Six Theosophic Points, and Other Writings
32. But if it be kept a prisoner in the earthly
desire, then it is shut up in death, and suffers agony.
And thus is sin to be understood.
THE FOURTH POINT
How CHRIST WILL DELIVER UP THE KINGDOM
TO HIS FATHER.
1. At the creation of the world and of all being, the Father put himself in motion in accordance with his property, viz. by the centre of Nature, by the dark world and the fire-world. These continued in motion and domination till the Father moved himself in accordance with his heart (and the light-world), and God became man. Then the love of the hght overcame the Father's fierce wrathful property, and the Father ruled in the Son with love.
2. Then the Son had dominion in those that did cleave unto God; and the Holy Spirit (that proceeds from the Father and Son) drew men in the light of love, through the Son, to God the Father.
3. But in the end the Holy Spirit moves in the Father's and also in the Son's property, and both properties become active at once. The spirit of the Father reveals itself in fire and light, as also in the wrath of the dark world. Then the kingdom falls unto the Father. For the Holy Spirit must govern eternally, and be an eternal revealer in the light -world and also in the dark world.
4. For the two worlds will stand still; and the Holy Spirit who proceeds from the Father and
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Son, bears rule eternally in the two worlds, according to each world's nature and property.
5. He alone will be the revealer of the wonders. And thus to the Father (who is all) the eternal dominion, which he exercises with the Spirit, is delivered by the Son.
THE FIFTH POINT
On magic. What magic is. What the magical ground is.
1. Magic is the mother of eternity, of the being of all beings; for it creates itself, and is understood in desire.
2. It is in itself nothing but a will, and this will is the great mystery of all wonders and secrets, but brings itself by the imagination of the desireful hunger into being.
3. It is the original state of Nature. Its desire makes an imagination (Einhildung) , and imagination or figuration is only the will of desire. But desire makes in the will such a being as the will in itself is.
4. True Magic is not a being, but the desiring spirit of the being. It is a matrix without substance, but manifests itself in the substantial being.
5. ]\Iagic is spirit, and being is its body; and yet the two are but one, as body and soul is but one person.
6. Magic is the greatest secrecy, for it is above Nature, and makes Nature after the form of its will. It is the mystery of the Ternary, viz. it is in desire the will striving towards the heart of God.
7. It is the formative power in the eternal wisdom, as a desire in the Ternary, in which the eternal
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wonder of the Ternary desires to manifest itself in co-operation with Nature. It is the desire which introduces itself into the dark Nature, and through Nature into fire, and through fire, through death or fierceness into the light of Majesty.
8. It is not Majesty, but the desire in Majesty. It is the desire of the divine power, not the power itself, but the hunger or craving in the power. It is not God's Almightiness, but the directrix in God's power and might. The heart of God is the power, and the Holy Spirit is the revelation of power.
9. It is, however, the desire not only in the power, but also in the conducting spirit ; for it has in it the Fiat. What the Will-spirit reveals in it, that it brings into a being by the sourness which is the Fiat; all according to the model of the will. According as the will makes a model in wisdom, so does desiring Magic receive it; for it has in its property imagination as a longing.
10. Imagination is gentle and soft, and resembles water. But Desire is harsh and dry, like a hunger; it makes the soft hard, and is found in all things, for it is the greatest thing ( Wesen) in the Deity. It leads the bottomless to foundation, and the nothing into something.
32. But if it be kept a prisoner in the earthly
desire, then it is shut up in death, and suffers agony.
And thus is sin to be understood.
THE FOURTH POINT
How CHRIST WILL DELIVER UP THE KINGDOM
TO HIS FATHER.
1. At the creation of the world and of all being, the Father put himself in motion in accordance with his property, viz. by the centre of Nature, by the dark world and the fire-world. These continued in motion and domination till the Father moved himself in accordance with his heart (and the light-world), and God became man. Then the love of the hght overcame the Father's fierce wrathful property, and the Father ruled in the Son with love.
2. Then the Son had dominion in those that did cleave unto God; and the Holy Spirit (that proceeds from the Father and Son) drew men in the light of love, through the Son, to God the Father.
3. But in the end the Holy Spirit moves in the Father's and also in the Son's property, and both properties become active at once. The spirit of the Father reveals itself in fire and light, as also in the wrath of the dark world. Then the kingdom falls unto the Father. For the Holy Spirit must govern eternally, and be an eternal revealer in the light -world and also in the dark world.
4. For the two worlds will stand still; and the Holy Spirit who proceeds from the Father and
p. 141
p. 142
Son, bears rule eternally in the two worlds, according to each world's nature and property.
5. He alone will be the revealer of the wonders. And thus to the Father (who is all) the eternal dominion, which he exercises with the Spirit, is delivered by the Son.
THE FIFTH POINT
On magic. What magic is. What the magical ground is.
1. Magic is the mother of eternity, of the being of all beings; for it creates itself, and is understood in desire.
2. It is in itself nothing but a will, and this will is the great mystery of all wonders and secrets, but brings itself by the imagination of the desireful hunger into being.
3. It is the original state of Nature. Its desire makes an imagination (Einhildung) , and imagination or figuration is only the will of desire. But desire makes in the will such a being as the will in itself is.
4. True Magic is not a being, but the desiring spirit of the being. It is a matrix without substance, but manifests itself in the substantial being.
5. ]\Iagic is spirit, and being is its body; and yet the two are but one, as body and soul is but one person.
6. Magic is the greatest secrecy, for it is above Nature, and makes Nature after the form of its will. It is the mystery of the Ternary, viz. it is in desire the will striving towards the heart of God.
7. It is the formative power in the eternal wisdom, as a desire in the Ternary, in which the eternal
p. 143
p. 144
wonder of the Ternary desires to manifest itself in co-operation with Nature. It is the desire which introduces itself into the dark Nature, and through Nature into fire, and through fire, through death or fierceness into the light of Majesty.
8. It is not Majesty, but the desire in Majesty. It is the desire of the divine power, not the power itself, but the hunger or craving in the power. It is not God's Almightiness, but the directrix in God's power and might. The heart of God is the power, and the Holy Spirit is the revelation of power.
9. It is, however, the desire not only in the power, but also in the conducting spirit ; for it has in it the Fiat. What the Will-spirit reveals in it, that it brings into a being by the sourness which is the Fiat; all according to the model of the will. According as the will makes a model in wisdom, so does desiring Magic receive it; for it has in its property imagination as a longing.
10. Imagination is gentle and soft, and resembles water. But Desire is harsh and dry, like a hunger; it makes the soft hard, and is found in all things, for it is the greatest thing ( Wesen) in the Deity. It leads the bottomless to foundation, and the nothing into something.
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