[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.