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to create. These, in their totality, are the Oversoul of the kosmoa 

 that is to be." 



Who or What is this " Logos " ? 



I have given samples and extracts from Theosophical writings? 

 which demonstrate that we have to deal with a system of 

 philosophy, science and religion, which is attributed to one who 

 is called the " Logos " of this solar system. 



The Lord Jesus Christ calls him the " Archon " of this cosmos, 

 and also by his name " Satan " or " the Adversary " — the Apostle 

 Paul calls him the god of " this age " or dispensation, inasmuch 

 as since the rejection of Christ by the world, the True Logos — 

 at the instigation of Satan himself — he is the spirit that 

 energises in those who are ready to receive his teaching and 

 to carry out his plans. 



Our conflict is with principalities and powers, and the world- 

 rulers of this darkness — hence we need the complete armour 

 which God has provided for us in Christ. By His Cross the 

 Lord triumphed over Satan and all his principalities and 

 powers, and we are complete in Him, Who is the Head of all 

 principality and power. A study of God's Word shows that 

 theosophy is preparing men for the rebellion foretold in the 

 last Book of Scripture, and pride, self-will and self-deification 

 are beginning to assume the last and final phase which will be 

 headed up by the Lawless One, the Man of Sin. 



" The Perfect Way " and " Clothed with the Sun." 



The Perfect Way and Clothed luith the Sun by Dr. Anna 

 Kingsford and Mr. Edward Maitland were both written, con- 

 fessedly by the inspiration of the so-called masters of theo- 

 sophical wisdom. 



On p. 37 of The Perfect Way (1882) we read— 



" And even though the indubitable fact be recognized that the 

 ' one name given under heaven whereby men can be saved ' has 

 been shared by many, that name will still be the name of salvation, 

 and the symbol of its triumph will still be the Cross of Jesus, even 

 though borne before Him by, or in the name of, an Osiris, a Mithras, 

 a Crishna, a Dionysus, or a Buddha, or any others who, overcoming 

 by love the limitations of matter, have been faithful to the death, 

 mystically called the death of the Cross, and attaining thereby the 

 crown of eternal life for themselves, have shown to man the way of 

 salvation." 



On p. 240 of Clothed with the Sun the following sentences 

 occur : — 



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