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of _Leviticus_ apply? What is the philosophy of reason for all such hebdomadal offerings and symbolical calculations as:

Ye shall count ... from the morrow after the Sabbath ... that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven Sabbaths shall be complete.... And ye shall offer with the bread seven lambs without blemish, etc.(1744)

We shall be contradicted, no doubt, when we say that all these “wave” and “peace” offerings were in commemoration of the _seven_ “Sabbaths” of the Mysteries. These Sabbaths are seven Pralayas between seven Manvantaras, or what we call Rounds; for “Sabbath” is an elastic word, meaning a period of rest of whatever nature, as explained elsewhere. And if this is not sufficiently conclusive, then we may turn to the verse which adds:

Even unto the morrow after the seventh Sabbath shall ye number fifty days [forty‐nine, 7 × 7, stages of activity, and forty‐nine stages of rest, on the seven Globes of the Chain, and then comes the rest of Sabbath, the _fiftieth_]; and ye shall offer _a new meat offering_ unto the Lord.(1745)

That is, ye shall make an offering of your flesh or “coats of skin,” and, divesting yourselves of your bodies, ye shall remain pure spirits. This law of offering, degraded and materialized with ages, was an institution that dated from the earliest Atlanteans; it came to the Hebrews _viâ_ the “Chaldees,” who were the “wise men” of a _caste_, not of a nation, a community of great Adepts come from their “Serpent‐holes,” who had settled in Babylonia ages before. And if this interpretation from _Leviticus_ (full of the disfigured _Laws of Manu_) is found too far‐fetched, then turn to _Revelation_. Whatever interpretation profane mystics may give to the famous