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[161] S. John i. 14.
[162] S. John i. 32.
[163] S. Matt. iii. 17.
[164]Ibid. iv. 17.
[165] I. Tim. iii. 16.
[166] S. John x. 34-36.
[167] S. John xiv. 18, 19.
[168] Valentinus. Trans. by G. R. S. Mead. Pistis Sophia, bk. i., I.
[169]Ante, p. 72.
[170]Ibid. 60.
[171]Ibid. bk. ii., 218.
[172]Ibid. 230.
[173]Ibid. 357.
[174]Ibid. 377.
[175] Vol. II. Justin Martyr. First Apology, §§ liv., lxii., and lxvi.
[176] Vol. II. Justin Martyr. Second Apology, § xiii.
[177] Vol. VII. Tertullian, On Baptism, ch. v.
[178] The student might read Plato's account of the "Cave" and its inhabitants, remembering that Plato was an Initiate. Republic, Bk. vii.
[179] Eliphas Lévi The Mysteries of Magic, p. 48.
[180] Bonwick. Egyptian Belief, p. 157. Quoted in Williamson's Great Law, p. 26.
[181] The festival "Natalis Solis Invicti," the birthday of the Invincible Sun.
[182] Williamson. The Great Law, pp. 40-42. Those who wish to study this matter as one of Comparative Religion cannot do better than read The Great Law, whose author is a profoundly religious man and a Christian.
[183]Ibid. pp. 36, 37.
[184]The Great Law, p. 116.
[185]Ibid. p. 58.
[186]Ibid. p. 56.
[187]Ibid. pp. 120-123.
[188] See on this the opening of the Johannine Gospel, i. 1-5. The name Logos, ascribed to the manifested God, shaping matter—"all things were made by Him"—is Platonic, and is hence directly derived from the Mysteries; ages before Plato, Vâk, Voice, derived from the same source, was used among Hindus.
[189] See Ante, pp. 124.
[190] See Ante, pp. 93-94.
[191] See Ante, p. 85.
[192] II. Cor. iv. 18.
[193] II. Cor. v. 7.
[194] Heb. v. 14.
[195] S. Luke xv. 16.
[196]Ibid. xiv. 26.
[197] S. Matt. v. 28.
[198] Heb. xi. 27.
[199] S. Matt v. 45.
[200] S. Luke ix. 49, 50.