.
The one only Will conceived this spiritual form into the Word, and permitted the in…”
◆The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 5 (part 2)
“It ought to be kept in mind that "myths" are not "fables." Myths are representations of actualities clothed in a fabulous form.
Their kernel is true, even if the shell in which it is clothed is an illusion.
"There are seven principal qual…”
◆The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 5 (part 5)
“109 the spirit of holiness cannot enter unless unholiness is chased away.
In this battle against evil the angels are always ready to assist man in an invisible manner against the temptations of the "devils," provided that he is willing to…”
◆The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 5 (part 6)
“"In the lightning flash, the fourth form of nature, is the origin of life, and it attains perfection in the constancy of the fire.
Here, in the object of division, is the p.
111 spirit born, and this spirit can either go backwards and ent…”
◆The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 6 (part 5)
“But when this took place the love in the light of God broke through that heaven of division and ignited the heat." ( Aurora , xxv.
68.) "God, the eternal light and the eternal will, shines within the darkness, and the darkness has captured…”
◆The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 6 (part 7)
“That which Sol (the sun) is spiritually becomes corporeal in Luna (the moon)." ( Signature , ix.
24.) After the world of stars had begun to exist, the sidereal life appeared by the power of the former—that is to say, that living organisms…”
◆The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 6 (part 9)
“Thus he was in possession of divine and terrestrial essentiality; but the terrestrial one was in the divine one like consumed or impotent (latent).
The substance or the matter from which the body was made or created contained itself also t…”
◆The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 6 (part 11)
“Only he in whom is light can see the light; only the element of love can feel love; only the divinity in man can know God in and through man.
138:1 Therefore Theophrastus Paracelsus says: "Natural man is made out of the world, and not the…”
◆The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 7 (part 3)
“2.) "The inner man stood in heaven; his essences were the Paradise; his body was indestructible.
He knew the language of God and the angels, and the language of nature, as may be seen by Adam giving names to all creatures, to each accordin…”
◆The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 7 (part 7)
“The heart of God wanted to have him in Paradise and to reside in him, for it said, 'He is my image and likeness.' The kingdom of wrath wanted him, for it said, 'He is mine; for he has issued out of my fountain, out of the eternal mind of th…”
◆The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 7 (part 11)
“162 [paragraph continues] Eve, the latter was the first to be seduced to fall away from God.
1 "The lust originated in Adam, but thereupon this perverted desire began to be excited in the woman." ( Stiefel , ii.
375.) "Eve was lusting aft…”
◆The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 8 (part 9)
“Little would it benefit the blind to know of the light merely from hearsay.
Little would it profit the "Christian" if he knew of a historical Christ, and could not perceive the glory and majesty of the Atma Buddhi within his own soul.
Boe…”
◆The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 9 (part 1)
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180 CHAPTER IX.
GENERATION.
"Let every Brahman, with fixed attention, consider all nature, both visible and invisible, as existing in the Divine Spirit.
For when he contemplates the boundless universe in the Divine Spirit, he cannot…”
◆The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 9 (part 6)
“He could generate in a virginal state, and procreate by means of his will and out of his own substance, without any pain or laceration." ( Threefold Life , ii.
24.) "If man had withstood the temptation one human being would have been born…”
◆The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 9 (part 8)
“402.) During the connubial act a divine interaction takes place; but there are also influences coming from the terrestrial and the satanic worlds.
More especially is the nature of the child dependent on the quality of its parents.
2 p.
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◆The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 10 (part 3)
“It was she in whom the voice of God promised again to introduce the living, holy substance from heaven, and to generate anew and in divine power the faded image of God that was contained therein." 1 ( Grace , vii.
18.) This, however, did n…”
◆The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 11 (part 3)
“Now can I truly say, 'The soul of Christ is my brother, and the body of Christ is the nutriment of my soul.'" ( Three Principles , xxii.
