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 Mysteries were carried into South and Central America, Northern Mexico
and Peru by the Atlanteans in those days when
A pedestrian from the North [of what was once upon a time also
India] might have reached—hardly wetting his feet—the Alaskan
Peninsula, through Manchooria, across the _future_ Gulf of
Tartary, the Kurile and Aleutian Islands; while another traveller,
furnished with a canoe and starting from the South, could have
walked over from Siam, crossed the Polynesian Islands and trudged
into any part of the continent of South America.(535)
They continued to exist down to the day of the Spanish invaders. These
destroyed the Mexican and Peruvian records, but were prevented from laying
their desecrating hands upon the many Pyramids—the lodges of an ancient
Initiation—whose ruins are scattered over Puente Nacional, Cholula, and
Teotihuacan. The ruins of Palenque, of Ococimgo in Chiapas, and others in
Central America are known to all. If the pyramids and temples of Guiengola
and Mitla ever betray their secrets, the present Doctrine will then be
shown to have been a forerunner of the grandest truths in Nature.
Meanwhile they have all a claim to be called Mitla, “the place of sadness”
and “the abode of the (desecrated) dead.”
SECTION XXXII. TRACES OF THE MYSTERIES.
Says the _Royal Masonic Cyclopædia_, art. “Sun:”
In all times, the Sun has necessarily played an important part as
a symbol, and especially in Freemasonry. The W.M. represents the
rising sun, the J.W. the sun at the meridian, and the S.W. the
setting sun. In the Druidical rites, the Arch‐Druid represented
the sun, and was aided by two other officers, one representing the
Moon in the West, and the other the Sun at the South in its
meridian. It is quite unnecessary to enter into any lengthened
discussion on this symbol.
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