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The ChMaicl^Philofophy, Part XIX,
the world.
TUe Maker who operating by hinijelf framed the World. '
And there was ''another hulk of fire^
By it felf operating all things that the Body of the World might be perfetlcd^
That the World tmght be manifeft and not feem Membranous.
The whole World of Fire.^ andWatet\ and Earthly And all-nourifhing JEthcry The unexprejfble and exprejfhle Watch words oj the World.
One Life by another from the dijirihutedGoannels FaJJing from above to the oppojite Fart^
Through the Center of the Earth ; and another fifth Aliddle. :
Fiery Channel^ zohere it defcends to the material Channels. ,
Life-bringing fire.
Stirring himfelj up with the Goad of refounding Light. . _ ■
Another fount ainousy which guides the Empyreal World.
'The Center from zohich all (Lines') which way fo- ever are equal.
For the paternal Alind /owed Symbols through the World.
For the Center of every one isicarriedbetwixt the fathers.
For it is in im'itat'ion of the Mindy but that which is born hath fomething of the Body,
HEAVEN.
FOr the Father congregated f eve nF'irmame fits of the World -y
Circumfcribing Heaven in a round FigurCy He fixed a great company of inerratick StarSy Andhe confiitutcdaSeptenary of erratick Ani¬ mals.
Flacing Earth in the m'lddlcy and Water in the middle of the Earth. •
The Air above thefe.
He fixed a great Company of inerratick Starsy To be carrid not by laborious andtroublefome Tenfiony
But by a feit lenient which hath no Error.
He fixed a great Company of 'inerratick StarSy Forcing Fire to
To be carried by a fettlement which hath not Error He conftituted them fix -y cafiing into the m 'tdji The fire of the Suny
Sufp ending their Tif order inwell-orderedTones. For the Goddefs brings forth the great SuUy and the bright Moon.
0 Mthei'y Sony Spirit y Guides of the Moon and of the A 'lf'y \
And of the folar Circlespind of the Monthly clajh-
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And of the Aerial Receffes.
The Melody of the JEthery and of the Paffqges of the Su/jy and Moony and of the Air .,
And the wide Air y and the Lunar Courfcy and the Pole oj the Sun.
Coll elding ity and receiving the Melody of the AS-
thefy
And oj the Sun, and of the Moon, and of all that are contained in the Air.
Fire, the iDerivaiion oj firCy and the Difpen- fer of fire j
His Hair pointed is feen by his native Light- Hence comes Saturn.
The Sun Affejf 'or beholding the pure Pole -y And the JEther'ial Courfe, and the vafiAlotion of the Moony
And the Aerial jiuxionSy
And the great Suny and the bright Moon.
TIME.
The Alundane God-, Mternal, Infinite, Toungy and Oldy of a Spiral form.
And another fountainousy who guides the Empy- reeal Heaven.
SOUL. BODY. MAN.
T behoves thee tohaflen to the Lighty and to the Beams of the Father j From whence was fent to thee a Soul cloathed with much Alind.
Thefe things the Father conceivedyand fo the mor¬ tal was animated.
For the paternal Mind fqwed Symbols in Souls-, Replen'ifhing the Soul with profound Love.
For the Father of Gods and Men placed the Mind in the Soul
And in the Body he ejiabllfhed you.
For all Divine things are incorporeal.
But Bodies are bound in them for your fakes : Jncorporeals not be'ing able to contain the bodies. By reafon oj the Corporeal Nature in which y'du are concentrated.
And they are 'in God, attrdUing jlrong flames, Defcending from the Father, from ziohicb defcen- ing the Soul
Crops of Empyreal fruits the Soul-nourijhing flower.
And therefore conceiving the Words of the Father They avoid the audacious wing of fatal Dejiiny ; ' And though you fee this Soul manumitted.
Pet the Father fends another to makeup the Number.
Certainlyythefe are fuperlatively blejfed above all Souls-y they are fent forth from Heaven to Earth, And thofe rich Souls which have unexprejftble
fates-y
As many of them {0 King) as proceed from fhi- n 'lng Thee, or from
JoYQHimfelfy under the firong power of (his) Thread.
Let the immortal Depth of thy Soul be predomi¬ nant -y but all thy eyes Extend upward.
Stoop not down to the dark World,
Beneath which continually lies afaithlefs Depth, and Hades
Dark all over, fqualld, delighting in Images, un¬ intelligible,
Precipit 'itiouSy (Aaggy, a Depth always Rolling, Always efpoujing an opacousy 'idle- breathlefsBody, And the Light-hating World, and the zsinding currents, *
By which many things are fwallowedup.
Seek Parad'ife -,
Seek thou the way of the Soul, whence or by what Order
Having ferved the Body, to the fame place from which thou didfl flow.
