Madame Blavatsky on Empedocles of Agrigentum, Pagan Thaumaturgist
Author | : Empedocles, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky |
Publisher | : Philaletheians UK |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2023-04-10 |
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Rating | : 4/5 ( Downloads) |
Book excerpt: Empedocles was taught by Egypt’s great Hierophants. He believed that men and animals possess a dual soul. Pythagoras and Plato also make the same division. Empedocles’ dual soul followed the idea of a dual magnetic force, attraction–repulsion, throughout the universe, as confirmed by Kepler. He believed that the Monad, or “breath” of Darkness moving over “the slumbering Waters of life,” is primordial matter with the latent Spirit in it. Empedocles was an acclaimed Thaumaturgist. He recalled the dead to life. He even ruled the wind. But in the eyes of miracle-believing Christians he was an impostor.