Pages from Isis Unveiled: The “Fiery Waters” of Aether is Divine Substance expanding from within without the “Garment of God,” woven from its own Essence.

The Fiery Waters of Aether is Divine Substance expanding from within without, the Garment of God (veil and cloak of Truth) woven from its own Essence.

There is nothing new except what is forgotten. Miracles are perfectly natural acts, always in accordance with natural law.

Kurios is Mercury, Divine Wisdom, and Mercury is the Sun, from whom Thoth-Hermes received his divine wisdom. Hercules is also the Sun, the celestial storehouse of Universal Magnetism.

Æther is the Celestial Virgin, the spiritual mother of every existing form and being, from whose bosom, as soon vivified and fructified by the Divine Spirit, are called into existence Matter and Life, Force and Action.

All ancient legends begin with that period when nascent vapours and Cimmerian darkness lay brooding over a fluid mass, ready to start on its journey of activity at the first flutter of the breath of Him, who is the Unrevealed One. Him they felt, yet they saw Him not.

From the boundless expansion of cosmic matter, which had formed itself under God’s Breath or Will, this creative, evolving principle, by setting in motion the potencies latent in it, formed suns, stars, and satellites.

The serpent of the gospel myth is a magnetic current formed by a chain of pernicious wills. That is how base natures can be driven headlong by the blind forces set in motion by greed, lust, and sin. Man, master thyself before attempting to exercise magical power!

The “evil eye” is nothing but the direction of silent will, an invisible fluid charged with malicious desire and hatred, and sent out from one person to another with the intention of harming him. Will may be employed for a good or evil purpose. The one is magic or theurgia; the other, sorcery or goëtia. Mind wills; matter obeys.

The mysterious effects of attraction and repulsion are the unconscious agents of will; fascination, such as exercised by some animals, and by serpents over birds, for example, is a conscious action of it, and the result of thought.

In-depth knowledge of Cosmogony is an imperative prerequisite for Inner Wisdom.

As the reptile, upon casting his coat, becomes freed from a casing of gross matter and resumes its existence with renewed activity, so man, by casting off the gross material body, enters upon the next stage of his existence with greater powers and quickened vitality.

Lofty mountains, eggs, trees, snakes, and pillars, they all embody scientifically demonstrated truths of natural philosophy. Mountains are allegories of primal cosmogony; trees, of the simultaneous evolution of spirit and matter; snakes and pillars, are symbolical memorials of various attributes of the parallel evolution of two opposing forces, eternally reacting upon each other. The mundane tree of the Hindus is the Ashvattha, with branches extending downward and roots upward.

Comparative study of ancient cosmogonies demonstrates that in those ages, which are shut out from our sight by the impenetrable mist of tradition, religious thought developed in uniform sympathy in every portion of the globe. The Egyptian Pyramid is another symbol of Universal Life.

Archaic double-sexed deities in dual cosmogonic myths, representing the physico-chemical principle of primordial creation, loudly proclaim their hidden meaning.

Mithras is the son of Bordj, the Persian mundane mountain. Shiva is personated by Meru (Himalaya), the mundane mountain of the Hindus.

Christianity metamorphosed the ingenious myth of the Serpent into Satan, the Prince of Darkness.

Part 2. On the Invisible World of Elements, Elementals, and Elementaries.

God or the infinite and uncreated spirit, a divine substance of the highest virtue and excellency, produced everything else by emanative causality.

The world is underpinned by magnetic sympathy or attraction between men, animals, plants, and even minerals. More! Each planet is inhabited by spiritual beings, who exercise influences over other beings inhabiting more gross and material spheres than their own, and especially over our earth.

There is only one magnet in the universe, and this is the Central Spiritual Sun. From It proceeds the magnetization of everything else. There are two kinds of magnetic attraction, sympathy and fascination; the one is holy and natural; the other, unholy and unnatural. The magnetism of pure love is the originator of every created thing. In its ordinary sense, love between the sexes is electricity. Athanasius Kircher calls sensual love the fever of species; Éliphas Lévi, an intoxication of the astral light.

