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1After man has passed through the travail of human life he then meets the struggle of his karma in the realm of spirit. Here he may even sink forever, because he does not actually possess immortality, only the promise or possibility of it. After the four realms of the as¬ tral world are passed he enters the sixth state of the soul world, where he should become re-united with his soul mate, his missing half. Until this union is complete there is and can be no actual immortality. Previous to this he is but a part of himself, and has control only of half of his spiritual nature. It is the union of the two that forms the absolute one. “And they twain shall be one flesh,” saith the old Jewish Scripture; “as it is above, so it is below.” From the foregoing it will be seen that it is the reunion of the twin souls in the realm of spirit that confers upon man the state of angelhood. He is human no longer, he is then Divine, and as a Deific being he possesses the attributes of eternal progression and immortal life. c iooqle CHAPTER III THE DARK SATELLITE
2When we look about us with the physical senses, Nature seems to be in continual warfare with herself. In fact, it seems utterly impos¬ sible to find anything not in deadly conflict with something else, either visible or invisible. Observing this, mankind has unconsciously, from time immemorial, formulated the idea of two great powers, viz., “good” and “evil”. From this idea the grand dogma of theology—“God” and the “Devil” sprang into existence, and became the chief corner stone of every sacerdotalism which the world has witnessed. And while there is some basic truth in this idea, as in every popular conception, since mankind as a whole cannot formulate any idea that is wholly and absolutely false in every detail; yet, there is also much that is utterly false in it, owing to the fact that man, while existing upon the material plane, cannot grasp the divine idea of Absolute Truth, nor realize the logical absurdity of more than one Absolute. He, there¬ fore, utterly fails to comprehend how that which is relative evil can be harmonized into absolute good. Accordingly, to the majority of mankind, this mighty problem of good and evil is still unsolved. Few, very few indeed, even of the profoundly learned students of Occult lore in the past, arrived at a true conception of the subject.
3During the lapse of the ages, countless legends and allegories have been evolved, to embody the facts and the processes connected with this arcane mystery, but the metaphysics of these legends have never been revealed to the uninitiated. Especially has this been the case in regard to the Dark Satellite. However, the time has now come when certain facts in regard to this orb of evil are for the first time given out to the world “pro bono publico.” In the first place, certain misconceptions in regard to the dark orb need to be corrected. Many earnest students have thought it to be “The Lost Orb” of the Grecian mysteries, hence similar to the Egyptian conception of the spiritual “fall”. But there is, in fact, no connection between the two. The lost orb, in its cosmological aspect, will be found noticed in the second part of this work. In its spiritual aspect it applies to the fallen human soul, not the lost soul. Herein consists the difference between the two orbs, the lost and the dark. c lOoqle O 152 THE LIGHT OF EGYPT
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
1After man has passed through the travail of human life he then meets the struggle of his karma in the realm of spirit. Here he may even sink forever, because he does not actually possess immortality, only the promise or possibility of it. After the four realms of the as¬ tral world are passed he enters the sixth state of the soul world, where he should become re-united with his soul mate, his missing half. Until this union is complete there is and can be no actual immortality. Previous to this he is but a part of himself, and has control only of half of his spiritual nature. It is the union of the two that forms the absolute one. “And they twain shall be one flesh,” saith the old Jewish Scripture; “as it is above, so it is below.” From the foregoing it will be seen that it is the reunion of the twin souls in the realm of spirit that confers upon man the state of angelhood. He is human no longer, he is then Divine, and as a Deific being he possesses the attributes of eternal progression and immortal life. c iooqle CHAPTER III THE DARK SATELLITE
2When we look about us with the physical senses, Nature seems to be in continual warfare with herself. In fact, it seems utterly impos¬ sible to find anything not in deadly conflict with something else, either visible or invisible. Observing this, mankind has unconsciously, from time immemorial, formulated the idea of two great powers, viz., “good” and “evil”. From this idea the grand dogma of theology—“God” and the “Devil” sprang into existence, and became the chief corner stone of every sacerdotalism which the world has witnessed. And while there is some basic truth in this idea, as in every popular conception, since mankind as a whole cannot formulate any idea that is wholly and absolutely false in every detail; yet, there is also much that is utterly false in it, owing to the fact that man, while existing upon the material plane, cannot grasp the divine idea of Absolute Truth, nor realize the logical absurdity of more than one Absolute. He, there¬ fore, utterly fails to comprehend how that which is relative evil can be harmonized into absolute good. Accordingly, to the majority of mankind, this mighty problem of good and evil is still unsolved. Few, very few indeed, even of the profoundly learned students of Occult lore in the past, arrived at a true conception of the subject.
3During the lapse of the ages, countless legends and allegories have been evolved, to embody the facts and the processes connected with this arcane mystery, but the metaphysics of these legends have never been revealed to the uninitiated. Especially has this been the case in regard to the Dark Satellite. However, the time has now come when certain facts in regard to this orb of evil are for the first time given out to the world “pro bono publico.” In the first place, certain misconceptions in regard to the dark orb need to be corrected. Many earnest students have thought it to be “The Lost Orb” of the Grecian mysteries, hence similar to the Egyptian conception of the spiritual “fall”. But there is, in fact, no connection between the two. The lost orb, in its cosmological aspect, will be found noticed in the second part of this work. In its spiritual aspect it applies to the fallen human soul, not the lost soul. Herein consists the difference between the two orbs, the lost and the dark. c lOoqle O 152 THE LIGHT OF EGYPT
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
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