isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter iv (gnostics ophites)

"This is precisely the substratum of the Pagan thought, which, among other meanings, emblematized by the rites of the resurrection of Osiris, Adonis, Bacchus, and other slaughtered sun-gods, the resurrection of all nature in spring, the germination of seeds that have been dead and sleeping during winter, and so were allegorically said to be kept [...]

isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter iv (gnostics ophites)

"Delivering a sermon on the "Month of Mary", we find the Reverend Dr. Preston, of New York City, expressing the Christian idea of the female principle of the trinity better and more clearly than we could, and substantially in the spirit of an ancient "heathen" philosopher. He says that the "plan of the redemption made [...]

Grateful Day, Everyone…

“When you call this Activity forth around individuals who might be tremendously stubborn, or who have some vicious creation around them, you could call the Cosmic Force of the Light of Thousands of Suns, the Cosmic Force of the Violet Consuming Flame, or the Unfed Flame as of a Thousand Suns, to draw all that [...]

isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter iv (gnostic ophites)

"Though he is termed the "Primitive Man", Ennoia, who is like the Egyptian Pymander, the "Power of the Thought Divine", the first intelligible manifestation of the Divine Spirit in material form, he is like the "Only-Begotten" Son of the "Unknown Father", of all other nations. He is the emblem of the first appearance of the [...]

isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter iv (gnostic ophites)

"The Gnostic Ophites taught the doctrine of Emanations, so hateful to the defenders of the unity in the trinity, and vice versa. The Unknown Deity with them had no name; but his first female emanation was called Bythos or Depth. It answered to the Shekinah of the kabalists, the "Veil" which conceals the "Wisdom" in [...]