The first of these “seven chapters” has been attempted and is now finished. However incomplete and feeble as an exposition, it is, at any rate, an approximation—using the word in a mathematical sense—to that which is the oldest basis for all subsequent cosmogonies. The attempt to render in a European tongue the grand panorama of the ever periodically recurring Law, impressed upon the plastic minds of the first Races endowed with Consciousness, by those who reflected the same from the Universal Mind, is daring; for no human language, save the Sanskrit—which is that _of the Gods_—can do so with any degree of adequacy. But the failures in this work must be forgiven for the sake of the motive. As a whole, neither the foregoing nor what follows can be found in full anywhere. It is not taught in any of the six Indian schools of philosophy, for it pertains to their synthesis, the seventh, which is the Occult Doctrine. It is not traced on any crumbling papyrus of Egypt, nor is it any longer graven on Assyrian tile or granite wall. The Books of the Vedânta—the “last word of human knowledge”—give out but the metaphysical aspect of this world‐cosmogony; and their priceless thesaurus, the _Upanishads_—_Upa‐ni‐shad_ being a compound word, expressing the conquest of ignorance by the revelation of _secret_, _spiritual_ knowledge—now requires the additional possession of a master‐key, to enable the student to get at their full meaning. The reason for this I venture to state here as I learned it from a Master. The name _Upanishad_, is usually translated “esoteric doctrine.” These treatises form part of Shruti, or “revealed” Knowledge, Revelation in short, and are generally attached to the Brâhmana portion of the _Vedas_, as their third division. [Now] the _Vedas_ have a distinct dual meaning—one expressed by the literal sense of the words, the other indicated by the metre and the _svara_ (intonation), which are as the life of the _Vedas_.... Learned pandits and philologists of course deny that _svara_ has anything to do with philosophy or ancient esoteric doctrines; but the mysterious connection between _svara_ and _light_ is one of its most profound secrets.(414)