It is therefore extremely dangerous to make sport of the Mysteries of Magic

“Those who abdicate the empire of reason and permit their wills to wander in pursuit of reflections in the Astral Light, are subject to alternations of mania and melancholy which have originated all the marvels of demoniacal possession, though it is true, at the same time, that by means of these reflections impure spirits can act upon such souls, make use of them as docile instruments and even habitually torment their organism, wherein they enter and reside by obsession, or embryonically. (more…)

The Gnostic disclosures alienated the Christian Church from the lofty truths of the Kabbalah

“This religion of reason could not be that of the multitude, who require fables, mysteries, definite hopes, and terrors, materially operating upon them. On that account the sacerdotal institution was established in the world.

Now the sacerdotal order is recruited by initiation. Religious forms perish when initiation ceases in the sanctuary either through being divulged, or by neglect and forgetfulness of sacred mysteries. (more…)

It’s only in the safety of light that we can dismiss the darkness

“Most Westerners have a day consisting of eight hours of work, eight of play, and eight of sleep.

The eight hours of sleep, that third of a day of darkness, is sharply distinguished in our minds from the two-thirds of a day of waking and light.

We try not to think of that time of darkness and dreams. We pretend that we don’t dream, or if we do, that the dreams are meaningless.

Yet nightmares leave us all shaken and afraid. (more…)