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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 intelligence. Thus the mind bears witness of the heart, while the generative system, in turn, bears witness of the mind. Accordingly, the spiritual nature is most commonly symbolized by a heart; the intellectual power by an opened eye, symbolizing the pineal gland or Cyclopean eye, which is the two-faced Janus of the pagan Mysteries; and the generative system by a flower, a staff, a cup, or a hand.
Chapter 3: Of the most blessed Triumphing, Holy, Holy, Holy Trinity, GOD the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, ONE only God. (92)
Open the Eyes of thy Mind, consider it, and you shall find it so.
Chapter 3: Of the most blessed Triumphing, Holy, Holy, Holy Trinity, GOD the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, ONE only God. (97)
Thus you find in Man three Fountains. First, the Power in thy whole Mind, which signifies God the Father. Then secondly, the Light in thy whole Mind,...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 7: Of the Heaven and its eternal Birth and Essence, and how the four Elements are generated; wherein the eternal Band may be the more and the better understood, by meditating and considering the material World. The great Depth. (22)
You have a Similitude [of this] in yourself. Your Soul which is in you, gives Reason to you, whereby you think, [consider and perceive;] that...
Chapter 3: Of the most blessed Triumphing, Holy, Holy, Holy Trinity, GOD the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, ONE only God. (93)
And observe: As from the Father and the Son proceeds forth the Holy Ghost, and is a self-subsisting Person in the Deity, and moves in the whole Father...
Chapter 3: Of the most blessed Triumphing, Holy, Holy, Holy Trinity, GOD the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, ONE only God. (90)
In thy Heart, in thy Veins, and in thy Brain, thou hast thy Spirit; and all the Powers which move in thy Heart, in thy Veins, and in thy Brain,...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 17: Of the horrible, lamentable, and miserable Fall of Adam and Eve in Paradise. Man 's Looking-Glass. (49)
And he had the Touch of the Center of the Abyss [viz.'] the eternal Source a behind him, as a Band, and before him, the Heart and Light of God, as a G...
Chapter 25: Of the whole Body of the Stars and of their Birth or Geniture; that is, the whole Astrology, or the whole Body of this World. (113)
And it is rightly the Brain in the corporeal Government of this World, from whence the Senses and Reason are generated, also all Meekness and Wisdom i...
Chapter 25: Of the whole Body of the Stars and of their Birth or Geniture; that is, the whole Astrology, or the whole Body of this World. (94)
For when the Light is generated, it is generated in the Midst or Center of the Body, as a Heart or Spirit out of all Powers, and there it stands and r...
Chapter 26: Of the Planet Saturnus (49)
For the human Flesh is, and resembles Nature in the Body of God, which is generated from the other six qualifying or fountain Spirits, wherein the qua...
Chapter 26: Of the Planet Saturnus (89)
The Light in Man, which the Heart of God had breathed in, signifies or resembles the Sun which shines in the whole Deep; concerning which you will...
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 Center is the Heart of Light, which the seven Spirits continuall...
Chapter 25: Of the whole Body of the Stars and of their Birth or Geniture; that is, the whole Astrology, or the whole Body of this World. (98)
Now the Heart signifies the Sun, which is the Beginning of Life in this outward Body of this World. And now thou canst not say, that the animated or...
Chapter 10: Of the Sixth qualifying or fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (37)
Thus it is also in Man, when one qualifying or fountain Spirit rises up, then it touches all the other, and sees all the other, for it rises up in...