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The human soul : its movements, its lights, and the iconography of ...

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SCIENCE OF LIGHT AND LIFEmyths, <strong>the</strong> Typhon <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Egyptians, <strong>and</strong><strong>the</strong> Moloch <strong>of</strong> Phoenica ;but if wisdom, <strong>the</strong>mo<strong>the</strong>r <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Eloim puts her foot on <strong>its</strong>head, she exhausts all <strong>the</strong> tlames which itvom<strong>its</strong> <strong>and</strong> sheds on <strong>the</strong> earth, abundantly,a quickening light.« Light is <strong>the</strong> efficient agent <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> forms<strong>of</strong> life, because it is both movement <strong>and</strong>heat. When it succeeds in becoming fixed<strong>and</strong> polarised around a centre, it producesa living being, <strong>the</strong>n it attracts all <strong>the</strong> necessaryplastic substance to perfect <strong>and</strong> preserveit.This plastic substance, formed <strong>of</strong> earth<strong>and</strong> water, has with reason been calledclay in <strong>the</strong> Bible .« But light is not spirit, as <strong>the</strong> Indianhierophants <strong>and</strong> all<strong>the</strong> schools <strong>of</strong> Goetiabelieve ;light is only <strong>the</strong> instrument <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>spirit.Itisnot<strong>the</strong> body <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> photoplastes,<strong>of</strong> which <strong>the</strong> <strong>the</strong>urgists <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Alex<strong>and</strong>rianSchool spoke ;it is <strong>the</strong> first physical manifestation<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> divine breath.« God created it for eternity, <strong>and</strong> man, in<strong>the</strong> image <strong>of</strong> God, modifies <strong>and</strong> seems tomultiply it.-93 -

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