The Light of Egypt; Or, The Science of the Soul and the Stars — Volume 2Burgoyne, Thomas H.
Religion
The Light of Egypt; Or, The Science of the Soul and the Stars — Volume 2
Burgoyne, Thomas H.
Astrology; Occultism
We have now arrived at our final study, which we have approached
step by step amid the labyrinth of the mysteries concealed
beneath the Veil of Isis. We stand at last upon the very
threshold of the sacred Adytum, the "Holy of Holies," from whence
proceeds our final revelation of that inmost conception of Man's
identity with his Creator--the Penetralia of his Being--the last
secret of the incarnated soul.
The written word almost fails us--does fail in fact, when we come
to the difficult task of externalizing ideas, the sublimity of
which is so infinitely beyond the crystallized images of matter
that, they can only be realized in their true glory, when the
purified soul can view them from the ineffable heights of eternal
spirit. We are lost, dazed, at the brilliancy of the spiritual
imagery that opens out before us, in its fathomless stretch of
the eternities that are past, of the ever- imperishable present,
and the unborn eternities yet to be; all of them linked together
in one grand chain of spiritual relationship and deathless
identity; as Man, the Angel, God; and God, the Angel, Man; as the
triune Cycle of Being, within the incomprehensible Cycle of
Necessity; which constitutes Nature's cosmic university for the
complete graduation, education, and purification, of that
self-conscious, Deific atom of life, whose expression becomes the
human soul. Ah! my brothers could you, but for one single
instant, realize WHO you are, WHERE you are journeying, and WHAT
your final destiny, every earthly moment at your disposal would
be rightly used, and every hour considered too short for your
efforts to aid your fellow-man. Selfishness, wealth, and power,
would be so utterly contemptible in your sight that their
possession would be considered a fearful affliction and a curse,
the moment they exceeded the comfortable requirements of mundane
existence.
Leave self and the world behind you for the present, and, for the
moment, leave your life, with its manifold vanities, in the outer
court, and together let us cross the threshold and enter the door
of the Temple. There! At last we have entered the Sacred
Sanctuary, my brother, and we stand face to face with the
imperishable truth of our being--the truth which makes us free,
the truth which must ultimately prevail, by virtue of its own
inherent Divinity; and we realize Man as he really is, not as he
outwardly seems to be. We view him as a molecule, composed of a
congregation of separate atoms, all of them held in their places
by the centripetal force of the central human atom of life. And
yet, small as he is, small as his kingdom is, compared with the
mighty creation of which he is a part, he possesses all the
inherent qualities of the whole. This, then, is our first
conception--Man, is a microcosmic molecule, an atom of divine
life.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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