Theurgia, Or, The Egyptian Mysteries: Reply of Abammon, the Teacher, to the Letter of Porphyry to Anebo, Together with Solutions of the Questions Therein ContainedWilliam Rider & Son, Limited, 1911 - 283 pàgines |
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Pàgina 127 - ... an exact imitation of the avenues of the temples in Egypt. The inscriptheatre of Miletus at Palatia, we have accurate data for judging of the progress of the encroachtion (which is perfect to the right and incomplete to the left) is as follows : I The name at the beginning was probably Hermesianax.
Pàgina 281 - But it is not possible, Theodorus, that evil should be destroyed ; for it is necessary that there should be always something contrary to good ; nor can it be seated among the gods, but of necessity moves round this mortal nature and this region. Wherefore we ought to endeavour to fly hence thither as quickly as possible. But this flight consists in resembling God as much as possible, and this resemblance is the becoming just and holy with wisdom.
Pàgina 58 - ... three distinct things even before the heavens were created."* By place he means matter, as being the seat and receptacle ; by being or existence, the intelligible nature ; and by generation, the world not being yet created, he designs only that substance which was subject to change and motion, disposed between the forming cause and the thing formed, transmitting hither those shapes and figures which were there contrived and moulded. For which reason it was called divisible ; there being a necessity...
Pàgina 252 - He, whom the mind alone can perceive, whose essence eludes the external organs, who has no visible parts, who exists from eternity, even he, the soul of all beings, whom no being can comprehend, shone forth in person.
Pàgina 195 - Pythagoreans, who are supposed to have adopted their principal philosophic notions from Egypt, attached special honor to certain numbers and geometric figures. Plutarch affirms that they designated these .as divinities, calling the equilateral triangle Athena or Wisdom; the unit, Apollo, as denoting "not many" (a-pollon) ; the duad or two, courage and conflict; the triad, justice; and the four, the universe; and also thirty-six as being the sum of the first four odd and the first four even numbers...
Pàgina 81 - In one word, therefore, I conclude that their appearances accord with their essences, powers, and energies. For such as they are, such also do they appear to those that invoke them, and they exhibit energies and ideas consentaneous to themselves, and proper indications of themselves. But that we may descend to particulars, the phasmata, or luminous appearances, of the Gods are uniform ; those of daemons are various ; those of...
Pàgina 255 - ... matter and nutriment of the production. Which when we retain in our memories, we ought to conceive likewise that this Goddess, which always participates of the first God and is ever taken up with the love of those excellencies and charms that are about him, is not by nature opposite to him ; but that, as we are used to say of a...
Pàgina 58 - This doctrine is indeed so rational, that it can never be objected to by any but quacks in philosophy and religion. For as he is nothing more than a quack in medicine who endeavors to remove a latent bodily disease before he has called it forth externally, and by this means diminished its fury; so he is nothing...
Pàgina 116 - We have in history," says Calmet, " several instances of persons full of religion and piety, who, in the fervour of their orisons, have been taken up into the air, and remained there for some time. We have known a good monk who rises sometimes from the ground, and remains suspended without wishing it...
Pàgina 254 - Himself formed the divine, and He delivered over to His celestial offspring the task of forming the mortal. These subordinate deities, copying the example of their Parent, and receiving from His hands the immortal principle of the human soul, fashioned...