“Obvious” truly, and something else besides. For, if Jesus pronounced the words in the sense attributed to him, then he must have read the _Book of Enoch_—a purely Kabalistic, Occult work, and he therefore recognised the worth and value of a treatise now declared apocryphal by his Churches. Moreover, he could not have been ignorant that these words belonged to the oldest ritual of Initiation.(134) And if he had not read it, and the sentence belongs to John, or whoever wrote the Fourth Gospel, then what reliance can be placed on the authenticity of other sayings and parables attributed to the Christian Saviour? Thus, De Mirville’s illustration is an unfortunate one. Every other proof brought by the Church to show the infernal character of the ante‐and‐anti‐ Christian copyists may be as easily disposed of. This is perhaps unfortunate, but it is a fact, nevertheless—_Magna est veritas et prevalebit_. The above is the answer of the Occultists to the two parties who charge them incessantly, the one with “Superstition,” and the other with “Sorcery.” To those of our Brothers who are Christians, and twit us with the secresy imposed upon the Eastern Chelâs, adding invariably that their own “Book of God” is “an open volume” for all “to read, understand, and _be saved_,” we would reply by asking them to study what we have just said in this Section, and then to refute it—if they can. There are very few in our days who are still prepared to assure their readers that the _Bible_ had God for its author, salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture of error for its matter. Could Locke be asked the question now, he would perhaps be unwilling to repeat again that the _Bible_ is all pure, all sincere, nothing too much, nothing wanting. The _Bible_, if it is not to be shown to be the very reverse of all this, sadly needs an interpreter acquainted with the doctrines of the East, as they are to be found in its secret volumes; nor is it safe now, after Archbishop Laurence’s translation of the _Book of Enoch_, to cite Cowper and assure us that the _Bible_ ... gives a light to every age, It gives, but borrows none.