Thus you can of yourself determine the mode, the dignity, and
the success, which are most worthy of the hunter and the hunted.
Therefore the enthusiast boasts of being the prey of Diana, to whom he
rendered himself, and of whom he considers himself the accepted consort,
and happy as a captive and a subject. Why, he envies no man (for there
is none that can have more) or any other god that can have that species
which is impossible to be obtained by an inferior nature, and therefore
is not worthy to be desired, nor can one hunger after it.
[S] There is no potentiality for creation, or self-consciousness, in
a pure Spirit on this our plane, unless its too homogeneous,
perfect, because Divine, nature is, so to say, mixed with, and
strengthened by, an essence already differentiated. It is only the
lower line of the Triangle--representing the first triad that
emanates from the Universal Monad--that can furnish this needed
consciousness on the plane of differentiated Nature.--("The Secret
Doctrine.")
CES. I have well understood all that you have said, and you have more
than satisfied me. Now it is time to return home.
MAR. Well.
=Third Dialogue=.
_Interlocutors_:
LIBERIO. LAODONIO.
LIB. Reclining in the shade of a cypress-tree, the enthusiast finding
his mind free from other thoughts, it happened that the heart and the
eyes spoke together as if they were animals and substances of different
intellects and senses, and they made lament of that which was the
beginning of his torment and which consumed his soul.
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