The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism.

It is, then, by those shadows of the hoary Past and their fantastic silhouettes on the external screen of every religion and philosophy, that we can, by checking them as we go along, and comparing them, trace out finally the body that produced them.

The discoveries of modern science do not disagree with the oldest traditions which claim an incredible antiquity for our race.

Little do the devout worshippers of the Vatican suspect, when they lift up their eyes in mute adoration upon the head of their God on Earth, the Pope, that what they admire, is after all, but the caricatured head-dress, the Amazon-like helmet of Pallas Athene, the heathen goddess Minerva! In fact, there is scarcely a rite or ceremony of the christian Church that does not descend from Occultism.

Meditation has been defined as the cessation of active eternal thought.

The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism.

Becoming is the mode of activity of the uncreate deity.