In the Pronaos of the Temple of Wisdom: Containing the History of the True and the False Rosicrucians : with an Introduction Into the Mysteries of the Hermetic PhilosophyTheosophical Pub. Society, 1890 - 134 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 36 - I know a man in Christ who, fourteen years ago, was caught up to the third heaven — whether in the body I do not know, God knows.
الصفحة 56 - Dissembling, however, his black design, he besought the sage in the tenderest manner, to remain with him only for a few days. During this space, he plotted and executed his execrable purpose of murdering our brother, and made himself master of his medicine. Such horrible actions never remain long unpunished. Some other black things he had done came to light, for which the Jew was thrown into prison, convicted, and burnt alive. " The Jews fell soon after under a persecution at Paris, as without doubt...
الصفحة 102 - God" means to love wisdom and truth. We can love God in no other way than in being obedient to Divine law; and to enable us to exercise that obedience conscientiously requires knowledge of the law, which can only be gained by practice. 2. Devote your time to your spiritual advancement. As the sun without leaving his place in the sky sends his rays upon the earth to shine upon the pure and the impure, and to illuminate even the most minute material objects with his light; likewise the spirit of man...
الصفحة 111 - ... a perverted and degenerate nature, and opening the fountain of infinite treasures. 6. Topaz (golden). The symbol of peace, mild and pleasant. It suffers no impurity or division to exist, neither does it admit that which causes separation and quarrels. It heals ruptures and cures wounds. 7. Amethyst (violet). Impartiality, equilibrium of justice and judgment. It cannot be falsified, bent, or counterfeited. It weighs all things in the scales of justice, and is opposed to fraud, cruelty, or tyranny....
الصفحة 36 - Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth, for you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
الصفحة 113 - Inscription :Transfixum suavius. 31. The prophet Jonah thrown into the raging sea. Inscription: Merger ne mergantur. 32. The setting sun and the evening star. Inscription: Sequitur deserta cadentem. 33. A cross with a snake wound around it. Inscription: Pharmacumnon venenum. 34. Eagle, rising towards the sun. Inscription: Ad te levavi oculos. 35. A squirrel standing upon a log, floating in the water and rowing. Inscription: Ne merger. 36. Light tower, illuminating the ocean. Inscription: Erantibus...
الصفحة 98 - APPENDIX. THE PRINCIPLES OF THE YOGA-PHILOSOPHY OF THE ROSICRUCIANS AND ALCHEMISTS. The following pages were originally intended to form the basis of a separate work, entitled "A Key to the Secret Symbols of the Rosicrucians." As the idea of bringing out such a book has been abandoned for the present, they have been added as a suitable appendix to the foregoing historical notes. It will be found that the doctrines presented herein contain the most profound secrets, especially in regard to the "resurrection...
الصفحة 46 - THERE IS AN ART, known only to a few, by which the purified and faithful soul of man may be instructed and illuminated so as to be raised at once from the darkness of ignorance (materialism) to the light of wisdom and knowledge. If the soul is perfectly purified and sanctified it becomes free in its movements, it sees and recognizes the Divine light, and instructs itself, while it seems to be instructed by another. In this state the soul requires no other admonition except...
الصفحة 73 - ... which he had been educated, and thus founded the first society of the Rosicrucians. They then laid down the results of their science in books, which are said to be still in existence, and in the hands of some Rosicrucians. It is then said that 120 years after his death, the entrance to his tomb was discovered. A stair-case led into a subterranean vault, at the door of which was written, Post annos CXX patebo. There was a light burning in the vault, which, however, became extinct as soon as it...
الصفحة 127 - Kundalini — one of the mystic "Yogi powers." It is Buddhi considered as an active instead of a passive principle (which it is generally. when regarded only as the vehicle. or casket of the Supreme Spirit ATMA). It is an electro-spiritual force. a creative power which when aroused into action can as easily kill as it can create.