“But with respect to the most principal and excellent species of the soul, we should conceive as follows: that divinity assigned this to each of us as a daemon; and that it resides in the very summit of the body, elevating us from earth to an alliance with the heavens ; as we are not terrestial plants, but blossoms of heaven. And this indeed is most truly asserted. For from whence the first generation of the soul arose, from thence a divine nature being suspended from our head and root, directs and governs the whole of our corporeal frame. Continue reading “Plato on Man’s Place in Nature”
Justin Martyr meets a Master
Justin Martyr lived at Neapolis during the reign of Marcus Aurelius, and suffered death for the faith of his Fathers the Philosophers, about 165 A.D, From youth he sought ardently for knowledge of the Truth, and in his own writings gives an account of his receiving the ”Salutation of the Sages,” He states that his investigation into the various philosophies of the day resulted in conviction that he would find the true path to God through Platonism, He therefore gave himself up to the rigorous mental discipline and meditation which that school enjoined upon its neophytes. During this period, ”Wishing to be filled with quietness and to shun the paths of men, I used to walk by myself in a field near the sea. One day an old man of gentle and venerable appearance followed me at a little distance. I stopped and turning round fixed my eyes keenly upon him.
Those Reserved for Greater Things
Reference is here made to those great souls, priests ‘for ever after the order of Melchizedek” or the Unspoken Name. They are Christs of former periods of evolution bound to earth by their desire to lift mankind to their own level of consciousness. These are the Masters of the Masters. Melchizedek was himself the Master to whom Moses said, “Shall I follow thee that thou teach me, for guidance, of that which thou too hast been taught?” Koran, Sura XVIII.
The History of the Watchmen
The History of the Watchmen (Or the Angels),
WRITTEN BY ENOCH THE PATRIARCH.
“And it came to pass, when the Sons of Men were increas’d, that very Beautiful Daughters were born to them: With these the Watchmen were in Love, and burnt with Desire toward them, which drew them into many Sins and Follies. They communed with themselves: ‘Let us, say they, choose us Wives out of the Daughters of Men upon the Earth. Semiazas, their Prince, made Answer: ‘I fear, says he, you will not execute your Resolution ; and so I shall derive upon myself alone the Guilt of this Impiety.’ They all reply’d and said; ‘We will bind ourselves with an Oath to perform our Purpose, and invoke dreadful Imprecations upon our Heads, if we depart from our Enterprize before it be accomplished.’ So they oblig’d themselves with an Oath; and implored an Arrest of Vengeance upon one another. Continue reading “The History of the Watchmen”