Chapter XVI: Afterword

We have reached the end of a small book on a great subject, and have only lifted a corner of the Veil that hides the Virgin of Eternal Truth from the careless eyes of men. The hem of her garment only has been seen, heavy with gold, richly dight with pearls. Yet even this, as it waves slowly, breathes out celestial fragrances--the sandal and rose-attar of fairer worlds than ours. What should be the unimaginable glory, if the Veil were lifted, and we saw the splendour of the Face of the divine Mother, and in Her arms the Child who is the very Truth? Before that Child the Seraphim ever veil their faces; who then of mortal birth may look on Him and live?

Yet since in man abides His very Self, who shall forbid him to pass within the Veil, and to see with "open face the glory of the Lord"? From the Cave to highest Heaven; such was the pathway of the Word made Flesh, and known as the Way of the Cross. Those who share the manhood share also the Divinity, and may tread where He has trodden. "What Thou art, That am I."

PEACE TO ALL BEINGS.

INDEX. PAGE

_Acts of the Apostles_ referred to; 281

A Kempis, Thomas; 115

Afterword; 376

Allegory; 66

Allegories, Old Testament; 121

All-wide Consciousness; 281 _et seq._

Ammonius Saccas; 28

Animal Symbols of Zodiac; 165

Anselm and Redemption; 195

Answers to Prayer; 277
" Subjective Prayer; 290

Apollonius of Tyana; 31

Apostolic Fathers; 70

Appearances of Divine Beings; 93

Aquinas, Thomas; 112

_Arians of the Fourth Century_, quoted; 103

Aristotle, Effect on Mediaeval Christianity; 112

Ascension, The; 231, 250
" and Solar Myth; 231
" of the Christ; 249

_Asiatic Researches_, quoted; 258

Aspects of the ONE; 262

Athanasius, Story of; 353

Athanasian Creed, quoted; 263, 367

Atlantis, Continent of; 18

At-one-ment; 209

Atonement as one of Lesser Mysteries; 200
" Early Church on the; 195
" Calvinistic View of; 197
" Edwards on the; 197
" Flavel on the; 196
" Luther's Views on the; 196
" Dr. McLeod Campbell on the; 199
" F. D. Maurice on the; 199
" Vicarious and Substitutionary; 196

Atonement--Views of Dwight, Jeune, Jenkyn, Liddon, Owen,
Stroud, and Thomson; 198
" Truth underlying the Doctrine of; 199
" Pamphlet on, quoted; 198
" _Nineteenth Century_ quoted on; 205

Augoeides; 27

Barnabas; 71

Baptism, A Mantram in; 350
" A Minor Form of; 349
" Belief in Death-bed; 352
" Infant; 353
" In the Early Church; 352
" In Other Religions; 348
" of Initiate; 53
" of Holy Ghost and Fire; 188
" of Jesus; 133
" of the Christ; 186
" Tertullian on; 349

Beatific Vision, The; 95, 295

Bernard of Clairvaux; 112

Bel-fires; 164

_Bhagavad Gita_ referred to; 50, 202, 270, 306, 318

Bible Account of Creation; 179

Birth, Second; 247

Blavatsky, H. P., referred to; 127

Blood of Christ symbolised in Eucharist; 359

Boehme, Jacob; 115

Body, Causal; 239, 247
" Desire, Changes in; 244
" Meaning of a; 234
" Mental; 236
" " Building of; 245
" Natural or Physical; 236
" Natural, of St. Paul; 237
" of Bliss; 240
" of Desire; 236
" Physical, Changes in; 243
" Resurrection; 240

Body, Spiritual; 239

_Book of Job_, quoted; 268, 332
" _of the Dead_, referred to; 339
" _of Wisdom_, quoted; 266

Bread, General Symbol in Sacraments; 358

_Brihadaranyakopanishat_, quoted; 50, 202

Brotherhood of Great Teachers; 9

Bruno, Giordano, referred to; 5, 113, 115, 225, 322

Buddha, Birth Story of; 164

Buddhist Trinity; 258

Calvinistic Doctrine; 197

Cardinal Nicolas of Cusa; 115

Cathari, The, referred to; 113

Cave of Initiation; 186

Celsus--Controversy with Origen; 88

_Chhandogyopanishat_, quoted; 253

Chrestos and Christos; 174

Christ as Hierophant of Mysteries; 231
" Baptism of; 186
" Crucifixion of; 183
" Disciples of; 223
" in the Spiritual Body; 137
" Life of the; 217
" of the Mysteries; 191
" The; 132, 134
" the Crucified; 182
" the Historical; 120, 140
" the Kosmic; 179
" the Mystic; 170
" the Mythic; 145
" Sufferings of the; 223

_Christian Creed_, referred to; 180, 181
" quoted; 206, 207, 229

Christian Disciples--their work; 223

_Christian Records_, quoted; 348

Christian Symbols, &c., not unique; 148

Christianity has the Gnosis; 36

Christmas Day; 159, 161

Christmas Festival, rightly regarded; 164

_Clarke's Ante-Nicene_ Library, quoted; viii., 21, 58, 71, 72, 73, 74,
77, 78, 80 _et seq._, 87, 88, 90 _et seq._, 103, 150, 151, 266

Classes of Prayers; 283

Clement of Alexandria, quoted; viii., 20
" " referred to; 73
" " on the Gnosis; 83, 84
" " on Scripture Allegories; 83
" " on Symbols; 80
" " and Catechetical School; 73
" " a Pupil of Pantaenus; 73

_Colossians, Epistle to_, referred to; 58, 65, 81, 177

Comparative Mythologists; 7
" " Theory of; 8
" Religionists; 7, 8
" Mythology; 147

Consecrated Objects; 382

Consecration of Churches, Cemeteries, &c.; 385

Constant, Alphonse Louis; 118

Conversion, Phenomenon of; 313 _et seq._

_Corinthians, Epistles to_, quoted; ix., x., 6, 32, 55, 64, 67, 124,
175, 177, 232, 239, 240, 241, 251, 253, 270, 356, 373

