The mystic title of the celebrated Hermetic fragment with which this volume commences, "Kor Kosmou" that is, the "Kosmic Virgin," is in itself a revelation of the wonderful identity subsisting between the ancient wisdom-religion of the old world, and the creed of catholic Christendom. Kor is the name by which, in the Eleusinian Mysteries, Persephone the Daughter, or Maiden, was saluted; and it is also-perhaps only by coincidence-the Greek word for...