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Adonai, the Manifestor
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ALL things are formed of the Divine Substance,
which is the Divine idea.
2. Therefore all things are one, as
God is one.
3. And every monad of the Divine
Substance hath in itself the potency of twain, as God is twain in one.
4. And every monad which is manifest, is manifest by the evolution of its Trinity.
5. For thus only can it bear record
of itself, and become cognisable as an entity.
6. There are three which bear record
in the Holy of Holies, – the Spirit, the Water, and the Word, – and these three
are one.
7. And there are three which bear
record in the outer world, – the life, the soul, and the body, – and these three
agree in one.
8. As is God, so is all which goes
forth from God.
9. From the
imponderable particles of physical light, to the molecules of the lead of the
outermost circle. [D]
10. All things in heaven and in earth
are of God, both the invisible and the visible.
11. Such as is the invisible, is the
visible also, for there is no boundary line betwixt spirit and matter.
12. Matter is spirit made exteriorly
cognisable by the force of the Divine Word.
13. And when God shall resume all
things by love, the material shall be resolved into the spiritual, and there
shall be a new heaven and a new earth.
14. Not that matter shall be
destroyed, for it came forth from God, and is of God indestructible and eternal.
15. But it shall be indrawn and
resolved into its true self.
16. It shall put off corruption, and
remain incorruptible.
17. It shall put off mortality, and
remain immortal.
18. So that
nothing be lost of the Divine substance.
19. It was material entity: it shall
be spiritual entity.
20. For
there is nothing which can go out from the presence of God.
21. This is the doctrine of the
resurrection of the dead: that is, the transfiguration of the body. [O]
22. For the body, which is matter, is
but the manifestation of spirit: and the Word of God shall transmute it into its
inner being.
23. The will of God is the alchemic
crucible: and the dross which is cast therein is matter.
24. And the dross shall become pure
gold, seven times refined; even perfect spirit.
25. It shall leave behind it nothing:
but shall be transformed into the Divine image.
26. For it is not a new substance:
but its alchemic polarity is changed, and it is converted.
27. But except it
were
gold in its true nature, it could not be resumed into the aspect of gold.
28. And except
matter were spirit, it could not revert to spirit.
29. To make gold, the alchemist must
have gold.
30. But he knows that to be gold
which others take to be dross.
31. Cast thyself into the will of
God, and thou shalt become as God.
32. For thou art God, if thy will be
the Divine will.
33. This is the great secret: it is
the mystery of redemption.
(143:1) “The term manifest relates only to
the physical senses. The ‘Vision of Adonai’ (...) is beheld by the eyes of the
interior and substantial man.” (E.M. Article in The Unknown World, 1894, p. 14). See Part III, “Concerning the Divine Image.”
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