By E. J. Langford Garstin, Tony Deluce
It is a solid overview of a restricted set of views on what many name Sacred fireplace. i believe the author's adventure used to be possibly too restricted in viewpoint. a lot of the point of interest is on details coming from the center East and Western Asia. that may not a destructive although, simply whatever to pay attention to. this can be a very huge subject and that i imagine a contemporary evaluation of it'll necessitate additional information from Africa, Australia, and the Americas.
Sometimes those "white sure" gnostic books may be tough to learn and excessively wordy. a part of that being because of the expectancies of where and time the writer is coming from. This paintings stretches in that course every now and then, yet isn't really difficult to comprehend.
This is an effective origin for individuals drawn to Sacred/Secret hearth, specially in the event that your heritage contains a lot of familiarity with Judeo-Christrian origins.
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Among our Sages, the spirit, in its capacity as that which unites soul and body, is said to be pre-eminent in the Magistery from start to finish; the soul is the substance for so long as it is volatile and fleeing from the fire; when, however, it is able to withstand the fire, it is known as body. This is the fixation aimed at, and is the explanation of Hermes in the Tractatus Aureus: "Take the flying volatile and drown it flying . . " The force of the body, therefore, is to be understood as prevailing over the soul, so that the latter remains with it, the spirit being joined with both in an indissoluble union which is the crown of the work.
The force of the body, therefore, is to be understood as prevailing over the soul, so that the latter remains with it, the spirit being joined with both in an indissoluble union which is the crown of the work. Seeing, then, that the body, as it were, perfects and retains the soul, imparting to it and the whole operation a real being; and since, on the other hand, the soul manifests its power in the body, and that all this is brought about by the mediation of the spirit, the body and the form are spoken of as one and the same thing, while the other two are called substance.
Our attention is drawn to tills fact by the rather generous Peter Bonus, who, in his New Pearl, is at pains to clear up tills point. As his remarks have a distinct bearing upon our last quotation, we venture to offer the reader a part of Mr. Waite's abbreviated translation of what he has to say on this point, which runs thus: "We say that the coagulum of the Sages is that which, in the preceding Chapters, has been called the ferment or the body or the poison or the flower of gold, wdiich is hidden in the Mercury of the Sages when it arises, and that Mercury is called the Milk.