ABSTRACT
LET us now conceive the Vital Spirit theurgically purified and freed through sacrifice
of all foreign attractions, revolving about its centre and having power active and passive in hypostatic union always about to generate the infinite fulness which it contains and draws; as even now we approach, carrying along with us the body of our Sphinx, subdued and contrite, to the gate of the first Adytum; where we would contemplate awhile, in the vestibule, admiring at the Tears of Isis, even that blessed Water which Nature sheds divinely for the world. For not aU was vaporous vision, as we have shown, or mere ideality on the internal ground; but experience there was present with power and effect in substance to bear it witness.
