{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3645", "width": "2553", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.\\n3t\u00c2\u00a3*\\nChap. Copyright No.\\nShellde\\nUNITED STATES OF AMERICA.", "height": "3507", "width": "2474", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3504", "width": "2360", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3523", "width": "2474", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3504", "width": "2339", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3519", "width": "2474", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "Hn0wer0 of tbe ages.", "height": "3504", "width": "2349", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3523", "width": "2474", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "Hnewers oTtbiHges\\nI. K. L.\\nL.C.W.\\nJ\\nHERBERT S. STONE AND COMPANY\\nCHICAGO AND NEW YORK\\nMDCCCC", "height": "3540", "width": "2337", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "TWO COPIES RECEIVED,\\nLibrary\\nOff!\\nM 2 6 1900\\nRegister of Coj\\nA\\n?V*\\nCOPYRIGHT 1899, BY\\nHERBERT S. STONE CO\\n54108\\nft hi4 Mnifif fTTTrfffrY 1\\n4r^", "height": "3523", "width": "2474", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "answers ot tbe Hges*\\nThese answers have been gathered from\\nthe note-books of two friends; they are\\nfragmentary and in no wise meant to\\nencompass the whole cloud of witnesses.\\nThey are offered to those who feel a\\nyearning to enlarge the boundaries of\\nfaith.\\nExtracts from well-known devotional\\nbooks have been omitted, but many of the\\ntruths contained in them will be found\\nhere under other forms.\\nThe prayers and hymns have been\\nchosen for their rarity.\\nI. K. L.\\nL. C. W.", "height": "3504", "width": "2363", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3523", "width": "2474", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "Ube Sacrefc S ecaDe.\\nWhat is God? 3\\n77. What is Man? 21\\nIII. What is meant by the Trinity? 35\\nIV. What is Soul? 45\\nV. What is Right Living? 59\\nVI What is Religion 87\\nVII. What is Heaven? .101\\nVIII. Hymns in\\nIX. Prayers 121\\nX. Visions 131", "height": "3504", "width": "2426", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3517", "width": "2474", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "TKHbat is (3ofc?", "height": "3532", "width": "2426", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3571", "width": "2474", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "answers of tbe Hges,\\nTKflbat t0 5o\\nGod is the Being who rests as end to\\nHimself but toward whom all else is\\ndrawn through desire.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094St. Augustine.\\nGod is not mind but the cause that mind\\nis; God is not spirit but the cause that\\nspirit is God is not light but the cause\\nthat light is; God can be venerated only\\nunder the name of the Good.\\nHermes Trismegistus.\\nThere is nothing in everything but God.\\nThere is no whole but God. There is\\nnothing immeasurable but God. Exter-\\n3", "height": "3543", "width": "2426", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "4 answers of tbe ages*\\nnal to the One Thing which is No Thing,\\neverything is nothing.\\nDruidic Triad.\\nGod is He who stands alone; who is eter-\\nnal; who gave birth to none, nor was\\nborn, nor has any equal.\\nMohammedan Inscription in Seville,\\nover the Alcazar.\\nThat, whence all this great creation\\ncame,\\nWhether its will created or was mute\\nThe Most High Seer, that is in highest\\nheaven,\\nHe knows it or perchance He knows it\\nnot.\\nRig-Veda.\\nHermes: The opinions upon God and the\\nuniverse are many and different. I know\\nnot the truth. Enlighten me, O master.", "height": "3565", "width": "2395", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "TKHbat is \u00c2\u00a9o\\nMaster: Learn, my son, this: God, Eter-\\nnity, World, Time, Generation.\\nGod causes Eternity.\\nEternity causes the World.\\nThe World causes Time.\\nTime causes Generation.\\nGoodness, Beauty, Happiness and Wis-\\ndom are the essence of God.\\nThe essence of Eternity is Identity.\\nThe essence of the World is Order.\\nThe essence of Time is Change.\\nThe essence of Generation is Life and\\nDeath.\\nThe energy of God is Intelligence and\\nSoul.\\nThe energy of Eternity is Permanence\\nand Immutability.\\nThe energy of the World is Composition\\nand Decomposition.\\nThe energy of Time is Increase and\\nDecrease.\\nThe energy of Generation is Quality.", "height": "3536", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "6 answers of tbe Bges,\\nEternity is in God.\\nThe World is in Eternity.\\nTime is in the World.\\nGeneration is in Time.\\nThe Soul of Eternity is God.\\nThe Soul of the World is Eternity.\\nThe Soul of Earth is Heaven.\\nAll is living. Life is One. God is Life.\\nTable oflsis.\\nMan reflects God in the material state as\\nabsolute force; in the intellectual, as\\nabsolute thought; in the spiritual, as\\nabsolute love.\\nIs God invisible? There is nothing more\\napparent than God. God is Intelligence,\\nand intelligence is seen in thought.\\nLook for God in creation look for Him\\nin yourself.\\nHermes Trismegistus.", "height": "3551", "width": "2395", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "TWtbat is Bo\\nLet each of your actions be an offering to\\nthat supreme Being within you; that\\nBeing who breathes in all beings; that\\nBeing of a hundred thousand forms; of\\ninnumerable eyes; of faces turned on\\nevery side and yet who surpasses them\\nall by all the height of infinity who in\\nhis immovable and boundless body shuts\\nup a moving universe with all its many\\ndivisions. Should a thousand suns\\nlighten at one time the heaven, their\\nglory would not resemble the glory of the\\nAll-Powerful within you. Seek Him not\\nin the vertigoes of Infinitude, but in thy-\\nself and in the human form. Behold the\\ngreat secret\\nBhagavad-Gita.\\nInfinity and space only can comprehend\\ninfinity and space. God alone can com-\\nprehend God.\\nKrishna s Sermon on Mount Merow", "height": "3544", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "8 answers of tbe Bges*\\nKnowing about God is not knowing God.\\nGuani of Ceylon.\\nHe who knows God does not talk about\\nHim.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094Lao-Tsze. 600 B. C\\nThe key of the mind.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094Orpheus.\\nThe thrice unknown darkness.\\nOld Egyptian Definition.\\nGod s nature is ineffable; His honor,\\ngreatness, loftiness, wisdom, power, good-\\nness, and grace transcend all human con-\\nceptions. If I call God light, I name but\\nHis image if I call Him Logos, I name\\nHis dominion; if reason, His insight; if\\nspirit, His breath; if wisdom, His crea-\\ntion if strength, His power if energy,\\nHis efficient agency; if prudence, His\\ngoodness; if dominion, His glory; if", "height": "3557", "width": "2395", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "TKHbat is (SoD?\\nLord, then I term Him a judge; if a\\njudge, then I pronounce Him just; if\\nFather, then I say He is loving and if I\\ncall Him fire, I name thereby the anger\\nwhich He cherishes against evil-doers.\\nTheophilus ofAntioch.\\nWhat is it I love when I love my God? I\\nhave tried to grasp it in my own intelli-\\ngence, but at the moment that I reach the\\nseat of being, I cannot fix my gaze.\\nWhat is it, then, that I love, O my God,\\nwhen I love Thee? It is not beauty of\\nbodies, nor the glory which passes, nor\\nthe light that our eyes love. It is not the\\nharmony of song, nor the perfume of\\nflowers, nor the joy of carnal embraces.\\nNo it is none of these that I love when I\\nlove my God and yet in this love I find a\\nlight, a voice, a savor that does not\\nleave the innermost part of myself. Who\\nshall understand, who shall express God?", "height": "3553", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "io answers of tbe Hges,\\nIt is something other than myself, there-\\nfore I am frozen with terror it is some-\\nthing identical with myself, therefore I\\nam kindled with love.\\nSt. Augustine.\\nThe unswerving Deity is called The\\nSilent One, or The Mystic Silence\\nThe Seven-tongued Flame, or The\\nSeven-flamed.\\nPhoenician Inscription.\\nGod is the synthesis of all First Principles.\\nPascal\\nThe Being forever communicating His\\nown essence.\\nSt. Thomas Aquinas.\\nGod is the essential cause of all things,\\nbut not the efficient cause.\\nDavid ofDinant 13th Century.", "height": "3548", "width": "2395", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "Wbat fg Oo ii\\nGod is the ancient of the ancient ones.\\nHe is the eternal of the eternal ones,\\nthe concealed of the concealed ones. In\\nHis symbols is He both knowable and\\nunknowable. White are His garments,\\nand His appearance is the likeness of a\\nface, vast and terrible. Vastness of\\ncountenance is His name Macro-proso-\\npus.\\nThe eyes of the Macro-prosopus are\\ndiverse from all other eyes; above the\\neye is no eyelid, neither is there an eye-\\nbrow over it. This eye is pure in its\\nwhiteness so white that it includeth all\\nwhiteness. This eye is never closed; it\\nis called The Open Eye\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The Holy Eye\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nThe Bountiful Eye The Guardian Eye.\\nThis eye is ever smiling and is ever glad.\\nKahbala.\\n4\\nBeyond all finite existences and secondary\\ncauses, all laws, ideas and principles,", "height": "3561", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "12 answers of tbe Hfles*\\nthere is an Intelligence or Mind, a Nous,\\na Spirit, a First Principle of all principles;\\nthe Supreme Idea on which all other\\nideas are grounded; the Monarch and\\nLaw-giver of the Universe the Ultimate\\nSubstance from which all things derive\\ntheir Being and Essence; the First and\\nEfficient Cause of all order, harmony and\\nbeauty, and excellence, and goodness.\\nThe supreme God the God over all.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094Plato.\\nBefore He gave any shape to the Uni-\\nverse, before He produced any form, He\\nwas alone without form or resemblance\\nto anything else. Who then can compre-\\nhend Him, how He was before the\\ncreature, since He was formless? There-\\nfore it was forbidden to represent Him,\\nby any form, similitude or even by His\\nsacred name by a single letter or by a\\nsingle point the En-Soph the No-", "height": "3555", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "Mbat is Oofr? 13\\nthing, the Aged of the aged has a form by\\nwhich the Universe is preserved and yet\\nhas no form because He cannot be com-\\nprehended. When He first assumed a\\nform He caused nine splendid lights to\\nemanate from it.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094Sober.\\nGod is the One only He who exists by\\nessence the only One who lives in sub-\\nstance. At the same time Father, Mother\\nand Son. He engenders He gives birth\\nto and He is, perpetually. His\\nattributes are Immensity, Eternity, Inde-\\npendence, Will all-powerful, Goodness\\nwithout limit.\\nMaspero s Translation from Egyp-\\ntian Hieroglyphics.