[175] Vol. II. Justin Martyr. _First Apology_, §§ liv., lxii., and lxvi. [176] Vol. II. Justin Martyr. _Second Apology_, § xiii. [177] Vol. VII. Tertullian, _On Baptism_, ch. v. [178] The student might read Plato's account of the "Cave" and its inhabitants, remembering that Plato was an Initiate. _Republic_, Bk. vii. [179] Eliphas Lévi _The Mysteries of Magic_, p. 48. [180] Bonwick. _Egyptian Belief_, p. 157. Quoted in Williamson's _Great Law_, p. 26. [181] The festival "Natalis Solis Invicti," the birthday of the Invincible Sun. [182] Williamson. _The Great Law_, pp. 40-42. Those who wish to study this matter as one of Comparative Religion cannot do better than read _The Great Law_, whose author is a profoundly religious man and a Christian. [183] _Ibid._ pp. 36, 37. [184] _The Great Law_, p. 116. [185] _Ibid._ p. 58. [186] _Ibid._ p. 56. [187] _Ibid._ pp. 120-123. [188] See on this the opening of the Johannine Gospel, i. 1-5. The name Logos, ascribed to the manifested God, shaping matter--"all things were made by Him"--is Platonic, and is hence directly derived from the Mysteries; ages before Plato, Vâk, Voice, derived from the same source, was used among Hindus. [189] See _Ante_, pp. 124. [190] See _Ante_, pp. 93-94. [191] See _Ante_, p. 85. [192] II. Cor. iv. 18. [193] II. Cor. v. 7. [194] Heb. v. 14. [195] S. Luke xv. 16. [196] _Ibid._ xiv. 26. [197] S. Matt. v. 28. [198] Heb. xi. 27. [199] S. Matt v. 45. [200] S. Luke ix. 49, 50. [201] S. Matt xvii. 20. [202] II. Cor. vi. 8-10. [203] Col. iii. 1. [204] S. Matt. v. 8, and S. John xvii. 21. [205] Gen. i. 2. [206] S. John i. 3. [207] _The Christian Creed_, p. 29. This is a most valuable and fascinating little book, on the mystical meaning of the creeds. [208] _Ibid._ p. 42. [209] A name of the Holy Ghost. [210] _Ibid._ p. 43. [211] _Ante_, p. 124. [212] S. Matt. xviii. 3. [213] 2 S. Peter iii. 15, 16. [214] A. Besant. _Essay on the Atonement._ [215] _Ibid._ [216] _Brihadâranyakopanishat_, I. i. 1. [217] _Bhagavad Gîtâ_, iii. 10. [218] _Brihadâranyakopanishat_, I. ii. 7. [219] _Mundakopanishat_, II. ii. 10. [220] Haug. _Essays on the Parsîs_, pp. 12-14. [221] Rev. xiii. 8. [222] W. Williamson. _The Great Law_, p. 406. [223] A. Besant. _Nineteenth Century_, June, 1895, "The Atonement." [224] Heb. i. 5. [225] _Ibid._, 2. [226] C.W. Leadbeater. _The Christian Creed_, pp. 54-56. [227] _Ibid._ pp. 56, 57. [228] S. Matt. xxv. 21, 23, 31-45. [229] Is. liii. 11. [230] S. Matt. xvi. 25. [231] S. John xii. 25. [232] Heb. vii. 16. [233] _Light on the Path_, § 8. [234] Heb. vii. 25. [235] Heb. v. 8, 9. [236] I Tim. iii. 16. [237] Annie Besant. _Theosophical Review_, Dec., 1898, pp. 344, 345. [238] C. W. Leadbeater. _The Christian Creed_, pp. 61, 62. [239] I Cor. xv. 44. [240] I Thess. v. 23. [241] See Chapter IX., "The Trinity." [242] See _Ante_, pp. 84, 99, 100. [243] 2 Cor. xii. 2, 4. [244] S. Matt. v. 48.