Author: win r

"Such is the insufficient sketch of elemental beings void of divine spirit, given by one whom many with reason believed to know more than he was prepared to admit in the face of an incredulous public. In the following chapter we will contrive to explain some of the esoteric speculations of the initiates of the [...]

"Man is arrogant in proportion of his ignorance", he makes the wise Mejnour say to Glyndon. "For several ages he saw in the countless worlds that sparkle through space like the bubbles of a shoreless ocean, only the petty candles...that Providence has been pleased to light for no other purpose but to make the night [...]

"As by gradual progression from the star-cloudlet to the development of the physical body of man, the rule holds good, so from the universal ether to the incarnate human spirit, they traced one uninterrupted series of entities. These evolutions were from the world of spirit into the world of gross matter; and through that back [...]

"According to the ancients doctrines, the soulless elemental spirits were evolved by the ceaselessly motion inherent in the astral light. Light is force, and the latter is produced by the will. As this will proceeds from an intelligence which cannot err, for it has nothing of the material organs of human thought in it, being [...]