\\nAll is Atman; it transcends experience;\\nbeing not other, not distant, not without", "height": "3547", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "i4 answers of tbe ages.\\nunborn and undecaying, undying, im-\\nmortal, secure, one and unique. Those\\nimmersed in objects of sense call Atman\\nthose objects; those thinking of the\\nDevas call It The Deva; those knowing\\nthe Vedas describe It as the Veda; the\\nknowers of the subtile call It the Subtile\\nthe knowers of the gross call It the Gross;\\nthose familiar with personality call It the\\nPersonal Being those having no faith in\\nanything call It the pure Void knowers\\nof Time think of It as Time the knowers\\nof Space, Space those versed in logic and\\ndispute call It the Problem; those cog-\\nnizant of Mind call It Mind those whose\\nken is bounded by Heaven call It Heaven.\\nThey all describe the Atman as every-\\nthing they like It to be. He who under-\\nstands the truth in its fullness is at\\nliberty to imagine the Atman of any form\\nhe likes.\\nUpanishads.", "height": "3552", "width": "2477", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "TKHbat is 60ST 15\\nGod is the I Am, or existence the\\nPrimordial Point the Smooth Point the\\nInscrutable Height the Vast Counte-\\nnance.\\nKabbala.\\nThe unwearying end of Divinity is to\\nannihilate incurable passions and evils.\\nSolon.\\nHe is the emanating word. His wisdom\\nand word embrace the bounds of the\\nearth.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094Plutarch.\\nThe Etruscans call Him Bacchus.\\nThe Egyptians think Him Osiris.\\nThe Greeks name Him Phanes.\\nThe Hindoos consider Him Dionysus.\\nThe Romans call Him Liber.\\nThe Arabians, Adonis.\\nThe Jews, Jehovah.\\nAusonius.", "height": "3536", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "1 6 answers of tbe Hgeg,\\nWe know only what God is not. God is\\nformless and nameless, although we\\nrightly make use of the best names in\\ndesignating Him; He is infinite; He is\\nneither Genus nor difference, neither\\nspecies nor individual, neither number\\nnor accident, nor anything that can be\\npredicated of another thing. Only the\\nSon, who is the Power and Wisdom of the\\nFather, is positively knowable.\\nSt Clement of Alexandria.\\nOf the universal aeons there are two shoots\\nwithout beginning or end, though spring-\\ning from one root which is the Power\\nInvisible; Inapprehensible Silence. Of\\nthese shoots one is manifested from\\nabove, which is the great power, universal\\nmind, ordering all things, male and the\\nother is manifested from below, the great\\nthought, female, producing all things.\\nHence they pair with each other, being", "height": "3523", "width": "2492", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "Mbat is 3o 17\\none, for there is no difference between\\nPower and Thought.\\nSimon Magus* Revelation.\\nSophia- Epinoia is a power of many names.\\nShe is called All- Mother.\\nMother of the Living.\\nShining Mother.\\nCelestial Eve.\\nHoly Spirit.\\nVirgin Daughter of Light.\\nHoly Dove.\\nRevealer of Perfect Mysteries.\\nWorld Soul.\\nGnostic Teaching.\\nGod is Helios, Horus, Osiris, Dionysus\\nand Apollo the Dispenser of Seasons and\\nTimes, of winds and showers, handler of\\nthe reins of the dawn and star-spangled\\nnight. Lord of the stars and their shin-\\ning.\\nDelphic Oracle.", "height": "3545", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3593", "width": "2452", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "Wtet is Aban?", "height": "3556", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3576", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "wabat ia m an?\\nThe breath needed a form; the Fathers\\ngave it.\\nThe breath needed a gross body; the\\nearth moulded it.\\nThe breath needed the spirit of life the\\nsolar Lhas breathed it into its form.\\nThe breath needed a mirror of the body.\\n44 We give it otir own, said the Dhyanis.\\nThe breath needed a vehicle of desires.\\nIt has it, said the drainer of waters.\\nThe breath needed a mind to embrace the\\nUniverse. We cannot give that, said\\nthe Fathers.\\nI never had it, said the spirit of the\\nEarth.\\nThe form would be consumed were I to\\ngive it mine, said the great Fire.\\nArchaic Hindoo Hymn.", "height": "3560", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "g2 Hnswerg ot tbe Mqzb*\\nAnd He said, He, the Gods: We will\\nmake Adam, in-the-shadow-of-us.\\nAdam is an Egyptian hieroglyphic enclos-\\ning three meanings\\ni st. The human race, the man formed\\nabstractively by the assemblage of all\\nmen, universal man.\\n2d. It is the sign of an aggregation of\\nhomogeneous and indestructible parts.\\n3d. Note that when Moses speaks of God\\nhe makes the noun plural and the verb\\nsingular; when he speaks of Adam (the\\nshadow of God) he makes the noun singu-\\nlar and uses a plural verb. The hiero-\\nglyphic root of the word Adam is\\ncompounded of the sign of unity with the\\nsign of divisibility or the development of\\nprogressive power to Infinity. It is the\\nEgyptian numeral 10 carried to illimit-\\nable power by means of a collective sign.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094Fabre d* Olivet s First Ten Chapters\\nof Genesis.", "height": "3595", "width": "2395", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "Mbat ie /iDan? 23\\nIn the eternal day, before the days were,\\nthe Almighty created Free-will in the two\\ngreat spirits Ormuzd and Ahriman. And\\nthese two came before the throne of the\\nAlmighty and spoke to Him, saying:\\nThou hast shown Thyself of Almighti-\\nness to make lis free; now, therefore, to\\nbe free is to act: how should we be idle?\\nAnd the Lord said to them: The ele-\\nments are in your hands.\\nAnd they answered and said: We will\\nmake the world.\\nAnd the Lord said: One of you is dark\\nand one of you bright, and ye will con-\\ntend each against each, and your work\\nwill be evil. Ormuzd will put pleasure\\ninto that which he does, and Ahriman\\nwill put pain.\\nAnd Ahriman said: The pain will over-\\nbear the pleasure.\\nAnd the Lord said to Ahriman: Why\\ndost thou work against Ormuzd?", "height": "3550", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "2 4 Bnswetg of tbe Uqcs.\\nAnd Ahriman said I know not; Thou\\nhast made me.\\nAnd the Lord said: I know why I have\\nmade thee, but thou knowest not.\\nAnd the two went forth from the Lord\\nand made the world.\\nTennyson.\\nThis body is without intelligence like a\\ncart by whom has this body been made\\nintelligent, and who is the driver of it?\\nHe who is standing above, passionless\\namidst the objects of the world; endless,\\nimperishable, unborn and independent it\\nis Brahma that has made this body intelli-\\ngent and is the driver of it.\\nHow could Brahma be moved to do this?\\nPrazapati stood alone, in the beginning;\\nhe had no happiness when alone, and\\nmeditating upon himself he created\\nmany creatures. He looked upon them\\nand saw that they were like stone and he", "height": "3563", "width": "2395", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "Mbat is /flftan? 25\\nentered into them that they might awake.\\nHe who is in the fire and he who is in the\\nheat and he who is in the sun are all one\\nand the same.\\nUpanishads.\\nThere are seven worlds one empyrean is\\nfirst after this three ethereal and three\\nmaterial, the last of which is the ter-\\nrestrial and contains matter, and is called\\nThe Hater of Life.\\nOld Chaldaic Doctrine.\\nAs Brahma is to the world, its eternal\\nand omnipresent cause, so is the self to\\nthe ego.\\nVedanta.\\nAs is God, so is the Universe. As is the\\nCreator the supernal man, so is the created\\nthe inferior man as macrocosm, so mi-\\ncrocosm as eternity, so life.\\nKabbala.", "height": "3491", "width": "2258", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "26 answers of tbe ages.\\nMaterial evolution represents the mani-\\nfestation of God in matter; spiritual evo-\\nlution represents the elaboration of\\nconscience in the individual and his\\nattempt to reunite with the Divine Spirit\\nfrom which he emanated. Material evo-\\nlution conducts insensibly to spiritual\\nevolution, and passes from the without to\\nthe within,\\nDoctrine of Pythagoras.\\nMan reduced to his ultimate or simplest\\nexistence is a divine thought; reduce\\nyourself to that simplicity or root-exist-\\nence, and you are in God.\\nEckhardt\\nLift thy head, O disciple dost thou see\\none or many lights above thee burning in\\nthe midnight sky?\\nI perceive one flame, O Master; I see\\ncountless undetached sparks shining in it.", "height": "3523", "width": "2463", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "Wbat ig /Pan? 27\\nThou sayest well and now look around\\nand into thyself that light which burns\\ninside thee, dost thou feel it different in\\nany wise from the light that shines in thy\\nbrother man?\\nIt is in no wise different, though the outer\\ngarments delude the ignorant into saying\\nthy soul and my soul.\\nBuddhist Catechism.\\nAll things are generated from one fire;\\nand this fire was at first intellectual for\\nthe first creation was of mind and not of\\nworks.\\nZoroaster.\\nThe imperishable Ashvatta tree is with\\nroot above and branches below, and the\\nsacred hymns are the leaves thereof: who\\nknows this is a knower of knowledge.\\nUpwards and downwards tend its\\nbranches, expanded by the potencies.", "height": "3478", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "28 Hnswers of tbe Eges*\\nThe sense-objects are its sprouts. Down-\\nwards, too, the roots are stretched, con-\\nstraining to action in the world of men,\\nwhere neither its form is comprehended,\\nnor its end, nor its beginning, nor its sup-\\nport. Having cut with the firm sword of\\ndetachment this Ashvatta tree, with its\\novergrown roots, then should the disciple\\nsearch out that supreme whither they who\\ncome never return again, for now is he\\ncome to that Primal Being, whence the\\nevolution of old was emanated.\\nBhaga vad- Git a\\nThe Heaven is my Father my family is\\nall the celestial environment. My\\nMother is the great earth for the Father\\nfructifies the bosom of her who is both\\nHis wife and His sister.\\nVedic Hymn.", "height": "3523", "width": "2395", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "Mbat is flDan? 29\\nThe world is made not only by God, but\\nof God. Look at the spider who with the\\nutmost intelligence draws the thread of its\\nwonderful net out of its own body.\\nUpanishads.\\nNature is an organism in which all things\\nharmonize and sympathize with each\\nother; one influence, one breath, one\\nharmony, one tune, one metal, one fruit.\\nParacelsus.\\nThe breath becomes a stone the stone, a\\nplant; the plant, an animal; the animal,\\na man; the man, a spirit; the spirit, a\\ngod each entity must have won for itself\\nthe right of becoming divine through self-\\nexperience.\\nKabbalistic Teaching.\\nThe created human spirit, having turned\\naway from the fullness of the divine life,", "height": "3501", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "3\u00c2\u00b0 answers of tbe Uqcs\\nwas placed in a material environment,\\nbut is free to choose between the good\\nand the bad.