It is thus seen that the means used in revealing the manner of the highest Mysteries of the Ineffable was by the similitude of the Limbs or Members of the Body. It, therefore, follows, as we have already seen, that this symbolism was one of the most, if not the most, fundamental in this Gnosis. The three stages of perfectioning are those of the Saint, God and Saviour. But these are still stages in evolution or process, no matter how sublime they be. The fourth or consummation is other; it transcends process, it is ever itself with itself, embracing all processes and all powers simultaneously. But we must not be tempted to comment on this instructive passage, for there is quite enough material in it to develop into a small treatise in itself. For an admirable intuition of the Mystery of the Limbs of the Ineffable, and the meaning of the words "the Head is according to the dignity of the Head," etc., the reader is referred to the beautiful passage in _The Untitled Apocalypse_ of the Bruce Codex, quoted in the comments on _The Hymn of Jesus_ (pp. 54, 55). The Gnostic seers lost themselves in the contemplation of the simultaneous simplicity and multiplicity of these Mysteries. Thus again in the same _Untitled Apocalypse_ we read: "He it is whose Limbs (Members) make a myriad of myriads of Powers, each one of which comes from Him." (_F._, 547). This graphic symbolism of the Limbs is derived from the tradition of the Osiric Mysteries. Many a passage could be quoted in illustration from _The Book of the Coming-forth by Day_, that strange and marvellous collection of Egyptian Rituals commonly known as the _Book of the Dead_; but perhaps the under-meaning of the mystery is nowhere more clearly shown than in the following magnificent passage from _The Litany of the Sun_, inscribed on the Tombs of the Kings of ancient Thebes: "The Kingly Osiris is an intelligent Essence. His Limbs conduct Him; His 'Fleshes' open the way for Him. Those who are born from Him create Him. They rest when they have caused the Kingly Osiris to be born. "It is He who causes them to be born. It is He who engenders them. It is He who causes them to exist. His Birth is the Birth of Rā in Amenti. He causes the Kingly Osiris to be born; He causes the Birth of Himself." (See my _World-Mystery_, 2nd ed., p. 162.) It requires no elaboration to show that this is precisely the same mystery as the secret set forth in our Vision of the Cross. The Kingly Osiris is Ātman, the Self, the True Man, the Monad. This is the Kingly Osiris in his male-female nature, self-creative. Ātman is both the producer and product of evolution. In a restricted sense the above may be interpreted from the standpoint of the individuality and its series of personalities in incarnation.