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{{Style P-No indent|''desire to learn and acquire knowledge'' — to know. This is the natural sequence of mental evolution, the spiritual becoming transmuted into the material or physical. The same law of descent into materiality and re-ascent into spirituality asserted itself during the Christian era, the reaction having stopped only just now, in our own special ''sub-race.''}} | {{Style P-No indent|''desire to learn and acquire knowledge'' — to {{Style S-Small capitals|know}}. This is the natural sequence of mental evolution, the spiritual becoming transmuted into the material or physical. The same law of descent into materiality and re-ascent into spirituality asserted itself during the Christian era, the reaction having stopped only just now, in our own special ''sub-race.''}} | ||
That which, perhaps ten millenniums ago, was allegorized in ''Pymander ''in a triune character of interpretation, meant as a record of an astronomical, anthropological, and even alchemical fact, namely, the allegory of the seven rectors breaking through the seven circles of fire, was dwarfed into one material and anthropomorphic interpretation — the rebellion and ''Fall of the Angels. ''The multivocal, profoundly philosophical narrative, under its poetical form of the “ Marriage of Heaven with Earth,” the love of nature for Divine form and the “ Heavenly man,” enraptured with his own beauty mirrored in nature — ''i.e.'', Spirit attracted into matter — has now become, under theological handling : “ the seven Rectors disobeying Jehovah, self admiration generating Satanic Pride, followed by their {{Style S-Small capitals|Fall}}, Jehovah permitting no worship to be lost save upon himself.” In short, the beautiful Planet-Angels, the glorious cyclic æons of the ancients, became henceforward synthesized in their most orthodox shape in Samael, the chief of the Demons in the Talmud, “ That great serpent with ''twelve wings ''that draws down after himself, in his Fall, the solar system, or the Titans.” But ''Schemal'', the ''alter ego ''and the Sabean type of Samael, meant, in his philosophical and esoteric aspect, the “ year ” in its astrological evil aspect, its twelve months or wings of unavoidable evils, in nature ; and in esoteric theogony (see Chwolson in {{Style S-Small capitals|Nabathean Agriculture}}, Vol. II., p. 217), both Schemal and Samael represented a particular divinity. With the Kabalists they are “ the Spirit of the Earth,” the personal god that governs it, identical ''de facto ''with Jehovah. For the Talmudists admit themselves that {{Style S-Small capitals|Samael}} is a god-name of one of the seven Elohim. The Kabalists, moreover, show the two, Schemal and Samael, as a symbolical form of Saturn, {{Style S-Small capitals|Chronos}}, the twelve wings standing for the 12 months, and the symbol in its collectivity representing ''a racial cycle. ''Jehovah and Saturn are also glyphically identical. | That which, perhaps ten millenniums ago, was allegorized in ''Pymander ''in a triune character of interpretation, meant as a record of an astronomical, anthropological, and even alchemical fact, namely, the allegory of the seven rectors breaking through the seven circles of fire, was dwarfed into one material and anthropomorphic interpretation — the rebellion and ''Fall of the Angels. ''The multivocal, profoundly philosophical narrative, under its poetical form of the “ Marriage of Heaven with Earth,” the love of nature for Divine form and the “ Heavenly man,” enraptured with his own beauty mirrored in nature — ''i.e.'', Spirit attracted into matter — has now become, under theological handling : “ the seven Rectors disobeying Jehovah, self admiration generating Satanic Pride, followed by their {{Style S-Small capitals|Fall}}, Jehovah permitting no worship to be lost save upon himself.” In short, the beautiful Planet-Angels, the glorious cyclic æons of the ancients, became henceforward synthesized in their most orthodox shape in Samael, the chief of the Demons in the Talmud, “ That great serpent with ''twelve wings ''that draws down after himself, in his Fall, the solar system, or the Titans.” But ''Schemal'', the ''alter ego ''and the Sabean type of Samael, meant, in his philosophical and esoteric aspect, the “ year ” in its astrological evil aspect, its twelve months or wings of unavoidable evils, in nature ; and in esoteric theogony (see Chwolson in {{Style S-Small capitals|Nabathean Agriculture}}, Vol. II., p. 217), both Schemal and Samael represented a particular divinity. With the Kabalists they are “ the Spirit of the Earth,” the personal god that governs it, identical ''de facto ''with Jehovah. For the Talmudists admit themselves that {{Style S-Small capitals|Samael}} is a god-name of one of the seven Elohim. The Kabalists, moreover, show the two, Schemal and Samael, as a symbolical form of Saturn, {{Style S-Small capitals|Chronos}}, the twelve wings standing for the 12 months, and the symbol in its collectivity representing ''a racial cycle. ''Jehovah and Saturn are also glyphically identical. | ||