DISCOURSE I.--Page 1.

THE ABBÉ DE VILLARS MEETS THE COMTE.

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COMMENTARY.

Comte de Gabalis.

Raymond Lully and His Testament.

The Cabala.

It is written that man may not behold God and live.

Pretended Death.

The Philosopher's Stone.

Visions of St. John.

First Chapter of Genesis.

Order of the Philosophers.

Initiation Defined.

Watch, Pray, Hope and be Silent.

Spark of his Light.

NATURE OF THE

DIVINE PRINCIPLE

IN MAN.

p. xvi

DISCOURSE II.--Page 21.

THE PEOPLE OF THE ELEMENTS.

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COMMENTARY.

Pass the entire night in Prayer.

Excursion.

I Worship Thee, O Mighty God.

Chastity.

Philosophic Balance.

When your Eyes have been Strengthened.

The People of the Elements.

Alliance.

Cause of the Evolution of Consciousness.

Wisdom of the Serpent. Circumlocutions.

The Universal Fire or Solar Force.

Globe of Crystal.

Exalt the Element of Fire.

Compressed Air, Water, or Earth.

Philosophic Procedures.

Seats and Religions, their Cause.

The Second Death.

The Philosophy of Nutrition.

To Prepare the Earth.

Hermes, Messenger of the Gods.

EVOLUTION OF THE

DIVINE PRINCIPLE

IN MAN.

p. xvii

DISCOURSE III.--Page 69.

THE ORACLES.

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COMMENTARY.

Ancient Religion of his Fathers the Philosophers.

The Gardens of Ruel and the Cardinal.

Muhammedan Embassy.

Engastrimyths.

Maidens of Gaul.

Master of Israel.

Divine Names.

Agla.

Sacred Books of the Sibyls.

Maxim of the Poet of the Synagogue.

The Principle of All Things.

The Delphic Oracle's Prophecy regarding Christ.

Aristotle on Exhalation.

Cicero on Exhalation.

Plutarch on Exhalation.

Gradations of His Spiritual Creatures.

The Generation of Animals (cited)

Ethics (cited)

Aristotle.

Plutarch an Initiate.

Priestesses of Apollo.

Plutarch on the Oracles.

Micah.

Michal and David.

Rachel, Jacob and Laban.

Teraphim.

Dual Aspect of Solar Force.

Interior Stars.

Angel of the Grand Council.

MAN'S PLACE IN NATURE.

p. xviii

DISCOURSE IV.--Page 115.

CHILDREN OF THE PHILOSOPHERS

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COMMENTARY.

Satan Cabalistically Defined.

Plato on the People of the Elements.

St. Antony.

St. Antony and the Elementary Being.

Temptation of St. Antony. Divorce.

Allegory of Eve and the Serpent.

Mighty and Famous Men.

Marriages of the Gods.

Numa.

Jabamiah.

The Greek Myth.

Oromasis.

Alexander the Great.

Greatest of the Sylphs.

Plato a Son of the Sun.

Melchizedek and Shem.

The Man who Thinks, Wills to know.

Birth of Apollonius of Tyana.

St. Jerome on Apollonius of Tyana.

Justin Martyr on Apollonius of Tyana.

Merlin.

Melusina a Nymph.

Children of the Philosophers.

Ancient Persian Monument.

CHILDREN

OF THE

SUN.

p. xix

DISCOURSE V.--Page 161.

CHARITY OF THE PHILOSOPHERS

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COMMENTARY.

Sanhedrin of the New Law.

Geomancy.

St. Benedict and the Salamander

The Holy Kings.

Prayer.

Nehmahmihah.

Soul.

Prince of the World.

Non-Existence.

Enchanted Isles.

Hymn to Sabazius.

Storm Wizards.

The Four Ambassadors of the Sylphs.

Marriage in the Reign of Wisdom.

For Man even in this Life can, and is created to enjoy God.

Another Volume.

THE LIFE OF THE

TRUE LIGHT IS

RADIATION.

p. xx

COMMENTARY CONTINUED. DISCOURSE I.

PAGE 206.

Map of the Horoscope.

Harmony of the World.

Numbers of Pythagoras.

Jerome Cardan.

