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en/Theosophy/Light on the Path and Through the Gates of Gold.txt 63
The present edition of	LIGHT	ON THE PATH is a verbatim reprint of the 1888 edition (Geor
Q. Judge taken from his magazine, _The Path_, March, 1887. *	Light	on the Path* _A Treatise_ WRITTEN FOR THE PERSONAL USE OF T
NFLUENCE _Written down by_ M.C. _with Notes by the Author_ *	LIGHT	ON THE PATH* LIGHT ON THE PATH I These rules are written fo
own by_ M.C. _with Notes by the Author_ LIGHT ON THE PATH	LIGHT	ON THE PATH I These rules are written for all disciples: At
only that which is unattainable. 12. For within you is the	light	of the world--the only light that can be shed upon the Path
ble. 12. For within you is the light of the world--the only	light	that can be shed upon the Path. If you are unable to percei
attainable, because it for ever recedes. You will enter the	light	, but you will never touch the flame. 13. Desire power arden
that burns within. Steadily, as you watch and worship, its	light	will grow stronger. Then you may know you have found the be
e beginning of the way. And when you have found the end its	light	will suddenly become the infinite light. 21. Look for the f
e found the end its light will suddenly become the infinite	light	. 21. Look for the flower to bloom in the silence that follo
our own heart. 12. For through your own heart comes the one	light	which can illuminate life and make it clear to your eyes. S
divinity no law can be framed, no guide can exist. Yet to en	light	en the disciple, the final struggle may be thus expressed: H
n. _Note on Rule 17._--These four words seem, perhaps, too s	light	to stand alone. The disciple may say, Should I study these
he beginning of the way the star of your soul will show its	light	; and by that light you will perceive how great is the darkn
way the star of your soul will show its light; and by that	light	you will perceive how great is the darkness in which it bur
terrified by this sight; keep your eyes fixed on the small	light	and it will grow. But let the darkness within help you to u
ou to understand the helplessness of those who have seen no	light	, whose souls are in profound gloom. Blame them not, shrink
nd profound sadness, but also a great and ever-increasing de	light	. _Note on Rule 21._--The opening of the bloom is the glorio
ise is to achieve the great task of gazing upon the blazing	light	without dropping the eyes and not falling back in terror, a
rs to the melody of his heart, as he blinds his eyes to the	light	of his soul. He does this because he finds it easier to liv
se to put into new and sometimes plainer language parts of "	Light	on the Path"; but whether this effort of mine will really b
uch as these I address myself. The very first aphorisms of "	Light	on the Path," included under Number I, have, I know well, r
rstand fully. The four truths written on the first page of "	Light	on the Path," refer to the trial initiation of the would-be
stars, as Locke pointed out, are luminous bodies which give	light	of themselves. This quality is characteristic of the life w
am content to use it for my present purpose. The whole of "	Light	on the Path" is written in an astral cipher and can therefo
es such as he sees are fittest. All the rules contained in "	Light	on the Path," are written for all disciples, but only for d
are the astral, or inner senses. No man desires to see that	light	which illumines the spaceless soul until pain and sorrow an
ecomes that strange thing, a being which cannot see its own	light	, a thing of life which will not live, an astral animal whic
nsation, then all is blurred, the windows are darkened, the	light	is useless. This is as literal a fact as that if a man, at
no one else can do it for him. The first four aphorisms of "	Light	on the Path," refer entirely to astral development. This de
ught to bear on the trembling soul, which has not yet found	light	in the darkness, which is helpless as a blind man is, and u
MUST HAVE LOST ITS SENSITIVENESS." The first four rules of "	Light	on the Path" are, undoubtedly, curious though the statement
e sounds which affect the personal life. Laughter no longer	light	ens the heart, anger may no longer enrage it, tender words b
erature and of art, when poets and sculptors saw the divine	light	, and put it into their own great language--these days lie b
een learned--in that inner place there leaps into flame the	light	of actual knowledge. Then the ears begin to hear. Very diml
nger wishes to take, it is called upon to give abundantly. "	Light	on the Path" has been called a book of paradoxes, and very
xplain a little the way in which the rules written down in "	Light	on the Path" are arranged. The first seven of those which a
gods till he has penetrated to the deep places where their	light	shines not at all. He has come within the grip of an iron l
or desire of postponement, in the full blaze of the divine	light	which penetrates through and through his being. Then he has
ofound, that only those who follow in his steps can see the	light	within them. IV What men desire is to ascertain how to exch
different nations, the poetry and the philosophy left by en	light	ened minds, and find in it all the merest materiality. Imagi
t in one layer or another of sensation he finds his chief de	light	. Naturally he turns to this systematically through life, ju
ultured. But he only is so while he is ignorant; the moment	light	enters the dim mind the whole man turns towards it. So it i
ly the difficulty of penetrating the mind, of admitting the	light	, is even greater. The Irish peasant loves his whiskey, and
h the body or the brain. The pleasures of art, of music, of	light	and loveliness,--within these forms, which men repeat till
hesitation if he means to live. Some infants born into the	light	of earth shrink from it, and refuse to attack the immense t
ned out and charred that from the very vigor of the passion	light	leaps forth. It would seem more possible for such a man at
t will bear living fruit, a sky that will be always full of	light	. Needing this positively, we shall surely find it. CHAPTER
g the perfect devil, for there is still the spark of divine	light	within him. He tries to choose the broad road which leads t
hanism of the human frame is constructed to answer to their	light	est touch; the extraordinary intricacies of human relations
e has had release given him; and with a sudden passion of de	light	he recognises that it is release. Had; he been sure of this
o the psychic world, and depends now on the psychic air and	light	. His goal is not here: this is but a subtile repetition of
en in the heart of the world and in the heart of man is the	light	which can illumine all life, the future and the past. Shall
le book for guidance in Mysticism which has appeared since _	Light	on the Path_ was written has just been published under the
rtain respects the book may be regarded as a commentary on _	Light	on the Path_. The reader would do well to bear this in mind
and learn its nature and meaning. An important teaching of _	Light	on the Path_ has been misread by many. We are not enjoined
The author here wishes to show that there is sweetness and	light	in occultism, and not merely a wide dry level of dreadful K
Theosophists are prone to dwell on. And this sweetness and	light	may be reached when we discover the iron bar and raising it
n the outside in just the way pointed out in this book and _	Light	on the Path_, by testing experience and learning from it. I
e doors are fixed. It is beyond it that the glorious golden	light	burns, and throws up a "burnished glow." We find in this th
eaning of Pain" is considered in a way which throws a great	light	on the existence of that which for ages has puzzled many le
ted, and he has taught the three truths to all who look for	light	." There are three sentences in the book which ought to be i
idden in the heart of the world and the heart of man is the	light	which can illumine all life, the future and the past." "On
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1 PREFACE "_Seeking for freedom I go to that God who is the	light	of his own thoughts. A man who knows him truly passes over
Eternal. No less should the reader guard himself against a s	light	estimate arising from the exquisite modesty of Z. An occult
otprints of a comrade upon the rugged Path, above which the	light	of Truth ever shines. Yet even this light is not always a c
, above which the light of Truth ever shines. Yet even this	light	is not always a clear splendor. It may seem "in the daytime
hat he cannot be "porous to thought, bibulous of the sea of	light	". To the refinement and dispersal of this lower self--of th
away and he stands, at last, a free soul, in the celestial	Light	which is Freedom itself, obedient only to the Law of its ow
er lives you gave it to others. In every effort you made to	light	en another mind and open it to Truth, you were helped yourse
," and thus gets little by little in possession of the true	light	. Never lose, then, that attitude of mind. Hold fast in sile
us the giant weed of self, which is the giant spoken of in _	Light	on the Path_. As to the Theosophical Society, all should be
are in the right path. In America it is as easy to find the	Light	of Lights as in India, but all around you are those who do
e right path. In America it is as easy to find the Light of	Light	s as in India, but all around you are those who do not know
s. Often they are "apparitions in Brahm." They are like new	light	s and sights to a mariner on an unfamiliar coast. They will
eve its forms and all the pictures and shapes in the astral	light	to be real. Only the adept sees through these illusions, wh
d not that higher and purified quality which the author of _	Light	on the Path_ calls the "divine astral." By anxiety we exert
on carelessness. Assert to yourself that it is not of the s	light	est consequence what you were yesterday, but in every moment
the occasional despondencies which all feel, but which the	light	of Truth always dispels. This verse always settles everythi
at all. Underneath its shell is the living spirit that will	light	us all. I read it ten times before I saw things that I did
rths, in seven years, or in seven minutes. The sentence in _	Light	on the Path_ referred to by so many students is not so diff
ward reflect them, and this reflection may inform them with	light	and power of their own kind. Spirituality is not virtue. It
o really do stay, and soon after this news came and threw a	light	--a red one, so to say--upon the information of H's retreat.
