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the text sufficiently to desire to discover the real
meaning of the Pentateuch, as to the creation of
Men and Worlds. Copies of Bro. Skinner's unpublished
researches have been so placed by his special
desire and act, that they may be preserved for such
future investigators and not again be lost to the
world.
But the Hebrew Kabalah is but one of many
sources from which the Secret Science may be derived,
and it is not the one which in its form of Symbolism
and method of interpretation is best fitted to
the present age. When the symbolism of the Kabalah
is read by the key furnished by Bro. Skinner,
it requires to be again translated into modern ideas
or forms of thought. The basis of it was the Chaldean
Book of Numbers, no genuine copy of which,
if in existence, is accessible to modern students.
Several spurious copies are known to exist, and it is
possible that a genuine copy may be produced at the
proper time. For be it remembered that Genuine
Masters, "Prince Adept Masons," have always existed,
and no book or record worth preserving or
necessary for the good of man is ever lost. In secret
crypts, alike inaccessible to the vandal hand of
man, and the corrosion of time and decay, these
treasures are said to be preserved.