Transcendental magic, its doctrine and ritual, (1910)
Levi, Eliphas, 1810-1875 · Chicago, de Laurence, Scott & co. · leaf 89
This fourfold prophecy contains, as will be seen, two affirmations and two negations, the idea of two ruins or universal deaths and of two resurrections ; for to every conception which ap¬ pears upon the social horizon an east and a west, a zenith and a nadir, may be ascribed without fear of error.… … Does not human life present itself also under these four phases or successive transformations — birth, life, death, im¬ mortality? And remark here that the immortality of the soul, necessitated as a complement of the tetrad, is kab- balistically proved by analogy, which is the sole dogma of truly…
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