A Treatise On Initiations. Or, Asclepios. Part V : * "The Virgin of the World", by Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland, [1884], p. 56 PART V. BUT I perceive, O Asclepios, that thou art anxious to know in what manner Heaven and those who inhabit it can be the object of the aspiration and adoration of man; learn, then, O Asclepios, that to aspire...
A Treatise On Initiations. Or, Asclepios. Part Iii : * "The Virgin of the World", by Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland, [1884], p. 51 PART III. MAN, then, Asclepios, is a great marvel; a creature worthy of respect and adoration. For amid this divine Nature he moves as if he himself were a God. He knows the order of the genii, and, aware that he is...
A Treatise On Initiations. Or, Asclepios. Part Ix : * "The Virgin of the World", by Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland, [1884], PART IX. AND since we are brought to speak of the relationship and of the resemblance between men and Gods, behold, O Asclepios, the power and capacity of man! Even as the Ruler and Father, or to give Him the loftiest...
Various Hermetic Fragments. Part Vii : * "The Virgin of the World", by Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland, [1884], PART VII. SEVEN Planets revolve in the ways of Olympos, and by them Eternity is measured:--The Moon which illumines the night, the gloomy Kronos, the gentle Sun, the Paphian Goddess, protectress of marriage, the valiant...
A Treatise On Initiations. Or, Asclepios. Part 02 : * "The Virgin of the World", by Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland, [1884], PART VIII. "Asclepios": WHAT, O Trismegistos, are the primordial principles of things? "Hermes": I reveal to thee great and divine mysteries, and in beginning this initiation I implore the favour of heaven. There are many...
A Treatise On Initiations. Or, Asclepios. Part I : * "The Virgin of the World", by Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland, [1884], p. 41 p. 42 "A TREATISE ON INITIATIONS;" "OR," "ASCLEPIOS". p. 43 p. 44 p. 45 A "TREATISE ON INITIATIONS"; OR, "ASCLEPIOS". PART I. "Hermes": IT is a God who hath brought thee to us, Asclepios, that thou mayst assist...
Title Page : * "The Virgin of the World", by Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland, [1884], p. i1 HERMES MERCURIUS TRISMEGISTUS VIRGIN OF THE WORLD 1885 p. i3 p. i2 THE HERMETIC WORKS THE VIRGIN OF THE WORLD Of HERMES MERCURIUS TRISMEGISTUS Now FIRST RENDERED INTO ENGLISH "With Essay Introductions And Notes" BY...
Fragments Of The Writings Of Hermes To Amm : * "The Virgin of the World", by Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland, [1884], p. 148 PART VI. THE soul is, then, an eternal and intelligent essence; having for thought her own reason. She enters into association with the concept of harmony. Separated from the physical body, she endures in herself...
Various Hermetic Fragments. Part Vi : * "The Virgin of the World", by Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland, [1884], p. 153 PART VI. "THUS the Ideal Light was before the Ideal Light, and the luminous Intelligence of Intelligence was always, and its unity was nothing else than the Spirit enveloping the universe. Out of Whom is neither God...
Various Hermetic Fragments. Part I : * "The Virgin of the World", by Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland, [1884], p. 149 "VARIOUS HERMETIC FRAGMENTS". PART I. THERE are, then, essential spirit, reason, intelligence, perception. Opinion and sensation tend towards perception, reason towards the essential spirit; thought advances...
A Treatise On Initiations. Or, Asclepios. Part Ii : * "The Virgin of the World", by Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland, [1884], PART II. HEAVEN--God manifest--regulates all bodies. Their growth and their decline are determined by the sun and the moon. But He who directs heaven--the soul itself and all that exists in the world--is very God...
A Treatise On Initiations. Or, Asclepios : * "The Virgin of the World", by Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland, [1884], PART XIII. LET us return to man, and enquire concerning the divine gift of reason which entitles him to be called a reasonable creature. Among all the wonders we have noted in man, that which above all commands admirati...