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229 But if Christ had come only from a terrestrial virgin He would not have come from above,…”
◆The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 11 (part 5)
“If, then, the soul of the child is in the Holy Trinity, do you then not think that its glorious light beautifully illuminates the mother, and does not that mother rightfully put her feet upon the Moon, 1 as being exalted above all that is o…”
◆The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 11 (part 10)
“"Human reason can understand nothing about the kingdom of Christ, nor about His person or office, because the testament of Christ is celestial, and human reasoning is terrestrial; the latter seeks Christ in time, while He can only be found…”
◆The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 12 (part 1)
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242 CHAPTER XII.
REDEMPTION.
"God lives also in man.
Therefore if we are but seeking and loving our own (true) self, we then love God.
That which we do to each other we are doing to God.
He who seeks and finds his brother and siste…”
◆The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 12 (part 3)
“He willingly surrendered Himself to the wrath (to the suffering caused by the lower principles that had been awakened to consciousness in consequence of the sin), and He extinguished it by His love.
He came from God into this world and too…”
◆The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 12 (part 12)
“255:1 However gratifying it may be for the curious seeker in history to know whether or when such an event has actually occurred in the history of the Jewish nation, such a historical belief would be of little benefit to him if he could not…”
◆The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 13 (part 1)
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263 CHAPTER XIII.
REGENERATION.
"Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not of those things?" — John iii.
10.
"Whoever will come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me."— Luke ix.
23.
No man c…”
◆The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 13 (part 3)
“To accomplish this he must rise by the aid of the divine Spirit within himself above the inferior elements within his own nature, and thus surrender his whole self-will to God, an act which is expressed in the original meaning of the word "…”
◆The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 13 (part 4)
“will enter the kingdom of heaven, but those who do the will of My Father in heaven." It would seem self-evident that no being inferior to the Father in heaven can possibly do the will of the Father, because no one can do the will of God unl…”
◆The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 13 (part 9)
“279 free will already in the beginning (of a desire) destroys the desire, so that it does not become substantial, then is the physician (for the cure of that disease) already born, and there will not be needed such great earnestness as will…”
◆The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 13 (part 10)
“281 "The inner man continually kills the outer one by means of the love and sweetness of God, so that the external one cannot introduce into the soul-fire his earthly poisonous desire, which is infected by the devil; but the external man ca…”
◆The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 13 (part 11)
“27.) No Christian should contemplate his own holiness, or fancy himself to be better than others; but he should rather realise his own unworthiness, and regret the perverted state of himself and of humanity as a whole.
"No one should want…”
◆The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 13 (part 12)
“In the place which formerly was the seat of self-will there is now nothing, and wherever there is nothing there the love of God is solely active." ( Supernatural Life , xxviii.) "A true Christian knows himself to be a servant of God, whose…”
◆The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 13 (part 13)
“Nevertheless he has nothing (objectively), because that which is before Him is nothing in His comprehension, for it does not comprehend Him.
Likewise will this be the state of a person according to his submitted will if he entirely surrend…”
◆The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 13 (part 14)
“It would then be easy for us to grant our own desires, if in that divine state there could be room for personal desires of any kind.
268:1 True prayer is the bringing of will, thought, and word into one Δ by the power of the Spirit of God.…”
◆The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 14 (part 8)
“, in the heavenly essentiality (Devachan)—cannot be disturbed by anybody, unless they should wish it themselves, in case that they were very favourably inclined towards some particular soul in harmony with their own.
They do not trouble th…”
◆The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 14 (part 9)
“The faith of the living caught that of the saints, and the faith performed the miracle.
Faith can overthrow mountains.
It could destroy the world, if God were so to direct it." 1 ( Forty Questions , xxvi.) In the above we have considered…”
◆The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 14 (part 10)
“When, then, death actually takes place, and separates the soul from the body, the poor soul will then cling to that thread and refuse to let go her hold of it, but all her essences are still deeply immersed in the wrath of God; she is tortu…”
◆The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 14 (part 11)
“309 As a matter of course, no dead soul can be made alive by prayer, neither can mere lip-prayer or any empty ceremony aid the soul in freeing herself from the bonds of matter, but the living may aid the "dead," and especially the dying, by…”
◇The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 1 (part 1)
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33 THE DOCTRINES OF JACOB BOEHME.
