THE OCCULT MAGAZINE. river was parted, H and became into f()ur heads II (Gen. ii. 10). Ymir, the giant, falls asleep and sweats abundantly. From the perspiration a man and woman generate from his arm, whilst from his foul a son arises. Whilst the fabulous cow
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of what might be termed the last spiritual cycle was reached, and mankind entered upon the ascending arc of the first human cycle. Then commenced an uninterrupted series of cycles, the precise number of years of which are knownbut only to Initiates. 'Vith each successive age man grew more refined, until the acme of perfection in that cycle was attained; then it wanes with the receding wave of time, cycle succeeds cycle by slow transitions, and nations wax in power, attain . their climax of development, to wane again, become extinct, and be followed by' others (To 6, cOIlliIlUfd.)
or Hrimthursen. Now, compare the above with ihe Hindu Vedas. Bhagaveda, the Supreme, endows Brahma with creative faculties, who begets wholly spiritual beings at first. The Dejotas, inhabitants of the celestial region, are unfitted (or earth, hence Brahma creates the Daints (giants), dwellers in the lower regions of space, who are also unfitted to live on Mirtlok (the· earth). To remedy the evil the creative power, (rom his 'Qr(l QI:orrcspollbelltll. mouth, evolves the first Brahman, who becomes progenitor of our race; from his righl arm Brahma 'creates Raettris, the warrior, and from NOVICE, ARERDF.EN.-As to the ancient clergy' ~ot having his lift Shaternay, the wife of Raettris. Then similar ide-as as (0 the nature of the Sun, etc., to the knowledge now being given out by the·Adeplc;, you are their son Bais springs from the right ./001 of th~ in error, (or many of tbem did possess a little of this creator, and his wife, Basany, from the Itfl. knowledge. Space forbids details; lOU migh4 bowWhile in the Scandinavian legend Bur (the son of ever, peruse the HIler Exsla/;{'ulII,' by the Jesuit) the cow AudhuDlla), \a superior being, marries Kircher, who died in 1680. Referring to the Sun, '.he r;ays_:-HThe orb of day is peopled willl spirits of Liglit, Besla, a daughter of the depraved race of giants, \ who bask themselves in an ocean of brilliancy. ',' •. ; in the Hindu tradition the' first Brahman marries' From a fiery abyss emanate myriads of meteors. without D,ainta_ry, also a daughtet ofthe race,of the ~iants j ceasing, which dissipate into slar-ausl, ~ad.. 4/011l OJ and in Gmais we see the SODS of God takmg for' whid~ is a germ of universal lift." Again, a _f"erend ./ Doctor of the third century, OeigeD. writes thus:-,' wives the daughters of men~ and likewise producing U Occult influences incline, but they do.not compel as to! mighty men or'old. Agai~,' in the Scandinavian a blind fatality. Heaven is an open book, 'on whicb ar~ legend, Ymir, the giant, is_'slain bi the sons of Bur, traced tlu sigIU 0/ Ihe past, the prlSenl. imd tlu fo1urt; and his blood drowns the whole race "f ice and This is the htJ()R 0/ ImivN'sal Lift, by which we will be judged," etc., referring of course to the J/stfai Lig"t. ' frost-giants, and Bergelmir adoQe is -sa\';ed 'with h,is , , ' I · · wife,_ who take .. reruge, in a' bcl1;k, which permits J. T. D., LQNDoN.-Wedonot ¥noworanyreallYlnlSlwortb:r him to transmit -a new branch of giants from the volume upon the subject you mention. You might, however, send for ,8 sample copy of the following old stock, for all the sons of Bur remain untouched American publication, but having. never seen it, we can by the flood The foregoing establishes .an unsay nothing I'egarding it:! contents-Tht Dream lnvesti· questionable identity oLorigin between the Bible ga/Pr, one dollar per annum, published monthly by and the "heathen fable." of Scandina~ia alld James Monroe, Peoria, Ill;, U.S.A. _,' Hindustan. -J , PHILALETlIES, LoNDON. PRECIOUS STONES, ETc.-Peruse Primeval man, invusely to the theory of Darwin, C. Leollllrdi, .. Spuulum Lapidum."· There is also a very scarce but interesting MS. upon such, entitled, was far wiser, purer, and more spiritual] as shown .. Traite dts setrels t:k Nature, ttJUchanl us Animallx, by the above myths, than the present Adamic race, Plontu, et Pierru," in one Vq1., in folio. See also and became daPirilualiud, or tainted by matter, Marbod: I. Likr Lapid. ed Bui:mal11l." and for the first time was then given him the S.S.S.s.-We have received tbe folluwing curious (?) com./kshly ·60dy, as typified in Gen,: .. The Lord made munication f,om some anonymous writer, whicb we (oats 0/ skin, and clothed them." Contrary to all give verbatim elliteratim:London May 77 BS . nonsensical commentaries,the above italicised words To the Judgment.seat oftbe Occult Magarine , simply mean that -,the spiritual JUan had reached, Will tou kindly inform the Readers or your nluable and much needed Journal. By whome and by what authOl"ity bas the through ~he course, of involution, to that stage answer of cOITCSpondellts been appoiuted to iit in Judgment on other Societ}'5 or their work. . _ where matter, predOIrinating and conquering spirit, possible much older in yean than the oue which he bas me honour had transformed him il1to the physical man, or the of being a member. As my order does not 'pcrmlt me to reply to-aDr eritisi!<ms ]~mU5l second Adam of .lh.! 2nd chap. of Ge1usis, for the in silence remain.. havelDg the Honor to $ubscribe mysef tnll,. youra U Man" of chap. i:~ ,is, radically different (tOm \he s.s.s. . ~ U Adam" of chap. : ii., the former being U m~le [Our Readers will pl1lin1y understand that th.;- Occult and female," or bi-se'x.ual, and in the ·imag. e of GO~ Magazine, being the official organ of our exalted Order, whereas the latter was formed of the dust of t e gives its ideas (rom tbe same source. But we pronounce no ex-calludrJ judgments upon any other Society. as our' ground, became a If living soul," after the Lor correspondent erroneously asserts. The Association he God had" breathed into his nostrils the breath ~ alludes to may be U oltkr in ~ears." this is quite possible, life," and was a male being, (or u there was no but perceiving the fact that our Order was even an found a helpmeet for him." . -The god-like physica antique Fraternity in the days of Abraham, tbe Patriarch. form became grosser and_ grosser, until the bottom, that of our correspondent must be 'lie')' Dld "MUt' ir it