Corpus Henneticum. 1.30; 13.4. Cf. Eliphas Levi (Dogma and Ritual, 158): "To sleep awake is to see the Astral Light.”
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Cf. Proelus, Commentary on the Cratylus, 82, 133; V Macehioro, Heraclitus, 128-29.
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Heraclitus (frag. 26 Diels) says: "Man lights his own Light when he extinguishes himself each night And though living, he visits death when his eyes close in slumber.”
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Brihadaranyaka-Upanishad, 2 1 15-17 We might also recall the "radiant white" color acquired by the robe of Christ at the moment of his transfiguration, (Luke 9:29).
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' Znhar, 1.83b.
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■ Bhagavad-Gitn. 2.69. Recall also that "Buddha" is nor a name but a title it means "The Awakened One”—and refers to the supersensible experience that the enlightened have during the four warcbes of the night. Cf Evola, The Doctrine of the Awakening.
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Gen. 32:24-30.
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K Pemety, Diccionmure, 33,
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Cf. Philaleches (Epist. di Ripley. §51): "In this work our Diana is our Body, when it is mixed with Water.” He adds rhar rhe Diana has a toresr, because ''in whire rhe body produces vegetation" fa symbolism we have aleady explained, p. 84). The hermetic Actcon, as contrasted to the classical myth, does not suffer punishment for having seen Diana naked. Diana, as raiser of Apollo, means that this propitious state, in its turn, favors die supreme state that will follow the solar stage.
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Triomphc Hermecique, BPC, 3:276 We could draw one parallel, among orbers, in rhe possibly esoteric interpretation of this passage from the Song of Songs (2:13-14): "Arise, my dove, my friend, my wife. Hasten to come to rhe crevices of rhe rock, ro rhe deprh of rhe Scone."
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Ct. Della Riviera (Mondo magico, 95): "The very pure and simple magical land, that compared to the other [impure and unclean], is like the radiant and true solar body compared to opaque shadow.”
