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viii, they introduce you only into the outer court of the knowledge of and of yourselves, which court, ample and magnificent as it certainly is, is still but a court; and therefore, if you proceed no further, and thus stop short in the way to the Temple of Wisdom, to which that court was intended to lead, you will still know as little of what is passing in the temple, as if you had never entered into the court.

It is my purpose therefore, in the following Letters, to conduct you through the above court into the temple; or, in other words, to unlock the above casket for the exhibition of its treasures, by endeavouring to convince you, that the material body of man is a mere effect in this lower world, which effect has its instrumental cause in the soul or spirit, and