Thou maiji rife up again, joyning AAion to f acred
fpeechy
Stoop not down, fora Prec'ipice lies below on the Earth', Drawing
Pa a T XIX.
T he Chaldakl^ Oracle
Drawing through the Ladder which hath /even (leps^ Beneath ivhich,
h the Throne of 'NeceJJtty.^ ' ;
Enlarge not thou thy Dejiiny.
The Soul of Kan will in a manner clafp .God. to
her fef‘, ' ,
Having nothing Mortal.^ fbe is wholly inebriated
from God:
for fhe boafts Harmony in which the mortal Bo^ dy exijls. , . .
Jfthou extend the fiery Mind To the work of Fiety^ thou fhalt preferve the fiuxible Body.
There's a room for the Image alfo in the circumlu- cid place.
Every way to the unfafhioned Soul fir etch the Reins of fire.
The Yireglowing Cogitation hath the firjl Rank, for the Mortal approaching to thefire^ Jhall have Light from God.
For to the flowViortal the Gods are fwift.
The furies are Stranglers of Men.
The bourgeons even of ill Matter.^ are profitable good. _ ' , ^ ^
Let Hope nourifh thee in the fiery Angelic Region. But the Faternal Mind accepts nopher JVill, Until fhe go out of Oblivion.^ and pronounce a Word., Inferting the remembrance of the pure paternal Symbol.
To the/e he gave the dopible char abler of Life to be Comprehended.
Thofe that were afteep he made fruitful by his own firength. , .
Defile not the Spirit nor deepen a Superficies. , Leave not the Drofs of Matter on 'a Frecipice. ; Bring her not forth, left going forth fhe haVe fomething. '
The Souls of thofe who (pit the Body violently, are moft pure. i
The ungtrders of the Soul, which give her breath¬ ing, are eafie to be loofed.
In the fide of finifterHs.QiXt, there, is a fountain of Vert ue
Which remains entire within, not omitting her Virginity. - |
0 Man the Machine ojBoldeji Nature ! '
Subjeti not to thy Mind the vajl meafures of the Earth for the Flantof Truth is not upon Earthy. Nor meafure the Meafures of the Sun, gathering together Canons',
He is moved by the Eternal Will of the father, not for thy fake.
Let alone the fwift Caurfe of the Aloon : Jheruns etO'e'hbv ihepimpufeof Nercejfityc ^
overbuy we: impuye^oj ’i\ecejjiiy^ ^ r Th^mg re/Jibn of The Stairs tva^ not brought forth for thy fake.
The atherial wide flight of Birds is not veracious And the Diffeblions of Entrails and Viblims all thefe are toysj ■ ^
The flpports of gainfuhCfieals -, 'fly thfLthe'fh if thou intend to open the Sacred Faradife ofFiejy WhereYirtue,Wtfdom, and Equity, aye^flembled. for thy'YeffeltheBeafis of fhe Earth Jpaflinhaf it. Thefe the Earthhe'wailsyiveri td their.Children.
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Atufe per fwades there, are pureDceifons-, The bourgeons, even all ill matter, are pro¬ fitable and good, '
But thefe things I revolve in the reclufe Temples of my Mind, ■ ’ '
Extending the like fire fgarklingly into thefpa-^ •dous Air
Or fire unfigur'd, a Voice iffuing fortK '’”^" Or Fire abundant whizzing and winding ^ftout ' the Earth,
But alfo to fee a Horfe more gliteringthdn flight. Or a Boy on [thy] fhoulders riding on a Horfe, fiety or adorned with Gold, or divefied, i- '
Or fhooting and flan ding bn [thy] fhoulders,- If thoufpeak often to me, thou fhalt fee- abfohitely that which. is Jpoken
For. then neither appear} the Caileflial ■concave Bulkfinor do the. Stars fhtne': TfA fifhi off he ' Moon is covered, •. '
The Earth ftands not fiilDbut all things -appear * ■ fhuhder.) ’ r.'“' •
Invoke not the f elf confpi'cuous Image. of Natitre-, for thou muft not behold thefe before thy Body •' be. initiated. ’ .iviOj ■ ^
When Jooihing Souls they always ' redueedhem from thefe Myfleries. ‘ ^ -
Certainly cut of the Cavities of the Earth fpring TerAJlrial Dogs." ' ' C- ■ 'liA ij
Which ' fhew no true fign'ph mortal ManV-^^f Labour' about r^i?‘Hecafeiek Strophalu? Never change BarbarousNamesC for there are Names itl every Nation 'give God, which have an ufifpeakble pow^rttW^m': When ' thou feefi a Sacred fire without- fiorfn, ‘ • Shining flafh'ingly through the depthsbf fkjpW m/d. Hear the Voice of fire.