\\nOrigen.\\nAs souls fall from sphere to sphere, they\\nare clothed with a heavier and heavier\\nenvelope. In each life they acquire a\\nnew corporeal sense and their vital energy\\nincreases, but as their bodies grow more\\ndense they lose more and more the\\nmemory of celestial origin. This is the\\nPall of Man more and more the slave of\\nmatter, more and more intoxicated by\\nlife, the deeper they plunge into the\\nregions of sorrow, of love, of death.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094Hermes Trismegistus.\\nMan s nature is septenary:\\nI. The Ineffable. V. Soul (Psyche).\\nII. Being. VI. Nature.\\nIII. Life. VII. Body.\\nIV. Intellect. -Proclus.", "height": "3555", "width": "2508", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "TOUbat is flftan? 31\\nThe great septenary which embraces the\\nuniverse, vibrates not only in the seven\\ncolors of the rainbow, in the seven notes\\nof the gamut it also manifests itself in\\nthe constitution of man, who is triple by\\nessence, but septuple by his evolution.\\nThe septenary constitution of man is found\\nthus in the Kabbala\\nMaterial body.\\nVital force.\\nAstral body.\\nAnimal soul.\\nRational soul.\\nSpiritual soul.\\nDivine spirit.\\nSchurre.\\nListen to the lyre of seven strings the\\nlyre of God it vibrates within you.\\nOrphic Fragment", "height": "3485", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3520", "width": "2452", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "TKRbat is flDeant bg tbe ZvtniW", "height": "3484", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3516", "width": "2452", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "TKabat ia fl eant by the trinity?\\nThe old is the new and the new is the old.\\nThe Father is in the Son and the Son is in\\nthe Father. Unity is divided into three\\nand Trinity is reunited in unity.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094Plato.\\nThe number III. reigns in all parts of the\\nUniverse, and the I. is its principle.\\nZoroaster.\\nThe monad, I. represents the essence of\\nGod.\\nThe dyad, II., His generative and repro-\\nductive faculty.\\nThe triad, III., or law of the ternary, is\\nthe constitutive law of things and the true\\nkey of life.\\nPythagoras.\\n35", "height": "3495", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "36 answers of tbe Hges+\\nAll things are supplied from the bosom of\\nthe triad; know ye that all things bow\\nbefore the three supernal.\\nDamasius.\\nIn each world shineth forth the Triad,\\nover which the monad or spirit ruleth;\\nhence the same law of the triune is\\nimposed upon man.\\nChaldaic Oracle.\\nGod is threefold.\\nBrahma the Unfolder.\\nVishnu the Pervader.\\nSiva the Powerful.\\nHindoo Trinity.\\nThe microcosm, man, is by his nature\\nternary, spirit soul body the image and\\nthe mirror of the macrocosm universe\\nthe divine, human, and natural world,\\nwhich is itself the organ of ineffable God,\\nof absolute spirit, which is by its nature", "height": "3550", "width": "2462", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "Mbat is meant bs tbe TErinftg? 37\\nFather, Mother, Son, Essence, Substance\\nand Life. Therefore man, the image of\\nGod, can become His living word.\\nSchurre.\\nHe who is incessantly creating the uni-\\nverse is triple. He is Brahma, the\\nFather; He is Maja, the Mother; He is\\nVishnu, the Son, essence, substance and\\nlife. Each encloses the other two, and\\nall three are one in the ineffable.\\nUpanishads.\\nGod the Father Nara the eternal\\nmasculine; God the Mother Nari the\\neternal feminine God the Son Viradi\\nthe creating word or the intellectual prin-\\nciple. Corresponding to these is Brahma,\\nthe spirit, the divine world, Siva, the\\nbody, the natural world, and Vishnu, the\\nsoul, the human world. This is the", "height": "3487", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "3* answers of tbe Mqcs.\\ndouble Trinity, the Trinity of God and\\nthe Trinity of the Universe.\\nIndian Purana.\\nWhat are the three things said to be\\ncontemporaneous in the dawning soul?\\nGod, Light, Liberty.\\nDruidic Triad.\\nWhen man has attained the highest spirit-\\nual reach, God has brought forth His Son\\nevolved His holy spirit.\\nEckhardt.\\nThe ternary human and the divine monad\\nconstitute the sacred tetrad.\\nMan does not realize his own unity\\nexcept in a relative manner, for his will\\nwhich acts on all his being cannot, how-\\never, act simultaneously and fully on his\\nthree organs; that is, on soul, intellect,\\nand instinct. So the Universe and God\\nhimself appear to man successively and", "height": "3523", "width": "2395", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "TKHbat is ZlDeant bs tbe XTrinftg? 39\\nby turns reflected in these three mirrors.\\nFirst, seen through instinct and the\\nkaleidoscope of the senses, God is multiple\\nand infinite as are His manifestations;\\nfrom this springs polytheism, where the\\nnumber of gods is not limited.\\nSecond, seen through the intellect, God\\nis double, that is, spirit and matter from\\nthis springs dualism as we find it in\\nZoroaster and the Manichaeans.\\nThird, seen through the soul, God is\\ntriple, that is, spirit, soul and body in all\\nthe manifestations of the universe. From\\nthis spring the trinitarian religions; the\\nBrahmanic and Christian.\\nFourth, conceived by the will, which\\ncollects the whole, God is one. Here is\\nHermetic monotheism as taught by\\nMoses. Here there is no more personifi-\\ncation, no more incarnation. We are\\nabove the visible and have entered into\\nthe absolute. Schurre.", "height": "3499", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "4Q answers of tbe Uqcs.\\nMan is triple like the divinity he reflects\\nintelligence, sonl and body. If the soul\\nunites itself to the intelligence, it attains\\nto wisdom and peace if the soul dwells\\nuncertain between intelligence and body,\\nit is dominated by passion and moves in a\\nfatal circle if the soul abandons herself\\nto the body she falls into unreason and\\ntemporary death.\\nBhagavad-Gita.\\nThe essential principles are in the four\\nfirst numbers. The infinite varieties of\\nbeings which compose the universe are\\nproduced by the combinations of the\\nthree primordial forces, Matter, Soul,\\nSpirit. Seven is composed of three and\\nfour, the triad and the tetrad, man and\\nGod. Seven represents a law of evolu-\\ntion. Ten is the addition of the monad,\\ndyad, triad, and tetrad, and is the perfect\\nnumber by excellence, for it represents", "height": "3523", "width": "2395", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "Wbat is /IDeant bs tbe Urinitg? 41.\\nall the principles of divinity evolved and\\nreunited in a new unity which is the\\nsacred decade.\\nPythagoras 9 Doctrine of Numbers.\\nThe Trinity is always completed by and\\nfinds its realization in the quaternary.\\nKabbala.", "height": "3504", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3523", "width": "2395", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "Wbat is Soul?", "height": "3483", "width": "2286", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3523", "width": "2484", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "Mbat ia Soul?\\nThe soul a vast capacity for God.\\nOur life is God s life in us.\\nDuns Scotus.\\nThe soul may be defined as an individual\\nthat, feeling, acts.\\nRosmini.\\nOur souls are paths on which we travel to\\ncome to God for they have of old come\\nforth from Him.\\nPistis Sophia.\\nSoul is a continuous entity which was in\\nexistence before, and remains in exist-\\nence after this physical life.\\nSinnett s Growth of the Soul", "height": "3470", "width": "2297", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "46 answers of tbe ages*\\nYour own soul is omniscient; you have\\nonly to get into union with it to share its\\nknowledge.\\nHindoo Saying.\\nWhat is increate abides in thee.\\nVoice of the Silence.\\nWhat is intuition? What thy soul know-\\neth of old in other lives. It is inborn\\nexperience.\\nBuddhist Teaching.\\nThe one divine eye of the soul is better\\nworth training than ten thousand cor-\\nporeal eyes.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094Plato.\\nThou bearest within thyself a sublime\\nsoul that thou dost not know; for God\\nresides in the interior of every man, but\\nfew know how to find Him.\\nBhagavad-Gita.", "height": "3497", "width": "2395", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "TOlbat is Som? 47\\nThe fourth spirit which strives in a man\\nis the highest of all the uncreate, the\\ngodlike spirit. It is a pure manifestation\\nof divine truth which raises the natural\\nman above sense, self, visions and powers,\\nand lands him in the Divine Presence.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094Tauler.\\nSpirit is the only reality; matter is but\\nthe inferior, changing, ephemeral expres-\\nsion of spirit, its dynamics in space and\\ntime.\\nSchurre.\\nWe know more of mind than we do of\\nbody. The immaterial world is a firmer\\nreality than the material.\\nHuxley.\\nNature is the infinite illusion of our\\nsenses. Spirit alone is unchangeable,\\nthat alone is no illusion.\\nSchopenhauer.", "height": "3492", "width": "2283", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "48 answers of tfoe Bges,\\nMatter is the vehicle for the manifestation\\nof soul on this plane of existence, and soul\\nis the vehicle, on a higher plane, of the\\nmanifestation of spirit, and these three\\nare a trinity synchronized by life which\\npervades them all.\\nBrahmanic Doctrine.\\nIn like manner as God created the world\\nin six days and rested on the seventh, so\\nthe soul by six successive illuminations\\nreaches the repose of divine contempla-\\ntion. Thus the soul has six potentialities\\nthe senses, the instinct, the imagina-\\ntion, intellect, intelligence and spirit.\\nThese faculties formed in us by nature,\\ndeformed by sin, reformed by grace, must\\nbe purified by justice, trained by science,\\nand perfected by wisdom.\\nSt Bonaventura.", "height": "3512", "width": "2455", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "TOlbat is Soul? 49\\nWhat is thy mystery, O Psyche?\\nI am not of this world, and I go else-\\nwhere-tmt where? -Pythagoras\\nThe celestial history of the Psyche as\\ntaught by Pythagoras is that in order to\\nbecome what she is in actual humanity it\\nis necessary that she shall have traveled\\nall the kingdoms of nature, to have scaled\\nthe ladder of being by a series of innu-\\nmerable existences. She has been blind\\nand indistinct force in the mineral indi-\\nvidualized in the plant polarized in the\\nsensibility and instinct of animals, has\\ntended toward the conscious world in this\\nslow elaboration. As the monad mounts\\nthe series of organisms, polarized force be-\\ncomes sensible; sensibility becomes in-\\nstinct; instinct becomes intelligence, and\\nthe soul grows more independent of the\\nbody, more capable of leading a free ex-\\nistence.", "height": "3499", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "5\u00c2\u00b0 answers of tbe Hges\u00c2\u00bb\\nThe names for soul have been collected\\nfrom civilized and uncivilized races of\\nman. Some of these names mean\\nbreath, some heart, blood, the\\npupil of the eye. Some races have called\\nthe soul a bird caged in the body and\\nwinged for flight. Some have called\\nit the shadow of the body because it is\\nsomething perceptible, but immaterial\\nand not to be grasped. The Greeks called\\nit Psyche, butterfly, because the butter-\\nfly emerges winged from its chrysalis.