The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 3 of 4: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and PhilosophyBlavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna)
Religion
The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 3 of 4: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy
Blavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna)
Theosophy
It must be confessed that the views of the Kabalists—meaning by the word
those students of Occultism who study the Jewish _Kabalah_ and who know
little, if anything, of any other Esoteric literature or of its
teachings—are as varied in their synthetic conclusions upon the nature of
the mysteries taught even in the _Zohar_ alone, and are as wide of the
true mark, as are the _dicta_ upon it of exact Science itself. Like the
mediæval Rosicrucian and the Alchemist—like the Abbot Trithemius, John
Reuchlin, Agrippa, Paracelsus, Robert Fludd, Philalethes, etc.—by whom
they swear, the continental Occultists see in the Jewish _Kabalah_ alone
the universal well of wisdom; they find in it the secret lore of nearly
all the mysteries of Nature—metaphysical and divine—some of them including
herein, as did Reuchlin, those of the Christian _Bible_. For them the
_Zohar_ is an Esoteric Thesaurus of all the mysteries of the Christian
Gospel; and the _Sepher Yetzirah_ is the light that shines in every
darkness, and the container of the keys to open every secret in Nature.
Whether many of our modern followers of the mediæval Kabalists have an
idea of the real meaning of the symbology of their chosen Masters is
another question. Most of them have probably never given even a passing
thought to the fact that the Esoteric language used by the Alchemists was
their own, and that it was given out as a blind, necessitated by the
dangers of the epoch they lived in, and not as the Mystery‐language, used
by the Pagan Initiates, which the Alchemists had re‐translated and re‐
veiled once more.
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