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The Mystery of the Ages

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Chapter 3

CHAPTER III

HERMETIC THEOSOPHY,

PART I.

TRB S.BCB.KT OF MYTHOLOGY.

The origin of man. Ape or Angel P Prehistoric Hermeticism. Theo-philosophy. Hermetic Language. Mystic Myths. The Great Arcanum. Only Initiates can understand Initiates. How to interpret Occult Soul-Allegories. The Eternal Now. Peculiarities of Kabbalists and Her-- metists. The Secret of Mythology. The Knowledge which is Power. Two quotations defining what Adepts can do. The Secret of Mythology not astronomical but psychological and occult. Soul the only thing eternal. Non-existence of Matter. The Soul-World. The Course of Re-birth symbolized by the course of the Sun. The Rule of the Gods. Difference between Myths and Allegories. The great simplicity of the Divine-human and human-Divine Theosophy • • • • • • • • • • • •