"This is the Portal of the amphitheatre of the only true and eternal Wisdom--a narrow one, indeed, but
sufficiently august, and consecrated to Jehovah. To this portal ascent is made by a mystic, indisputably
prologetic, flight of steps, set before it as shown in the picture. It consists of seven theosophic, or, rather,
philosophic steps of the Doctrine of the Faithful Sons. After ascending the steps, the path is along the way of God
the Father, either directly by inspiration or by various mediate means. According to the seven oracular laws
shining at the portal, those who are inspired divinely have the power to enter and with the eyes of the body and of
the mind, of seeing, contemplating and investigating in a Christiano-Kabalistic, divino-magical, physicochemical
manner, the nature of the Wisdom: Goodness, and Power of the Creator; to the end that they die not
sophistically but live theosophically, and that the orthodox philosophers so created may with sincere philosophy
expound the works of the Lord, and worthily praise God who has thus blessed these friend, of God." The above
figure and description constitute one of the most remarkable expositions ever made of the appearance of the Wise
Man's House and the way by which it must be entered.
