The Kabbala, or, The true science of light : an introduction to the philosophy and theosophy of the ancient sages : together with a chapter on light in the vegetable kingdom / by S. Pancoast.
- Pancoast, S. (Seth), 1823-1889
- Date:
- 1883
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The Kabbala, or, The true science of light : an introduction to the philosophy and theosophy of the ancient sages : together with a chapter on light in the vegetable kingdom / by S. Pancoast. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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![have seen, represents man as the Synthesis; it com- prehends, too, all musical and arithmetical propor- tions, and illustrates or denotes the system of the world. Pythagoras defines God to be absolute Verity, or Truth clothed with Light, and The Word em- bodied in the Light is the power that manifests forms; or to state it differently: The Word is the Divine Executive, and at the same time the Revealer of the mysteries of the Divine Will, the hidden things of God. No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the JFather, he hath declared [i^yrjaaro — shown out or manifested ] him. Pythagoras was one of the most remarkable men of his day; not only was he learned in the ordinary sense beyond his time, but he was a Kabbalist of the highest order. He is said to have been initiated into the Divine secrets of Nature by Daniel and Ezekiel; he was subsequently, after much opposition, admitted to the Egyptian mysteries upon the personal recom- mendation of King Amosis. His Tetractys is a fair illustration of his thorough acquaintance with Theosophic Science, as well as of his independence of thought. But the most notable fact we know of him was his knowledge of the truth in relation to the movements of the heavenly bodies which science did not make known for centuries after his death, and, if he was mistaken in reference to some of the details, his substantial correctness was none the less wonder- ful. He was the founder of the renowned School of Crotona, upon the south-eastern coast of Italy, about 500 B. c. He held that the Sun is the centre of the s D](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21071317_0062.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
