«The sound swells out. The hour of danger to the soul courageous draweth near. The waters have not hurt the white creator and naught could drown nor drench him. Danger from fire and» — Regla Catorce: el sonido crece y se acerca la hora de peligro para el alma valerosa; las aguas no dañaron al creador blanco, pero amenaza el fuego; la frase se corta en el salto de plana y sigue en la 20.
Hermetismo moderno
What does this tradition say about experience, knowledge and transformation? We approach these questions with consciousness as our centre, listening to the language of each source.
Gonzalo Olivares Velázquez · Spiritus Mundi
1 · Listen to the sources
How these passages were chosen: from the works assigned to this tradition, in alphabetical order, the first passage of each whose quoted words name consciousness, awareness, soul, spirit or knowledge (in English or Spanish); one per work, up to four. The choice is by vocabulary only: a passage may agree with our reading, disagree with it, or leave the question open.
«It was while most anxious to solve these perplexing problems that we came into contact with certain men, endowed with such mysterious powers and such profound knowledge that we may truly designate them as the sages of the Orient.» — la fuente declarada de *Isis Unveiled*, en primera persona del plural.
«No notebooks or reference books were ever made use of, and though I have read and thought along these lines for some years, I made no special study of that branch of esoteric science which is herein dealt with, and have only the most elementary knowledge of physics and none whatever of mathematics.» — [DION FORTUNE] declara su propia incompetencia técnica —física elemental, ninguna matemática— como parte del argumento sobre el origen del texto.
«El propósito de este no es la enunciación de una filosofía o doctrina especial, sino más bien el de dar al estudiante una exegesis de la verdad, que le sirva para conciliar los muchos tópicos de los conocimientos ocultos que puede ya haber adquirido, pero que, aparentemente, son contradictorios y paradojales, lo que a menudo desanima y disgusta al principiante.» — los Tres Iniciados fijan en voz propia el oficio del libro: no añadir doctrina, sino conciliar la que el lector ya trae y se le presenta contradictoria.
2 · Ask what each source declares
Who knows, and what is transformed? Is the relationship between inner experience and the world declared, disputed, or left open? Let the passage determine the answer before bringing it into dialogue with our reading.
Explore documented argument maps →3 · Return to the centre
For us, these paths meet in consciousness. Which passage converses with that reading, and which qualifies or contradicts it? Save it with your own note.
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