{"collection":"Esoteric & Occult","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/eso/cdg/cdg00.htm","path":"eso/cdg/cdg00.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/eso/cdg/cdg00.htm","text":"Comte de Gabalis [1913]\n\"When a thing is hidden away with so much pains, merely to repeal it is to destroy it.\" TERTULLIAN.\nPUBLISHED BY THE BROTHERS,\nand printed at The Old Bourne Press,\n under the supervision of W. H. Broome,\n 15 Holhorn, London, E.C.\nScanned, August-October 2006. Proofed and formatted by John Bruno Hare. This text is in the public domain in the United States because it was published prior to January 1st, 1923. These files may be used for any non-commercial purpose, provided this notice of attribution is left intact in all copies.\n \n \nClick to enlarge\nFront Cover and Spine\n \n \nClick to enlarge\nEnd Papers\n \n \nClick to enlarge\nTitle Page\n \n \nClick to enlarge\nFrontispiece\nThis ancient monument of the Mysteries portrays the action of the Solar Flame in and about the God-enlightened man. When governed and directed upward this Flame becomes the instrument which the soul uses to build up its deathless Solar or Spiritual Body.\nINVOCATION TO THE FLAME.\nWARNING.\nThis book is for the student who seeks to illuminate his intelligence by the Torch of his own divinity. Let him whose quest is the gratification of a selfish intellectualism beware its pages, for this is a book of hidden mystery and power. Therefore let the mind be pure that it may invite the approach of the Pilgrim Soul and come into a new realisation of God's Omnipotence and Justice.\n \n \nClick to enlarge\nThe Polish Rider, by courtesy of the Berlin Photographic Company, London and New York.\n\"A nobleman of high rank and a great Cabalist, whose lands lie towards the frontiers of Poland.\" PAGE 9.\nPAINTED BY\nRembrandt,\n1606 A.D.--1669 A.D.","title":"Comte de Gabalis: Title Page and Front Matter","type":"page"}