Transcendental Magic II: The Ritual (Éliphas Lévi) · 107 of 123 · tr. A.E. Waite
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 of silence and night.
The coming universal empire, being under the reign of the Sun, will belong to him who holds the keys of the East, which are now being disputed by the princes of the world’s four quarters.
But intelligence and activity are the forces which rule the Sun in the superior kingdoms, and the nation which possesses at this time the initiative of intelligence and life will have also the keys of the East and will establish the universal kingdom.
To do this it may have to undergo previously a cross and martyrdom analogous to those of the Man-God; but, dead or living, its spirit will prevail among nations; all peoples will acknowledge and follow in four-and-twenty years the standard of France, ever victorious or miraculously raised from the dead.
Such is the prophecy of Trithemius, confirmed by all our previsions and rooted in all our hopes.
§ Ask Guru about this passage →Themes
Apocatastasiscosmology
The doctrine of the periodic restoration or recurrence of all things to their original state after vast cycles.
Mentions the 'return of the reign,' implying a cyclical recurrence or restoration of epochs after the universal empire.
All passages →Correspondencecosmology
The Hermetic axiom that the structure of the cosmos is reflected at every scale — 'as above, so below; as within, so without' — making each level a legible map of the others.
It explicitly links terrestrial political initiative ('intelligence') with celestial solar rule ('keys of the East'), reflecting the macrocosm in the microcosm.
All passages →Divine Providencetheology
Pronoia — the doctrine that the divine actively orders the unfolding of the cosmos and human affairs toward intelligible ends, against pure chance or blind necessity.
The text asserts a predetermined historical trajectory confirmed by previsions and prophecy, implying divine ordering of human affairs.
All passages →Numerical Mysticismtheology
Numbers, proportions, and mathematical relationships as the underlying structure of divine reality.
The prophecy relies on precise temporal calculations (354 years and 4 months, four-and-twenty years) to validate the divine plan.
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