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1 Theosophical University Press Online Edition [[Vol. 1, Page i]] ISIS UNVEILED: A MASTER-KEY TO THE MYSTERIES OF ANCIENT AND MODERN SCIENCE AND THEOLOGY. BLAVATSKY, CORRESPONDING SECRETARY OF THE THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY.

'Cecy est un livre de bonne Foy.' THEOSOPHICAL UNIVERSITY PRESS PASADENA, CALIFORNIA [[Vol. 1, Page ii]] THE present edition is a faithful reprinting of Isis Unveiled as originally published in New York in 1877.

The Index has been considerably enlarged, and an Appendix added, containing a Bibliographical Index of works and authors quoted and two articles by HPB on the writing of Isis Unveiled: 'Theories about Reincarnation and Spirits' (1886) and 'My Books' (1891). 1, Page iii]] THE AUTHOR Dedicates these Volumes TO THE THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, WHICH WAS FOUNDED AT NEW YORK, A.D. 1875, TO STUDY THE SUBJECTS ON WHICH THEY TREAT. TABLE OF CONTENTS.

--------------------- [[]]... Dogmatic assumptions of modern science and theology... Ix The Platonic philosophy affords the only middle ground... Xi Review of the ancient philosophical systems... Xv A Syriac manuscript on Simon Magus... Xxiii Glossary of terms used in this book...

Xxiii --------------------- Volume First. THE 'INFALLIBILITY' OF MODERN SCIENCE. OLD THINGS WITH NEW NAMES. The Oriental Kabala... 1 Ancient traditions supported by modern research... 3 The progress of mankind marked by cycles...

5 Ancient cryptic science... 7 Priceless value of the Vedas... 12 Mutilations of the Jewish sacred books in translation... 13 Magic always regarded as a divine science. 25 Achievements of its adepts and hypotheses of their modern detractors...

25 Man's yearning for immortality... PHENOMENA AND FORCES. The servility of society... 39 Prejudice and bigotry of men of science... 40 They are chased by psychical phenomena...

1]] CONTENTS. 49 The human will the master-force of forces... 57 Superficial generalizations of the French savants... 60 Mediumistic phenomena, to what attributable... 67 Their relation to crime... BLIND LEADERS OF THE BLIND. Huxley's derivation from the Orohippus...

74 Comte, his system and disciples... 75 The London materialists... 85 Borrowed robes... 89 Emanation of the objective universe from the subjective... THEORIES RESPECTING PSYCHIC PHENOMENA.

Theory of de Gasparin... 100 [[Theory]] of Thury... 100 [[Theory]] of des Mousseaux, de Mirville... 100 [[Theory]] of Babinet... 101 [[Theory]] of Houdin... 101 [[Theory]] of MM. Royer and Jobart de Lamballe...

102 The twins — 'unconscious cerebration' and 'unconscious ventriloquism'... 105 Theory of Crookes... 112 [[Theory]] of Faraday...

116 [[Theory]] of Chevreuil... 116 The Mendeleyeff commission of 1876... 117 Soul blindness... THE ETHER, OR 'ASTRAL LIGHT.' One primal force, but many correlations... 126 Tyndall narrowly escapes a great discovery...

127 The impossibility of miracle... 128 Nature of the primordial substance...

133 Interpretation of certain ancient myths... 133 Experiments of the fakirs... 139 Evolution in Hindu allegory... PSYCHO-PHYSICAL PHENOMENA. The debt we owe to Paracelsus...

163 Mesmerism — its parentage, reception, potentiality... 1]] CONTENTS.

183 Time, space, eternity... 184 Transfer of energy from the visible to the invisible universe... 186 The Crookes experiments and Cox theory... 195 THE ELEMENTS, ELEMENTALS, AND ELEMENTARIES. Attraction and repulsion universal in all the kingdoms of nature... 206 Psychical phenomena depend on physical surroundings...

211 Observations in Siam... 214 Music in nervous disorders... 215 The 'world-soul' and its potentialities... 216 Healing by touch, and healers... 217 'Diakka' and Porphyry's bad demons... 219 The quenchless lamp...

224 Modern ignorance of vital force... 237 Antiquity of the theory of force-correlation... 241 Universality of belief in magic... SOME MYSTERIES OF NATURE. Do the planets affect human destiny?... 253 Very curious passage from Hermes... 254 The restlessness of matter...

