It is not the One unknown ever‐present God in Nature, or Nature _in abscondito_, that is rejected, but the “God” of human dogma, and his _humanized_ “Word.” Man, in his infinite conceit and inherent pride and vanity, shaped it himself with his sacrilegious hand out of the material he found in his own small brain‐fabric, and forced it upon his fellows as a direct revelation from the one unrevealed SPACE.(41) The Occultist accepts revelation as coming from divine yet still finite Beings, the manifested Lives, never from the unmanifestable ONE LIFE; from those Entities, called Primordial Man, Dhyâni‐Buddhas, or Dhyân Chohans, the Rishi‐Prajâpati of the Hindus, the Elohim or Sons of God of the Jews, the Planetary Spirits of all nations, who have become Gods for men. The Occultist also regards the Âdi‐Shakti—the direct emanation of Mûlaprakriti, the eternal Root of THAT, and the female aspect of the Creative Cause, Brahmâ, in her âkâshic form of the Universal Soul—as philosophically a Mâyâ, and cause of human Mâyâ. But this view does not prevent him from believing in its existence so long as it lasts, to wit, for one Mahâmanvantara; nor from applying Âkâsha, the radiation of Mûlaprakriti,(42) to practical purposes, connected as this World‐Soul is with all natural phenomena known or unknown to Science. The oldest religions of the world—exoterically, for the esoteric root or foundation is one—are the Indian, the Mazdean, and the Egyptian. Next comes the Chaldean, the outcome of these, now entirely lost to the world, except in its disfigured Sabeanism as at present rendered by the archæologists. Then, passing over a number of religions that will be mentioned later, comes the Jewish, esoterically following in the line of Babylonian Magism, as in the _Kabalah_; exoterically, a collection of allegorical legends, as in _Genesis_ and the _Pentateuch_. Read by the light of the _Zohar_, the four initial chapters of _Genesis_ are the fragment of a highly philosophical page in the world’s cosmogony. Left in their symbolical disguise, they are a nursery tale, an ugly thorn in the side of science and logic, an evident effect of Karma. To let them serve as a prologue to Christianity was a cruel revenge on the part of the Rabbis, who knew better what their _Pentateuch_ meant. It was a silent protest against their spoliation, and the Jews have now certainly the better of their traditional persecutors. The above‐named exoteric creeds will be explained in the light of the universal doctrine as we proceed. The Occult Catechism contains the following questions and answers: _What is it that ever is?_—_Space, the eternal Anupâdaka [Parentless]._ _What is it that ever was?—The Germ in the Root. What is it that is ever coming and going?—The Great Breath. Then, there are three Eternals?—No, __ the three are one. That which ever is is one, that which ever was is one, that which is ever being and becoming is also one: and this is Space._