The Path, Vol. I.—1886-'7.: A Magazine Devoted to the Brotherhood of Humanity, Theosophy in America, and the Study of Occult Science, Philosophy, and Aryan Literature.Various
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The Path, Vol. I.—1886-'7.: A Magazine Devoted to the Brotherhood of Humanity, Theosophy in America, and the Study of Occult Science, Philosophy, and Aryan Literature.
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From a detached sentence in the MS., it is shadowed out that Kunâla
referred to a curious building put up many years ago in another part
of India and now visible, by which he illustrated the difference
between an intelligent construction and unintelligent one. This
building was the product of the brain of a Chandala,[70] who had been
enriched through a curious freak. The Rajah had been told upon some
event occurring, by his astrologers, that he must give an immense
sum of money to the first person he saw next day, they intending to
present themselves at an early hour. Next day, at an usually early
season, the Rajah arose, looked out of the window, and beheld this
Chandala. Calling his astrologers and council together and the poor
sweeper into his presence, he presented him with lacs upon lacs of
rupees, and with the money the Chandala built a granite building having
immense monolithic chains hanging down from its four corners. Its only
symbology was, the change of the chains of fate; from poor low caste to
high rich low caste. Without the story the building tells us nothing.
But the symbols of the temple, not only those carved on them, but
also their conjuncture, need no story nor knowledge of any historical
events. Such is the substance of what he writes down as told him by
Kunâla. He says also that this symbology extends not only to doctrines
and cosmology, but also to laws of the human constitution spiritual and
material. The explanation of this portion, is contained in the altered
and cryptic parts of the MS. He then goes on:
* * * “Yesterday, just after sunset, while Kunâla and X were talking,
Kunâla suddenly seemed to go into an unusual condition, and about ten
minutes afterwards a large quantity of malwa flowers fell upon us from
the ceiling.
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