Creed, taught after Baptism in Early Church; 352

_Cruden's Concordance_, quoted; 33

_Cur Deus Homo_ of Anselm; 195

Dangers to Christianity; 125

Dark Powers in Nature; 186, 187

Dean Milman, quoted; 255 _et seq._

Death of Solar Heroes; 166

_De Principiis_ of Origen; 101, 102

_Deuteronomy_, quoted; 96, 253

_Diegesis_ of R. Taylor, quoted; 350

_Die Deutsche Theologie_; 114

Dionysius the Areopagite; 110

Disappearance of the Mysteries; 184

Disciples, The; 136
" Work of the; 223
" Writings of the; 140

Divine Beings, Appearance in Mysteries; 93

"Divine Grace," What it is; 224
" Ideation; 359
" Illumination; 377
" Incarnations; 273, 274

Duality of Manifested Existence; 235
" of Second Person of Trinity; 265

Easter Festival; 159

Eckhart, Teachings of; 113

Edwards on the Atonement; 197

Egypt and the Mysteries; 131

_Encyclopaedia Britannica_, referred to; 22, 23, 117
" " quoted; 110 _et seq._

_Ephesians, Epistle to_, quoted; 57, 65, 67, 366

_Epistle of James_, quoted; 276
" _of Peter_, quoted; 64, 121, 194, 354, 371

Esoteric Christianity, Popular Denial of; 2
" Teaching in Early Church; 2

Essentials of Religion; 4

Eucharist, Bread and Wine of; 357
" Change of Substance in; 361
" connected with Law of Sacrifice; 357
" Meaning and Use of; 357
" Sacrifice of; 355
" Unworthy Participants in; 362

_Exodus, Book of_, quoted; 91

Exstasy; 295

Faith Needed for Forgiveness; 312

Fathers, The Christian, on Scriptures; 371

Festivals; 147

Fish Symbol in Religions; 166

Flavel on Atonement; 196

Fludd, Robert; 116

Forgiveness of Sins; 301
" in Lesser Mysteries; 323
" in most Religions; 303
" ultimately refers to _Post-Mortem_ Penalties; 307

Fourth Manifestation Feminine; 261
" Person; 263

Free-thinking in Christianity; 123

_Friends of God in the Oberland_; 114

Friends, Society of; 117

Future of Christianity; 41

_Galatians, Epistle to_, quoted; 64, 65, 66, 124

_Genesis_, quoted; 18, 180, 268, 269, 271, 279, 358

Germain, Comte de S.; 117

Gestures in Sacraments; 338

Gibbon's _Decline and Fall of R. Empire_, quoted; 162

Giles, Rev. Dr., quoted; 347

Gnosis, The; viii., 9, 108
" " in Christianity; 36

Gnostic, The, of S. Clement; 84 _et seq._

_Gnostics and their Remains_, quoted; 162

Gods in the Mysteries; 25

Grades of Hierarchies; 331

Grand Lodge of Central Asia; 31

Greek Cross, The; 267

Guyon, Mme. de; 116

Haug, Dr., _Essay on Parsis_, cited; 202

_Hebrews, Epistle to_, quoted; 53, 67, 81, 91, 175, 176, 205,
216, 222, 223, 247, 270, 274, 280

Hebrew Trinity; 254

Hell-fire Dogma, The; 48

_Heroic Enthusiasts, The_, quoted; 323

Hidden God, The; 207
" Meanings in Jewish and Christian Scriptures; 100
" Side of Christianity; 36
" Teaching in all Religions; 20

Hierarchies of Divine Beings; 331
" of Superhuman Beings; 23

Hindu, Trinity, The; 257

History _versus_ Myth; 153

Holy Spirit as Creator; 269

Holy Water; 343, 349, 351

Human Evolution repeats Kosmic Process; 271

Huxley, T. H., quoted; 282

Hyde, Dr., quoted; 347

_Hymn to Demeter_; 22

Iamblichus, _On the Mysteries_, quoted; 22, 23, 24, 25, 27, 29,
296 _et seq._

Iamblichus, _Life of Pythagoras_, referred to; 28

Ignatius; 71

Incarnation of Logos; 179

Initiation and Rebirth; 51, 53
" Cave of; 186
" Ceremonies of; 247 _et seq._
" Conditions of; 173
" Mount of; 91

Inspiration, True; 378

Intelligences in Invisible Worlds; 279

Inviolability of Law; 305

Invisible Helpers; 280

Invisible Worlds interpenetrate the Visible; 279

Irenaeus, _Against Heresies_, referred to; 105

_Isaiah_, quoted; 210, 295, 366, 377

Isomeric Compounds; 361

_Jeremiah, Book of_, quoted; 262, 357

Jesus at Mount Serbal; 130
" Baptism of; 133
" Date and Place of Birth; 130
" His Work in Christendom; 143
" in Egypt; 130
" Inner Instructions of; 137
" Master of the West; 147
" Sacrifice of; 133
" the Divine Teacher; 183
" the Healer and Teacher; 127
" training in Essene Community; 130
" the Master; 142

_Judges, Book of_, quoted; 97

Juliana Mother; 117

Justin Martyr; 148
" " quoted; 149 _et seq._

_Kabbala_, Five Books of, referred to; 34

Karma; 288, 309

_Kathopanishat_, quoted; 32, 33, 49

_Key to Theosophy_, quoted; 294

Kingdom of Heaven--real meaning; 52

_Kings, Book of_, quoted; 33, 354

Kosmic Christ, The; 179
" Process of becoming; 268
" Sacrifice; 183

Lang, Andrew, referred to; 11, 12

Language of Symbols; 153

Latin Cross, Origin of; 206
" Use of, in Roman Church; 337

Law of Sacrifice; 201
" " in Hinduism; 202
" " in Nature of Logos; 204
" " in Zoroastrianism; 202
" " or Manifestation; 203

