been confined to those who had been initiated into the great mysteries of Osiris.

In whatever way we may interpret the story of Moses' meeting with the Divine Being at the burning bush, one thing is evident: it indicates the point in his career when it became plain to him that the only possible way for the Liberation of mankind was through the universal recognition of that Truth which till now had been the exclusive secret of the sanctuaries. What, then, was the great central Truth which was thus announced in this proclamation of the Divine Name? It has two sides to it. First, that Pure Spirit is the ultimate essence of all that is, and as a consequence the All-presence, the All-knowledge, the All-livingness, and the All-lovingness of "God". Then as the corollary of the proposition that "Spirit is all that is", there must be the converse proposition that "all that is is Spirit"; and since Man is included in the "all", we are again brought back to the original description of him as the image and likeness of God.

But in those days people had to be educated up to these two great truths, and they have not advanced very far in this education yet; so from the time when Moses' eyes were opened to see in these truths not a secret to be guarded for his private benefit, but the power which was to expand to the renovation of the world, he realised that it was his mission to set men free by educating them gradually into the true knowledge