isis unveiled: chapter IX (as above, so below…)

"Speaking of the elementary, Porphyry says: "These invisible beings have been receiving from men honors as god...a universal belief makes them capable of becoming very malevolent: it proves that their wrath is kindled against those who neglect to offer them a legitimate worship." Homer describes them in the following terms: "Our gods appear to us [...]

isis unveiled: chapter IX (as above, so below…)

"Herodotus tells us that in the eighth of the towers of Belus, in Babylon, used by the sacerdotal astrologers, there was an uppermost room, a sanctuary, where the prophesying priestesses slept to receive communications from the god. Beside the couch stood a table of gold, upon which were laid various stones, which Manetho informs were [...]