Law, William; 117

Left-hand Path; 17

Lent; 167

Levi Eliphas; 118

_Leviticus_, quoted; 358

_Light on the Path_, quoted; 220

"Little Child"; 65

Logos, Birth of the; 205
" and Sacrifice; 204
" Life of, in every form; 208
" Meaning of the Term; 172
" of Plato; 182
" Perpetual Sacrifice of; 209

Loss of Mystic Teaching in Christianity; 37

_Luke, Gospel of_, quoted; 45, 48, 175, 176, 264, 289, 302, 312

Luther on the Atonement; 196

Madonnas; 160

Magnetic Cures, Secret of; 342
" Change in Sacramental Substance; 342
" Energies in Ether; 341

Magnetisation of Substances; 341

_Making_ of _Religion_, The, referred to; 11

Man as Microcosm; 271
" and Woman Complementary; 365
" develops Second Aspect; 272

Man's Manifold Nature; 234

_Mandakopanishat_, quoted; 202

"Mantras"; 335
" essential in Sacraments; 338
" in rite of Baptism; 350
" in Sanskrit; 336
" spoilt by translation; 337

_Mark, Gospel of_, quoted; vii., 45, 47

Martin, St.; 117

Marriage, Deeper meaning of; 365
" in Lesser Mysteries; 368
" Mystery of; 366
" Sacrament of; 364
" type of union between God and Man; 366

Mary, the World Mother; 206

Master, Jesus, the; 142

_Matthew, Gospel of_, quoted; vii., 45, 46, 49, 52, 53, 54, 92, 134,
176, 177, 186, 210, 216, 240, 271, 274, 281, 306, 319

Maurice, cited; 254

Mead, G. R. S., quoted; 26, 28, 29, 30, 31, 114

Mediator, Nature of; 274

Meditation--What it is; 293
" Growth by; 299

Men at different levels; 3

Miguel de Molinos; 116

Ministry of Angels, The; 287, 289

Miracles; 145

Mithras, Birth of; 161

Modern Spirit antagonistic to Prayer; 276

More, Henry; 116

Mother Juliana of Norwich; 117

Mount Serbal; 130

Mount of Initiation; 91, 188

Mueller, George, Case of; 284 _et seq._

Music in Worship; 335, 337

Myers (F.), St. Paul; 378

Mystery Gods; 25
" of Christ; 57

Mysteries, Christian, Symbolism of; 247

Mysteries and Yoga; 31
" Christ as Hierophant of; 231
" Disappearance of the; 184
" Eliphas Levi on the; 118
" established by Christ; 142
" Greater, The; ix., 1, 22, 27, 63
" in the Gospels; 45
" in Egypt; 131
" in relation to Myth; 157
" Lesser; ix., 1, 22
" " and Prayer; 280
" " as to Bodies; 237
" " Teaching of; 251
" Names in Christianity; 47
" of Bacchus; 21, 27
" of Chaldaea, Egypt, Eleusis, Mithras, Orpheus, Samothrace,
Scythia; 21
" of God; 57
" of Jesus; 1, 42, 94
" of the Early Church; 69 _et seq_.
" of Magic, quoted; 157
" praised by Learned Greeks; 21
" Pseudo, and Sun-God Story; 167
" source of Mystic Learning; 108
" The; 171, 178
" taught, _Post-mortem_ Existence; 21
" The True; 179
" The Christ of the; 184
" Theory of the; 22
" withdrawn; 108

Mystic Christ, The; 170
" " Twofold; 178
" Vesture, The; 138

Mythic Christ, The; 145

Myth, Meaning of; 152, 153
" Solar; 156

Mythology Comparative; 147

Natural and Spiritual Bodies; 232
" Body--of St. Paul; 237

Natural Body, The; 235 _et seq._

Need for Graded Religion; 14

Neoplatonists; 29, 112

Newman, Cardinal, quoted; 103 _et seq._
" Recognises a Secret Tradition; 104

New Testament Proofs of Esotericism; 42 _et seq._

Nicene Creed; 181

Nicolas of Basel; 114

Noachian Deluge; 19

_Nous Demiurgos_ of Plato; 255

_Numbers, Book of_, quoted; 270

Object of all Religions; 3

Occult Experts; 127
" Knowledge, Danger of; 16
" Records; 18
" " and the Gospels; 129
" side of Nature; 279
" use of Sounds; 334

Old Testament Allegories; 121

One Existence, The; 253

One, The, Three aspects of; 262 " " Manifest; 261

Origen _Against Celsus_; 88 _et seq._
" " "; 95
" on the Need of Wisdom; 99
" " Mysteries; 89
" " Scriptures; 372
" " Tower of Babel; 97
" referred to; 44
" Shining Light of Learning; 87

_Orpheus_, Mead's, quoted; 28, 29, 30, 114

Owen on Atonement; 197

Pantaenus; 73, 74

Paracelsus; 115

Paradise; 242

Path of Discipleship; 174

_Philippians, Epistle to_, quoted; 62

Physical Ailments final expression of Karma; 310

Physical Body, Changes in; 243
" Material in Sacraments; 340

Pilgrimages, Rationale of; 382

_Pistis Sophia_, quoted; 46, 138, 139, 302 _et seq._,
319 _et seq._, 340
" " referred to; 137

Plato's Cave; 153

Plato initiated in Egypt; 21

Platonists of Cambridge; 116

Plotinus, Dying Words of; 31
" referred to; 23
" Mead's, quoted; 31

Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna; 70

Popular Christianity, Mistake of; vii.
" Denial of Esoteric Christianity; 1

Porphyry, quoted; 27, 54

Prayer; 276
" Answers to; 277
" as Will; 285
" Class B--general principle; 292
" Failure of; 287
" for Spiritual Enlightenment; 291
" for the Student of Lesser Mysteries; 296
" Highest form of; 293
" Puzzling Facts as to; 277

