{"collection":"Esoteric & Occult","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/eso/cdg/cdg83.htm","path":"eso/cdg/cdg83.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/eso/cdg/cdg83.htm","text":"Comte de Gabalis [1913]\nAll-bounteous god, by whom the soul is freed\n From Generation\u2019s dark corporeal bands,\n Assist THY OFFSPRING borne on mental wings,\n Beyond the reach of guileful Nature\u2019s hands\n Swift to ascend, and gain thy beauteous world.\n The subtle vestment of my soul refine,\n Etherial, firm, and full of sacred light,\n Her ancient vehicle by thee assign\u2019d\n In which invelop\u2019d, thro\u2019 the starry orbs,\n Urg\u2019d by the impulse of insane desire,\n She fail\u2019d precipitate, till Lethe\u2019s shore,\n Involv\u2019d in night, unhappily she touch\u2019d,\n And lost all knowledge of her pristine state.\n\u2019Tis thine, from multitude exempt, t\u2019 inspire\n In forms subordinate, prophetic truth;\n For truth and pure simplicity are one:\n And of preserving unpolluted power,\n Thy liberated essence is the source.\"\nEXTRACTS FROM THE EMPEROR JULIAN'S ORATION TO THE SOVEREIGN SUN.","title":"Comte de Gabalis: Hymn To The Sovereign Sun","type":"page"}