Posthumous Works

to read them, that there is nothing veiled in the new and luminous bases upon which he founds his principles. If he sometimes makes use of numbers mystical or symbolic numerology 1, it is only with great discretion and to strengthen all the proofs he employs beforehand to support the truth. This truth, extending to all sorts of subjects, includes some that require being treated with more depth, being read with more attention, and being grasped with more penetration. For, if theosophy the science of divine things is a science that gives the understanding of the bases of all other sciences, one must be convinced that it requires labor and a habit of occupying one's spirit with the im-

1 The theory of numbers mystical mathematics is not a vain or new science; so many ancient philosophers spoke of it before Mr. Saint-Martin that it should not be disdained by modern savants learned scholars.