the goal of life or science and revelation: chapter ix (the manifestation of yahveh)

“Even as far back as the time of Descartes we find that he “rejected the atomic hypothesis, holding that there could be no vacuum in the universe, and making matter essentially synonymous with extension.” The most illustrious of our modern physicists, Lord Kelvin, considers ether as “an elastic solid filling all space.” If the huge [...]

the goal of life or science and revelation: chapter vii (the immensity of the universe)

“If, in addition to what we have just said concerning worlds and universes, we accept the probability that universes with their peopled worlds have been in existence from all eternity and are destined to continue to all eternity, and that these people are progressing, just as man is progressing at the present time on our [...]

the goal of life or science and revelation: chapter vii (the immensity of the universe)

“Pause to think a moment. What has been your ideal of God, the Creator of all these universes and systems of worlds? Is not the thought that has filled the minds of men for ages, that of a God in the form of a man, larger possibly than themselves, seated upon a throne somewhere in [...]

the goal of life or science and revelation: chapter vi (other worlds than ours)

“If the course of all worlds as well as the course of their inhabitants, is from the grosser to the finer, then the inevitable conclusion is that the sun, our parent world, must be a planet in a state of development so far beyond, so much more spiritualized than our world, that its light is [...]

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 [...]