Annie Besant - Esoteric Christianity, or The Lesser Mysteries

Under "School."

Dr. Wynn Westcott. Sepher Yetzirah , p. 9.

S. Mark iv. 10, 11, 33, 34. See also S. Matt. xiii. 11, 34, 36, and S. Luke viii. 10.

S. John xvi. 12.

Acts i. 3.

Loc. cit. Trans. by G. R. S. Mead. I. i. 1.

S. Matt. vii. 6.

As to the Greek woman: "It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it unto the dogs." – S. Mark vii. 27.

S. Luke xiii. 23, 24.

S. Matt. vii. 13, 14.

Kaṭhopaniṣhat II. iv. 10, 11.

Brihadâraṇyakopaniṣhat . IV. iv. 7.

Rev. vii. 9.

Bahgavad Gîtâ , vii. 3.

Ante , p. 26.

It must be remembered that the Jews believed that all imperfect souls returned to live again on earth.

S. Matt. xix. 16-26.

S. John xvii. 3.

Heb. ix. 23.

S. John. iii. 3, 5.

S. Matt. iii. 11.

Ibid. xviii. 3.

S. John iii. 10.

S. Matt. v. 48.

Ante , p.24

Note how this chimes in with the promise of Jesus in S. John xvi. 12-14: "I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit when He, the Spirit of Truth, is come, He will guide you into all truth… He will show you things to come… He shall receive of mine, and shall show it unto you."

Another technical name in the Mysteries.

Eph. iii. 3, 4, 9.

Col i. 23, 25-28. But S. Clement, in his Stromata , translates "every man," as "the whole man." See Bk. V., ch. x.

Col. iv. 3.

Ante-Nicene Library, Vol. XII. Clement of Alexandria. Stromata , bk. V. ch. x. Some additional sayings of the Apostles will be found in the quotations from Clement, showing what meaning they bore in the minds of those who succeeded the apostles, and were living in the same atmosphere of thought.

I. Tim. iii. 9, 16.

I. Tim. i. 18.

Ibid. , iv. 14.

Ibid. , vi. 13.

Ibid. , 20.

II. Tim. i. 13, 14.

Ibid. , ii. 2.

Phil. iii. 8, 10-12, 14, 15.

Rev. i. 18. "I am He that liveth, and was dead; and behold, I am alive for evermore. Amen."

II. Cor. v. 16.

Gal. iii. 27.

Gal. iv. 19.

I. Cor. iv. 15.

I. S. Pet. iii. 4.

Eph. iv. 13.

Col. i. 24.

II. Cor. iv. 10.

Gal. ii. 20.

II. Tim. iv. 6, 8.

Rev. iii. 12.

Gal. iv. 22-31.

I Cor. x. 1-4.

Eph. v. 23-32.

Vol. I. The Martyrdom of Ignatius , ch. iii. The translations used are those of Clarke's Ante-Nicene Library, a most useful compendium of Christian antiquity. The number of the volume which stands first in the references is the number of the volume in that Series.

Ibid. The Epistle of Polycarp , ch. xii.

Ibid. The Epistle of Barnabas , ch. i.

Ibid. ch. x.

Ibid. The Martyrdom of Ignatius, ch. i.

Ibid. Epistle of Ignatius to the Ephesians , ch. iii.

Ibid. ch. xii.

Ibid. to the Trallians , ch. v.

Ibid. to the Philadelphians , ch. ix.

Vol. IV. Clement of Alexandria Stromata , bk. I. ch. i.

Vol. IV. Stromata , bk. I. ch. xxviii.

It appears that even in those days there were some who objected to any truth being taught secretly!

Ibid. bk. I, ch. i.

Ibid. bk. V., ch. iv.

Ibid. ch. v. – viii.

Ibid. ch. ix.

Ibid. bk. V., ch. x.

Loc. Cit. xv. 29.

Ibid. xvi. 25, 26; the version quoted differs in words, but not in meaning, from the English Authorised Version.

Stromata , bk. V., ch. x.

Ibid. bk. VI., ch. vii.

Ibid. bk. VII., ch. xiv.

Ibid. bk. VI., ch. xv.

Ibid. bk. VI. x.

Ibid. bk. VI. vii.

Ibid. bk. I. ch. vi.

Ibid. ch. ix.

Ibid. bk. VI. ch. x.

Ibid. bk. I. ch. xiii.

Vol XII. Stromata , bk. V. ch. iv.

Ibid. bk. VI. ch. xv.

Book I. of Against Celsus is found in Vol. X. of the Ante-Nicene Library. The remaining books are in Vol. XXIII.

Vol. X. Origen against Celsus , bk. I. ch. vii.

Ibid.

Ex. xxv. 40, xxvi. 30, and compare with Heb. viii. 5, and ix. 25.

Origen against Celsus , bk. IV. ch. xvi.

Ibid. bk. III. ch. lix.

Ibid. ch. lxi.

Ibid. ch. lxii.

Ibid. , ch. lx.

Vol. XXIII. Origen against Celsus , bk. V. ch. xxv.

Ibid. ch. xxviii.