The power that truly made the soul of the ancient Greek tremble and filled it with a mystical sense was Dionysus — a god almost forgotten today, who has been reduced to the patron of winemaking.
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The peculiarity of Kabbalah as it exists today lies precisely in its fusion of the pantheistic constructions of Neoplatonism and the mythic motifs of Gnosticism with the Jewish faith in the Bible as a world of symbols.
The Gnostic god Abraxas expresses the creative will of the Absolute, permeating the Cosmos, the world’s sharp striving for existence.
For the ancient person, the gods were a living, objective reality not because Jungian psychology had yet to be conceived, but because they grasped the principle of analogy underlying manifestation.
The soul is understood as the product of the spirit’s action upon the body, “ensouled matter,” which arises as a potentiality at the very beginning of creation, and, as the potentials of the monads are realized, grows.
According to the magical myth, behind each element stands an entity that governs it — a deity or a ministering spirit — for whom that element is as much a “middle part” as the human’s “outer body”.
The immutable part of an object is commonly called that object’s “matrix”; the Gnostics called it the “logos”, the absolute model, and the ancient Sumerians called such a matrix “Me”.
Not every manipulation of the energies of the dead can be classified as necromancy. Unlike coercive, violent summonings, the tradition also knew of a voluntary renunciation of ordinary disembodiment.
On the one hand, beings whose level of mind permits free interaction with one another may exist at four stages of development of mind, and on the other hand, each such level (traditionally called a “wave of life”) inevitably includes four sublevels.
The very debate over the authenticity of such sources draws wide attention to the revival (or reconstruction) of paganism itself, and thus expands the horizon of myths available to the human mind.
“Enochian” rituals, despite their effectiveness and apparent safety, must be evaluated by the practitioner far more carefully than even the boldest Goetic operations, for the danger of deception and traps within them is extraordinarily high.
Beside a person there exists a force perceived as external to them that performs certain protective and tutelary functions.
No people, apart from the Greeks—and not the early, radiant Greeks, but the later ones who had come into contact with Egypt and Chaldea and been seared by their wisdom—captured so precisely the Spirit of the Day-Luminant: the one who illuminates, mercilessly reveals secrets, scorches, and is self-sufficient in his perfection.