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384 GENERAL SURVEY AND CONCLUSIONS turning into eyes at Brahma's intervention. In the Hebrew Court you see your Garden of Eden, with its two famous trees, and the tragedy of the fall being enacted in all its grim detail. Yonder in the Court of the New Faith you find Johv baptising at the forbidden Jordon, a Divine Soul raising the dead and crucifying the fleshly bahiratman in the place of the skull; and in 'Araby! you bave Mahomedans and Jews joining in the cele. brations over the sacrificial cow. But there is no passage from here into the Sanctuary, except through certain bidden doorways which are so completely concealed by the Artist's work as to be altogether unperceivable except with subtier vision. The whole of this maze of courts is plunged in total darkness, except for the thin coloured light from within the Sanctum Sanctorum that is illumining the wonderful images and pictograms themselves There was a key which every one of the old Artists possessed, but it had been lost long before the commence. ment of the A. D. era, though it was re-constructed again at the time. Some 1300 years ago this key was again fitted into some of the locks, but since then it is to be doubted if any one has ever possessed it or opened any of the locked doors till now. To-day you have had that key placed in your hands. As you see, it is not a key of iron or brass or even of a precious metal, like silver or gold, but the KEY of KNOWLEDGE that illumines itself and its surroundings. Its supernal phosphores. cence enables its possessor to perceive the hidden bars and locks that bar the way to the Inner Court of Life
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