{"collection":"Western Esoteric Texts","page":1,"pages":[{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_eso_wsl_index_htm","collection":"Western Esoteric Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_eso_wsl_index_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"| The Island of the Dead, by Arnold Bocklin [1880] (Public Domain Image) | A Wanderer in the Spirit Lands by Franchezzo (A. Farnese) [1896] | \nWhat lies beyond the land of the living? Franchezzo explores the path into a literal land of the dead.","title":"A Wanderer in the Sprit Lands Index","word_count":62},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_eso_wsl_wsl02_htm","collection":"Western Esoteric Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_eso_wsl_wsl02_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"To those who toil still in the mists and darkness of uncertainty which veil the future of their earthly lives, I dedicate this record of the Wanderings of one who has passed from earth life into the hidden mysteries of the Life Beyond, in the hope that through my experiences now given to the world, some may be induced to pause in their downward career and think ere they pass from the mortal life, as I did, with all their unrepented sins thick upon them. It is to those of my brethren who are\u2026","title":"A Wanderer in the Sprit Lands: Dedication by Author.","word_count":542},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_eso_wsl_wsl09_htm","collection":"Western Esoteric Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_eso_wsl_wsl09_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"When they had gone I turned to my companion who sat huddled in a heap, and almost stunned, in one corner of the hut, and, helping him to rise, I suggested that if he could make shift to walk a little, it would be well for us both to leave the place in case those men should think fit to return. With much pain and trouble I got him up and helped him slowly to a place of safety on the dark plain where, if we were without shelter, we were at least free from the danger of being surrounded. Then I\u2026","title":"A Wanderer in the Sprit Lands: Part I. 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I was almost like one who is deaf, dumb and blind.","title":"A Wanderer in the Sprit Lands: Part I. Days of Darkness: Chapter IV.--The Brotherhood of Hope","word_count":3104},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_eso_wsl_wsl08_htm","collection":"Western Esoteric Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_eso_wsl_wsl08_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"I had so longed for a flower. I had so loved flowers on earth and I had seen none since I saw those my darling put upon my grave. In this land there were no flowers, not even a leaf or blade of grass, not a tree or a shrub however stunted--for the dry arid soil of our selfishness had no blossom or green thing to give to any one of us; and it was when I told her this during one of the brief visits I used to pay her, and when through her own hand I was able to write short messages--it was, I say\u2026","title":"A Wanderer in the Sprit Lands: Part I. Days of Darkness: Chapter VI.--Twilight Lands--Love's Gifts--The Valley of Selfishness--The Country of Unrest--The Miser's Land--The Gambler's Land","word_count":2669},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_eso_wsl_wsl12_htm","collection":"Western Esoteric Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_eso_wsl_wsl12_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"There was likewise another teacher or guide whom I sometimes saw, whose influence over me was even greater, and from whom I learned many strange things, but as he was in a much more advanced sphere than the other, it was but seldom that I could see him as a distinct personality. His teachings came to me more as mental suggestions or inspirational discourses in answer to some questioning thought on my part. This spirit I shall not now describe to you, as at this time of my sojourn in the\u2026","title":"A Wanderer in the Sprit Lands: Part I. Days of Darkness: Chapter X.--My House in the Twilight Lands--Communion Between the Living and the Dead","word_count":1392},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_eso_wsl_wsl14_htm","collection":"Western Esoteric Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_eso_wsl_wsl14_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"I was now told that I had so far freed myself from the earth's attractions and overcome my desires for earthly things, that I was able to pass into the second sphere. The passing from the body of a lower sphere into that of a higher one is often, though not invariably, accomplished during a deep sleep which closely resembles the death-sleep of the spirit in leaving the earthly body. As a spirit grows more elevated, more etherealized, this change is accompanied by a greater degree of\u2026","title":"A Wanderer in the Sprit Lands: Part I. 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The Dawn of Light...","word_count":2417},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_eso_wsl_wsl16_htm","collection":"Western Esoteric Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_eso_wsl_wsl16_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"After this there came for me a time of happiness, a season of rest and refreshment upon which I shall not dwell; its memories are all too sacred to me, for those days were spent near to her I loved, and I had the happiness of knowing that she was conscious of much, though not all, I said to her, and I spent so much of my time on earth that I had none to explore the wonders of that Land of Dawn of which I had become an inhabitant. And now a fresh surprise awaited me. In all my wanderings since\u2026","title":"A Wanderer in the Sprit Lands: Part II. The Dawn of Light: Chapter XIV.--A Father's Love","word_count":729},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_eso_wsl_wsl17_htm","collection":"Western Esoteric Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_eso_wsl_wsl17_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"When I returned to the spirit land, my father went with me and we spent a long time together. In the course of our conversation he told me that an expedition was about to be sent from this sphere to work as \"Rescuers\" in the lowest sphere of all, a sphere below any I had yet seen and which was in truth the hell believed in by the church. How long the expedition would be absent was not known, but a certain work had to be accomplished, and like an invading army we would remain till we had\u2026","title":"A Wanderer in the Sprit Lands: Part II. 