\\nOne tribe has called the soul perfume.\\nIs not a man s soul, they say, what\\nthe fragrance is to the flower? Plato\\nsaid the soul was like harmonious music\\ndrawn from the lyre we call body.\\nAll peoples have had a name for soul, and\\nit has always been something different\\nfrom the body but closely allied to it and\\nhard at work in it.\\nMax Mutter.", "height": "3553", "width": "2476", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "m\\\\mt is SouH 5*\\nThe soul is a veiled light; this light is\\ntriple, its three parts are:\\nPure Spirit.\\nIntellect.\\nPlastic Mediator.\\nThe plastic mediator is immortal by re-\\nnewal of itself through the destruction of\\nforms. The intellect is immortal through\\nthe evolution of ideas.\\nPure spirit is immortal without forgetful-\\nness and without destruction.\\nKabbala.\\nSpirit is independent of matter in its\\nessence, but defective in being dependent\\non matter for its perfection.\\nPersian Desatir.\\nIf the soul feels itself, it is in its essence\\nfeeling, since it is only feeling that is felt\\nby itself (per se) and if bodies are felt by", "height": "3504", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "52 Hnswerg ot tbe ages.\\nthe soul and the soul is felt by itself, the\\nsoul is the principle of feeling.\\nRostninl\\nThe intellect is developed only for earthly\\nthings and by earthly things.\\nDu Prel\\nNothing is superior to the human mind\\nsave Him alone who made it.\\nSt Bonaventura.\\nThe human soul, the individuality, is im-\\nmortal by its essence. Its development\\ntakes place in a descending and ascending\\nscale by alternate existences, spiritual and\\ncorporeal. Reincarnation is the law of the\\nsouVs evolution. Perfection reached, it\\nescapes from reincarnation and returns\\nto spirit, to God in the plenitude of its\\nconsciousness.\\nSchurre.", "height": "3549", "width": "2395", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "Wbat is Soul? 53\\nSeek that which touches the soul all is\\nin that, for it is that which we are.\\nThere is another thing than mind, and it\\nis not mind that allies us to the universe.\\nIt is time that we ceased to confuse mind\\nwith soul. There are in man many\\nmore fruitful, more profound, more inter-\\nesting regions than those of reason and\\nintelligence.\\nMaeterlinck.\\nThe soul aspires to the spirit, and the\\nspirit takes thought for the soul.\\nGnostic Saying.\\nThe intellective soul of man, therefore,\\noriginally sprang from the womb of the\\nsensitive soul and was a virtue of it but\\nthis virtue became the principal act and\\nacquired immortality as soon as it rose to", "height": "3504", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "54 Hngwers of tbe Bges,\\nuniversal being, because this is altogether\\nimperishable, unmodifiable and eternal.\\nCardinal Rosminl\\nThe two most important properties of soul\\nare simplicity and immortality.\\nRosmini.\\nWill is the essence of personality.\\nThe first act of the human soul is intelli-\\ngence, and intelligence is made for truth.\\nThe second act is will, and will is made\\nfor virtue.\\nThe third act is the will s adherence to the\\ntruth, or the soul s loving all things ac-\\ncording to their truth.\\nThe soul naturally tends to its own per-\\nfection. The perfection of soul consists\\nin the full vision of truth, the full exercise\\nof virtue, and the full attainment of\\nhappiness.\\nRosmini.", "height": "3523", "width": "2395", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "TOat fg som? 55\\nSince we are not bodies, but souls resident\\nin bodies and capable of dwelling in them\\nin such a manner as to approximate very\\nnearly to the mode in which the soul of\\nthe universe inhabits the whole body of\\nthe world. This, however, consists in\\nbeing free from impulsion, in not yielding\\nto externally-acceding pleasures or visible\\nobjects and in not being disturbed at any\\nsevere occurrence.\\nPlotinus.", "height": "3504", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3500", "width": "2452", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "TOlbat is IRigbt %Mt\\\\Ql", "height": "3487", "width": "2293", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3503", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "TClbat 10 IRigbt Hiving?\\nLiberty and Duty are inseparable terms.\\nIf I ought, I can.\\nKant\\nDisciple: The cloak of darkness is upon\\nthe deep of matter; within its folds I\\nstruggle. A shadow moveth, creeping\\nlike the stretching serpent s coils.\\nMaster It is the shadow of thyself outside\\nthe Path, cast in the darkness of thy sins.\\nVoice of the Silence.\\nIn order to comprehend moral things we\\nmust see them done not only under our\\neyes, but in ourselves. The ego compre-\\nhends only what it produces.\\nRecejac.\\n59", "height": "3495", "width": "2297", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "60 Hnswers of tbe Bges.\\nOn what is the whole of morality based?\\nTo live nobly and rightly in these five\\nrelations of life\\nSovereign and Subject.\\nParent and Child.\\nHusband and Wife.\\nElder and Younger.\\nBrother and Brother.\\nFriend and Friend.\\nTo each of these belongs appropriate con-\\nduct. For a universal love of mankind\\nwithout distinction of persons gives more\\nto him to whom less is due and less to\\nhim to whom more is due.\\nConfucius 1 Law of Life.\\nCourage and bravery are words of a great\\nsound and seem to signify an heroic\\nspirit; but yet humility, which seems to\\nbe the lowest, meanest part of devotion, is\\na more certain argument of a noble and\\ncourageous mind. Humility contends", "height": "3523", "width": "2476", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "HClbat is TRiQbt XivnttQ? 61\\nwith greater enemies, is more constantly\\nengaged, more violently assaulted, bears\\nmore, suffers more, and requires greater\\ncourage to support itself than any instance\\nof worldly bravery.\\nLaw s Serious Call to a Devout\\nLife. 1690.\\nEvery action is right, which in presence\\nof a lower principle follows a higher\\nevery action is wrong, which in presence\\nof a higher principle follows a lower.\\nMartineau.\\nThe work of initiation is to render oneself\\nas like to God as possible, as unlike to\\nmatter as possible by becoming as active\\nas He and not as passive as It.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094Pythagoras.\\nThe best perfection of a religious man is\\nto do common things in a perfect way. A", "height": "3468", "width": "2299", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "62 Hnswers of tbe Sfleg,\\nconstant fidelity in small things is a great\\nand heroic virtue.\\nBonaventura.\\nThose who are humiliated and yet do not\\nhumiliate those who hear themselves put\\nto scorn and yet answer not those who do\\nall for love and accept their afflictions\\nwith joy, of them the scripture speaks\\nwhen it says, The friends of God shine\\nas a sun in His splendor/\\nTalmud.\\nWhat are the three das which must be\\nfulfilled before any higher life can be\\nhoped for?\\nDamyatta Subdue yourselves, subdue\\nthe passions of the senses, subdue pride,\\nsubdue self-will.\\nDatta Give of your goods, give of your-\\nself, be liberal, be charitable.\\nDayadhoam Give pity to all who de-", "height": "3523", "width": "2395", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "TPKbat is TRtflbt %ivir\\\\Ql 6 3\\nserve pity, be compassionate, be merci-\\nful.\\nVedanta.\\nIf thou seekest fame, or ease, or pleasure,\\nor aught for thyself, the image of that\\nthing thou seekest will come and cling to\\nthee and thou wilt have to carry it about\\nand the images and powers which thou hast\\nthus invoked will gather and form a new\\nbody, clamoring for sustenance and satis-\\nfaction. And if thou art not able to dis-\\ncard this image now thou wilt not be able\\nto discard that body then, but wilt have to\\ncarry it about. Beware then lest it\\nbecome thy grave and thy prison instead\\nof thy winged abode and palace of joy.\\nEdward Carpenter.\\nBy oneself the evil is done by oneself one\\nsuffers by oneself evil is left undone by\\noneself one is purified purity and impur-", "height": "3474", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "H answers of tbe ages,\\nity belong to oneself; no one can purify\\nanother.\\nDhamma-pada.\\nTo wait upon God and keep silent is a\\ngreat, nay the greatest of all works.\\nSt. Bernard.\\nIf thou wish to convince thy brother of thy\\nsincerity, come to his rescue when he has\\nno one to stand by him. If thou fail to do\\nthis, then dost thou neglect the example\\nof thy Lord.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094Tauler.\\nNow I will teach thee the way of peace\\nand true liberty.\\nBe desirous to do the will of another\\nrather than thine own.\\nChoose always to have less rather than\\nmore.\\nSeek always the lowest place and to be\\nbeneath every one.", "height": "3509", "width": "2395", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "XPSlbat is TRtgbt Xtvtng? 65\\nWish always and pray that the will of God\\nbe fulfilled in thee.\\nA Kempis.\\nRenounce the whole world and all the\\nmatter therein. He who liveth in his\\nown cares and in his own associations\\namasses ever fresh matter, for the associ-\\nations of this world are exceedingly\\nmaterial and ever add fresh matter to that\\nmatter which is already in you.\\nRenounce murmuring, that ye be worthy\\nof the mysteries of Light.\\nRenounce boasting renounce garrul-\\nity renounce pitilessness re-\\nnounce all ignorance renounce\\natheism, that ye escape the frost and hail\\nof outer darkness. Be ye loving, be ye\\ngentle, be ye merciful, be ye righteous,\\nfor these are the boundary marks of the\\npaths of them that are worthy.\\nPistis Sophia.", "height": "3480", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "66 answers ot tbe Ugcs.\\nThe higher self can alone redeem the per-\\nsonality from sin and suffering by a cruci-\\nfixion of the desires and tendencies that\\nis, by subduing the lower self, thus wak-\\ning consciousness to the Christ within us,\\nthe higher self.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094SitmetVs Growth of the Soul\\nWhen the knowledge of God is lost, it is\\nreplaced in the world by virtue when the\\nknowledge of virtue is lost, men replace it\\nby benevolence; when the knowledge of\\nbenevolence is lost, men replace it by\\nintegrity; when the knowledge of integ-\\nrity is lost, men replace it by propriety,\\nwhich is ever only the counterfeit of sin-\\ncerity and truth.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094Lao-Tsze. 600 B. C.\\nAt most times an act is neither good nor\\nbad all depends on the spirit in which it\\nis accomplished. _^", "height": "3521", "width": "2452", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "TKIlbat is TRtQbt Xtvtng? 