257 Prophecy of Nostradamus fulfilled... 260 Sympathies between planets and plants... 264 Hindu knowledge of the properties of colors... 265 'Coincidences' the panacea of modern science... 268 The moon and the tides... 273 Epidemic mental and moral disorders...

274 The gods of the Pantheons only natural forces... 280 Proofs of the magical powers of Pythagoras... 283 The viewless races of ethereal space... 284 The 'four truths' of Buddhism... CYCLIC PHENOMENA. Meaning of the expression 'coats of skin'...

293 Natural selection and its results... 295 The Egyptian 'circle of necessity'... 296 Pre-Adamite races...

299 Descent of spirit into matter... 302 The triune nature of man... 309 The lowest creatures in the scale of being... 1]] CONTENTS. Elementals specifically described... 311 Proclus on the beings of the air...

312 Various names for elementals... 313 Swedenborgian views on soul-death... 317 Earth-bound human souls... 319 Impure mediums and their 'guides'...

325 Psychometry an aid to scientific research... THE INNER AND OUTER MAN.

Pere Felix arraigns the scientists... 338 The 'Unknowable'...

340 Danger of evocations by tyros Download Mq Trainer With Nova Gem Hack Free. ... 342 Lares and Lemures...

345 Secrets of Hindu temples... 350 Reincarnation... 351 Witchcraft and witches... 353 The sacred soma trance...

357 Vulnerability of certain 'shadows'... 363 Experiment of Clearchus on a sleeping boy... 365 The author witnesses a trial of magic in India... 369 Case of the Cevennois... 371 PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PHYSICAL MARVELS. Invulnerability attainable by man...

379 Projecting the force of the will... 380 Insensibility to snake-poison... 381 Charming serpents by music... 383 Teratological phenomena discussed... 385 The psychological domain confessedly unexplored... 407 Despairing regrets of Berzelius... 411 Turning a river into blood a vegetable phenomenon...

THE 'IMPASSABLE CHASM.' Confessions of ignorance by men of science... 417 The Pantheon of nihilism... 421 Triple composition of fire...

423 Instinct and reason defined... 425 Philosophy of the Hindu Jains... 429 Deliberate misrepresentations of Lempriere... 431 Man's astral soul not immortal... 432 The reincarnation of Buddha...

437 Magical sun and moon pictures of Thibet... 1]] CONTENTS. Vampirism — its phenomena explained... 449 Bengalese jugglery... REALITIES AND ILLUSION.

The rationale of talismans... 462 Unexplained mysteries... 466 Magical experiment in Bengal... 467 Chibh Chondor's surprising feats... 471 The Indian tape-climbing trick an illusion... 473 Resuscitation of buried fakirs...

477 Limits of suspended animation... 481 Mediumship totally antagonistic to adeptship... 487 What are 'materialized spirits'?...

493 The Shudala Madan... 495 Philosophy of levitation... 497 The elixir and alkahest... EGYPTIAN WISDOM.

Origin of the Egyptians... 515 Their mighty engineering works... 517 The ancient land of the Pharaohs... 521 Antiquity of the Nilotic monuments...

529 Arts of war and peace... 531 Mexican myths and ruins...

545 Resemblances to the Egyptian... 551 Moses a priest of Osiris... 555 The lessons taught by the ruins of Siam... 563 The Egyptian Tau at Palenque... INDIA THE CRADLE OF THE RACE. Acquisition of the 'secret doctrine'... 575 Two relics owned by a Pali scholar...

577 Jealous exclusiveness of the Hindus... 581 Lydia Maria Child on Phallic symbolism... 583 The age of the Vedas and Manu... 587 Traditions of pre-diluvian races...

589 Atlantis and its peoples... 593 Peruvian relics... 597 The Gobi desert and its secrets... 599 Thibetan and Chinese legends... 600 The magician aids, not impedes, nature...

617 Philosophy, religion, arts and sciences bequeathed by Mother India to posterity... 618 ----------------------- [[To ]] [[Vol. ----------------------- THE work now submitted to public judgment is the fruit of a somewhat intimate acquaintance with Eastern adepts and study of their science. It is offered to such as are willing to accept truth wherever it may be found, and to defend it, even looking popular prejudice straight in the face. It is an attempt to aid the student to detect the vital principles which underlie the philosophical systems of old.

