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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.
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
Chapter 15: Of the Third Species, Kind or Form and Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer. (44)
The [soulish] spirit of the soul is very much more subtle, and more incomprehensible than the body, or the seven qualifying or fountain spirits,...
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...
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...
Chaldean Oracles
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...
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...
Chapter 15: Of the Third Species, Kind or Form and Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer. (48)
When the animated or soulish spirit goeth forth out of the body, then it is one thing with the hidden Deity, and is together the midst or centre in...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Secret of the Golden Flower
The Primordial Spirit and the Conscious Spirit (6)
Thought-earth is the Heavenly Heart of the middle house (intuition). Spirit-fire is used for effecting, thought-earth for substance, and seed-water...
Chapter 16: Of the Seventh Species, Kind, Form, or Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer and his Angels. (113)
On the other hand, the animated or soulish spirit of the devil, which ruleth in the outermost birth or geniture of man, is very terrible and angry, an...
The Conference of the Birds
Invocation (48)
When the soul was joined to the body it was part of the all: never has there been so marvellous a talisman. The soul had a share of that which is...
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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