Some Mystical Adventures

By George R.S. Mead (1863-1933).

338 Pages | Photo copy of the first 1910 edition, J. Watkins, London | Kessinger Publishing Company, Montana U.S.A. | ISBN: 1564593592.

From Chapter I - 'As Above, So Below':

"Heaven above, heaven below; stars above, stars below; all that is above thus also below."

- Kircher, Prodrom. Copt. pp. 193 & 275.

'As above, so below'. Is this great 'word' a sacramental phrase, a saying of wisdom, an aphorism, a mystic formula, a fundamental law; or a two-edged sword of word-fence, that will probably do the wielder serious damage, if he is not first put through careful training in its handling - which?

Whether this saying is of Hermetic origin or no, we will not stay formally to inquire. In essence it is probably as old as human thought itself; and, as probably, the idea lying underneath it has been turned topsy-turvy more frequently than any other of the immortal company.

CONTENTS:

1. As Above, So Below
2. Heresy
3. The elasticity of the permanent body
4. The immensities
5. Heirs of the Ages
6. The Master
7. Initiation
8. A measure of what Wisdom means to me
9. Adumbrations
10. The heroic life
11. On the track of Spirituality
12. Guesses at what to expect
13. On the art of symbolism
14. The Self-taught
15. On the way of the Path
16. Mystic reality
17. The deathless race
18. Mystic cosmogony
19. Some elementary speculations
20. On the nature of the Quest.