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and Crowley found their way into Gardner's writing and thinking; or that Simon Magus's creation story corresponds so beautifully to the Wiccan notion of polarities in harmony. It is the litmus test of genuinely sacred knowledge that it will find means to survive the trials of history, tyranny, and bigotry - no matter how names, appearances, deities, rituals and writings, or any external manifestations may change. Truly sacred knowledge will always survive, and it will find many different garments in which to clothe itself. God will always reach out to humankind, and humankind will always aspire to God. Those individuals who succeed are called Master, Messiah, Prophet, Boddhisatva, Avatar, and so forth. And God manifested is called Sophia, Prometheus, Messiah, Jesus, Aradia, and so on. Levi knew that the man of his century "honors the venerable age of the Church, but he does not fear Her death. He knows that Her apparent demise is merely a transformation, a glorious apotheosis (293)." The material, the outer shell is transformed and dies, but the spirit continues. Thus it is with all religions. Thus it is even with ourselves. I will end this sermon with this thought: Over four hundred years after his being burned at the stake, Giordano Bruno's observation still holds true, "We suffer a perpetual transformation, whereby we receive a perpetual flow of fresh atoms, while those that we have received are leaving us."

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