isis unveiled: xii (forbidden ground)

"If the doctrines of Aristotle have exercised on the later Neo-platonists such a "dominating influence", how is it that neither Plotinus, nor Porphyry, nor Proclus ever accepted his theories on dreams and prophetic soul-visions? While Aristotle held that most of those who prophesy have "diseases of madness" - thus furnishing some American plagiarists and specialists [...]

isis unveiled: xii (forbidden ground)

"This mystery of first creation, which was ever the despair of science, is unfathomable, unless we accept the doctrine of the Hermetists. Though matter is coeternal with spirit, that matter is certainly not our visible, tangible, and divisible matter, but its extreme sublimation. Pure spirit is but one remove higher. Unless we allow man to [...]