The Virgin Of The World. Part Iii : * "The Virgin of the World", by Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland, [1884], p. 30 PART III. * * * * THOU hast given me admirable instruction, O my most powerful Mother Isis, concerning the marvellous creation of Souls by God, and I am filled with wonder; but thou hast not yet shewn me whither...
Various Hermetic Fragments. Part Iii : * "The Virgin of the World", by Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland, [1884], PART III. WHEREFORE the incorporeal vision comes forth from the body to contemplate beauty, lifting itself up and adoring, not the form, nor the body, nor the appearance, but that which, behind all, is calm, tranquil...
A Treatise On Initiations. Or, Asclepios. Part Xiv : * "The Virgin of the World", by Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland, [1884], PART XIV. "Asclepios": O TRISMEGISTOS, what is the part taken in the order of things by Destiny or Fate? If the heavenly Gods rule the universe, and the mundane deities control special events, where is the part of Destiny...
Introductory Essays And Preface. An Introducti : * "The Virgin of the World", by Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland, [1884], p. xix "AN INTRODUCTION" TO THE "VIRGIN OF THE WORLD". THE mystic title of the celebrated Hermetic fragment with which this volume commences, "Kor Kosmou" that is, the "Kosmic Virgin," is in itself a revelati...
A Treatise On Initiations. Or, Asclepios. Part Vi : * "The Virgin of the World", by Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland, [1884], PART VI. THE Master of Eternity is the first God, the world is the second, man is the third. God, Creator of the world and of all that it contains, governs all this universe and subjects it to the rule of man. And m...
Fragments Of The Book Of Hermes To His S. Part 06 : * "The Virgin of the World", by Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland, [1884], p. 133 PART V. HERE, then, is that which can be said of the three tenses. They are not by themselves, and they are not bound together; again, they are bound together and are by themselves. Can the present be supposed...
Fragments Of The Writings Of Hermes To Amm. Part 04 : * "The Virgin of the World", by Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland, [1884], p. 143 PART III. THE soul is, then, an incorporeal essence, and even when she is in a body, she does not wholly lose her manner of being. Her essence is that of perpetual movement, the spontaneous movement of thought; yet...
Fragments Of The Book Of Hermes To His S. Part 02 : * "The Virgin of the World", by Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland, [1884], p. 115 p. 116 "FRAGMENTS". p. 117 p. 118 p. 119 FRAGMENTS OF THE BOOK OF HERMES TO HIS SON TATIOS. PART I. "Trismegistos". IT is for the love of men and for the veneration of God, O my son, that I begin to write this...
Fragments Of The Book Of Hermes To His S. Part 04 : * "The Virgin of the World", by Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland, [1884], PART VII. TO speak of the Real with certainty, O Tatios, is an impossible thing to man, himself an imperfect creature, composed of imperfect parts, and constituted of an assemblage of foreign particles; nevertheless...
Fragments Of The Writings Of Hermes To Amm. Part 02 : * "The Virgin of the World", by Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland, [1884], p. 146 PART V. THE soul is then, O Ammon, an essence having its end in itself, receiving from the beginning the life prepared for her, and attracting to herself, as a material, a certain reason endowed with passi...
A Treatise On Initiations. Or, Asclepios. Part Xv : * "The Virgin of the World", by Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland, [1884], PART XV. AND now, inasmuch as it is given to man, and inasmuch as God has permitted, we have spoken concerning everything; it re-mains only, therefore, that we should bless and pray to God and return to our mortal cares...
Introductory Essays And Preface. The Hermetic : * "The Virgin of the World", by Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland, [1884], p. ix "THE HERMETIC SYSTEM" AND THE "SIGNIFICANCE OF ITS PRESENT REVIVAL". TO the philosophical student of humanity the most significant and important feature of the present remarkable epoch is, unquestionably, the revival...