67\\nWill, when strength fails, has duties\\nstilL -Kant.\\nBear your cross; never drag it.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094St. Theresa.\\nAct from a maxim at all times fit for law\\nuniversal.\\nKant\\nThere are three steps in the science of\\nChristian perfection, which is in other\\nterms called mysticism. The first step is\\nto live the purgative life, the second is the\\nilluminative life, the last is the unitive life\\nwhich joins the soul to God to uncreated\\nGood. These three phases of ascetic\\nexistence are again subdivided into innu-\\nmerable steps, St. Bonaventura calls\\nthem ladders, St. Theresa calls them\\ndwellings/ St. Angelo, stairs. They\\nvary in length and number with the tern-", "height": "3491", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "68 answers of tbe ages*\\nperament of those who pass over them.\\nThis itinerary of the soul toward God is at\\nfirst over steep and break-neck paths,\\nthrough thickets and over precipices\u00e2\u0080\u0094 these\\nare the roads of the purgative life. Next\\ncome narrow paths, moving up by easy\\nand accessible terraces and slopes, and\\nthese are the roads of the illuminative\\nlife. At last a wide and level space\\nrather than a road, over which, when the\\nsoul has passed, it loses itself in eternal\\nlove and accomplishes the unitive life\\nthe death of the ego and the life of God.\\nHuysmans.\\nA man of true self-abandonment must be\\nunbuilt from the creature, inbuilt with\\nChrist, and overbuilt by the Godhead.\\nSuso. 14th Century.\\nBy what did Pythagoras recognize the un-\\napparent manners of the soul?", "height": "3510", "width": "2484", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "Mbat is TRtgbt Xivfnfl? 6 9\\nI. By seasonable or unseasonable laugh-\\nter, and by seasonable or unseasonable\\nsilence or speech.\\nII. By the manner of spending leisure\\ntime.\\nIII. Whether a man held his opinions\\nmodestly.\\nIV. Whether he could follow philosophic\\nteaching with rapidity and perspicuity.\\nV. Whether he was temperate and gentle\\nin all he said.\\nVI. Whether he walked in unfrequented\\npaths.\\nVII. Whether he sacrificed and adored,\\nunshod.\\nA life without examination is not worth\\nliving.\\nApology of Socrates.\\nLearn to ascend into thyself.\\nPorphyry.", "height": "3485", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "7Q answers of tbe Sges\u00c2\u00bb\\nAnd the Jews came to the holy Issa ask-\\ning:\\nWhere shall we worship and praise otir\\nheavenly Father, seeing our enemies have\\nrazed our temple to the ground and carried\\naway our sacred vessels?\\nAnd the holy Issa made answer\\nThe human heart is the true temple of\\nGod enter ye into your temples and illu-\\nmine them with good thoughts. Your\\nsacred vessels they are your hands and\\nyour eyes; do I see that which is agree-\\nable to God, doing good to your neighbor,\\nbut first embellish wherein dwells He who\\ngave you life.\\nLegend of Holy Issa. Translated\\nfrom a Thibetan Manuscript\\nLet thy mind follow after God, and let thy\\nsoul follow thy mind, and let the body be\\nsubservient to the soul. As far as may", "height": "3506", "width": "2449", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "Mbat i0 TRfQbt Xiving? n\\nbe, the pure body serving the pure soul\\nfor when the body is defiled by the emo-\\ntions of the soul the defilement reacts on\\nthe soul itself.\\nPorphyry.\\nTo know what exists really one must cul-\\ntivate silence with oneself. For it is in\\nsilence that the eternal and unexpected\\nflowers open which change their form and\\ncolor according to the soul in which they\\ngrow. Souls are weighed in silence as\\ngold and silver are weighed in pure\\nwater.\\nMaeterlinck.\\nThrough intelligence one reaches many\\nthings which are superior to intelligence\\nbut intuitions come better by the quies-\\ncence of thought than by thought itself.\\nPorphyry.", "height": "3498", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "72 answers of tbe Bges*\\nThou shalt not let thy senses make a\\nplayground of thy mind.\\nVoice of the Silence.\\nYe are as holy as ye will to be holy.\\nRuysbroeck.\\nGod Himself has nothing more sacred\\nthan the laws of holiness and moral per-\\nfection.\\nRecejac.\\nThe Brahmin s rule of conduct is that\\ndeath or destruction of the I has been\\nand always will be the price which we\\nmust pay in order to attain to God. Call\\nit renunciation, call it stoicism, call it\\ndetachment, call it death, the fact is the\\nsame that only he who dies to himself\\nfinds God.\\nMozumdar.", "height": "3510", "width": "2395", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "Wbat is TRfgbt Xtvtng? 73\\nThere are three primal steps before a\\nhuman being can realize unusual powers.\\nFirst, the hushing of the objective mind\\nor control of the sense realm second, the\\nbanishing from the mind of the conscious-\\nness of sex; \u00e2\u0080\u009ethird, the training of the\\nwill.\\nThe Disciple: Shall I be permitted one\\nday to breathe the odor of the rose of Isis\\nand see the light of Osiris?\\nThe Priests: That depends not on us.\\nThe truth is not given one finds it oneself\\nor one finds it never. We can not make\\nyou an adept you must become it your-\\nself. The lotus grows beneath the Nile\\na long time before it blooms. We can\\nnot hasten the blossoming of the divine\\nflower; if it should come, it will come.\\nWork and pray.\\nEgyptian Hieroglyphic Writing.", "height": "3494", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "74 answers of tbe Bges,\\nKnow thyself and thou shalt know God\\nthe universe and the gods.\\nTranscription over the Temple at\\nDelphi. 600 B. C.\\nEarth said to me\\nFatality.\\nHeaven said:\\nProvidence.\\nHumanity said:\\nFolly, sorrow, slavery.\\nThe inward voice said:\\nLiberty.\\nPythagoras.\\nTo wait upon God and keep silent is a\\ngreat, nay, the greatest of all works.\\nSt Bernard.\\nFor the way we love what we believe to\\nbe a truth is of more importance than that\\ntruth itself.\\nMaeterlinck.", "height": "3513", "width": "2395", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "Mbat is TRigbt Xiving? 75\\nLearn to separate head-learning from\\nsoul-wisdom.\\nVoice of the Silence.\\nForsake all and thou shalt find all. Fore-\\ngo desire and thou shalt find rest in\\nthis short word is included all perfection.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094A Kempis.\\nAll that we are is the result of what we\\nhave thought. It is founded on our\\nthoughts it is made up of our thoughts.\\nDhamma pada.\\nOur real destiny lies in our conception of\\nlife, in the final balance established be-\\ntween the insoluble questions of heaven\\nand the uncertain responses of the soul.\\nMaeterlinck.\\nFor I do nothing but go about persuading\\nyou, both young and old, not to let your\\nfirst thought be for your bodies or your", "height": "3485", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "76 answers of tbe ages,\\npossessions nor to care for anything so\\nearnestly as for your soul that it may\\nattain to the highest virtue and maintain-\\ning that not from possessions does virtue\\ncome, but that from virtue do possessions\\nand all other good things, both private\\nand public, come to man.\\nApology of Socrates.\\nThere are four classes of virtues:\\nThe political or practical, pertaining to\\nthe gross body.\\nThe purifying virtues, pertaining to the\\nsubtle body.\\nThe intellectual or spiritual, pertaining to\\nthe causal body.\\nThe contemplative, to the supreme at-one-\\nment or union with God.\\nPorphyry.\\nThe organ of vision must first render itself\\nanalogous and like to the object that it", "height": "3499", "width": "2454", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "Wbat is TRtQbt %ix ir\\\\Q 77\\ncontemplates. The eye could never have\\nperceived the sun if it had not first taken\\nthe form of the stm, nor can the soul\\nknow beauty till it becomes beautiful in\\nitself. All men must begin by making\\nthemselves beautiful and divine in order\\nto obtain a view of the beautiful and of\\ndivinity.\\nPlotinus.\\nUnless Heaven be within a person, noth-\\ning of the heaven that is out of him can\\nenter into him and be received.\\nSwedenborg.\\nThe self of matter and the self of\\nspirit can never meet one of the twain\\nmust disappear there is no place for\\nboth,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094Voice of the Silence.", "height": "3482", "width": "2291", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "78 answers of tbe Mqcs.\\nHe to whom the eternal word speaketh is\\ndelivered from many an opinion.\\nA Kempis.\\nLove is greater than work, knowledge or\\ndevotions, because it is its own end. Love\\nis its own reward.\\nNarada Sutra.\\nThe quality of the life of every one is the\\nsame as the quality of his love.\\nSwedenborg.\\nDisciples may be likened to the strings of\\nthe soul-echoing vina, mankind to its\\nsounding board the hand that sweeps it\\nis the tuneful breath of the great World-\\nSoul. The string that fails to answer in\\nharmony with all the others breaks and is\\ncast away. Hast thou attuned thy being\\nto humanity s great pain?\\nVoice of the Silence.", "height": "3492", "width": "2395", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "TOlbat is TRiQbt Xivtng? 79\\nCanst thou destroy divine compassion?\\nCompassion is no attribute it is the law\\nof laws, eternal harmony, Alaya s self, a\\nshoreless, universal essence, the light of\\neverlasting right and fitness of all things,\\nthe law of love eternal.\\nThe more thy soul unites with that which\\nis the more thou wilt become compassion\\nabsolute\\nVoice of the Silence.\\nThe right method of proceeding toward\\nthe doctrine of love is, beginning from\\nbeautiful objects here below, ever to be\\ngoing up higher, mounting from the\\nlove of one fair person to the love of\\ntwo, from the love of two to the love\\nof all from the love of beautiful persons\\nto the love of beautiful employments and\\nnext to the beautiful kinds of knowledge\\ntill it passes from degrees of knowledge to\\nthat knowledge which is the knowledge", "height": "3481", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "8o Hnswers of tbe Hges,\\nof nothing else save Absolute Beauty\\nitself, and knows that at length as it\\nreally is.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094Plato.\\nHatred ceases by Love.\\nAnger ceases by Love.\\nThe greedy are overcome by liberality.\\nThe liar, by truth.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094Dhamma-pada.\\nThe evils that we do our neighbor pursue\\nus as our shadows do our bodies.\\nThe works which have as their motive love\\nof our kind are those that weigh most in\\nthe celestial balance.\\nAs the earth feeds and supports those\\nwho crush it under foot, so should we\\nrender good for evil.\\nFall before the blows of the wicked like\\nthe sandal tree that perfumes the axe that\\nfelled it.", "height": "3488", "width": "2395", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "XKttbat is IRiQbt living? 81\\nHe only who is humble of mind and heart\\nis loved of God, and he who is loved of\\nGod has need of no other thing.