Magnus Limbus

 

This Magnus Limbus, then, or Yliaster of Paracelsus, is simply our old friend "Father-Mother," within, before it appeared in Space, of the second and other Stanzas. It is the universal matrix of Kosmos, personified in the dual character of Macro- and Microcosm (or the Universe and our Globe)** by Aditi-Prakriti, the Spiritual and the physical nature. For we find it explained in Paracelsus that "the Magnus Limbus is the nursery out of which all creatures have grown, in the same sense as a tree grows out of a small seed; with the difference, however, that the great Limbus takes its origin from the Word, while the Limbus minor (the terrestrial seed or sperm) takes it from the earth

"I adjure thee, Heaven, holy work of the great God; I adjure thee, Voice of the Father, uttered in the beginning when the universal world is framed; I adjure thee by the word, only Son of the Father who upholds all things; be favourable, be favourable."

"Thus the Ideal Light is before the Ideal Light, and the luminous Intelligence of Intelligence is always, and its unity is nothing else than the Spirit enveloping the Universe. Out of whom is neither God nor Angels, nor any other essentials, for He is the Lord of all things and the power and the Light; and all pens on Him (It) and is in Him (It), etc." (Fragments of the writings of Hermes to Ammon.)

 Reality is not upon the earth, my son, and it cannot be thereon. . . . Nothing on earth is real, there are only appearances. . . He (man) is not real, my son, as man. The real consists solely in itself and remains what it is. . . Man is transient, therefore he is not real, he is yet appearance, and appearance is the supreme illusion.

The mysterious power of thought which enables it to produce external, perceptible, phenomenal results by its own inherent energy. The ancients held that any idea will manifest itself externally if one's attention is deeply concentrated upon it. Similarly an intense volition will be followed by the sired result.