Everything in the Universe, throughout all its kingdoms, is conscious: i.e., endowed with a consciousness of its own kind and on its own plane of perception.

Even in our day, science suspects beyond the Polar seas, at the very circle of the Arctic Pole, the existence of a sea which never freezes and a continent which is ever green.

As no outward motion or change, when normal, in man's external body can take place unless provoked by an inward impulse, given through one of the three functions named, so with the external or manifested Universe.

Everything that is, was, and will be, eternally IS, even the countless forms, which are finite and perishable only in their objective, not in their ideal Form.

Yet, the Universe is real enough to the conscious beings in it, which are as unreal as it is itself.

The Universe is the periodical manifestation of this unknown Absolute Essence.

The whole order of nature evinces a progressive march towards a higher life.

Becoming is the mode of activity of the uncreate deity.

The Occultists, however, know that the traditions of Esoteric Philosophy must be the right ones, simply because they are the most logical, and reconcile every difficulty.

If coming events are said to cast their shadows before, past events cannot fall to leave their impress behind them.