\\nKrishna s Lesson on Mount Merou.\\nThe love to which all celestial loves refer\\nis love of God. The love to which all\\ninfernal loves refer is love of rule,\\ngrounded in love of self. These two are\\ndiametrically opposed.\\nSwedenborg.\\nAs a mother at the risk of her life watches\\nover her only child, so also let every one\\ncultivate a boundless friendship for all\\nbeings. Standing, walking, sitting or ly-\\ning, as long as one is awake let him devote\\nhimself to this mind. Living for others is\\nthe best in this world,\\nMatta Sutta.", "height": "3479", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "82 answers ot tbe ages.\\nAll ideas of duality, separateness or vari-\\nety prevent us from going toward the\\nabsolute.\\nSankara.\\nUnless Love and Wisdom invest and in-\\nvolve themselves in works and actions,\\nthey are only aerial things which pass and\\nperish they only become principles of\\nlife and remain with man when he does\\nthem.\\nSwedenborg.\\nHe who has realized the ethics of univer-\\nsal unity, the essence of Love, has lost\\nhimself in the universe, in everything and\\nall things. He breathes with the breath\\nof nature, he sees with the eye of the All,\\nhe thinks with the thoughts of every\\nbeing. He is the All.\\nUpanishads.", "height": "3513", "width": "2395", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "Wbat is IRfQbt Xivinp? 83\\nHow small soever your lamp be, never\\ngive away the oil which feeds it but\\nalways the flame which crowns it.\\nMaeterlinck.\\nMan s mind may be in spiritual light\\nalthough his will is not in spiritual heat.\\nWisdom does not produce Love it only\\nshows the way.\\nSwedenborg.\\nWhat distinguishes us from one another\\nis our varying relations with infinity.\\nMaeterlinck.\\nWhatever can be learnt without anguish\\nbelittles us.\\nThis is a world where there are many\\nthings to do and few things to know.\\nMaeterlinck.\\nBeware, my son, of self-incense. It is\\nthe most dangerous on account of its", "height": "3493", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "84 answers of tbe Uqcs.\\nagreeable intoxication. Profit by thine\\nown wisdom, but learn to respect the wis-\\ndom of thy fathers also; learn, oh, my\\nbeloved, that the light of Allah s truth\\nwill often penetrate an empty head more\\neasily than one too crammed with learn-\\ning.\\nBarrachus Hassan Aglu. An Arab\\nSage.\\nAct always so that you treat ail humanity,\\nwhether in your own person, whether in\\nthe person of another, as an end and\\nnever as a means.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094Kant.", "height": "3508", "width": "2477", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "Wlbat is Religion?", "height": "3479", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3507", "width": "2468", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "Mbat 10 IRcIiaion?\\nAs the occult student advances he will\\nfind all the popular religions and concep-\\ntions of Providence vindicated rather than\\nrefuted vindicated not as regards their\\nmaterialistic outlines, but as to their inner\\nsignificance and idea.\\nSinnett.\\nNothing is more legitimate than Faith,\\nalthough the truths that it proclaims are\\nabsolutely undemonstrable.\\nKant\\nThe highest spiritual truth is known only\\nto him who has transcended every ascent\\nof every holy height and has left behind\\nall divine lights and sounds and heavenly\\n87", "height": "3488", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "88 answers of the Hges*\\ndiscoursings, and has passed into that\\ndarkness where God truly is.\\nDionysus the Areopagite.\\nContemplation of the divine essence is the\\nnoblest exercise of man; it is the only-\\nmeans of attaining to the highest truth\\nand virtue.\\nPhilo the Jew*\\nReligious dogmas are only the dialectical\\ndevelopment of symbols which have\\ndawned in the souls of great mystics.\\nRecejac.\\nThe disciple said to the master: How\\nmay I attain to the heavenly life that I\\nmay see God and hear Him speak.\\nThe Master said: If thou couldst enter\\nfor a moment into that place where no\\ncreature dwelleth, there wouldst thou hear\\nwhat God speaketh.", "height": "3514", "width": "2484", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "Xfflbat is IReltQton? 8 9\\nThe disciple said Is that place near or far?\\nAnd the Master said That is within thy-\\nself and if thou couldst be silent for one\\nhour from all thy speaking and all thy\\ndoing, then wouldst thou hear the un-\\nspeakable words of God.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094Boehme. The Way to Christ\\nHow dost thou seek God?\\nThink purely.\\nSpeak purely.\\nAct purely.\\nFor excellence, worthiness,\\nBeneficence, goodness,\\nMust be comprehended.\\nMust be comprehended.\\nMust be comprehended.\\nOld Persian Liturgy.\\nWhat being is to becoming, that is truth\\nto faith.\\nPlato.", "height": "3478", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "90 answers of the Bges*\\nTrue religion is the essence of all doc-\\ntrines; the inner truth of all systems;\\ncreedless, nameless, untaught by priests,\\nit is the spirit it is not found in temple or\\nsynagogue. It is the summing up of the\\nwisdom of the Brahmin, the Buddhist, the\\nGreek, the Jew and the Christian.\\nGnosis or rational mysticism from all\\ntime is and has been the art of finding\\nGod in oneself by developing the occult\\ndepths and latent faculties of conscience.\\nSchurre.\\nReligion is a frame of mind, not a set of\\nopinions.\\nPlato.\\nThe Supreme Spirit in one of the sacred\\nbooks of the Hindoos says: Even those\\nwho worship idols, worship me.", "height": "3488", "width": "2395", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0104.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "TOlbat fg TReltQton? 91\\nGod helps man by grace, that divine fire\\nwhich the patriarchs waited for, which the\\nprophets predicted, which Jesus Christ\\nbrought with Him, which Paul preached,\\nwhich St. Augustine explained, which St.\\nBernard confirmed, which St. Thomas\\nAquinas sustained, which was maintained\\nby Popes Clement and Paul and experi-\\nenced by so many religious souls.\\nPascal\\nThe cement which unites the soul with the\\nspirit is love, and a strong love of the\\ndivine is, therefore, the highest good\\nattainable by mortal man.\\nParacelsus.\\nRama made known the road to the temple.\\nKrishna and Hermes gave us the keys.\\nOrpheus and Pythagoras showed us the\\ninside, and Jesus Christ held up for us the\\nHoly of Holies.\\nSchurrd.", "height": "3490", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0105.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "92 answers of tbe Bges,\\nA high and sincere morality should be,\\nwithout exception, sufficient to place the\\nheart in contact with God.\\nRecejac.\\nFetishism, Magic, Gnosis, Theurgy,\\nAsceticism, Alchemy, Ritualism, Spiritual-\\nism are the terrible degradations of mis-\\ntaken mysticism.\\nRecejac,\\nA truly divine man has been so made one\\nwith God that henceforth he does not\\nthink of God, nor look for God outside\\nhimself.\\nEckhardt.\\nThe true theme of all religion is not the\\nfuture life, but the higher life.\\nDa Prel\\nI believe there is in this universe a uni-\\nversal providence, by virtue of which\\neverything lives, vegetates and moves", "height": "3498", "width": "2395", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0106.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "Mbat is IReliQion? 93\\nand stands in perfection, and I tinder-\\nstand it in two ways one in the mode in\\nwhich the whole soul is in the whole and\\nevery part of the body, and this I call\\nNature, the shadow and footprint of di-\\nvinity; the other the ineffable mode in\\nwhich God, by essence, presence and\\npower, is in all and above all, not as part,\\nnot as soul, but in a mode inexplicable.\\nGiordano Bruno s Statement at His\\nTrial.\\nSuperstition and materialism are the two\\ngreat sources of evil on earth. These are\\nthe two thieves between which the Christ\\nis crucified. Superstition is the distortion\\nof spiritual perception materialism is the\\nlack of spiritual perception.\\nNever conceive progress as mere breadth\\ntrue progress is always in depth.\\nDu Prel.", "height": "3491", "width": "2275", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0107.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "94 answers of tbe ages*\\nThe first attribute of the occult aspirant\\nis:\\nI. Allegiance to the higher self.\\nII. The aiming at spiritual exaltation, not\\nfor the sake of personal happiness, but as\\nthe means of elevating all humanity.\\nTherefore, the second attribute is indiffer-\\nence to personal reward.\\nTo these two prime requisites are added\\nsix qualifications.\\nI. Regulation of thought.\\nII. Regulation of conduct.\\nIII. Profound tenderness and impartial-\\nity to all the great religions of the\\nworld.\\nIV. Entire want of resentment for worldly\\nwrong or ill usage.\\nV. Steadfastness, or incapacity for being\\nturned aside from the right path.\\nVI. Confidence in the power to grasp the\\ntruth in all its vast complexity.\\nSinnett.", "height": "3472", "width": "2395", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0108.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "Wbat is TReliaion? 95\\nNothing but sorrow and degradation can\\nfollow from the materialization of divine\\nmysteries.\\nWherever Religion decays and ignorance\\nspreads herself, there the symbolical and\\nallegorical are materialized into the his-\\ntorical and literal.\\nThe Paternal mind hath sowed symbols in\\nthe soul.\\nChaldaic Oracle.\\nThe highest truth man e er supplied,\\nIs ever Fable on th outside.\\nBrowning.\\nAll visible things are emblems. Matter\\nexists only spiritually to represent some\\nidea and body it forth,\\nCarlyle.", "height": "3481", "width": "2250", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0109.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "96 Hnswers of tbe ages,\\nSome churches are saturated with ema-\\nnations, teeming with angelical effluences\\npenetrated by divine salts, such\\nchurches or holy places are for infirm\\nsouls what certain thermal stations are for\\nthe body one should make cures there\\npass seasons obtain blessings.\\nHuysmans.\\nMysticism is a tendency to arrive at con-\\nsciousness of the absolute by means of\\nsymbols under the influence of love.\\nRecejac.\\nThe most difficult and most obscure of\\nsacred books is Genesis it contains as\\nmany secrets as words, nay, every word\\nhides several secrets. T\\nSt Jerome.\\nWhen it is said, Moses covered his face\\nwith a veil, the meaning is he put the\\nveil of allegory over his cosmogony and", "height": "3481", "width": "2395", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0110.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "Mbat is TReliflion? 97\\nthat tinder this veil lies the mystic science\\nof being.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094Fabre d Olivet.\\nThe fire on the altar always symbolizes\\nLove. The turning toward the east\\nalways symbolizes Light.\\nSwedenborg.