It is dificult to understand the remark "the Saviour's ery of pain was an invocation of the prophet Elias" when coupled with "the words of Christ are in the twenty-second psalm they are an ancient initiation-sentence." Christ did not invoke Elias at all, and the origin of the psalm is totally unknown. Passing on, we are told something of Gnosis, the Cab-bala, the Grail and the Rosicrucians: n connection (more or less) with the last of these, we read:
"no shot would have been fired last war if the Freemasons had had the will to use their influence and money for the cause of humanity and if they had restrained their chief tool Socialism from its foolish pro ceedings.
One is left to presume that this refers to German Freemasons.
Much is written about alchemy and Theosophy and the "new spiritual science" as conceived by Rudolf Steiner and his school, To those who are interested in the recondite (both in subject-matter and in language) this book may well have an appeal, especially if one already has a very fair knowledge of the occult in general, and if one is content to accept new standpoints without demanding proof for them—r.c.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.