Man is a little world inside the great universe. Like a fœtus, he is suspended by three spirits in the matrix of the Macrocosmos. The Pythagorean Monas, which lives “in solitude and darkness,” may remain on this earth forever invisible and impalpable. When, by successive transformations throughout the ages, this once impalpable Atom finds itself reclothed in that primordial essence, which is identical with that of its Creator, then the Sons of God will once more “shout for joy” at the return of the Pilgrim.

Man possesses a double celestial power, and his triple nature stands in relationship to all things. Being the mirror of the universe, man is allied to heaven. Music exercises a singular therapeutic power over certain diseases, especially those of the nervous class.

Dire are the consequences of abusing magnetic powers. Only the pure in heart can heal the ills of the body. Magical powers are never possessed by those addicted to vicious indulgences.

It is not always the minds which are the most “scientifically trained” that are the best in matters of simple common sense and honest truth. Have they not, these Titans of thought, dragged down God from His hiding-place, and given us instead a protoplasm? A presumptuous scepticism that rejects facts without examination of their truth is, in some respects, more injurious than unquestioning credulity.

The perpetual lamps of alchemy stand for the incorruptible and immortal spirit. The Egyptians, more than any other people, hoped that their ever-burning lamp would help the material soul to part with its earthly dwelling, and unite forever with its divine counterpart.

A Cypriote knight had both flax and linen made out of asbestos, which were cleaned by simply throwing them in the fire. A similarly made gown, such as the Buddhist monks wear, thrown into a large pit full of glowing coals and taken out two hours afterward, was as clear as if it had been washed with soap and water.

Magic in prehistoric periods had a part in the mysteries. The greatest phenomena, the so-called miracles, rested on the arcane knowledge of the ancient priests of physics and all the branches of chemistry, or rather alchemy. The twins brothers, Castor and Pollux, are personifications of the twin polarity of electricity and magnetism. The Dioscouroi constantly die and return to life together for it is absolutely necessary that one should die that the other may live.

In their unbounded glorification of matter, our physicists proclaim matter the sole and autocratic sovereign of a Boundless Universe. If they could, they would forcibly divorce matter from her consort, and place the widowed queen on the great throne of nature made vacant by the exiled spirit.

The Platonic philosophy was one of order, system, and proportion. It embraced the evolution of worlds and species, the correlation and conservation of energy, the transmutation of material form, and the indestructibility of matter and of spirit. Plato’s method, like that of geometry, was to descend from universals to particulars.

In the same manner as lovers gradually advance from that beauty, which is apparent, to that which is divine; so the ancient priests attributed the alliance and sympathy between natural things to the underlying interconnectedness of all things.

The Divine Proclus pointed out certain mysterious peculiarities of plants, minerals, and animals, all of which are well known to our naturalists, but none of which are explained. Proclus, who combined Theosophy and Theurgy, also advocated a divine science that is firmly and solely based on the mysterious affinities between organic and inorganic bodies, the visible productions of the four kingdoms, and the invisible powers of the universe. Persons have been known to fall sick simultaneously with the uprooting of a tree planted upon their natal day, and dying when the tree died.

Alas! The divine intellect is veiled in man; his animal brain alone philosophises. In spiritually fertile periods the occult powers of plants, animals, and minerals magically sympathize with the “superior natures,” and the divine soul of man is in perfect rapport with these “inferior” ones. Formerly, magic was a universal science, entirely in the hands of the sacerdotal savant. Though the focus was jealously guarded in the sanctuaries, its rays illuminated the whole of mankind.

There is nothing new under the Sun. Yet, modern scientists have reaped more palms and laurels for their great “discoveries” than Lucretius, Cicero, Plutarch, and Seneca had hairs on their heads. Plutarch said that an idea has no subsistence by itself, but gives figure and form to shapeless matter and becomes the cause of its manifestation.