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
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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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    and providence; He shed beams of that sublime Light into holy men of old, illuminating them to see and know the mysteries of Creation, Providence and Redemption, and thus inspired them to pen the Sacred Scriptures; but the natural man could not receive the things of the Spirit of God because they are spiritually discerned, and men were disposed to wrest the Scriptures to their own destruction. And now God further testified the infinitude of His love, in that He illuminated men with the same Celestial Light to see and know and interpret the mysteries of the two Revelations. It is also worthy of note that no inconsiderable number of the discoveries of Scientific seekers within modern times are but recoverings of old truths that were once known and forgotten; Pythagoras, as Ave have stated in the preceding chapter, knew the facts concerning our solar system, and that the stars were suns with systems similar to ours; that the planets were worlds peopled and probably much like the one we inhabit. Anaximander, too, of the School of Miletus, earlier than Pythagoras, taught much the same. Numa Pompilius knew of Electricity and the laws governing it; Pliny tells an ancient tradition of Pompilius : that he used an electric battery with suc- cess against a monster named Volta who had desolated the countries belonging to Rome. [Query—Can this Phoenician Volta be a myth, or a reality? can the name of the Voltaic Pile date back to the time of Numa Pompilius, the sixth century before Christ, or can the Italian physicist have had any association with the monster of Pliny?]