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
Ahrens, when speaking of the letters as arranged in the Hebrew sacred
scrolls, and remarking that they were musical notes, had probably never
studied Âryan Hindu music. In the Sanskrit language letters are
continually arranged in the sacred Ollas so that they may become musical
notes. For the whole Sanskrit alphabet and the _Vedas_, from the first
word to the last, are musical notations reduced to writing; the two are
inseparable.(360) As Homer distinguished between the “language of Gods”
and the “language of men,”(361) so did the Hindus. The Devanâgarî, the
Sanskrit characters, are the “speech of the Gods,” and Sanskrit is the
divine language.
It is argued in defence of the present version of the Mosaic Books that
the mode of language adopted was an “accommodation” to the ignorance of
the Jewish people. But the said “mode of language” drags down the “sacred
text” of Esdras and his colleagues to the level of the most unspiritual
and gross phallic religions. This plea confirms the suspicions entertained
by some Christian Mystics and many philosophical critics, that:
(_a_) Divine Power as an Absolute Unity had never anything more to do with
the Biblical Jehovah and the “Lord God” than with any other Sephiroth or
Number. The Ain‐Suph of the _Kabalah_ of Moses is as independent of any
relation with the created Gods as is Parabrahman Itself.
(_b_) The teachings veiled in the _Old Testament_ under allegorical
expressions are all copied from the Magical Texts of Babylonia, by Esdras
and others, while the earlier Mosaic Text had its source in Egypt.
A few instances known to almost all Symbologists of note, and especially
to the French Egyptologists, may help to prove the statement. Furthermore,
no ancient Hebrew Philosopher, Philo no more than the Sadducees, claimed,
as do now the ignorant Christians, that the events in the _Bible_ should
be taken literally. Philo says most explicitly:
The verbal statements are fabulous [in the Book of the Law]: it is
in the allegory that we shall find the truth.
Let us give a few instances, beginning with the latest narrative, the
Hebrew, and thus if possible trace the allegories to their origin.
1. Whence the Creation in six days, the seventh day as day of rest, the
seven Elohim,(362) and the division of space into heaven and earth, in the
first chapter of _Genesis_?
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