“Seers, righteous men, who had attained to the highest science of the inner man and the knowledge of truth, have, like Marcus Antoninus, received instructions “from the god’s”, in sleep and otherwise. Helped by the purer spirits, those that dwell in “regions of eternal bliss”, they have watched the process and warned mankind repeatedly. Skepticism may sneer; faith, based on knowledge and spiritual science, believes and affirms.
Our present cycle is preeminently one of such soul-deaths. We allow soulless men and women at every step in life. Neither can we wonder, in the present state of things, at the gigantic failure of Hegel’s and Schelling’s last efforts at some metaphysical construction of a system. When facts, palpable and tangible facts of phenomenal Spiritualism happen daily and hourly, and yet are denied by the majority of “civilized” nations, little chance is there for the acceptance of purely abstract metaphysics by the ever-growing crowd of materialists.
In the book called by Champollion La Manifestation a la Lumiere, there is a chapter on the Ritual, which is full of mysterious dialogues, with addresses to various “Powers” by the soul. Among these dialogues there is one which is more than expressive of the potentiality of the “Word”. The scene is laid in the “Hall of the Two Truths”. The “Door”, the “Hall of Truth”, and even the various parts of the gate, address the soul which presents itself for admission. They all forbid it entrance unless it tells them their mystery, or mystic names. What student of the Secret Doctrines can fail to recognize in these names an identity of meaning and purpose with those to be met with in the Vedas, the later works of the Brahmans, and the Kabala?
Magicians, Kabalists, Mystics, Neo-Platonists, and Theurgist of Alexandria, who so surpassed the Christians in their achievements in the secret science; Brahmans or Sameneans (Shamans) of old; and modern Brahmans, Buddhists, and Lamaists, have all claimed that a certain power attaches to these various names, pertaining to one ineffable Word. We have shown from personal experience how deeply the belief is rooted to this day in the popular mind all over Russia, that the Word works “miracles” and is at the bottom of every magical feat.
Kabalists mysteriously connect Faith with it. So did the apostles, basing their assertions on the words of Jesus, who is made to say: “If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed…nothing shall be impossible unto you”, and Paul, repeating the words of Moses, tells that “the WORD is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart; that is , the word of faith” (Romans 10:8). But who, except the initiates, can boast of comprehending its full significance? In our days it is as it was in olden times, to believe in the biblical “miracles” requires faith; but to be enabled to produce them one’s self, demands a knowledge of the esoteric meaning of the “word”.
H. P. Blavatsky
The Mark Of God: Understanding Your "I AM Presence" 