Índice Geral das Seções Índice da Seção Atual Índice da Obra Anterior: VII - Sobre a Queda Seguinte: IX - Sobre a Profecia do Livro de Ester
Nº. VIII
CONCERNING THE PROPHECY OF THE DELUGE (1)
WHEN reading this morning the work of Eliphas Levi on “Magic,” I came upon the following sentence:
– “In the Zohar, one of the chief books of the holy
Kabbala, it is written, ‘The Magic Serpent, son of the Sun, was about to
devour the World, when the Sea, daughter of the Moon, put her foot on his head
and crushed him.’”
At this instant a
writing was presented to my spiritual
eyes, in which I read the following explanation of
the Deluge of Noah: –
“‘The Flood came,’ says the Scripture, ‘and swept away the wicked.’ The Flood,
therefore, is not the wickedness itself, as some have supposed, but that which
destroyed wickedness, and bore the righteous unharmed on its bosom. The Flood is
Aphrodite the Sea-queen and Maria the Star of the Sea; or, as the name
signifies, Sea-salt, or Bitterness of the Deep. ‘The Woman shall crush the head
of the Serpent.’ Maria, the God-woman, or feminine presentation of the supreme
power and goodness, delivers mankind and destroys evildoers. She is the Water of
Regeneration; the Sea through which, as Paul the Mystic says, we must all pass.
She was in the beginning, because she is God, and the Spirit of God, or Divine
Cloud, dwelt upon her. ‘We all passed through the Sea and through the Cloud.’
Jesus the Saviour went down into her, and received in her His chrism, while at
the same time the Divine Hermes overshadowed Him.
“Maria the Sea is the water mystically appointed for the washing away of Sin.
Therefore as the Flood she purifies the world, and bears on her immaculate
breast the
And when I had read this, it was
impressed on my mind as a prophecy having special significance for the present
age.
Footnotes
(19:1)
(20:1) Like Eve, Maria and the Sea are
mystical synonyms for the Soul, which is called “Bitterness of the Deep” because
– consisting of the universal substance – she attains her perfection through
painful experience. Concerning Hermes, see Part II, Nos. XII and XIII (6).
E.M.
Índice Geral das Seções Índice da Seção Atual Índice da Obra Anterior: VII - Sobre a Queda Seguinte: IX - Sobre a Profecia do Livro de Ester