\\nThe without is as the within the little is\\nas the great; there is only one law, and\\nHe who works is One. Nothing is little,\\nnothing is great in the divine cosmogony.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094Hermes Trismegistus.", "height": "3493", "width": "2258", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0111.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3507", "width": "2452", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0112.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "TKftbat is Ibeaven?", "height": "3504", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0113.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3515", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0114.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "Wbat is Ibeaven?\\nHe that receiveth a lower mystery shall\\ninherit a lower region, and he who re-\\nceiveth a higher mystery shall inherit the\\nregion of the heights.\\nPistis Sophia. The Gnostic Gospel\\nHeaven advances in perfection as its in-\\nhabitants increase in multitude the\\ngreater its fullness, the greater its perfec-\\ntion.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094Swedenborg.\\nThe earth is crammed with Heaven\\nAnd every common bush afire with God.\\nBrowning.\\nIOI", "height": "3490", "width": "2253", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0115.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "iQ2 answers of tbe Mqcs*\\nJoy is the tendency to unity sorrow is the\\ndivision of the one.\\nSt. Augustine.\\nNo sudden Heaven or sudden Hell for\\nman,\\nBut through the will of one who knows and\\nrules,\\nIonian evolution, swift or slow,\\nThrough all the spheres an ever-opening\\nheight,\\nAn ever-lessening earth.\\nTennyson.\\nIn the depths of thine own soul thou wilt\\nfind a threefold heaven. The third\\nheaven is only open to the eye of intelli-\\ngence clarified by divine grace and a holy\\nlife.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094Richard St. Victor.\\nWhen Gautama found Nirvana,\\nWhen Plato found the Logos,", "height": "3513", "width": "2395", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0116.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "Mbat ig Tbeaven? 103\\nWhen Lao-Tsze found Tao,\\nWhen Jesus found the kingdom of heaven,\\nthey each found supreme good in their\\nown souls.\\nThe ideal, under all its forms, is the\\nanticipation, the prophetic vision of a\\nhigher existence than his own, to which\\neach being aspires always. This higher\\nexistence in dignity is more interior in its\\nnature, that is, more spiritual. Thus\\nthe disciple of life, the chrysalis of an\\nangel works through his ideal, his own fu-\\nture rebirth. The divine life is a series of\\nsuccessive deaths in which the spirit cuts\\noff its imperfections and its symbols, and\\nyields to the growing attraction of the\\ncenter of ineffable gravitation the sun\\nof intelligence and love.\\nAmiel", "height": "3501", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0117.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "iQ4 answers of tbe Hfles*\\nThe heat and light of heaven are love and\\nwisdom.\\nSwedenborg.\\nHe who finds in himself his happiness, his\\njoy, and in himself also his light, is one\\nwith God. The soul which has found God\\nis delivered from rebirth and from death,\\nfrom old age and from sorrow, and drinks\\nthe water of immortality.\\nBhaga vad-Gita.\\nTo be in itself alone, and not in being, is\\nto be in God. This, therefore, is the\\nlife of all gods and of divine and happy\\nmen, liberation from all terrene con-\\ncerns, a life unaccompanied with human\\npleasures and a flight of the alone to the\\nAlone.\\nPlotinus.", "height": "3523", "width": "2395", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0118.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "Tlfflbat is Tbeaven? 105\\nIn Heaven the will loves good and the\\nunderstanding thinks truth.\\nSwedenborg.\\nThat the Heaven is in the earth, but after\\nan earthly manner and that the earth is\\nin the heaven, but after a heavenly man-\\nner.\\nProclus.\\nThe soul has three habitations:\\nThe abyss of life.\\nThe inferior Eden.\\nThe superior Eden.\\nKabbala.\\nWe call destiny all that limits us.\\nBut the soul as it rises purifies destiny.\\nMaeterlinck.\\nI sent my soul through the Invisible,\\nSome letter of the after-life to spell.", "height": "3501", "width": "2262", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0119.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "106 answers of tbe Haes*\\nAnd bye and bye my soul returned to me\\nAnd answered, I, myself, am Heaven\\nand Hell. \u00e2\u0080\u0094Omar Khayatn.\\nFor death is not the end of all and the\\nwicked is not released from his wicked-\\nness by death but every one carries with\\nhim into the world below that which he is\\nand that which he becomes and that only.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094Plato.\\nNature bound the body to the soul. The\\nsoul binds herself to the body. Nature\\nliberates the body from the soul, but it is\\nfor the soul to liberate herself from the\\nbody. Hence there is a twofold or second\\ndeath.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094Orphic Hymn.\\nHeaven is law and obedience.\\nIn the world of evil there is no unity.\\nEvil spirits have no chief; no order; no", "height": "3523", "width": "2458", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0120.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "XKabat is Ibeaven? 107\\norganization; no solidarity; nothing that\\ncorresponds to law or obedience.\\nEvil is a marring of nature and of\\nthe good, a defect, a privation, a loss of\\ngood, an infraction of integrity, of beauty,\\nof happiness, of virtue where there is no\\nviolation of good there is no evil. Evil,\\ntherefore, can only exist as an adjunct of\\ngood, and that not of the immutably but\\nof the mutably good. An absolute good\\nis possible, but an absolute evil is impos-\\nsible.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094St. Augustine.\\nSelfishness abolished, there is no room in\\nthe nature for evil as soon as one is in-\\naccessible to evil, capacity for infinite\\ngood, which embraces infinite knowledge,\\nis established.\\nSinnett.\\nNow I seek to lead back the self within\\nme to the All-self.", "height": "3502", "width": "2253", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0121.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3491", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0122.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "Ib^mns.", "height": "3486", "width": "2301", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0123.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3499", "width": "2455", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0124.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "Behold the only object of music, it is also\\nthe object of mysticism to return from\\nthe without to the within.\\nBellaigue.\\nMusic at a single bound clears all the steps\\nof being it takes us from earth into the\\nsoul of man and from that to God.\\nBellaigue.\\nWhat theatrical or mundane music, even\\nthe most vaunted, is of any worth when\\ncompared to the solemnities of the Mag-\\nnificat, the august verve of the Lauda\\nSion, the enthusiasms of the Salve\\nRegina, the distresses of the Miserere", "height": "3504", "width": "2236", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0125.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "112 answers ot tbe ages,\\nand the Stabat Mater, the omnipotent\\nmajesty of the Te Deum And yet the\\nold plain song is superior to all, with its\\nfull and naked rhythm at once aerial and\\nstrong that is the true music of solemn\\nsadness and spiritual joy in the plain song\\nis the grand faith of men it seems to gush\\nforth from ancient cathedrals like irre-\\nsistible geysers, ample, sorrowful and ten-\\nder.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094Huysmans.\\nThe Fire-God, the First-born, supreme in\\nHeaven,\\nNo father did he know.\\nOh, Fire-God, how were the seven be-\\ngotten?\\nHow were they nurtured?\\nThese Seven, in the mountain of the sun-\\nset were born.\\nThese Seven, in the mountain of the sun-\\nrise, grew up.", "height": "3520", "width": "2395", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0126.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "D^mns* 113\\nFrom the sunset they galloped forth.\\nIn the sunrise they are bound to rest.\\nBabylonian Hymn. Translated\\nfrom a Cuneiform Inscription.\\nO, blind soul,\\nArm thee with the banner of mysteries,\\nThat in the earthly night,\\nThou mayst thy luminous double see\\nThy soul celestial.\\nFollow this god-like guide,\\nHe will thy leader be,\\nAnd holds the key of all existences,\\nFore past, and yet to come.\\nCall to the Initiates from the Egyp-\\ntian Book of the Dead.\\nHow they struggle in the immense uni-\\nverse,\\nHow they whirl and seek", "height": "3501", "width": "2145", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0127.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "n4 Hnswers of the Bqcs.\\nInnumerable souls that all spirt forth\\nFrom the vast world-soul.\\nThey drop from planet to planet,\\nAnd in the abyss they weep\\nFor their forgotten land.\\nThese are thy tears, O Dionysus,\\nO, Spirit vast, Divine One, Liberator,\\nDraw back thy daughters to the breast of\\nLight.\\nOrphic Hymn.\\nO, vital breath of angelhood,\\nO, generous ministration of things good,\\nCreator of the visible and best,\\nUpholder of the great unmanifest,\\nPower infinitely wise, new boon sublime,\\nOf science and of art, constraining might,\\nIn whom I breathe, live, speak, rejoice\\nand write,\\nBe with us, in all places, for all time.\\nPhile.", "height": "3523", "width": "2395", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0128.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "tngmna* 115\\nThe soul wherein God dwells,\\nWhat church could holier be?\\nBecomes a walking-tent\\nOf heavenly majesty.\\nHow far from here to Heaven?\\nNot very far, my friend.\\nA single, hearty step\\nWill all the journey end.\\nThough Christ a thousand times\\nIn Bethlehem be born,\\nIf He s not born in thee,\\nThy soul is still forlorn.\\nThe cross on Golgotha\\nWill never save thy soul,\\nThe cross in thine own heart\\nAlone can make thee whole.", "height": "3500", "width": "2144", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0129.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "n6 Hnswers of tbe Baes,\\nHold thou where rtmnest thou?\\nKnow heaven is in thee\\nSeek st thou for God elsewhere,\\nHis face thou lt never see.\\nO, would thy heart but be\\nA manger for His birth\\nGod would once more become\\nA child upon the earth.\\nGo out, God will go in.\\nDie thou and let Him live.\\nBe not and He will be.\\nWait and He ll all things give.\\nO, shame, a silk-worm works\\nAnd spins till it can fly,\\nAnd thou, my soul, wilt still\\nOn thine old earth-clod lie?\\nA Mediaeval Hymn.", "height": "3523", "width": "2395", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0130.