FOOTNOTES:
[1] S. Mark xvi. 15.
[2] S. Matt vii. 6.
[3] Clarke's Ante-Nicene Christian Library, Vol. IV. Clement of Alexandria. Stromata, bk. I., ch. xii.
[4] I. Cor. iii. 16.
[5] Ibid., ii. 14, 16.
[6] S. John, i. 9.
[7] Psalms, xlii. 1.
[8] 1 Cor. xv. 28.
[9] Ante-Nicene Library, Vol. XII. Clement of Alexandria. Stromata, bk. V., ch. xi.
[10] See Article on "Mysteries," Encyc. Britannica ninth edition.
[11] Psellus, quoted in Iamblichus on the Mysteries. T. Taylor, p. 343, note on p. 23, second edition.
[12] Iamblichus, as ante, p. 301.
[13] Ibid., p. 72.
[14] The article on "Mysticism" in the Encyclopædia Britannica has the following on the teaching of Plotinus (204-206 A.D.): "The One [the Supreme God spoken of above] is exalted above the nous and the 'ideas'; it transcends existence altogether and is not cognisable by reason. Remaining itself in repose, it rays out, as it were, from its own fulness, an image of itself, which is called nous, and which constitutes the system of ideas of the intelligible world. The soul is in turn the image or product of the nous, and the soul by its motion begets corporeal matter. The soul thus faces two ways—towards the nous, from which it springs, and towards the material life, which is its own product. Ethical endeavour consists in the repudiation of the sensible; material existence is itself estrangement from God.... To reach the ultimate goal, thought itself must be left behind; for thought is a form of motion, and the desire of the soul is for the motionless rest which belongs to the One. The union with transcendent deity is not so much knowledge or vision as ecstasy, coalescence, contact." Neo-Platonism is thus "first of all a system of complete rationalism; it is assumed, in other words, that reason is capable of mapping out the whole system of things. But, inasmuch as a God is affirmed beyond reason, the mysticism becomes in a sense the necessary complement of the would-be all-embracing rationalism. The system culminates in a mystical act."
[15] Iamblichus, as ante, p. 73.
[16] Ibid, pp. 55, 56.
[17] Ibid, pp. 118, 119.
[18] Ibid, p. 118, 119.
[19] Ibid, pp. 95, 100.
[20] Ibid, p. 101.
[21] Ibid, p. 330.
[22] G. R. S. Mead. Plotinus, p. 42.
[23] Iamblichus, p. 364, note on p. 134.
[24] G. R. S. Mead. Orpheus, pp. 285, 286.
[25] Iamblichus, p. 364, note on p. 134.
[26] Iamblichus, p. 285, et seq.
[27] G. R. S. Mead. Orpheus, p. 59.
[28] Ibid, p. 30.
[29] Ibid, pp. 263, 271.
[30] G. R. S. Mead. Plotinus, p. 20.
[31] Shvetâshvataropaniṣhat, vi., 22.
[32] Kaṭhopaniṣṣhat, iii., 14.
[33] I. Cor. xiii. 1.
[34] Kaṭhopaniṣhat, vi. 17.
[35] Muṇdakopaniṣhat, II., ii. 9.
[36] Ibid., III., i. 3.
[37] I Sam. xix. 20.
[38] II. Kings ii. 2, 5.
[39] Under "School."
[40] Dr. Wynn Westcott. Sepher Yetzirah, p. 9.
[41] S. Mark iv. 10, 11, 33, 34. See also S. Matt. xiii. 11, 34, 36, and S. Luke viii. 10.
[42] S. John xvi. 12.
[43] Acts i. 3.
[44] Loc. cit. Trans. by G. R. S. Mead. I. i. 1.
[45] S. Matt. vii. 6.
[46] As to the Greek woman: "It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it unto the dogs."—S. Mark vii. 27.
[47] S. Luke xiii. 23, 24.
[48] S. Matt. vii. 13, 14.
[49] Kaṭhopaniṣhat II. iv. 10, 11.
[50] Brihadâraṇyakopaniṣhat. IV. iv. 7.
[51] Rev. vii. 9.
[52] Bahgavad Gîtâ, vii. 3.
[53] Ante, p. 26.
[54] It must be remembered that the Jews believed that all imperfect souls returned to live again on earth.
[55] S. Matt. xix. 16-26.
[56] S. John xvii. 3.
[57] Heb. ix. 23.
[58] S. John. iii. 3, 5.
[59] S. Matt. iii. 11.
[60] Ibid. xviii. 3.
[61] S. John iii. 10.
[62] S. Matt. v. 48.
[63] Ante, p.24
[64] Note how this chimes in with the promise of Jesus in S. John xvi. 12-14: "I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit when He, the Spirit of Truth, is come, He will guide you into all truth.... He will show you things to come.... He shall receive of mine, and shall show it unto you."
[65] Another technical name in the Mysteries.
[66] Eph. iii. 3, 4, 9.
[67] Col i. 23, 25-28. But S. Clement, in his Stromata, translates "every man," as "the whole man." See Bk. V., ch. x.
[68] Col. iv. 3.
[69] Ante-Nicene Library, Vol. XII. Clement of Alexandria. Stromata, bk. V. ch. x. Some additional sayings of the Apostles will be found in the quotations from Clement, showing what meaning they bore in the minds of those who succeeded the apostles, and were living in the same atmosphere of thought.
[70] I. Tim. iii. 9, 16.
[71] I. Tim. i. 18.
[72] Ibid., iv. 14.