search, but do not maintain the attitude of despair or the s	light	est repining. Not that you do. I cannot find the right words
natural changes, knowing that if the eye is fixed where the	light	shines, we shall presently know what to do. This hour is no
bond that rests in the highest Law. It is not a thing to be	light	ly done, because its consequences are of a serious nature. N
matter of _adoption_; a most sacred and valuable thing, not	light	ly taken up or lightly dropped. For the Guru becomes for the
; a most sacred and valuable thing, not lightly taken up or	light	ly dropped. For the Guru becomes for the time the spiritual
rmulate his desires, even to his own mind, for he would not	light	ly make demands upon the Law; but he at last determined to p
rve Truth and the Law as a chela should, always seeking for	light	and for further aid if possible, recognizing meanwhile that
in him lay, the duties of that place, living up to all the	light	he had. For he held that a disciple should always think and
on. No Master appealed to by a sincere soul who thirsts for	light	and knowledge, has ever turned his face away from the suppl
shadow of bitterness and sorrow that the opposing powers de	light	in throwing over the pilgrim on his way to the Gates of Lig
ght in throwing over the pilgrim on his way to the Gates of	Light	, the candidate perceives that shining Light very soon in hi
to the Gates of Light, the candidate perceives that shining	Light	very soon in his own soul, and he has but to follow it. Let
of the psychic senses for the reflex of the great spiritual	Light	; that Light which dieth not, yet never lives, nor can it sh
ic senses for the reflex of the great spiritual Light; that	Light	which dieth not, yet never lives, nor can it shine elsewher
that. But if otherwise, you are to work for the spiritual en	light	enment of Humanity in and through the Theosophical Society (
e instance will suffice. One may see pictures in the astral	light	through the back of the head or the stomach. In neither pla
ute you, my Brother, and wish you to reach the terrace of en	light	enment. Z. [Footnote D: Through its negative or passive qual
the Altar _June, 1905_ THE MASTER'S LOVE IS BOUNTIFUL; ITS	LIGHT	SHINES UPON THY FACE AND SHALL MAKE ALL THE CROOKED WAYS ST
d out to me the way that must bring us, if followed, to the	light	and peace and power of truth--is so dear to me, I would fai
and hope, and best thoughts that you may all find the great	light	shining around you every day. It is there. Your brother, WI
n and on ourselves, each one. That has for its object the en	light	enment of oneself for the good of others. If that is pursued
for the good of others. If that is pursued selfishly some en	light	enment comes, but not the amount needed for the whole work.
e will not bring on that shadow too soon and not until some	light	is ready to fall at the same time for breaking up the darkn
or breaking up the darkness. Masters could give now all the	light	and knowledge needed, but there is too much darkness that w
ut there is too much darkness that would swallow up all the	light	, except for a few bright souls, and then a greater darkness
ole. We have, each one of us, to make ourselves a centre of	light	; a picture gallery from which shall be projected on the ast
picture gallery from which shall be projected on the astral	light	such scenes, such influences, such thoughts, as may influen
e easy, and if thus easily raised could it shine into and en	light	en the whole world of the West, then, indeed, were the time
igh on the circular path of evolution now rolling West, the	light	that lighteth every man who cometh into the world--the ligh
circular path of evolution now rolling West, the light that	light	eth every man who cometh into the world--the light of the tr
ight that lighteth every man who cometh into the world--the	light	of the true self, who is the one true Master for every huma
hands us the nugget, that is all we get at the time. So a s	light	reticence often results in our going at the digging ourselv
y doubt that he, if he tells true tales, sees in the astral	light	. The description of things "moving about like fishes in the
y, as premised above, be settled that he sees in the astral	light	. He should know that that astral light exists in all places
e sees in the astral light. He should know that that astral	light	exists in all places and interpenetrates everything, and is
her should he know that to be able to see as he sees in the	light	is not _all_ of the seeing thus. That is, there are many so
t there are "layers" or differences of states in the astral	light	. Another way to state it is that elementals are constantly
e it is that elementals are constantly moving in the astral	light	--that is, everywhere. They, so to say, show pictures to him
partial forms" in common with the energic centres in astral	light	. So that it must follow that no matter how much we and they
the others (like you and _your_ friends) indulged in some s	light	critiques on your friend, but they were small and coupled w
mall and coupled with sincere and kind thoughts up to their	light	s, no matter how large and bitter all this was made by maya
g pieces of steel and strips of diamond and flashes of long	light	that has no harshness, and a big, big spring all the way th
g so, I can only look at the Society and its work (under my	light	s) as the best available channel for my actions in the effor
n. The spiral movement is the double movement of the astral	light	, one spiral inside the other. The diastole and systole of t
, I stated all you say but I didn't know it. Now your clear	light	falls upon it and I see it well. But fear not. You got so f
ter, feeling dark in consequence of various causes, sees no	light	. This is merely the slough of despond, I tell him. We know
is is merely the slough of despond, I tell him. We know the	light	is ahead, and the experience of others shows that the darke
ed inevitably because they rush ahead along the road to the	light	. In the _Finnish Epic_ it is said that guarding a certain p
elp, so do others who are wandering in darkness seeking for	light	." XII. To-day I got your wire, "---- very low." This is a s
ossible the feeling of brotherhood. Now then, you want more	light	, and this is what you must do. You will have to "give up" s
clothes him thus. Hence a person may be seen in the astral	light	wearing there a suit of clothes utterly unlike what he has
rapidity with which all things come to pass in it. A very s	light	cause produces gigantic effects. To aspire ever so little n
that let us take comfort. All things in this age move like	light	ning and so with all our Karma, though mine has so often see
r Christmas and New Year, and may there be some sunshine to	light	the path. I send you my love unsullied by a mere gift. I ho
elevator, and glass, bricks and water were falling down the	light	well, while the fire on the top stories of it roared and ma
le the fire on the top stories of it roared and made a fine	light	, and streams of fire ran down the oily elevator pipes on th
stral body formation, clairvoyance, looking into the astral	light	, and controlling elementals is all possible, but not all pr
current, which when resisted in the carbon produces intense	light	, may be brought into existence by any ignoramus who has the
occultism is clearly set forth in the _Bhagavat Gita_ and _	Light	on the Path_, where sufficient stress is laid upon practica
ence and the kingly mystery is devotion to and study of the	light	which comes from within. The very first step in true mystic
e and to persevere in, that all may in time obtain the true	light	. * * * * * THE LIGHT OF THE EYE FADETH, THE HEARING LEAVETH
, that all may in time obtain the true light. * * * * * THE	LIGHT	OF THE EYE FADETH, THE HEARING LEAVETH THE EAR, BUT THE POW
s his disciple and his friend, will tell thee the truth and	light	en up the darkness with the lamp of spiritual knowledge. * *
to the judgment of your Higher Self, you will at last gain	light	. * * * * * Now as to _The Voice of the Silence_ and the cyc
l and a new belief, and from it will come strength and also	light	. Try this plan. It is purely occult, simple, and powerful.
