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
The words we quote are as suggestive as they are true:
How desperately blinding becomes a superstitious use, through
ignorance, of such emblems, when they are made to possess the
power of bloodshed and torture, through orders of propaganda of
any species of religious cultus. When one thinks of the horrors of
a _Moloch_, or _Baal_, or _Dagon_ worship; of the correlated
blood‐deluges under the Cross baptized in gore by Constantine, at
the initiative of the secular Church; ... when one thinks of all
this and then that the cause of all has been simply ignorance of
the real radical reading of the _Moloch_, and _Baal_, and _Dagon_,
and the _Cross_ and the _T’phillin_, all running back to a common
origin, and after all being nothing more than a display of pure
and natural mathematics, ... one is apt to feel like cursing
ignorance, and to lose confidence in what are called _intuitions_
of religion; one is apt to wish for a return of the day when all
the world was of one _lip_ and of one _knowledge_.... But while
these elements [of the construction of the pyramid] are rational
and scientific, ... let no man consider that with this discovery
comes a cutting‐off of the _spirituality_(354) of the _Bible_
intention, or of man’s relation to this spiritual foundation. Does
one wish to build a house? No house was ever actually built with
tangible material _until first the architectural design of
building had been accomplished_, no matter whether the structure
was palace or hovel. So with these elements and numbers. They are
not of man, nor are they of his invention. They have been revealed
to him to the extent of his ability to realize a system, which is
_the creative system_ of the eternal God.... But _spiritually_, to
man the value of this matter is that he can actually in
contemplation, bridge over all material construction of the
cosmos, and pass into the very _thought_ and _mind_ of God, to the
extent of recognizing this _system of design_ for cosmic
creation—yea, even before the words went forth: “_Let there
be_.”(355)
But true as the above words may be, when coming from one who has re‐
discovered, more completely than anyone else has done during the past
centuries, one of the keys to the universal Mystery Language, it is
impossible for an Eastern Occultist to agree with the conclusion of the
able author of _The Source of Measures_. He “has set out to find the
truth,” and yet he still believes that:
The best and most authentic vehicle of communication from [the
creative] God to man ... is to be found in the Hebrew Bible.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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