Illuminati
This is a term that has been used by occultists since the late 15th century onwards to described spiritual adepts who received mystical insights or "illuminations" from a transcendent source.
Illuminati
Persons claiming to have superhuman knowledge; those who claim to posses the 'light' of knowledge directly from a higher source, or due to a wider measure of human wisdom.
THE WAY FROM DARKNESS TO TRUE ILLUMINATION
There was a poor soul that had wandered out of paradise, and come into the kingdom of this world; where the devil met with it, and said to it, "Whither dost thou go, thou soul that art half blind?" ...
Illumination The light of the intuition breaking trough the barriers that the rational faculty has erected; true illumination is related to the intellect and should be, in its purest aspect, divorced from feeling altogether; ...
Illuminating the darkness was one of early man's first concerns, along with finding a source for heat on cold dark nights. Gaining control of fire solved both the illumination and heat problems.
an illumination of spirit impossible to one who indulges in an excessive
diet of coarse foods which nourish the lower nature. Some of the saints
have used fasting and castigation as a means of soul growth, but that is a ...
When the illuminating concepts of the wisdom-religion shed their flood of light over the world, dispersing its obscurity and revealing the absolute justice which is working under all the apparent incongruities, inequalities and accidents of life, ...
While this illumination of human and angelic personalities cannot help but make the book consistently engaging, the author's primary aim is not simply to tell the story of this part of Dee's life, ...
The Book of Illumination, or the Bahir, is one of the oldest texts which is considered part of the Qabalistic tradition. Previous texts represent other forms of Jewish mysticism, such as Merkavah mysticism .
· A white light or illumination.
· Ability to travel at will.
· Inability to move or use physical objects.
That every Divine Illumination, whilst going forth with love in various ways to the objects of its forethought, remains one. Nor is this all: it also unifies the things illuminated.
3. The Order of the Illuminati
4. The Order of the Temple (Knights Templar)
5. The Order of the Knights of St John ...
Man was considered to be a star-demon in corporeal guise, able to recover his cosmic powers through gnosis, the moment of mystical illumination. The texts emphasized two loosely differentiated modes of such gnosis.
Antiqillum: Antiquities of the Illuminati *
Qadosh: The Johannite Tradition
Gnostic Center
St. Irenaeus: Against Heresies Book 1
Adversus haereses St. Irenaeus of Lyons
Doctrine and Heresies in the Early Church - Resources for Catholic Educators ...
First, in order to release the 'prisoners of the planet' that come under the title of subhuman, man has to work under the influence of the intuition; when working to release his fellow men he has to know the meaning of Illumination.
Aurobindo asserted that spiritual aspirants may pass through an intermediate zone where experiences of force, inspiration, illumination, light, joy, expansion, power, and freedom from normal limits are possible, ...
Now the alchemist begins to experience the inner world as being light filled - the initial inner brightness which is often erroneously mistaken for true illumination.
The Mysteries taught that spiritual illumination was attained only by bringing the lower nature up to a certain standard of efficiency and purity.
A 1546 illumination (Voelkle and L'Engle 1998, p 277) shows Death on a throne with his victims sprawled on the floor. Another manuscript illumination ~1500 shows Death as a corpse with arrows, standing on Pope and Emperor (Figure 4).
We can then choose Illumination and Initiation. The steps are cumulative in their effect. Be very certain that at this stage of our inner journey, there are no accidents and no random, meaningless events.
It had become clear to me, in a flash of illumination, that for me the only possible goal was psychiatry. Here alone the two currents of my interest could flow together and in a united stream dig their own bed.
A Saint, Adept or master who has attained a state of transcendental illumination, and has become a bodiless consciousness. The Ascended Master teaches mankind from another plane using visions, dreams, etc.
And one of the most important aspects of satsangexperiences, I believe, is that they show that spiritual illumination is also communicable.
Many may be the men and women in the very midst of our Society who have begun this uphill work toward illumination several incarnations ago, and who yet, owing to the personal illusions of the present life, are either ignorant of the fact, ...
(1) The doctrine or belief that direct knowledge of the God(s), o spiritual truth, of ultimate reality, or of comparable matters is attainable through immediate intuition, insight or illumination and in a way differing from ordinary sense perception ...
Without entering into the debate on the "dangers" of Enochian Magic, when used with caution and in accordance with Second Order Teachings, it is not only safe, it is utterly effective in the physical world, and illuminating in the area of Spiritual ...
The initiations that the soul passes through to achieve illumination.
"This book provides a real service to seekers as it is clearly written and serves as a good introduction for individuals with an awakening interest in the Ageless Wisdom teachings.
 See also: Spirit, World, Ritual, Light, Spiritual
  
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