ABSTRACT
https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9781315828060/49546f0e-ce84-4e70-9b40-7107f16ee305/content/unfiga_1_B.tif" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/>HIS must conclude, at any rate for the time being, our study of the Hung Society. There are still many problems to be unravelled which only time and further information can hope to solve, but certain facts appear to be established. We have seen that, despite the somewhat dubious channels into which the Society has been diverted, its rituals still constitute a wonderful allegory inculcating firstly, what is believed to befall a soul after death and secondly, a lofty mystical teaching. These facts in themselves constitute an interesting problem in the psychology of man. We have seen that even in the Three Dots Brotherhood, whose criminal objects none can deny, there yet survives this mystical allegory, although it is exceedingly unlikely that any of those who participate either understand, or care, for its inner teaching. How comes it then that the ancient landmarks have survived in such apparently unsuitable soil? This is a problem that each will answer in his own way, but to the author it suggests the fact that the Great Source of All uses various vehicles for His teaching and never lightly abandons any chosen vessel, no matter how men may abuse it. Further it would seem as if in the heart of even those whom authority regards as the most degraded, there yet lingers that spark of the Divine which reacts to the mystical teaching, although each individual himself is entirely unconscious of the fact. The great ritual is carried out although those who perform its ceremonies neither perceive its meanings, nor conform their lives to its moral precepts, because they are sub-consciously brought within the magic of its influence, and the Divine Spark within them is still sufficiently powerful to prevent the destruction of that within the Rite which will enable better men, with more apperceiving minds, at some future date to raise it from the degradation into which it has fallen, and make it once more a vehicle of enlightenment to an awakening race.
