The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 1 of 4: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and PhilosophyBlavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna)
Religion
The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 1 of 4: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy
Blavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna)
Theosophy
The great antique heart—how like a child’s in its simplicity, like
a man’s in its earnest solemnity and depth! Heaven lies over him
wheresoever he goes or stands on the earth; making all the earth a
mystic temple to him, the earth’s business all a kind of worship.
Glimpses of bright creatures flash in the common sunlight; angels
yet hover, doing God’s messages among men.... Wonder, miracle,
encompass the man; he lives in an element of miracle.(334)... A
great law of duty, high as these two infinitudes (heaven and
hell), dwarfing all else, annihilating all else—it was a reality,
and it is one: the garment only of it is dead; the essence of it
lives through all times and all eternity!
It lives undeniably, and has settled in all its ineradicable strength and
power in the Asiatic Âryan heart, from the Third Race direct, through its
first Mind‐born Sons, the fruits of Kriyâshakti. As time rolled on, the
holy caste of Initiates produced, but rarely, from age to age, such
perfect creatures; beings apart, inwardly, though the same as those who
produced them, outwardly.
In the infancy of the Third primitive Race:
A creature of a more exalted kind
Was wanting yet, and therefore was designed;
Conscious of thought, of more capacious breast,
For empire formed and fit to rule the rest.
It was called into being, a ready and perfect vehicle for the incarnating
denizens of higher spheres, who took forthwith their abodes in these
forms, born of _Spiritual Will_ and the natural divine power in man. It
was a child of pure spirit, mentally unalloyed with any tincture of
earthly element. Its physical frame alone was of time and of life, for it
drew its intelligence direct from above. It was the Living Tree of Divine
Wisdom; and may therefore be likened to the Mundane Tree of the Norse
Legends, which cannot wither and die until the last battle of life shall
be fought, while its roots are all the time gnawed by the dragon Nidhogg.
For even so, the first and holy Son of Kriyâshakti had his body gnawed by
the tooth of time, but the roots of his inner being remained for ever
undecaying and strong, because they grew and expanded in heaven, and not
on earth. He was the first of the _First_, and he was the Seed of all the
others. There were other Sons of Kriyâshakti produced by a second
spiritual effort, but the first one has remained to this day the Seed of
Divine Knowledge, the One and the Supreme among the terrestrial “Sons of
Wisdom.” Of this subject we can say no more, except to add that in every
age—aye, even in our own—there have been great intellects who have
understood the problem correctly.
But how comes our physical body to the state of perfection it is now found
in? Through millions of years of evolution, of course, yet never through,
or from, animals, as taught by Materialism. For, as Carlyle says:
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