PART I. Purpose of this book, to supply the
existing need of a perfect system of thought
and life by one founded in the nature of
existence. This not a new invention, but
a recovery of the original system which was
the basis of all religions. Its recovery due
to the same means by which it was originally
received, namely, the Intuition, which repre-
sents the knowledges acquired by the Soul
in its past existences, and complements the
intellect, being itself quickened and enhanced
by illumination of the Spirit. Revelation a
proper prerogative of man, belonging to him

God the supreme

in virtue of his nature and constitution,
and crowning the reason.
Reason. The Understanding, the "Rock"
of the true Church. Illustrations of Method,
classic and rabbinical. Sketch of Doctrine.
Spirit and Matter: their nature, relations, and
essential identity. Existence and Being.
The Kalpa, Sabbath, and Nirvâna. Divinity
of Substance: its unity and trinity, and mode
of individuation and development. The true
doctrine of creation by evolution; found in
all religions, as also that of the progression
and migration of Souls; personal and his-
torical testimony to its truth; recognised in
Old and New Testaments.

Rudimentary

PART II. Relation of the system recovered to

that in possession. The true heir. Religion,

being founded in the nature of existence, is

necessarily non-historical, independent of

times, places, and persons, and appeals per-

petually to the mind and conscience. Ob-

jections anticipated. Persistency of religious

ideas due to their reality. The apparently

new not necessarily really new. Christianity

not exempt from the influences which caused

the deterioration of Judaism. Its future de-

velopment by means of new revelation fore-

Need of such new

told by its Founder.

revelation to preserve, not only religion, but

humanity from extinction. The "man of

sin" and "abomination that maketh deso-

late." Substitution of Gospel of Force for

Gospel of Love. One name whereby is sal-

vation, but many bearers. The Christs

pp. 25-36

LECTURE THE SECOND.

THE SOUL; AND THE SUBSTANCE of EXISTENCE.

PART I. The Soul, universal or individual, the

supreme subject and object of culture: the

essential self, to know which is the only

wisdom, involving the knowledge of God.

Mysticism or Spiritualism, and Materialism,

the doctrines respectively of Substance or

Spirit, and of phenomenon. Matter a mode

or condition of Spirit, and indispensable to

its manifestation. The object of all religion

and subject of all revelation the redemption

of Spirit from. Matter. Necessity to creation

of the idea of a no-God. The ascent from

Nature's Seeming to God's Being. The re-

covered system and Materialism respectively

as Phoibos and Python.

PP. 37-43

PART II. The Soul as individual, its genesis and

nature: as the divine idea, eternal in its nature,

yet perishable if uninformed of the Spirit.

The "Fire of the hearth :" the Divine breath.

Convergence and divergence: the celestial

Nirvana, and that of annihilation. The end.

of the persistently evil. The planet and its

offspring. The fourfold nature of existence,

alike in macrocosm and microcosm, due to

differentialities of polarisation of original

substance

PART III. The Soul as individual, its history

and progress: commencing in the simplest

organisms, it works upwards, moulding itself

according to the tendencies encouraged by

it; its final object to escape the need of a

body and return to the condition of pure

Spirit. Souls various in quality. The parable

of the Talents

pp. 43-48

pp. 49-51

PART IV. Of the nature of God; as Living Sub-
stance, One; as Life and Substance, Twain ;
the Potentiality of all things; the absolute
Good, through the limitation of whom by
Matter comes evil. Subsists prior to creation
as Invisible Light. As Life, God is He; as
Substance, She; respectively the Spirit and
Soul universal and individual; the Soul the

feminine element in man, having its represen-

tative in woman. God the original, abstract

Humanity. The Seven Spirits of God.

"Nature." The heavenly Maria, her charac-

teristics and symbols. As Soul or Intuition,

she is the "woman" by whom man attains

his true manhood. The defect of the age in

this respect. No intuition, no organon of

knowledge. The Soul alone such an orga-

PART V. Divine Names, denotive of charac-

teristics. Function of religion to enable man

to manifest the divine Spirit within him.

Man as an expression of God. The Christs,

why called Sungods. The Zodiacal plani-

sphere a Bible or hieroglyph of the Soul's

history. Bibles, by whom written.

"Gift of God"

The

PP. 57-62

LECTURE THE THIRD.

THE VARIOUS ORDERS OF SPIRITS; AND HOW TO

DISCERN THEM.

PART I. The sphere of the astral, its four circuli
and their respective occupants. The Shades;
purgatory; "hell"; "devils"; "the Devil";
possession by devils; "souls in prison";