[73] Ibid., vi. 13.
[74] Ibid., 20.
[75] II. Tim. i. 13, 14.
[76] Ibid., ii. 2.
[77] Phil. iii. 8, 10-12, 14, 15.
[78] Rev. i. 18. "I am He that liveth, and was dead; and behold, I am alive for evermore. Amen."
[79] II. Cor. v. 16.
[80] Gal. iii. 27.
[81] Gal. iv. 19.
[82] I. Cor. iv. 15.
[83] I. S. Pet. iii. 4.
[84] Eph. iv. 13.
[85] Col. i. 24.
[86] II. Cor. iv. 10.
[87] Gal. ii. 20.
[88] II. Tim. iv. 6, 8.
[89] Rev. iii. 12.
[90] Gal. iv. 22-31.
[91] I Cor. x. 1-4.
[92] Eph. v. 23-32.
[93] Vol. I. The Martyrdom of Ignatius, ch. iii. The translations used are those of Clarke's Ante-Nicene Library, a most useful compendium of Christian antiquity. The number of the volume which stands first in the references is the number of the volume in that Series.
[94] Ibid. The Epistle of Polycarp, ch. xii.
[95] Ibid. The Epistle of Barnabas, ch. i.
[96] Ibid. ch. x.
[97] Ibid. The Martyrdom of Ignatius, ch. i.
[98] Ibid. Epistle of Ignatius to the Ephesians, ch. iii.
[99] Ibid. ch. xii.
[100] Ibid. to the Trallians, ch. v.
[101] Ibid. to the Philadelphians, ch. ix.
[102] Vol. IV. Clement of Alexandria Stromata, bk. I. ch. i.
[103] Vol. IV. Stromata, bk. I. ch. xxviii.
[104] It appears that even in those days there were some who objected to any truth being taught secretly!
[105] Ibid. bk. I, ch. i.
[106] Ibid. bk. V., ch. iv.
[107] Ibid. ch. v.-viii.
[108] Ibid. ch. ix.
[109] Ibid. bk. V., ch. x.
[110] Loc. Cit. xv. 29.
[111] Ibid. xvi. 25, 26; the version quoted differs in words, but not in meaning, from the English Authorised Version.
[112] Stromata, bk. V., ch. x.
[113] Ibid. bk. VI., ch. vii.
[114] Ibid. bk. VII., ch. xiv.
[115] Ibid. bk. VI., ch. xv.
[116] Ibid. bk. VI. x.
[117] Ibid. bk. VI. vii.
[118] Ibid. bk. I. ch. vi.
[119] Ibid. ch. ix.
[120] Ibid. bk. VI. ch. x.
[121] Ibid. bk. I. ch. xiii.
[122] Vol XII. Stromata, bk. V. ch. iv.
[123] Ibid. bk. VI. ch. xv.
[124] Book I. of Against Celsus is found in Vol. X. of the Ante-Nicene Library. The remaining books are in Vol. XXIII.
[125] Vol. X. Origen against Celsus, bk. I. ch. vii.
[126] Ibid.
[127] Ex. xxv. 40, xxvi. 30, and compare with Heb. viii. 5, and ix. 25.
[128] Origen against Celsus, bk. IV. ch. xvi.
[129] Ibid. bk. III. ch. lix.
[130] Ibid. ch. lxi.
[131] Ibid. ch. lxii.
[132] Ibid., ch. lx.
[133] Vol. XXIII. Origen against Celsus, bk. V. ch. xxv.
[134] Ibid. ch. xxviii.
[135] Ibid. ch. xxix.
[136] Ibid. ch. xx xi.
[137] Ibid. ch. xxxii.
[138] Ibid. ch. xlv.
[139] Ibid. ch. xlvi.
[140] Ibid. chs. xlvii.-liv.
[141] Ibid. ch. lxxiv.
[142] Ibid. bk. IV., ch. xxxix.
[143] Vol. X. Origen against Celsus, bk. I., ch. xvii, and others.
[144] Ibid. ch. xlii.
[145] Vol. X. De Principiis, Preface, p. 8.
[146] Ibid. ch. i.
[147] S. John xiv. 18-20.
[148] Loc. cit. ch. i. sec. III. p. 55.
[149] Ibid. ch. I. Sec. III. pp. 55, 56.
[150] Ibid. pp. 54, 55.
[151] "Seems to have been" is a somewhat weak expression, after what is said by Clement and Origen, of which some specimens are given in the text.
[152] Ibid., p. 62.
[153] Article on "Mysticism."—Encyc. Britan.
[154] Article "Mysticism." Encyclopædia Britannica.
[155] Orpheus, pp. 53, 54.
[156] Obligation must be here acknowledged to the Article "Mysticism," in the Encyc. Brit., though that publication is by no means responsible for the opinions expressed.
[157] The Mysteries of Magic. Trans. by A. E. Waite, pp. 58 and 60.
[158] II. S. Peter i. 5.
[159] Gal. iv. 19.
[160] II. Cor. v. 16.
[161] S. John i. 14.
[162] S. John i. 32.
[163] S. Matt. iii. 17.
[164] Ibid. iv. 17.
[165] I. Tim. iii. 16.
[166] S. John x. 34-36.
[167] S. John xiv. 18, 19.
[168] Valentinus. Trans. by G. R. S. Mead. Pistis Sophia, bk. i., I.
[169] Ante, p. 72.
[170] Ibid. 60.
[171] Ibid. bk. ii., 218.
[172] Ibid. 230.
[173] Ibid. 357.