Then, when you have seen God, the hierophant will say to you: --- "Turn round. Man arrives at the absolute idea of being by two roads, experience and hypothesis? If there be no God, intelligence is only a deception, for it fails to be the absolute, and its ideal is a lie... Dashes at top vertical, center dot dashes to the right and lower dot dashes to left. God said: "Let there be light. "You can come back to the church: Monseigneur is not hurt; they have just said so from the pulpit. The "grimoire" of Honorius is composed of an apocryphal constitution of Honorius II, for the evocation and control of spirits; then of some superstitious receipts. And do you think that in retracing those frightful dreams of maceration and fasting, the makers of legends have invented... It prays, does good, and waits. Stirred by this unknown heat, ant-heaps of new men have spread over a worn-out world; the souls of dead people have shone upon rejuvenated races, and enlarged in them the spirit of life. ----------------------------- Let us resume what we have said concerning God, by quoting a fine invocation borrowed from the Jewish liturgy. The lowest portion shows feet issuing from the bases of the pillars and cocked outward on a mass of rock to the left and a sea to the right... " One may then attribute this remark to imagination. One must pity them, and pardon them, for they know not what they do. These theories are here united to the ideas described by Macrobius and attributed to the ancients. Very much as the shipwrecked sailors of the "Medusa," when they were disputing the possession of the too small raft, sought to sink it. Martyrs of humanity, all ye who have given your life in order that all should have the bread which nourishes and the wine which fortifies, do ye not also say, placing your hands on the signs of the universal communion: "This is our flesh and our blood". "There is none good but God," said the best of the Masters. " she cried sobbing; "I will not. Faith does not consist of the affirmation of this symbol or that, but of a genuine and constant aspiration towards the truths which are veiled by all symbolisms. When a man becomes a magician he looks about him for a magical weapon; and, being probably endowed with that human frailty called laziness, he hopes to find a weapon ready made. The indifferent, the lukewarm are not good; they are consequently bad, and the worst of all the bad, for they are imbecile and cowardly! One day we shall awake at last from the painful dreams of a tormented life; our ordeal will be finished, and we shall be sufficiently strong against sorrow to be immortal. There is no solid body which would not immediately be pulverized, vanish in smoke, and become invisible if the equilibrium of its molecules were to cease suddenly? " Truth, reality, reason, justice, Providence, these are the five rays of the flamboyant star in the centre of which science will write the word "being," --- to which faith will add the ineffable name of God? "In the beginning (IOD the unity of being,) Elohim, the equilibrated forces (Jakin and Boaz), created the heaven (spirit) and the earth (matter), or in other words, good and evil, affirmation and negation. I prefer to walk without her. Thus, by paying the debts of fatality, hard-won liberty purchases the empire of the world; it is hers to bind and to unbind. But between two multitudes and two ages came the Christ, a pale and radiant figure! You are carried away by a passion which your state of life ------ But pardon, reverend sir, I fear that I am over-stepping the boundaries of discretion. " "No, I cannot climb there; the great night pushes me back, I always fall back! The conception of the primitive alphabet was, as one may easily see, the idea of a universal language which should enclose in its combinations, and even in its signs themselves, the recapitulation and the evolutionary law of all sciences, divine and human. Every one possesses the fruit of his work, and poverty is only the spur to toil. It is benevolent like Christ and the apostles, like Vincent de Paul, and like Fenelon. --- To draw the boundary between religion and superstition, and to give the reason of miracles and prodigies. And do you think that in retracing those frightful dreams of maceration and fasting, the makers of legends have invented. It is the same with the hallucinated, with statical somnambulists, maniacs, epileptics, and all those who abandon themselves to the delirium of a passion. "He is gnawed by some absurd passion, and hopes for absolutely nothing unless he can get the devil to interfere! All saw, or pretended to see, the marvellous apparition: they were, in number, twenty thousand, according to the chronicler, whom we suspect to be slightly exaggerating in this respect. It has, in short, all the characteristics of Charity because it is Charity itself форум кто смотрит птрео... But he told all that with an accent of truth, a certainty of having seen, which excluded every kind of doubt as to the good faith and the entire conviction of the narrator. This secret we have arrived at deciphering, and we shall submit its letter to the investigations of the gold- makers. All I know is, that the death certificate was signed and the burial licence made out; eighteen hours later they were going to bury me, and here I am. For this reason also, the noblest and the holiest of martyrs could inquire of his own conscience, find himself deserving of the penalty that he was about to undergo, and say, saluting the sword that was ready to strike him, "Let justice be done. " And immediately the old priest began to recount things which the whole world would have found impossible, but which did not even turn a eye-lash of the Professor of Transcendental Magic... There is a place for everything: to savage peoples, barbarous masters; to cattle, butchers; to men, judges and fathers. A woman who abandons her husband, what can she become. Man arrives at the absolute idea of being by two roads, experience and hypothesis! This is what results from the obscure dogmas of Basil Valentine, of Bernard Trevisan, and of Henry Khunrath, who, all of them, pretended to have worked the transmutation, like Raymond Lully, like Arnaud de Villeneuve, and like NIcholas Flamel. vous deviendriez" --- "If you have not. Every voluntary disorder wounds it, prolonged excess murders it? Salutation and glory to thee плрнт фото руских знаменитостей! " "Never mind," said the blacksmith, "since I am here I will see him. What is the result of it жесткое порон фьто влагаоище. 98 PART III (MYSTERIES OF NATURE). {79} John Calvin protested against the stakes of Rome, in order to give himself the right to burn Michael Servetus . Ссылки Главная