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "I smns, ii 7\\nYou ask how long your strife shall last?\\nIt lasts till all your life is past.\\nTill, breaking peace and compromise,\\nTo sacrificial heights you rise,\\nUntil your will no more is weak,\\nAnd all your coward doubtings fall,\\nBefore the message\\nNaught or All\\nAnd what the loss? Your idols broken,\\nYour faint heart s feast-day keeping, gone\\nEach golden chain, your slavery s token,\\nAll that your slackness slumbers on.\\nAnd what the prize? A will new-born,\\nA soul at one, a faith with wings,\\nA sacrificial joy that flings\\nEven to the grave and not complains\\nOn each man s brow a crown of thorns,\\nYes, these shall be your victory s gains.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094Ibsen.", "height": "3475", "width": "2211", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0131.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3512", "width": "2395", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0132.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "lPragers.", "height": "3504", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0133.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3520", "width": "2395", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0134.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "jpra^era,\\nO, Lord! O, imperishable One! in what-\\never thousands of births I may yet\\nwander, may my undying love be always\\nin Thee.\\nVishnu Pur ana.\\nFor the reunion of the Holy One Blessed\\nbe His name and His Shecinah!* I do\\nthis commandment in love and fear, in\\nfear and love for the union of the name\\nmasculine with the name feminine into a\\nperfect harmony.\\nMystic Prayer of the Kabbalists.\\nThou art that Prakriti, infinite and subtile,\\nwho bore Brahma in thy bosom thou art\\nShecinah is the name of the feminine half of\\nDeity.\\n121", "height": "3483", "width": "2278", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0135.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "igg answers of tbe Hpes,\\nthe goddess of the word; the energy of\\nthe creator the mother of the Vedas O,\\nthou eternal being, who comprehendest\\nin thy substance the essence of all created\\nthings, thou wast identical with creation\\nthou wast the sacrifice whence proceeded\\nall that the earth produces thou art the\\nwood which by rubbing engenders fire.\\nThou art the light whence comes the\\nday thou art humility whence comes true\\nwisdom; thou art the policy of kings,\\nmother of law and order; thou art the\\ndesire from which love springs; thou art\\nthe satisfaction which is derived from\\nresignation thou art intelligence, mother\\nof science; thou art patience, mother of\\ncourage all the firmament and stars are\\nthy children it is from thee that proceeds\\nall that exists. Thou art descended on\\nearth for the salvation of the world.\\nHave compassion, O goddess, thou who\\nhast borne a God upon thy bosom show", "height": "3505", "width": "2450", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0136.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "pragerg, 123\\nthyself favorable to the universe sustain\\nthe world.\\nVishnu Pur ana. Prayer to the\\nEternal Feminine.\\nO, Isis, since my soul is only one tear\\nfrom thine eyes, let it fall as dew upon\\nother souls; and while I am dying for\\nothers, let the perfume of their watered\\nsouls mount to thee. Behold me, O, Isis,\\nready to be thus sacrificed.\\nTranslated from Egyptian Hiero-\\nglyphics.\\nO, Osiris, teach me to contemplate the\\nsource of being teach me to know God\\nshow me the life of the universe the road\\nof souls, whence man comes and whither\\nhe returns. Egyptian Hieroglyphics.\\nBeloved Pan, and all ye other gods who\\nhaunt this place, give me beauty in the\\ninward soul, and may the outward and in-", "height": "3491", "width": "2293", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0137.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "i2 4 answers ot tfae Mqcs,\\nward man be at one. May I reckon the\\nwise to be the wealthy, and may I have\\nsuch a quantity of gold as none but the\\ntemperate can carry.\\nSocrates Prayer.\\nO, ye children of Apollo, angelic hosts,\\nwho in time past have stilled the waves of\\nsorrow for many people and have lighted\\nup the lamp of safety before those who\\ntravel by sea and by land, be pleased in\\nyour great condescension to accept this\\nprayer; order it aright, I pray you, ac-\\ncording to your loving kindness to men,\\npreserve me from sickness and endue my\\nbody with such a measure of health as\\nmay suffice it for the obeying of the spirit\\nthat I may pass my days unhindered and\\nin quietness.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094Aristides. Priest in the Temple of\\nJEsculapius and Poet in Time of\\nMarcus Aurelius.", "height": "3512", "width": "2395", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0138.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "praters. 125\\nIn the name of God, the compassionate\\ncompassioner, Praise be to God, the Lord\\nof the worlds, the compassionate compas-\\nsioner, the sovereign of the day of judg-\\nment, thee do we worship and of thee do\\nwe beg assistance. Direct us in the right\\nway, in the way of those to whom thou\\nhast been gracious, on whom there is no\\nwrath and who go not astray.\\nSeven petitions which make up the\\nAlfatiha Lord s prayer of the\\nKoran, repeated by the pious Mos-\\nlems twenty times a day.\\nO, thou great, incomprehensible God, who\\nfillest all, be thou, indeed, my Heaven;\\nlet my spirit be the music and joy of thy\\nspirit. Do thou make music in me, and I\\nmake harmony in the divine kingdom of\\nthy joy, in the great love of God, in the\\nwonders of thy glory and splendor, in\\nthe company of thy holy, angelic harmo-", "height": "3499", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0139.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "126 answers of tbe ages,\\nnies. Build thou in me the holy city of\\nZion in which we all live as children of\\nChrist in one city which is Christ Christ\\nin us. In thee I would lose myself\\nutterly do with me as thou wilt.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094Jacob Boehme.\\nForgive me my sins, O Lord, forgive me\\nthe sins of my youth and the sins of mine\\nage, the sins of my soul and the sins of\\nmy body, my secret sins, my whispering\\nsins, my presumptuous and my crying\\nsins, the sins I have done to please myself,\\nand the sins I have done to please others.\\nForgive me those sins that I know and\\nthose sins that I know not forgive them,\\nO Lord, forgive them all of thy great\\ngoodness. Amen.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094Prayer. 1560 A. D.\\nGrant me, O Jesus, to rest in Thee,\\nabove all creatures, above all health and", "height": "3516", "width": "2395", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0140.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "praters. 127\\nbeauty, above all glory and honour, above\\nall power and dignity, above all knowl-\\nedge and subtilty, above all riches and\\narts, above all joy and gladness, above all\\nfame and praise, above all sweetness and\\ncomfort, above all hope and promise,\\nabove all desert and desire, above all\\ngifts and benefits that Thou canst give\\nand impart unto us, above all mirth and\\njoy that the mind of man can receive and\\nfeel finally, above angels and archangels,\\nand above all the heavenly host, above all\\nthings visible and invisible, and above all\\nthat Thou art not, O, my God.\\nThomas a Kempis.", "height": "3502", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0141.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3512", "width": "2332", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0142.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "Visions.", "height": "3473", "width": "2276", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0143.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3523", "width": "2292", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0144.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "IDieiona,\\nMystic visions and voices are never to be\\nunderstood in an objective sense. They\\nmust all be thought of as mental or inte-\\nrior.\\nRecijac.\\nIf the mystic ecstasy is more beautiful\\nthan it is good, more enlightened than it is\\ntouched with emotion, more speculative\\nthan loving, let it be subject to great\\ndoubt and suspicion.\\nSt. Francis de Sales.\\nOnly four have been fully initiated; only\\nfour have entered the garden of delights\\noccult or final science: Ben Asai, Ben\\nZorna, Acher and Rabbi Akiba.\\nBen Asai looked and lost his sight.\\n131", "height": "3487", "width": "2249", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0145.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "i32 Hngwerg of tbe Bgeg\\nBen Zorna looked and lost his reason.\\nAcher looked and the whole became con-\\nfusion and he failed.\\nAkiba looked and entered in peace and\\ncame out in peace.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094Talmud.\\nThere are three kinds of contemplation,\\nwhich have been called by three names.\\nJob calls it suspense, St. John\\nsilence/ and Solomon sleep/ There\\nare three kinds of silence the silence of\\nthe lips, the silence of the thought, and\\nthe silence of the reason. There are\\nthree kinds of sleep for the soul. Its\\nreason sleeps because ignorant of the\\ncause and of the end of beatific vision its\\nmemory sleeps because it is absorbed in\\nthe ineffable, it forgets what it has suf-\\nered its will sleeps because it does not\\nknow that it is experiencing delight.\\nHugo St Victor.", "height": "3523", "width": "2395", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0146.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "IDisions, i 33\\nSt. Francis, after long and tedious strug-\\ngles with his earthly nature, prayed one\\nday that he might be allowed a single\\nforetaste of heaven straightway an angel\\nappeared before the eye of his mind hold-\\ning a viol in his hand. He drew the bow\\nacross the strings and there issued forth\\none thrilling chord which lifted the poet-\\nsaint above the infirmities of his body.\\nDraw thy bow but once again, cried\\nthe enraptured St. Francis, and my\\nsoul will burst her bonds and follow\\nsound.\\nI assert for myself that I do not behold\\nthe outward creation, and that to me it is\\nhindrance and not action. What! it\\nwill be questioned, when the sun rises,\\ndo you not see a round disc of fire larger\\nthan a guinea? O, no, no. I see an in-\\nnumerable company of the heavenly host", "height": "3489", "width": "2287", "jp2-path": "answersofages00well_0147.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "i34 answers of tbe a jes.\\ncrying, Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God\\nAlmighty. I question not my corporal\\neye any more than I would question a\\nwindow concerning a sight. I look\\nthrough it, not with it.\\nBlake.\\nA kind of waking trance I have often had\\nquite up from boyhood when I have been\\nall alone. 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