...talic|Genesis}} as given to Adam and Eve, are explained by certain ancient philosophers to mean the fleshy bodies with which, in the progress of the cycles, the pr
...de no attempt to calculate the duration of the “grand cycle,” the Hermetic philosophers yet maintained that, according to the cyclic law, the living human race mus
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...true moral and intellectual progress of the race has occurred. The ancient philosophers were well enough for their respective generations, but they were illiterate
...ristian era mirrored faithfully in his works the spiritualism of the Vedic philosophers who lived thousands of years before himself, and its metaphysical expressio
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...ic systems of Pythagoras and the old Magi, and those of the later Platonic philosophers and theurgists. We also propose in subsequent pages to treat of the Indian
...n of Alchemy. His system of physics was very much like that of other great philosophers. Space, which is infinite, is composed, or rather filled up with a fluid an
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...,{{Footnote mark|†|fn51}} as they allege, has been entertained by hermetic philosophers of all periods that matter has in time become, through sin, more gross and
...is, for Patristic Theology to crack; but an accepted fact with the ancient philosophers.
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...ons to spiritualism. But, as it is evident from the writings of both these philosophers, that they are ignorant of the possibilities of psychological phenomena, to
...character to, and {{Style S-Italic|only less precise}} than that of modern philosophers who regard matter as essentially dynamical.” He considers the expression {{
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{{Style P-No indent|academicians of Europe. As the fire-philosophers say, it is not the chemist who will condescend to look upon the “living fir
...hought of it; that he had studied astrology and astronomy, as all the fire-philosophers did; and that, if he did assert that man is in a direct affinity with the s
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...l}} orders. But how far better was this psychic force known to the ancient philosophers! We can glean some information on that subject from the earliest sources. P
...our scientists, but such as it {{Style S-Italic|was}} known to the ancient philosophers, long before the time of Moses; Ether, with all its mysterious and occult p
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...r.]}}</ref> is to indicate in the works of the old Aryan, Greek, and other Philosophers of note, as well as in all the world-scriptures, the presence of a strong E
...with their logic and reasoning powers, rather than concede to the ancient Philosophers the knowledge of anything the modern do not know.
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...ul'' or ''spirit'' (both seeming to mean the same thing to them). European philosophers generally speak of ''Body'' and ''Mind'', and argue that soul or spirit can
...osophy. The term ''Jîvâtma'' is {{Page aside|410}}generally applied by our philosophers to the seventh principle when it is distinguished from ''Paramâtma'' or ''P
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...net like any other of these celestial bodies. (See Fenelon’s “Lives of the Philosophers.”) In the latest of Plato’s translations (“The Dialogues of Plato,” by Prof
...us the metaphysical continuation by Plotinus, Porphyry, Proclus, and other philosophers of this view of Zeus the father, Zeus {{Style S-Italic|Poseidon,}} or {{Sty
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...with their logic and reasoning powers, rather than concede to the ancient Philosophers the knowledge of anything the modern do not know.
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...treme limits of nature, he then erects a standard which he and his brother philosophers would do well to measure their behavior by. “Surely we ought,” says he, “to
...34}} By the word {{Style S-Italic|soul,}} neither Demokritus nor the other philosophers understood the {{Style S-Italic|nous}} or {{Style S-Italic|pneuma}}, the di
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...e example once set, there was no want of followers; the works of the Greek philosophers were stigmatized as profane; the transcendently glorious achievements of th
...asks, “this product of ignorance and audacity, that the works of the Greek philosophers were to be given up? It was none too soon that the great critics who appear
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...gners at great prices. History tells us how Theophilus had the best of the philosophers, in a.d. 389; and how his successor and nephew, the no less infamous Cyril,
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...eas. Consciously and unconsciously you have pilfered from old classics and philosophers, who were themselves but the superficial recorders—cautious and incomplete,
...ivine Breath of the Universal Mind, but now, it has become with the modern philosophers no better than a blind and senseless Force. Furthermore they taught that th
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...me ancient Platonists, or by the ''chemical processes'' of the German fire-philosophers.”
...m {{Page aside|88}}as materialists. As to the concluding fling at the fire-philosophers, it rebounds from them to fall home among our most eminent modern men of sc
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...Biblical Patriarchs, 236 on dual origin of magic, 236 on miracles of Greek philosophers, 237
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...use by the Christian Fathers. Ever following in the footsteps of old Pagan Philosophers on the well-trodden highway of their speculations, while, as ever, trying t
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...lf to deceive fools, as in the fairy-tale of Perrault, the disciple of the philosophers of old will always recognize the truth, and will adore it. This ass’ skin,
...that only high initiates are able to interpret the ''jargon'' of hermetic philosophers. And then again, since there exist more false than true alchemical writings
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