the West a faint streak of Eastern esoteric light), it reveals more facts than were ever given before its appearance.  Let any one read these pages and he may comprehend.  The “six such races” in Manu refer to the sub-races of the fourth race (p. 590).  In addition to this the reader must turn to the paper on “The Septenary Principle in Esotericism” (p. 187 ante), study the list of the “Manus” of our fourth Round (p. 254), and between this and “Isis” light may, perchance, be focused.  On pages 590-6 of the work mentioned above, he will find that Atlantis is mentioned in the “Secret Books of the East” (as yet virgin of Western spoliating hand) under another name in the sacred hieratic or sacerdotal language.  And then it will be shown to him that Atlantis was not merely the name of one island but that of a whole continent, of whose isles and islets many have to this day survived.  The remotest ancestors of some of the inhabitants of the now miserable fisherman’s hovel “Aclo” (once Atlan), near the gulf of Uraha, were allied at one time as closely with the old Greeks and Romans as they were with the “true inland China-man,” mentioned on p. 57 Of “Esoteric Buddhism.”  Until the appearance of a map, published at Basle in 1522, wherein the name of America appears for the first time, the latter was believed to be part of India; and strange to him who does not follow the mysterious working of the human mind and its unconscious approximations to hidden truths—­even the aborigines of the new continent, the Red-skinned tribes, the “Mongoloids” of Mr. Huxley, were named Indians.  Names now attributed to chance:  elastic word that!  Strange coincidence, indeed, to him who does not know—­science refusing yet to sanction the wild hypothesis—­that there was a time when the Indian peninsula was at one end of the line, and South America at the other, connected by a belt of islands and continents.  The India of the prehistoric ages was not only within the region at the sources of the Oxus and Jaxartes, but there was even in the days of history, and within its memory, an upper, a lower, and a western India:  and still earlier it was doubly connected with the two Americas.  The lands of the ancestors of those whom Ammianus Marcellinus calls the “Brahmans of Upper India” stretched from Kashmir far into the (now) deserts of Schamo.  A pedestrian from the north might then have reached—­hardly wetting his feet—­the Alaskan Peninsula, through Manchooria, across the future Gulf of Tartary, the Kurile and Aleutian Islands; while another traveler, furnished with a canoe and starting from the south, could have walked over from Siam, crossed the Polynesian Islands and trudged into any part of the continent of South America.  On pp. 592-3 of “Isis,” vol.  I., the Thevetatas—­the evil, mischievous gods that have survived in the Etruscan Pantheon—­are mentioned, along with the “sons of God” or Brahman Pitris.  The Involute, the hidden or shrouded gods, the Consentes,