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

"All of these Logoi strove to endow man with the immortal spirit, failed, and nearly all are represented as being punished for the attempt by severe sentences. Those of the early Christian Fathers who like Origen and Clemens Alexandrinus, were well versed in Pagan symbology, having begun their careers as philosophers, felt very much embarrassed. [...]

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

"Starting as a pure and perfect spiritual being, the Adam of the second chapter of Genesis, not satisfied with the position allotted to him by the Demiurgus (who is the eldest first-begotten, the Adam-Kadmon), Adam the second, the "man of dust", strives in his pride to become Creator in his turn. Evolved out of the [...]

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

"It will be observed that this philosophy of cycles, which was allegorized by the Egyptian Hierophants in the "circle of necessity", explains at the same time the allegory of the "Fall of man". According to the Arabian descriptions, each of the seven chambers of the Pyramids - those grandest of all cosmic symbols - was [...]