Searching...
Showing 1-13
Passages similar to: Secret Teachings of All Ages — The Elements and Their Inhabitants
Source passage
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Elements and Their Inhabitants (41)
Mediæval investigators of the Nature spirits were of the opinion that the most common form of salamander was lizard-like in shape, a foot or more in length, and visible as a glowing Urodela, twisting and crawling in the midst of the fire. Another group was described as huge flaming giants in flowing robes, protected with sheets of fiery armor. Certain mediæval authorities, among them the Abbé de Villars, held that Zarathustra (Zoroaster) was the son of Vesta (believed to have been the wife of Noah) and the great salamander Oromasis. Hence, from that time onward, undying fires have been maintained upon the Persian altars in honor of Zarathustra's flaming father.
Chapter 11: Of the Seventh Qualifying or Fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (89)
["By the word SALITTER, in this book, is understood how, out of the eternal centre of nature, the second Principle grows and springeth up out of the...
Chapter 15: Of the Third Species, Kind or Form and Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer. (91)
But when Lucifer exalted himself, and kindled his qualifying or fountain spirits, then the animated or soulish spirit went forth in the tone out of or...
Bundahishn
Chapter XVIII (5)
There are places where that fish is written of as 'the Ariz of the water;' as it says that the greatest of the creatures of Aûharmazd is that fish,...
Chaldean Oracles
And Daemons. (77)
There are certain Water Elementals whom Orpheus calls Nereides, dwelling in the more elevated exhalations of Water, such as appear in damp, cloudy...
Chapter 15: Of the Third Species, Kind or Form and Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer. (36)
But he supposed he would eternally reign thus in his burning light in the whole divine power, as a very terrible god, and so with his fire-spirit he w...
Chapter 18: Of the Creation of Heaven and Earth; and of the first Day. (120)
Whereby then, in many a creature the wrath-fire would be so very hard kindled that the body, together with the spirit, will afford and produce an...
Chapter 22: Of the Birth or Geniture of the Stars, and Creation of the Fourth Day. (77)
Now, that kind of Salitter which, in the time of the kindling of the wrath, did become torpid in death, as it did qualify or operate at that time, in...
Bundahishn
Chapter III (9)
The form of the evil spirit was a log-like lizard's (vazak) body, and he appeared a young man of fifteen years to Gêh, and that brought the thoughts...
Chapter 15: Of the Third Species, Kind or Form and Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer. (42)
This fire-spirit, and right devil's spirit, elevated itself now also in the centre of the heart, and would rule through the animated or soulish...
Chapter 15: Of the Third Species, Kind or Form and Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer. (92)
For the host or army of Lucifer had kindled the Salitter of the stars and of the earth, and half killed, spoiled and destroyed it.
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (28)
But if it be kindled through exaltation, which those creatures that are created out of the divine Salitter alone can do (and only in their own kingdom...
Chapter 15: Of the Third Species, Kind or Form and Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer. (37)
The Reader is advertised that he must not understand in any place, as if the devil had kindled or fired the light of God; no, but the forms of nature ...
Bundahishn
Chapter XXVIII (1)
On the evil-doing of Aharman and the demons it says in revelation, that the evil which the evil spirit has produced for the creation of Aûharmazd it...