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 [...]

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. [...]