[122] Vol XII. _Stromata_, bk. V. ch. iv.
[124] Book I. of _Against Celsus_ is found in Vol. X. of the Ante-Nicene Library. The remaining books are in Vol. XXIII.
[125] Vol. X. _Origen against Celsus_, bk. I. ch. vii.
[127] Ex. xxv. 40, xxvi. 30, and compare with Heb. viii. 5, and ix. 25.
[128] _Origen against Celsus_, bk. IV. ch. xvi.
[133] Vol. XXIII. _Origen against Celsus_, bk. V. ch. xxv.
[143] Vol. X. _Origen against Celsus_, bk. I., ch. xvii, and others.
[145] Vol. X. _De Principiis_, Preface, p. 8.
[148] _Loc. cit._ ch. i. sec. III. p. 55.
[149] _Ibid._ ch. I. Sec. III. pp. 55, 56.
[151] "Seems to have been" is a somewhat weak expression, after what is said by Clement and Origen, of which some specimens are given in the text.
[153] Article on "Mysticism."--_Encyc. Britan._
[154] Article "Mysticism." _Encyclopædia Britannica._
[156] Obligation must be here acknowledged to the Article "Mysticism," in the _Encyc. Brit._, though that publication is by no means responsible for the opinions expressed.
[157] _The Mysteries of Magic._ Trans. by A. E. Waite, pp. 58 and 60.
[168] Valentinus. Trans. by G. R. S. Mead. _Pistis Sophia_, bk. i., I.
[175] Vol. II. Justin Martyr. _First Apology_, §§ liv., lxii., and lxvi.
[176] Vol. II. Justin Martyr. _Second Apology_, § xiii.
[177] Vol. VII. Tertullian, _On Baptism_, ch. v.
[178] The student might read Plato's account of the "Cave" and its inhabitants, remembering that Plato was an Initiate. _Republic_, Bk. vii.
[179] Eliphas Lévi _The Mysteries of Magic_, p. 48.
[180] Bonwick. _Egyptian Belief_, p. 157. Quoted in Williamson's _Great Law_, p. 26.
[181] The festival "Natalis Solis Invicti," the birthday of the Invincible Sun.
[182] Williamson. _The Great Law_, pp. 40-42. Those who wish to study this matter as one of Comparative Religion cannot do better than read _The Great Law_, whose author is a profoundly religious man and a Christian.
[188] See on this the opening of the Johannine Gospel, i. 1-5. The name Logos, ascribed to the manifested God, shaping matter--"all things were made by Him"--is Platonic, and is hence directly derived from the Mysteries; ages before Plato, Vâk, Voice, derived from the same source, was used among Hindus.
[204] S. Matt. v. 8, and S. John xvii. 21.