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>>17155137
I get it.

Behind the veil of all the hieratic and mystical allegories of ancient doctrines, behind the darkness and strange ordeals of all initiations, under the seal of all sacred writings, in the ruins of Nineveh or Thebes, on the crumbling stones of old temples and on the blackened visage of the Assyrian or Egyptian sphinx, in the monstrous or marvellous paintings which interpret to the faithful of India the inspired pages of the Vedas, in the cryptic emblems of our old books on alchemy, in the ceremonies practised at reception by all secret societies, there are found indications of a doctrine which is everywhere the same and everywhere carefully concealed. (Éliphas Lévi, Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie, vol. 1, p. 1.)

But it is perhaps desirable to state unequivocally that the teachings, however fragmentary and incomplete... belong neither to the Hindu, the Zoroastrian, the Chaldean, nor the Egyptian religion, neither to Buddhism, Islam, Judaism nor Christianity exclusively. The Secret Doctrine is the essence of all these. (H.P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, vol. 1, p. vii.)

Moreover, Esoteric philosophy reconciles all religions, strips every one of its outward, human garments, and shows the root of each to be identical with that of every other great religion. (Ibid., vol. 1, p. xx)

It is only by bringing before the reader an abundance of proofs all tending to show that in every age, under every condition of civilization and knowledge, the educated classes of every nation made themselves the more or less faithful echoes of one identical system and its fundamental traditions—that he can be made to see that so many streams of the same water must have had a common source from which they started. (Ibid., vol. 2, p. 794.)

An old Message, yet ever new; for Man forgets too soon the Holy Teachings, or tries to fit new explanations to the Golden Truths, which never alter! (J. Michaud, The Golden Star, ch. 12.)

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