"Our whole doctrine is nothing else but an instruction to show how man may create a kingdom of light within himself.
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He in whom this spring of divine power flows, carries within himself the d…”
◇The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 6 (part 8)
“They are fire-flames, illumined by the light of God, but we attain the great fountain of meekness and love which is welling up within the holy essentiality of God." 1 ( Menschwerdung , i.
5.) Man comprises all three principles: the princip…”
◇The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 7 (part 2)
“36.) "In Paradise there is perfect life without disturbance, and a perpetual day, and the paradisiacal man is clear like transparent glass, and he is fully penetrated by the light of the divine sun." 1 ( Signature , xi.
5 1.) His body like…”
◇The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 7 (part 4)
“28.) "In Paradise the substance of the divine world penetrated the substance belonging to time, comparable to the power of the sun penetrating a fruit growing on a tree, and endowing it with such qualities as render it lovely to the sight a…”
◇The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 7 (part 6)
“2.) There existed in man also the third principle, wherein resides sensual desire.
He was not endowed with this principle for the purpose of surrendering himself to it, but that he might introduce it into the light of God, and glorify Him…”
◇The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 7 (part 8)
“15.) The forthcoming of the tree of temptation is not to be wondered at, because Adam was endowed with great powers, and an earthly form as a protection to him against the powers of hell.
1 "Reason (man's reasoning) says, 'Why did God perm…”
◇The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 7 (part 9)
“If it had not been for that circumstance, he would in his selfishness even have become a devil by the power of the fire." 4 ( Stiefel , ii.
363.) "When the devil saw that lust resided in Adam, he acted still more powerfully upon the Sal-ni…”
◇The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 8 (part 8)
“For the internal being is continually labouring to manifest itself outwardly.
Thus everything has its own mouth for the purpose of revealing itself, and therein is based the language of nature, by means of which each thing speaks out of it…”
◇The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 9 (part 3)
“2.) "Many a soul in her malignity would become a devil within one hour if the external life did not prevent it, so that her complete ignition cannot take place." ( Forty Questions , xvi.
12.) "In examining our own selves we find that, on t…”
◇The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 9 (part 4)
“9.) "After the fall man with his interior body lived only in time; the precious gold of heavenly corporeity, which should tincture, penetrate and bless the external body, had lost its colour." 3 ( Signature , v.
8.) Moreover, the powers of…”
◇The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 9 (part 7)
“Even in its best aspect the performance is disgusting before the sanctity of that which is divine, it having been caused by sin in consequence of primordial man's degradation, but being patiently submitted to by that which is divine in man,…”
◇The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 9 (part 9)
“183:1 If man's imagination were not excited by the pictorial representations which the objects of the surrounding world call forth in his mind by means of his external senses, but if his mental activity were restricted to forming images by…”
◇The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 9 (part 10)
“The conditions of these animal elementals in the constitution of man are some of those causes of his bodily ills of which modern medical science is entirely ignorant.
191:1 This is the way in which the "personalities" mentioned in the Book…”
◇The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 9 (part 11)
“Unless this distinction of the various aspects of man is kept in mind, we are always exposed to mistaking the leaves of the tree of life for the branches, and the branches for the trunk, and the trunk for the roots.
197:1 Each soul constit…”
◇The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 10 (part 4)
“Therefore the Word and the bruiser of the head of the serpent did not enter into form within their souls; but it stood within the mind to oppose the devils and the kingdom of hell with those that were willing to surrender themselves to it."…”
◇The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 10 (part 5)
“The wrath must kill and consume the external image that has grown in the wrath, but from its death springs forth the eternal life." ( Mysterium , xxviii.
14.) "Abel, representing an antitype of Christ, who was to suffer death for humanity,…”
◇The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 10 (part 10)
“Thus the desire of God in the Word perceived the desire of man through the fire; for in the (divine) fire was consumed the animal vanity in the will of man, by means of the wrath, and then the purified human will, with the incorporated para…”
◇The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 10 (part 14)
“50.) 207:3 It should be remembered that these allegorical names do not refer to individual men, but to states of the universal mind.
