Isis Unveiled; A Master-Key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Science and Theology - Softcover
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 edition. Excerpt: ... BEFORE THE VEIL xxiii insignificant--merelj ethnic--still, it may be useful to the general readei to know just what that is. We give a few alphabetically. ^ethrobacy, is the Greek name for walking or being lifted in th air; levitation, so called, among modern spiritualists. It may be eithei conscious or unconscious; in the one case, it is magic; in the other, either disease or a power which requires a few words of elucidation. A symbolical explanation of sethrobacy is given in an old Syriac manuscript which was translated in the fifteenth century by one Malchus, an alchemist. In connection with the case of Simon Magus, one passage reads thus: "Simon, laying his face upon the ground, whispered in her ear, 'O mother Earth, give me, I pray thee, some of thy breath; and I will give thee mine; let me loose, O mother, that I may carry thy words to the stars, and I will return faithfully to thee after a while.' And the Earth strengthening her status, nor->. to her detriment, sent her genius to breathe of her breath on Simon, while he breathed on her; and the stars rejoiced to be visited by the mighty One." The starting-point here is the recognized electro-chemical principle that bodies similarly electrified repel each other, while those differently rlectrified mutually attract. "The most elementary knowledge of chemistry," says Professor Cooke, "shows that, while radicals of opposite natures combine most eagerly together, two metals, or two closelyallied metalloids, show but little affinity for each other." The earth is a magnetic body; in fact, as some scientists have found, it is one vast magnet, as Paracelsus affirmed some 300 years ago. It is charged with one form of electricity--let us call it positive--which it evolves...
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- PublisherTheClassics.us
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1230345752
- ISBN 13 9781230345758
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages312
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