The will, says Van Helmont, is the first of all powers. For - TopicsExpress



          

The will, says Van Helmont, is the first of all powers. For through the will of the Creator all things were made and put in motion ... The will is the property of all spiritual beings, and displays itself in them the more actively the more they are freed from matter. And Paracelsus, the divine, as he was called, adds in the same strain: Faith must confirm the imagination, for faith establishes the will. ... Determined will is the beginning of all magical operations. ... Because men do not perfectly imagine and believe the result is that the arts are uncertain, while they might be perfectly certain. Both Van Helmont and Paracelsus agree as to the great potency of the will in the state of ecstasy; they say that the spirit is everywhere diffused; and the spirit is the medium of magnetism; that pure primeval magic does not consist in superstitious practices and vain ceremonies, but in the imperial will of man. It is not the spirits of heaven and of hell which are the masters over physical nature, but the soul and spirit of man which are concealed in him as the fire is concealed in the flint. ~ Theosophy
Posted on: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 01:20:00 +0000

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