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1Such is the realm of spirit, which, for the sake of linguistic con¬ venience, has been termed by the Occultist “the realm of unmani¬ fested being.” With the first emanation of this inconceivable state we have now to deal. The Kabbalah, of the early Jewish rabbis, contains long and elaborate treatises upon the various emanations of the ten sephiroth, which for the most part are written in such an allegorical style as to be practically useless to most Western students, and even to Oriental minds are unsatisfactory, and in many respects misleading. The first emanation from this realm of spirit (formless being) claims the student’s closest attention. It forms the Deific keynote of the divine anthem of creation. This first emanation, called by the Kabbalists the Crown, means, when stripped of its mystical veil, simple and naked activity or motion. Thus we see that the first action of Divinity (un¬ conscious mind) is thought, and thought implies vibration or motion. At the moment the Deific mind vibrates with thought there springs forth, from the infinite womb of creation, the duad of all future great¬ ness. This duad is the Kabbalistical twins, “Love and Wisdom,” which, in turn mean the attributes, attraction and repulsion of force and motion. They are male and female, co-equal and co-etemal, and express themselves externally as activity and repose.
2No matter how recondite or abstruse our speculations may be, when the orbit of our metaphysical meditation is complete we shall find ourselves face to face again with our original starting point, which 0 THE LIGHT OF EGYPT is this infinite triad of Love, Wisdom and Crown, or, in other words, the one primal force containing unlimited potentialities within itself. Back of this we cannot go. With this divine trinity or Godhead, as students and investigators of Nature’s occult mysteries, we must rest contented, consoling ourselves, whenever necessary, with the certain knowledge that the nearer we appear to approach the great white throne of the Infinite One, the further does that divine center recede from us. If this were not so, there could be no such thing as eternity for the atoms of differentiated life. Consequently, the immortality of the soul would be an empty dream, a mere figment, hatched by some infernal power within the overheated imagination of poor deluded man. Before going further, the reader should commit to memory the following primary doctrines, taught by the Occult initiates of all true wisdom. They are doctrines to us in our present state, in so far that we cannot demonstrate them externally by any known form of experiment. I. “The whole universe is filled with the Deific presence of God.” That is to say, the universe is permeated with the pure, motionless, formless, spirit of Divinity.
3II. “The universe is boundless and unlimited, a circle whose circumference is everywhere and whose centre is nowhere.” The uni¬ verse is dual and consists of the manifest and the non-manifest. Hence Deity is progressive in his infinite scheme of spiritual unfoldment. III. “The divine one life principle emanates from the pure vortices, the central Spiritual Sun of the manifested universe. From this mighty inconceivable center of life emanate the spiritual rays of the Father, scintillating with divine activity, whereupon the vast, motionless void, the awful universe of God’s silent, fonnless spirit, becomes alive with an infinite number of subordinate universes.” Which means, the rays of Divinity are brought to a focus at various points in space. These points or foci form the spiritual centers of smaller universes. An example of this can be seen upon our material plane by observing that primary suns throw off a series of secondary suns. These secondary suns throw off planets, and the planets become the parents of moons. By the science of correspondence, “as it is above, so it is below.” Remember these facts. . rtnn If* Original from THE REALM OF SPIRIT 7
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.
1Such is the realm of spirit, which, for the sake of linguistic con¬ venience, has been termed by the Occultist “the realm of unmani¬ fested being.” With the first emanation of this inconceivable state we have now to deal. The Kabbalah, of the early Jewish rabbis, contains long and elaborate treatises upon the various emanations of the ten sephiroth, which for the most part are written in such an allegorical style as to be practically useless to most Western students, and even to Oriental minds are unsatisfactory, and in many respects misleading. The first emanation from this realm of spirit (formless being) claims the student’s closest attention. It forms the Deific keynote of the divine anthem of creation. This first emanation, called by the Kabbalists the Crown, means, when stripped of its mystical veil, simple and naked activity or motion. Thus we see that the first action of Divinity (un¬ conscious mind) is thought, and thought implies vibration or motion. At the moment the Deific mind vibrates with thought there springs forth, from the infinite womb of creation, the duad of all future great¬ ness. This duad is the Kabbalistical twins, “Love and Wisdom,” which, in turn mean the attributes, attraction and repulsion of force and motion. They are male and female, co-equal and co-etemal, and express themselves externally as activity and repose.
2No matter how recondite or abstruse our speculations may be, when the orbit of our metaphysical meditation is complete we shall find ourselves face to face again with our original starting point, which 0 THE LIGHT OF EGYPT is this infinite triad of Love, Wisdom and Crown, or, in other words, the one primal force containing unlimited potentialities within itself. Back of this we cannot go. With this divine trinity or Godhead, as students and investigators of Nature’s occult mysteries, we must rest contented, consoling ourselves, whenever necessary, with the certain knowledge that the nearer we appear to approach the great white throne of the Infinite One, the further does that divine center recede from us. If this were not so, there could be no such thing as eternity for the atoms of differentiated life. Consequently, the immortality of the soul would be an empty dream, a mere figment, hatched by some infernal power within the overheated imagination of poor deluded man. Before going further, the reader should commit to memory the following primary doctrines, taught by the Occult initiates of all true wisdom. They are doctrines to us in our present state, in so far that we cannot demonstrate them externally by any known form of experiment. I. “The whole universe is filled with the Deific presence of God.” That is to say, the universe is permeated with the pure, motionless, formless, spirit of Divinity.
3II. “The universe is boundless and unlimited, a circle whose circumference is everywhere and whose centre is nowhere.” The uni¬ verse is dual and consists of the manifest and the non-manifest. Hence Deity is progressive in his infinite scheme of spiritual unfoldment. III. “The divine one life principle emanates from the pure vortices, the central Spiritual Sun of the manifested universe. From this mighty inconceivable center of life emanate the spiritual rays of the Father, scintillating with divine activity, whereupon the vast, motionless void, the awful universe of God’s silent, fonnless spirit, becomes alive with an infinite number of subordinate universes.” Which means, the rays of Divinity are brought to a focus at various points in space. These points or foci form the spiritual centers of smaller universes. An example of this can be seen upon our material plane by observing that primary suns throw off a series of secondary suns. These secondary suns throw off planets, and the planets become the parents of moons. By the science of correspondence, “as it is above, so it is below.” Remember these facts. . rtnn If* Original from THE REALM OF SPIRIT 7
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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