they are used rather to elucidate a known and accepted truth.  When theosophical ideas shall have permeated the thought of mankind, this work, if it survives at all, will be chiefly—­perhaps solely—­remarkable by reason of the fact that it was among the first in which the attempt was made again to unify science, art and religion, as they were unified in those ancient times and among those ancient peoples when the Wisdom swayed the hearts and minds of men.