The latter argument is perfectly just, so far as Max Müller’s negation is concerned. But we doubt whether the French rationalist understands Kapila’s and Vyasa’s philosophy better than the German philologist does the “theological twaddle,” as the latter terms the _Atharva-Veda_. Professor Müller and Jacolliot may have ever so great claims to erudition, and be ever so familiar with Sanscrit and other ancient Oriental languages, but both lack the key to the thousand and one mysteries of the old secret doctrine and its philosophy. Only, while the German philologist does not even take the trouble to look into this magical and “theological twaddle,” we find the French Indianist never losing an opportunity to investigate. Moreover, he honestly admits his incompetency to ever fathom this ocean of mystical learning. In its existence he not only firmly believes, but throughout his works he incessantly calls the attention of science to its unmistakable traces at every step in India. Still, though the learned Pundits and Brahmans--his “revered masters” of the pagodas of Villenoor and Chélambrum in the Carnatic,[547] as it seems, positively refused to reveal to him the mysteries of the magical part of the _Agrouchada-Parikshaï_,[548] and of Brahmâtma’s triangle,[549] he persists in the honest declaration that everything is possible in Hindu metaphysics, even to the Kapila and Vyasa systems having been hitherto misunderstood. M. Jacolliot weakens his assertion immediately afterward with the following contradiction: “We were one day inquiring of a Brahman of the pagoda of Chélambrum, who belonged to the _skeptical school of the naturalists of Vyasa_, whether he believed in the existence of God. He answered us, smiling: ‘_Aham eva param Brahma_’--I am myself a god. “‘What do you mean by that?’ “‘I mean that every being on earth, however humble, is an immortal portion of the immortal matter.’”[550] The answer is one which would suggest itself to every ancient philosopher, Kabalist and Gnostic, of the early days. It contains the very spirit of the delphic and kabalistic commandment, for esoteric philosophy solved, ages ago, the problem of what man was, is, and will be. If persons believing the _Bible_ verse which teaches that the “Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life,” reject at the same time the idea that every atom of this dust, as every particle of this “living soul,” contains “God” within itself, then we pity the logic of that Christian. He forgets the verses which precede the one in question. God blesses equally every beast of the field and every living creature, in the water as in the air, and He endows them all with _life_, which is a breath of His own Spirit, and the _soul_ of the animal. Humanity is the Adam Kadmon of the “Unknown,” His microcosm, and His only representative on earth, and every man is a god on earth.