A Record of the Commemoration, June Twenty-First to Twenty-Seventy, 1895, of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Founding of Union College,

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ... one, for from this vague, fecund source--as from the unknown mathematical quantity--is deduced the succession of differentials of which a universe is composed, and of which Pan, in the Nature doctrine, may be likened to the first numerical identity. Indeed, this is his alchemical function in the creative scheme. Accordingly do we find him expressed in astral physics by the sign Capricorn, the principle of formalization. Thus will be seen the full significance of the original rendering of the Samaritan text, In the beginning the Goat created the heaven and the earth, a statement in which is involved the actuating principle of every outward effluence and the point of beginning in every spiritual zodiac of being, for as a principle in creation it constitutes the initial process of every manifestation. One has only to examine and compare the various systems of worship--all of which owe their genesis to the primitive cycles of time--to find elucidated therein these same principles of the universal science, Nature. The Christian Bible may seem apparently different in purpose and design, but nevertheless it is identical in argument with the so-called Pagan doctrines. Throughout them all a system of correspondences is utilized for the better appreciation of laws otherwise beyond finite mind to grasp. But while astronomy limits one to a view of the outer or framework of the Divine Structure, through Astrology and Alchemy one is given the sacred privilege of penetrating to the inner or super-physical realms, and there viewing the eternally active forces that constitute the system of which Plato wrote, All this is nothing but God himself THE ASCENT OF MAN. BY HENRY FRANK. Ordinarily men rise not above the commonplace. The consciousness of the...