That’s the whole problem of life. Is it a circle or a spiral?

Florence Farr, The Dancing Faun [also]

Hermetic quote Farr Faun problem

Consider also:

  1. “No, no, the energy of life may be Kept on beyond the grave, but not begun, And he who flagged not in the earthly strife From strength to strength advancing, only he His soul well knit and all his battles won, Mounts, and that hardly, to eternal life.”
  2. “The beatitude of the Justified KHOU was by no means purely contemplative. The inscription on the obelisk of Queen Hatshepsu (sometimes spelled Hatshepset) speaks of them as holding converse with the ungenerated souls during the one hundred and twenty years that the latter circle round the Sun. They had the power to take all imaginable forms, or to move hither and thither as they pleased.”
  3. “Proclus in Timaeus book v., page 330 says, speaking of the BAIE, Spirit: ‘Her seeds are hurled into the realms of generation; and she must purify herself from circumjacent fluctuations of matter. For she contains two-fold powers, one leading to generation the other from generation to true being. The one leads her round the Genesiurgic, the other round the intellectual circle.'”
  4. “The Egyptian Adepts regarded the conceptions of the mind, the aspirations of the soul, the words of the mouth and the functions of the body, as possessing analogies from which a complete system of rules of life and death could be constructed.”
  5. “And the KA or Ego had to return to the HAMMEMIT in the Place of Spirits and await the time when it might again have a chance of regenerating matter Astral and Material, and become of the number of these ‘Shining Ones,’ who are set like Jewels in the Diadem of the LORD OF SPIRIT AND LIFE, MADE ONE.”