The book is written in all sincerity. It is meant to do even justice, and to speak the truth alike without malice or prejudice. But it shows neither mercy for enthroned error, nor reverence for usurped authority. It demands for a spoliated past, that credit for its achievements which has been too long withheld. It calls for a restitution of borrowed robes, and the vindication of calumniated but glorious reputations. Toward no form of worship, no religious faith, no scientific hypothesis has its criticism been directed in any other spirit. Men and parties, sects and schools are but the mere ephemera of the world's day.

TRUTH, high-seated upon its rock of adamant, is alone eternal and supreme. We believe in no Magic which transcends the scope and capacity of the human mind, nor in 'miracle,' whether divine or diabolical, if such imply a transgression of the laws of nature instituted from all eternity. Nevertheless, we accept the saying of the gifted author of Festus, that the human heart has not yet fully uttered itself, and that we have never attained or even understood the extent of its powers. Is it too much to believe that man should be developing new sensibilities and a closer relation with nature? The logic of evolution must teach as much, if carried to its legitimate conclusions. If, somewhere, in the line of ascent from vegetable or ascidian to the noblest man a soul was evolved, gifted with intellectual qualities, it cannot be unreasonable to infer and believe that a faculty of perception is also growing in man, enabling him to descry facts and truths even beyond our ordinary ken. Yet we do not hesitate to accept the assertion of Biffe, that 'the essential is forever the same.

Whether we cut away the marble inward that hides the statue in the [[Vol. 1, Page]] vi PREFACE. Block, or pile stone upon stone outward till the temple is completed, our NEW result is only an old idea. The latest of all the eternities will find its destined other half-soul in the earliest.'

When, years ago, we first travelled over the East, exploring the penetralia of its deserted sanctuaries, two saddening and ever-recurring questions oppressed our thoughts: Where, WHO, WHAT is GOD? Who ever saw the IMMORTAL SPIRIT of man, so as to be able to assure himself of man's immortality? It was while most anxious to solve these perplexing problems that we came into contact with certain men, endowed with such mysterious powers and such profound knowledge that we may truly designate them as the sages of the Orient. To their instructions we lent a ready ear. They showed us that by combining science with religion, the existence of God and immortality of man's spirit may be demonstrated like a problem of Euclid. For the first time we received the assurance that the Oriental philosophy has room for no other faith than an absolute and immovable faith in the omnipotence of man's own immortal self. We were taught that this omnipotence comes from the kinship of man's spirit with the Universal Soul — God!

The latter, they said, can never be demonstrated but by the former. Man-spirit proves God-spirit, as the one drop of water proves a source from which it must have come. Tell one who had never seen water, that there is an ocean of water, and he must accept it on faith or reject it altogether.

But let one drop fall upon his hand, and he then has the fact from which all the rest may be inferred. After that he could by degrees understand that a boundless and fathomless ocean of water existed.

Blind faith would no longer be necessary; he would have supplanted it with KNOWLEDGE. When one sees mortal man displaying tremendous capabilities, controlling the forces of nature and opening up to view the world of spirit, the reflective mind is overwhelmed with the conviction that if one man's spiritual Ego can do this much, the capabilities of the FATHER SPIRIT must be relatively as much vaster as the whole ocean surpasses the single drop in volume and potency. Ex nihilo nihil fit; prove the soul of man by its wondrous powers — you have proved God! In our studies, mysteries were shown to be no mysteries. Names and places that to the Western mind have only a significance derived from Eastern fable, were shown to be realities. Reverently we stepped in spirit within the temple of Isis; to lift aside the veil of 'the one that is and was and shall be' at Sais; to look through the rent curtain of the Sanctum Sanctorum at Jerusalem; and even to interrogate within the crypts which once existed beneath the sacred edifice, the mysterious Bath-Kol. The Filia Vocis — the daughter of the divine voice — [[Vol.

1, Page]] vii PREFACE. Responded from the mercy-seat within the veil,* and science, theology, every human hypothesis and conception born of imperfect knowledge, lost forever their authoritative character in our sight. The one-living God had spoken through his oracle — man, and we were satisfied. Such knowledge is priceless; and it has been hidden only from those who overlooked it, derided it, or denied its existence. From such as these we apprehend criticism, censure, and perhaps hostility, although the obstacles in our way neither spring from the validity of proof, the authenticated facts of history, nor the lack of common sense among the public whom we address. The drift of modern thought is palpably in the direction of liberalism in religion as well as science.

