This shows that Lévi’s _Kabalah_ is mystic Christianity, and not Occultism; for Occultism is universal and knows no difference between the “Saviours” (or great Avatâras) of the several old nations. Éliphas Lévi was not an exception in preaching Christianity under a disguise of Kabalism. He was undeniably “the greatest representative of modern Occult Philosophy,” as it is studied in Roman Catholic countries generally, where it is fitted to the preconceptions of Christian students. But he never taught the real universal _Kabalah_, and least of all did he teach Eastern Occultism. Let the student compare the Eastern and Western teaching, and see whether the philosophy of the _Upanishads_ “has yet to attain the ranges of perception” of this Western system. Everyone has the right to defend the system he prefers, but in doing this, there is no need to throw slurs upon the system of one’s brother. In view of the great resemblance between many of the fundamental “truths” of Christianity and the “myths” of Brâhmanism, there have been serious attempts made lately to prove that the _Bhagavad Gîtâ_ and most of the _Brâhmanas_ and the _Purânas_ are of a far later date than the Mosaic Books and even than the _Gospels_. But were it possible that an enforced success should be obtained in this direction, such argument cannot achieve its object, since the _Rig Veda_ remains. Brought down to the most modern limits of the age assigned to it, its date cannot be made to overlap that of the _Pentateuch_, which is admittedly later. The Orientalists know well that they cannot make away with the landmarks, followed by all subsequent religions, set up in that “Bible of Humanity” called the _Rig Veda_. It is there that at the very dawn of intellectual humanity were laid the foundation‐stones of all the faiths and creeds, of every fane and church built from first to last; and they are still there. Universal “myths,” personifications of Powers divine and cosmic, primary and secondary, and historical personages of all the now‐existing as well as of extinct religions are to be found in the seven chief Deities and their 330,000,000 correlations of the _Rig Veda_, and those Seven, with the odd millions, are the Rays of the one boundless Unity. But to THIS can never be offered profane worship. It can only be the “object of the most abstract meditation, which Hindus practise in order to obtain absorption in it.” At the beginning of every “dawn” of “Creation,” eternal Light—which is darkness—assumes the aspect of so‐called Chaos: chaos to the human intellect; the eternal Root to the superhuman or spiritual sense.