The Rosicrucians, Their Rites and Mysteries; With Chapters on the Ancient Fire- And Serpent-Worshipers, and Explanations of the Mystic Symbols Represented in the Monuments and Talismans of the Primeval Philosophers
The Rosicrucians, Their Rites and Mysteries; With Chapters on the Ancient Fire- And Serpent-Worshipers, and Explanations of the Mystic Symbols Represented in the Monuments and Talismans of the Primeval Philosophers
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 Excerpt: ...misread. The Gnostics maintained that Simon the Cyrenean--who. the Evangelist states, bore His cross--did really bear it as the culprit, and suffered upon it. As human and divine are totally different, this could not impair the efficacy of the "Crucifixion," for the substitution of persons was miraculous and remote (of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 Excerpt: ...misread. The Gnostics maintained that Simon the Cyrenean--who. the Evangelist states, bore His cross--did really bear it as the culprit, and suffered upon it. As human and divine are totally different, this could not impair the efficacy of the "Crucifixion," for the substitution of persons was miraculous and remote (of course) from human sense. Christian Monogram. CHAPTER THE TWENTY-FIFTH. HISTORY OF THE TOWER OR STEEPLE. E have asserted, in an earlier part of our book, that the pyramidal or triangular form which fire assumes in its ascent to heaven was, in the monolithic typology, used to signify the Great Generative Power. The coarse sensuality which seems inseparable from modern ideas about the worship of the pillar or upright had no place really in the solemn ancient mind, in which ideas of religion largely and constantly mingled. We must not judge the ancients by too rigid an adherence to our own prepossessions--foolish and inveterately hardened as they continually are. The adoration paid to this image of the phallus, which has persisted as an object of worship through all the ages, in all countries, was only the acknowledgment, in the ancient mind, of wonder at the seemingly accidental and unlikely, but certainly most complete and effectual, means by which the continuation of the human race is secured. The cabalistic arguers contended that " Man" was a phenomenon; that he did not, otherwise than in his presentment, seem intended; that there appeared nothing even in the stupendous chain of organisms that seemed specially to hint his approach, or to explain his appearance (strange as EARL Y CHRISTIAN FA TIIERS. 207 this seems), according to likelihoods and sequence; that between the highest of the animals and the being "Man"...
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