{"collection":"Esoteric & Occult","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/eso/vow/vow25.htm","path":"eso/vow/vow25.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/eso/vow/vow25.htm","text":"The Virgin of the World, by Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland, [1884]\nIF thou reflectest, O King, thou wilt perceive that there are incorporeal corporealites. Which are they? says the King. Corporealites which appear in mirrors; are they not incorporeal?\nIt is true, Tat, says the King; thou hast a marvellous fancy!\nThere are yet other incorporealities; for instance, abstract forms, what say you to them? Are they not in themselves incorporeal? yet they are manifest in animated and inanimated corporealities.\nTrue again, Tat.\nSo then there is a reflexion of incorporealities upon corporealities, and of corporealities on incorporealities. In other words, the Sensible World and the Ideal World reflect each other. Adore, then, the sacred images, O King, for they also are reflective forms of the Sensible World.\nThen the King rose and said, Methinks, prophet, it is time to look after our guests; to-morrow, we can continue this theological controversy. 1\n[When\n107:1 As I read the above fragment, it is written in a spirit of mirth. Tat is quibbling with the King, as the manner of their talk plainly shows. Nevertheless, an undercurrent of occult meaning runs through the speech of the son of Trismegistos. When he names the sacred images, the allusion intended is to the cultus of the Mysteries.--A.K.","title":"The Virgin of the World: The Definitions of Asclepios: Pa...","type":"page"}