208:1 " Seth " is a ray of love-light escaping from the fiery will.
( Mysterium Magnum , xxix.
24.) 209:…”
◇The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 11 (part 6)
“90.) "The living Word that dwelt within the eternal virgin attracted to itself the flesh of Mary—that is to say, the essences from the corporeal body of Mary—and thus there grew in nine months a complete human being with soul, spirit, and f…”
◇The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 12 (part 4)
“There was then no earthly food or drink, and the soul of Christ knew very well that she was in God, and that she could make terrestrial bread out of stones, as there was no other bread there.
But she did not desire to eat with her celestia…”
◇The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 12 (part 6)
“253 and shedding of blood.
Adam's body died on the Cross, and Christ, born of Jesus and the sanctified seed of the woman, tinctured (blessed) him with His dear blood of love." ( Stiefel , ii.
494.) "The inner man Christ took our sins upon…”
◇The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 12 (part 7)
“All this He gave up entirely into the Father's hands as being the end of nature, the great mystery of the Father; but not so that it should be dead, but so that the Spirit of God should be therein all its life, and the divine regimen exist…”
◇The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 12 (part 10)
“Every object or person we see in the world is nothing but a symbol of existing ideas; every event taking place in external life is the outcome of invisibly acting forces.
The historical correctness of the occurrences described in the Bible…”
◇The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 13 (part 2)
“265 To form a correct conception of the regeneration of man, and of what kind of a being it is which is to be brought to life in us, we must learn to know what is eternity and time, light and darkness, good and evil, and especially the orig…”
◇The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 13 (part 5)
“First, by the severe wrath of God, the abyss and dark world, which is the centre of the created life of the soul, whose innermost root is desire.
The second chain is the fiery longing of the devil for the soul, in consequence of which he t…”
◇The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 13 (part 6)
“Often she is deluded with sin, and everything seems to be against her.
You must continually battle against the devil.
Then will the pearl-tree grow like grass in storm and rain; but when it becomes big and brings forth flowers, you may th…”
◇The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 13 (part 7)
“27.) The first and greatest danger for the new-born being arises from pride; as is illustrated in the New Testament, for hardly is the new-born Saviour laid in the cradle, standing between the ox of self will and the ass of ignorance in the…”
◇The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 13 (part 8)
“A sprout grows from the earth, and thus the substance of which it is formed flies from the earth and is attracted towards the sunlight until it becomes a plant or a tree.
So does the divine Sun draw the human lily, i.e.
, the new man in h…”
◇The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 14 (part 1)
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289 CHAPTER XIV.
DEATH AND ETERNAL LIFE.
"The mystic death is the beginning of eternal life." Man is a product of three worlds His spirit is of God, his soul from the constellation of the astral elements, his body from the elements of…”
◇The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 14 (part 2)
“2.) During his terrestrial existence man can remain consciously in the three worlds, and by the power of the will with which he is endowed penetrate into either one or the other; but after the separation of the soul from the body has taken…”
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◆Agrippa: The Philosophy of Natural Magic, Chapter LXI — Of the Forming of Man, of the External Senses, also those Inward, and the Mind; and of the Three-Fold Appetite of the Soul, and Passions of the Will | Chapter LXI, Section 1a
“CHAPTER LXI.
Of the Forming of Man, of the External Senses, also those Inward, and the Mind; and of the Three-Fold Appetite of the Soul, and Passions of the Will .
It is the opinion of some divines that God did not immediately create the…”
◆Agrippa: The Philosophy of Natural Magic, Chapter LXI — Of the Forming of Man, of the External Senses, also those Inward, and the Mind; and of the Three-Fold Appetite of the Soul, and Passions of the Will | Chapter LXI, Section 1b
“This is that which shows us future things by dreams, whence the fancy is sometimes named the phantastical intellect.
