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"But we will now turn from our digression to further consider the question of reason and instinct. The latter, according to the ancients, proceeded from the divine, the former from purely human. One (the instinct) is the product of the senses, a sagaciousness shared by the lowest animals, even those who have no reason - [...]

"We have shown elsewhere that the "secret doctrine" does not concede immortality to all men alike. "They would never see the sun, if it were not of the nature of the sun", said Plotinus. Only "through the highest purity and chastity we shall approach nearer to God, and receive in the contemplation of Him, the [...]

"Now, for one who knows Professor Draper, even by reputation, the latter supposition is simply absurd. Therefore, we must think, with deep regret, that his desire was to misrepresent their religious aspirations. It is decidedly an awkward thing for modern philosophers, whose sole aim seems to be the elimination of the ideas of God and [...]

"If the doctrines of Aristotle have exercised on the later Neo-platonists such a "dominating influence", how is it that neither Plotinus, nor Porphyry, nor Proclus ever accepted his theories on dreams and prophetic soul-visions? While Aristotle held that most of those who prophesy have "diseases of madness" - thus furnishing some American plagiarists and specialists [...]