Fragments Of The Writings Of Hermes To Amm. Part 06 : * "The Virgin of the World", by Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland, [1884], p. 141 "FRAGMENTS OF THE WRITINGS" "OF" "HERMES TO AMMON". PART I. THAT which rules the universe is Providence; that which contains the universe and limits it is Necessity; Destiny impels and enfolds all things by...
The Definitions Of Asclepios. Part Iv : * "The Virgin of the World", by Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland, [1884], PART IV. THIS discourse ends where it began, with the praise of the Supreme Being, and afterwards of the most holy kings by whom we obtain peace. So that having commenced by celebrating the Almighty greatness, it is...
Fragments Of The Book Of Hermes To His S : * "The Virgin of the World", by Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland, [1884], PART II. "Tatios". THOU hast well explained to me these things, my father, but instruct me yet again concerning this. Thou hast told me that know-ledge and art are activities of the reason; and now thou sayest that brute...
Fragments Of The Book Of Hermes To His S. Part 08 : * "The Virgin of the World", by Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland, [1884], PART III. THE Lord, the Creator of immortal forms, O Tatios, after having accomplished His work, made nothing further, nor does He now make anything. Once consigned to themselves and united to one another, these eternal...
Various Hermetic Fragments. Part Ii : * "The Virgin of the World", by Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland, [1884], PART II. THERE is, then, a state of Being superior to all beings, and to all that actually is. Being is that by which universal essentiality is common to all intelligible entities actually existing... Nature is sensible...
A Treatise On Initiations. Or, Asclepios. Part Xi : * "The Virgin of the World", by Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland, [1884], PART XI. SINCE such is the state of the universe, there is nothing immutable, nothing stable, nothing unchanging in nature, either in the heavens or on the earth. God alone, and rightly alone, is wholly full and perfect...
Fragments Of The Writings Of Hermes To Amm. Part 03 : * "The Virgin of the World", by Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland, [1884], p. 145 PART IV. THE soul is then an incorporeal essence; if she had a body she would be unable to preserve herself, for every body has need of breath and of life which consists in order. Wherever there is birth there is...
The Definitions Of Asclepios. Part Ii : * "The Virgin of the World", by Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland, [1884], p. 107 PART II. IF thou reflectest, O King, thou wilt perceive that there are incorporeal corporealites. Which are they? says the King. Corporealites which appear in mirrors; are they not incorporeal? It is true, Tat, says...
Fragments Of The Book Of Hermes To His S. Part 05 : * "The Virgin of the World", by Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland, [1884], PART VI. O MY son, matter becomes; formerly it was, for matter is the vehicle of becoming. 1 Becoming is the mode of activity of the uncreate and foreseeing God. Having been [endowed p. 134 endowed with the germ...
Various Hermetic Fragments. Part Iv : * "The Virgin of the World", by Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland, [1884], PART IV. IF thou understandest this one and only Good, thou wilt find nothing impossible, for all virtue is therein. Think not that this Good is in anyone, nor that it is outside of anyone. It is without limit, being...
Fragments Of The Book Of Hermes To His S. Part 03 : * "The Virgin of the World", by Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland, [1884], PART VIII. TO understand God is difficult; to speak of God, impossible. For the corporeal cannot express the incorporeal; the imperfect cannot comprehend the perfect. How is the eternal to be associated with the transient...
Fragments Of The Writings Of Hermes To Amm. Part 05 : * "The Virgin of the World", by Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland, [1884], p. 142 PART II. ALL things are produced by Nature and Destiny, nor is any place void of Providence. Providence is the Free Will of the Supreme God; whence two spontaneous forces, Necessity and Destiny. Destiny is subject...
Fragments Of The Book Of Hermes To His S. Part 07 : * "The Virgin of the World", by Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland, [1884], p. 132 PART IV. GREAT and divine power is established, O my son, in the midst of the universe, beholding all that is done by men upon earth. In the divine order all is governed by providential Necessity; among men the same...
