“Look up at it; it is higher than you can see! Bore into it; it is deeper than you can penetrate! Look at it as it stands before you; suddenly it is behind you!”—_Confucius._ “Looking up, you cannot see the summit of its head; go behind it, you cannot see its back.”—_Lau-tze._ “A man who foolishly does me wrong, I will return to him the protection of my ungrudging love; the more evil comes from him, the more good shall go from me; the fragrance of these good actions always rebounding to me, the harm of the slanderer’s words returning to him. For as sound belongs to the drum, and shadow to the substance, so in the end, misery will certainly overtake the evil doer.”—_Buddha Sutra of 42 sections._ OM. FOOTNOTES: [50] The original MS. of this Diary as far as it goes is in our possession. The few introductory lines are by the friend who communicated the matter to us.—[ED.] [51] I find it impossible to decipher this name. [52] There is a peculiarity in this, that all accounts of Cagliostro, St. Germain and other Adepts, give the apparent age as forty only.—[ED.] [53] The warrior caste of India.—[ED.] [54] The soul soliloquizing. [55] The Deity. [56] Second century. [57] The Deity. [58] The Work entitled “_The Acts of the Adepts_,” by Shemsu-D-Din Ahmed, El EFlaki has been reserved for our second part: Symbols. [59] _A Godhra_ is the counterpane of shreds the Fakirs use to lie down upon, and throw over their shoulders. [60] Comp. the mediæval conception “Lady World.” [61] Khizer, the “Green Old Man” is the guardian of “the fountain of life” and the type of the self sustaining power of Deity. [62] Quran II. 216, Elias discovered the water of life. [63] Saturn is lord of the seventh heaven. [64] No more individual existence. [65] The following is told, and attributed to Attar; A thirsty traveller dips his hand into a spring of water to drink from. Another comes likewise to drink and leaves his earthen bowl behind him. The first traveller takes it up for another draught and is surprised to find the same water bitter when drank from the earthen cup. But a voice from heaven tells him the clay from which the bowl is made was once _Man_; and into whatever shape renewed, _can never lose the bitter flavour of mortality_. [66] See Introduction to The Divine Pymander p. VI-et. seq. edition 1650. [67] Ibid. AUM This is the Truth. As from a blazing fire sparks, being like unto fire, fly forth a thousandfold, thus are various beings brought forth from the Imperishable, and return thither also.