isis unveiled, volume 2: chapter xii (gazing upon the unveiled truth)

“The greatest philosophers of antiquity found it neither unreasonable nor strange that “souls should come to souls, and impart to them conceptions of future things, occasionally by letters, or by a mere touch, or by a glance reveal to them past events or announce future ones”, as Ammonius tells us. Moreover, Lamprias and others held [...]

isis unveiled, volume 2: chapter xii (gazing upon the unveiled truth)

"Plotinus, as is well known, was a clairvoyant-seer during his whole and daily life; and yet, he had been united to his God but six times during the sixty-six years of his existence, as he himself confessed to Porphyry.” “Ammonius Sakkas, the “God-taught”, asserts that the only power which is directly opposed to soothsaying and looking [...]

isis unveiled, volume 2: chapter xii (gazing upon the unveiled truth)

“To sum up all in a few words, MAGIC is spiritual WISDOM; nature, the material ally, pupil and servant of the magician. One common vital principle pervades all things, and this is controllable by the perfected human will. The adept can stimulate the movements of the natural forces in plants and animals in a preternatural [...]

isis unveiled, volume 2: chapter xii (gazing upon the unveiled truth)

“Let us recapitulate very briefly: 1st. There is no miracle. Everything that happens is the result of law, eternal, immutable, ever active. Apparent miracle is but the operation of forces antagonistic to what Dr. W. B. Carpenter, F.R.S., a man of great learning but little knowledge, calls “the well-ascertained laws of nature.” Like many of [...]