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The Kingdom of Hell: Chapter XXV.--A Pitched Battle in Hell","word_count":1913},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_eso_wsl_wsl31_htm","collection":"Western Esoteric Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_eso_wsl_wsl31_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"On one occasion when we were seated in my little home enjoying one of our many conversations, I asked him to tell me more of the spheres and their relation to the earth. \"The term spheres,\" said he, \"is, as you have seen, applied to those great belts of spiritual matter which encircle the earth and other planets. It is likewise applied to those still vaster, more extended, thought waves which circle throughout all the universe.","title":"A Wanderer in the Sprit Lands: Part IV. Through the Gates of Gold: Chapter XXIX.--The Formation of Planets","word_count":3016},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_eso_wsl_wsl30_htm","collection":"Western Esoteric Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_eso_wsl_wsl30_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"It lay beyond the peaceful lake and those hills behind which I used to watch the light of that dawning day which never seemed to grow brighter or advance in the Land of Dawn, but whose beauties belonged to this Morning Land. This land lay in an opposite direction from that range of hills beyond which lay the Plain of Remorse. Here in the Morning Land I found that I was to have a little house of my own, a something earned by myself.","title":"A Wanderer in the Sprit Lands: Part IV. 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Through the Gates of Gold: Chapter XXX.--Materialization of Spirits","word_count":3191},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_eso_wsl_wsl36_htm","collection":"Western Esoteric Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_eso_wsl_wsl36_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"My task is done, my story told, and it but remains for me to say to all who read it, that I trust they will believe it is as it professes to be, the true narrative of a repentant soul who has passed from darkness into light, and I would have them ask themselves if it might not be well to profit by the experiences of others and to weigh well the evidence for and against the possibility of the spirit's return. And you who would think the gospel of mercy after death too easy a one, too lenient to\u2026","title":"A Wanderer in the Sprit Lands: Part IV. Through the Gates of Gold: Chapter XXXIV.--Conclusion","word_count":3005},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_eso_wsl_wsl34_htm","collection":"Western Esoteric Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_eso_wsl_wsl34_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Now, some time after I obtained my little home in the Morning Land I began to see between myself and my cloud-pictures a vision which, like the mirage seen in the desert, hovered on the horizon, distinct and lifelike, only to melt away as I gazed. This was a most lovely ethereal gate of wrought gold, such as might be the entrance to some fairy land. A clear stream of water flowed between myself and this gate, while trees so fresh, so green, so aerial, they seemed like fairy trees, arched their\u2026","title":"A Wanderer in the Sprit Lands: Part IV. Through the Gates...","word_count":4346},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_eso_wsl_wsl33_htm","collection":"Western Esoteric Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_eso_wsl_wsl33_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Hassein laughed. \"I could give a dozen elaborate explanations, but neither you nor these mortals who are unable to see the spirits would be much wiser after I had done so. I must, therefore, endeavor to make my answer as free from technicalities as I can.","title":"A Wanderer in the Sprit Lands: Part IV. Through the Gates...","word_count":1558},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_eso_wsl_wsl35_htm","collection":"Western Esoteric Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_eso_wsl_wsl35_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"How can I tell of the many friends who came to visit me in this bright home, of the cities I saw in that fair land, the lovely scenes I visited? I cannot. It would take volumes, and already my narrative has reached its limits.","title":"A Wanderer in the Sprit Lands: Part IV. Through the Gates...","word_count":3189},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_eso_wsl_wsl29_htm","collection":"Western Esoteric Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_eso_wsl_wsl29_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"On our return to the Land of Dawn, we met with a right royal welcome from our Brotherhood, and a festival was given in our honor. On entering our own little rooms each of us found a new robe awaiting him. It was of a very light grey, almost white color, and the border, girdle, and device of our order--an anchor and a star upon the left sleeve--were in deep golden yellow.","title":"A Wanderer in the Sprit Lands: Part IV. 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I have had to write the words as fast as my pen could travel over the paper, and many of\u2026","title":"A Wanderer in the Sprit Lands: Preface by Transcriber.","word_count":197},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_eso_wsl_wsl00_htm","collection":"Western Esoteric Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_eso_wsl_wsl00_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"","title":"A Wanderer in the Sprit Lands: Title Page","word_count":45},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_eso_cdg_index_htm","collection":"Western Esoteric Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_eso_cdg_index_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"The core of this book is an anonymous English translation of a\nFrench 'novel of ideas' originally published in 1670. The Abb\u00e9 de Villars, the author, was a French clergyman\nborn in 1635 in Alet, near Toulouse in the south of France. He came to Paris in 1667, where he wrote a number of books,\nmost of which other than this work which have been forgotten or lost.","title":"Comte de Gabalis