The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 2 of 4: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and PhilosophyBlavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna)
Religion
The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 2 of 4: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy
Blavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna)
Theosophy
(_a_) It is well worth noticing that most of the gigantic statues
discovered on Easter Island, a portion of an undeniably submerged
continent, as also those found on the outskirts of Gobi, a region which
had been submerged for untold ages, are all between twenty and thirty feet
high. The statues found by Cook on Easter Island measured almost all
twenty‐seven feet in height, and eight feet across the shoulders.(742) The
writer is well aware that the modern Archæologists have decided that
“these statues are not very old,” as declared by one of the high officials
of the British Museum, where some of them now are. But this is one of
those arbitrary decisions of Modern Science which does not carry much
weight.
We are told that after the destruction of Lemuria by subterranean fires
men went on steadily decreasing in stature—a process already commenced
after their _physical_ Fall—and that finally, some millions of years
later, they decreased to between six and seven feet, and are now, as in
the older Asiatic races, dwindling down to nearer five than six feet. As
Pickering shows, there is in the Malay race (a sub‐race of the Fourth
Root‐Race) a singular diversity of stature; the members of the Polynesian
family, such as the Tahitians, Samoans, and Tonga islanders, are of a
_higher stature than the rest of mankind_; but the Indian tribes and the
inhabitants of the Indo‐Chinese countries are decidedly below the general
average. This is easily explained. The Polynesians belong to the very
earliest of the surviving sub‐races, the others to the very latest and
most transitory stock. As the Tasmanians are now completely extinct, and
the Australians rapidly dying out, so will the other old races soon
follow.
(_b_) How could those records have been preserved? we may be asked. Even
the knowledge of the Zodiac by the Hindûs is denied by our kind and
learned Orientalists, who conclude that the Âryan Hindûs knew nothing of
it, before the Greeks brought it into the country. This uncalled‐for
slander has been so sufficiently refuted by Bailly, and what is more, by
the clear _evidence of facts_, as not to need very much additional
refutation. While the Egyptian Zodiacs(743) preserve irrefutable proofs of
records embracing more than three‐and‐a‐half Sidereal Years—or about
87,000 years—the Hindû calculations cover nearly thirty‐three such years,
or 850,000 years. The Egyptian priests assured Herodotus that the Pole of
the Earth and the Pole of the Ecliptic had formerly coincided. But, as
remarked by the author of the _Sphinxiad_:
These _poor benighted_ Hindoos have registered a knowledge of
Astronomy for ten times 25,000 years since the [last local] Flood
[in Asia], or Age of Horror.
And they possess recorded observations from the date of the first Great
Flood within the Âryan _historical_ memory—the Flood which submerged the
last portions of Atlantis 850,000 years ago. The Floods which preceded
are, of course, more traditional than historical.
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