(_f_) The _Fifth Order_ is a very mysterious one, as it is connected with the microcosmic pentagon, the five‐pointed star, representing man. In India and Egypt, these Dhyânis were connected with the Crocodile, and their abode is in Capricornus. But these are convertible terms in Indian Astrology, for the tenth sign of the Zodiac, which is called Makara, is loosely translated “Crocodile.” The word itself is occultly interpreted in various ways, as will be shown further on. In Egypt, the Defunct—whose symbol is the pentagram, or the five‐pointed star, the points of which represent the limbs of a man—was shown emblematically transformed into a crocodile. Sebekh, or Sevekh (or “Seventh”), as Mr. Gerald Massey says, showing it to be the type of intelligence, is a dragon in reality, not a crocodile. He is the “Dragon of Wisdom,” or Manas, the Human Soul, Mind, the Intelligent Principle, called in our Esoteric Philosophy the _Fifth_ Principle. Says the defunct “Osirified,” in the _Book of the Dead_, or _Ritual_, under the glyph of a mummiform God with a crocodile’s head: I am the crocodile presiding at the fear, I am the God‐crocodile, at the arrival of his Soul among men. I am the God‐crocodile brought for destruction. An allusion to the destruction of divine spiritual purity when man acquires the knowledge of good and evil; also to the “fallen” Gods, or Angels of every theogony. I am the fish of the great Horus. [As Makara is the “Crocodile,” the Vehicle of Varuna.] I am merged in Sekhem.(348) This last sentence gives the corroboration, and repeats the doctrine of esoteric “Buddhism,” for it alludes directly to the Fifth Principle (Manas), or the most spiritual part of its essence rather, which merges into, is absorbed by, and made one with Âtmâ‐Buddhi, after the death of man. For Sekhem is the residence, or Loka, of the God Khem (Horus‐Osiris, or Father and Son); hence the Devachan of Âtmâ‐Buddhi. In the _Book of the Dead_, the Defunct is shown entering into Sekhem, with Horus‐Thot, and “emerging from it as pure spirit.” Thus the Defunct says: I see the forms of [myself, as various] men transforming eternally.... I know this [chapter]. He who knows it ... takes all kinds of living forms.(349) And addressing in magic formula that which is called, in Egyptian Esotericism, the “ancestral heart,” or the reïncarnating principle, the permanent Ego, the Defunct says: O my heart, my ancestral heart, necessary for my transformations, ... do not separate thyself from me before the guardian of the scales. Thou art my personality within my breast, divine companion _watching over my fleshes_ [bodies].(350) It is in Sekhem that lies concealed the “Mysterious Face,” or the real Man concealed under the false personality, the triple‐crocodile of Egypt, the symbol of the higher Trinity, or human Triad, Âtmâ, Buddhi and Manas.