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Page 73 - And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal. And he measured the wall thereof, a hundred and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel.
Page 29 - And this, to fill us with regard for man, With apprehension of his passing worth, Desire to work his proper nature out, And ascertain his rank and final place, For these things tend still upward, progress is The law of life, man is not Man as yet.
Page 29 - For these things tend still upward, progress is The law of life, man is not Man as yet. Nor shall I deem his object served, his end Attained, his genuine strength put fairly forth, While only here and there a star dispels The darkness, here and there a towering mind O'erlooks its prostrate fellows...
Page 194 - For love to clasp Eternal Beauty close ; For glory to be Lord of self, for pleasure To live beyond the gods ; for countless wealth To lay up lasting treasure Of perfect service rendered, duties done In charity, soft speech, and stainless days : These riches shall not fade away in life, Nor any death dispraise.
Page 47 - ... of compounds, or labeller of species; but him who through lower truths seeks higher, and eventually the highest) — only the genuine man of science, we say, can truly know how utterly beyond, not only human knowledge, but human conception, is the Universal Power of which Nature, and Life, and Thought are manifestations.
Page 98 - ... the Word; theorems more complete and luminous than those of Pythagoras; a theology summed up by counting on one's fingers; an Infinite which can be held in the hollow of an infant's hand; ten ciphers, and twenty-two letters, a triangle, a square, and a circle, — these are all the elements of the Kabalah. These are the elementary principles of the written Word, reflection of that spoken Word that created the world!
Page 183 - What manner of man is this, that even the winds and the waves obey him?
Page 64 - St. Basil, the Great Bishop of Csesarea, born in the year 326, and dying in the year 376, says : " We receive the dogmas transmitted to us by writing, and those which have descended to us from the Apostles, beneath the mystery of oral tradition : for several things have been handed to us without writing, lest the vulgar, too familiar with our dogmas, should lose a due respect for them. . . .This is what the uninitiated are not permitted to contemplate ; and how should it ever be proper to write and...
Page 181 - that Occult electric vital power, which, under the Will of the Creative Logos, unites and brings together all forms, giving them the first impulse which becomes in time LAW.
Page 116 - " The Germ in the Root." " What is it that is ever coming and going?" " The Great Breath." " Then, there are three Eternals?" "No, the three are one. That which ever is is one, that which ever was is one, that which is ever being and becoming is also one: and this is Space.