ays on the Higher Self, and looking to it for knowledge and	light	, pictures or no pictures. XXVI. ON WORK. Yes, that business
be. The duty of another is full of danger. May you have the	light	to see and to do! Tell ---- to work to the end to make hims
to realise it more and more each day and you will have the	light	you want.... If you will look for wisdom you will get it su
fatigable mind. One idea with which he occupied some of his	light	er moments, was that of an occult novel. It was his idea tha
urns badly; the wood seems green; he blows it up; it burns s	light	ly; he hears the voices of the disputers and sellers below;
sh colour unusual for such hair. Skin clear with a shifting	light	flowing from it. Sensitive face; blushes easily but now and
omrades reborn in Spain who searches like Nicodemus for the	light	. _Note._--Yes. Eusebio de Undiano finds in his father's par
strangers went on with the ceremonies, and all the while a	light	filled the building and music from the air floated over the
in my palm under the cloth so that it stood out in lines of	light	before my eyes. He went away with no other word, as you kno
own plan in a moment if a better were suggested, and was de	light	ed if someone would carry on the work he had devised, and im
ance equal to twice around the globe, ... there is not the s	light	est doubt of his connection with and service of the Great Lo
of his thoughts and actions, but his body would sometimes s	light	ly modify their expression.... Mr. Judge told me in December
W. Q. J. was splendidly human: and he manifested in a way de	light	fully refreshing and all his own that most rare of human cha
t account. And he had the power to act with the rapidity of	light	ning when the time for action came. We can now afford to con
airs that his coming was always a pleasure and his stay a de	light	. The children hung about him fondly as he would sit after d
. And he works with them." JULIA W. L. KEIGHTLEY. "A STRONG	LIGHT	SURROUNDED BY DARKNESS; THOUGH REACHING FAR AND MAKING CLEA
with Notes, by William Q. Judge. Leather, 1.50 Cloth, 1.25	LIGHT	ON THE PATH. A treatise for the personal use of those who a
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TION XIV. THE “THEOSOPHICAL MAHATMAS”: Are They “Spirits of	Light	” or “Goblins Damn’d”? 228 The Abuse of Sacred Names and Ter
s shown to have been more tolerant than they are in this _en	light	ened_ century. ENQ. Was he encouraged and supported by the C
move the clouds from thy eyes and enable thee to see by the	light	which issues from themselves, not what appears as good to t
c theology of the Churches and Sects. _Buddha_ means the “En	light	ened” by _Bodha_, or understanding, Wisdom. This has passed
ionalists, and sceptics of every kind: To just-minded and en	light	ened Mohammedans, Jews, and oriental Patriarch-religionists:
end of Luther. Orthodoxy never desired to be informed and en	light	ened. These reformers were informed, as was Paul by Festus,
sophist, practising the powers called abnormal, _minus_ the	light	of Occultism, will simply tend toward a dangerous form of m
sophy, however, let me read to you what the able editor of _	Light	_, than whom the Spiritualists will find no wiser nor more d
w unto himself, and a thorn in the side of his neighbours.—_	Light	_, June 22, 1889. ENQ. I was told that the Theosophical Soci
ven materialistic science teaches that any injury, however s	light	, to a plant will affect the whole course of its future grow
d just? THEO. Most assuredly. To any man or woman with the s	light	est honourable feeling a pledge of secrecy taken even on one
man body, on the pure spirit which sheds thereon its divine	light	. Is this just to either? They throw stones at an associatio
hite ray_ itself, and anathematizes even its own tints from	light	to dark, as heresies. Yet, as the sun of truth rises higher
ons, but will find itself bathing in the pure colourless sun	light	of eternal truth. And this will be _Theosophia_. ENQ. Your
ssing their _Higher_ Spiritual Ego immersed in Atma-Buddhic	light	, “Thy will be done, not mine,” etc., send up waves of will-
find in the Bible. THEO. Of course you do. But since you de	light	in calling yourselves Christians, not Israelites or Jews, a
personal temporary Ego and the Higher Self, which sheds its	light	on the imperishable Ego, the spiritual “I” of man. VI. THEO
l the sudden flashes of the _Aurora borealis_, the Northern	light	s, a “reality,” though it is as real as can be while you loo
v, in the 1st chapter of St. John, and say “and (Absolute)	light	(which is darkness) shineth in darkness (which is illusiona
arkness) shineth in darkness (which is illusionary material	light	); and the darkness comprehendeth it not.” This absolute lig
ght); and the darkness comprehendeth it not.” This absolute	light	is also absolute and immutable law. Whether by radiation or
_Esoteric Buddhism_? THEO. Just so. These theories may be s	light	ly incorrect in their minor details, and even faulty in thei
n its \| human mind, whose \| destiny of man U { functions. \|	light	, or radiation, \| depend on whether P { \| links the MONAD, f
but this is too abstruse and difficult a question to touch	light	ly upon. We shall have to analyse them separately, and then
pervades the whole body being only its omnipresent rays, or	light	, radiated through _Buddhi_, its vehicle and direct emanatio
n that the human Spirit, detaching itself from the ocean of	light	and Universal Spirit, enters man’s Soul, where it remains t
re all immortal, been demonstrated to the world in its true	light	, humanity would have been bettered by its propagation. Let
hole. Both were originally formed from the Eternal Ocean of	light	; but as the Fire-Philosophers, the mediæval Theosophists, e
er to be able to look without injury into the mirror, whose	light	proceeds from the Lord of Light.” Moreover, the _Zohar_ tea
jury into the mirror, whose light proceeds from the Lord of	Light	.” Moreover, the _Zohar_ teaches that the soul cannot reach
ecomest an embryo, and against thy will thou art born.”[29]	Light	would be incomprehensible without darkness to make it manif
gion, “Moksha”; among the Gnostics, “The Pleroma of Eternal	Light	”; and by the Buddhists, “Nirvana.” And all these states are
, which gives life and motion and partakes of the nature of	light	, be reduced to nonentity?” “Can even that sensitive spirit
we have seen it, it is gone like an instantaneous flash of	light	ning, and passed for ever. When the Spiritual _entity_ break
surd objections laboriously spun by them over the pages of _	Light	_. So obtuse and malicious are some of them, that they will
on this plane of matter, but like the Moon, who borrows her	light	from the Sun and her life from the Earth, so _Buddhi_, rece
Sun and her life from the Earth, so _Buddhi_, receiving its	light	of Wisdom from Atma, gets its rational qualities from _Mana
hy, however, regard _reminiscence_ in an entirely different	light	. For us, while _memory_ is physical and evanescent and depe
most marked Karmic effects) are as evanescent as a flash of	light	ning, and cannot impress the new brain of the new personalit
“Higher Self,” is neither your Spirit nor mine, but like sun	light	shines on all. It is the universally diffused “_divine prin
solute _Meta_-Spirit, as the sunbeam is inseparable from sun	light	. II. _Buddhi_ (the spiritual soul) is only its vehicle. Nei
llectively, are of any more use to the body of man, then sun	light	and its beams are for a mass of granite buried in the earth
ile these are born in the gutter, others open their eyes to	light	in palaces; while a noble birth and fortune seem often give
