The Occult WorldHoughton, Mifflin, 1887 - 228 pages |
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Page 166 - He answered and said unto them, 'Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.
Page 166 - Therefore speak I to them in parables : because they seeing, see not ; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.
Page 144 - For the present it is all 1 can tell you. When science will have learned more about the mystery of the lithophyl (or litho-biblion), and how the impress of leaves comes originally to take place on stones, then I will be able to make you better understand the process. But you must know and remember one thing — we but follow and servilely copy Nature in her works.
Page 131 - Because every thought of man upon being evolved passes into the inner world, and becomes an active entity by associating itself, coalescing we might term it, with an elemental— that is to say, with one of the semi-intelligent forces of the kingdoms. It survives as an active intelligence — a creature of the mind's begetting — for a longer or shorter period proportionate with the original intensity of the cerebral action which generated it.
Page 132 - The adept evolves these shapes consciously; other men throw them off unconsciously. The adept, to be successful and preserve his power, must dwell in solitude, and more or less within his own soul. Still less does exact science perceive that while the building ant, the busy bee, the...
Page 215 - But all this will come gradually on, and before it comes we have a duty set before us : that of sweeping away as much as possible the dross left to us by our pious forefathers. New ideas have to be planted on clean places, for these ideas touch upon the most momentous subjects. It is not physical phenomena, but these universal ideas that we study ; as to comprehend the former we have first to understand the latter. They touch man's true position in the universe...
Page 106 - And supposing you were thus to come, as two of your own countrymen have already — as Madame B. did and Mr. O. will — supposing yon were to abandon all for the truth ; to toil wearily for years up the hard, steep road, not daunted by obstacles, firm under every temptation ; were to faithfully keep within your heart the secrets entrusted to you as a trial ; had worked with all your energies and unselfishly to spread the truth and provoke men to correct thinking and a correct life — would you...
Page 107 - outsiders " the terms you now ask for yourselves. Of these two persons, one has already given three-fourths of a life, the other six years of manhood's prime to us, and both will so labour to the close of their days ; though ever working for their merited reward, yet never demanding it, nor murmuring when disappointed. Even though they respectively could accomplish far less...
Page 166 - a like disposition on the part of Jesus and Paul to classify their doctrines as esoteric and exoteric — the mysteries of . the Kingdom of God for the apostles, and parables for the multitude. ' We speak wisdom,' says Paul, ' among them that are perfect,' or