Part 23 (2/2)

[Footnote 195: G. R. S. Mead tells us that Justin believed in Reincarnation only whilst he was a Platonist; he opposed this teaching after his conversion to Christianity (See _Theosophical Review_, April, 1906).]

[Footnote 196: Does this obscure pa.s.sage refer to the resurrection of the body?]

[Footnote 197: _Adversus Gentes_. ”We die many times, and as often do we rise again from the dead.”]

[Footnote 198: Hyeronim., _Epistola ad Demetr...._]

[Footnote 199: Book 2, quest. 6, No. 17.]

[Footnote 200: _Ephesians_, ch. 1, v. 4 ... he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world.]

[Footnote 201: _Inst.i.t. divin._, 3, 18.]

[Footnote 202: _Confessions_, I, ch. 6.]

[Footnote 203: _On the Immortality of the Soul_, chap. 12.]

[Footnote 204: _Hist. de Manichee et du Manicheisme_, vol. 2, p. 492.]

[Footnote 205: _Stromata._, vol. 3, p. 433. Edition des Benedictins.]

[Footnote 206: The words in parenthesis are by the author.]

[Footnote 207: _Cont. Cels._ Book 4, chap. 17.]

[Footnote 208: [Greek: ti akolouthei].]

[Footnote 209: _De Principiis_, Book 3, chap. 5.]

[Footnote 210: _Contra Celsum_, Book 1.]

[Footnote 211: _Contra Celsum_, Book 1, chap. 6.]

[Footnote 212: _De Principiis_, Book 3, chap. 5.]

[Footnote 213: _De Principiis_, Book 4, chap. 5.]

[Footnote 214: _Contra Celsum_, Book 7, chap. 32.]

[Footnote 215: E. Aroux. _Les Mysteres de la Chevalerie._]

[Footnote 216: Quoted by I. Cooper Oakley in _Traces of a Hidden Tradition in Masonry and Mediaeval Mysticism_, a very interesting work on the sects which connect the early centuries with modern times.]

[Footnote 217: See _L'Islamisme et son Enseignement esoterique_, by Ed. Bailly. _Publications theosophiques_, Paris, 1903.]

[Footnote 218: Chapter 18.]

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