ENQ. The Egyptians revered Nature-Spirits, and deified even onions: your Hindus are _idolaters_, to this day; the Zoroastrians worshipped, and do still worship, the Sun; and the best Greek philosophers were either dreamers or materialists—witness Plato and Democritus. How can you compare? THEO. It may be so in your modern Christian and even Scientific catechism; it is not so for unbiased minds. The Egyptians revered the “One-Only-One,” as _Nout_; and it is from this word that Anaxagoras got his denomination _Nous_, or as he calls it, Νους αυτοχρατης, “the Mind or Spirit Self-Potent,” the αρχητης χινηδεως, the leading motor, or _primum-mobile_ of all. With him the _Nous_ was God, and the _logos_ was man, his emanation. The _Nous_ is the spirit (whether in Kosmos or in man), and the _logos_, whether Universe or astral body, the emanation of the former, the physical body being merely the animal. Our external powers perceive _phenomena_; our _Nous_ alone is able to recognise their _noumena_. It is the logos alone, or the _noumenon_, that survives, because it is immortal in its very nature and essence, and the _logos_ in man is the Eternal Ego, that which reincarnates and lasts for ever. But how can the evanescent or external shadow, the temporary clothing of that divine Emanation which returns to the source whence it proceeded, be that _which is raised in incorruptibility_? ENQ. Still you can hardly escape the charge of having invented a new division of man’s spiritual and psychic constituents; for no philosopher speaks of them, though you believe that Plato does.