began in Nirvana, or the subjective side of nature, as the	light	or heat undulation through æther began at its dynamic sourc
of the latter, the animal intelligence, no longer receiving	light	from the higher mind, and no longer having a physical brain
n it dissolves in the hand or on the sand, especially in sun	light	. In the medium’s Aura, it lives a kind of vicarious life an
of mental suffering! And yet, the columns of the “Banner of	Light	,” the veteran journal of the American Spiritualists, are fi
in your argument. I confess to having never seen it in this	light	. THEO. Just so, and one must be selfish to the core and utt
with the first, because it is the same Manas only with the	light	of Buddhi reflected on it. In its turn, Buddhi would remain
istence; on the other hand, since he does not preserve the s	light	est recollection of it in his actual life, and feels himself
ore, and even months and years ago. But none of us has the s	light	est recollection of a preceding life or of any fact or event
everal stations during a long railway journey, without the s	light	est recollection or consciousness, and awake at another stat
be described as radiant mind; the _human_ reason lit by the	light	of the spirit; and Buddhi-Manas is the revelation of the di
spiritual consciousness, the Manasic mind illumined by the	light	of Buddhi, that which subjectively perceives abstractions;
ctions; and the sentient consciousness (the lower _Manasic_	light	), inseparable from our physical brain and senses. This latt
tomatically—such experiences, and often failing to be even s	light	ly impressed by them. ENQ. But how is it that MANAS, althoug
em.[52] When the blessed will ascend among the creatures of	Light	, they shall see Iavar-Xivo, _Lord of_ LIFE, and the FIRST V
odied spirits—or the “spirits of the dead”—would you mind en	light	ening me as to one more fact? Why are some Theosophists neve
, with the face of an angel, gathering up cherrystones as a	light	and nutritious form of diet. I came westward with every ner
hrough study and meditation its intricate paths, and throws	light	on those dark ways, in the windings of which so many men pe
uisite beauty of Edwin Arnold’s exposition of Karma in ‘The	Light	of Asia’ tempts to its reproduction here, but it is too lon
countrymen by England’s favourite preachers, right in the ‘	light	of the XIXth century,’” this most paradoxical age of all. N
d you consider such due not given? THEO. When there is the s	light	est invasion of another’s right—be that other a man or a nat
them consolation, mental and physical. He threw a streak of	light	into the black and dreary night of an existence, the hopele
how are we to reach such an elevated status? THEO. By the en	light	ened application of our precepts to practice. By the use of
, never touch it at all. It is the duty of a Theosophist to	light	en his burden by thinking of the wise aphorism of Epictetus,
opportunity to show yourselves and your work in their true	light	? THEO. How, or when, have we been given such an opportunity
blood boil to hear such vile accusations made without the s	light	est foundation, and on the strength of mere inferences. Ask
us!” XIV. THE “THEOSOPHICAL MAHATMAS.” ARE THEY “SPIRITS OF	LIGHT	” OR “GOBLINS DAMN’D”? ENQ. Who are they, finally, those who
oin. Nothing can exist without its contrast, and no day, no	light	, no good could have any representation as such in your cons
things less clever than this. At any rate, we have not the s	light	est objection to this theory. As she always says now, she al
fools will have it so. Really, Mme. Blavatsky has not the s	light	est objection to being represented by her enemies as a _trip
sands of men have been held back from the path of truth and	light	through the discredit and evil report which such shams, swi
t-Land_, and now ends with the “Adept” and “Author” of _The	Light	of Egypt_, a work written by Spiritualists against Theosoph
ich is everywhere apparent around us to-day. ENQ. A truly de	light	ful picture! But tell me, do you really expect all this to b
with Notes, by William Q. Judge. Leather, 1.50 Cloth, 1.25	LIGHT	ON THE PATH. A treatise for the personal use of those who a
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ing its body. Gradually it disappeared, to leave a lustrous	light	, soft and silvery, as though the window-panes behind reflec
ith a face so thin, so pale, yellow and emaciated, that the	light	of the solitary little student’s lamp was reflected in two
seemed to settle beside my bed. [Illustration: “I NOTICED A	LIGHT	FLASHING FROM UNDER HIS PEN, A BRIGHT COLORED SPARK THAT BE
at every word traced by the feeble, aged hand, I noticed a	light	flashing from under his pen, a bright colored spark that be
ho follow the doctrines of Lao-tze. No wonder, that at the s	light	est provocation on my part the priest flew into the highest
I felt—or shall I say, saw—as though it were a sharp ray of	light	, a thin silvery thread, shoot out from the intensely black
very object in it, trembled and danced in a reddish glowing	light	, and seemed to float rapidly away from “me.” A few more gro
, when the full remembrance of what I had just seen flashed	light	ning-like into my brain. Uttering a cry of horror and despai
that I could ever regard the vision I had had, in any other	light	save that of an empty dream, and his Yamabooshi as anything
e state lasts, a creature like itself. Bereft of his divine	light	, man is but a soulless being; hence during the time of such
love and spiritual aspirations, the efflux from the eternal	light	; and the plane of restless, ever changing matter, the light
light; and the plane of restless, ever changing matter, the	light	in which the misguided Daij-Dzins bathe.” VII ETERNITY IN A
self of the quotation, than I saw in that halo of vibrating	light	, which I now noticed almost constantly over every human hea
e’er repassed,” its consciousness was still in the gray twi	light	, the first shadows of the great Mystery. Thus my THOUGHT wr
repetition of visions and events, as an hour of darkened sun	light	compared to a deadly cyclone. Oh! how I suffered in this we
ernity_.”... The clock had vanished, darkness made room for	light	, the voice of my old friend was drowned by a multitude of v
passed through which he emerges into a lofty cavern, feebly	light	ed through fissures in the vaulted roof, fifty feet from the
and the platform beside the bottomless lake glittered with	light	s. Hundreds of flickering candles and torches, stuck in the
lake. The water itself, whose surface, illuminated by many	light	s, had previously been smooth as a sheet of glass, became su
ce. THE LUMINOUS SHIELD We were a small and select party of	light	-hearted travelers. We had arrived at Constantinople a week
thickly strewn with sand as in a riding school, and it was	light	ed only by small windows placed at some height from the grou
hole bored in it, through which entered a bright ray of sun	light	that shot through the darkened room and shone upon the girl
hen occurred: the room, which had been previously partially	light	ed by the sunbeam, grew darker and darker as the star increa
nd we no longer saw the dwarf, who seemed absorbed into its	light	. Having gradually attained an extremely rapid velocity, as
ty. The dervish made an hasty motion to enjoin silence; the	light	on the disk quivers, but resumes its steady brilliancy, and
carriage, I at once drove to the Ministry of Finance, and a	light	ing with the guide, hurriedly made for the ditch I had seen
