once-Demon est Deus inversus-that is to say, through every point of Infinite Space thrill the magnetic and electric currents of animate Nature, the life-giving and the death-giving waves, for death on earth becomes life on another plane. Lucifer is divine and terrestrial light, the "Holy Ghost " and "Satan" at one and the same time, visible Space being truly filled with the differentiated Breath invisibly; and the Astral Light, the manifested effects of the two who are one, guided and attracted by ourselves, is the Karma of humanity, both a personal and impersonal entity; personal, as the mystic name given to the Host of Divine Creators, guides and rulers of this planet; impersonal, as the cause and effect of universal Life and Death.

The "Fall" was the result of man's knowledge, for" his eyes were opened." Indeed, he was taught Wisdom and the hidden knowledge by the "Fallen Angel," for the latter had become from that day his Mind and Self-Consciousness. In each of us that golden thread of continuous life is, from the beginning of our appearance on this earth, periodically broken into active and passive cycles of sensuous existence on earth, and super-sensuous in heaven (Devachan). It is the Sutrâtma, the luminous thread of immortal impersonal Monadship, on which our earthly lives or evanescent Egos are strung as so many beads.

And now it stands proven that Satan, or the Red Fiery Dragon, and Lucifer or the Light-bearer, is within us; he is our Mind-our tempter and our Redeemer, our intelligent liberator and Saviour from pure animalism. Without this principle-the emanation of the very essence of the Universal Divine Mind-we should be no better than animals. The first man, Adam, was made only a living soul, says St. Paul (I Cor. 43-5), the last Adam was made a quickening Spirit. The original text, rendered Kab

alistically and esoterically, would read: "It is sown a soul-body" (not "natural body "), it is raised a spirit body." St. Paul was an Initiate, and his words have quite a different meaning when read esoterically. The body" is sown in weakness (passivity); it is raised in power "-spirituality and intellect. Without this quickening spirit or mind, man would be as irresponsible as the animals-and as innocent of sin.

The identity of thought and meaning is the first thing that strikes the student in all the great religions, and in them all there is not one which does not mention the tradition of the fallen Spirits. What is, then, the absolute and complete truth, as well as the esoteric meaning, of this universal myth? The whole essence of truth cannot be described by any pen, not even that of the recording Angel, unless man find its response in the sanctuary of his own heart, in the innermost depths of his divine intuition. Therefore, we can give it only from its philosophical and intellectual planes, unlocked with three keys, for the last four keys of the seven that throw wide open the portals to the mysteries of nature are in the hands of the highest Initiates, and cannot be divulged to the masses at large-not in this our century, at any rate.

The history of the evolution of the Satanic myth would not be complete if we omitted to notice the mysterious and ubiquitous Enoch, also called Enos, Hanoch, and finally Enoïchion by the Greeks. It is from the Book of Enoch that the first notions of the Fallen Angels were taken by the early Christian writers.

The Book of Enoch is declared apocryphal. But the term, coming from the verb Krypto," to hide," merely shows that it is a secret book, belonging to the temple libraries under the guardianship of the Hierophants, and not meant for the profane. Some of the writers on the subject-especially Masonshave tried to identify Enoch with the Egyptian Thoth, the Greek Hermes, and even the Latin Mercury. As individuals these are distinct, but generically they belong one and all to the same category of sacred writers, Initiators and Recorders of occult and ancient Wisdom. Among the Egyptians "the Initiated " bore the name of Thoth, the inventor of the arts and sciences, of writing or letters, of music and astronomy. Among the Jews he became Enoch, who, according to Bar-Hebræus, "was the first inventor of writing," of books, of arts and sciences, and the first who reduced to a system the progress of the planets. In Greece he was called Orpheus, thus changing his name with every nation. Khanoch, or Hanoch, or Enoch means the "Initiator" and "Teacher "as well as the "Son of Man," Enos (vide Genesis iv. 26) esoterically. The number 7 being connected with each of these primitive Initiators, as well as the number of the days in the year, 365, it identifies their mission, character and sacred office, but certainly not their personalities. Enoch is the seventh Patriarch; Orpheus is the possessor of the phorminx, the seven-stringed lyre, which is the seven-fold mystery of initiation. Thoth, with the seven-rayed solar discus on his head, travels in the solar boat the 365 degrees, jumping out every fourth (leap) year for one day. Finally, ThothLunus is the septenary god of the week. Esoterically and spiritually Enoïchion means " the Seer of the Open Eye."

The story about Enoch told by Josephus, that he had concealed under the pillars of Seth his precious

rolls or books, is the same as that told of Hermes. Yet Josephus writes history. He shows those pillars as still existing in his own time. He tells us that they were built by Seth, and so they may have been, but not by the fabled son of Adam or the Egyptian god Thoth or Set, but by the "Sons of the Dragon," the name by which the Hierophants of Egypt and Babylon were known before the Deluge, as were their forefathers, the Atlanteans.

According to Josephus, the two famous pillars were entirely covered with hieroglyphics, which, copied and reproduced in the secret temples of Egypt, became the source of the exceptional wisdom and learning of that country. These pillars, moreover, are the prototypes of the "tables of stone" hewn by Moses at the command of the Lord. But when Josephus asserts that all the great adepts and mystics of antiquity got the elements of their theology from these hieroglyphics, he is right in one sense and wrong in another. The Secret Doctrine teaches us that the arts and sciences, the theology, and especially the philosophy, of every nation which preceded the last universally known but not universal Deluge, had been recorded ideographically from the primitive oral teachings of the Fourth Race, and that these were its inheritance from the early Third Race before the allegorical Fall. Hence also the Egyptian pillars, the Mosaic tablets, and even the "white stone" of the Masons-(which Enoch, fearing that the precious secrets would be lost, concealed before the Deluge in the bowels of the Earth) -were simply the more or less symbolical and allegorical copies from the primitive Records. The Book of Enoch is one of such copies, and is a Chaldean and now very incomplete compendium. The legend of Enoch, whose name meant, as already said, in Greek" the inner eye" or the "Seer," and in Hebrew the Initiator," is the same as that of sev

eral other prophets, with changes of details only. Enoch as well as Elijah is taken up to heaven alive. This kind of easy death, or euthanasia, has an esoteric meaning. It symbolizes the death of any adept who has reached the power and degree, as also the purification, which enable him to die only in the physical body, and still live consciously in his astral body. The Pauline expression (Heb. xi. 5)" that he (Enoch) should not see death" has thus an esoteric meaning, but nothing supernatural in it. The Biblical hints to the effect that Enoch will share with Christ and the prophet Elijah the honors and bliss of the last Advent, signify, esoterically, that some of the great adepts will return in the Seventh Race, when all error will be made away with. When Josephus, speaking of Elijah and Enoch, remarks that "it is written in the sacred books that they disappeared, but so that nobody knew they had died," it means simply that they had died in their personalities, as Yogis die to this day in India, or even some Christian monks to the world. They disappear from the sight of men and die-on the terrestrial plane-even for themselves. A seemingly figurative way of speaking, yet literally true.

Noah is heir to the Wisdom of Enoch; in other words, the Fifth is heir to the Fourth Race. In this case both represent Root-Races, the present and the preceding. In another sense, the disappearance of Enoch referred to the disappearance of the Sacred and Secret knowledge from among men. Interpreted with the help of merely the symbolical key, Enoch is the type of the dual nature of man, spiritual and physical.

The Book of Enoch, in short, is a résumé, a compound of the main features of the history of the Third, Fourth and Fifth Races; a very few prophecies of the present age of the world; a long retrospective, introspective and prophetic summary of