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if thou ftoop down wholly to the Body and unfortunate and continually felling of thy De- fires, in regard of the Neceflity which is annex¬ ed to the Body.
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Of the, more obfcure Paflages in thefe ORACLES.
Seek thou the way of the Soul^ whence or. by what Order.
Having ferved the Body^ to the fame Order from which thou diji flow.
T^ou maift rife up again joyning Abiion to Sa¬ cred Speech.^ .
TiQ'Magi that are Followers of Zoroa- as alfo inany others, hold, tliat the Humane Soul is immortal j anddef tended from above to Icrve the Mortal Body, that is, to operate therein for a certain tiipe^and to animate, and adorn it to her power j and then returns |to the place from which flie came. And whereas there are many Manfions therefor the Soul, one wholly bright y another wholly dark-, others betwixt hoth partly bright^ partly dark : ,Tlie Soul being defcended from that which is wholly bright, into the Body, if (he perform her Office well, runs liack into the feme place*, but if not well, fhe retires into worfe Manlicais, ac* cording to the things which fliehath done in Life. The Oracle therefore faith. Seek thou the. Soul's Tathy or the way by which the Soul fioweth in- ^ thee ^ or by what courfe (vi^. of Life) having performed thy Charge toward the Body, thou may' ft mount up to the ferae place from which thou didft How down, viz. ftre feme Traeje of the Soulyjoyning Allion to Sasr-edSjieeoh. le¬
ered Speech, he underftands that which concerns Divine Worship ^ by Aflion-, Pivinc Rites. Oraefe therefore feitllj^ that to .tlfisfelu^^ of Ae Soul, bo|h Speech concerning Piyine Wor*- ^ipCPyayers,) and Religious Rites (Sactifices)
Stoop not downy for a Trecipice lies below on the
Earthy
drawing through the Ladder which hath Je- ven fteps -y beneath which It the Throne of Necejflty. ]
He calls the Defeenfion into wickednels, and mifery, a Precipice ^ the Terreftrial and Mor¬ tal Body, the Earth ; for by the Earth he un¬ derftands mortal Nature^s by the Fire frequent¬ ly the Divine*, by the "nice with feven Ways, he means Fate dependant on the Planets, oe- neath which there is feated a certain dire and unalterable Neceflity : The Oracle therefore ad- vileth, that thou ftoop not down towards the mortal Body, which being fubjeft only to the Fate, which proceeds from the Planets, maybe' reckoned among thofe things which are at ©ur Arbitrement: for thou wilt ,be unhappy
^orthyVeflel the Beafls of theEarthJhall Inhabit.']
The Vejfel of thy Soul, that is this mortal Bo* dy, lnallbe/;7^^^//f^/ by Worms and other vile Creatures.
Enlarge not thou thy Defliny. 3
Endeavour not to encreafe thy Fate, or to do more than is given thee in charge, for thou wilt not be able.
Tor nothing proceeds from theVaternalFrincipi- Itiy imperfeH. ] ^
For from the Paternal Power, which is that of the Supteam God, nothing proccedeth imper- fe£l, foas thou thy felf mighteft compleatit^ for all things proceeding from thence are per- fea i as appears, in that they tend to the Per* fetfion of the Univerfe.
But theVaternal Mind accepts not her Willy * Until fhe go out of Obliviony and pronounce a Wordy Inferting the remembrance of the pure paiernal Symbol.]
The Paternal Mind, {viz. the Second God and ready maker of the Soul) admits not her Will or DeCre until (he come out of the OUivi* on, which (he contraGed byConnexion with the Body *, and until file fpeak a certain word, or conceive in her thoughts a certain Speech, cal¬ ling to remembrance the Paternal Divine Sym¬ bol or Watch word ; this is the purfuit of the good which the Soul calling to remembrance hereby becomes moft acceptable to herl^ker.
It behoves thee to hajlen to the Eighty and to the Beams of the Father-.
From whence there was fent to thee a Soul endu¬ ed with much Mind.] v
TheLiglit and Splendor of the Father is that Manfion of the Soul which is circumlucid,from whence the Soul arrayed with much of the Mind .was fent hither, wherefore we muft haften to re¬ turn to the fame Light.
Thefe the Earth bewails^ even to their own Children. ]
Thofe who haften not to the Light, from which their Soul was fent to them, the Earth or Mortal Nature bewails, for that they being fent hither to adorn her, not only not adorn her, but allb blemilh themfelves by living wickedly ; moreover the wickednefs of the Parents is tranf mitted to the Children, corrupted by them through ill Education.
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The ungirders of the Souly which give her breafd- ingy at'ceafle to be loofed. ]
The Reafons which expell the Soul from Wickednefs, and give her breathing, are eafie
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