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isis unveiled: chapter IX (as above, so below…)

"Starting as a pure and perfect spiritual being, the Adam of the second chapter of Genesis, not satisfied with the position allotted to him by the Demiurgus (who is the eldest first-begotten, the Adam-Kadmon), Adam the second, the "man of dust", strives in his pride to become Creator in his turn. Evolved out of the [...]

isis unveiled: chapter IX (as above, so below…)

"It will be observed that this philosophy of cycles, which was allegorized by the Egyptian Hierophants in the "circle of necessity", explains at the same time the allegory of the "Fall of man". According to the Arabian descriptions, each of the seven chambers of the Pyramids - those grandest of all cosmic symbols - was [...]

isis unveiled: chapter IX (as above, so below…)

"In his lecture on the Action of Natural Selection on Man, Mr. Alfred R. Wallace concludes his demonstrations as to the development of human races under that law of selection by saying that, if his conclusions are just: "It must inevitably follow that the higher - the more intellectual and moral - must displace the [...]

isis unveiled: chapter IX (as above, so below…)

"Whether or not the men or science are willing to concede the correctness of the Hermetic theory of the physical evolution of man from higher and more spiritual natures, they themselves show us how the race has progressed from the lowest observed point to its present development. And, as all nature seems to be made [...]