I. The Superphysical World and Its Gnosis

As little as one can demonstrate the fallacy of a mathematical problem by discovering who solved it first, or even that several people have solved it—which would certainly be a valuable historical discovery—just so little can one impugn the truth of a biblical narrative by the discovery of a similar story elsewhere. Instead of demanding that everyone should insist upon his right, or even his duty, to think independently on the so-called “Revelations,” we ought rather to consider that only he has a. right to decide anything about the matter who has developed in himself those latent powers which make it possible for him to relive what was once realised by those very mystics who proclaimed the “super-sensuous revelations.”