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
Such are the crowding thoughts, born of interior knowledge, that
flood the mind as we view these sacred revelations within the
sacred chamber of the soul. As yet, we are gazing upon the
undulating flow of the astral light. We yearn within our utmost
being to become the center of the Penetralia and gaze upon the
glorious radiance of the Adonai, from whose ineffable presence we
are only screened by the last shining veil of semi-transparent
matter, that waves and trembles with every spiritual aspiration.
The soul sends forth its pleading cry for light: "Who and what is
God?" Faintly, as the distant vesper sounds upon the cooling eve,
comes the answer: "Who and what art thou? What canst thou see?
What delectable blessing does Nature vouchsafe to the pure in
heart?" We tremble with the awful, yet thrilling, revelation. We
know dimly, yet fail to realize in our outward consciousness the
full import thereof. We realize wherein the mistaken selfhood
hath become the only begotten of the Father, but the revelation
is too much, and too little. We know that, faint as the voice
seemed to the yet unprepared soul, an echo only, IT WAS THE VOICE
OF THE ADONAI BEHIND THE VEIL. And now we crave the knowledge of
the Where and Whither.
Again, we see the Earth as the vital function of the
interplanetary being. It is composed of substance termed matter,
which substance is the aggregation of countless atoms, which
science has not, and never can, resolve into their individual
selves. These atoms are rings of the atomless ether, which, thus
differentiated from the formless ether, become centers of force,
the center of such force being a vacuum within the atomic ring--a
center so small that a microscope with lens one thousand times as
powerful as the most perfect modern instrument would fail to
reveal it. These atoms form systems, under the control of another
apparent vacuum; or, rather, this vacuum seems to be the focus,
or center, about which they revolve. THIS SYSTEM CONSTITUTES A
SCIENTIFIC MOLECULE OF MATTER, and, in response to the
innumerable vibrations, they assume different forms or
dimensions, and become, indifferently, molecules of oxygen,
hydrogen, nitrogen, or carbon, as the case may be, all of which
are but different modes of motion of the same primitive atoms,
there being in Nature but three things--Ether, Intelligence, and
Motion. What Ether is, no one knows. We call it the formless
spirit, the unmanifest, etc. But, there can be no doubt but, that
Motion is the product of Intelligence, since we never see Motion
but as the manifestation of evolution, and this is the expression
of Mind. Therefore, we have a duality--Ether and Intelligence;
one the living spirit, the other the eternal substance for its
manifestation.
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