…has preserved for us in the Idols of the Kings. The same is true of the story of Charlemagne. The historical Charles the Great is not in every way the Charlemagne of the epic cycle. It is quite possible that there may be some historical foundation for…

…course, than the still earlier contacts established in India, particularly in the Gandhara region, as a result of the expeditions of Alexander the Great. So the East and West were not as strange or separate as Kipling might cause us to believe, and the…

…his wealth always where the individual is unbalanced viciously or extensively or intensively his problems are correspondingly modified Great attachments mean great loss. Great attainments mean constant vigilance in the protection of a reputation so gained.…

…individual is unbalanced viciously or extensively or intensively his problems are correspondingly modified Great attachments mean great loss. Great attainments mean constant vigilance in the protection of a reputation so gained. Everything has its price, and this…

…or from which they are taken. Therefore we have the great hermetic statement of this law. supposed to have been found by Alexander the Great in the tomb of Hermes Trismegistus in the valley of Hebron and that is this great law was inscribed upon an…

…and his own integrities in order to provide for them. So it goes on, and generation after generation comes along from Alexander the Great to Adolf Hitler, and the same things go on. War, crime, all these things. And they all begin, every generation, with…

…present generation generation after generation of corruptions and misdeeds all the way down. Somewhat from Genghis Khan, something from Alexander the Great, and more recently a little dash of Adolf Hitler. These are the things that we have to think about.…

…we can start with someone like fame and we can start in with a very early expression of this fame. Well, we'll take Alexander the Great. Alexander the Great had his idea of conquering the world. He began to be very unhappy at the thought there would be…

…with someone like fame and we can start in with a very early expression of this fame. Well, we'll take Alexander the Great. Alexander the Great had his idea of conquering the world. He began to be very unhappy at the thought there would be no worlds to…

…of the world began in periods of comparative simplicity. Those involved had very small interests and lived in a very moderate environment. Great wealth was unknown to the average person in those days. They all lived very much alike in a kind of moderate…

…torn between the poverty of virtue and the wealth of vice. This type of thing is not new. Croesus suffered from it, Alexander the Great, the Medici had it, Hitler had it, and more will have it probably in the future. we are not making the same…

…nature was frustrated for the fall of the Roman Empire or that the divine plan was overthrown by Adolf Hitler or Alexander the Great or Genghis Khan. These are episodes, incidents, on the outer surface of human existence. They bear witness to ignorance and…

…the priority of the feminine principle were on this continent. Most of the Indians along the East Seaboard who belonged to the Great League of the Iroquois were very strongly overshadowed by the feminine principle. The women of the tribe elected all of the…

…dreams, and these dreams may often be complicated and difficult. These dreams are not part of the true sleep of the Great Mother. They are parts of a nightmare in which the half-awake, half-asleep person struggles with the complications of a mortal…

…have the same mother Therefore all arts and sciences are from the same source. Everything that is good has come from the Great Mother. Everything that is not good is the result of man trying to separate himself from the inevitable plan to which he…

…also the tragedy of his own life. He believed in reincarnation and believed that in a previous embodiment he had been Alexander the Great. and as both lives were almost parallel there seems to be some support to this hypothesis but Julian was convinced…

…goddess, and all ancient peoples believed these principles were deities or semi-deities. So beauty becomes an aspect of the power of the Great Mother. And a good example of that was perhaps found in the story of the Crusades. During the Middle Ages, there…

…will destroy him. So he is destroyed and they blame someone else. When this happens on a larger scale, we call it Alexander the Great. We really always are thinking of great people who make mistakes. But in this little mystery of ourselves, which is a…

…as long as humanity is bad to the body, the earth on which it lives. The time will come, as they said in India, when the Great Mother will shake us again from the face of her body. All these things are part of a pattern. And the human body is, as…

…now realize. We know that Pythagoras was able in the 6th century BC to reach India. We know that the armies of Alexander the Great penetrated Asia. We do not know just how largely these motions contributed to world ideas. But one thing we can generally…

…God, try to understand this a little better, we'll probably have to travel a bit to another part of the world. When Alexander the Great led his conquest into the East, he reached as far as what is now Pakistan. And then the continual dissensions of his…

…best they could for themselves at the expense of everybody else. One of the first we have of that particular category was Alexander the Great. He was considered fairly great, although he on one occasion said he would give up all his greatness if he had…

…which is below is like unto that which is above. This is said to have been inscribed on the emerald tablet found by Alexander the Great in the tomb of Alexander, in the tomb of Hermes. In this particular case, the law of analogy intrigues us to wonder…

…this great story of the Dionysian artifices that went also into Alexandria to help to build the great city of Alexander the Great, which Alexander, by the way, never saw. In these grights, the grights of architecture, these clans of builders were dedicated…

…later to influence all our knowledge. and that is the great concept of analogical resemblances. Long ago it is said that Alexander the Great, while king of Macedonia, went out into the desert to visit the tomb of Hermes, a tomb which has apparently…

…that concerns the human being and what it constitutes the answer to it lies perhaps in, again, the Hermetic legend. When Alexander the Great came to the Valley of Hebron, he was told that he stood in the presence of an ancient monument that was…

…for years. From very early times, there was mostly strife. And this strife was essentially useless, worthless, and meaningless. Alexander the Great conquered nearly half of India and died under the walls of Babylon. looking for further worlds to conquer. But…

…but many times. We recognize this tragedy of human ambition. and that it exists because of human ambition we read of Alexander the Great dead at 30 under the walls of Babylon Caesar assassinated at the foot of Pompey's collar we see Napoleon dying of…

…had become the great center of learning for the entire Western civilization. Alexandria had been founded at the time of Alexander the Great, and was under the domination of the Greek Pharaohs, the Ptolemies. And this domination continued until the death of…

…we are told that at year 820 A.D., The Caliph al-Mamun of Baghdad brought a large number of workmen to Egypt to explore the Great Pyramid The reason he did this was because there was a legend to the effect that the pyramid had been built by mysterious…

…assured that such would be the case. And one day, in the early 9th century, the Caliph al-Mamun stood at the base of the Great Pyramid. It was one shining surface. All of the capping stones were in place. There was no mark or opening anywhere on any…

…the city of Cairo. That they were used to create palaces and mosques for the Muslims. and that little by little the Great Pyramid was turned into a quarry to be the source of base materials for building purposes. This answers one question, however, that…

…today. We know, when I was in Egypt, I talked to a French architect who was standing alongside me at the foot of the Great Pyramid. And he said, if this building had not survived, if the modern world had had nothing in the form of knowledge except…