Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

THE CYCLE OF RELIGIONS.
BY W. P. PYLE.
"Aa ia the great, 110 ia the llllll\11 ; there i11 nothing great, nothing •mall, in the
1Hvine economy."
" The heave•• repeat tbe1111181v811 in mM."
"MM, the mici'OClOIIm."
These sayings of the mystics of the paAt apJ~ar to have been
generally accepted by philosophers as foundation truthA upon
which man may safely build hiA superstrncture of thunght.
And in the Bible we find the same thought expre>~Retl in the
words, "So God made man in his own image," whi.·h w11.11 the
1\Ccomplishment of the purpose contained in the pa·oposition,
•• Let us make man in our image. after om· likeness." If
man is made in the image and likene11s of God, then to an11wer
the question, " What is man?" iR, in the Rame measure, to
answer the question, " What is God?" hence the. injunctiun of
the ancient philosophen, "Know thyself," for this is the ha.sia
of all knowled~re.
In Genesis VIII. 22 we read the following lltatement: " While
the earth remaineth, seedtime and harveRt, an1l cold a111l heat,
and summer and winter, and day and night. Rhall not ceAAe."
lt is gene•·ally 1\Ccepted by thinker11 a.s a f1wt. that all thingR
move in cycles, that all a.dvaOile i11 in a spiral cotm~e; jnat a.a
the monn in its jonl'ney around the earth, by vil·tue of the
earth's motion around the sun. is canRecl to ad Vll.ll~o to journey in a spiral cnnrse.
As man g•·ow>~ antl develops, so tlo we find the tl~velopmeot
of nations and of mankind a..