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...pon words to connect it with {{Style S-Italic|Petroma,}} the double set of stone tablets used ...aspect, and feels herself powerless to refute the accusations—to throw the stone at those who were her models. When men like Pythagoras, Plato, and Iamblich

...sed only to the initiates. As soon as humanity entered upon a new one, the stone age, with which the preceding cycle had closed, began to gradually merge in

...nds on our knowledge of kindred elements. He believed in the philosopher’s stone, “of which the world hath so great an opinion of, which hath been bragged ...ing foolishly spent over two million livres in search of the philosopher’s stone. “The Chinese,” he says, “reputed so wise, have for three or four tho

...g and bursting simultaneously, with a tremendous force, broke out the huge stone, as neatly as a diamond cuts a pane of glass. ...er houses, and again into courts unseen before. The roof was throughout of stone like the walls, and both were exquisitely carved all over with figures. Eve

...the derivation of which we have to look to an incredibly early epoch. The stone called {{Style S-Italic|magnet}} is believed by many to owe its name to Mag ...on people, the Heraclean.”{{Footnote mark|‡|fn236}} It was the country and stone which were called after the Magi, not the Magi after one or the other. Plin

...by side, as a united stone, the tops of which are rounded.. . . The right stone is {{Style S-Italic|masculine,}} the left {{Style S-Italic|feminine}}.” T ...iations, when exhibiting to the candidates the {{Style S-Italic|Petroma}} (stone tablet containing the last revelation made by the hierophant to the neophyt

...iter lapis'',” swallowed by his father Saturn, “ under the shape of a stone.” * We will not stop to discuss the evident misuse and materializati ...have changed my way of thinking.” Therefore, without worshipping stones or stone idols and statues, which is the same — a crime Roman Catholics

...demonstrate by the phenomenon of the spark from flint and from every other stone, whose spirit when forcibly disturbed springs to sight spark-like, and imme ...dent|American society, including many scientists. The kabalistic axiom, “A stone becomes a plant, a plant an animal, an animal a man, a man a spirit, and a

...usco, are smaller hiding places filled with treasures of gold and precious stone, the accumulations of many generations of Incas, the aggregate value of whi ...y.—}}In this they are not less remarkable. They made the operation for the stone, succeeded admirably in the operation for cataract, and the extraction of t

...ssigned them in the modern “Force-correlation.” Synesius mentions books of stone which he found in the temple of Memphis, on which was engraved the followin The marked respect paid by the Buddhists to the sapphire-stone—which was also sacred to Luna, in every other country—may be found base

...tralized by an opposing law of equal potency. Thus, it is natural that the stone should fall to the ground in obedience to one force, and it is equally natu

...c|jidegnoni}}) shall surely be put {{Style S-Italic|to death,}} they shall stone them with stones, {{Style S-Italic|their blood shall be}} upon them.”}} ...s, and suspended by a rope passing over a pulley fixed to the ceiling. The stone, being hoisted to its extreme height, falls with all its weight upon the pa

...of science to solve the problem. The caves of France and the relics of the stone age afford a point at which to begin.}} ...cluding that mankind in the nineteenth century was “just emerging from the Stone Age?”

...nce of things. What he scattered through his writings on the philosopher’s stone, on pigmies and spirits of the mines; on signs, on homunculi, and the elixi ...a {{Style S-Italic|spirit}}, then you are obliged to concede the same to a stone. If your dead and utterly passive matter can manifest a tendency toward gra

...ny powers concealed in the {{Style S-Italic|inner}} nature of the plant or stone? And that they are only waiting to be brought in relation with some other p ...ision in a century which has crowned the edifice of philosophy with a cope-stone of protoplasm. The first is declared a {{Style S-Italic|physical impossibil

...rroneously interpreted by critics. The meaning of the kabalistic axiom: “A stone becomes a plant; a plant a beast; a beast a man, etc.,” was mentioned in ...o make a living being, and thus it may be said that man first appears as a stone.}}

...stood in the present day, it has three principal agents: the philosopher’s stone used in the transmutation of metals; the Alkahest or the universal solvent; . . . I promise you neither mountains of gold nor the philosopher’s stone . . . nor even that golden liquor which renders immortal him who drinks it

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...join to this a number of mountain springs exuding through the pores of the stone, and no one will be astonished if I say that we simply felt faint under the ...with their flaming torches, as motionless as if they were transformed into stone caryatides<ref>A ''caryatid'' is a statue depicting a draped female figure

