he was created, that's to be seen in the books of Moses. But it's
necessary to understand them. Before all it is clear that Jehovah is
not God, but a grand Demon, because he has created this world. The
idea of a God both perfect and creative is but a reverie of a
barbarity worthy of a Welshman or a Saxon. As little polished as
one's mind may be one cannot admit that a perfect being tags
anything to his own perfection, be it a hazelnut. That's common
sense; God has no understanding, as he is endless how could he
understand? He does not create, because he ignores time and space,
which are conditions indispensable to all constructions. Moses was
too good a philosopher to teach that the world was created by God.
He took Jehovah for what he really is--for a powerful Demon, or if
he is to be called anything, for the Demiurgos.

"It follows that Jehovah, creating man, gave him knowledge of the
visible and the invisible world. The fall of Adam and Eve, which
I'll explain to you another day, had not fully destroyed that
knowledge of the first man and the first woman, who passed their
teachings on to their children. Those teachings, on which the
domination of nature relies, have been consigned to the book of
Enoch. The Egyptian priests have kept the tradition which they fixed
with mysterious signs on the walls of the temples and the coffins of
the dead. Moses, brought up in the sanctuary of Memphis, was one of
the initiated. His books, numbering five, perhaps six, contain like
very precious archives the treasures of divine knowledge. You'll
discover there the most beautiful secrets if you have cleared them
of the interpolations which dishonour them; one scorns the literal
and coarse sense, to attach oneself to the most subtle. I have
penetrated to the largest part, as it will appear to you also later
on. Meanwhile, the truth, kept like virgins in the temples of Egypt,