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1With these remarks we bring the present course of occult study to a close. The studies presented here are probably as much as the ordinary human mind will be able to realize, during this age of the world. At every step we made in writing this book, we had to fight against the fierce, cruel legionaries of the Black Magi, whose terrible secrets we have been the means of revealing to the world. These inversive brethren pose before the world to-day as the harbingers of light and oriental wisdom, but, beneath this external delusive glamor, we can see the bloodthirsty forms of the shadow. Our task has been accomplished rather with the point of the sword than through the instrumentality of the pen. The mediumistic upholders and supporters of oriental magic, dogma and delusion, have also done their best to destroy our work; but it lives; and will survive long enough to crush them with its glittering force; for omnia vincit veritas, constitutes the motive force behind it. Charges of fraud, and accusations of Black magic, have been systematically tried without avail; and nothing now remains for them but calumny and slander; but, whatever these inversive oppo¬ nents of truth may see fit to bring forth in the future in order to stem the swelling tide of Occult knowledge and spiritual progress, rest assured, they will ultimately fail; and the terrible agonies of their conscious defeat will discount a thousand times the benefits of an apparently temporary gain. Here we close this part of our work, casting our labors as bread upon the mental currents of life, and wait with patience, for it will be after many days ere the results will be known. In the meantime, we shall rest with the certain knowledge that whatever is, is good, undeveloped though it be.
2Throughout the preceding chapters the author has repeatedly directed his criticism against Buddhistical Theosophy. In so doing Goode O 172 THE LIGHT OF EGYPT he desires his readers to always bear in mind that, he does not include any true Theosophist, nor any really earnest seeker after the hidden light of Occult lore, be they theosophists, Jews of the orthodox faith, or Christians. In using the terms of Buddhistical Theosophy, Modern Theosophy, etc., he means only the hidden disseminators and public worshippers, of that peculiar phase of Buddhism wrongly called eso¬ teric, which make re-incarnation and Karma an absolute dogma of faith; and the comer stone of Occult philosophy; as intimated by the real external founder of T. S. in the columns of “The Path,” in an article professing to “explain” certain very inconvenient passages in “Isis Unveiled.” y Cookie CHAPTER V QUOTATIONS FROM LETTERS ANSWERING QUESTIONS OF PRIVATE STUDENTS The following quotations are from letters of Thomas H. Burgoyne (Zanoni) addressed to one of his pupils. They are from letters that were lessons. Others may question and find these replies an answer. Only students of The Hermetic Brother¬ hood of Luxor will recognize Zanoni as the Messenger and so receive these elucidations of the Path as authentic. Belle M. Wagner.
3Where is the Divine Ego? Ordinary language cannot convey anything but a most crude conception of spiritual things, and even at best the realities of the higher life can only be explained in parables by utilizing earthly things by way of illustration, so I will offer an illustration used some time ago.
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
1With these remarks we bring the present course of occult study to a close. The studies presented here are probably as much as the ordinary human mind will be able to realize, during this age of the world. At every step we made in writing this book, we had to fight against the fierce, cruel legionaries of the Black Magi, whose terrible secrets we have been the means of revealing to the world. These inversive brethren pose before the world to-day as the harbingers of light and oriental wisdom, but, beneath this external delusive glamor, we can see the bloodthirsty forms of the shadow. Our task has been accomplished rather with the point of the sword than through the instrumentality of the pen. The mediumistic upholders and supporters of oriental magic, dogma and delusion, have also done their best to destroy our work; but it lives; and will survive long enough to crush them with its glittering force; for omnia vincit veritas, constitutes the motive force behind it. Charges of fraud, and accusations of Black magic, have been systematically tried without avail; and nothing now remains for them but calumny and slander; but, whatever these inversive oppo¬ nents of truth may see fit to bring forth in the future in order to stem the swelling tide of Occult knowledge and spiritual progress, rest assured, they will ultimately fail; and the terrible agonies of their conscious defeat will discount a thousand times the benefits of an apparently temporary gain. Here we close this part of our work, casting our labors as bread upon the mental currents of life, and wait with patience, for it will be after many days ere the results will be known. In the meantime, we shall rest with the certain knowledge that whatever is, is good, undeveloped though it be.
2Throughout the preceding chapters the author has repeatedly directed his criticism against Buddhistical Theosophy. In so doing Goode O 172 THE LIGHT OF EGYPT he desires his readers to always bear in mind that, he does not include any true Theosophist, nor any really earnest seeker after the hidden light of Occult lore, be they theosophists, Jews of the orthodox faith, or Christians. In using the terms of Buddhistical Theosophy, Modern Theosophy, etc., he means only the hidden disseminators and public worshippers, of that peculiar phase of Buddhism wrongly called eso¬ teric, which make re-incarnation and Karma an absolute dogma of faith; and the comer stone of Occult philosophy; as intimated by the real external founder of T. S. in the columns of “The Path,” in an article professing to “explain” certain very inconvenient passages in “Isis Unveiled.” y Cookie CHAPTER V QUOTATIONS FROM LETTERS ANSWERING QUESTIONS OF PRIVATE STUDENTS The following quotations are from letters of Thomas H. Burgoyne (Zanoni) addressed to one of his pupils. They are from letters that were lessons. Others may question and find these replies an answer. Only students of The Hermetic Brother¬ hood of Luxor will recognize Zanoni as the Messenger and so receive these elucidations of the Path as authentic. Belle M. Wagner.
3Where is the Divine Ego? Ordinary language cannot convey anything but a most crude conception of spiritual things, and even at best the realities of the higher life can only be explained in parables by utilizing earthly things by way of illustration, so I will offer an illustration used some time ago.
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
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