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"The Esoteric doctrine of the East having thus furnished and struck the keynote - which is as scientific as it is philosophical and poetical, as may be seen, under its allegorical garb - every nation has followed its lead.   It is from the exoteric religions that we have to dig out the root-idea before [...]

"One thing is thus undeniably proven. The more one studies their Hierarchies and finds out their identity, the more proofs one acquires that there is not one of the past and present personal gods, known to us from the earliest days of history, that does not belong to the third stage or cosmic manifestation.   [...]

"Pythagoras esteemed the Deity (the Logos) to be the center of unity and "Source of Harmony".   We say this Deity was the Logos, not the MONAD that dwelleth in Solitude and Silence, because Pythagoras taught that UNITY being indivisible is no number.   And this is also why it was required of the candidate, [...]

"There are two distinct aspects in universal Esotericism, Eastern and Western, in all those personations of the female Power in nature, or nature - the noumenal and the phenomenal.   One is its purely metaphysical aspect; the other terrestrial and physical, and at the same time divine from the standpoint of practical human conception and [...]