A key to physic, and the occult sciences / [E. Sibly].

  • Ebenezer Sibly
Date:
1821
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    fidence in one omnipotent, fupreme, over-ruling, Power, whofe throne was the centre of all things, and the abode of angels and bleffed fpirits. To defcribe this interior heaven, in terms adequate to its magnificence and glory, is utterly impofiible. The utmofi; we can do, is to collect from the infpired writers, and from the words of Revelation, aflifted by occult philofophy, and a due know- ledge of the celeftial fpheres, that order and pofition of it, which reafon, and the divine lights we have, bring neared to the truth. That God mull be dri&ly and literally the centre, from whence all ideas of the Divine Mind flow, as rays in every diredtion, through all fpheres, and through all bodies, cannot admit of a doubt. That the inner circumference of this centre is furrounded, filled, or formed, by arrangements of the three hierarchies of angels, is alfo confonant to reafon and Scripture, and forms what may be termed the entrance or inner gate of the empy- rean heaven, through which no fpirit can pafs without their knowledge and per- million; and within which we mull fuppofe the vad expanfe or manfions of the Godhead, and glory of the Trinity, to be. This is fbri6lly conformable to the idea of all the prophets and evangelical writers. From this primary circle, or gate of heaven, Lucifer, the grand Apoftate, as Milton finely delcribes it, was hurled into the bottomleis abyfs; whofe office, as one of the higheft order of angels, having placed him near the eternal throne, he became competitor for dominion and power with God himfelf! But, Him the Almighty Pow’r Hurl’d headlong flaming from th’ ethereal Iky, With hideous ruin and combuftion, down To bottomlefs perdition, there to dwell In adamantine chains and penal fire ! Milton, Parad, Lojl, b. i. 1. 44, &c. The circles next furrounding the hierarchies, are compofed of the minidering angels and fpirits, and meflengers of the Deity. In pofitions anfwering to the ideas of the holy Trinity, and interfeaing all orders of angels, are feated, in fulnefs of glory and fplendor, thofe fuperior angels, or intelligent fpirits, w-ho anfwer to the divine attributes of God, and are the pure eflences or dream through which the will or fiat of the Godhead is communicated to the angels and fpirits, and inftantaneoufly conduced to the Anima Mundi. Round the whole, as an atmofphere round a pla- net, the Anima Mundi, or univerfal Spirit of Nature, is placed; which, receiving the impreflions or ideas of the Divine Mind, conducts them onward, to the remoted parts of the univerfe; to infinity itfelf; to, and upon, and through, all bodies, and to all God’s works. This Anima Mundi is therefore what we underdand of Nature, of Providence,
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