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Philo, c. 20 BC - 50 AD, was a Hellenistic Jewish philosopher. Very little is known of his personal life except he was of a noble family of Alexandria in Egypt. His brother headed the Jewish community in Egypt and was mentioned by Josephus.
Philosopher's Stone
The name given in alchemy to a stone, powder or substance which will transmute base metals into gold.
Flavius Philostratus
c.170-245
Flavius Philostratus was a Greek sophist and belletrist born around 170, who studied in Athens but made his name in Rome.
Philosophers have laboured greatly in the art of ferments and of fermentations, which seems important above all others.
The Philosophers have maintained, as we have shewed before, that the Heavens and Stars are Divine Animals, and their souls intellectuall, participating of the Divine mind; and they averre, that some separated substances are superior, ...
Esoteric Philosophy is, essentially, the "Science of the Soul," and provides an insight into the synthetic nature of the energies and forces lying behind Man, Creation and the Phenomenal World.
MAGICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL PRECEPTS
144. Direct not thy mind to the vast surfaces of the Earth; for the Plant of Truth grows not upon the ground.
The Life and Philosophy of Pythagoras
WHILE Mnesarchus, the father of Pythagoras, was in the city of Delphi on matters pertaining to his business as a merchant, he and his wife, Parthenis, ...
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It does not deal directly with the spiritual principles of alchemy and state these as a coherent philosophy in the text, but rather this spiritual alchemy is incorporated into the series of illustrations.
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Philo-Judaeus. A Hellenized Jew of Alexandria, a famous historian and philosopher of the first century, born about the year 30 B. C., and died between the years 45 and 50 A. D. Philo's symbolism of the Bible is very remarkable.
Philosopher's Stone
Supposedly, the Magickal stone, or esoteric key, which would allow Alchemists to turn base metals into gold.
The philosophy of the 7 rays demonstrates how people of different spiritual inclinations can tread the same spiritual path, united in purpose to help the world without changing their own beliefs. ...
Philosophy of the relations between "underlying reality" and its manifestations.
Miracle
A paranormal act or occurrence done by or for someone who belongs to a religion that you approve of, usually credited to divine intervention.
Philo Judeas, in his treatise "On the Allegories of the Sacred Laws," elucidated in a very cautions manner a few of these subjects: the Creation, the Garden of Eden, the Deluge, the Tilling of the Earth by Man, the Confusion of Languages, ...
Philo (Philo Judaeus). 1929. Volume I. Trans. F. H. Colson & G. H. Whitaker. Cambridge, MA & London, UK: Harvard University Press.
Rahman, Fazlur. 1964. Dream, Imagination, and 'Alam al-Mithal. Islamic Studies 3:167-80.
Philosophers talk of pure Being. I seem to be able to sense what pure Being must be, not because I have contacted it, but because I have contacted that which is less short of pure Being than all other consciousness-states I have so far experienced.
Magical Philosophy, The (series). Melitta Denning and Osborne Phillips, Llewellyn. 1974.
Magick in Theory and Practice. Aleister Crowley. 1929.
Mystical Qabalah. The Dion Fortune. 1935.
A: Occult philosophy ranges from devout religious practitioners to staunch atheists.
Q: Do you have to beleive in a certain set of gods to become a witch?
A: No.
Dante studied philosophy and theology at the Franciscan school at Santa Croce (Bemrose, 2000) which had been strongly influenced by the Spiritual Franciscan (Hawkins, 1993).
To understand the philosophical principle with which the ancients linked astrology, one must consider the great importance that they attached to the Four Elements - Fire, Air, Earth, ...
In this regard I am inspired by Walter Benjamin's notion, outlined in the "Theses on the Philosophy of History," that when one "grasps the constellation which his own era has formed with a definite early one, ...
Astral plane The astral plane, also called the astral world or desire world, is a plane of existence according to esoteric philosophies, some religious teachings and New Age thought.
The Jewish philosopher Philo Judeus (his name is Greek and means 'friend of the Jews'), a contemporary of Jesus, wrote an explanation in Greek of the Torah, in which he explained the Jewish scriptures according to Greek philosophy.
By the 6th Century BC the pre-Socratic philosophers of Greece were defining the nature of the physical universe, although earlier mythological connotations echo through their theories, with the Elements inspiring almost religious awe.
Yin & Yang : are two primal forces controlling the whole of the universe according to Chinese philosophy. It is thought that everything can be categorized by this balancing system of Yin and Yang.
His philosophy of love and acceptance was radically new in a world that frequently feared God. Jesus made God approachable. "Love thy neighbor as yourself" was a moral philosophy that preached equal acceptance for all.
Esotericism ― The philosophy of the evolutionary process both in man and the lower kingdoms in nature. The science of the accumulated wisdom of the ages.
Essentially it is light, both literally from the vibratory angle, and philosophically from the angle of constituting the true medium of knowledge; light symbolically, for it is like the rays of the sun, which pour out into the darkness, ...
Occult: That which is hidden behind appearances and part of what is mystical. Often used to refer to the use of nature to develop psychic skills and the use of ancient philosophies to find greater enlightenment and further one's spiritual growth.
ALCHEMY is the practice of transmutation of base metals into precious metals (e.g., gold or silver) with the aid of an esoteric substance called the "philosopher's stone".
 See also: Spirit, World, Ritual, Spiritual, Light
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