For it is the last impression of the understanding, which, as saith Iamblicus, is that belonging to all the powers of the…”
◆Agrippa: The Philosophy of Natural Magic, Chapter LXI — Of the Forming of Man, of the External Senses, also those Inward, and the Mind; and of the Three-Fold Appetite of the Soul, and Passions of the Will | Chapter LXI, Section 1c
“Whereof the first is called oblectation, which is a certain quietness or assentation of the mind or will, because it obeys, and not willingly consents to that pleasantness which the senses hold forth; which is, therefore, defined to be an i…”
◆Agrippa: The Philosophy of Natural Magic, Chapter LXII — Of the Passions of the Mind, their Original Source, Differences, and Kinds | Chapter LXII, Section 1
“CHAPTER LXII. Of the Passions of the Mind, their Original Source, Differences, and Kinds . The passions of the human mind are nothing else but certain motions or inclinations proceeding from the apprehension of any thing, as of good or evil…”
◆The Heroic Enthusiasts, Part I (Gli Eroici Furori) | INTRODUCTIONh
“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) | INTRODUCTIONj
“The body is in the soul, the soul is in the mind, the mind is in God.
The life of the soul is the true life of the man.
Of all his various faculties, that which rules all, that which exalts our nature, is Thought.
By means of it we rise…”
◆The Heroic Enthusiasts, Part I (Gli Eroici Furori) | First Dialoguec
“Hence he cries: "O mountain of Parnassus, where I abide!
Muses, with whom I converse!
Fountain of Helicon, where I am nourished.
Mountain, that affordest me a quiet dwelling-place!
Muses, that inspire me with pro found doctrines.
Fount…”
◆The Heroic Enthusiasts, Part I (Gli Eroici Furori) | First Dialogued
“Some are called in vain to put in a ready appearance, and are chiefly those which proceed from the lower instincts, and which obey the reason either not at all, or very little; and forcing himself to prevent their actions and condemn those…”
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◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | Isis, the Virgin of the Worldj
“They understood hypnotism, mesmerism, and similar practices long before the modem world dreamed of their existence.
Plutarch describes the requisites of a follower of Isis in this manner: "For as 'tis not the length of the beard, or the co…”
◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Sun, A Universal Deityg
“According to the mystics, there are three suns in each solar system, analogous to the three centers of life in each individual constitution.
These are called three lights: the spiritual sun, the intellectual or soular sun, and the material…”
◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Sun, A Universal Deityk
“Thus a yellow flower generally yields a medicine that affects the constitution in a manner similar to yellow light or the musical tone mi .
An orange flower will influence in a manner similar to orange light and, being one of the so-called…”
◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Human Body in Symbolismd
“The second center (or the link between the superior and inferior worlds) is elevated to the position of greatest physical dignity--the brain.
The third (or lower) center is relegated to the position of least physical dignity but greatest p…”
◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Human Body in Symbolismh
“This knowledge of how man's manifold constitution could be most quickly and most completely regenerated to the point of spiritual illumination constituted the secret, or esoteric, doctrine of antiquity.
Certain apparently physical organs a…”
◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Pythagorean Theory of Music and Colora
“HARMONY is a state recognized by great philosophers as the immediate prerequisite of beauty.
A compound is termed beautiful only when its parts are in harmonious combination.
The world is called beautiful and its Creator is designated the…”
◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | Stones, Metals and Gemsa
“EACH of the four primary elements as taught by the early philosophers has its analogue in the quaternary terrestrial constitution of man.
The rocks and earth correspond to the bones and flesh; the water to the various fluids; the air to th…”
◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | An Analysis of Tarot Cardsl
“Thirteen teardrops are falling from the solar face Levi, seeing in the two children Faith and Reason, which must coexist as long as the temporal universe endures, writes: "Human equilibrium requires two feet, the worlds gravitate by means o…”
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◆The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Papyrus of Ani) | Chapter 4 (part 28)
“The Chapter of bringing a boat in the underworld.
Vignette: A boat.
Chapter C.
The Chapter of making perfect the khu , and of making it to enter into the boat of Ra, together with his divine followers.