Each day brings the reactionists nearer to the point where they must surrender the despotic authority over the public conscience, which they have so long enjoyed and exercised. When the Pope can go to the extreme of fulminating anathemas against all who maintain the liberty of the Press and of speech, or who insist that in the conflict of laws, civil and ecclesiastical, the civil law should prevail, or that any method of instruction solely secular, may be approved;** and Mr. Tyndall, as the mouth-piece of nineteenth century science, says, '... The impregnable position of science may be stated in a few words: we claim, and we shall wrest from theology, the entire domain of cosmological theory'*** — the end is not difficult to foresee. Centuries of subjection have not quite congealed the life-blood of men into crystals around the nucleus of blind faith; and the nineteenth is witnessing the struggles of the giant as he shakes off the Liliputian cordage and rises to his feet. Even the Protestant communion of England and America, now engaged in the revision of the text of its Oracles, will be compelled to show the origin and merits of the text itself.

The day of domineering over men with dogmas has reached its gloaming. Our work, then, is a plea for the recognition of the Hermetic philosophy, the anciently universal Wisdom-Religion, as the only possible key to the Absolute in science and theology. To show that we do not at all conceal from ourselves the gravity of our undertaking, we may say in advance that it would not be strange if the following classes should array themselves against us: [[Footnote(s)]] ------------------------------------------------- * Lightfoot assures us that this voice, which had been used in times past for a testimony from heaven, 'was indeed performed by magic art' (vol.

This latter term is used as a supercilious expression, just because it was and is still misunderstood. It is the object of this work to correct the erroneous opinions concerning 'magic art.' ** Encyclical of 1864. *** 'Fragments of Science.' 1, Page]] viii PREFACE. The Christians, who will see that we question the evidences of the genuineness of their faith.

The Scientists, who will find their pretensions placed in the same bundle with those of the Roman Catholic Church for infallibility, and, in certain particulars, the sages and philosophers of the ancient world classed higher than they. Pseudo-Scientists will, of course, denounce us furiously. Broad Churchmen and Freethinkers will find that we do not accept what they do, but demand the recognition of the whole truth. Men of letters and various authorities, who hide their real belief in deference to popular prejudices. The mercenaries and parasites of the Press, who prostitute its more than royal power, and dishonor a noble profession, will find it easy to mock at things too wonderful for them to understand; for to them the price of a paragraph is more than the value of sincerity.

From many will come honest criticism; from many — cant. But we look to the future.

The contest now going on between the party of public conscience and the party of reaction, has already developed a healthier tone of thought. It will hardly fail to result ultimately in the overthrow of error and the triumph of Truth.

We repeat again — we are laboring for the brighter morrow. And yet, when we consider the bitter opposition that we are called upon to face, who is better entitled than we upon entering the arena to write upon our shield the hail of the Roman gladiator to Caesar: MORITURUS TE SALUTAT! New York, September, 1877. 1, Page ix]]. — Advance our waving colors on the walls!

— King Henry VI. 'My life has been devoted to the study of man, his destiny and his happiness.' BUCHANAN, M.D., Outlines of Lectures on Anthropology. IT is nineteen centuries since, as we are told, the night of Heathenism and Paganism was first dispelled by the divine light of Christianity; and two-and-a-half centuries since the bright lamp of Modern Science began to shine on the darkness of the ignorance of the ages. Within these respective epochs, we are required to believe, the true moral and intellectual progress of the race has occurred. The ancient philosophers were well enough for their respective generations, but they were illiterate as compared with modern men of science. The ethics of Paganism perhaps met the wants of the uncultivated people of antiquity, but not until the advent of the luminous 'Star of Bethlehem,' was the true road to moral perfection and the way to salvation made plain.

Of old, brutishness was the rule, virtue and spirituality the exception. Now, the dullest may read the will of God in His revealed word; men have every incentive to be good, and are constantly becoming better. This is the assumption; what are the facts? On the one hand an unspiritual, dogmatic, too often debauched clergy; a host of sects, and three warring great religions; discord instead of union, dogmas without proofs, sensation-loving preachers, and wealth and pleasure-seeking parishioners' hypocrisy and bigotry, begotten by the tyrannical exigencies of respectability, the rule of the day, sincerity and real piety exceptional.

