Isis or Nature Unveiled
The veil of Isis is the mystery of living nature
that we have not yet succeeded in penetrating
"Isis"
Digital illustration generated and composed
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'Nature is unknown to you. You do not know what a rose is, and you do not know what the earth is. Everything you see around you – forests, mountains, rivers and oceans – is no more than the outer wrappings of nature, the layers of physical matter that clothe the earth. You have to go beyond this outer aspect and learn to see and sense the vibrations and emanations of the etheric body of nature. In fact, the etheric body, too, is a cloak; we have to see even beyond this.
Only those who are capable of divesting nature of its outer garments can know truth. This was the whole purpose of the ancient initiations: to teach the disciples to draw aside the veil of Isis. In the religion of ancient Egypt the goddess Isis was the spouse of the god Osiris. She was the great feminine figure in whom the initiates saw a symbol of primordial nature, the matrix from which came all beings and all the elements of creation.
It is this mysterious nature, impenetrable by ordinary men and women, that is the principal object of study of the initiates. In order to penetrate its secrets they endeavour to understand all the forms of existence to which it has given rise and through which it manifests itself.
To speak of ‘unveiling Isis’ is to evoke an image because for an initiate true knowledge is a lifting of the veil, which consists of removing the different garments that envelop reality. If the physical body is a garment, the subtle bodies are themselves garments...
When clairvoyants practise astral projection in order to work and learn on the astral plane, they shrug off their physical bodies as though they were shrugging off a garment, and then their astral bodies can travel freely through space. But, like the physical body, the astral body too is an encumbrance, a garment that prevents us from seeing reality. Even the mental body has to be cast aside. Only then can we be utterly naked and free, with no barrier between ourselves and truth. To think that there is any other way to know truth is like thinking you could know someone simply because you had passed them in the street. No, in order to know someone you have to go beyond the barrier of not only their clothes but also their different bodies, until you reach the spirit. When we enter the region of the spirit we are entering a region of forces without form, an ocean of life and joy, in which we are free to breathe and to expand without limits.
Only the spirit is naked and needs no clothes. It puts on clothes when it wants to manifest on the material plane, but when it is ‘at home’ it undresses.
So, the veil that conceals Isis is the mystery of living nature that we have not yet pierced. And when I speak of nature, I include human nature, for human nature too is hidden by veils. This is why it is so difficult for human beings to know themselves and each other. True knowledge requires us to rise to the sublime regions of the spirit. Only when we cease to see ourselves and others through the distorting lens of our opaque bodies will we be able to see the true immensity, light and splendour of human beings on the higher, sublime planes.
To those who are able, through discipline, prayer, and self-denial, to fulfill the demands of the spirit, Isis will reveal herself.'
"Nature in us"
Digital painting generated and composed
© Editions Prosveta S.A.
(click to zoom)
"Isis"
Digital illustration generated and composed
© Editions Prosveta S.A.
(click to zoom)
'Nature is unknown to you. You do not know what a rose is, and you do not know what the earth is. Everything you see around you – forests, mountains, rivers and oceans – is no more than the outer wrappings of nature, the layers of physical matter that clothe the earth. You have to go beyond this outer aspect and learn to see and sense the vibrations and emanations of the etheric body of nature. In fact, the etheric body, too, is a cloak; we have to see even beyond this.
Only those who are capable of divesting nature of its outer garments can know truth. This was the whole purpose of the ancient initiations: to teach the disciples to draw aside the veil of Isis. In the religion of ancient Egypt the goddess Isis was the spouse of the god Osiris. She was the great feminine figure in whom the initiates saw a symbol of primordial nature, the matrix from which came all beings and all the elements of creation.
It is this mysterious nature, impenetrable by ordinary men and women, that is the principal object of study of the initiates. In order to penetrate its secrets they endeavour to understand all the forms of existence to which it has given rise and through which it manifests itself.
To speak of ‘unveiling Isis’ is to evoke an image because for an initiate true knowledge is a lifting of the veil, which consists of removing the different garments that envelop reality. If the physical body is a garment, the subtle bodies are themselves garments...
When clairvoyants practise astral projection in order to work and learn on the astral plane, they shrug off their physical bodies as though they were shrugging off a garment, and then their astral bodies can travel freely through space. But, like the physical body, the astral body too is an encumbrance, a garment that prevents us from seeing reality. Even the mental body has to be cast aside. Only then can we be utterly naked and free, with no barrier between ourselves and truth. To think that there is any other way to know truth is like thinking you could know someone simply because you had passed them in the street. No, in order to know someone you have to go beyond the barrier of not only their clothes but also their different bodies, until you reach the spirit. When we enter the region of the spirit we are entering a region of forces without form, an ocean of life and joy, in which we are free to breathe and to expand without limits.
"Nature in us"
Digital painting generated and composed
© Editions Prosveta S.A.
(click to zoom)
Only the spirit is naked and needs no clothes. It puts on clothes when it wants to manifest on the material plane, but when it is ‘at home’ it undresses.
So, the veil that conceals Isis is the mystery of living nature that we have not yet pierced. And when I speak of nature, I include human nature, for human nature too is hidden by veils. This is why it is so difficult for human beings to know themselves and each other. True knowledge requires us to rise to the sublime regions of the spirit. Only when we cease to see ourselves and others through the distorting lens of our opaque bodies will we be able to see the true immensity, light and splendour of human beings on the higher, sublime planes.
To those who are able, through discipline, prayer, and self-denial, to fulfill the demands of the spirit, Isis will reveal herself.'
Text taken from the book "In Spirit and in Truth", chap. 7 "Contemplating the Truth: Isis Unveiled".
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