[Footnote 15: The more the minds of men become complicated by attending to a multiplicity of details, the more will they lose sight of simple facts. Thus the action of the sunlight and its various colours, of which each has its special therapeutic qualities, is far too simple a thing to find popular favour.] [Footnote 16: “The Secret Symbols of the Rosicrucians,” II., pp. 16. (Occult Publishing Co., Boston, Mass., 1888).] [Footnote 17: “Paracelsus,” p. 168. (London, 1887: Trübner & Co.)] [Footnote 18: The regenerated spiritual man is not a dream or an unrealisable ideal, but far more substantial than the terrestrial man. _William Law_ says: “Where Christ is born or His Spirit rises up in the soul, there all self is denied and obliged to turn out, there all carnal wisdom, arts of advancement, with every pride and glory of this life, are so many heathen idols, all willingly renounced, and the man is not only content, but rejoices to say that his kingdom is not of this world.” (“William Law,” London, 1893.) See also “Jacob Boehme,” page 263. London, 1891.] [Footnote 19: “Theosophical Siftings.” Alchemy. (London: Theo. Pub. Soc., 1891.)] [Footnote 20: We purposely say “carbogen” and not “carbon,” because we refer to that invisible element, whose product upon the visible plane is carbon or coal.] [Footnote 21: As we are not writing for children, it is unnecessary to refute the puerile objection and say that the sixty-four so-called single bodies of chemistry are not elements of nature, although they may be regarded as the elements of the science of chemistry.] [Footnote 22: In everything are there five elements or qualities contained, because everything consists of vibrations of the one element, called by the Alchemists _prima materia_, in which these qualities are latent (potentially contained). Everything is a manifestation of substance. That which is essential in it, is the substance and not the form. Thus for instance that which is essential in a diamond is the carbon; but carbon is not composed of diamonds. Carbon is a substance universally distributed in nature in solid, watery, gaseous, fiery form, and all these forms of carbon are certain states of the one element “Carbogen” which is at the root of their existence.] [Footnote 23: _Vach._—If we remember that according to the Bible all things were made of the _Word_, and that “the Word was God” (John i., 1), we may obtain the key to the understanding of what generated the _Akâsa_.] [Footnote 24: Occult Publ. Co., Boston, Mass.; and Theosoph. Publ. Soc., London.] [Footnote 25: Occult Publ. Co., Boston, Mass.; and Theosoph. Publ. Soc., London.] [Footnote 26: _Jacob Boehme._] [Footnote 27: “Secret Doctrine,” Vol. I., p. 106.]