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Nile, the Euphrates, the Ganges, and the far-off regions 

 of the Orient, and it may be the primitive, early or Aztec 

 races of the so-called new world, who have sought to 

 extract from the unseen world, for various personal and 

 other purposes, the knowledge it was supposed to hide 

 within it, and which it was, and still is, supposed to be 

 able to communicate to those familiar with the manipu- 

 lation of more or less elaborate but contorted means 

 and inventions for their own petty purposes, or for 

 purposes of very questionable intention and application. 

 It is an unspeakable pity that the ingenuity exercised 

 thus has not been displayed in an unquestionable search 

 after truth, and in the application of its discoveries to 

 beneficent ends and purposes, to the end that no human 

 effort should be lost to the amelioration of human pain 

 and suffering, and the advancement of human civilisation 

 and progress. 



Regarded from this point of view, the destruction of 

 the Alexandrian library, and the misdirection of so much 

 zeal for research, and subtle intellectual exertion after 

 the discovery of the so-called occult, have been, next to 

 "the fall of man," the two greatest misfortunes that have 

 befallen the human race. With the non-occurrence of 

 these two misfortunes the position of the world at the 

 present time, in regard to its knowledge of the truth, 

 would no doubt have been different and better than it 

 is ; therefore, let us put before ourselves the absolute 

 necessity of obtaining a knowledge of truth for truth's 

 sake, and all else of practical advantage derivable from a 

 knowledge of truth will follow " as the night the day," 

 inasmuch as, thus followed, the -truth " cannot be false 

 to any man," for " magna est verifas et pr<evalebit" 



Anthropomorphism has hitherto clogged the progress 

 of sacred knowledge by its ingrained beliefs in the after 

 death continued reality of the reign of " flesh and blood " 

 methods, in the crumbling " dry bones " necessity of 

 retaining personal identity, in the application of material 

 forms and everyday human methods of calculation to 

 the manner of spiritual evolution, and the shaping of 

 divine ideals on the lines of human excellence personal 

 identity, personal after-existence in a glorified form of 



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