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{{Style P-Title|THE MAGICAL EVOCATION OF APOLLONIUS OF TYANA}} | {{Style P-Title|THE MAGICAL EVOCATION OF APOLLONIUS OF TYANA}} | ||
{{Style P-Subtitle|A CHAPTER FROM ÉLIPHAS LÉVI. <ref>{{HPB-CW-comment|[Chapter XIII in his Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie, pp. 276-92 in the 6th edition. Paris. 1920.—Compiler.]}}</ref> | {{Style P-Subtitle|A CHAPTER FROM ÉLIPHAS LÉVI.<ref>{{HPB-CW-comment|[Chapter XIII in his Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie, pp. 276-92 in the 6th edition. Paris. 1920.—Compiler.]}}</ref> | ||
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{{Page aside|145}} Let us first tell what the masters have written of their visions or intuitions in what they call the light of glory. | {{Page aside|145}} Let us first tell what the masters have written of their visions or intuitions in what they call the light of glory. | ||
We read in the Hebrew book, The Revolution of the Souls, <ref>{{HPB-CW-comment|[Reference here is to Isaac ben Solomon Loria’s Commentarius in librum Zeniutha. Tractatus de revolutionibus animarum, which may be found in the second volume of Knorr von Rosenroth’s Kabbala Denudata, etc.; the first volume of this work appeared at Sulzbach in 1677-78, and the second at Frankfurt a. M. in 1684.—Compiler.]}}</ref> that there are souls of three kinds: the daughters of Adam, the daughters of the angels, and the daughters of sin. There are also, according to the same book, three kinds of spirits: captive spirits, wandering spirits, and free spirits. Souls are sent in couples. There are, however, souls of men which are born single, and whose mates are held captive by Lilith and Naemah, the queens of Strygis; <ref>A word applied by the Valaginians and Orientals to a certain kind of unprogressed elementary spirits.—Ed. [H.P.B.]</ref> these are the souls which have to make future expiations for their rashness, in assuming a vow of celibacy. For example, when a man renounces from childhood the love of woman, he makes the spouse who was destined for him the slave of the demons of lust. Souls grow and multiply in heaven as well as bodies upon earth. The immaculate souls are the offspring of the union of the angels. | We read in the Hebrew book, The Revolution of the Souls,<ref>{{HPB-CW-comment|[Reference here is to Isaac ben Solomon Loria’s Commentarius in librum Zeniutha. Tractatus de revolutionibus animarum, which may be found in the second volume of Knorr von Rosenroth’s Kabbala Denudata, etc.; the first volume of this work appeared at Sulzbach in 1677-78, and the second at Frankfurt a. M. in 1684.—Compiler.]}}</ref> that there are souls of three kinds: the daughters of Adam, the daughters of the angels, and the daughters of sin. There are also, according to the same book, three kinds of spirits: captive spirits, wandering spirits, and free spirits. Souls are sent in couples. There are, however, souls of men which are born single, and whose mates are held captive by Lilith and Naemah, the queens of Strygis; <ref>A word applied by the Valaginians and Orientals to a certain kind of unprogressed elementary spirits.—Ed. [H.P.B.]</ref> these are the souls which have to make future expiations for their rashness, in assuming a vow of celibacy. For example, when a man renounces from childhood the love of woman, he makes the spouse who was destined for him the slave of the demons of lust. Souls grow and multiply in heaven as well as bodies upon earth. The immaculate souls are the offspring of the union of the angels. | ||
Nothing can enter into Heaven, except that which is of Heaven. After death, then, the divine spirit which animated the man, returns alone to Heaven, and leaves upon earth and in the atmosphere two corpses. One, terrestrial and elementary; the other, aerial and sidereal; the one lifeless already, the other still animated by the universal movement of the soul of the world (Astral light), but destined to die gradually, absorbed by the astral powers which produced it. The earthly corpse is visible: the other is invisible to the eyes of the terrestrial and living body, and cannot be perceived except by the influences of the astral or translucid light, which communicates its impressions to the nervous system, and thus affects the organ of sight, so as to make it see the forms which are preserved, and the words which are written in the book of vital life. | Nothing can enter into Heaven, except that which is of Heaven. After death, then, the divine spirit which animated the man, returns alone to Heaven, and leaves upon earth and in the atmosphere two corpses. One, terrestrial and elementary; the other, aerial and sidereal; the one lifeless already, the other still animated by the universal movement of the soul of the world (Astral light), but destined to die gradually, absorbed by the astral powers which produced it. The earthly corpse is visible: the other is invisible to the eyes of the terrestrial and living body, and cannot be perceived except by the influences of the astral or translucid light, which communicates its impressions to the nervous system, and thus affects the organ of sight, so as to make it see the forms which are preserved, and the words which are written in the book of vital life. | ||
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{{HPB-CW-comment|[A copy of the Preamble and By-Laws of The Theosophical Society is pasted in H.P.B.’s {{SB-page|v=1|p=77|text=Scrapbook, Vol. I, pp. 77-79}}. On top of the first column, above the title, H.P.B. wrote in blue pencil:]}} | {{HPB-CW-comment|[A copy of the Preamble and By-Laws of The Theosophical Society is pasted in H.P.B.’s {{SB-page|v=1|p=77|text=Scrapbook, Vol. I, pp. 77-79}}. On top of the first column, above the title, H.P.B. wrote in blue pencil:]}} | ||
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