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60 INTERIOR VISION.
boiling blood cools; recedes back to its proper channels; his tempestuous passion subsides, and, though weak and exhausted, he still remains a MAN! which is never the case when lust extinguishes its fires in the arms of wanton passion. Lo, here, what a truth!
[ Nore, — For an amplification of this thought, see “ Love and its, Hidden Mystery.” Its sequel, ‘The Master Passion; or, The Curtain Raised.” And their antecedent, “After Death; or, Disembodied Man.” Also “‘ The Rosierucian’s Story.”]
As in the telescope the landscape only is possible, not at either end among the mistakes of the unadjusted glasses, but in the exact focus, where the sight-point is caught, even so we (Rosicrucians) hold that supernatural beings only are possible; visible at that cross-point where the angelic contraction and the magic dilatation intersect. In short, man being himself as the telescope, itis only at the magico-magnetic focus at which the spirit world and the essential worlds are to be spied into. Under the dominion of lust, hatred, avarice, wrong, no man can enter either! Therefore virtue is its own reward! Divine and supernatural illumination is the only road to absolute truth.
The Platonic philosophy of vision is, that it is the view of objects really ‘existing in interior light, which assume form; not according to arbitrary laws, but according to the state of the mind. This light unites with exterior light in the eye, and is thus drawn into a sensuous or imaginative activity; but, when the outward light is separated, it reposes in its own Serene atmosphere. It is, then, in this state of interior repose that all really inspired and correct visions occur. It is the same light so often spoken of in ancient books and modern experiences. It is the light revealed to Pimander, Zoroaster, and the sages of the Hast. ° It is Boehmen’s Divine Vision or Contemplation; Molinos’ Spiritual Guide, and the inner life of all true men — few, —and women — many. (It is the FOUNDATION-FIRE upon which all things whatever are builded; ambushed everywhere; bursting out when least expected; slumbering for ages, yet suddenly illuminating an inebriate’s brain, so that he shall see the moral snakes and larvee of his perversion assume physical proportion and magnitude to fright him back to temperance, virtue, and his forsaken God! ! .
No amount of merely intellectual quickness, sharpness, or solidity will avail the searcher for the unseen! A meek spirit, attention, perseverance, faith open only the doors which lead to the vastitudes.
The world we live in is full of the pattering of ghostly feet, and the music of spiritual singers. It is not difficult to hear them. I may not here write concerning the methods of invocation, because fools will laugh, and the fraternity of the mystical, everywhere, would grieve thereat; and yet it is certain that perfumes, odors, and vapors of magnetic character have, in ages past, and may again and in ages yet to be, proved immense aids to the trueseer. There are hundreds who visited the
boiling blood cools; recedes back to its proper channels; his tempestuous passion subsides, and, though weak and exhausted, he still remains a MAN! which is never the case when lust extinguishes its fires in the arms of wanton passion. Lo, here, what a truth!
[ Nore, — For an amplification of this thought, see “ Love and its, Hidden Mystery.” Its sequel, ‘The Master Passion; or, The Curtain Raised.” And their antecedent, “After Death; or, Disembodied Man.” Also “‘ The Rosierucian’s Story.”]
As in the telescope the landscape only is possible, not at either end among the mistakes of the unadjusted glasses, but in the exact focus, where the sight-point is caught, even so we (Rosicrucians) hold that supernatural beings only are possible; visible at that cross-point where the angelic contraction and the magic dilatation intersect. In short, man being himself as the telescope, itis only at the magico-magnetic focus at which the spirit world and the essential worlds are to be spied into. Under the dominion of lust, hatred, avarice, wrong, no man can enter either! Therefore virtue is its own reward! Divine and supernatural illumination is the only road to absolute truth.
The Platonic philosophy of vision is, that it is the view of objects really ‘existing in interior light, which assume form; not according to arbitrary laws, but according to the state of the mind. This light unites with exterior light in the eye, and is thus drawn into a sensuous or imaginative activity; but, when the outward light is separated, it reposes in its own Serene atmosphere. It is, then, in this state of interior repose that all really inspired and correct visions occur. It is the same light so often spoken of in ancient books and modern experiences. It is the light revealed to Pimander, Zoroaster, and the sages of the Hast. ° It is Boehmen’s Divine Vision or Contemplation; Molinos’ Spiritual Guide, and the inner life of all true men — few, —and women — many. (It is the FOUNDATION-FIRE upon which all things whatever are builded; ambushed everywhere; bursting out when least expected; slumbering for ages, yet suddenly illuminating an inebriate’s brain, so that he shall see the moral snakes and larvee of his perversion assume physical proportion and magnitude to fright him back to temperance, virtue, and his forsaken God! ! .
No amount of merely intellectual quickness, sharpness, or solidity will avail the searcher for the unseen! A meek spirit, attention, perseverance, faith open only the doors which lead to the vastitudes.
The world we live in is full of the pattering of ghostly feet, and the music of spiritual singers. It is not difficult to hear them. I may not here write concerning the methods of invocation, because fools will laugh, and the fraternity of the mystical, everywhere, would grieve thereat; and yet it is certain that perfumes, odors, and vapors of magnetic character have, in ages past, and may again and in ages yet to be, proved immense aids to the trueseer. There are hundreds who visited the
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