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Passages similar to: The Secret Doctrine of the Rosicrucians — The Sevenfold Soul of Man
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Western Esoteric
The Secret Doctrine of the Rosicrucians
The Sevenfold Soul of Man (9)
This Elemental Soul, embodied in elemental substance as stated, is that Something which to the race has been known as the "ghost," "spirit" (in this case the term "spirit" is grossly misused and inappropriate), ethereal body, "fluidic body," "double," "wraith," "doppelganger," etc. It has sometimes been called "the astral body," but this is a mistake, for what the occultists have long known as the true "astral body" is something very different.
Western Esoteric
Secret Teachings of All Ages
Hermetic Pharmacology, Chemistry, and Therapeutics (13)
This vital energy has its origin in the spiritual body of the earth. Every created thing has two bodies, one visible and substantial, the other...
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Western Esoteric
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Elements and Their Inhabitants (12)
"Yet," he adds, "the Elementals are not spirits, because they have flesh, blood and bones; they live and propagate offspring; they cat and talk, act...
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Western Esoteric
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Elements and Their Inhabitants (11)
Paracelsus, when describing the substances which constitute the bodies of the elementals, divided flesh into two kinds, the first being that which we...
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Christian Mysticism
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 19: Of the Entering of the Souls to God, and of the wicked Souls Entering into Perdition. Of the Gate of the Body's Breaking off [or Parting] from the Soul. (19)
But when the Spirit of the four Elements parts, then the right Soul (which was breathed into Adam) stands in its Principle; for it is so subtle, that ...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter 15: Of the Third Species, Kind or Form and Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer. (44)
The Spirit of the Soul is very much more subtle, and more incomprehensible than the Body, or the seven qualifying or fountain Spirits, which hold,...
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Western Esoteric
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Elements and Their Inhabitants (2)
Air is, therefore, twofold in nature-tangible atmosphere and an intangible, volatile substratum which may be termed spiritual air. Fire is visible...
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Western Esoteric
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Ancient Mysteries and Secret Societies: Part Three (7)
The soul of man--often called Psyche, and in the Eleusinian Mysteries symbolized by Persephone--is essentially a spiritual thing. Its true home is in...
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Western Esoteric
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Elements and Their Inhabitants (18)
The reader should be careful not to confuse the Nature spirits with the true life waves evolving through the invisible worlds. While the elementals...
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Neoplatonic
Particular Souls. (91)
This Animastic Spirit which blessed men have called the Pneumatic Soul, becometh a god, an all-various Dæmon, and an Image (disembodied), and in this...
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Western Esoteric
Secret Teachings of All Ages
Stones, Metals and Gems (1)
EACH of the four primary elements as taught by the early philosophers has its analogue in the quaternary terrestrial constitution of man. The rocks...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter 15: Of the Third Species, Kind or Form and Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer. (48)
Spirit goes forth out of the Body, then it is one Thing with the hidden Deity, and is together the Middle or Center in the Imaging, or Framing of a Th...
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Western Esoteric
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Elements and Their Inhabitants (15)
There areas many ethers as there are elements and as many distinct families of Nature spirits as there are ethers. These families are completely isola...
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Christian Mysticism
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 19: Of the Entering of the Souls to God, and of the wicked Souls Entering into Perdition. Of the Gate of the Body's Breaking off [or Parting] from the Soul. (17)
O no, beloved Reason, it is not so; the soul is not seen nor comprehended in the outward Elements; but that is the Brimstone- spirit, the Spirit of...
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Christian Mysticism
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 13: Of the Creating of Woman out of Adam. The fleshly, miserable, and dark Gate. (30)
And now if we will speak of the Soul, and of its Substance and Essences, we must say that it is the roughest [Thing] in Man; for it is the Originality...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter 16: Of the Seventh Species, Kind, Form, or Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer and his Angels. (59)
Behold when the corporeal qualifying, or fountain Spirits set their Will into Sorcery or Witchcraft, then the animated or soulish Spirit, which they...
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Western Esoteric
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Elements and Their Inhabitants (5)
Just as visible Nature is populated by an infinite number of living creatures, so, according to Paracelsus, the invisible, spiritual counterpart of...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter 5: Of the Corporeal Substance, Being and Propriety of an Angel. Question. (36)
Answer. The Holy Soul of a Man, and the Spirit of an Angel, is and has one and the same Substance and Being, and there is no Difference therein, but...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter 10: Of the Sixth qualifying or fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (84)
It has in it the first Principle; the Spirit of the Soul has the Second; and the astral or starry Spirit in the Elements has the Third, viz. this...
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Christian Mysticism
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 19: Of the Entering of the Souls to God, and of the wicked Souls Entering into Perdition. Of the Gate of the Body's Breaking off [or Parting] from the Soul. (18)
Understand [or consider] it right; it is the Source- spirit [or working Spirit] out of the Gall which kindles the Heart, whereby the Life was...
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Neoplatonic
II, Chapter II (2)
It likewise possesses the eternity of a similar life and energy in a less degree than dæmons and heroes; yet, through the beneficent will of the...
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