Vignette: A boat containing a comp…”
◆The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Papyrus of Ani) | Chapter 6 (part 6)
“Maspero explained to the Members of the Congress of Lyons the views which he held concerning this word, and which he had for the past five years been teaching in the Collège de France, and said, "le ka est une sorte de double de la personne…”
◆The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Papyrus of Ani) | Chapter 6 (part 18)
“It reapeth the wheat, it cutteth the barley, and it giveth it unto thee.
Now, therefore, O Pepi, he that hath given unto thee life and all power and eternity and the power of speech and thy body is Ra.
Thou hast endued thyself with the fo…”
◆The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Papyrus of Ani) | Chapter 13 (part 8)
“27.) Chapter LXXXIX.
"The Chapter of causing the soul to be united to its body in Neter-khert." (See pp.
112, 318, and pl.
17.) The two incense burners which stand, one at the head and one at the foot of the bier, are peculiar to the pap…”
◆The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Papyrus of Ani) | Chapter 16 (part 3)
“The palettes of the Egyptian scribe were rectangular, and were made of wood, stone, basalt, ivory (see Nos.
5512a, 5513, 5525a, and 12,779, etc., in the British Museum).
They measure from 10 to 17 inches in length, and from 2 to 3 inches…”
◆The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Papyrus of Ani) | Chapter 29 (part 2)
“Text [CHAPTER CXXXIII.]: (1) TO BE SAID ON THE DAY OF THE MONTH.[2] (2) Osiris Ani, the scribe, triumphant in peace, triumphant, saith: "Ra riseth (2) in his horizon, and the company of his gods follow after the god when he appeareth from h…”
◆The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Papyrus of Ani) | Chapter 40 (part 5)
“Instead of three, the Nebseni papyrus has four ovals, which are called Hetep, An (?), Uakhakha, and Neb-taui.
3 In the Turin papyrus, published by Lepsius, the ploughing, sowing, reaping and treading out the corn are all shown in one divis…”
◆The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Papyrus of Ani) | Chapter 43 (part 24)
“The vignettes too are additions to the work; but, although they depict scenes in the life beyond the grave, they do not seem to form a connected series, and it is doubtful if they are arranged on any definite plan.
A general idea of the co…”
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◆Orphic Hymns | Front Matter, p. 4 (part 2)
“For a self-motive being, is the cause of motion to those, which are moved by another, in the same manner as that which is immovable, inserts in all beings the power of moving.
And again, that which is moved only, must depend on those natur…”
◆Orphic Hymns | Front Matter, p. 4 (part 12)
“But to the other Gods, to the world, and to the erratic and fixed stars, composed from body and soul, and to the visible divinities, testimonials of gratitude are to be offered by sacrificing with inanimate substances.
After these there re…”
◆Orphic Hymns | Front Matter, p. 4 (part 15)
“For the generative causes of things, are contained by similitude in their effects; and in causes themselves their progeny subsist, comprehended in perfect union and consent.
Hence the celestial orbs impart a copious defluxion of good to th…”
◆Orphic Hymns | Hymn XXVIII. PROSERPINE (part 1)
“XXVIII.
TO PROSERPINE.
A HYMN DAUGHTER of Jove, almighty and divine, Come, blessed queen, and to these rites incline: Only-begotten, Pluto's honor'd wife, 3 O venerable Goddess, source of life: 'Tis thine in earth's profundities to dwell,…”
◆Orphic Hymns | Hymn LX. NEMESIS
“LX. TO NEMESIS. A HYMN. THEE, Nemesis I call, almighty queen, By whom the deeds of mortal life are seen: Eternal, much rever'd, of boundless sight, Alone rejoicing in the just and right: Changing the counsels of the human breast 5 For ever…”
◆Orphic Hymns | Hymn LXXV. THE MUSES (part 1)
“LXXV.
TO THE MUSES.
The FUMIGATION from FRANKINCENSE.
Daughters of Jove, dire-sounding and divine, 1 Renown'd Pierian, sweetly speaking Nine; p.
206 To those whose breasts your sacred furies fire Much-form'd, the objects of supreme desi…”
◆Orphic Hymns | Hymn LXXV. THE MUSES (part 3)
“So in the poetic chain, it is requisite there should be something divine, which, through proper mediums, may connect the last to the first monad.
