Had a peek at:
Eliphas Levi
Dogma et Rituel
de la
Haute Magie
Starting to look like the "great sea-serpent" will make an appearance after all "The Kabalists call her the virgin of the sea, whose dripping feet the infernal dragon crawls forward to lick with his fiery tongues, and they fall asleep in delight."
Got it, don't be tepid or effeminate as a man "As a fact, a great sinner is more really alive than is a tepid, effeminate man, and the fullness of his return to virtue will be in proportion to the extent of his errors"
Maybe something here speaks about ectoplasm. More research is required. Will circle back to the Baron eventually.
Eliphas Levi
Dogma et Rituel
de la
Haute Magie
Starting to look like the "great sea-serpent" will make an appearance after all "The Kabalists call her the virgin of the sea, whose dripping feet the infernal dragon crawls forward to lick with his fiery tongues, and they fall asleep in delight."
Quote:There is mercy and there is justice in God; to the just He dispenses justice and
to sinners mercy. In the soul of the world, which is the Universal Agent, there is a
current of love and a current of wrath. This ambient and all-penetrating fluid;
this ray loosened from the sun's splendour and fixed by the weight of the atmosphere
and the power of central attraction; this body of the Holy Spirit, which we
term the Universal Agent, while it was typified by the ancients under the symbol
of a serpent devouring its tail; this electromagnetic ether, this vital and luminous
caloric, is depicted in archaic monuments by the girdle of Isis, twice-folded in a
love-knot round two poles, as well as by the serpent devouring its own tail,
emblematic of prudence and of Saturn. Motion and life consist in the extreme
tension of two forces. “I would thou wert cold or hot,” said the Master. As a fact, a
great sinner is more really alive than is a tepid, effeminate man, and the fullness
of his return to virtue will be in proportion to the extent of his errors. She who is
destined to crush the serpent's head is intelligence, which ever rises above the
stream of blind forces. The Kabalists call her the virgin of the sea, whose dripping
feet the infernal dragon crawls forward to lick with his fiery tongues, and they fall
asleep in delight.
Got it, don't be tepid or effeminate as a man "As a fact, a great sinner is more really alive than is a tepid, effeminate man, and the fullness of his return to virtue will be in proportion to the extent of his errors"
Maybe something here speaks about ectoplasm. More research is required. Will circle back to the Baron eventually.
Quote:The Great Magical Agent manifests by four kinds of phenomena, and has been
subjected to the experiments of profane science under four names – caloric, light,
electricity, magnetism. It has received also the names of TETRAGRAM, INRI,
AZOTH, ETHER, OD, Magnetic Fluid, Soul of the Earth, Lucifer, etc. The Great
Magical Agent is the fourth emanation of the life-principle, of which the sun is the
third form – see the initiates of the school of Alexandria and the dogma of Hermes
Trismegistus.