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The Theosophist Monthly Journal devoted to Oriental Philosophy Art Literature and Occultism November 1882

1882

Through the veil of all the hieratic and mystic allegories of ancient doctrines through the gloom and fantastic trials of all the initiations beneath the seals of all sacred writings amidst the ruins of Nineveh or Thebes on the time worn fragments of the Old World temples and the mutilated faces of the Assyrian or Egyptian sphynx in the monstrous or wondrous paintings that translate to the I [...] The Black presented myrrh the symbol of Death and Night ; and the Brown presented the frankincense the symbol of Divinity and of the dogma which reconciles the antagonistic duads the V.4iverse.—Vituet p. 98."November 1882.1 THE THEOSOPHIST :37 hierarchical constitution of the Christian priesthood. [...] The philosopher's stone the universal medicine the transmutation of metals the quadrature of the circle and the secret of perpetual motion are therefore neither mystifications of science nor dreams of folly ; they are expressions which must be understood in their true signfication and which represent the different bearings of one and the same secret the different aspects of one and the [...] The crime of the King of Thebes lies not in having understood the sphynx but in having destroyed the rod (le Rau= flail) of Thebes without being sufficiently pure to complete the expiation in the name of its people ; soon the plague avenges the death of the sphynx and the King of Thebes forced to abdicate sacrifices himself to the terrible manes of the monster which is more living and devouri [...] To know enough of it to divulge or misuse it is to deserve all punisments ; to know it as it should be known to use wad hide it is to be Master of the Absolute.* All is comprehended in one word and in one word of four letters ; it is the Tetragram of the Hebrews the Azot of the alchemists the Thot of the gipseys and the Taro of the Kabalists.
philosophy religion
Pages
32
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120071
Segment Pages Author Actions
The Theosophist
27-52 unknown view
Supplement to the Theosophist
1-5 unknown view
Backmatter
i-i unknown view

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