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1ephemeral curiosity towards mystical research, they will never advance further than the gates of the outer court; they cannot, as yet, pass the fearful Dweller on the Threshold and enter the Holy Place. Therefore, they must be content to await their time, until the conditions are evolved by succeeding races of the human gamut that will admit of their soul's latent attributes unfolding themselves. There are, also, many who, while being in a condition to see the truth and grasp the real significance of the Mysteries of Nature, are totally unfit to receive such knowledge, because of their natural, but terrible elemental affinity. This fearful physical condition would lead them to devote all the occult powers at their command to worldly purposes. It is quite unnecessary to say that these individuals would become a scourge to mankind. Happily, only a very few of this class can grasp any real power, but become themselves the dupes and slaves of the powers they seek to control. To all such we earnestly and solemnly say;—abandon all thought of spirit inter¬ course, flee from occultism and spiritualism as you would from a pestilence, and may the Divine Guardians of the human race preserve your souls from the bottomless chasm upon whose brink they may possibly have been unconsciously reposing. For those who merely pry into the occult out of mere curiosity, we have nothing to say; they will obtain as much as they deserve and no more. “Ask and ye shall receive; knock and it shall be opened unto you,” is just as true to-day in reference to esoteric knowledge as it was 1900 years ago; but it always presupposes that the one who asks or the one who knocks is in real earnest and seeks only to satisfy the deep yearnings of an immortal soul. The doorkeeper of the Temple of Truth is as deaf as the granite rocks to all others. You may ask and shout until you are hoarse, and knock and becudgel the door until you rouse up the furies with the din, it is all to no purpose; you can never take the Kingdom of Heaven by storm. It is fabled in the Holy Scriptures that Satan tried this means of obtaining power once upon a time and got hurled, with all of his assistants, into the flames of hell for such daring presumption, and that instead of the Kingdom of Heaven he obtained the bottomless pit as a fitting reward for his misdirected ambition and labor. There is more real truth in this religious fable than spiritualists ever dreamed of. But to the true student of Nature’s inner laws we say, rest assured that you will receive a full measure
2iy Google 88 THE LIGHT OF EGYPT of reward for all and every earnest endeavor. Urania’s lamp will ultimately shine upon your dark and difficult path, and you shall indeed see the “saving light of the world,” which will enable you to draw aside the veil of the mystic Isis, and behind this magic curtain, read the ever-burning truths of Nature inscribed upon the scrolls of time. It is to you, my faithful and eternal brethren, that I present the Esoteric Cycles, the Golden Key, and the Silver Locks that guard our island Universe, viz.: the planet upon which we exist, which in itself, is a miniature Universe; so, also, is the human organism. In your possession, I know, they will be valued according to their true worth, and utilized for their proper purpose. Therefore, trusting that you may use your psychic powers wisely, worthily and well, and wishing you God-speed upon the upward path of your soul’s eternal destiny, I remain with fraternal sympathies and brotherly love, Most faithfully yours, ^ - Private Secretary to The Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor. iy Google r <_> CHAPTER V LA CLEF HERMETIQUE SECTION I THE CYCLES AND FORCES OF CREATIVE LIFE
3In attempting to explain the sublime system of Esoteric Cycles, as taught in the Occult schools of the Egyptian Magi, we shall notice their great Cycles first, which relate to Human and Planetary Evolution, then compare, or rather introduce, for the student’s comparison, the Sacred Cycles of Hindoo Initiates, and show some of their striking relationships to the well known facts of geological research, and, lastly, attempt to show how these natural periods of action and reaction of the Cosmic life forces have formed the truthful foundation upon which the Astrological Mystics have elaborated their planetary periods and sub-cycles of celestial influence over nations, and which is further and more fully elaborated by Kabbalistical lore, in the rule of the Seven Arch Angels as the seven Governors of the world, which they say “after God actuate the Universe.” nature’s triune index
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.
