"Thus, esoteric philosophy shows that man is truly the manifested deity in both its aspects - good and evil, but theology cannot admit this philosophical truth. Teaching the dogma of the Fallen Angels in its dead-letter meaning, and having made of Satan the cornerstone and pillar of the dogma of redemption - to do [...]
Category: On the Myth of the “Fallen Angel”
on the myth of the “fallen angel”
"Throughout all Asia Minor, the Initiates were called the "trees of Righteousness", and the cedars of Lebanon, as also were some kings of Israel. So were the great adepts in India, but only the adepts of the left hand. It hints at the great struggle between the "Sons of God" and the Sons of [...]
on the myth of the “fallen angel”
"Now there are many passages in the Bible which prove on their face, exoterically, that this belief was at one time universal; and the most convincing of the two chapters, Ezekiel 28 and Isaiah 14. Christian theologians are welcome to interpret both as referring to the Great War before Creation, the Epos of Satan's [...]
on the myth of the “fallen angel”
"It was simply the law of Evolution that asserted itself; the progress of mental unfolding, differentiated from spirit, involved and entangled already with matter, into which it is irresistibility drawn. Ideas, in their very nature and essence, as conceptions bearing relation to objects, whether true or imaginary, are opposed to absolute THOUGHT, that unknowable [...]
on the myth of the “fallen angel”
"As the old Magian books explain it, the whole event becomes clear. A thing can only exists through its opposite - Hegel teaches us, and only a little philosophy and spirituality are needed to comprehend the origin of the later dogma, which is so truly satanic and infernal in its cold and cruel wickedness. [...]
on the myth of the “fallen angel”
"The Hebrew Elohim, called in the translations "God", and who create "light", are identical with the Aryan Asuras. They are also referred to as the "Sons of Darkness" as a philosophical and logical contrast to light immutable and eternal. The earliest Zoroastrians did not believe in Evil or Darkness being co-eternal with Good or [...]
on the myth of the “fallen angel”
"The first lesson taught in Esoteric philosophy is, that the incognizable Cause does not put forth evolution, whether consciously or unconsciously, but only exhibits periodically different aspects of itself to the perception of finite Minds. Now the collective Mind - the Universal - composed of various and numberless Hosts of Creative Powers, however infinite [...]
on the myth of the “fallen angel”
"For over sixteen centuries the new masks, forced on the faces of the old gods, have screened them from public curiosity, but they have finally proven a misfit. Yet the metaphorical FALL, and as metaphorical atonement and crucifixion, led Western Humanity through roads knee-deep in blood. Worse than all, they led it to [...]
on the myth of the “fallen angel”
"It is a well-known fact - to learned symbologists at all events - that in every great religion of antiquity, it is the Logos Demiurge (the second logos), or the first emanation from the mind (Mahat), who is made to strike, so to say, the keynote of that which may be called the correlation of [...]
on the myth of the “fallen angel”
"The Church enforces belief in a personal god and a personal devil, while Occultism shows the fallacy of such a belief. If our modern philosophers - preceded by the mediaeval scholars - have helped themselves to more than one fundamental idea of antiquity, theologians have built their God and his Archangels, their Satan and [...]
The Mark Of God: Understanding Your "I AM Presence" 