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
This is a strange _coincidence_, for Irish tradition attributes the origin
of her circular stones to a _Sorcerer who brought them from Africa_. De
Mirville sees in this Sorcerer “an accursed Hamite.”(768) We see in him a
dark Atlantean, or perhaps even some earlier Lemurian, who had survived
till the birth of the British Islands—a giant in any and every case.(769)
Says Cambry, naively:
Men have nothing to do with it ... for never could _human_ power
and industry undertake anything of this kind. Nature alone has
accomplished it all [!!] and Science will demonstrate it some day
[!!].(770)
Nevertheless, it was _human_, though gigantic power, which accomplished
it, and no more “Nature” alone than God or Devil.
“Science,” having undertaken to demonstrate that even the Mind and Spirit
of man are simply the production of “blind forces,” is quite capable of
accepting the task, and it may be that she will come out some fine
morning, and seek to prove that Nature alone has marshalled the gigantic
rocks of Stonehenge, traced their position with mathematical precision,
given them the form of the Dendera planisphere and of the signs of the
Zodiac, and brought stones weighing over one million of pounds from Africa
and Asia to England and Ireland!
It is true that Cambry recanted later on, when saying:
I believed for a long time in _Nature_, but I _recant_, ... for
chance _is unable to create_ such marvellous combinations, ... and
those who placed the said rocks in equipoise, are the same who
have raised the moving masses of the pond of Huelgoat, near
Concarneau.
Dr. John Watson, quoted by the same author, when speaking of the _moving_
rocks, or “rocking stones” situated on the slope of Golcar (the
“Enchanter”) says:
The astonishing movement of those masses poised in equilibrium
made the Celts compare them to Gods.(771)
In _Stonehenge_, by Flinders Petrie, it is said that:
Stonehenge is built of the stone of the district, a red sandstone,
or “sarsen” stone, locally called “grey wethers.” But some of the
stones, especially those which are said to have been devoted to
astronomical purposes, have been brought from a distance, probably
the North of Ireland.
To close, the reflections of a man of Science, in an article upon the
subject published in 1850 in the _Revue Archéologique_, are worthy of
being quoted:
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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