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221 This divine Voice is the Logos—the seventh principle in man. He is the real Eswara of the Vedantins and the Saviour of mankind. Through Him alone can salvation and immortality be secured by man; and the end and object of all initiation is to ascertain His attributes and connection with humanity, realize His sacred presence in every human heart, and discover the means of transferring man's higher individuality, purified and ennobled by the virtuous Karma of a series of incarnations, to His feet as the most sacred offering which a human being can bestow.

God further found necessary to send a teacher and a ruler to mankind to disclose to them the laws of initiation and point out the way to reach their own Logos. In spite of the presence of Atma in his own heart, man might remain ignorant of that sacred presence unless the veil of ignorance were removed from his eyes by a spiritual teacher. To meet this necessity God thought of sending down into the world such a teacher and made the following promise to the complaining elements:—

"I will send you an efflux of myself, a pure being who shall investigate all actions, who shall be the dreadful and incorruptible judge of the living: and sovereign justice shall extend its reign even into the shades beneath the earth. Thus shall every man receive his merited deserts."

This efflux manifested itself as Osiris and his female counterpart Isis.

This nativity, the mystery of which Isis refuses to disclose even to Horus, does not however correspond with the nativity of Christ.

Christ or Christos is the divine voice or Logos which manifests itself in every man; and the biblical narrative of Christ is an allegorical account of every regenerated spirit generally. It is not the historical value of the biblical account which is of importance to mankind in general, but its philosophical and occult significance, as asserted by Dr. Kingsford and