The Virgin Of The World. Part Ii : * "The Virgin of the World", by Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland, [1884], p. 23 PART II. * * * * O MY illustrious son, if thou wilt know any-thing further, ask it of me. And Horos said, Revered Mother, I would fain know how royal souls are born. And Isis answered:--Herein, my son Horos, lies...
Various Hermetic Fragments. Part V : * "The Virgin of the World", by Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland, [1884], PART V. BENEATH nature and the ideal world is placed the pyramid. Its corner stone, placed on its summit, is the Creative Word of the universal Lord, which, after Him, is the first Power, uncreate, infinite, begotten...
A Treatise On Initiations. Or, Asclepios. Part Iv : * "The Virgin of the World", by Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland, [1884], p. 54 PART IV. "Asclepios": WHY then, O Trismegistos, was it necessary that man should be placed in the world, instead of where God is, to dwell with Him in supreme beatitude? "Hermes": Thy question is natural, O Asclepios...
Various Hermetic Fragments. Part Viii : * "The Virgin of the World", by Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland, [1884], PART VIII. HERMES affirms that those who know God, are preserved from assaults of the evil one, and are not even subject to Destiny. The knowledge of God is religion. [From Lactantius: "Divine Institutions."] [Published...
The Definitions Of Asclepios. Part I : * "The Virgin of the World", by Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland, [1884], p. 97 p. 98 "THE DEFINITIONS OF ASCLEPIOS". p. 99 p. 100 p. 101 THE "DEFINITIONS OF ASCLEPIOS". PART I. "Asclepios to the King Ammon". I ADDRESS to thee, O King, a comprehensive discourse, 1 which is, as it were, the sum...
A Treatise On Initiations. Or, Asclepios. Part Xii : * "The Virgin of the World", by Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland, [1884], PART XII. CONCERNING the Void, to which so much importance is attached, my judgment is that it does not exist, that it never has existed, and that it never will exist. For all the various parts of the universe are filled...
The Virgin Of The World. Part I : * "The Virgin of the World", by Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland, [1884], p. 1 "THE VIRGIN OF THE WORLD". I. * * * * HAVING thus spoken, Isis first pours out for Horos the sweet draught of immortality which souls receive from the Gods, and thus begins the most holy discourse. Heaven, crowned...
Introductory Essays And Preface. The Hermetic. Part 02 : * "The Virgin of the World", by Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland, [1884], p. i "THE HERMETIC BOOKS". THE Sacred Books of Hermes, says Mrs. Child in her admirable compendium, 1 containing the laws, science, and theology of Egypt, were declared by the priests to have been composed during the reign...
The Definitions Of Asclepios. Part Iii : * "The Virgin of the World", by Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland, [1884], p. 108 PART III. WHEN a musician, desiring to conduct a melody, is hindered in his design by the want of accord in the instruments employed, his efforts end in ridicule, and provoke the laughter of the auditors. In vain he...
A Treatise On Initiations. Or, Asclepios. Part Vii : * "The Virgin of the World", by Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland, [1884], p. 61 PART VII. LET us begin to speak of Mind and of other similar things. In the beginning were God and Hyl--it is thus that the Greeks term the first matter or substance of the universe. The Spirit was with the universe...
A Treatise On Initiations. Or, Asclepios. Part X : * "The Virgin of the World", by Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland, [1884], p. 76 PART X. "Hermes": LET us speak now of that which is immortal and of that which is mortal. The multitude, ignorant of the reason of things, is troubled by the approach and the fear of death. Death occurs by...
Introductory Essays And Preface. Note : * "The Virgin of the World", by Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland, [1884], "NOTE". In presenting the "Virgin of the World"--which with my "Hargrave Jennings" Edition of the "Divine Pymander," now so much in repute and demand, are the text books of Hermetic thought--it is no act of supererogati...
