A Wisdom Archive on Lighted

Primordial Light. In Occultism, the light which is born in, and through the preternatural darkness of chaos, which contains "the all in all", the seven rays that become later the seven Principles in Nature.

 
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Astral Light (Occult) The invisible region that surrounds our globe, as it does every other, and corresponding as the second Principle of Kosmos (the third being Life, of which it is the vehicle) to the Linga Sharira or the Astral Double in man.
 
A subtle Essence visible only to a clairvoyant eye, and the lowest but one (viz., the earth), of the Seven Akasic or Kosmic Principles. Eliphas Levi calls it the great Serpent and the Dragon from which radiates on Humanity every evil influence. This is so; but why not add that the Astral Light gives out nothing but what it has received; that it is the great terrestrial crucible, in which the vile emanations of the earth (moral and physical) upon which the Astral Light is fed, are all converted into their subtlest essence, and radiated back intensified, thus becoming epidemics -  moral, psychic and physical. Finally, the Astral Light is the same as the Sidereal Light of Paracelsus and other Hermetic philosophers. "Physically, it is the ether of modern science.
 
Metaphysically, and in its spiritual, or occult sense, ether is a great deal more than is often imagined. In occult physics, and alchemy, it is well demonstrated to enclose within its shoreless waves not only Mr. Tyndall’s ‘promise and potency of every quality of life’, but also the realization of the potency of every quality of spirit. Alchemists and Hermetists believe that their astral, or sidereal ether, besides the above properties of sulphur, and white and red magnesia, or magnes, is the anima mundi, the workshop of Nature and of all the Kosmos, spiritually, as well as physically.
 
The ‘grand magisterium’ asserts itself in the phenomenon of mesmerism, in the ‘levitation’ of human and inert objects; and may be called the ether from its spiritual aspect. The designation astral is ancient, and was used by some of the Neo-platonists, although it is claimed by some that the word was coined by the Martinists. Porphyry describes the celestial body which is always joined with the soul as ‘immortal, luminous, and star-like’. The root of this word may be found, perhaps, in the Scythic Aist-aer - which means star, or the Assyrian Istar, which, according to Burnouf has the same sense." (Isis Unveiled.)

 
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Noor Ilahee (Arab.). "The light of the Elohim", literally. This light is believed by some Mussulmen to be transmitted to mortals "through a hundred prophet-leaders". Divine knowledge; the Light of the Secret Wisdom.

 
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Aour (Chald.). The synthesis of the two aspects of astro-etheric light; and the od - the life-giving, and the ob - the death-giving light.

 
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Esir (Scandianvian Norse). The same as Ases, the creative Forces personified. The gods who created the black dwarfs or the Elves of Darkness in Asgard. The divine Esir, the Ases are the Elves of Light. An allegory bringing together darkness which comes from light, and matter born of spirit.

 
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Adi-Buddha (Sanskrit). The First and Supreme Buddha - not recognised in the Southern Church. The Eternal Light.

 
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Parasakti (Sanskrit). "The great Force" - one of the six Forces of Nature; that of light and heat.

 
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Usanas-Sukra (Sanskrit) [from usanas Venus + sukra bright, resplendent]
 
Venus-Lucifer, Venus as the light-bringer, referring not so much to physical light as to the light of intellect and inner vision. The guardian spirit, with reference to the solar system, of earth and of mankind; for what the buddhi-manas is in the human constitution when compared with the kama-manas, that same role, mutatis mutandis on the cosmic scale, the regent of Venus plays in the solar system, wherein by comparison the earth is the vehicle for kama-manas. Also commonly called in Hindu mythology Kavi or Kavya, signifying poet and the feeling that the true poet is intellectually intuitional with reference to "feeling" or "seeing" some, at least, of the mysteries of nature.

 
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Ana (Chald.). The "invisible heaven"or Astral Light ; the heavenly mother of the terrestrial sea, Mar, whence probably the origin of Anna, the mother of Mary.

 
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Phœbus-Apollo (Ancient Greek). Apollo as the Sun, "the light of life and of the world".

 
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Ain Soph Aur (Hebrew, Jewish). The Boundless Light which concentrates into the First and highest Sephira or Kether, the Crown. [w. w. w.]

 
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Propator (Ancient Greek) Gnostic term. The "Depth" of Bythos, or En-Aior, the unfathomable light. The latter is alone the Self-Existent and the Eternal - Propator is only periodical.

 
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