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Title: Blue and red light: or, Light and its rays as medicine; showing that light is the original and sole source of life, as it is the source of all the physical and vital forces in nature; and that light is nature's own and only remedy for disease ... together with a chapter on light in the vegetable kingdom
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Pancoast, S. (Seth), 1823-1889
Subjects: Light, Colored Phototherapy
Publisher: Philadelphia, J. M. Stoddart & co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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f the Kabbala; indeedthere are passages which indicate that John was aKabbalist of a high order. Among these we mustcite one; he tells us of a most remarkable vision :And there appeared a great wonder in heaven, awoman clothed with the sun, and the moon under herfeet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars, etc.The Rosierucians call the Light of the Celestial Sunthe Divine Sophia, Wisdom/ because of its purity andits passivity in matter. The Egyptian Kabbalists calledthis light Isis, and represented Isis as a pure woman;as the Light of the Celestial Sun is invisible to meremortals, seen only by the subjective sight of the illu-minated, they clothed Isis with an objective Sun; asthe Celestial Sun is greatness and majesty, theyplaced under the feet of Isis the Crescent, beneathwhich, but outside the sacred circle, was a vanquishedFiery Serpent; then, as a token of the supremacy ofTipherolh in the universe, they surrounded the headof Isis with a halo of twelve Stars. (See the Frontis-
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ANCIENT IDEAS OF LIGHT AND HEA V. 33 piece.) Doubtless, our reader readily sees Sophia ofthe Rosicrucians and Isis of the Egyptian Kabbalistsin Johns vision of the wondrous woman, and if heread Johns narrative of that vision a little farther hewill find the vanquished Serpent beneath Isiss feetin the Apocalyptic great red dragon. The figureof Isis clothed with the Sun is one of the most inter-esting of the symbolic pictures of the Kabbala; whena person by self-denial, meditation and devotion hasattained to the high privilege of subjective vision, hesees Isis or the Light of the subjective Sun—this is lifting the Veil of Isis. The Celestial Sun, we have seen, is the fourth &-pliira; the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth, called re-spectively Chesed, Strength, Geburah, u Beauty,Netsah, Firmness, and Hod, Splendor, representfour of the component colors of Light: Red, Yellow,Green and Blue; the Kabbalists fully understood thecolors, their influence in Light and in Nature, theirdistin

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