Magic, White and Black: Or the Science of Finate (Classic Reprint)

Sphinx, whose upper part (representing the higher principles) is human ;while the lower parts (symbolizing the lower principles) are of an animal nature. She is dreaming of the solution of the great problem of the construction of the Universe and of the nature and destiny of Man, and her dream takes the shape of the figure above her, representing theM acrocosm and theM icrocosm and their mutual interaction. A bove, around, and within all, without beginning and without an end, penetrating and pervading all, from the endless and unimaginable periphery to the invisible and incomprehensible centre, the Father of A ll, the supreme source of every power that ever manifested or may in the future manifest itself, and by whose activity the world was thrown into existence, being projected by the power of His own will and assuming form inH is imagination. The Omega (and the Alpha in the centre) represent theS on? the Absolute having become manifest as the Universal Logos or The Christ, the cause of the beginning v. and the end of every created thing. It isO ne with the Father? being manifested as aT rinity in aU nity, the cause of what we callS pace, Motion, andS ubstance. The regenerated spiritual man, whose matrix is his own physical body, draws his nutriment from this universal spiritual principle as the physical foetus is nourished by means of the womb of the mother, his soul being formed from the astral influences or the soul of the world. Out of the Universal Logos proceeds the invisible Light of theS pirit, the Truth, theL aw, and theL ife, embracing and penetrating the Cosmos, while the visible light of Nature is only its most material aspect or mode of manifestation, in the same sense as the visible sun is the reflex of its divine prototype, the invisible centre of power or the great spiritualS
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