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Extraordinarily rich and expressively rendered, Ilene Meyer's oil paintings wrap viewers in the mists and myths of creation, exploring fantastical creatures and imaginary landscapes with piercing clarity and passion. As surreal as Picasso or Dali, as evocative as Georgia O'Keeffe, this glossy gallery introduces sci-fi and New Age visualists to the first full-scale retrospective collection of Meyer's work. Invoking themes of ecology, conservation, culture, and civilization, Meyer's paintings pronounce that all existence is interconnected and that all souls are intertwined. Already a cultural sensation in Japan and the subject of numerous articles and interviews and a documentary film, Meyer is perfectly primed to enchant America with her bold, painterly style. This is the first collection of Ilene Meyer paintings to be published in the U.S.
Harmonise your soul with the soul of the human family and all creatures. The Divine Spirit in man, hitherto shunned from the crass material world, has finally awakened and is about to assert its rights to recognition. The Spirit in man is turned by pride into a blind wanderer, like a buffoon mocked by a host of other buffoons, and remains unheard and unheeded in the darkness of matter. The death struggle between Mysticism and Materialism is now raging. The voice of human soul proclaims the resurrection of the Divine Spirit in the foremost representatives of thought and learning. Books do not represent one man: they are the mirror of a host of men. Those who, amidst the wholesale worship of m...
True prayer is unselfish love of humanity. It is an act of will and a command but, unless enacted, prayer is pathetic. Prayers should be for blessings on all that lives. We shall be able to pray to Him properly, only when we approach by ourselves alone to the Alone. Our prayers and supplications are vain, unless to potential words we add potent acts. And thus make the aura which surrounds each one of us so pure and divine that the God within us may act outwardly, or in other words, become as it were an extraneous potency. To produce beneficial effects, the prayer must be uttered by “one who knows how to make himself heard in silence,” when it is no longer a “prayer” but a command. A clear conscience and a firm desire of benefiting humanity afford the best protection from air elementals, which throng public places. Loud prayers are disastrous. Woe to the unholy man who invokes the Sacred Trinity for personal advancement or pronounces It after the commission of some far-reaching sin. The Devotional Prayers of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and Alexander Pope.
Occult philosophy is the key to all divine obscurities, and the absolute queen of society in those ages when it was reserved exclusively for the education of priests and kings. The multitude never conspires except against real powers; it possesses not the knowledge of what is true, but it has the instinct of what is strong. Emperor Julian was the Don Quixote of Roman Chivalry. Julian and Socrates were put to death for the same crime. Why do priests and potentates tremble? What secret power threatens tiaras and crowns? Magic, as a science, is the knowledge of the metaphysical principles, and of the way by which the omniscience and omnipotence of the spirit and its control over nature’s f...
Our prime duty is to love our brother as ourselves, and to preserve peace and harmony around him. Then we have to discover what we ourselves can do, without judging or criticizing the actions of another. We should attend strictly to our own duty at all times. Discharging the duty of another is dangerous for us. More! We should be ever ready to help out equally foe or friend, without any desire for reward or recognition. He who considers himself a Karmic agent, for any purpose, is a fool. It would be wiser for all students to embrace every opportunity to act in a manner that fosters true brotherhood. Those fools who run about pretending to be sages and adepts will pay dearly for their presumption.
Matter is Mother and vice versa. Undifferentiated matter is composed of indestructible atoms; differentiated matter is destructible in form. The Circle of Life becomes triangular by hypothecating Absoluteness; the right line represents a metaphysical synthesis; the left, a physical one. When Mother Nature shall have made of her body the horizontal line joining these two, then will be the moment of the awakening of cosmic activity. In the manifested world, “the highest sees through the eye of the lowest.” First Logos is the real Pythagorean Tetractys. It is the Esoteric Logos of the Invisible Monad. Tetragrammaton is Logos Demiourgos; it is the Tetractys of the profane. In occult symbolis...