Prayers classified; 278

Probationary Path, The; 247

"Proclaim upon the houses"--Mystical meaning; 79

Proclus, Teaching of; 26, 29, 51

Psalms, quoted; 5, 299

Pseudo-Mysteries and Sun-God Drama; 167

Pupils of the Apostles; 70

Purgatory; 242

Purification; 244

Pythagoras, referred to; 28
" in India; 31

Pythagorean School, Discipline of; 29, 30

Qualifications of Disciple; 175

Quietists, The; 116

Regions of the Invisible Worlds; 239

Re-incarnation; 239

Religion, Need for graded; 14

_Religion of Ancient Persians_, quoted; 347

Religions, Common origin of; 7
" Custodians of Sacred Books; 369
" Essentials of; 4
" fitted for Stages of Growth; 13
" Object of all; 3
" Source of all; 7

Religious Founders; 10
" Scriptures; 10
" Teachers; 9

Resurrection and Solar Myth; 231, 250
" Body; 240
" of the Christ; 249
" of the Dead; 62
" The--Part of Lesser Mysteries; 231

Revelation; 369
" Fragments of in Sacred Books; 370
" in Cypher; 370
" of Deity in Kosmos; 375

_Revelations, Book of_, quoted; 50, 63, 66, 249, 263,
292, 322, 331

Revolt against Dogma; 38

Roman Empire dying; 107

_Romans, Epistle to_, quoted; 82, 363

Rosenkreutz Christian; 117

Ruling Angel of Jews; 96, 98

Ruysbroeck; 115

Sacrament, a kind of crucible; 326
" a Pictorial Allegory; 325
" Change in substance at; 343
" link between Visible and Invisible; 326, 327
" of Baptism; 347
" of Eucharist; 347
" of Marriage; 347, 364
" of Penance; 340

Sacraments; 324
" Angels connected with; 343
" defined in Church Catechism; 329

Sacraments, Gestures used in; 338
" in all Religions; 324
" Lost at Reformation; 327
" Mantrams in; 338
" of Christian Church; 327
" Peculiar Characteristics; 324
" Seven, of Christianity; 327, 346
" Signs, Seals, or Sigils in; 339
" "Substance" and "Accidents" of; 361
" Twofold Nature of; 324 _et seq._
" Two, In Protestant Communities; 328, 346

Sacred Places and Objects; 380

Sacred Quaternery, The; 261

Sacrifice as Joy; 210 _et seq._
" Law of; 201
" " Four Stages in; 212
" Lessons in; 212 _et seq._
" of Jesus; 133

Saint Bonaventura; 112
" Elizabeth; 113
" Francois de Sales; 116
" John of the Cross; 116
" _John's Gospel_, quoted; x., 46, 52, 53, 54, 56, 103, 132, 133,
134, 137, 177, 180, 216, 240, 246, 250, 262, 270, 273, 292, 382
" Paul, quoted; 55 _et seq._, 124, 184
" Paul an Initiate; 61
" " and Mysteries; 57
" " and Timothy; 59, 69
" " on Allegory; 66
" Peter, quoted; 194
" Teresa; 116
" Timothy, referred to; 59

_Samuel, Book of_, quoted; 33

Savage Deities; 11

Savages as Descendants of Civilisation; 12

Saviour, The True; 219 _et seq._

Sayings of Jesus; 53, 54, 301

Scientific Analysis of Vehicles; 237

Search for God, The; 5

Secret Teachings of Jesus; 90
" Tradition recognised by Newman; 104

Second Birth; 185, 247

_Sepher Yetzirah_, quoted; 34

_Sharpe's Egyptian Mythology_, quoted; 259

_Shvetashvataropanishat_, quoted; 32

"Sign of Power"; 339

Society of Friends; 117

Solar Gods; 160
" Myth, Root of; 178

Sopater, quoted; 21

Sophia--The Wisdom; 138

Soul--Dual; 233

Sound and Form in the Invisible Worlds; 333

Sound, Occult use of; 334

Source of Religions; 7

Spirit and Matter; 367

Spirit threefold; 233
" manifested as triple Self; 330

Spiritual Body, Divisions of; 240 _et seq._

"Star of Initiation"; 186

"Strait Gate" term of Initiation; 49, 50, 174, 177

_Stromata_ or Miscellanies of S. Clement, quoted; 58, 74 _et seq._,
78, 83, 84, 85, 87

Sufferings of the Christ; 223

Superintending Spirits; 98

Sun God Legend; 158
" " Symbol of Logos; 171
" Heroes; 165
" Myths, recurring; 169
" of Righteousness; 249
" Symbol of the Logos; 154
" Symbols; 155

Survival of Christianity?; 40

Symbol of Jesus; 165
" of Trinity; 267

Symbols--animal, in Zodiac; 165
" Language of; 153

Symbols of Logoi; 266 _et seq._

Tatian and Theodotus, referred to; 73

Tauler, John; 114

Taylor, Robert, quoted; 350

Teachings common to all Religions; 146
" in the hands of Spiritual Brotherhood; 374

Tertullian on Baptism; 151

The Christ; 132, 134

The Hidden Side of Religions; 1
" of Christianity; 36

The Disciples; 136

The "Simple Gospel"; 39

The title of Lord; 96

The Testimony of the Scriptures; 36

The Tower of Babel; 97

The Thyrsus; 75

The True Exstasis; 108

The Trinity; 253
" among the Hebrews; 254
" Hindu; 257
" in Buddhism; 258
" in Chaldaea; 259
" in China; 259
" in Extinct Religions; 258
" in Egypt; 259
" in Man; 177, 233
" in Manifestation; 254
" in Zoroastrianism; 257

The Word of Wisdom, of Knowledge; 102

Theological Hell; 308

_Theosophical Review_, quoted; 228

_Thessalonians, Epistle to_, quoted; 233

Three Worlds, The; 241

_Timothy, Epistle to_, quoted; 59, 60, 61, 65, 134, 227

Tradition of _Post-mortem_ Teaching of Jesus; 46

Transubstantiation--Truth Underlying; 360

Triangle as a Symbol of Trinity; 267

Trinity, A Second; 263
" of Spirit; 233

Trinity in Christian agrees with other Faiths; 260

Triple Aspect of Matter; 264

Triplicity in Nature; 261

True Theosophy defined; x.

