INDEX.
Acts of the Apostles referred to; [281]
À 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 Mediæval 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]
Augöeides; [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 Gîtâ 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]
Böhme, 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]
Brihadâranyakopaniṣhat, 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]
Chhânaogyopanishat, quoted; [253]
Chrêstos 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 Pantænus; [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]
Encyclopædia 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]
Irenæus, 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]
Müller, 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 Chaldæa, 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]
Pantænus; [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]
Shvetâshvataropanishat, 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 Chaldæa; [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 Encyclopædia 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] Shvetâshvataropaniṣhat, vi., 22.
[32] Kaṭhopaniṣṣhat, iii., 14.
[33] I. Cor. xiii. 1.
[34] Kaṭhopaniṣhat, vi. 17.
[35] Muṇdakopaniṣhat, 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] Kaṭhopaniṣhat II. iv. 10, 11.
[50] Brihadâraṇyakopaniṣhat. IV. iv. 7.
[51] Rev. vii. 9.
[52] Bahgavad Gîtâ, 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." Encyclopædia 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, §§ liv., lxii., and lxvi.
[176] Vol. II. Justin Martyr. Second Apology, § 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 Lévi 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, Vâk, 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] Brihadâranyakopaniṣhat, I. i. 1.
[217] Bhagavad Gîtâ, iii. 10.
[218] Brihadâranyakopaniṣhat, I. ii. 7.
[219] Muṇḍakopaniṣhat, II. ii. 10.
[220] Haug. Essays on the Parsîs, 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, § 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] Chhândogyopaniṣhat, 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 Gîtâ 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., §§ 260, 261.
[312] Ibid. §§ 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. § 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.