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"To the Eastern Occultist the TREE of Knowledge in the Paradise of man's own heart, becomes the Tree of Life eternal, and has nought to do with man's animal senses.   It is an absolute mystery that reveals itself only through the efforts of the imprisoned Manas and the Ego to liberate themselves from the [...]

"Few world-symbols are more pregnant with real occult meaning than the Swastika.   It is symbolized by the figure 6;  for, like that figure, it points in its concrete imagery, as the ideograph of the number does, to the Zenith and the Nadir, to North, South, West, and East; one finds the unit everywhere, and [...]

"There was a time when the Eastern symbol of the Cross and Circle, the Swastika, was universally adopted.   With the esoteric (and, for that matter, exoteric) Buddhist, the Chinese and the Mongolian, it means "the 10,000 truths". These truths, they say, belong to the mysteries of the unseen universe and primordial Cosmogony and Theogony. [...]

"Long before the cross or its sign were adopted as symbols of Christianity, the sign of the cross was used as a sign of recognition among adepts and neophytes, the latter being called Chrests (from Chrestos, man of tribulation and sorrow).   Says Eliphas Levi:   "The sign of the cross adopted by the Christians [...]

"Now, the primordial system, the double glyph that underlies the idea of the Cross, is not "of human invention", for Cosmic ideation and the Spiritual representation of the divine Ego-man are at its basis.   Later, it expanded in the beautiful idea adopted by and represented in the Mysteries, that of regenerated man, the mortal, [...]