Origine de tous les cultes ou religion universelle

The first of these two treatises presents the origin of the mysteries, their different kinds, and a summary of everything related to the history of ancient initiations, their ceremonial, and priestly functions.

In the second part of this treatise, one finds a philosophical examination of the mysteries considered in their relationships with Politics and Morality.

In the third, one finds the detailed explanation of the Astronomical and Physical forms that were employed there, and the theory of souls that entered into it, as a necessary consequence of the hyper-cosmic transcending the physical universe ideas that the Spiritualists mixed into them.

The second treatise, intended entirely for the examination of the religious system of the Christians, is likewise divided into three parts.

The first contains the explanation of the sacred Fable of the introduction of evil into the world by the famous Serpent of the Hesperides, who seduced Eve and who made necessary the arrival of a Restorer who could regenerate Nature. This Fable is found in the second chapter of the Hebrew Cosmogenesis story of the origin of the world, known under the name of Genesis.

The second deals with the Restorer, his birth, his death, and his resurrection. It presents us with the collection of all the traits he has in common with Mithra, Adonis, Horus, Atys, Osiris, etc. Finally, it proves to the point of evidence that this Restorer designated under the name of Christ by the Christians is only the Sun, or the Divinity adored by all Peoples under so many different forms and names.

The third part, much more abstract than the first two, contains an explanation of the famous Trinity of the Christians, or the triple unity, known under the names of Father, Son, and Spirit.

All of this mysterious part of my work is concluded by a complete explanation of a Work famous for its obscurity and known under the name of the Apocalypse of St. John. This monument of ancient initiations is decomposed in all its parts and analyzed successfully by my method, in such a way that one recognizes without difficulty that most of the mysterious animals brought onto the stage are borrowed from the Sky, or from the azure vault upon which the Author constantly calls our gaze. One notices especially that it is based on the dogma of the two principles, common to all ancient mysteries, and that it contains a theory of the journeys of the soul through the Spheres at the moment when, at death, they go to reunite with the Ethereal fire and the luminous region from which they had descended. It also aims to awaken in the minds of the initiates the terror that they always sought to inspire in men through the idea of those great catastrophes that come at periodic epochs to destroy Nature as punishment for the crimes of men. This priestly trick is the subject of a small separate treatise that precedes my explanation of the Apocalypse, under the title of Apocatastases Restorations of the World, or of the Restitutions of the World destroyed either by water or by fire. I join to it a Memoir that I published a long time ago on the origin of the constellations, and especially the signs of the Zodiac.

I conclude all this great work with a small summary of the Sphere and of Astronomical science, by a nomenclature of the different constellations, and by the presentation and explanation of the fictions that have been made about them, so that the Reader who wishes to try to solve the sacred enigmas of the different ancient Peoples and explain other Fables may have at hand the necessary instrument for these types of research. I join to it the Table of Paranatellons stars that rise at the same time as the zodiac signs and the ancient Calendriers. The career is open to all, and the field is by no means entirely harvested. But the method is found; time, sagacity, and patience will do the rest. It is enough for me to have given the first example and to have traced the route that must guide all those who wish to travel successfully through the detours of the sacred Labyrinths, and not lose their way in the midst of the confused ruins of the ancient Temples, whose debris are...