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Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Human Body in Symbolism (9)
According to another concept of the ancient wisdom, all bodies--whether spiritual or material--have three centers, called by the Greeks the upper center, the middle center, and the lower center. An apparent ambiguity will here be noted. To diagram or symbolize adequately abstract mental verities is impossible, for the diagrammatic representation of one aspect of metaphysical relationships may be an actual contradiction of some other aspect. While that which
The Kybalion
Chapter VIII: Planes of Correspondence (3)
These divisions are more or less artificial and arbitrary, for the truth is that all of the three divisions are but ascending degrees of the great...
The Secret Doctrine of the Rosicrucians
The Three Higher Planes of Consciousness (2)
While these three higher Planes of Consciousness are included in the Rosicrucian symbol of the seven Planes of Consciousness, i.e., the seven linked...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 25: The Suffering, Dying, Death, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ the Son of God: Also of his Ascension into Heaven, and sitting at the Right-hand of God his Father. The Gate of our Misery; and also the strong Gate of the Divine Power in his Love. (106)
Thus, my dear Mind, know, rthat the Creature of Christ is the Center of this Throne, from whence every Life proceeds, viz. whatsoever is heavenly;...
The Secret of the Golden Flower
Circulation of the Light and Protection of the Centre (19)
Keeping the thoughts on the space between the two eyes allows the Light to penetrate. Thereupon, the spirit crystallizes and enters the centre in the...
The Secret Doctrine of the Rosicrucians
The Seven Cosmic Principles (19)
Without going deeply into the matter of the application of this particular Cosmic Principle, we may say that one of the fundamental facts of being...
The Kybalion
Chapter VIII: Planes of Correspondence (2)
The Great Physical Plane. 2. The Great Mental Plane. 3. The Great Spiritual Plane.
Chapter 16: Of the Seventh Species, Kind, Form, or Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer and his Angels. (9)
For the seventh spirit is the body, and the other six are the life, and in the middle centre is the heart of light, which the seven spirits continuall...
The Secret Doctrine of the Rosicrucians
The Three Higher Planes of Consciousness (4)
The reason that the Rosicrucians place these three higher planes of consciousness in a trinity of circles, apparently apart from the lower four...
The Secret of the Golden Flower
Circulation of the Light and Protection of the Centre (14)
One looks with both eyes at the end of the nose, sits upright and in a comfortable position, and holds the heart to the centre in the midst 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 7: Of the Court, Place and Dwelling, also of the Government of Angels, how these things stood at the Beginning, after the Creation, and how they became as they are. (13)
"This needs explanation: Read the second (The Three Principles) and the third part (The Threefold Life) of these writings, where it is described more ...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 12: Of the Opening of the Holy Scripture, that the Circumstances may be highly considered. The golden Gate, which God affords to the last World, wherein the Lily shall flourish [and blossom.] (51)
Thus the Soul is generated between both the Centers, between the Center of God, (understand [between the Center] of the Heart or Light of God, where...
Chapter 10: Of the Sixth qualifying or fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (104)
Now when I write here concerning the midst or centre, that the fountain of the divine birth or geniture is in the midst or centre, the meaning is not...