The _Zohar_, as already shown, is not a genuine production of the Hebrew mind. It is the repository and compendium of the oldest doctrines of the East, transmitted orally at first, and then written down in independent treatises during the Captivity at Babylon, and finally brought together by Rabbi Simeon Ben Iochai, toward the beginning of the Christian era. As Mosaic cosmogony was born under a new form in Mesopotamian countries, so the _Zohar_ was a vehicle in which were focussed rays from the light of Universal Wisdom. Whatever likenesses are found between it and the Christian teachings, the compilers of the _Zohar_ never had Christ in their minds. Were it otherwise there would not be one single Jew of the Mosaic law left in the world by this time. Again, if one is to accept literally what the _Zohar_ says, then any religion under the sun may find corroboration in its symbols and allegorical sayings; and this, simply because this work is the echo of the primitive truths, and every creed is founded on some of these; the _Zohar_ being but a veil of the Secret Doctrine. This is so evident that we have only to point to the said ex‐ Rabbi, the Chevalier Drach, to prove the fact. In Part III, fol. 87 (col. 346th) the _Zohar_ treats of the Spirit guiding the Sun, its Rector, explaining that it is not the Sun itself that is meant thereby, but the Spirit “on, or _under_” the Sun. Drach is anxious to show that it was Christ who was meant by that “Sun,” or the Solar Spirit therein. In his comment upon that passage which refers to the Solar Spirit as “that stone which the builders rejected,” he asserts most positively that this Sun‐stone (_pierre soleil_) is identical with Christ, who was that stone, and that therefore The sun is undeniably (_sans contredit_) the second hypostasis of the Deity,(397) or Christ. If this be true, then the Vaidic or pre‐Vaidic Âryans, Chaldæans and Egyptians, like all Occultists past, present, and future, Jews included, have been Christians from all eternity. If this be not so, then modern Church Christianity is Paganism pure and simple exoterically, and transcendental and practical Magic, or Occultism, Esoterically. For this “stone” has a manifold significance, a dual existence, with gradations, a regular progression and retrogression. It is a “mystery” indeed. The Occultists are quite ready to agree with St. Chrysostom, that the infidels—the _profane_, rather— Being blinded by sun‐light, thus lose sight of the true Sun in the contemplation of the false one.