“The Secret Doctrine is the accumulated Wisdom of the Ages, and its cosmogony alone is the most stupendous and

elaborate system: e.g., even in the exotericism of the Purânas. But such is the mysterious power of Occult

symbolism, that the facts which have actually occupied countless generations of initiated seers and prophets

to marshal, to set down and explain, in the bewildering series of evolutionary progress, are all

recorded on a few pages of geometrical signs and glyphs. The flashing gaze of those seers has penetrated into

the very kernel of matter, and recorded the soul of things there, where an ordinary profane, however

learned, would have perceived but the external work of form. But modern science believes not in the “soul of

things,” and hence will reject the whole system of ancient cosmogony.