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The magnet-stone; and with wild terror seemed

...gives a strange account of many now deserted Oriental cities, in which the stone doors are of enormous dimensions, often seemingly out of proportion with th

“. . . But who made the great stone images (p. 44, etc.) which are now the chief attraction of the island to vi ...to forty feet in length, twelve to sixteen broad. . . . all built of hewn stone in the Cyclopean style, very much like the walls of the Temple of Pachacama

...Creator&nbsp;” of an edifice, whereas that Architect has never touched one stone of it, but, while furnishing the plan, left all the manual labour to the ma ...as reflections. Neither the form of man, nor that of any animal, plant or stone has ever been ''created'', and it is only on this plane of ours that it com

...eller of old furniture. Everywhere the floors are without carpets, made of stone, but very uneven, not swept, probably since the day of the Rajah's departur ...ows. Because of a penny candle, Moscow burned down, and because of the old stone idol, the ''shaligram'', the hearts of all Hindus, believers and non-believ

...means “in the Lotus,” and {{Style S-Small capitals|Mani}} is any precious stone, still neither the words themselves, nor their symbolical meaning, are thus ...ion of alchemical results such as the Elixir of Life and the Philosopher’s Stone, for the ''spiritual ''help of the woman was needed by the male Alchemist.

...we visited it, we had the opportunity to verify the fact that the smallest stone at the bottom and even every smallest spot on it is seen perfectly distinct ...hemists, the British melted down, in the hope of finding the philosopher's stone of politics, all the gold of Hindustan; and even India itself – "the most

...ret Sciences in good faith and humility, they know well that it is in this Stone that remains buried the absolute in Philosophy, which is the key to all tho ...red society will undeniably assert its hereditary and traditional right to stone the intruder. Those benevolent critics, who most readily promulgate the now

...e eaten by the court nobles. Since then, the dwarf, under the guise of his stone ''fat-bellied'' idol, sits on the banks of a dried-up river and waits for i Madurai is just a stone's throw from Madras. When we went there two years later, and then settled o

...hich the ancient kings of Ireland were crowned was such an “altar.” Such a stone is in Westminster Abbey, endowed, moreover, with a voice. Thus our altars a ...tae, those who knew them only superficially, who laid the first foundation stone of modern Masonry; and it is from this half-pagan, half-converted primitive

...o the objective idea, the simple triangle became a solid. When repeated in stone on the four cardinal points, it assumed the shape of the Pyramid&nbsp;—&n

“&nbsp;I find, on the Rosetta stone of Uhlemann, the word ''mouth'', also in Seiffarth, viz., the name of ''the ...e Jewish records ''that the Ark contained a ''table of stone''. . . . that stone was phallic, and yet identical with the sacred name ''Jehovah ''. . . which

...p;” tells us&nbsp;: “&nbsp;If the collection in the Colonial Exhibition of stone celts and arrow-heads used now by the Bushmen of South Africa were placed s ...tartling fact “&nbsp;''that most of these old skulls'', ''belonging to the stone period'', ''are above rather than below the average of the brain of the now

...“sepulchre” of his sinful flesh; he who has the strength to roll back the stone of matter from the door of his own inner sanctuary, he has the risen Christ ...t Christianity is now the religion of arrogance par excellence, a stepping-stone for ambition, a sinecure for wealth, sham and power; a convenient screen fo

...legorical record of the gradual passage from the Cyclopean civilization of stone and colossal buildings to the more sensual and physical culture of the Atla ...P-No indent|Sinai, nor by a divine finger tracing the record on tablets of stone, but simply through tradition ''viâ ''pagan sources. It was not surely the

...Professor Wagner in the ''Russkiy Vestnik''.</ref>'' seemed to be the last stone on the scales of Blavatsky's attitude to spiritualism. She began publishing ...you can’t run away from the facts, as you can’t knock your head against a stone wall!.. So, tell me, how could it happen that I being, as you know, an igno

...eroglyphic and Demotic scripts and in Ancient Greek. This made the Rosetta Stone a key to deciphering the Egyptian scripts. – Ed.</ref> was to be searched

Even so is the Fire of the Philosopher's secret furnace to be accounted in the Spagyrick Art, which heateth the furn Briefly, therefore, the matter of the Philosophers’ stone is nothing else but a fiery and perfect ''Mercury ''extracted by Na {{Style

...must necessarily reject KARMA likewise! For the latter is the very corner-stone of Esoteric philosophy and Eastern religions; it is the grand and one pilla

