Let, then, the world cling to its Gods, to whatever plane or realm they may belong. The true Occultist would be guilty of high treason to mankind, were he to break for ever the old deities before he could replace them with the whole and unadulterated truth—and this he cannot do as yet. Nevertheless, the reader may be allowed to learn at least the alphabet of that truth. He may be shown, at any rate, what the Gods and Goddesses of the Pagans, denounced as demons by the Church, are not, if he cannot learn the whole and final truth as to what they are. Let him assure himself that the Hermetic “Tres Matres,” and the “Three Mothers” of the _Sepher Jetzirah_ are one and the same thing; that they are no Demon‐Goddesses, but Light, Heat, and Electricity, and then, perchance, the learned classes will spurn them no longer. After this, the Rosicrucian Illuminati may find followers even in the Royal Academies, which will be more prepared, perhaps, than they are now, to admit the grand truths of archaic Natural Philosophy, especially when their learned members shall have assured themselves that, in the dialect of Hermes, the “Three Mothers” stand as symbols for the whole of the forces or agencies which have a place assigned to them in the modern system of the “correlation of forces.”(121) Even the polytheism of the “superstitious” Brâhman and idolater shows its _raison d’être_, since the three Shaktis of the three great Gods, Brahmâ, Vishnu, and Shiva, are identical with the “Three Mothers” of the monotheistic Jew. The whole of the ancient religious and mystical literature is symbolical. The _Books of Hermes_, the _Zohar_, the _Ya‐Yakav_, the Egyptian _Book __ of the Dead_, the _Vedas_, the _Upanishads_, and the _Bible_, are as full of symbolism as are the Nabathean revelations of the Chaldaic Qû‐tâmy; it is a loss of time to ask which is the earliest; all are simply different versions of the one primeval Record of prehistoric knowledge and revelation. The first four chapters of _Genesis_ contain the synopsis of all the rest of the _Pentateuch_, being only the various versions of the same thing in different allegorical and symbolical applications. Having discovered that the Pyramid of Cheops with all its measurements is to be found contained in its minutest details in the structure of Solomon’s Temple; and having ascertained that the biblical names Shem, Ham and Japhet are determinative of pyramid measures, in connection with the 600‐year period of Noah and the 500‐year period of Shem, Ham and Japhet; ... the term “Sons of Elohim” and “Daughters” of H‐Adam, [are] for one thing astronomical terms,(122)