Two Schools of Christian Interpretation; 122

Two-fold Division of Man Insufficient; 232

Vaivasvata Manu; 19

Valentinus; 137

Vaughan, Thomas; 116

Vehicles of Consciousness, Need for Different; 238

Vibrations; 334

Vibratory Effects of Mass; 338

Virgin Matter; 264
" " and Third Person of Trinity; 265
" " and Second " " ; 265
" Mother; 264

Virgin's Womb, Meaning of; 180

Virgo, Zodiacal Sign of; 158, 160

Virtues in the Mysteries; 27

_Voice of the Silence_, quoted; 249

_Voice Figures_--Mrs. Watts Hughes, referred to; 333

Williamson's _Great Law_, quoted; 161, 163 _et seq._,
166, 167, 203, 255, 259, 348, 358.

Will as Prayer; 285

Words of Power; 335

Work of the Holy Spirit; 179, 268
" Second Person; 179, 269
" First Person; 270

Working of Logos in Matter; 182

Workers in Kosmos; 283
" the Invisible Worlds; 152, 280

World Bibles, fragments of Revelation; 374

World Soul, The; 23

World Symbols; 266

Writings of the Disciples; 140

_Zechariah_, quoted; 268

Zodiac, The; 160

* * * * *

FOOTNOTES:

[1] S. Mark xvi. 15.

[2] S. Matt vii. 6.

[3] Clarke's Ante-Nicene Christian Library, Vol. IV. Clement of Alexandria. _Stromata_, bk. I., ch. xii.

[4] I. Cor. iii. 16.

[5] _Ibid._, ii. 14, 16.

[6] S. John, i. 9.

[7] Psalms, xlii. 1.

[8] 1 Cor. xv. 28.

[9] Ante-Nicene Library, Vol. XII. Clement of Alexandria. _Stromata_, bk. V., ch. xi.

[10] See Article on "Mysteries," _Encyc. Britannica_ ninth edition.

[11] Psellus, quoted in _Iamblichus on the Mysteries_. T. Taylor, p. 343, note on p. 23, second edition.

[12] _Iamblichus_, as _ante_, p. 301.

[13] _Ibid._, p. 72.

[14] The article on "Mysticism" in the _Encyclopaedia Britannica_ has the following on the teaching of Plotinus (204-206 A.D.): "The One [the Supreme God spoken of above] is exalted above the _nous_ and the 'ideas'; it transcends existence altogether and is not cognisable by reason. Remaining itself in repose, it rays out, as it were, from its own fulness, an image of itself, which is called _nous_, and which constitutes the system of ideas of the intelligible world. The soul is in turn the image or product of the _nous_, and the soul by its motion begets corporeal matter. The soul thus faces two ways--towards the _nous_, from which it springs, and towards the material life, which is its own product. Ethical endeavour consists in the repudiation of the sensible; material existence is itself estrangement from God.... To reach the ultimate goal, thought itself must be left behind; for thought is a form of motion, and the desire of the soul is for the motionless rest which belongs to the One. The union with transcendent deity is not so much knowledge or vision as ecstasy, coalescence, _contact_." Neo-Platonism is thus "first of all a system of complete rationalism; it is assumed, in other words, that reason is capable of mapping out the whole system of things. But, inasmuch as a God is affirmed beyond reason, the mysticism becomes in a sense the necessary complement of the would-be all-embracing rationalism. The system culminates in a mystical act."

[15] _Iamblichus_, as _ante_, p. 73.

[16] _Ibid_, pp. 55, 56.

[17] _Ibid_, pp. 118, 119.

[18] _Ibid_, p. 118, 119.

[19] _Ibid_, pp. 95, 100.

[20] _Ibid_, p. 101.

[21] _Ibid_, p. 330.

[22] G. R. S. Mead. _Plotinus_, p. 42.

[23] _Iamblichus_, p. 364, note on p. 134.

[24] G. R. S. Mead. _Orpheus_, pp. 285, 286.

[25] _Iamblichus_, p. 364, note on p. 134.

[26] _Iamblichus_, p. 285, _et seq._

[27] G. R. S. Mead. _Orpheus_, p. 59.

[28] _Ibid_, p. 30.

[29] _Ibid_, pp. 263, 271.

[30] G. R. S. Mead. _Plotinus_, p. 20.

[31] _Shvetashvataropanishat_, vi., 22.

[32] _Kathopanishat_, iii., 14.

[33] I. Cor. xiii. 1.

[34] _Kathopanishat_, vi. 17.

[35] _Mundakopanishat_, II., ii. 9.

[36] _Ibid_., III., i. 3.

[37] I Sam. xix. 20.

[38] II. Kings ii. 2, 5.

[39] Under "School."

[40] Dr. Wynn Westcott. _Sepher Yetzirah_, p. 9.

[41] S. Mark iv. 10, 11, 33, 34. See also S. Matt. xiii. 11, 34, 36, and S. Luke viii. 10.

[42] S. John xvi. 12.

[43] Acts i. 3.

[44] _Loc. cit._ Trans. by G. R. S. Mead. I. i. 1.

[45] S. Matt. vii. 6.

[46] As to the Greek woman: "It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it unto the dogs."--S. Mark vii. 27.

[47] S. Luke xiii. 23, 24.