The Sylphs of Cardan.

Averroes.

DISCOURSE II.

PAGE 212.

St. Paul an Initiate.

Plato, His Place as a Philosopher.

Plato meets his Master Socrates.

Benvenuto Cellini sees a Salamander.

Book of Enoch.

The History of the Watchmen.

The Egg and Serpent Symbol.

Those Reserved for Greater Things.

Moses meets his Master Melchizedek.

Panic Terrors, Origin of Term.

The Great Pan is Dead.

Jansenists.

Jean Bodin.

Moses and Elias fasted Forty Days.

Bacchus and Osiris the Same.

p. xxi

COMMENTARY CONTINUED. DISCOURSE III.

PAGE 237.

Muhammed, Prophet of God and Bringer of Light to Islam.

King Saul.

Pausanias on the Oracle of Dodona.

Divine Power of Letters.

Celius Rhodiginus and his Oracle.

Sambethe, Daughter of Noah.

Justin Martyr's Statement.

Justin Martyr meets a Master.

Temple of Hercules in Armenia.

Plato on Man's Place in Nature.

Sir Thomas Browne on Man's Place in Nature.

That Roman in Asia was Curtius Rufus.

King Rodriguez' Warning.

The Inmates of the Cave or the Story of the Seven Sleepers.

Sleep.

DISCOURSE IV.

PAGE 268.

Behemoth and Leviathan.

The Holy Language described by Emmanuel Swedenborg.

Samson.

Moses an Initiate.

The Brazen Serpent.

Book of the Wars of the Lord.

Sacred Fire.

Noah, Vesta, and Egeria.

Prince de Mirande and the Cabala.

p. xxii

COMMENTARY CONTINUED. DISCOURSE IV.

PAGE 289.

Japhet.

Zoroaster.

Nymph of Stauffenberg.

Magdalen of the Cross.

Cassiodorus Renius.

Gertrude, Nun of the Monastery of Nazareth.

Romulus. Servius Tullius.

Hercules.

Master Defined.

Roman Worship of a Supreme Deity without Image or Statue.

Recent Tidings of the Elementary Peoples?

Tyresias.

Merlin's Prophecy of the Conquest of the Air and of Aerial and Submarine Warfare.

The Birth of Jesus as related in the Koran.

DISCOURSE V.

PAGE 303.

Cherubim.

Proclus on Prayer.

Lord of Bavaria.

The Sabbat.

Zedekias.

Capitularies, Karoli Magni et Ludovici Pii Christioniss:--Capitula.

Magicians sent by Grimaldus, Duke of Beneventum.

Agobard, Bishop of Lyons.

p. xxiii

COMMENTARY CONCLUDED.

SEVEN ANCIENT PROPHECIES OF WORLD PEACE.

The Magi's Prophecy of World Peace and a Universal Language.

The Sibylline Prophecy of World Peace and the Reign of Justice.

Enoch's Prophecy of World Peace and the Giving Forth of Books.

Micah's Prophecy of World Peace and Freedom of Religion.

Elder Edda Prophecy of World Peace and Return of the Ancient Wisdom.

Bible Prophecy of World Peace declaring the Manner of its Accomplishment.

Merlin's Prophecy of World Peace and Enlightenment.

TRUTH.

Muhammed's Prophecy of Truth.

JUSTICE.

Israels' Prophecy of Justice.

THE MESSENGER.

Ancient Prophecy of the Messenger and of the Stone that shall be set up in Egypt.

"My Port Paternal in the Courts of Light."

FRONTISPIECE. Phanes from the Museum at Modena, Facing Invocation to the Flame. This Invocation or Prayer was used in the Ancient Mysteries, and is translated from a rescension of a Greek Papyrus. Dr. Carl Wessely, Griechische Zauberpapyrus, 1888

POLISH RIDER, by Rembrandt

facing page viii.

HERMES. Greek Coin, 350 B.C., from Pheneus in Arcadia

facing page 67.

ANCIENT PERSIAN MONUMENT

"   page 160.

THOTMES III, showing on the brow the uraeus or Sacred Serpent, emblem of the Double Bridle of Leviathan

"  "  267.

A MASTER

"  "  297.