nations having succeeded in making of the former an ethical characteristic, of the latter an art—is an additional proof of the exceptional nature of the phenomenon. The entire scheme is in the _Chaldæan Book of Numbers_, and even in the _Zohar_, if one only understands the meaning of the apocalyptic hints. First comes Ain Suph, the “Concealed of the Concealed,” then the _Point_, Sephira and the later Sephiroth; then the Atzilatic World, a _World of Emanations_ that gives birth to three other Worlds—the first the Briatic World called the Throne, the abode of pure Spirits; the second, the _World of Formation_, or Jetziratic, the habitat of the Angels who sent forth the Third, or _World of Action_, the Asiatic World, which is the Earth or _our_ World; and yet it is said of this World—also called Kliphoth, containing the (six other) Spheres, נלגלים, and Matter—that it is the residence of the “Prince of Darkness.” This is as clearly stated as can be; for Metatron, the Angel of the second Briatic World, the first habitable World, means Messenger, Ἄγγελος, Angel, called the great Teacher; and under him are the Angels of the third World, or Jetziratic, whose ten and seven classes are the Sephiroth,(251) of whom it is said that: They inhabit or vivify this world as essential [_entities_ and] _intelligences_, and their _correlates_ and logical _contraries_ inhabit the third habitable world, called the Asiatic. These “contraries” are called the “Shells,” קליפות, or Demons,(252) who inhabit the seven habitations called Sheba Hachaloth, which are simply the seven Zones of our Globe.(253) Their prince is called in the Kabalah Samaël, the Angel of Death, who is also the seducing Serpent Satan; but this Satan is also Lucifer, the bright Angel of Light, the Light‐ and Life‐bringer, the “Soul” alienated from the Holy Ones, the other Angels, and for a period, _anticipating the time_ when they would descend on Earth to incarnate in their turn. The _Book of Wisdom_ teaches that: All Souls [Monads] are preëxistent in the Worlds of Emanations.(254) And the _Zohar_ teaches that in the “Soul” is the _real man_, _i.e._, the Ego and the conscious _I am_, the Manas. Says Josephus, repeating the belief of the Essenes, [Souls] descend from the pure air to be _chained to bodies_.(255) And Philo states that: The air was full of [Souls], and that those which were nearest the earth, descending to be tied to mortal bodies, return back to bodies, being desirous to live in them.(256) Because through, and in, the human form they will become _progressive_ Beings, whereas the nature of the Angel is purely _intransitive_; therefore Man has in him the potency of transcending the faculties of the Angels. Hence the Initiates in India say that it is the Brâhman, the Twice‐born, who rules the Gods or Devas; and Paul repeated it in his _Epistle to the Corinthians_: Know ye not that we [the Initiates] shall judge angels?(257)