This Fury Homer, as well as Plato, calls at one time in the plural number Muses, and at anoth…”
◆Orphic Hymns | Hymn LXXV. THE MUSES (part 4)
“Besides this, it teaches the circuits of the soul, its immortality and various powers; explains to mortals many names of an incorporeal nature, and produces many probable Dogmata respecting corporeal substance.
The Athenian guest (in Plato…”
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◆Plato: Phaedrus | Section 1h
“Once upon a time there was a fair boy, or, more properly speaking, a youth; he was very fair and had a great many lovers; and there was one special cunning one, who had persuaded the youth that he did not love him, but he really loved him a…”
◆Plato: Phaedrus | Section 1s
“You may believe this, but not unless you like.
At any rate the loves of lovers and their causes are such as I have described.
Now the lover who is taken to be the attendant of Zeus is better able to bear the winged god, and can endure a h…”
◆Plato: Phaedrus | Section 1t
“The other is a crooked lumbering animal, put together anyhow; he has a short thick neck; he is flat-faced and of a dark colour, with grey eyes and blood-red complexion; the mate of insolence and pride, shag-eared and deaf, hardly yielding t…”
◆Plato: Phaedrus | Section 1u
“And the beloved when he has received him into communion and intimacy, is quite amazed at the good-will of the lover; he recognises that the inspired friend is worth all other friends or kinsmen; they have nothing of friendship in them worth…”
◆Plato: Republic | Section 1e
“Whereas the truth is that the State in which the rulers are most reluctant to govern is always the best and most quietly governed, and the State in which they are most eager, the worst.
Quite true, he replied.
And will our pupils, when th…”
◆Plato: Republic | Section 1o
“And, again, in respect of temperance, courage, magnificence, and every other virtue, should we not carefully distinguish between the true son and the bastard?
for where there is no discernment of such qualities States and individuals uncon…”
◆Plato: Symposium | Section 1i
“But, as I was saying at first, the truth as I imagine is, that whether such practices are honourable or whether they are dishonourable is not a simple question; they are honourable to him who follows them honourably, dishonourable to him wh…”
◆Plato: Timaeus | Section 1}
“Wherefore earth when not consolidated by force is dissolved by water only; when consolidated, by nothing but fire; for this is the only body which can find an entrance.
The cohesion of water again, when very strong, is dissolved by fire on…”
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◆Corpus Hermeticum 4: The Epistles | Section 1b
“And having raised themselves so far they sight the Good; and having sighted it, they look upon their sojourn here as a mischance; and in disdain of all, both things in body and the bodiless, they speed their way unto that One and Only One.…”
◆Corpus Hermeticum 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 9: The Decalogue | Section 1a
“On Thought and Sense <This somewhat diffuse essay covers a series of topics, starting with (and to some extent from) the concept that the set of perceptions we call "thoughts" and the set we call "sensory perceptions" are not significantly…”
◆Corpus Hermeticum 9: The Decalogue | Section 1c
“This is God's sense-and-thought, ever to move all things.
And never time shall be when e'en a whit of things that are shall cease; and when I say "a whit of things that are", I mean a whit of God.
For thigs that are, God hath; nor aught […”
◆Corpus Hermeticum 10: The Sermon on the Mount | Section 1a
“The Key <This longer tractate presents itself explicitly as a summary or abridgement of the General Sermons (CH II-IX), and discusses the Hermetic view of knowledge and its role in the lives and afterlives of human beings.
The attentive re…”
◆Corpus Hermeticum 10: The Sermon on the Mount | Section 1b
“For It doth will to be, and It is both Itself and most of all by reason of Itself.
Indeed, all other things beside are just bacause of It; for the distinctive feature of the Good is "that it should be known".
Such is the Good, O Tat.
Tat…”
◆Corpus Hermeticum 10: The Sermon on the Mount | Section 1c
“For that the soul who hath no knowledge of the things that are, or knowledge of their nature, or of Good, is blinded by the body's passions and tossed about.
