isis unveiled: chapter chapter VIII (our place among infinities)

""In the beginning of time the great invisible one had only his holy hands full of celestial matter which he scattered throughout the infinity; and lo, behold! it became balls of fire and balls of clay; and they scattered like the moving metal into many smaller balls, and began their ceaseless turning; and some of [...]

isis unveiled: chapter chapter VIII (our place among infinities)

"The testimony of Plutarch, Professor Draper, and Jowett, are sufficiently explicit. But we would ask Mr. Proctor how it happens, if the ancient astronomers were so ignorant of the law of the birth and death of worlds that, in the fragmentary bits which the hand of time has spared us of ancient lore there should [...]

isis unveiled: chapter chapter VIII (our place among infinities)

"Think not my magic wonders wrought by aid, of Stygian angels summoned up from hell; scorned and accursed by those who have essay'd, her gloomy Divs and Afrites to compel. But by perception of the secret powers of mineral springs, in nature's inmost cell, of herbs in curtain of her greenest bowers, and of the [...]

understanding the “i am”…that is you…

"Now notice, action, Beloved Ones, is what you require; for anything static or still will not produce the result. Therefore when you call this forth into action, know that your "Presence" is the Treasure House. Then through you will flow the Current of Energy; and directly from your Higher Mental Body into persons, places, and [...]

isis unveiled: chapter chapter VII (thou great first cause)

"Like Cardon and Pompanatius, "who were no friends to the soul's immortality", as says Henry More, "Aristotle expressly concludes that the rational soul is both a distinct being from the soul of the world, though of the same essence", and that "it does preexist before it comes into the body." Years have rolled away since [...]