Mr. Pember, therefore, believes in vicarious atonement in its crudest form? He teaches that “repentance and faith” save man _from the consequences_ of his actions! After describing the “Perfect Way” as “an ecclesiastical compound of Heathenism” (_with a capital H_), the author proceeds to expound the doctrine of reincarnation as therein set forth. Nothing can be fairer or more correct than this exposition, at the conclusion of which we read: “Jews, Christians, Buddhists and Mahommedans ... will become able to unite in a universal belief that sin is expiated by transmigrations and in the worship of ‘the Great Goddess’. The conception of a second league of Babel has been formed in the minds of Theosophists.” And even then, would not such a league be better than the sectarian wars, the religious persecutions, the tests and disabilities which still disfigure _Christendom_ in the name of religion? Further on the author refers to the occult axiom that “whereas God is I AM, or positive being, the Devil is NOT, and remarks: “There is little doubt that the culminations of the Mysteries was the worship of Satan himself... It would appear, then, that from remote ages, probably from the time when the Nephilim [the fallen angels of Satan’s Host] were upon earth, there has existed a league with the Prince of Darkness, a Society of men consciously on the side of Satan, and against the Most High. “The spells by which spirits may be summoned from the unseen are now known to all; and those unearthly forms which in past times were projected from the void only in the labyrinths, caverns, and subterranean chambers of the initiated, are now manifesting themselves in many a private drawing-room and parlour. Men have become enamoured of demons, and ere long will receive the Prince of the Demons as their God.” Theosophy, says Mr. Pember, will become the creed of the intellectual and the educated, while Spiritualism influences the masses of mankind. And he traces the influences of Theosophy and Buddhism in “Broad-Churchism, Universalism, Comtism, Secularism, and Quietism.” Nay, even under the Temperance movement he spies the lurking serpent of esoteric teaching and guidance, and he cites letters from Christian friends complaining that these and other philanthropic movements are being swamped, and their periodicals occupied by Theosophists, who work on Buddhist principles. In his concluding chapter, the author sums up a truly formidable array of evidences to prove that “the advocates of modern thought array themselves against every principle of the early revelations of the Divine Will,” apparently since they deny and repudiate the following “cosmic or universal laws”:— I. The law of the Sabbath. II. The headship of the man over the woman. III. The institution of marriage [_i.e._, they practise _celibacy_].