On the other hand, scientific hypotheses built on sand; no accord upon a single question; rancorous quarrels and jealousy; a general drift into materialism. A death-grapple of Science with Theology for infallibility — 'a conflict of ages.' At Rome, the self-styled seat of Christianity, the putative successor to the chair of Peter is undermining social order with his invisible but omnipresent net-work of bigoted agents, and incites them to revolutionize Europe for his temporal as well as spiritual supremacy. We see him who calls himself the 'Vicar of Christ,' fraternizing with the anti-Christian Moslem against another Christian nation, publicly invoking the blessing of God upon the arms of those who have for centuries withstood, with [[Vol. 1, Page]] x BEFORE THE VEIL.

Fire and sword, the pretensions of his Christ to Godhood!

Dear occultist. Was a genius and the fact that she wrote so brilliantly in English, which was not even her native language, is amazing. Alas, the thesis in Vol. 1, while still valid and which involves her evidence and arguments that science is lacking when it endeavors to prove that only what is material and can be proven 'scientifically' is worth considering in life, is contrasted against the science of the 19th century and would be much better if updated against what we have now Blavatsky. Dear occultist. Was a genius and the fact that she wrote so brilliantly in English, which was not even her native language, is amazing.

Alas, the thesis in Vol. 1, while still valid and which involves her evidence and arguments that science is lacking when it endeavors to prove that only what is material and can be proven 'scientifically' is worth considering in life, is contrasted against the science of the 19th century and would be much better if updated against what we have now come to learn and understand about the nature of the world and the universe. The data and articles she cites are, for the most part, long forgotten. 2, however, which deals with religion, essentially sets out and, we think, demonstrates that nearly all religions, Christian, Hebrew/Judaic, Moslem, Egyptian, Caldean, etc. All stem from India and the earliest Hindu and Pre-Buddhic texts there. There is more to the vol. Than that, but this is its essence.

We find it difficult to read Blavatsky without being utterly amazed at her erudition and the way she continually expands our knowledge and understanding. This is not a work for the faint of heart.

We expect that only a truly devoted occultist would persevere to the end, but it is worth it. Kyela, the silver elves Goodreads authors of and 30 other books on magic and enchantment including. Maybe the book is too long. It took me a while to get the point.

Maybe Blavatsky did need close to two thousand pages to make it. Blavatsky's point is that the Christian clergy has unnecessarily pitted itself against science by adhering to too literal a reading of the Scriptures and demonizing the wisdom of other religions to which it is, nonetheless, in irredeemable debt. She shoots down both science and organized religion to solve the confli Rambling. Maybe the book is too long. It took me a while to get the point. Maybe Blavatsky did need close to two thousand pages to make it.

Blavatsky's point is that the Christian clergy has unnecessarily pitted itself against science by adhering to too literal a reading of the Scriptures and demonizing the wisdom of other religions to which it is, nonetheless, in irredeemable debt. She shoots down both science and organized religion to solve the conflict between them.

Even if her discourse seems to be all over the place, its ultimate target turns out to be Christianity towards the end of her treatise. I think it is important to understand that right from the beginning. Blavatsky shows that Christianity should be understood as an expression of mankind's universal spiritual quest. To that end, she demonstrates, for example, that the Sermon on the Mount was invented in India and the Litany of Loretto had a precursor in the Litany to the Egyptian deity Isis. It is impossible for me to verify most of the claims she makes but I was definitely impressed by her expert account of the Biblical passages relating to the Gehenna fire, at a time when it was not popular to deny the existence of a literal hell fire. These days it is. It is difficult to grow enamoured of the Blavatsky's arrogance and abrasive tone but it is more difficult not to admire her erudition.

One cannot help wondering how she could handle so much material before there were computers, let alone search engines. The Litany of Loretto that she cites is unknown to most Roman Catholics.

It is all the more astounding that she has found two of its predecessors from more ancient 'pagan' cultures. All before the Internet. No - Helena Blavatsky turned out all right at the end (to paraphrase Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby). I could have dismissed Isis Unveiled but, had I done so, I would have closed my mind to something that seems to have changed the course of intellectual history for good. Having read it, I appreciate that nothing has been quite the same after Blavatsky published Isis Unveiled in 1877. It would take more than one reading to get the hang of the material.

