Book excerpt: Eastern Occult Philosophy transcends the perceptive faculties of human reason and speculations, which are illusive emanations of strict logic. Though the deific Essence is Unknown and ever unknowable (yet supreme Causality, emanating from the concealed point), its action can be apprehended in the universe of effects. The symbol of the Great Unknown is letter X. The Fullness of Valentinus is the Space of Occult Philosophy. The Theogony of Wisdom-Religion is the Aletheia of Occult Science. The Bull stands for the seed of life, generative as well as destructive. It’s horns are the emblem of eternal divine power. The Solar Gods are heroes, warriors, and shepherds, followed by their faithful herds of cows and bulls. Moschus’ Arcadian Hymn to Europa. Plutarch directs love to the soul, not to the beauty. The science of the gods is mastered by violence.