Category: The Moon, Deus Lunus, Phoebe

"Lunar magnetism generates life, preserves and kills it.   The ancients taught the, so to speak, auto-generation of the Gods:  the one divine essence, unmanifested, perpetually begetting a second-self, manifested, which second-self, androgynous in its nature, gives birth in an immaculate way to everything macro- and micro-cosmical in this universe.   One of the most [...]

"Among the Semitic races, the sun was for a very long time feminine and the moon masculine - the latter notion being adopted by them from the Atlantean traditions.   The ignorance of the incipient reasons for such a distinction, and of occult principles, led the nations into anthropomorphic idol-worship.   But the religion of [...]

"In religious rites the moon served a dual purpose. Personified as a female goddess for exoteric purposes, or as a male god in allegory and symbol, in occult philosophy our satellite was regarded as a sexless Potency to be well studied, because it was to be dreaded.   With the initiated Aryans, Chaldeans, Greeks and [...]

"The whole pantheon of the lunar gods and goddesses, Nephthys or Neith, Proserpina, Mylitta, Cybele, Isis, Astarte, Venus, and Hecate, on the one hand, and Apollo, Dionysius, Adonis, Bacchus, Osiris, Atys, Thammuz, ect., etc., on the other, all show on the face of their names and titles - those of "Sons" and "Husbands" of their [...]

"No symbol - the sun included - was more complex in its manifold meanings than the lunar symbol.   The sex was, of course, dual. With some it was male, e.g., the Hindu "King Soma", and the Chaldean Sin; with other nations it was female, the beauteous goddess Diana-Luna, Eileithyia, Lucina.   But, we are [...]

"It is worth the trouble of presenting in this work a bird-eye's view of the origin and development of the lunar myth and worship in historical antiquity, on our side of the globe.   Whether the Egyptian or the Hindu religious philosophy is the more ancient - and the Secret Doctrine says it is the [...]

"She is the Queen and she is the King, and was King Soma before she became transformed into Phoebe and the chaste Diana.   She is pre-eminently the deity of the Christians, through the Mosaic and Kabbalistic Jews, though the civilized world may have remained ignorant of the fact for long ages;   in fact, [...]

"This archaic symbol is the most poetical of all symbols, as also the most philosophical. The ancient Greeks brought it into prominence, and the modern poets have worn it threadbare.   The Queen of the Night, riding in the majesty of her peerless light in heaven, throwing all, even Hesperos, into darkness, and spreading her [...]