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Unto you shall the sun
of righteousness arise with healing in his wings, this
is the sun of righteousness in whose wings healing shall
be displayed.
-- Malachi 4:2
*** Cor. III. 17, which
says "God is a spirit," should be interpreted: God is a
winged entity in an entirely zoological sense. God has
wings and flies (Ps. XVI.8; XVII.11; XXXV.8). In Ps.
LXIII.6-7 we read: "I remember you under the esmerot,
you are my 'ezer, in the shadow (sel) of your wings I
rejoice."
-- Theozoology, or the
Science of the Sodomite Apelings and the Divine Electron, by Dr.
Jorg Lanz von Liebenfels
*** "If ... it is
a soul which hath not hearkened unto the counterfeiting
spirit in all its works, but hath become good and hath
received the mysteries of the Light which are in the
second space or even those which are in the third space
which is within, when the time [of the coming-forth] of
that soul out of the body is completed, then the
counterfeiting spirit followeth that soul, it and the
destiny; and it followeth it on the way on which it will
go above. And before it removeth itself above, it
uttereth the mystery of the undoing of the seals and all
the bonds of the counterfeiting spirit with which the
rulers have bound it to the soul; and when it is
uttered, the bonds of the counterfeiting spirit undo
themselves, and it ceaseth to come into that soul and
releaseth the soul according to the commandments which
the rulers of the great Fate have commanded it, saying:
'Release not this soul until it tell thee the mystery of
the undoing of all the seals with which we have bound
thee to the soul.' And in that moment
that soul becometh a great light-stream, it becometh entirely wings of
light, and penetrateth all the regions of the rulers and all the orders
of the Light, until it reacheth the region of its kingdom up to which it
hath received mysteries."
-- Pistis Sophia: A
Gnostic Miscellany, translated by G.R.S. Mead
*** In the ancient theology of Greece, preserved in the Orphic Fragments,
this Deity,
the Ερως πρωτογονος, or first-begotten Love, is said to have been
produced,
together with Ęther, by Time, or Eternity (Κρονος), and Necessity (Αναγχη),
operating upon inert matter (Χαος). He is described as eternally
begetting
(αειγνητης); the Father of Night, called in later times, the lucid or
splendid,
(φανης), because he first appeared in splendour; of a double nature, (διφυης),
as
possessing the general power of creation and generation, both active and
passive,
both
male and female. Light is his necessary and primary
attribute, co-eternal with himself, and with him brought forth from
inert matter
by necessity. Hence the purity and sanctity always attributed to light
by the
Greeks. He is called the Father of Night, because by attracting the
light to
himself, and becoming the fountain which distributed it to the world, he
produced
night, which is called eternally-begotten, because it had eternally
existed,
although mixed and lost in the general mass. He is said to pervade the
world
with the motion of his wings, bringing pure light; and thence to be
called the
splendid, the ruling Priapus, and Self-illumined (αντανγης)....Wings
are figuratively attributed to him as being the emblems
of swiftness and incubation; by the first of which he
pervaded matter, and by the second fructified the egg of
Chaos.
-- A Discourse on the
Worship of Priapus: And Its Connection with the Mystic
Theology of the Ancients, by Richard Payne Knight |