o economize still more with our meager provisions, fuel and	light	. Lamps were used only for scientific purposes: the rest of
the rest of the time we had to content ourselves with God’s	light	—the moon and the Aurora Borealis.... But how describe these
.... But how describe these glorious, incomparable northern	light	s! Rings, arrows, gigantic conflagrations of accurately divi
rays of the most vivid and varied colors. The November moon	light	nights were as gorgeous. The play of moonbeams on the snow
e end of November to about the middle of March we had no twi	light	s at all, to distinguish the one from the other—we suddenly
existence had been one long day of dreams, of melody and sun	light	, and he had never felt any other aspirations. How useless,
e of his day-dreams. “Oh, that I could only span in spirit f	light	the abyss of Time! Oh, that I could find myself for one sho
morse; but selling the modest household goods and chattels,	light	in purse and heart, he resolved to travel on foot for a yea
s smiling on him, and the sovereign of the gloomy regions de	light	ed, and awarding preference to his violin over the lyre of O
wspapers were limited, and the wings of fame had a heavier f	light	than they have now. Franz had hardly heard of Paganini; and
z turned his eyes upon his old master. There was a sinister	light	burning in those glittering orbs; a light telling plainly t
re was a sinister light burning in those glittering orbs; a	light	telling plainly that, to secure such a power, he, too, woul
d which separated their two bedrooms. The fire had not been	light	ed since the embers had died out on the previous night, and
back a glance as calm and determined as his own, Paganini s	light	ly bowed, and then dryly said: “Sir, it shall be as you desi
of the unknown German artist. When Franz approached the foot	light	s, he was received with icy coldness. But for all that, he d
l-bound, and unable to break the spell of the music by the s	light	est motion. They experienced all the illicit enervating deli
htest motion. They experienced all the illicit enervating de	light	s of the paradise of Mahommed, that come into the disordered
s among prodigious musical feats—imitating the precipitate f	light	of the witches before bright dawn; of the unholy women satu
hen—a strange thing came to pass on the stage. Without the s	light	est transition, the notes suddenly changed. In their aerial
st transition, the notes suddenly changed. In their aerial f	light	of ascension and descent, their melody was unexpectedly alt
ce more motionless, and stood petrified as though struck by	light	ning. What all saw was terrible enough—the handsome though w
former. He was found dead and already stiff, behind the foot	light	s, twisted up into the most unnatural of postures, with the
dge) .15 =Hypnotism: Theosophical views on= (40 pages) .15 =	Light	on the Path=; (M. C.) with comments, Bound in black leather
chism, Ghostology, and the Astral Plane. No. 10. The Astral	Light	. No. 11. Psychometry, Clairvoyance, and Thought-Transferenc
ents_: Education Through Illusion to Truth—Astronomy in the	Light	of Ancient Wisdom—Occultism and Magic—Resurrection =Script
ophy and Islam, a word concerning Sufism—Archaeology in the	light	of Theosophy—Man, a Spiritual Builder THEOSOPHICAL PERIODIC
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his study of the poem, breaks forth into this outburst of de	light	and praise towards its unknown author: "Magistrorum reveren
lth and ease, Thus sadly won! Aho! what victory Can bring de	light	, Govinda! what rich spoils Could profit; what rule recompen
ilty, we shall grow guilty by their deaths; Their sins will	light	on us, if we shall slay Those sons of Dhritirashtra, and ou
e-- We who perceive the guilt and feel the shame-- O thou De	light	of Men, Janardana? By overthrow of houses perisheth Their s
ayeth, "These will I wear to-day!" So putteth by the spirit	Light	ly its garb of flesh, And passeth to inherit A residence afr
astery, Shows wisdom perfect. What is midnight-gloom To unen	light	ened souls shines wakeful day To his clear gaze; what seems
! Even as the unknowing toil, wedded to sense, So let the en	light	ened toil, sense-freed, but set To bring the world deliveran
, slow and dull. Those make thou not to stumble, having the	light	; But all thy dues discharging, for My sake, With meditation
he sense will stir the sense To like and dislike, yet th' en	light	ened man Yields not to these, knowing them enemies. Finally,
oga, this deep union, I taught Vivaswata,[FN#6] the Lord of	Light	; Vivaswata to Manu gave it; he To Ikshwaku; so passed it do
ve the gods With flesh and altar-smoke; but other some Who,	light	ing subtler fires, make purer rite With will of worship. Of
in white flame of continence, consume Joys of the sense, de	light	s of eye and ear, Forgoing tender speech and sound of song:
hed doubt, Disparting self from service, soul from works, En	light	ened and emancipate, my Prince! Works fetter him no more! Cu
"opposites."[FN#8] O valiant Prince! In doing, such breaks	light	ly from all deed: 'Tis the new scholar talks as they were tw
ledge. But, for whom That darkness of the soul is chased by	light	, Splendid and clear shines manifest the Truth As if a Sun o
ins flung off By strength of faith. [Who will may have this	Light	; Who hath it sees.] To him who wisely sees, The Brahman wit
is blest! He is the Yukta; he hath happiness, Contentment,	light	, within: his life is merged In Brahma's life; he doth Nirva
nce! Is Sanyasi and Yogi--both in one And he is neither who	light	s not the flame Of sacrifice, nor setteth hand to task. Rega
ry and shame. He is the Yogi, he is Yukta, glad With joy of	light	and truth; dwelling apart Upon a peak, with senses subjugat
rince! By wont of self-command. This Yog, I say, Cometh not	light	ly to th' ungoverned ones; But he who will be master of hims
ng the perfect rule? Is he not lost, straying from Brahma's	light	, Like the vain cloud, which floats 'twixt earth and heaven
e the vain cloud, which floats 'twixt earth and heaven When	light	ning splits it, and it vanisheth? Fain would I hear thee ans
ood sweet smell Of the moistened earth, I am the fire's red	light	, The vital air moving in all which moves, The holiness of h
And he who toils to help; and he who sits Certain of me, en	light	ened. Of these four, O Prince of India! highest, nearest, be
s,-- A royal lore! a Kingly mystery! Yea! for the soul such	light	as purgeth it From every sin; a light of holiness With inmo
ea! for the soul such light as purgeth it From every sin; a	light	of holiness With inmost splendour shining; plain to see; Ea
n, and wise, Who seeth Me, Lord of the Worlds, with faith-en	light	ened eyes, Unborn, undying, unbegun. Whatever Natures be To
tributed, those natures spring from Me! Intellect, skill, en	light	enment, endurance, self-control, Truthfulness, equability, a
earances, The secrets of Thy Majesty and Might, Thou High De	light	of Men! Never enough Can mine ears drink the Amrit[FN#18] o
ord they depart! Vishnu of the Adityas I am, those Lords of	Light	; Maritchi of the Maruts, the Kings of Storm and Blight; By
s of Light; Maritchi of the Maruts, the Kings of Storm and B	light	; By day I gleam, the golden Sun of burning cloudless Noon;
which seizes all, and joyous sudden Birth, Which brings to	light	all beings that are to be on earth; And of the viewless vir
t! Therefore I give thee sense divine. Have other eyes, new	light	! And, look! This is My glory, unveiled to mortal sight! San
shell, the discus; see Thee burning In beams insufferable,	Light	ing earth, heaven, and hell With brilliance blazing, glowing
