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William Blake, ′′ Meditations Among the Graves ". A real philosophical diagram in the form of a drawing, a symbolic geographical map that from the altar of sacrifice leads to God...
via Universal Truth Enlightenment and Realization ------- The secret teachings of the Qabbalah it is taught that man's body is enveloped in an ovoid of bubble-like iridescence, which is called the Auric Egg. This is the causal sphere of man. It bears the same relationship to man's physical body that the globe of AIN SOPH bears to Its created universes. In fact, this Auric Egg is the AIN SOPH sphere of the entity called man. In reality, therefore, the supreme consciousness of man is in this aura, which extends in all directions and completely encircles his lower bodies. As the consciousness in the Kosmic Egg is withdrawn into a central point, which is then called God--the Supreme One--so the consciousness in the Auric Egg of man is concentrated, thereby causing the establishment of a point of consciousness called the Ego. As the universes in Nature are formed from powers latent in the Kosmic Egg, so everything used by man in all his incarnations throughout the kingdoms of Nature is drawn from the latent powers within his Auric Egg. Man never passes from this egg; it remains even after death. His births, deaths, and rebirths all take place within it, and it cannot be broken until the lesser day "Be With Us," when mankind--like the universe--is liberated from the Wheel of Necessity.
The Qabbalah, the Secret Doctrine of Israel Manly P Hall
via Adept Initiates ------- THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES: PYTHAGORAS
All too lightly the world has passed over the achievements of the first “philosopher” to whom it is indebted for so many of the basic theorems of mathematics, music and astronomy.
The twentieth-century student of Greek philosophy has been taught to associate the name of Pythagoras with such puerile issues as his golden skin bone and his ban upon the eating of beans!
His sciolistic critics, however, have failed to consider the manner in which Pythagoras obtained his immense wealth of abstract learning The Mysteries of Greece, Egypt, Persia, and India without exception bound their initiates to inviolable secrecy.
Having accepted the obligations of these societies, Pythagoras had no honorable course other than to abide by their regulations.
Iamblichus lists 218 men and 17 women among the most famous of the Pythagorean philosophers.
It is thus evident that Pythagoras revealed his secrets to a considerable number of persons -- probably all who he felt could understand and he benefited by his knowledge.
The Pythagorean doctrine of mathematical philosophy may yet be accepted as the one system of thought able to cope with the riddle of existence.
Text: Manly. P. Hall, The Secret Teachings of all Ages (1928). Artwork by: J. Augustus Knapp
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