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calculator of distances, or analyzer of compounds,
or labeler of species; but him who through lower
truths seeks higher, and eventually the highest—can
truly know how utterly beyond, not only human
knowledge, but human conception, is the Universal
Power of which Nature, and Life, and Thought are
manifestations."
In like manner Professor Huxley makes the consummation
of Science to be the discernment of the
rational order pervading the universe. It is, then,
our methods that are most at fault and our ignorance
that holds us down.
It is this higher knowledge toward which all useful
and rational acquirement tends; and why should
our efforts cease short of the very highest? All
education that does not tend in this direction, with
the final goal consistently and continually in view,
is false, and is necessarily a failure. Now, this higher
knowledge is a knowledge of the Soul : of its origin,
nature, powers, and the laws that govern its evolution;
and this is precisely the knowledge which
modern science fails to afford, but which Ancient
Science taught in the Mysteries of Antiquity. All
preliminary study and training led up to this— "The
real measure of a man." Just as all life is an evolution,
so is all real knowledge an initiation; and it