Excerpt from Esoteric Christianity or the Lesser Mysteries This spurious sentimentality - which re fuses to recognise the obvious inequalities of intelligence and morality, and thereby re duces the teaching of the highly developed to the level attainable by the least evolved, sacrificing the higher to the lower in a way that injures both - had place in the virile common sense of the early Christians. S. Clement of Alexandria says quite bluntly, after alluding to the Mysteries: Even w I fear, as it is said, to cast the pearls before swine, lest they tread them underfoot, and turn and rend us.' For it is dificult to ex hibit the really pure and transparent words respecting the true Light to swinish and nu trained hearers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techlogy to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.