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(''a'') It must be remembered that the words “ Light,” “ Fire,” and “ Flame ” used in the Stanzas have been adopted by the translators thereof from the vocabulary of the old “ Fire philosophers,” ‡ in order to render better the meaning of the archaic terms and symbols employed in the original. Otherwise they would have remained entirely unintelligible to a European reader. But to a student of the Occult the terms used will be sufficiently clear. | (''a'') It must be remembered that the words “ Light,” “ Fire,” and “ Flame ” used in the Stanzas have been adopted by the translators thereof from the vocabulary of the old “ Fire philosophers,” ‡ in order to render better the meaning of the archaic terms and symbols employed in the original. Otherwise they would have remained entirely unintelligible to a European reader. But to a student of the Occult the terms used will be sufficiently clear. | ||
All these — “ Light,” “ Flame,” “ Hot,” “ Cold,” “ Fire,” “ Heat,” “ Water,” and the “ water of life ” are all, on our plane, the progeny ; or as a modern physicist would say, the correlations of electricity. Mighty word, and a still mightier symbol ! Sacred generator of a no less sacred progeny ; of fire — the creator, the preserver and the destroyer ; of light — the essence of our divine ancestors ; of flame — the Soul of things. Electricity, the one Life at the upper rung of Being, and Astral Fluid, the Athanor of the Alchemists, at its lowest ; {{Style S-Small capitals|god}} and {{Style S-Small capitals|devil}}, {{Style S-Small capitals|good}} and {{Style S-Small capitals|evil}}. . . . | All these — “ Light,” “ Flame,” “ Hot,” “ Cold,” “ Fire,” “ Heat,” “ Water,” and the “ water of life ” are all, on our plane, the progeny ; or as a modern physicist would say, the correlations of {{Style S-Small capitals|electricity}}. Mighty word, and a still mightier symbol ! Sacred generator of a no less sacred progeny ; of fire — the creator, the preserver and the destroyer ; of light — the essence of our divine ancestors ; of flame — the Soul of things. Electricity, the {{Style S-Small capitals|one}} Life at the upper rung of Being, and Astral Fluid, the Athanor of the Alchemists, at its lowest ; {{Style S-Small capitals|god}} and {{Style S-Small capitals|devil}}, {{Style S-Small capitals|good}} and {{Style S-Small capitals|evil}}. . . . | ||
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