...ged with the rest. Nowadays the “Widow’s Son” fears to remove the smallest stone from the original vault {{Page aside|26}}his craft has helped the theologia

...ly and hourly actions as ''Natura naturans'', the “&nbsp;comely mother but stone cold,” belie the assumption. This led to the primal twins, Osiris-Typhon,

...are not running after the one who is wearing ''Gopala''-Krishna, then the stone is said to be a ''fake''.</ref>. Anyone who wears it should avoid meeting c

...ts spiritual evolution Kronos will be no longer deceived. Instead of the ''stone image ''he will have swallowed the anthropomorphic fiction itself. Because,

...ould have survived, while all his foes have perished&nbsp;? Is it with his stone hatchet that he had the best of a ''Sivatherium ''or a gigantic flying saur

...France, and aid them with his experience in discovering the philosopher's stone. (See Mackay's “Popular Delusions"). Although he was believed to have the

...cases when matter ''appears ''inert, it is the most active. A wooden or a stone block is motionless and impenetrable to all intents and purposes. Neverthel ...an dare publish openly their secret conclusions for fear of the cry “&nbsp;Stone him to death&nbsp;!&nbsp;”&nbsp;—&nbsp;men, whose intuitions have made

...under the names of their generators. These eight sounds are: ''metal'', ''stone'', ''silk'', ''bamboo'', ''pumpkin'', ''earthenware'', ''leather'' and ''wo

“By the Stone it is possible to discover any Person in what part of the world soever, alt In 15 Kingdoms hath our Red Stone.”

...rned men, and from the Phoenicians learnt the rite of the Cabir, and their stone temples in Stonehenge and the Hebrides are to this day the ''“Pons Asinor

...God.” Saying this he did not forget to make an offering (étrenner) to the stone “Bethel” which he had raised, by pouring some oil on its top, in a simp This touching ceremony came to the Israelites direct from India, where the stone of Śiva, the lingam, is today the object of the same exoteric rite with oi

...omach, and his hands pointed inwards towards his chest. Two heavy slabs of stone were placed over him; the door of the house was then built up, and guards w

...forms of force as the crucial test of the new philosophy, or as the touch-stone of Substantialism. But to save circumlocution and detail of unnecessary exp ...ce is a confusing term, in any case. We may call our body, or an ape, or a stone, as well as any kind of fabric—“substantial.” Therefore, we call “E

...ntly as well without food and water for whole weeks, as if he were made of stone instead of human flesh and bones.<ref>Yogis and ascetics are not the only e

...r by Thot, his terrestrial incarnation called Trismegistus, of the Rosetta stone.}}

“Let those who are without sin first cast the stone,” and let us beware of Christian Sacerdotalism, beckoning with blood be-d

...ou. The pane of glass in the window, the brick in the wall, and the paving stone in the street, catch the pictures of all passers-by, and faithfully preserv

...higher or more sublime than such phallic elements, the root and the corner-stone of its dead- letter meaning. Anthropomorphism and Revelation dig the impass

...refore, even if Sir John Evans does affirm that writing was unknown in the stone age. For it may have been unknown during that period in the Fifth Aryan rac

<nowiki>*</nowiki> This does not mean that every bush, tree or stone is God or ''a ''god&nbsp;; but only that every speck of the manifested mate

...e animating Soul, immanent in every atom, manifested in man, latent in the stone, has different degrees of power&nbsp;; and this pantheistic idea of a gener

...mpletely naked ''mali'' (gardener), offering betel and salt to a monstrous stone idol of Shiva, with the view of pacifying the wrath of the “Destroyer,”

.... Such event is least of all. But let us stroll along this wall of reddish stone. It will lead us to a fortress once celebrated and drenched with blood, now

...d in the air of the crypts of Initiation, without mentioning the tables of stone on which the finger of God wrote the commandments? Between the writing of o

...accused Egypt of adoring monsters, and naught but the letters engraved in stone upon her monuments survived—enigmas unintelligible to posterity. Her sacr

...d in the air of the crypts of Initiation, without mentioning the tables of stone on which the finger of God wrote the commandments ? Between the writing of

{{Style P-No indent|foundation-stone for modern philosophy; only the progeny, while perpetuating the features of

...matter—that has been the primitive bond that has cemented into one corner-stone the foundations of all the religions of antiquity.

...soul side of man, must be awakened and utilised, before the Philosopher’s stone, or the elixir of life, can be discovered.