23 M Berthelot. ies origins de l'dchimie (Paris, iSHA). 10, 17-19.
44
Philalerhes. Epist. di Ripley, §8.
45
De occulta philosophic. 2:60; 3:82.
46
Enncads, 4.42.26.
47
Gt. in M Berrhelot, Collection des anciens aichimistes grecques (Baris, 1887). 2:284 (hereafter cited as CAG).
48
97Corpus Hertnericum, 9.4; of. Boehm?, Aurora. 11. §72: "The soul of man sees much more deeply than the angels, because it sees as much of heaven as of hell"; and he adds that "because of that man lives in great danger in this world." In rhe Scpher Yeczirah (chap. 6) the seat of the heart is assimilated to that of the " King in war."
49
:‘,s Corpus Hermeucum 10.24-25,
50
79 By way of constituting the figure Y schematically, which is the sign of ” Cosmic-man-with-upraised- arms," one of the fundamental symbol? of the Hyperborean, Nordic-Atlantic tradition has been preserved as a rune (Rune of Lite) in the Nurse-Teutonic tradition.
51
Hippolytus, i?tulosophumena, 5.8, Tills Mariam is evidently the equivalent of the symbolic '’woman" with whom the "Philosophers" joined, the "Virgin” who is mentioned in this passage of dEspagnet (Arcanum htrmccicae philosophise opus, §58, in BCC2): "Take a winged Virgin, impregnated with the semen of the First Male but still preserving the glory of her virginity intact"; whose meaning is, in rum,
52
The best known exponent of this concept is O. Spcngkr (The Decline of the West). Since de Gobineau. this rheorv has had further developments in connection with the doctrine of race.
53
In face, the extraordinary idea of a continuous evolution could only have been bom of an exclusive contemplation of the material and technical aspects of civilizations, completely overlooking their qualitative and spiritual elements.
5 The source for the precise concept of ''traditional civilization" as opposed to "modern” is Rene Gnenon’s The Crisis of the Modem World (London, 1942)
54
O. F. W Schilling, Einlcicung in die Philosophic dcr My ho logic in Sainmckc Werke, 2:192, 21517 222; also C. Puini, Imroduzionc si la magia (Lanciano, 1919), 3:66.
