THE KEV. J. J. B. COLES, ON THEOSOPHY. 



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Many learned Christian Theosophists who altogether repudiate 

 the Pantheistic philosophy of Esoteric Buddhism, know well the 

 great value of the true teaching as to the Zodiacal Signs and 

 their intimate connection with the Philosophy, Science, and 

 Eeligion of the world, before the rise of Babylon and Egypt, and 

 before the introduction of idolatrous worship. 



The four principal sources of idolatry were : — 



1. Sabeanism or the Worship of the Sun, Moon, and 



Stars. 



2. The Worship of Ancestors such as of Nimrod. 



3. Misinterpretation of the symbols of the attributes of 



God as figured in the Cherubim. 



4. The deification of the human passions, as in the sensuous 



worship of Greece and Pome. 

 Our classical dictionaries are an embodiment of these early 

 perversions of primitive symbols. 



The Eeligion of Egypt. 



The Eeligion of Egypt was a corruption of Patriarchal faith 

 and the doctrines of Karma and. Eeincarnation were taught by 

 a corrupt priesthood, who not only " changed the truth of God 

 into a lie," but went so far as to introduce a change in the 

 ancient signs of the Zodiac. [For " Libra " was not in the 

 earlier Zodiacs, but " Ara " the Altar, and " Libra " would, they 

 thought, support the teaching of Karma, and would obscure the 

 truth of Eedemption and Eesurrection.] 



Gnosticism. 



Mr. Mead's Fragments of a Faith Forgotten have resuscitated 

 the manifold teachings of the early Gnostics, which show the 

 almost unlimited capacity of the subjective mind of man under 

 the influence of suggestion. How endless are the vagaries of 

 the human intellect when not controlled by objective reason 

 and not guided by an inspired revelation from God ! 



The true authors of Modern Theosophy. 



The real inspirers of Modern Theosophy Books are confessedly 

 the " Lords of Karma " and the " Shining Ones." The Lost 

 Atlantis was ruined after these superhuman teachers had taught 

 the inhabitants the use of Nature's finer forces, according to 



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