1ephemeral curiosity towards mystical research, they will never advance further than the gates of the outer court; they cannot, as yet, pass the fearful Dweller on the Threshold and enter the Holy Place. Therefore, they must be content to await their time, until the conditions are evolved by succeeding races of the human gamut that will admit of their soul's latent attributes unfolding themselves. There are, also, many who, while being in a condition to see the truth and grasp the real significance of the Mysteries of Nature, are totally unfit to receive such knowledge, because of their natural, but terrible elemental affinity. This fearful physical condition would lead them to devote all the occult powers at their command to worldly purposes. It is quite unnecessary to say that these individuals would become a scourge to mankind. Happily, only a very few of this class can grasp any real power, but become themselves the dupes and slaves of the powers they seek to control. To all such we earnestly and solemnly say;—abandon all thought of spirit inter¬ course, flee from occultism and spiritualism as you would from a pestilence, and may the Divine Guardians of the human race preserve your souls from the bottomless chasm upon whose brink they may possibly have been unconsciously reposing. For those who merely pry into the occult out of mere curiosity, we have nothing to say; they will obtain as much as they deserve and no more. “Ask and ye shall receive; knock and it shall be opened unto you,” is just as true to-day in reference to esoteric knowledge as it was 1900 years ago; but it always presupposes that the one who asks or the one who knocks is in real earnest and seeks only to satisfy the deep yearnings of an immortal soul. The doorkeeper of the Temple of Truth is as deaf as the granite rocks to all others. You may ask and shout until you are hoarse, and knock and becudgel the door until you rouse up the furies with the din, it is all to no purpose; you can never take the Kingdom of Heaven by storm. It is fabled in the Holy Scriptures that Satan tried this means of obtaining power once upon a time and got hurled, with all of his assistants, into the flames of hell for such daring presumption, and that instead of the Kingdom of Heaven he obtained the bottomless pit as a fitting reward for his misdirected ambition and labor. There is more real truth in this religious fable than spiritualists ever dreamed of. But to the true student of Nature’s inner laws we say, rest assured that you will receive a full measure
2iy Google 88 THE LIGHT OF EGYPT of reward for all and every earnest endeavor. Urania’s lamp will ultimately shine upon your dark and difficult path, and you shall indeed see the “saving light of the world,” which will enable you to draw aside the veil of the mystic Isis, and behind this magic curtain, read the ever-burning truths of Nature inscribed upon the scrolls of time. It is to you, my faithful and eternal brethren, that I present the Esoteric Cycles, the Golden Key, and the Silver Locks that guard our island Universe, viz.: the planet upon which we exist, which in itself, is a miniature Universe; so, also, is the human organism. In your possession, I know, they will be valued according to their true worth, and utilized for their proper purpose. Therefore, trusting that you may use your psychic powers wisely, worthily and well, and wishing you God-speed upon the upward path of your soul’s eternal destiny, I remain with fraternal sympathies and brotherly love, Most faithfully yours, ^ - Private Secretary to The Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor. iy Google r <_> CHAPTER V LA CLEF HERMETIQUE SECTION I THE CYCLES AND FORCES OF CREATIVE LIFE
3In attempting to explain the sublime system of Esoteric Cycles, as taught in the Occult schools of the Egyptian Magi, we shall notice their great Cycles first, which relate to Human and Planetary Evolution, then compare, or rather introduce, for the student’s comparison, the Sacred Cycles of Hindoo Initiates, and show some of their striking relationships to the well known facts of geological research, and, lastly, attempt to show how these natural periods of action and reaction of the Cosmic life forces have formed the truthful foundation upon which the Astrological Mystics have elaborated their planetary periods and sub-cycles of celestial influence over nations, and which is further and more fully elaborated by Kabbalistical lore, in the rule of the Seven Arch Angels as the seven Governors of the world, which they say “after God actuate the Universe.” nature’s triune index
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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