Let me think. It might be worth it. Not the whole thing. Just selections. At last I've finished this weighty (in more ways than one) tome - not an easy read for one whose knowledge of world religions and mythology does not match that of the author, yet there were moments of what seemed like enlightenment. Helena Blavatsky sets out to show that all the world religions originated from one prehistoric religion - an ancient form of Buddhism still practised in India when the book was written, and almost certainly to this day, and that Christianity was formed by plundering At last I've finished this weighty (in more ways than one) tome - not an easy read for one whose knowledge of world religions and mythology does not match that of the author, yet there were moments of what seemed like enlightenment.

Helena Blavatsky sets out to show that all the world religions originated from one prehistoric religion - an ancient form of Buddhism still practised in India when the book was written, and almost certainly to this day, and that Christianity was formed by plundering the so-called pagan religions and rewriting to suit the purposes of the Church. Beliefs, gods, myths, sacred texts, language, the thoughts of the philosophers and history are compared exhaustively and often confusingly due to the sheer multitude of names given to the deities by different cultures, and many non-English theological terms. A brave book for its time, although some of the content has been assembled from the works of other authors, who are given credit. The final chapters describe many of the author's occult experiences in foreign lands - some so extraordinary that I couldn't help wondering if mesmerism was responsible. What I need now is a book by Professor Ronald Hutton examining the author's sources and research and explaining all in his wonderfully clear and readable way. An interesting book by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky. Read about her here:.

She is credited with furthering the practice of Theosophy. This is her first book. Obviously a brilliant woman, she attracted many followers during her age of the attraction of the study and practice of so-called secret knowledge. To the mainline Church she was considered part scam artist, plagiarist.

This book reads like a compendium of world culture and belief systems. Blavatsk An interesting book by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky.

Read about her here:. She is credited with furthering the practice of Theosophy. This is her first book.

Obviously a brilliant woman, she attracted many followers during her age of the attraction of the study and practice of so-called secret knowledge. To the mainline Church she was considered part scam artist, plagiarist. This book reads like a compendium of world culture and belief systems.

Blavatsky stated goal was to bring all people of the world together- a stated mission for humanity. I don't buy into some, many, of her 'facts'. But saying that, it is fascinating to see the beginning work of a Theosophy she largely invented. New Agers seem to be finding her and her works again, much as Kabbalah is attracting those who are searching for a higher experience of the Divine. That's all good as far as it goes. I wonder if anyone is left who appreciates the ordinary holiness of everyday living.

If it's a quasi spiritual high one is searching, this book and others the Mme. Has written, may be of some use to you. I wish you well. For me, this is another book the likes of which cram the book site stores that make claims to be taken with a great deal of caution. I read only part of the greek version of the book, which is divided in 4 tomes I think? I only read the first one, so it's an incomplete picture, so no stars, I guess. It's a nice read if one is familiar with all the jargon, I did learn some interesting things, but mostly it was familiar to me since, well, we live in this day and age and also because I've read some of Alice Baily's work too.

I thoroughly enjoyed the attitude Lady Blavatsky uses to make her points across. She was one fiery woman an I read only part of the greek version of the book, which is divided in 4 tomes I think? I only read the first one, so it's an incomplete picture, so no stars, I guess.

It's a nice read if one is familiar with all the jargon, I did learn some interesting things, but mostly it was familiar to me since, well, we live in this day and age and also because I've read some of Alice Baily's work too. I thoroughly enjoyed the attitude Lady Blavatsky uses to make her points across. She was one fiery woman and I would have loved to meet her in person. Anyway, this is a recommended read for anyone dabbling in spiritual matters and the like. A bit outdated in certain aspects, due to human progress, but thoroughly timeless in most others. “Man is a little world--a microcosm inside the great universe. Like a fetus, he is suspended, by all his three spirits, in the matrix of the macrocosmos; and while his terrestrial body is in constant sympathy with its parent earth, his astral soul lives in unison with the sidereal anima mundi.

He is in it, as it is in him, for the world-pervading element fills all space, and is space itself, only shoreless and infinite. As to his third spirit, the divine, what is it but an infinitesimal ray, one of the countless radiations proceeding directly from the Highest Cause--the Spiritual Light of the World? This is the trinity of organic and inorganic nature--the spiritual and the physical, which are three in one, and of which Proclus says that 'The first monad is the Eternal God; the second, eternity; the third, the paradigm, or pattern of the universe;' the three constituting the Intelligible Triad.” —. Data Backup 3 Mac Serial.