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For those who have doubts about The Fool and the air atribution
For those who have doubts about The Fool and the air attribution,
i have to say that on my last vacation "accidentally" bumped in to
a Eliphas Levi Transcendental Magic, its Doctrine and Ritual, it's a
2006 edition on Spanish, i think its really a must read, must have,
even the images shown in the book are amazing, and I'm aware that
many things that master Levi wrote has been already rephrased by
another authors but I'm trilled by words that Levi uses, at solid as it
gets!
Quoting Levi:
(the chapter begins with a big Aleph letter as title)
WHEN a philosopher adopted as the basis for a new apocalypse
of human wisdom the axiom :
"I think, therefore I am," in a measure he unconsciously altered,
from the standpoint of Christian revelation, the old conception of the
Supreme Being. I am that I am, said the Being of beings
of Moses. I am he who thinks, says the man of Descartes,
and to think being to speak inwardly, this man may affirm
like the God of St John the Evangelist : I am he in whom
and by whom the word manifests In prindpio erat verbum.
Now, what is a principle ? It is a groundwork of speech, it
is a reason for the existence of the word. The essence of
the word is in the principle ; the principle is that which is;
intelligence is a principle which speaks. What, further, is
intellectual light ? It is speech. What is revelation ? It
is also speech ; being is the principle, speech is the means,
and the plenitude or development and perfection of being is
the end. To speak is to create. But to say :
" I think, therefore I exist," is to argue from consequence to principle,
and certain contradictions which have been adduced by a
great writer, Lamennais, have abundantly proved the philosophical
imperfection of this method. I am, therefore something
exists would appear to us a more primitive and
simple foundation for experimental philosophy, I AM,
THEREFORE BEING EXISTS. Ego sum gui sum such is the
first revelation of God in man and of man in the world,
while it is also the first axiom of occult philosophy.
Being is being. Hence this philosophy, having
that which is for its principle, is in no sense hypothesis or
guesswork.
here a link if any one interested.
http://www.4shared.com/file/8784859...scendental_Magic_Its_Doctrine_and_Ritual.html
btw sorry for any grammar and stuff.
For those who have doubts about The Fool and the air attribution,
i have to say that on my last vacation "accidentally" bumped in to
a Eliphas Levi Transcendental Magic, its Doctrine and Ritual, it's a
2006 edition on Spanish, i think its really a must read, must have,
even the images shown in the book are amazing, and I'm aware that
many things that master Levi wrote has been already rephrased by
another authors but I'm trilled by words that Levi uses, at solid as it
gets!
Quoting Levi:
(the chapter begins with a big Aleph letter as title)
WHEN a philosopher adopted as the basis for a new apocalypse
of human wisdom the axiom :
"I think, therefore I am," in a measure he unconsciously altered,
from the standpoint of Christian revelation, the old conception of the
Supreme Being. I am that I am, said the Being of beings
of Moses. I am he who thinks, says the man of Descartes,
and to think being to speak inwardly, this man may affirm
like the God of St John the Evangelist : I am he in whom
and by whom the word manifests In prindpio erat verbum.
Now, what is a principle ? It is a groundwork of speech, it
is a reason for the existence of the word. The essence of
the word is in the principle ; the principle is that which is;
intelligence is a principle which speaks. What, further, is
intellectual light ? It is speech. What is revelation ? It
is also speech ; being is the principle, speech is the means,
and the plenitude or development and perfection of being is
the end. To speak is to create. But to say :
" I think, therefore I exist," is to argue from consequence to principle,
and certain contradictions which have been adduced by a
great writer, Lamennais, have abundantly proved the philosophical
imperfection of this method. I am, therefore something
exists would appear to us a more primitive and
simple foundation for experimental philosophy, I AM,
THEREFORE BEING EXISTS. Ego sum gui sum such is the
first revelation of God in man and of man in the world,
while it is also the first axiom of occult philosophy.
Being is being. Hence this philosophy, having
that which is for its principle, is in no sense hypothesis or
guesswork.
here a link if any one interested.
http://www.4shared.com/file/8784859...scendental_Magic_Its_Doctrine_and_Ritual.html
btw sorry for any grammar and stuff.
