17. Being himself no perfect adept, he was driven of the Spirit into the Wilderness, where he abode for six years, studying by the light or reason the sacred books and secret systems of initiation of all countries and ages.
18. Finally, there was given unto him a certain exalted grade whereby a man becomes master of knowledge and intelligence, and no more their slave. Me perceived the inadequacy of science, philosophy, and religion; and exposed the self-contradictory nature of the thinking faculty.
19. Returning to England, he laid his achievements humbly at the feet of a certain adept D. D. S., who welcomed him brotherly and admitted his title to that grade which he had so hardly won.
20. Thereupon these two adepts conferred together, saying: May it not be written that the tribulations shall be shortened? Wherefore they resolved to establish a new Order which shauld be free from the Errors and deceits of the former one.
21. Without Authorily they could not do this, exalted as their rank was among adepts. They resolved to prepare all things, great and
