isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter x (the devil)

“Job hearkens to the words of wisdom, and then the “Lord” answers Job “out of the whirlwind of nature”, God’s first visible manifestation: “Stand still, O Job, stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God; for by them alone thou canst know God. ‘Behold, God is great, and we know him not’, Him who ‘maketh small the drops of water; but they pour down rain according to the vapor thereof”, not according to the divine whim, but to the once established and immutable laws. Which law “removeth the mountains and they know not; which shaketh the earth; which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars; …which doeth great things past finding out; yea, and wonders without number. …Lo, He goeth by me, and I see him not; he passeth on also, but I perceive him not!”

Then, “Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?”, speaks the voice of God through His mouthpiece, nature. “Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if thou hast understanding. Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest; when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy? Wast thou present when I said to the seas, ‘Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?’ Knowest thou who hath caused it to rain on the earth, where no man is; on the wilderness, wherein there is no man. Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion? Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go, and say unto thee, ‘Here we are?’”

“Then Job answered the Lord.” He understood His ways, and his eyes were opened for the first time. The Supreme Wisdom descended upon him; and if the reader remains puzzled before this final PETROMA of initiation, at least Job, or the man “afflicted” in his blindness, then realized the impossibility of catching “Leviathan by putting a hook into his nose.” The Leviathan is OCCULT SCIENCE, on which one can lay his hand, but “do no more”, whose power and “comely proportion” God wishes not to conceal.

“Who can discover the face of his garment, or who can come to him with his double bridle? Who can open the doors of his face, ‘of him whose scales are his pride, shut up together as with a closed seal?’ Through whose ‘neesings a light doth Shine’, and whose eyes are like the lids of the morning.”  Who “maketh a light to shine after him” for those who have the fearlessness to approach him. And then they, like him, will behold “all high things, for he is king only over all the children of pride.”

Job, now in modest confidence, responded, “I know that thou canst do everything, and that no thought of thine can be resisted. Who is he that maketh a show of arcane wisdom, of which he knoweth nothing? Thus, have I uttered what I did not comprehend, things far above me, which I did not know. Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak; I will demand of thee, and do thou answer me. I have heard thee with my ears, and now I see thee with my eyes, wherefore, am I loathsome, and mourn in dust and ashes?”

He recognized his “champion” and was assured that the time for his vindication had come. Immediately the Lord, “the priests and the judges”, Deuteronomy 19:17, saith to his friends: “My wrath is kindled against thee and against thy two friends; for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.” So “the Lord turned the captivity of Job”, and “blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning.”

Then in the judgment the deceased invokes four spirits who preside over the Lake of Fire and is purified by them. He then is conducted to his celestial house, and is received by Athar and Isis, and stands before Atum, the essential God. He is now Turu, the essential man, a pure spirit, and henceforth Onati, the eye of fire, and an associate of the gods.”

H. P. Blavatsky

 

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