so, With awful brows a-glow, With burning glance, and lips	light	ed by fire Fierce as those flames which shall Consume, at cl
ess motion! Like moths which in the night Flutter towards a	light	, Drawn to their fiery doom, flying and dying, So to their d
en: Arjuna. Worthily, Lord of Might! The whole world hath de	light	In Thy surpassing power, obeying Thee; The Rakshasas, in dr
s shining spark; Varuna's waves are Thy waves. Moon and star	light	Are Thine! Prajapati Art Thou, and 'tis to Thee They knelt
'tis to Thee They knelt in worshipping the old world's far	light	, The first of mortal men. Again, Thou God! again A thousand
ry. As I before have been So will I be again for thee; with	light	ened heart behold! Once more I am thy Krishna, the form thou
ne; rejoices not, And grieves not, letting good or evil hap	Light	when it will, and when it will depart, That man I love! Who
se. Purity, constancy, control of self, Contempt of sense-de	light	s, self-sacrifice, Perception of the certitude of ill In bir
birth, death, age, disease, suffering, and sin; Detachment,	light	ly holding unto home, Children, and wife, and all that binde
ears in every place Hearing, and all His faces everywhere En	light	ening and encompassing His worlds. Glorified in the senses H
the End of Times, He maketh all to end--and re-creates. The	Light	of Lights He is, in the heart of the Dark Shining eternally
f Times, He maketh all to end--and re-creates. The Light of	Light	s He is, in the heart of the Dark Shining eternally. Wisdom
SHA, working through the qualities With Nature's modes, the	light	hath come for him! Whatever flesh he bears, never again Sha
h thither; some by works: Some, never so attaining, hear of	light	From other lips, and seize, and cleave to it Worshipping; y
nt, The subtle Soul sits everywhere, unstained: Like to the	light	of the all-piercing sun [Which is not changed by aught it s
[Which is not changed by aught it shines upon,] The Soul's	light	shineth pure in every place; And they who, by such eye of w
eof sweet "Soothfastness," by purity Living unsullied and en	light	ened, binds The sinless Soul to happiness and truth; And Pas
ardened Ignorance, that blinded soul Is born anew in some un	light	ed womb. The fruit of Soothfastness is true and sweet; The f
d toil; the fruit Of Ignorance is deeper darkness. Yea! For	Light	brings light, and Passion ache to have; And gloom, bewilder
ruit Of Ignorance is deeper darkness. Yea! For Light brings	light	, and Passion ache to have; And gloom, bewilderments, and ig
h as these! Another Sun gleams there! another Moon! Another	Light	,--not Dusk, nor Dawn, nor Noon-- Which they who once behold
sentient mind;--linking itself To sense-things so. The unen	light	ened ones Mark not that Spirit when he goes or comes, Nor wh
ave the eyes to see. Holy souls see Which strive thereto. En	light	ened, they perceive That Spirit in themselves; but foolish o
, too, from Me Shineth the gathered glory of the suns Which	light	en all the world: from Me the moons Draw silvery beams, and
which lives, Truthfulness, slowness unto wrath, a mind That	light	ly letteth go what others prize; And equanimity, and charity
ings To one as if 'twere all, seeking no Cause, Deprived of	light	, narrow, and dull, and "dark." There is "right" Action: tha
shed, My Arjun? Arjuna. Trouble and ignorance are gone! the	Light	Hath come unto me, by Thy favour, Lord! Now am I fixed! my
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ew of an English ambassador with a reïncarnated Buddha 598 F	light	of a lama’s astral body related by Abbé Huc 604 Schools of
pretensions have become hateful to the greater portion of en	light	ened Christendom. The clergy apart, none but the logician, t
theurgists, and they may actually help us to throw a great	light	upon a very dark subject. Professor A. Butlerof, of the Imp
st crowned heads fall about as harmlessly as the Jupiterean	light	nings of Offenbach’s _Calchas_, Rome turns about in powerles
ANISM. “To bring out such a truth and show it in its proper	light	, is to unmask the enemy; it is to unveil the immense danger
ay be produced as well by one as by the other, without the s	light	est intervention of God or devil. Hardly had the manifestati
unexpected violence. “Miracles” began to appear in full day	light	, and passed from their mystic seclusion into the domain of
Du Potet in France, were healing the multitude without the s	light	est claim to divine intervention. The great discovery of Mes
hey saw the people impatiently shaking off, in the broad day	light	of truth, the dark veils with which they had been blindfold
in the unwatered sands of the desert, stream the rays from	light	s carried to and fro in the galleries by no human hands. The
anations, being the first manifestation--Sephira, or Divine	Light	. And when could the latter be more feared than at that crit
y is but the trio of Sephiroth, the first three kabalistic _	light	s_ of which Moses Nachmanides says, that “_they have never b
ntelligible_ one. The Egyptian Phtah, or “the _Principle of	Light	_--not the light itself, and the Principle of Life, though h
. The Egyptian Phtah, or “the _Principle of Light_--not the	light	itself, and the Principle of Life, though himself _no_ life
drogynous Adam Kadmon. The Son is at once the male _Ra_, or	Light	of Wisdom, Prudence or _Intelligence_, Sephira, the female
s; and when the day of the great reckoning arrives, and the	light	shines in darkness, what will they have to offer in the pla
velation_ is the key to all wisdom. We found them in the twi	light	of Jewish history as Zoroaster, Abraham, and Terah, and lat
nd attributed to the triumph of the genius of evil over the	light	-giving deity; as the later nations allegorized the death of
oracle. The Phos, Pur, and Phlox, of Sanchoniathon,[71] are	Light	, Fire, and Flame, three manifestations of the Sun who is _o
he whole trinitarian dogma accepted by the Christians. “The	light	is me,” says Pimander, the DIVINE THOUGHT. “I am the _nous_
ou shalt bruise his heel.” In these words there is not the s	light	est allusion to a Redeemer, and the subtilest of intellects
Hildebrand, who was said to have been so expert at “shaking	light	ning out of his sleeve.” An expression which makes the vener
ieve on a bitter winter night that they were enjoying the de	light	s of a splendid summer day, and cause the icicles hanging fr
the practice. This belief of the Sovereign Pontiffs of an en	light	ened Christian country is a direct inheritance by the most i
The facts which you have collected are calculated to throw	light	and conviction into the most skeptical minds; and after rea
beloved Church, the “Blessed Lady” appears personally, and	light	s it with her own fair hands, in view of a whole “biologized
_may the unclean God of wisdom), and the spirit be put to f	light	_.... power of _Ruach_ Hochmael _Amen._” (Spirit of the Holy
my inferni_, recalled the souls feet, or be tortured by to	light	.... The more whilst _this sacred fire_, thou decay, the mor
tragrammaton which is traced in the centre of _the Cross of	Light	_. _Amen._” It is unnecessary to try the patience of the rea
_).[123] After such a shower of abuse, no devil having the s	light	est feeling of self-respect could remain in such company; un
a Christian “... when his reasoning powers and intellect, en	light	ened at the _luminary of faith_, elevated him to the most su
jargon, out of which there too often flashed the destroying	light	nings of ecclesiastical vengeance.”[126] Augustine and Cypri
in several places a phrase, which, perhaps, may throw some	light	upon this question. One of the principal heroes of the manu
