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often no higher than the victims of deceivers and impostors! However
var>-ing in their external presentations and dogmas, beliefs in the
Hosts of invisible Intelligences of various grades have all the same
foundation. Truth and error are mixed in all. The exact extent,
depth, breadth, and length of the mysteries of Nature are to be found
only in Eastern Esoteric Science. So vast and so profound are these
that scarcely even a few, a ver\^ few of the highest Initiates—those
whose very existence is known but to a small mimber of Adepts—are
capable of assimilating the knowledge. Yet it is all there, and one
by one facts and processes in Nature's vvorkshops are permitted to find
their way into exact Science, while mysterioun help is given to rare
individuals in unravelling its arcana.
in connection with racial
It is at the close of great Cycles,
development, that such events generally take
place. We are at the very close of the cycle of 5,000 years of the
present Ar>-an Kali Yuga; and between this time and 1S97 there will
be a large rent made in the Veil of Nature, and materialistic Science
will receive a death-blow.
Without throwing any discredit upon time-honoured beliefs, in any
direction, we are forced to draw a marked line between blind faith,
evolved by theologies, and knowledge due to the independent researches
of long generations of Adepts ; between, in short, faith and Philosophy.
There have been, in all ages, undeniably learned and good men who,
having been reared in sectarian beliefs, died in their crystallized convictions.
For Protestants, the garden of Eden is the primeval point of
departure in the drama of Humanity, and the solemn tragedy on the
summit of Calvary is the prelude to the hoped-for Millennium. For
Roman Catholics, Satan is at the foundation of Kosmos, Christ in its
centre, and Antichrist at its apex. For both, the Hierarchy of Being
begins and ends within the narrow frames of their respective theologies;
one self-created personal God, and an empyrean ringing with the
Hallelujas of created Angels; the rest, false Gods, Satan and fiends.
Theo-Philosophy proceeds on broader lines. From the very beginning
of aeons—in time and space in our Round and Globe—the
mysteries of Nature (at any rate,
those which it is lawful for our Races
to know) were recorded by the pupils of those same, now invisible,
"Heavenly Men," in geometrical figures and symbols. The keys
thereto passed from one generation of "Wise Men" to another. Some
of the symbols thus passed from the East to the West, brought from
the Orient by Pythagoras, who was not the inventor of his famous