Category: The Mundane Egg

"In the Orphic Hymns, the Eros-Phanes evolves from the divine Egg, which the Aethereal Winds impregnate, wind being "the Spirit of the Unknown Darkness" - "the spirit of God"; the divine "Idea", says Plato, "who is said to move Aether."   There are many charming allegories on the subject scattered through the sacred books of [...]

"As truly stated by [the French Masonic writer] Ragon, "the ancient Hierophants have combined so cleverly the dogmas and symbols of their religious philosophies, that these symbols can be fully explained only by the combination and knowledge of all the keys."   They can be only approximately interpreted, even if one finds out three out [...]

"Were it otherwise, why should all the ancient peoples, who were no more fools than we are, have had such a superstitious dread of killing certain birds?   In Egypt, he who killed an ibis, or the golden hawk - the symbol of the Sun and Osiris - risked and could hardly escape death. The [...]

"The symbolism of the Lunar and Solar Deities is so inextricably mixed up, that it is next to impossible to separate such glyphs as the egg, the lotus, and the "sacred" animals from each other.   The ibis, for instance, sacred to Isis, who is often represented with the head of that bird, sacred also [...]

"The second reason for its having been chosen as the symbolical representation of the Universe, and of our earth, was its form.   It was a Circle and a Sphere; and the ovi-form shape of our globe must have been known from the beginning of symbology, since it was so universally adopted.   The first manifestation [...]

"Whence this universal symbol?   The Egg was incorporated as a sacred sign in the cosmogony of every people on the earth, and was revered both on account of its form and its inner mystery.   From the earliest mental conceptions of man, it was known as that which represented most successfully the origin and [...]