th explanations and glossaries, to the crowd. This, with a s	light	change, was the method used by Pythagoras, who, as we know,
it is a representation of the Egyptian =T= (tau), assuming s	light	ly the figure of the letter =Y=. “Its lower end is the mark
f virginity. “Being before the sun, she almost eclipses its	light	. Than this, nothing could more completely identify the Chri
f Hindu metaphysics, as though the European mind is alone en	light	ened enough to polish the rough diamond of the old Sanscrit
eir conjurations they illumine the space. A fiery column of	light	ascends from around them, rushing from earth to heaven. Unf
imple, immovable, and _blessed visions_, resident in a pure	light	.” This sentence shows that they saw _visions_, gods, spirit
n beholding the gods themselves invested with a resplendent	light	,” or highest planetary spirits. The statement of Proclus up
in _a variety of shapes_, and sometimes, indeed, a formless	light	of themselves is held forth to the view; sometimes this lig
ght of themselves is held forth to the view; sometimes this	light	is according _to a human form_, and sometimes it proceeds i
removeth from the latter to a distance. And yet, that very	light	is the shadow of something still more resplendent than itse
ides--the self-shining “blessed vision resident in the pure	light	;” in Porphyry, that Plotinus was united to his “god” six ti
uce the _reflections_ of the Pitris on the mirror of astral	light	. All depends upon his psychological and mesmeric powers, wh
, had naught to fear. But woe to the candidate in whom the s	light	est physical fear--sickly child of matter--made him lose sig
made, in allegorical terms, to enter into _the garden of de	light	s_; _i.e._, to be initiated into the occult and final scienc
y masters the names of the four who entered the garden of de	light	, are: Ben Asai, Ben Zoma, Acher, and Rabbi Akiba.... “Ben A
the Rabbis of the synagogue, explain that the _garden of de	light	_, in which those four personages are made to enter, is but
ne truth are convertible terms. A religion which dreads the	light	cannot be a religion based on either truth or philosophy--h
! Great Goddess hear! and on my darkened mind Pour thy pure	light	in measure unconfined; That sacred light, O all-proceeding
mind Pour thy pure light in measure unconfined; That sacred	light	, O all-proceeding Queen, Which beams eternal from thy face
usness adapt itself.”[181] We will consider farther in what	light	was regarded the Divine revelation of the Jewish _Bible_ by
things pertaining unto magic.” Dunlap, on the authority of	Light	foot, shows that Jesus was called _Nazaraios_, in reference
est a sun-and-serpent worship, diluted, perhaps, with some s	light	monotheistic notions before the latter were forcibly cramme
and those of the Essenes may be accounted for without the s	light	est difficulty. The Essenes, as we remarked just now, were t
t Zoroastrian scripture--the _Avesta_--does not betray the s	light	est traces of the reformer having ever been acquainted with
,[225] the Ebionites, and other sects, were all, with very s	light	differences, followers of the ancient theurgic Mysteries. A
that before an initiate could see the gods in their purest	light	, he had to become _liberated_ from his body; _i.e._, to sep
depths of midnight I saw the sun glittering with a splendid	light	, together with _the infernal and supernal gods_, and to the
Khunrath; his language, however obscure, may yet throw some	light	upon the subject. But this doctrine of permutation, or _rev
ne mind is eternal,” says the _Codex_,[260] “And it is pure	light	, and poured out through splendid _and immense space_ (plero
bulentos) movements; and by a certain portion of _heavenly_	light	fashioned it, properly constituted for use and appearance,
ic sects group round him, like a cluster of stars borrowing	light	from their sun. Basilides maintained that he had had all hi
entities--of flames detached from the one eternal centre of	light	. “The man who accomplishes pious but interested acts (with
spel of Luke_ which never were in _Luke_ at all.”[275] “The	light	ness and inaccuracy,” adds the critic, “with which Tertullia
ii., 14. “Descend, O Soma, with that stream with which thou	light	est up the Sun.... Soma, a Life Ocean spread through All, th
ered its materials in the Hermetic books, and pursuing its f	light	still farther back for its metaphysical speculations, we fi
thagorean Monad, this _nameless_ Wisdom was the _Source_ of	Light	, and _Ennoia_ or Mind, is Light itself. The latter was also
Wisdom was the _Source_ of Light, and _Ennoia_ or Mind, is	Light	itself. The latter was also called the “Primitive Man,” lik
epresented by the serpent (Ophis). Fecundated by the Divine	Light	of the Father and Son, the highest spirit and Ennoia, Sophi
cism. The _Codex Nazaræus_ opens with: “The Supreme King of	Light	, Mano, the great first one,”[295] etc., the latter being th
whom proceed (or shoot forth) five refulgent rays of Divine	light	. Mano is _Rex Lucis_, the Bythos-Ennoia of the Ophites. “_U
erit Coronam quæ in ejus capite est._” He is the Manifested	Light	around the highest of the three kabalistic heads, the conce
the “Apostle Gabriel,” and the first Legate or messenger of	light	. If Bythos and Ennoia are the Nazarene Mano, then the dual-
he primitive man who produces him through his own vivifying	light	, which emanates from the source or _cause_ of all, hence th
from the source or _cause_ of all, hence the _cause_ of his	light	also, the “Unknown Father.” There is a great difference mad
it; he was ambitious and proud, and rejecting the spiritual	light	of the middle space offered him by his mother Sophia-Achamo
iritual mother. She communicated to him a ray of her divine	light	, and so animated man and endowed him with a soul. And now b
oward his own creature. Following the impulse of the divine	light	, man soared higher and higher in his aspirations; very soon
between her celestial region and “man,” a current of divine	light	, and kept constantly supplying him with this _spiritual_ il
aoth and his six sons of matter are shutting out the divine	light	from mankind. Man must be saved. Ilda-Baoth had already sen
genii, while he attracted into himself the sparks of divine	light	which they retained in their essence. Thus, Christos entere
nowledge of Christ. When he has collected all the spiritual	light	that exists in matter, out of Ilda-Baoth’s empire, the rede
ch is the meaning of the re-absorption of all the spiritual	light	into the pleroma or fulness, whence it originally descended
the Nazarene sect it was the _Female Spiritus_, the astral	light	, the genetrix of all things of _matter_, the chaos in its e
_turbido_ by the Demiurge. At the creation of man, “it was	light	on the side of the FATHER, and it was light (material light
of man, “it was light on the side of the FATHER, and it was	light	(material light) on the side of the MOTHER. And this is the
light on the side of the FATHER, and it was light (material	light	) on the side of the MOTHER. And this is the ‘_two-fold_ man
him nearer to the refulgent realm of eternal and _absolute_	light	. “God’s FIRST-BORN, who is the ‘holy Veil,’ the ‘Light of L
ute_ light. “God’s FIRST-BORN, who is the ‘holy Veil,’ the ‘	Light	of Lights,’ it is he who sends the revolutio of the Delegat
t. “God’s FIRST-BORN, who is the ‘holy Veil,’ the ‘Light of	Light	s,’ it is he who sends the revolutio of the Delegatus, for h
lieve in Thee, and bear testimony, and go into the LIFE and	LIGHT	.”[366] Thus speaks Hermes Trismegistus, the heathen divine.
