1884. This book is not designed to initiate a new religion: it simply clears away the debris of the ages, that obstruct the access of the true worshippers, who worship in spirit and truth, to that most ancient shrine, where the Father and Mother Truth are preparing to unveil. The immediate occasion of the present treatise may be briefly alluded to. Adepts of the esoteric Buddhist cult have commenced a propaganda for the overthrow of faith in Christ, both in America and Europe. Occult methods are being employed to invade the more interior chambers of the human mind, and to infuse that deadly, magical germ of spiritual regeneration and of bodily redemption.