nce. It would have been easy to
have treated the subject inductively, amassing facts and drawing
conclusions, but to have done so the author would have been false
to the very principle about which the work came into being. With the
acceptance of the Ancient Wisdom, the inductive method becomes
no longer necessary. Facts are not useful in order to establish a
hypothesis, they are used rather to elucidate a known and accepted
truth. When theosophical ideas shall have permeated the thought of
mankind, this work, if it survives at all, will be chiefly--perhaps
solely--remarkable by reason of the fact that it was among the
first in which the attempt was made again to unify science, art and
religion, as they were unified in those ancient times and among those
ancient peoples when the Wisdom swayed the hearts and minds of men.

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