Miscellaneous References
• Magi
- Bô Yin Râ - The Wisdom Of John, page 65:
They were in reality those ‘wise men’ from the east – priestly kings and kingly priests – who once ‘saw far away in the east’ the ‘star’ of the young carpenter from Galilee. They had come to teach him until the day he could comprehend his mission himself, – even if they did not, as later legend would have it, kneel at the babe’s crib and offer him their gifts. – –
• Magic
- Bô Yin Râ - Resurrection, page 62:
Although the word ‘magic’ has nowadays been devalued into a mere vogue word, it is very hard not to use it when talking of the things which we are addressing here.
The ancients who still knew from experience of man’s magical power of faith spoke of ‘white’ and ‘black’ magic, depending on the beneficial or evil effects caused by the use of the same power.
• Mammon
- Bô Yin Râ - The Book On Happiness, page 63:
However little money you call your own, you should still be aware of the power contained in every penny. Just as a pebble can set in motion an avalanche, so too can a penny set the largest sums in motion. – – –
And you must also trust the power to move which lies behind money!
• Mediumship
- Bô Yin Râ - The Mystery Of Golgotha, page 130:
But when and where has a creative artist ever had to give himself to this spirit in the way of a medium – feeling his hand mechanically moved, and creating works which were not primarily determined by his own ability? –
• Melchisedek
- Bô Yin Râ - More Light, page 59:
Only then is he who is born to be a master also de facto a ‘master’; only then is he aware of his priestly status ‘after the order of Melchisedec’. –
• Meng Tse
- Bô Yin Râ - The Book On Happiness, page 76:
Meng-tse said: “Doing the right thing involves doing the obvious; yet everyone seeks it in the extraordinary. Doing the right thing is doing what is easily accomplished; yet everyone seeks it in what is achievable with difficulty.” – – –
• Mithras
- Bô Yin Râ - The Secret, page 130:
In this magical world, they walked upon narrow paths leading over loose pebbles down to the beach. Half way down they reached their destination: – that old Mithras grotto where once, thousands of years ago, the sun was worshipped as a divinity. Here the mystai had been initiated by sacred mysteries at the time of the spring equinox.
• Mystai
- Bô Yin Râ - The Secret, page 130:
In this magical world, they walked upon narrow paths leading over loose pebbles down to the beach. Half way down they reached their destination: – that old Mithras grotto where once, thousands of years ago, the sun was worshipped as a divinity. Here the mystai had been initiated by sacred mysteries at the time of the spring equinox.
- Bô Yin Râ - The Secret, page 132:
“Physically we come from the earth and we must, for the time being, also hide ourselves in the bowels of the earth – whether only in feeling, or visibly as these mystai thought it was right – before we can be ‘born anew’…
• Myth
- Bô Yin Râ - Cult-Magic and Myth, page 12:
The first myth was born and gained might over man! Countless are the forms which came into existence, propagated from its original seed from generation to generation.
For a long time they only revealed the grave earthly distress of man.