This wretched soul, not knowing what she is, becomes the slave of bodies of stran…”
◆Corpus Hermeticum 10: The Sermon on the Mount | Section 1f
“But God is o'er them all, and God contains them all.
God's rays, to use a figure, are His energies; the Cosmos's are natures, the arts and sciences are man's.
The energies act through the Cosmos, thence through the nature-rays of Cosmos u…”
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◆Gospel of Philip | Section 1b
“TRUTH MADE NAMES Truth made names in the world, and without them we can’t think.
Truth is one and is many, teaching one thing through the many.
RULERS The rulers wanted to fool us, since they saw we were connected with the good.
They too…”
◆Pistis Sophia | Document FIRSTe
“And having come, coming unto the World I came unto the midst of the Rulers of the Sphere, I was the likeness of Gabriel the angel of the Aeons, and knew me not the Rulers of the Aeons.
But they were thinking that I am Gabriel the angel.
I…”
◆Pistis Sophia | Document FIRSTy
“This therefore is the explanation of the third repentance which said the Pistis Sophia hymning unto the Height.
It happened therefore, Jesus having heard Martha saying these words, said he, Well done, Martha, and fairly (said).
Added also…”
◆Pistis Sophia | Document SECONDb
“I therefore with the power also which came out of me, and the soul which I took from Sabaoth the good, they came close to one another [117 ], they became one effluence of light which enlighteneth greatly greatly; I called unto Gabriel down…”
◆Pistis Sophia | Document SECOND
“Amen I say unto you, That man whenever he should come out of the body, they are not wont to judge him in any Place of the Rulers, nor will they be able to punish him in any Place, 120 nor the fire will touch him through the great mystery of…”
◆Pistis Sophia | Document THIRDm
“Now therefore they are wont to bear the child, the power in him being small, and being small in him the soul, and being small in him the counterfeit spirit also in one word, being small the three together: having not any of them any percept…”
◆Pistis Sophia | Document THIRDt
“And are not wont those Contentious (ones) they are not wont to prevail to pass through the Chaoses, for them to come unto the arrays which are above the Chaoses, and 150 convict the souls which come out of those Places.
Now therefore the s…”
◆Pistis Sophia | Document THIRD
“And 166 that man came out of the body before that he repented again and received mystery again in the mysteries, those which (are) within the mysteries which he finished receiving, these which they are wont to receive again for the repentan…”
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◆The Writings of Chuang Tzu (Inner Chapters) | Book 124 (part 1)
“p.
176 BOOK II.
PART I.
SECTION II.
Khî Wû Lun, or 'The Adjustment of Controversies 1 .' 1.
Nan-kwo Sze-khî 2 was seated, leaning forward on his stool.
He was looking up to heaven and breathed gently, seeming to be in a trance, and to…”
◇The Writings of Chuang Tzu (Inner Chapters) | Book 127 (part 6)
“What I mean when I say that he is without these is, that this man does not by his likings and dislikings do any inward harm to his body;--he always pursues his course without effort, and does not (try to) increase his (store of) life.' Hui-…”
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◆The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch, Charles translation) | Chapter LXXI
“LXXI. Two earlier visions of Enoch . CHAPTER LXXI. 1. And it came to pass after this that my spirit was translated And it ascended into the heavens: And I saw the holy sons of God . They were stepping on flames of fire: Their garments were…”
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◆The Poetic Edda: Voluspo | Section 1e
“Fili, Kili, | Fundin, Nali, Heptifili, | Hannar, Sviur, Frar, Hornbori, | Fræg and Loni, Aurvang, Jari, | Eikinskjaldi.
14.
The race of the dwarfs | in Dvalin's throng Down to Lofar | the list must I tell; The rocks they left, | and throu…”
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◆The Masnavi, Book I (Rumi) | STORY IIIa
“The Jewish King, his Vazir, and the Christians.
A certain Jewish king used to persecute the Christians, desiring to exterminate their faith.
His Vazir persuaded him to try a stratagem, namely, to mutilate the Vazir himself, and expel him…”