CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

FROM NIGHT TO LIGHT- Love the Secret of Life - Ancient Temples -
Mexican Religion - The Pathway to Light- Gnosticism - The Three

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Impulses - Practical Love - Ancient Inspiration.

CHAPTER II.

God and the Divine Image—The Duality of God — Will and Love -
The Prodigal Son - Harmony with the Divine Mind - A Universal
Language — Union of Dual Forces — Visions of God — The Riddle of
the Sphinx - The Trinity — Adonia. .

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CHAPTER III.

SACRED SYMBOLS - The Cross of Life - The Solar Prism - The Papal

Keys - The Interlaced Triangles - The Serpent - The Long Face-

The Heart and Feather - The Winged Globe- Ezekiel's Wheel-

The Zodiac..

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CHAPTER IV.

MAN AND THE OPPORTUNITIES OF HIS LIFE. - Two Great Obstacles-

Astrology Astral Influence - Palmistry- The Life of Eden - The

Hierophant's Power-Adoration and Meditation - Modern Justice-

Temperaments in Marriage― Heredity — Unconscious Well-doing. . 54

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CHAPTER V.

SOUL AND SPIRIT SOUL- The Beatitudes - Jesus, the Initiate and Anchorite
– Paul, the Gnostic — The Song of Life — Ancient Astronomy - New
Birth-Soul Seeds-Sin―The End of the Journey - Memento Vivere,

CHAPTER VI.

THE ASTRAL BODY-Star Magno - Process of Death-

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Suggestion in Surgery Astral Flight Astral Photospheres - A
Scientific Experiment-Trance or Semi-Trance - Elementals and Ele-
mentaries - The Arch Gift-Spirit and Soul Forces - Obsessions-
White Magic- Human Conscience-Moral Intuition

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CHAPTER VII.

A WORLD'S RELIGION - Ancient Religions - Prenatal Rights - The Labor

Question Indifferentism

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Spiritualism

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Theosophy

Esoteric

Buddhism - Yoginism - Hierarchy-True Magic-Swedenborg and

the New Church-Light of the School of the Prophets - The Lesson

of Life.

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CHAPTER VIII.

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Adept, Seer, and Mediumship-Trains of Thought — Entrancement — Seek-
ing a Sign Astral Earth-Currents - True Mediumship - Elementals,
Elementaries, and Sephiroths — Inspiration — Prophecy and Predic-
tion - Adeptship — Black Magic - Red Magic-White Magic

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CHAPTER IX.

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CULTIVATION OF SPIRITUAL GIFTS, OR THE Guidance of the UNSEEN

HAND-True Education-Soul Development - Astral Colors - Bi-

Sexuality-True Prayer — Animal Food — Teachings of the Illuminati

- Perceptionists and Dogmatists-"Conditions"- Etherealization

Vibration of Light - Formation of Circles -The Twelve Senses-

Musical Vibrations

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CHAPTER X.

SPIRITUALIZATION OF MATTER-Transfiguration - Materialization - Home
The Oracle at Delphi-A Soul's

METAPHYSICS, THE PRAYER OF THOUGHT; OR EXPRESSION OF INFINITE

MIND-Latent Forces-Mind the Basis of Being-Thought Acting

Upon Thought-Impulse Created by Will Swedenborg's Meta-

physics - Teachings to Mental Healers-Pythagorean and Egyptian

Theories - Phrenopathy - Prayer Cure - The Royal Touch-Color

Cure

CHAPTER XII.

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EVOLUTION AND INVOLUTION - The Darwinian Theory - Haeckel's Discov-

ery-Involution the True Growth - The Principle of Unity — Evolu-

tion a Revelation of God — Brahministic Theory - All Things from

Within-Natural and Spiritual Science - Inworld and Outworld . . 345

CHAPTER XIII.

The Great Mystery; or, the Hidden Way — Intuition — Unspeakable

Words - The Royal Ladder - Adam and Eve - Hermetic Science —

True Love-Immaculate Conception - Christos - Dual Philosophy

Sacred Flame - Lust, not Love - Egyptian, Greek, and Buddhist

Teaching - Reincarnation — Polarization — Unselfish Love

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CHAPTER XIV.

THE MANY MANSIONS- Spheres - Spirits in Prison- -The Middle Firma-

Malicious and False Controls -The Upper Firmaments

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Angels and Archangels. .

CHAPTER XV.

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TRANSLATIONS OR THOUGHts from Other Tongues-The Four Elements

-The Oldest Traditions - Light of the Cabala-The History of

Spirit Prayer of Savitri - Key of Hermes - The Divine Pymander

-The Vedas - Order of the Chaldæan Eastern Star - Cabalistic

Names-Philo and Paul-Magus

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CHAPTER XVI.

THE TEMPLE WITHIN - No Light from Without — Thought-Chambers —

Astral Light Mirrors of the Soul - The Morning Gate - The Torch

of the Angel-Works of Art-Woman-Jesus and Christ

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CHAPTER XVII.

GATHERED SHEAVES - Simple Truth - Objective Intellect

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Bioplasm-

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True Good-Breeding — Development - Homer and the Bible—Book

Worship Opportunities in This Life— Learn to Know All, but

Keep Thyself Unknown - Where Are the Dead?- God's Great Whis-

pering Gallery - The Latent Magnetic Power in Precious Stones -

Precepts and Aphorisms-Misunderstood by the World - Trust in the

Spirit The First Step Towards Higher Occult Powers - Do not go

to War with Evil - Out from the Shoreless Sea of the Great Unknown, 526

CHAPTER XVIII.

ACROSS THE THRESHOLD - The Eternal Now- I Will Pour Out My Spirit

- Faith in the Absolute Parent - The Knowledge of Silently Waiting

-Under the Sunshine of Spirit - Welcome Unto Thy Heritage—

Flight of the Adept, or a Human Soul Visiting the Mansions of the

Blessed To All Brethren . .

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ILLUSTRATIONS.

THE ORACLE of Delphi.

Frontispiece

GOD, THE ETERNAL FOUNTAIN OF ALL LIFE, THE GREAT INFINITE AND

ETERNAL ENERGY, FROM WHICH ALL THINGS PROCEED
THE WINGED GLOBE AND OTHER GNOSTIC SYMBOLS .

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THE GREAT MYSTERY OF GOD IN MAN-THE INTERLACED TRIANGLE
THE CROSS OF ANTIQUITY AND OTHER SACRED SYMBOLS
ILLUMINATION OF MENTALITY AND OTHER SACRED SYMBOLS.
MONOGRAM OF THE THREE MYSTERIES AND OTHER SYMBOLS.
THE GNOSTIC AMULET - THE DELPHIC SACRED MYSTERIES-THE HID-
DEN THINGS.

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THE MANY MANSIONS, OR SPHERES AND FIRMAMENTS

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