worship, Him declare I unto you." "He Himself giveth to all life and breath and all things." And (referring back to the quotation at the head of this paper and its immediate context)"And things that are not,' that He might bring to nought the things that are '-that no flesh should glory before God."

THE LOGOS OF THEOSOPHY.

Let us now see what is the teaching of Theosophy as to the Logos of this world-of this solar system.

In The Secret Doctrine by H. P. B., 2nd Ed., 1888, vol. ii, p. 215, we read:

"So little have the first Christians (who despoiled the Jews of their Bible) understood the first four chapters of Genesis in their esoteric meaning, that they never perceived that not only was no sin intended in their disobedience, but that actually the Serpent was the Lord God Himself, who as the Ophis, the Logos, or the bearer of divine creative wisdom, taught mankind to become creators in their turn. They never realised that the Cross was an evolution from the Tree and Serpent, and thus became the salvation of mankind. By this it would become the very first fundamental Symbol of Creative Cause, applying to geometry, to numbers, to astronomy, to measure, aud to animal reproduction.'

In A Study in Consciousness, by Mrs. Besant, pp. 8-9, we read :

"Every Logos of a universe repeats this universal SelfConsciousness: in His activity, He is the creative Mind, Kriyâ— corresponding to the universal Sat-the Brahma of the Hindu, the Holy Spirit of the Christian, the Chochma of the Kabbalist. In His Wisdom, He is the preserving, ordering, Reason, Jnânacorresponding to the universal Chit-the Vishnu of the Hindu, the Son of the Christian, the Binah of the Kabbalist. In His Bliss, He is the Dissolver of forms, the Will, Ichchhâ-corresponding to the universal Ananda-the Shiva of the Hindu, the Father of the Christian, the Zepher of the Kabbalist. Thus appear in every universe the three Logoi, the three Beings who create, preserve, and destroy their universe, each showing forth predominantly in His function in the universe, one ruling aspect, to which the other two are subordinate, though of course ever-present. Hence every manifested God is spoken of as a Trinity. The joining of these three Aspects, or phases of manifestation, at their outer points of contact with the circle, gives the basic Triangle of contact with Matter, which, with the three Triangles made with the lines traced by the Point, thus yields the divine Tetractys, sometimes called the Kosmic Quaternary, the three divine Aspects in contact with matter, ready

to create.

These, in their totality, are the Oversoul of the kosmos

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 Logosat 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 worldrulers 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 with the Sun by Dr. Anna Kingsford and Mr. Edward Maitland were both written, confessedly by the inspiration of the so-called masters of theosophical 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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"O Father Iacchos, thou art the Lord of the body,

God manifest in the flesh

Who wearest the horns of the ram, who ridest upon an ass, whose symbol is the vine, and the new wine thy blood.

Whose Father is the Lord God of Hosts

Give me to drink of the wine of thy cup, that I may live for

evermore.

Evoi, Father Iacchos, Lord God of Egypt; initiate thy servants in the halls of thy temple.

Evoi, Iacchos, Lord of the Sphinx

Thou turnest man to destruction; then thou sayest,

Come again ye children of my hand.

Yea, blessed and holy art thou, O Master of Earth,
Lord of the Cross and the Tree of Salvation

Evoi, Father Iacchos, Jehovah-Nissi, Lord of the Garden and of the vineyard

Evoi, Father Iacchos; out of Egypt hast thou called thy Son."

Is it possible to believe that there are professing Christians who have exchanged the "living oracles of God" for such profane and ludicrous theosophical teaching as this?

Having given in the above extracts examples of the more intellectual as well as of the baser and more repellent writings of modern theosophy, I add a brief survey of other books bearing on matters of interest.

"ESOTERIC CHRISTIANITY," BY ANNIE BESANT.

In Esoteric Christianity, Mrs. Besant labours to show that the Historical Christ, the Mythic Christ and the Mystic Christ must be carefully distinguished-she does this by denying the truth of the New Testament scriptures. Just as the early Gnostics endeavoured to explain away the true teaching of the New Testament as to the unique personality of the Christ of God, by introducing heresies referring either to the deity or holy humanity of the Lord Jesus, so theosophists profess to explain away the glory of His Person which is transcendent and inscrutable, by similar unsuccessful methods.

EARLY RELIGION AND THE CONSTELLATION FIGURES.

The ancient myths were perversions of early patriarchal revelations concerning the coming Seed of the Woman, which revelations were embodied in the constellation figures, the oldest symbols belonging to the nations of antiquity.

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 Religion 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 Rome.

Our classical dictionaries are an embodiment of these early perversions of primitive symbols.

THE RELIGION OF EGYPT.

The Religion of Egypt was a corruption of Patriarchal faith and the doctrines of Karma and Reincarnation 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 Redemption and Resurrection.]

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

Theosophical writers themselves, and with the prophecy of Revelations xiii and xvii before us, we know what sin and ruin will be the outcome of this revival of the teaching as to Karma and Reincarnation and the deification of man. Theosophical teaching on these lines will prepare the way for the great apostasy headed up in that monster of multiple personality, the Man of Sin.

INITIATION AND THE MYSTERIES.

"In the Mysteries of Egypt, the Mithraic Mysteries of the Persians, the Orphic and Bacchic Mysteries, the Eleusinian Mysteries of the Greeks, the Mysteries of Samothrace, Scythia, and Chaldea, the initiate was taught things relating to post mortem existence. And initiation was also supposed to establish a relationship of the soul with the divine Nature.'

"The culminating point of the Mysteries was reached when the initiate became a god, whether by union with a divine Being outside himself, or by the realisation of the divine Self within him. This was termed ecstasy and was a condition which the Indian Yogi would term high Samâdhi, the gross body being entranced and the freed soul effecting its own union with the Great One.

"Much instruction was given in the Mysteries by the unseen hierarchies and Pythagoras, the great teacher who was initiated in India, and who gave the knowledge of things that are' to his pledged disciples, is said to have possessed such a knowledge of music that he could use it for the controlling of men's wildest passions, and the illuminating of their minds.

"Of this, instances are given by Jamblicus in his Life of Pythagoras. It seems probable that the title of Theodidaktos, given to Ammonius Saccas, the Master of Plotinus, referred less to the sublimity of his teachings than to this divine instruction received by him in the Mysteries.

The close identity between the methods and aims pursued in these various Mysteries and those of Yoga in India is patent to the most superficial observer.

"It is not, however, necessary to suppose that the nations of antiquity drew from India; all alike drew from one source, the Grand Lodge of Central Asia, which sent out its Initiates to every land.

"There was much inter-communication between the Initiates of all nations, and there was a common language and a common 'symbolism.""