You will perhaps also see in your further initiation a like method of enlightenment.

Our Order imitates the ancient societies that explained their teaching by hieroglyphics.

A hieroglyph," said the Rhetor, "is an emblem of something not cognizable by the senses but which possesses qualities resembling those of the symbol.

" Pierre knew very well what a hieroglyph was, but dared not speak.

He listened to the Rhetor in silence, feeling from all he said that his ordeal was about to begin.