About the Book
From the FOREWORD.
From times ancient beyond conjecture the restless spirit of man has been seeking to discover, if possible, the real source of being -the how and the why, the whence and the whither of existence, but it is a problem that has been ever elusive to his finite understanding, for the finite cannot grasp the infinite.
The great majority of the human race are so occupied with the outer and meaningless forms, so prone to follow after the material and fleeting pleasures of life that they fail to come in touch with the inner sense of things and seldom catch even a gleam of that "innermost light" which illuminates the darkness that envelops them. Yet in all ages, and in every nation and clime there have always lived a few gifted souls who were able to peer beneath the material envelope, there to unveil the mysteries of Nature and behold the glories of the Divine. These inspired ones have given expressions to the wonders they have discovered in language so sublime that we are hushed almost into silence by reverence and awe. Students of the present age can find no more interesting study than the works of these grand "Old Masters," who have left behind them, hidden from the profane under mystic symbols and allegories and revealed only to the Initiate, a heritage richer than the "mines of King Solomon" and more valuable than the "gold of Ophir."
For many centuries this knowledge was supposed to have been lost, but, in reality, it was only hidden, or lost sight of by an ignorant people of a materialistic age, who knew not its value nor how to use it. It was kept sacred by those who possessed it, hidden in secret crypts of occult Fraternities, until the time should come for it to be brought forth to lead mankind back to a realization of his own Godhood....
