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isis unveiled: chapter chapter VIII (our place among infinities)

"Think not my magic wonders wrought by aid, of Stygian angels summoned up from hell; scorned and accursed by those who have essay'd, her gloomy Divs and Afrites to compel. But by perception of the secret powers of mineral springs, in nature's inmost cell, of herbs in curtain of her greenest bowers, and of the [...]

understanding the “i am”…that is you…

"Now notice, action, Beloved Ones, is what you require; for anything static or still will not produce the result. Therefore when you call this forth into action, know that your "Presence" is the Treasure House. Then through you will flow the Current of Energy; and directly from your Higher Mental Body into persons, places, and [...]

isis unveiled: chapter chapter VII (thou great first cause)

"Like Cardon and Pompanatius, "who were no friends to the soul's immortality", as says Henry More, "Aristotle expressly concludes that the rational soul is both a distinct being from the soul of the world, though of the same essence", and that "it does preexist before it comes into the body." Years have rolled away since [...]

isis unveiled: chapter chapter VII (thou great first cause)

"Truly says Cudworth that the greatest ignorance of which our modern wiseacres accuse the ancients is their belief in the soul's immortality. Like the old skeptic of Greece, our scientists - to use an expression of the same Dr. Cudworth - are afraid that if they admit spirits and apparitions they must admit a God [...]