Note 15.1 — Chapter I · Inaugural Lecture.
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Plutarch, in the De Iside et Osiride,15.1 is one of our witnesses. He finds a profounder significance for theosophy in the beetle, the asp, and the weasel than in the most beautiful anthropomorphic work of bronze or marble. He here turns his back on his ancestors, and goes over to the sect of the Egyptian mystic.