[48] S. Matt. vii. 13, 14.

[49] _Kathopanishat_ II. iv. 10, 11.

[50] _Brihadaranyakopanishat_. IV. iv. 7.

[51] Rev. vii. 9.

[52] _Bahgavad Gita_, vii. 3.

[53] _Ante_, p. 26.

[54] It must be remembered that the Jews believed that all imperfect souls returned to live again on earth.

[55] S. Matt. xix. 16-26.

[56] S. John xvii. 3.

[57] Heb. ix. 23.

[58] S. John. iii. 3, 5.

[59] S. Matt. iii. 11.

[60] _Ibid._ xviii. 3.

[61] S. John iii. 10.

[62] S. Matt. v. 48.

[63] _Ante_, p.24

[64] Note how this chimes in with the promise of Jesus in S. John xvi. 12-14: "I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit when He, the Spirit of Truth, is come, He will guide you into all truth.... He will show you things to come.... He shall receive of mine, and shall show it unto you."

[65] Another technical name in the Mysteries.

[66] Eph. iii. 3, 4, 9.

[67] Col i. 23, 25-28. But S. Clement, in his _Stromata_, translates "every man," as "the whole man." See Bk. V., ch. x.

[68] Col. iv. 3.

[69] Ante-Nicene Library, Vol. XII. Clement of Alexandria. _Stromata_, bk. V. ch. x. Some additional sayings of the Apostles will be found in the quotations from Clement, showing what meaning they bore in the minds of those who succeeded the apostles, and were living in the same atmosphere of thought.

[70] I. Tim. iii. 9, 16.

[71] I. Tim. i. 18.

[72] _Ibid._, iv. 14.

[73] _Ibid._, vi. 13.

[74] _Ibid._, 20.

[75] II. Tim. i. 13, 14.

[76] _Ibid._, ii. 2.

[77] Phil. iii. 8, 10-12, 14, 15.

[78] Rev. i. 18. "I am He that liveth, and was dead; and behold, I am alive for evermore. Amen."

[79] II. Cor. v. 16.

[80] Gal. iii. 27.

[81] Gal. iv. 19.

[82] I. Cor. iv. 15.

[83] I. S. Pet. iii. 4.

[84] Eph. iv. 13.

[85] Col. i. 24.

[86] II. Cor. iv. 10.

[87] Gal. ii. 20.

[88] II. Tim. iv. 6, 8.

[89] Rev. iii. 12.

[90] Gal. iv. 22-31.

[91] I Cor. x. 1-4.

[92] Eph. v. 23-32.

[93] Vol. I. _The Martyrdom of Ignatius_, ch. iii. The translations used are those of Clarke's Ante-Nicene Library, a most useful compendium of Christian antiquity. The number of the volume which stands first in the references is the number of the volume in that Series.

[94] _Ibid. The Epistle of Polycarp_, ch. xii.

[95] _Ibid. The Epistle of Barnabas_, ch. i.

[96] _Ibid._ ch. x.

[97] _Ibid. The Martyrdom of Ignatius,_ ch. i.

[98] _Ibid. Epistle of Ignatius to the Ephesians_, ch. iii.

[99] _Ibid._ ch. xii.

[100] _Ibid. to the Trallians_, ch. v.

[101] _Ibid. to the Philadelphians_, ch. ix.

[102] Vol. IV. Clement of Alexandria _Stromata_, bk. I. ch. i.

[103] Vol. IV. _Stromata_, bk. I. ch. xxviii.

[104] It appears that even in those days there were some who objected to any truth being taught secretly!

[105] _Ibid._ bk. I, ch. i.

[106] _Ibid._ bk. V., ch. iv.

[107] _Ibid._ ch. v.-viii.

[108] _Ibid._ ch. ix.

[109] _Ibid._ bk. V., ch. x.

[110] Loc. Cit. xv. 29.

[111] _Ibid._ xvi. 25, 26; the version quoted differs in words, but not in meaning, from the English Authorised Version.

[112] _Stromata_, bk. V., ch. x.

[113] _Ibid._ bk. VI., ch. vii.

[114] _Ibid._ bk. VII., ch. xiv.

[115] _Ibid._ bk. VI., ch. xv.

[116] _Ibid._ bk. VI. x.

[117] _Ibid._ bk. VI. vii.

[118] _Ibid._ bk. I. ch. vi.

[119] _Ibid._ ch. ix.

[120] _Ibid._ bk. VI. ch. x.

[121] _Ibid._ bk. I. ch. xiii.

[122] Vol XII. _Stromata_, bk. V. ch. iv.

[123] _Ibid._ bk. VI. ch. xv.

[124] Book I. of _Against Celsus_ is found in Vol. X. of the Ante-Nicene Library. The remaining books are in Vol. XXIII.

[125] Vol. X. _Origen against Celsus_, bk. I. ch. vii.

[126] _Ibid._

[127] Ex. xxv. 40, xxvi. 30, and compare with Heb. viii. 5, and ix. 25.

[128] _Origen against Celsus_, bk. IV. ch. xvi.

[129] _Ibid._ bk. III. ch. lix.

[130] _Ibid._ ch. lxi.

[131] _Ibid._ ch. lxii.

[132] _Ibid._, ch. lx.

[133] Vol. XXIII. _Origen against Celsus_, bk. V. ch. xxv.

[134] _Ibid._ ch. xxviii.

[135] _Ibid._ ch. xxix.

[136] _Ibid._ ch. xx xi.

[137] _Ibid._ ch. xxxii.

[138] _Ibid._ ch. xlv.

[139] _Ibid._ ch. xlvi.

[140] _Ibid._ chs. xlvii.-liv.

[141] _Ibid._ ch. lxxiv.

[142] _Ibid._ bk. IV., ch. xxxix.

[143] Vol. X. _Origen against Celsus_, bk. I., ch. xvii, and others.

[144] _Ibid._ ch. xlii.

