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== H. P. Blavatsky == | == [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]] == | ||
'''{{Style S-Small capitals|Nabia}}'''. Seership, soothsaying. This oldest and most respected of mystic phenomena is the name given to prophecy in the ''Bible'', and is correctly included among the spiritual powers, such as divination, clairvoyant visions, trance‐conditions, and oracles. But while enchanters, diviners, and even astrologers are strictly condemned in the Mosaic books, prophecy, seership, and ''nabia ''appear as the special gifts of heaven. In early ages they were all termed ''Epoptai ''(Seers), the Greek word for Initiates; they were also designated ''Nebim'', “the plural of Nebo, the Babylonian god of wisdom.” The Kabalist distinguishes between the ''seer ''and the ''magician''; one is passive, the other active; ''Nebirah'', is one who looks into futurity and a clairvoyant; ''Nebi‐poel'', he who possesses ''magic powers''. We notice that Elijah and Apollonius resorted to the same means to isolate themselves from the disturbing influences of the outer world, viz., wrapping their heads entirely in a woollen mantle, from its being an electric non‐conductor we must suppose. | '''{{Style S-Small capitals|Nabia}}'''. Seership, soothsaying. This oldest and most respected of mystic phenomena is the name given to prophecy in the ''Bible'', and is correctly included among the spiritual powers, such as divination, clairvoyant visions, trance‐conditions, and oracles. But while enchanters, diviners, and even astrologers are strictly condemned in the Mosaic books, prophecy, seership, and ''nabia ''appear as the special gifts of heaven. In early ages they were all termed ''Epoptai ''(Seers), the Greek word for Initiates; they were also designated ''Nebim'', “the plural of Nebo, the Babylonian god of wisdom.” The Kabalist distinguishes between the ''seer ''and the ''magician''; one is passive, the other active; ''Nebirah'', is one who looks into futurity and a clairvoyant; ''Nebi‐poel'', he who possesses ''magic powers''. We notice that Elijah and Apollonius resorted to the same means to isolate themselves from the disturbing influences of the outer world, viz., wrapping their heads entirely in a woollen mantle, from its being an electric non‐conductor we must suppose. | ||
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