#comte de gabalis

[margaretqualleytruther]

[pathofregeneration]

Gustave Doré, Rosa Celeste (Dante and Beatrice gaze upon the highest Heaven, The Empyrean) Illustration from The Divine Comedy, Canto XXXI by Dante Alighieri

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“Above the Celestial Fire there is an Incorruptible Flame, ever sparkling, Source of Life, Fountain of all Beings, and Principle of all Things. This Flame produces all, and nothing perishes save that which it consumes. It reveals itself by virtue of itself. This Fire cannot be contained in any place; it is without form and without substance, it girdles the Heavens and from it there proceeds a tiny spark which makes the whole fire of the Sun, Moon and Stars. This is what I know of God. Seek not to know more, for this passes thy comprehension howsoever wise thou mayest be. Nevertheless, know that the unjust and wicked man cannot hide himself from God, nor can craft nor excuse disguise aught from His piercing eyes. All is full of God, God is everywhere.”

— Abbé N. Montfaucon de Villars, Comte de Gabalis

[triste-le-roy]

Pages and illustrations from Nicolas-Pierre-Henri de Montfaucon de Villars’ Comte de Gabalis (The Count of Cabala, Or Dialogs on the Secret Sciences) (unknown artist, 17th century).

(via Librairie L'amour qui bouquine - Beaux livres anciens et modernes - Bibliophilie)

[sibyllinemagician]

When you have been enrolled among the Children of the Philosophers, and when your eyes have been strengthened by the use of the very Holy Medicine, you will straightway discover that the Elements are inhabited by most perfect beings. Unhappy Adam's sin has deprived his unfortunate posterity of all knowledge of these beings and of all intercourse with them. The immense space which lies between Earth and Heaven has inhabitants far nobler than the birds and insects. These vast seas have far other hosts than those of the dolphins and whales; the depths of the earth are not for the moles alone; and the Element of Fire, nobler than the other three, was not created to remain useless and empty.

Comte de Gabalis, Secrets of the Elementals: Discourse II, pp.28-29

[pathofregeneration]

Elementals

“As you may perhaps already have grasped, the Salamanders are composed of the most subtile portions of the Sphere of Fire, fused together and organised by the action of the Universal Fire, of which I will discourse to you some day. It is called the Universal Fire because it is the inherent cause of every movement in Nature.

Likewise the Sylphs are composed of the purest atoms of the Air, the Nymphs of the most subtile essences of the Water, and the Gnomes of the finest particles of the Earth. Adam was closely related to these perfect creatures, for being created out of all that was purest in the four Elements, he combined in himself the perfections of these four races of Peoples and was their natural King. As you will learn later, however, the moment his sin had precipitated him into the dregs of the Elements, the harmony was disturbed and there could no longer be any relation between him, gross and impure as he had become, and these pure and subtile beings. How remedy this evil? How restring the lute and recover that lost sovereignty? Oh Nature! Why art thou so little studied? Do you not understand, my Son, how easy Nature finds it to restore to man the estate which he has lost?”

— Abbé N. de Montfaucon de Villars, Comte de Gabalis

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J. Augustus Knapp, Magician invoking Elementals from within a Magic Circle

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Can it be that you are such a poor Natural Philosopher as not to be persuaded of the existence of these Peoples?

Abbé N. de Montfaucon de Villars, Comte de Gabalis

[alwaysinsearchoflight]

"The Philosopher's Stone is a term used by Cabalists to denote the Supreme Wisdom, the union of the divine consciousness or omniscient Solar Principle in man with the lower consciousness or personality, which union has been the goal of Initiates of all ages. Exoterically, the Philosopher's Stone is the secret of the transmutation of the baser metals into gold.” --Comte de Gabalis, by the Abbe N. de Montfaucon de Villars, Paris, 1670;