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The Christian's Answer to Theosophy. 



Ill reply to all this the Christian answers that among the 

 initiates of antiquity none was better instructed than Moses the 

 servant of Jehovah, who was learned in all the wisdom of the 

 Egyptians, and that he entirely repudiated the doctrines of 

 Karma and reincarnation as being contrary to the teachings of 

 an earlier wisdom taught to the patriarchs, which the Egyptians 

 had corrupted both in doctrine and in symbolism. 



In his writings, especially in Genesis, are embodied in its 

 divinely inspired structure, all the keys to cosmic numbers and 

 to the geometrical building up of the " elements " of this cosmos, 

 both in its astronomical as well as in its minute atomic relations. 



The divine philosophy underlying the structure of the 

 writings of that man of God gives the true key to geometrical 

 symbols and to the esoterisni of numbers. 



Isaiah's Prophecies before the Birth of Buddha. 



Again it is helpful in this connection to bear in mind that 

 the writings of another great initiate, the prophet Isaiah, were 

 known in the countries of the East one hundred years before the 

 birth of Gautama Buddha. 



Moreover, Daniel, who was wiser than all the astrologers of 

 Chaldea, who in his divine chronology of the " Times of the 

 Gentiles " foretells the end of this Age, could alone interpret 

 the writino: on the wall at Belshazzar's feast. 



The Greatest of all Initiates. 



Lastly, in the writings of the greatest of all initiates both of 

 east and west, the Apostle Paul, we have a revelation of a third 

 order of mysteries which in every way transcends both the Lesser 

 and Greater Mysteries of the Ancients, a philosophy of God, Man 

 and the Universe of which the Eisen and Glorified Christ is the 

 only true key, and whose name is above every name, who is 

 " the Firstborn from the dead." 



"At His Name every knee shall bow, of things in Heaven, and 

 things in earth, and things under the earth, and every tongue 

 shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the 

 Father." (Phil, ii, 10, 11.) 



As we know, the true and all-powerful answer to Modern 

 Theosophy is the fuller and deeper teaching of the Epistles of 

 St. Paul to the Ephesians, Philippians and Colossians. 



The " Sophia," " Sunesis," " Epignosis," the " Pleroma," 

 and the " Mysteria," of these inspired Pauline Epistles in 



