Key to the Things Hidden from the Foundation of the World

serving those who are external as well as its own children who keep the Divine [law] prescribed in their minds, that it be led altogether through Quatuor Aetatum Four Ages to its own perfection: just as we come to Senium old age through Pueritiam childhood, Iuventutem youth, and Virilitatem manhood.

3.

The Truth willed to hide these Four Ages of His Church under the coverings of various parables, both in the New and in the Old Testament, so that by the argument of the three past Ages, the finally encroaching Senium old age might be known most especially at the time when it would be necessary for Omnia sub Vno Pastore all things to be restored under One Shepherd: which, besides being explained in sacred writings in innumerable turns and ways, is even today held by the Brachmanes Brahmins in India, the Mussulmani Muslims in almost the whole world, and the Iudæi Jews wherever they are, both in their Oracles and in their Vows.

CHAPTER III.

There can be no doubt for anyone, unless he fights against the sense of his own Mind, that God, being most perfect, created Hominem Man, the prince of living things, in a most perfect condition, for this purpose: that he might be the Rule and norm of the dispensation of this entire