[145] Vol. X. _De Principiis_, Preface, p. 8.

[146] _Ibid._ ch. i.

[147] S. John xiv. 18-20.

[148] _Loc. cit._ ch. i. sec. III. p. 55.

[149] _Ibid._ ch. I. Sec. III. pp. 55, 56.

[150] _Ibid._ pp. 54, 55.

[151] "Seems to have been" is a somewhat weak expression, after what is said by Clement and Origen, of which some specimens are given in the text.

[152] _Ibid._, p. 62.

[153] Article on "Mysticism."--_Encyc. Britan._

[154] Article "Mysticism." _Encyclopaedia Britannica._

[155] _Orpheus_, pp. 53, 54.

[156] Obligation must be here acknowledged to the Article "Mysticism," in the _Encyc. Brit._, though that publication is by no means responsible for the opinions expressed.

[157] _The Mysteries of Magic._ Trans. by A. E. Waite, pp. 58 and 60.

[158] II. S. Peter i. 5.

[159] Gal. iv. 19.

[160] II. Cor. v. 16.

[161] S. John i. 14.

[162] S. John i. 32.

[163] S. Matt. iii. 17.

[164] _Ibid._ iv. 17.

[165] I. Tim. iii. 16.

[166] S. John x. 34-36.

[167] S. John xiv. 18, 19.

[168] Valentinus. Trans. by G. R. S. Mead. _Pistis Sophia_, bk. i., I.

[169] _Ante_, p. 72.

[170] _Ibid._ 60.

[171] _Ibid._ bk. ii., 218.

[172] _Ibid._ 230.

[173] _Ibid._ 357.

[174] _Ibid._ 377.

[175] Vol. II. Justin Martyr. _First Apology_, ch. liv., lxii., and lxvi.

[176] Vol. II. Justin Martyr. _Second Apology_, ch. xiii.

[177] Vol. VII. Tertullian, _On Baptism_, ch. v.

[178] The student might read Plato's account of the "Cave" and its inhabitants, remembering that Plato was an Initiate. _Republic_, Bk. vii.

[179] Eliphas Levi _The Mysteries of Magic_, p. 48.

[180] Bonwick. _Egyptian Belief_, p. 157. Quoted in Williamson's _Great Law_, p. 26.

[181] The festival "Natalis Solis Invicti," the birthday of the Invincible Sun.

[182] Williamson. _The Great Law_, pp. 40-42. Those who wish to study this matter as one of Comparative Religion cannot do better than read _The Great Law_, whose author is a profoundly religious man and a Christian.

[183] _Ibid._ pp. 36, 37.

[184] _The Great Law_, p. 116.

[185] _Ibid._ p. 58.

[186] _Ibid._ p. 56.

[187] _Ibid._ pp. 120-123.

[188] See on this the opening of the Johannine Gospel, i. 1-5. The name Logos, ascribed to the manifested God, shaping matter--"all things were made by Him"--is Platonic, and is hence directly derived from the Mysteries; ages before Plato, Vak, Voice, derived from the same source, was used among Hindus.

[189] See _Ante_, pp. 124.

[190] See _Ante_, pp. 93-94.

[191] See _Ante_, p. 85.

[192] II. Cor. iv. 18.

[193] II. Cor. v. 7.

[194] Heb. v. 14.

[195] S. Luke xv. 16.

[196] _Ibid._ xiv. 26.

[197] S. Matt. v. 28.

[198] Heb. xi. 27.

[199] S. Matt v. 45.

[200] S. Luke ix. 49, 50.

[201] S. Matt xvii. 20.

[202] II. Cor. vi. 8-10.

[203] Col. iii. 1.

[204] S. Matt. v. 8, and S. John xvii. 21.

[205] Gen. i. 2.

[206] S. John i. 3.

[207] _The Christian Creed_, p. 29. This is a most valuable and fascinating little book, on the mystical meaning of the creeds.

[208] _Ibid._ p. 42.

[209] A name of the Holy Ghost.

[210] _Ibid._ p. 43.

[211] _Ante_, p. 124.

[212] S. Matt. xviii. 3.

[213] 2 S. Peter iii. 15, 16.

[214] A. Besant. _Essay on the Atonement._

[215] _Ibid._

[216] _Brihadaranyakopanishat_, I. i. 1.

[217] _Bhagavad Gita_, iii. 10.

[218] _Brihadaranyakopanishat_, I. ii. 7.

[219] _Mundakopanishat_, II. ii. 10.

[220] Haug. _Essays on the Parsis_, pp. 12-14.

[221] Rev. xiii. 8.

[222] W. Williamson. _The Great Law_, p. 406.

[223] A. Besant. _Nineteenth Century_, June, 1895, "The Atonement."

[224] Heb. i. 5.

[225] _Ibid._, 2.

[226] C.W. Leadbeater. _The Christian Creed_, pp. 54-56.

[227] _Ibid._ pp. 56, 57.

[228] S. Matt. xxv. 21, 23, 31-45.

[229] Is. liii. 11.

[230] S. Matt. xvi. 25.

[231] S. John xii. 25.

[232] Heb. vii. 16.

[233] _Light on the Path_, ch. 8.

[234] Heb. vii. 25.

[235] Heb. v. 8, 9.

[236] I Tim. iii. 16.

[237] Annie Besant. _Theosophical Review_, Dec., 1898, pp. 344, 345.

[238] C. W. Leadbeater. _The Christian Creed_, pp. 61, 62.

[239] I Cor. xv. 44.

[240] I Thess. v. 23.

[241] See Chapter IX., "The Trinity."

[242] See _Ante_, pp. 84, 99, 100.

[243] 2 Cor. xii. 2, 4.

[244] S. Matt. v. 48.

[245] S. John xvii. 22, 23.

[246] 2 Cor. v. 1.

[247] 1 Cor. xv. 28.

