Author: win r

"The third class are the "elementals" proper, which never evolve into human beings, but occupy, as it were, a specific step of the ladder of being, and, by comparison with the others, may properly be called nature-spirits, or cosmic agents of nature, each being confined to its own element and never transgressing the bounds of [...]

"According to Aristotle's doctrine, there are three principles of natural bodies: privation, matter, and form. These may be applied in this particular case. The privation of the child which is to be we will locate in the invisible mind of the great Architect of the Universe - privation not being considered in the Aristotelic philosophy [...]

"Lowest in the scale of being are those invisible creatures called by the kabalists the "elementary". There are three distinct classes of these. The highest, in intelligence and cunning, are the so-called terrestrial spirits, of which we will speak more categorically in other parts of this work. Suffice to say, for the present, that they [...]

"The "philosophers by fire" asserted , through their chief, Robert Fludd, that sympathy is the offspring of light, and "antipathy hath its beginning from darkness." Moreover, they taught, with other kabalists, that "contrarieties in nature doth proceed from one eternal essence, or from the root of all things." Thus, the first cause is the parent-source [...]

"Where, then, lies the true, real secret so much talked about by the Hermetists? That there was and there is a secret, no candid student of esoteric literature will ever doubt. Men of genius - as many of the Hermetic philosophers undeniably were - would not have made fools of themselves by trying to fool [...]