[Footnote 127: _The Mystery of the Ages_, by the Duchesse de Pomar.]
[Footnote 128: In _Theologia_ or the _Seven Adyta._]
[Footnote 129: The "Cycle of Necessity" extends from the time when the soul begins to evolve to the moment when it attains to liberation.]
[Footnote 130: _Life of Pythagoras._ Book 8, chap. 14.]
[Footnote 131: Ovid's _Metamorphoses_. Book 15.]
[Footnote 132: All that remained of the shield was the carved ivory ornamentation, the iron had been eaten away by rust.]
[Footnote 133: Philostratus, _Life of Apollonius of Tyana._]
[Footnote 134: Philostratus, _Life of Apollonius of Tyana._]
[Footnote 136: The Ego, the human soul properly so-called, what Egypt named the liberated intelligence which resumes its sheath of light, and again becomes a "daimon" (_Maspero_). In antiquity the name of daimon was given to the human soul or to higher intelligences.]
[Footnote 137: _Hades_; the Purgatory of Catholics; the _Kâmalôka_ of Hindus.]
[Footnote 138: Allusion to the struggle which separates the mental from the astral body in Purgatory.]
[Footnote 140: The subterranean hell, the lowest world in Purgatory.]
[Footnote 142: Plato's _Republic_, Book 10.]
[Footnote 143: They are in the causal body.]
[Footnote 145: These considerations are taken from the writings of H. P. Blavatsky, and are also confirmed by modern criticism of biblical texts.]
[Footnote 146: Maimonides. Quoted in _The Perfect Way_, by A. Kingsford and E. Maitland.]
[Footnote 147: _Galatians_, chap. 4, verses 24, 25.]
[Footnote 149: _Deuteronomy_, chap. 24, verses 1 to 4.]
[Footnote 150: _Deuteronomy_, chap. 17, verse 17.]
[Footnote 151: _Exodus_, chap. 21, verses 2 to 11.]
[Footnote 152: _Exodus_, chap. 21, verses 23, 24, 25.]
[Footnote 153: _Genesis_, chap. 9, verses 5, 6; also _Leviticus_, chap. 7.]
[Footnote 154: _Exodus_, chapters 6, 12, 14, 22, 32,]
[Footnote 155: _Ecclesiastes_, chap. 3, verses 18, 19, 20, 22.]
[Footnote 156: The souls of a race in its maturity are of a more advanced type than those of its infancy or old age.]
[Footnote 157: The Kabala is the secret teaching of the Jews; in it lie hidden doctrines that are too profound to be taught in public.]
[Footnote 158: _Zohar_, 2, 99, quoted in Myer's _Qabbalah_, p. 198.]