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{{Style P-No indent|memory of whom lingered from one generation and race to another generation and race down to the days of Moses, and which found an objective form in those antediluvian giants, those terrible sorcerers and magicians, of whom the Roman Church has preserved such vivid and at the same time distorted legends. One who has read and studied the Commentaries on the archaic doctrine, will easily recognise in some Atlanteans, the prototypes of the Nimrods, the Builders of the Tower of Babel, the Hamites, and all these ''tutti quanti ''of “ accursed memory,” as theological literature expresses it : of those, in short, who have furnished posterity with the orthodox types of Satan. And this leads us naturally to inquire into the religious ethics of these early races, mythical as these may be.}}

At the dawn of his consciousness, the man of the Third Root Race had thus no beliefs that could be called ''religion. ''That is to say, he was equally as ignorant of “ gay religions, full of pomp and gold ” as of any system of faith or outward worship. But if the term is to be defined as the binding together of the masses in one form of reverence paid to those we feel higher than ourselves, of piety — as a feeling expressed by a child toward a loved parent — then even the earliest Lemurians had a religion — and a most beautiful one — from the very beginning of their intellectual life. Had they not their bright gods of the elements around

Such was the secret and mysterious origin of all the subsequent and modern religions, especially of the worship of the later Hebrews for their tribal god. At the same time this sexual religion was closely allied to, based upon and blended, so to say, with astronomical phenomena. The Lemurians gravitated toward the North Pole, or the Heaven of their Progenitors (the Hyperborean Continent) ; the Atlanteans, toward the Southern Pole, the ''pit'', cosmically and terrestrially — whence breathe the hot passions blown into hurricanes by the cosmic Elementals, whose abode it is. The two poles were denominated, by the ancients, Dragons and Serpents — hence good and bad Dragons and Serpents, and also the names given to the “ Sons of God ” (Sons of Spirit and Matter) : the good and bad Magicians. This is the origin of this dual and triple nature in man. The legend of the “ Fallen Angels ” in its esoteric signification, contains the key to the manifold contradictions of human character ; it points to the secret of man’s self-consciousness ; it is the angle-iron on which hinges his entire life-cycle ; — the history of his evolution and growth.

The reader, therefore, will not be surprised if so considerable space is devoted in each case to an attempt to elucidate this difficult and obscure subject. A good deal must necessarily be said on its symbological aspect ; because, by so doing, hints are given to the thoughtful student for his own investigations, and more light can thus be suggested than it is possible to convey in the technical phrases of a more formal, philosophical exposition. The “ Fallen Angels,” so-called, are ''Humanity itself. ''The Demon of Pride, Lust, Rebellion, and Hatred, has never had ''any being before ''the appearance of physical conscious man. It is man who has begotten, nurtured, and allowed the fiend to develop in his heart ; he, again, who has contaminated the indwelling god in himself, by linking the pure spirit with the impure demon of matter. And, if the Kabalistic saying, “ ''Demon est Deus inversus ”'' finds its metaphysical and theoretical corroboration in dual manifested nature, its practical application is found in Mankind alone.