A New Light of Mysticism: Azoth; Or, The Star in the East ... |
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absolute accomplished achievement adept affirmed agnostic agnosticism alchemists alchemy arcane aspiration attain Azoth Beatific Vision beatitude beauty become body Christ Christian Christian Mystics clairvoyance concerned consciousness correspondence desire divine doctrine dream earth Eliphas Levi environment esoteric eternal evolution exaltation existence experience exterior faculty Freemasonry glory gold grand heart heaven Hermetic higher higher consciousness Holy Assembly humanity hypostatic union ideal illumination imagination infinite intellectual intelligence interior interpretation Israfel knowledge light literature magic Majorca manifestation manner matter metals mind ministry mystery Mysticism nature Nirvana noumenal ourselves outward Paradise perfection phenomenal philosophical physical Pneuma poet poetic poetry possess possible potencies principle Quietists reality realization regard regeneration religion religious revelation romance Rosicrucian secret sense Soul soul's speak sphere spiritual spiritual evolution splendour standpoint Sublimation subsistence supreme symbolism things tion transcendental transfiguration transmutation true truth ultimate union universal unto veil vision wherein words
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Page 72 - Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.
Page 179 - I sent my Soul through the Invisible, Some letter of that After-life to spell: And by and by my Soul return'd to me, And answer'd
Page 98 - O Lady! we receive but what we give And in our life alone does Nature live: Ours is her wedding garment, ours her shroud! And would we aught behold of higher worth, Than that inanimate cold world allowed To the poor loveless ever-anxious crowd, Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the Earth And from the soul itself must there be sent A sweet and potent voice, of its own birth, Of all sweet sounds the life and element!
Page 27 - O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.
Page 27 - The Lord gave the word; great was the company of those that published it. 12 Kings of armies did flee apace; and she that tarried at home divided the spoil. 13 Though ye have lien among the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.
Page 81 - Wherefore I prayed, and understanding was given me: I called upon God, and the spirit of wisdom came to me. I preferred her before sceptres and thrones, and esteemed riches nothing in comparison of her.
Page 98 - Lady ! we receive but what we give, And in our life alone does Nature live; Ours is her wedding-garment, ours her shroud ! And would we aught behold, of higher worth, Than that inanimate cold world allowed To the poor loveless ever-anxious crowd, Ah ! from the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the Earth...
Page 96 - Children of men ! the unseen Power, whose eye For ever doth accompany mankind, Hath look'd on no religion scornfully That men did ever find. ' Which has not taught weak wills how much they can ? Which has not fall'n on the dry heart like rain ? Which has not cried to sunk, self-weary man : Thou must be born again...
Page 84 - I saw the spiritual city and all her spires And gateways in a glory like one pearl— No larger, tho' the goal of all the saints — Strike from the sea; and from the star there shot A rose-red sparkle to the city, and there Dwelt, and I knew it was the Holy Grail, Which never eyes on earth again shall see.
Page 98 - I come unto you. If you loved me, you would indeed be glad, because I go to the Father: for the Father is greater than...