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The Secret Doctrine of the Rosicrucians
The Universal Flame of Life (3)
The symbol of Life has always been the Flaming Fire, in all occult teachings. The Eternal, Universal Fire, or Flame, which kindles ever all that presents itself to its influence, yet ever remains unchanged and undiminished in its Essence, has ever been the favorite symbol of the occultists for the Universal Life in Manifestation. When the term "Spirit" is used to indicate "Life," then the Flame or Fire has always been the symbol for Spirit.
Secret Teachings of All Ages
Isis, the Virgin of the World (39)
From a golden ring on her left arm a line descends, to the end of which is suspended a deep box filled with flaming coals and incense. Isis, or...
Chaldean Oracles
Magical and Philosophical Precepts (198)
A similar Fire flashingly extending through the rushings of Air, or a Fire formless whence cometh the Image of a Voice, or even a flashing Light...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
Fifteen Rosicrucian and Qabbalistic Diagrams (7)
Figure 2 is the Qabbalistic symbol of elemental water; Figure 9 represents the spiritual invisible water. Figure 3 is the Qabbalistic symbol of...
The Secret of the Golden Flower
The Primordial Spirit and the Conscious Spirit (5)
The way to the Elixir of Life recognizes as supreme magic, seed-water, spirit-fire, and thought-earth: these three. What is seed-water? It is the...
Chapter 11: Of the Seventh Qualifying or Fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (92)
"For the fire will consume all, and causes a high rising in the source, and the meekness of the light causes entity or substantiality; viz. in the...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
Introduction (86)
The ancient symbol of the Orphic Mysteries was the serpent-entwined egg, which signified Cosmos as encircled by the fiery Creative Spirit. The egg...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Human Body in Symbolism (14)
As light bears witness of life-which is its source-so the mind bears witness of the spirit, and activity in a still lower plane bears witness of...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Cross and the Crucifixion (22)
There are four basic elements (according to both ancient philosophy and modern science), and the ancients represented them by the four arms of the...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
Fishes, Insects, Animals, Reptiles and Birds (49)
Electricity was commonly symbolized by the serpent because of its motion. Electricity passing between the poles of a spark gap is serpentine in its...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
Fishes, Insects, Animals, Reptiles and Birds (2)
Every existing creature manifests some aspect of the intelligence or power of the Eternal One, who can never be known save through a study and...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Human Body in Symbolism (1)
THE oldest, the most profound, the most universal of all symbols is the human body. The Greeks, Persians, Egyptians, and Hindus considered a...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Mystery of the Apocalypse (10)
Rudolph Steiner, "ran their course at a period when the earth was still 'fiery'; and the first human incarnations were formed out of the element of fi...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XXIV: How Moses Discharged the Part of A Military Leader. (14)
Well, then, that fire like a pillar, and the fire in the desert, is the symbol of the holy light which passed through from earth and returned again...
Gospel of Philip
Water and Fire (Water and Fire)
Soul and spirit have come into being from water and fire. The attendant of the bridal chamber has come into being from water, fire, and light. Fire...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
Fishes, Insects, Animals, Reptiles and Birds (30)
The scorpion was also the symbol of wisdom, for the fire which it controlled was capable of illuminating as well as consuming. Initiation into the...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Fraternity of the Rose Cross (54)
Those professing this theory regard the Comte de St.-Germain as their highest adept and assert that he and Christian Rosencreutz were one and the...
Chaldean Oracles
Particular Souls. (93)
Water is a symbol of life; hence Plato and the gods before Plato, call it (the Soul) at one time the whole water of vivification, and at another time...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Human Body in Symbolism (25)
In symbolism the body is divided vertically into halves, the right half being considered as light and the left half as darkness. By those...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
Fifteen Rosicrucian and Qabbalistic Diagrams (13)
Figure 26 is the character of the air, showing that air is born out of the Eternal Light and the ethereal water. Figure 27 is the character of water....
Chapter 11: Of the Seventh Qualifying or Fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (91)
"Yet the fire giveth or holdeth forth to us a mystery of the eternal nature, and of the Deity also, wherein a man is to understand two Principles of...
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