isis unveiled: chapter v (one common origin)

"Eliphas Levi, the modern magician, describes the astral light in the following sentence: "We have said that to acquire magical power, two things are necessary: to disengage the will from all servitude, and to exercise it in control."   "The sovereign will is represented in our symbols by the woman who crushes the serpent's head, [...]

isis unveiled: chapter v (one common origin)

"Professor Josiah P. Cooke, of Harvard University, says that he "cannot agree...with those who regard the wave-theory of light as an established principle of science."   Herschel's doctrine, that the intensity of light, in effect of each undulation, "is inversely as the square of the distance from the luminous body", if correct, damages a good [...]