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For it is only owing to deliberate mistranslation that the Hebrew word asdt
was translated "angels" from the Septuagint, while it means Emanations,
Aeons, just as with the Gnostics. Indeed, in Deuteronomy the word asdt or
ashdt is translated as "fiery law," whilst the correct rendering of the
passage should be, "from his right went (not a fiery law, but) a fire
according to law," viz., that the fire of one flame is imparted to and
caught up by another-like as in a trail of inflammable substance. This is
precisely Emanation, as shown in Isis Unveiled.
In Evolution, as it is now beginning to be understood, there is supposed to
be in all matter an impulse to take on a higher form-a supposition clearly
expressed by Manu and other Hindu philosophers of the highest antiquity. The
philosopher's tree illustrates it in the case of the zinc solution. The
controversy between the followers of this school and the Emanationists may
be briefly stated thus: The Evolutionist stops all inquiry at the borders of
"the unknowable." The Emanationist believes that nothing can be evolved-or,
as the word means, unwombed or born-except it has first been involved, thus
indicating that life is from a spiritual potency above the whole.
Esoteric Hidden, secret. From the Greek Esotericos-"inner," concealed.
Esoteric Bodhism Secret wisdom or intelligence, from the Greek Esotericos,
"inner," and the Sanskrit Bodhi, "knowledge," in contradistinction to
Buddhi, "the faculty of knowledge or intelligence," and Buddhism, the
philosophy or Law of Buddha (the Enlightened). Also written "Budhism," from
Budha (Intelligence, Wisdom) the Son of Soma.
Exoteric (Gr.) Outward, public; the opposite of esoteric or hidden.
Extra-Cosmic Outside of Kosmos or Nature. A nonsensical word invented to
assert the existence of a personal god independent of or outside Nature per
se; for as Nature, or the Universe, is infinite and limitless there can be
nothing outside it. The term is coined in opposition to the Pantheistic idea
that the whole Kosmos is animated or informed with the Spirit of Deity,
Nature being but the garment, and matter the illusive shadows, of the real
unseen Presence.
Eurasians An abbreviation of "European-Asians." The mixed colored races; the
children of the white fathers, and the dark mothers of India, and vice
versa.
Ferho (Gnostic). The highest and greatest creative power with the Nazarene
Gnostics (Codex Nazaraeus).
Fire-Philosophers The name given to the Hermetists and Alchemists of the
Middle Ages, and also to the Rosicrucians. The latter, the successors of
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Theurgists, regarded fire as the symbol of Deity. It was the source, not
only of material atoms, but the container of the Spiritual and Psychic
Forces energizing them. Broadly analyzed, Fire is a triple principle;
esoterically, a septenary, as are all the rest of the elements. As man is
composed of Spirit, Soul, and Body, plus a fourfold aspect; so is Fire. As
in the works of Robert Flood (de Fluctibus), one of the famous Rosicrucians,
fire contains-Firstly, a visible flame (body); secondly, an invisible,
astral fire (soul); and thirdly, spirit. The four aspects are (a) heat
(life), (b) light (mind), (c) electricity (Kamic or molecular powers), and
(d) the synthetic essences, beyond spirit, or the radical cause of its
existence and manifestation. For the Hermetist or Rosicrucian, when a flame
is extinct on the objective plane, it has only passed from the seen world
into the unseen; from the knowable into the unknowable.
Gautama (Sans.) A name in India. It is that of the Prince of Kapilavastu,
son of Sudhodana, the Sâkya King of a small territory on the borders of
Nepal, born in the seventh century bc, now called the "Savior of the world."
Gautama or Gotama was the sacerdotal name of the Sâkya family. Born a simple
mortal, he rose to Buddhaship through his own personal and unaided merit; a
man-verily greater than any God!
Gebirol Salomon Ben Jehudah, called in literature Avicebron. An Israelite by
birth, a philosopher, poet, and Cabalist; a voluminous writer and a mystic.
He was born in the eleventh century at Malaga (1021), educated at Saragossa,
and died at Valencia in 1070, murdered by a Mohammedan. His [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]