Index","word_count":310},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_eso_cdg_cdg02_htm","collection":"Western Esoteric Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_eso_cdg_cdg02_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Comte de Gabalis [1913]\nBefore the Abb\u00e9 de Villars met the Comte, he had been prepared for a work which has insured him the gratitude and reverence of those seekers for truth who have followed in his footsteps. May we, to-day, be as humble servants of that great ideal to which he dedicated himself, and which he set forth in a life of action and noble endurance. N.","title":"Comte de Gabalis: Abb\u00e9 N. De Montfaucon de Villars","word_count":635},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_eso_cdg_cdg09_htm","collection":"Western Esoteric Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_eso_cdg_cdg09_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Comte de Gabalis [1913]\n \n \nClick to enlarge\nAncient Persian Monument\nBy permission of the Directorate, R. R. Gallerie Di Firenze.","title":"Comte de Gabalis: Ancient Persian Monument","word_count":270},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_eso_cdg_cdg77_htm","collection":"Western Esoteric Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_eso_cdg_cdg77_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Comte de Gabalis [1913]\n\"The bond shall be broken, the Wolf 1 run free; hidden things I know; still onward I see the great Doom of the Powers, the gods of war. I see uprising a second time earth from the ocean, green anew; the waters fall, on high the eagle flies o\u2019er the fell and catches fish. The gods are gathered on the Fields of Labour; they speak concerning the great World Serpent, 2 and remember there things of former fame and the Mightiest God's old mysteries.","title":"Comte de Gabalis: Commentary Concluded: Fifth Prophecy. Elder Edda. Prophecy of World Peace and Return of the Ancient Wisdom","word_count":515},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_eso_cdg_cdg73_htm","collection":"Western Esoteric Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_eso_cdg_cdg73_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Comte de Gabalis [1913]\nIt is the opinion and belief of the majority of the most ancient sages . . .","title":"Comte de Gabalis: Commentary Concluded: First Prophecy. T...","word_count":73},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_eso_cdg_cdg76_htm","collection":"Western Esoteric Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_eso_cdg_cdg76_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Comte de Gabalis [1913]\nBut in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it. And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the Lord from\u2026","title":"Comte de Gabalis: Commentary Concluded: Fourth Prophecy. ...","word_count":212},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_eso_cdg_cdg81_htm","collection":"Western Esoteric Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_eso_cdg_cdg81_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Comte de Gabalis [1913]\nBehold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts. But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth?","title":"Comte de Gabalis: Commentary Concluded: Israels' Prophecy...","word_count":180},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_eso_cdg_cdg80_htm","collection":"Western Esoteric Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_eso_cdg_cdg80_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Comte de Gabalis [1913]\n1. \"Men have rent their great concern, one among another, into se\u00e9ts; every party rejoicing in that which is their own;\nWherefore leave them till a certain time, in their depths of error. 2.","title":"Comte de Gabalis: Commentary Concluded: Muhammed's Prophe...","word_count":129},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_eso_cdg_cdg82_htm","collection":"Western Esoteric Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_eso_cdg_cdg82_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Comte de Gabalis [1913]\nIn that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt speak the language of Canaan, and swear to the Lord of Hosts; one shall be called \"The City of the Sun.\"\nIn that day shall there be an altar * to the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the Lord. And it shall be for a Sign and for a Witness unto the Lord of Hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall cry unto the Lord because of the oppressors, and He shall send them a Saviour\u2026","title":"Comte de Gabalis: Commentary Concluded: Prophecy of the Messenger and the Stone set up in Egypt","word_count":289},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_eso_cdg_cdg74_htm","collection":"Western Esoteric Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_eso_cdg_cdg74_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Comte de Gabalis [1913]\nThe Kingdom of God shall come upon good Men; for the Earth, which is the producer of all things, shall yield to Men the best, and infinite Fruits; . . .","title":"Comte de Gabalis: Commentary Concluded: Second Prophecy. The Sibylline Prophecy of World Peace and the Reign of Justice","word_count":493},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_eso_cdg_cdg72_htm","collection":"Western Esoteric Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_eso_cdg_cdg72_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Comte de Gabalis [1913]\n\"The paternal self-begotten intellect disseminated in all things the bond of love, heavy with fire, that all things might remain loving for an infinite time ; that the connected series of things might intellectually remain in all the light of the Father ; and that the elements of the world might continue running in love.\" PROCLUS.","title":"Comte de Gabalis: Commentary Concluded: Seven Ancient Pro...","word_count":60},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_eso_cdg_cdg79_htm","collection":"Western Esoteric Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_eso_cdg_cdg79_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"MERLIN'S PROPHECY OF WORLD PEACE AND ENLIGHTENMENT. A man shall grasp the lion within the earth, and the brightness of gold shall blind the eyes of those who behold it. Silver shall be of brilliant whiteness upon the circumference and shall disturb the different wine-presses.","title":"Comte de Gabalis: Commentary Concluded: Seventh Prophecy....","word_count":3470}],"sort":"title","tag":null,"total":1168}