ith his own life. But if, on the one hand, we have not the s	light	est trace of this fable in history, on the other, we find in
esus. A man “of the seed of a man,” “Messenger of Life,” of	light	, “my Lord Apostle,” “King sprung of Light,” and so on. “Hav
nger of Life,” of light, “my Lord Apostle,” “King sprung of	Light	,” and so on. “Have not the faith of our _Lord_ JESUS Christ
to embellish the universal Logos,[380] with such terms as “	Light	of Light,” the Messenger of LIFE and LIGHT,[381] and we fin
lish the universal Logos,[380] with such terms as “Light of	Light	,” the Messenger of LIFE and LIGHT,[381] and we find these e
h such terms as “Light of Light,” the Messenger of LIFE and	LIGHT	,[381] and we find these expressions adopted _in toto_ by th
mong the Brachmanes. “The _Brachmanes_ say that the God is _	Light	_, not such as one sees, nor such as the sun and fire; but t
thor of the _Gospel according to John_. “That was _the true	light	_,” and “the light shineth in darkness.” “And the WORD _was
l according to John_. “That was _the true light_,” and “the	light	shineth in darkness.” “And the WORD _was made flesh_.” “And
highest supreme God was unknown and invisible; “the King of	Light	is a closed eye;” that Ilda-Baoth, the Jewish second Adam,
, Pedma or Kamala. 12. Womb of Gold--Hyrania. 13. Celestial	Light	--Lakshmi. 14. Ditto. 15. Queen of Heaven, and of the univer
he grossest and most material beings--the _klippoth_, who de	light	in evil and mischief, and whose chief is _Belial_! Explaini
me the reason, Philocles, why most men desire to lye, and de	light	not only to speak fictions themselves, but give busie atten
ernal and immutable law; and from this eternal and infinite	light	(which to us is darkness) was emitted a spiritual substance
(in Sephira, his first emanation), he caused nine splendid	light	s to emanate from it.”[398] And now we will turn to the Hind
point_, and the _White Head_, for it is the point of divine	light	appearing from within the fathomless and boundless darkness
divine spirit, a drop effused from that eternal fountain of	light	and wisdom--the universal spirit of the Deity? The thread o
hree kabalistic heads, through which “all things shine with	light	,” the thread which makes its exit through Adam _Primus_, is
ividual spirit of every man. “I was daily his (En-Soph’s) de	light	, rejoicing always before him ... and my delights were _with
n-Soph’s) delight, rejoicing always before him ... and my de	light	s were _with the sons of men_,” adds Solomon, in the same ch
n the same chapter of the _Proverbs_. The immortal spirit de	light	s in the _sons of men_, who, without this spirit, are but du
always existed. “His glory,” they say, is too exalted, his	light	too resplendent for either human intellect or mortal eyes t
rtal eyes to grasp and see. His primal emanation is eternal	light	which, from having been previously concealed in darkness, w
ssimus_ is surrounded by the three heads. He is the eternal	LIGHT	of the wisdom; and the wisdom is the source from which all
SHORT-FACE (the son) and through them all things shine with	light	.[419] “En-Soph emits a thread from El or _Al_ (the highest
d from El or _Al_ (the highest God of the Trinity), and the	light	follows the thread and enters, and passing through makes it
urning coal or a burning lamp. He will see first a two-fold	light	--a bright white, and a black or blue light; the white light
first a two-fold light--a bright white, and a black or blue	light	; the white light is _above_, and ascends in a direct light,
light--a bright white, and a black or blue light; the white	light	is _above_, and ascends in a direct light, while the blue,
light; the white light is _above_, and ascends in a direct	light	, while the blue, or dark light, is _below_, and seems as th
ve_, and ascends in a direct light, while the blue, or dark	light	, is _below_, and seems as the chair of the former, yet both
ly one flame. The seat, however, formed by the blue or dark	light	, is again connected with the burning matter which is _under
ith the burning matter which is _under_ it again. The white	light	never changes its color, it always remains white; but vario
remains white; but various shades are observed in the lower	light	, whilst the lowest light, moreover, takes two directions; _
s shades are observed in the lower light, whilst the lowest	light	, moreover, takes two directions; _above_, it is connected w
kes two directions; _above_, it is connected with the white	light	, and _below_ with the burning matter. Now, this is constant
ntly consuming itself, and perpetually ascends to the upper	light	, and thus everything merges into a single unity.”[421] Such
Klenker, “the first-born as man and wife, in so far as his	light	includes in itself all other lights, and in so far as his s
d wife, in so far as his light includes in itself all other	light	s, and in so far as his spirit of life or breath of life inc
lex and place an obstacle to inquiry, he is the _Source_ of	Light	, the first “primitive man,” and at the same time _Ennoia_,
ly “Woman” and, from primal darkness procreated the visible	light	(Sephira is the Invisible, or Spiritual Light), “whom they
d the visible light (Sephira is the Invisible, or Spiritual	Light	), “whom they called the ANOINTED CHRISTUM, or King Messiah.
ly as Shekinah, the GRACE; for the CORONA is “the innermost	Light	of all Lights,” and hence it is darkness’s own substance.[4
h, the GRACE; for the CORONA is “the innermost Light of all	Light	s,” and hence it is darkness’s own substance.[428] In the _K
hest GRACE. The two are ONE from eternity, for they are the	Light	and the CAUSE of the Light. Therefore, they answer to the k
from eternity, for they are the Light and the CAUSE of the	Light	. Therefore, they answer to the kabalistic concealed _wisdom
sdom_, and to the concealed Shekinah--the Holy Ghost. “This	light	, which is manifested, is the garment of the Heavenly Concea
” in order to teach them the mysteries of spiritual wisdom.	Light	tempts Darkness, and Darkness attracts Light, for Darkness
ritual wisdom. Light tempts Darkness, and Darkness attracts	Light	, for Darkness is _matter_, and “the _Highest_ Light shines
ttracts Light, for Darkness is _matter_, and “the _Highest_	Light	shines not in its _Tenebræ_.” With knowledge comes the temp
UGHT of the power divine; it works in SILENCE, and suddenly	light	is begotten by darkness; it is called the SECOND life; and
; and this one produces, or generates the THIRD. This third	light	is “the FATHER of all things that live,” as EUA is the “mot
tic Shekinah, the man and wife, the spirit and life, “whose	light	includes all other lights” or life-spirits. This first mani