The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 3 of 4: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and PhilosophyBlavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna)
Religion
The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 3 of 4: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy
Blavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna)
Theosophy
Having bidden farewell to his Chaldæan Initiator, the future Sorcerer and
Saint went to Antioch. His tale of “iniquity” and subsequent repentance is
long but we will make it short. He became “an accomplished Magician,”
surrounded by a host of disciples and “candidates to the perilous and
sacrilegious art.” He shows himself distributing love‐philtres and dealing
in deathly charms “to rid young wives of old husbands, and to ruin
Christian virgins.” Unfortunately Cyprianus was not above love himself. He
fell in love with the beautiful Justine, a converted maiden, after having
vainly tried to make her share the passion one named Aglaides, a
profligate, had for her. His “demons failed” he tells us, and he got
disgusted with them. This disgust brings on a quarrel between him and his
Hierophant, whom he insists on identifying with the Demon; and the dispute
is followed by a tournament between the latter and some Christian
converts, in which the “Evil One” is, of course, worsted. The Sorcerer is
finally baptised and gets rid of his enemy. Having laid at the feet of
Anthimes, Bishop of Antioch, all his books on Magic, he became a Saint in
company with the beautiful Justine, who had converted him; both suffered
martyrdom under the Emperor Diocletian; and both are buried side by side
in Rome, in the Basilica of St. John Lateran, near the Baptistery.
SECTION XX. THE EASTERN GUPTA VIDYA & THE KABALAH.
We now return to the consideration of the essential identity between the
Eastern Gupta Vidyâ and the Kabalah as a system, while we must also show
the dissimilarity in their philosophical interpretations since the Middle
Ages.
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