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

"When the Central Invisible (the Lord Ferho) saw the efforts of the divine Scintilla, unwilling to be dragged lower down into the degradation of matter, to liberate itself, he permitted it to shoot out from itself a monad, over which, attached to it as by the finest thread, the Divine Scintilla (the soul) had to [...]

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

"And now comes a mystery, a Sod; a secret which Rabbi Simeon imparted but to very few initiates. It was enacted once every seven years during the Mysteries of Samothrace, and the records of it are found self-printed on the leaves of the Thibetan sacred tree, the mysterious KOUNBOUM, in the Lamasery of the holy [...]

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

"Then the Codex proceeds to tell how Bahak-Zivo was separated from the Spiritus, and the genii, or angels, from the rebels. Then Mano (the greatest), who dwells with the greatest FERHO, calls Kebar-Zivo (known also by the name of Nebat-lavar bar lufin-Ifafin), Helm and Vine of the food of life, he being the third life, [...]

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

"Then steps on the stage of creation the "spirit" (which properly ought to be translated "soul", for it is the anima mundi, and which with the Nazarenes and the Gnostics was feminine), and perceiving that for Fetahil, the newest man (the latest), the splendor was "changed", and that for splendor existed "decrease and damage", awakes [...]