II.
THE INITIATION. |
A baptism of the Spirit—"At last I have found a man through whom |
I can speak!"—Intimation of the nature and aim of their work—The |
Doomed train, "No one on the engine!"—Instantaneous |
transfer of inspiration—"Woman, what have I to do with |
thee?"—The recovery of a Gospel scene, and its import—"The |
woman taken in adultery"—Vision of Adonai—Source of the |
opening sentences in St. John's Gospel—Chapter from the recovered |
Gnosis—The Generation of the Word. |
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Chapter III. |
THE COMMUNICATION. |
"The perfect love that casts out fear." In the presence of celestial |
visitants—A parable of the Intuition—"The Wonderful Spectacles"—The |
Greek element in the work—Hermes and John the Baptist—The |
"heresy of Prometheus"—The Fig-tree, a symbol of the |
inward understanding; the time come for it to bear fruit—The |
Seeress's faculty—Her relations with Hermes—"Thou art the |
Rock" addressed to Hermes—The parable of the Fig-tree—The |
Mystic Woman of Holy Writ—"Go thy way, Daniel.... |
Thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days"—The |
prophecy of the book of Esther—The Angel Genius, his account |
of himself and his office—Divine revelation the supreme common |
sense—The source and method of the New Revelation—Its chief |
recipient "not a medium or a seer, but a prophet"—An instruction |
and a caution concerning the survival of tendencies encouraged |
in past lives—Communion with souls of the departed—The |
conditions of such intercourse—An instruction concerning |
Inspiration and Prophesying—The prophecy of "the kingdom of |
the Mother of God." |
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Chapter IV. |
THE ANTAGONISATION. |
"Ye are not yet perfected"—Our respective Auras—An |
exhortation—The Seven Spirits of God, their co-operation necessary for |
a perfect work—"You belong to us now, to do our work and not your |
own"—Enforced silence—"The Powers of the Air;" their mode |
of attack—A strange visitant and his communication—A strained |
situation—Visions of guidance—The "refractory team," and |
the "Two Stars"—The promised land reached only through |
the wilderness—"The Word a Word of mystery, and they who |
guard it Seven"—"One Neophyte could not save himself"—A |
Horoscope—A descent into hell—Counsels of Perfection—A |
"Merry Christmas"—A timely arrival—Neoplatonic recognition |
of Hermes—The one Truth, never without a witness in the world—The |
key of knowledge restored—Problems solved—The mystic |
"Woman" of Holy Writ. |
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Chapter V. |
THE RECAPITULATION. |
The key to the mystery of the Bible; the "Veil of Moses" withdrawn—The |
secret laid bare of the world's sacrificial system, and the |
feud between priest and prophet—The Memory of the Soul—The |
Standpoint of the Bible—All that is true is Spiritual—The revelation |
of "that wicked one"—The seals broken and the books |
opened—The New Gospel of Interpretation—Sacerdotalism the |
"Jerusalem which killed the prophets"—The suppressed |
doctrines—Reincarnation the corollary and condition of Regeneration |
and implicit in the Bible—"Ye must be born again of Virgin |
Mary and Holy Ghost"—The doctrines of the Trinity and Divine |
Incarnation as now interpreted, necessary and self-evident |
truths—Evolution the manifestation of a divine inherency; accomplished |
only by the realisation of Divinity—The process of |
regeneration, and therein of salvation, interior to the individual—Adam |
and Christ the initial and final stages in the spiritual |
evolution of every man—The "Christ within" of St Paul—The |
Credo an epitome of the spiritual history of the Sons of God. |
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