[248] This mistranslation was a very natural one, as the translation was made in the seventeenth century, and all idea of the pre-existence of the soul and of its evolution had long faded out of Christendom, save in the teachings of a few sects regarded as heretical and persecuted by the Roman Catholic Church.

[249] S. John iii. 13.

[250] Heb. v. 9.

[251] Rev. i. 18.

[252] H. P. Blavatsky. _The Voice of the Silence_, p. 90, 5th Edition.

[253] S. John. xvii. 5.

[254] 1 Cor. xv. 20.

[255] _Chhandogyopanishat_, VI. ii., 1.

[256] Deut. vi. 4.

[257] 1 Cor. viii. 6.

[258] An error: En, or Ain, Soph is not one of the Trinity, but the One Existence, manifested in the Three; nor is Kadmon, or Adam Kadmon, one Sephira, but their totality.

[259] Quoted in Williamson's _The Great Law_, pp. 201, 202.

[260] H. H. Milman. _The History of Christianity_, 1867, pp. 70-72.

[261] _Asiatic Researches_, i. 285.

[262] S. Sharpe. _Egyptian Mythology and Egyptian Christology_, p. 14.

[263] See Williamson's _The Great Law_, p. 196.

[264] _Loc. Cit._, pp. 208, 209.

[265] S. John i. 3.

[266] Jer. li. 15.

[267] See _Ante_, pp. 179-180.

[268] Athanasian Creed.

[269] Rev. iv. 8.

[270] S. Luke. i. 38.

[271] _Ibid_, 35.

[272] Book of Wisdom, viii. 1.

[273] Vol. IV. Ante-Nicene Library. S. Clement of Alexandria. _Stromata_, bk. V., ch. ii.

[274] See _Ante_, p. 262.

[275] See _Ante_, p. 207.

[276] Gen. i. 1.

[277] Job xxxviii. 4; Zech. xii. 1; &c.

[278] Gen. i. 2.

[279] Gen. i. 2.

[280] See _Ante_, p. 262.

[281] See _Ante_, p. 262.

[282] S. John i. 3.

[283] _Bhagavad Gita_ ix. 4.

[284] 1 Cor. xv. 27, 28.

[285] S. John xiv. 6. See also the further meaning of this text on p. 272.

[286] Heb. xii. 9.

[287] Numb. xvi. 22.

[288] Gen. i. 26.

[289] S. Matt. v. 48.

[290] S. John xvii. 5.

[291] S. John v. 26.

[292] S. Matt. i. 22.

[293] Heb. ii. 18.

[294] Much of this chapter has already appeared in an earlier work by the author, entitled, _Some Problems of Life_.

[295] S. James i. 17.

[296] Gen. xxviii. 12, 13.

[297] See Chapter xii.

[298] Heb. i. 14.

[299] S. Matt. x. 29.

[300] Acts xvii. 28.

[301] T. H. Huxley. _Essays on some Controverted Questions_, p. 36.

[302] S. Luke xxii. 41, 43.

[303] S. John i. 11.

[304] Rev. iii. 20.

[305] H. P. Blavatsky. _Key to Theosophy_, p. 10.

[306] Is. xxxiii. 17.

[307] _On the Mysteries_, sec. v. ch. 26.

[308] Ps. xl. 7, 8, Prayer Book version.

[309] S. Luke, v. 18-26.

[310] _Ibid._ vii. 47.

[311] G. R. S. Mead, translated. _Loc. cit._, bk. ii., chapters 260, 261.

[312] _Ibid._ chapters 299, 300.

[313] S. Matt. xii. 36.

[314] _Ibid._ ix. 2.

[315] _Loc. cit._ iii. 9.

[316] _Ibid._ vi. 43.

[317] _Ibid._ ix. 30.

[318] See _ante_, Chap. VIII.

[319] This is the cause of the sweetness and patience often noticed in the sick who are of very pure nature. They have learned the lesson of suffering, and they do not make fresh evil karma by impatience under the result of past bad karma, then exhausting itself.

[320] S. Luke, vii. 48, 50.

[321] _Loc. cit._, ix. 31.

[322] S. Matt. vii. 1.

[323] _Loc. cit._, bk. ii. ch. 305.

[324] Rev. iii. 20.

[325] G. Bruno, trans. by L. Williams. _The Heroic Enthusiasts_, vol. i., p. 133.

[326] _Ibid._, vol. ii., pp. 27, 28.

[327] _Ibid._, pp. 102, 103.

[328] Rev. iv. 5.

[329] The phrase "force and matter" is used as it is so well-known in science. But force is one of the properties of matter, the one mentioned as Motion. See _Ante_, p. 264.

[330] Job xxxviii. 7.

[331] See on forms created by musical notes any scientific book on Sound, and also Mrs. Watts-Hughes' illustrated book on _Voice Figures_.

[332] See _ante_, p. 138 and p. 302.

[333] In the Sacrament of Penance the ashes are now usually omitted, except on special occasions, but none the less they form part of the rite.

[334] See _ante_ p. 329.

[335] _Christian Records_, p. 129.

[336] _The Great Law_, pp. 161-166.

[337] See _ante_, p. 151.

[338] _Diegesis_, p. 219.

[339] 1 Pet. iii. 4.

[340] 2 Kings vi. 17.

[341] 1 Cor. x. 16.

[342] Jer. xliv.

[343] Gen. xiv. 18, 19.

[344] _The Great Law_, pp. 177-181, 185.

[345] Lev. xvii. 11.

[346] Rom. xii. 1.

[347] Isaiah liv. 5; lxii. 5.

[348] Eph. v. 23-32.

[349] Athanasian Creed.

[350] 2 Pet. i. 20.

[351] 1 See _ante_, p. 102.

[352] 2 Cor. iii. 6.

[353] 1 Cor. ii. 11, 13.

[354] Is. vi. 6, 7.

[355] S. John v. 4.

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