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354 shown in the footnote. With this remark, I may begin to wind up this already too prolonged controversy.

To sum up. Our rather lengthy examination of the strictures contained in the joint papers by the President and a 'Vice-President of the London Lodge' will now clearly show to our fellow members, and to any impartial reader of "Esoteric Buddhism," that its doctrines are neither unscientific, nor are they entirely allegorical. If, owing to their extremely abstruse character, they are misleading, or rather difficult of comprehension,—the author should hardly be blamed for it. He has done his best; and, as the system of philosophy explained by Mr. Sinnett comes assuredly from the highest sources of esoteric knowledge known to us in the East—he has deserved, on the contrary, the best thanks, for even the little he has done. His book forms part of a complete system of Esoteric Science and philosophy which is neither Hindu nor Buddhist in its origion, but which is identical with the ancient Wisdom-Religion itself, and which forms the basis or foundation of every system of religion conceived by the human mind since the time when the first Dhyan Chohan appeared on this planet to plant the germ