If you go back very, very far, you will always find that the Master wears a double character: ruler, law-giver, on the one side; teacher upon the other.

In all the old civilisations this is characteristic; for in those days the idea had not arisen of sacred and secular, or sacred and profane, as we say in the modern world.

To the old civilisations there was no such thing as sacred history and profane history; no division was made between sacred science and secular science; all history was sacred, all science was divine.

And so much was that the case that, when you find an ancient pupil asking of an ancient teacher as to divine science, the answer was given: "There are two forms of divine science, the higher and the lower." And the lower divine science was made up of all the things that now you call literature, science, and art; all those were run over by name, and summed up under the heading of the lower divine science.

The higher, supreme Science was that knowledge of God, to which accurately the word Wisdom ought only to be applied.