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 meaning of this Unity in Plurality in “God” or Nature, can be solved
only by the means of transcendental methods, by numerals, as by the
correspondences between soul and the Soul. Names, in the _Kabalah_ as in
the _Bible_, such as Jehovah, Adam Kadmon, Eve, Cain, Abel, Enoch, are all
of them more intimately connected, by geometrical and astronomical
relations, with Physiology (or Phallicism) than with Theology or Religion.
Little as people are as yet prepared to admit it, this will be shown to be
a fact. If all those names are symbols for things hidden, as well as for
those manifested, in the _Bible_ as in the _Vedas_, their respective
mysteries differ greatly. Plato’s motto “God geometrises” was accepted by
both Âryans and Jews; but while the former applied their Science of
Correspondences to veil the most spiritual and sublime truths of Nature,
the latter used their acumen to conceal only one—to them the most
divine—of the mysteries of Evolution, namely, that of birth and
generation, and then they deified the organs of the latter.
Apart from this, every cosmogony, from the earliest to the latest, is
based upon, interlinked with, and most closely related to, numerals and
geometric figures. Questioned by an Initiate, these figures and numbers
will yield numerical values based on the integral values of the
Circle—“the secret habitat of the ever‐invisible Deity” as the Alchemists
have it—as they will yield every other Occult particular connected with
such mysteries, whether anthropographical, anthropological, cosmic, or
psychical. “In reuniting Ideas to Numbers, we can operate upon Ideas in
the same way as upon Numbers, and arrive at the Mathematics of Truth,”
writes an Occultist, who shows his great wisdom in desiring to remain
unknown.
Any Kabalist well acquainted with the Pythagorean system of
numerals and geometry can demonstrate that the metaphysical views
of Plato were based upon the strictest mathematical principles.
“True mathematics,” says the _Magicon_, “is something with which
all higher sciences are connected; common mathematics is but a
deceitful phantasmagoria, whose much praised infallibility only
arises from this—that materials, conditions and references are
made to foundation.” ...
The cosmological theory of numerals which Pythagoras learned in
India, and from the Egyptian Hierophants, is alone able to
reconcile the two units, matter and spirit, and cause each to
demonstrate the other mathematically. The sacred numbers of the
universe in their esoteric combination can alone solve the great
problem, and explain the theory of radiation and the cycle of the
emanations. The lower orders, before they develop into higher
ones, must emanate from the higher spiritual ones, and when
arrived at the turning‐point, be reäbsorbed into the
infinite.(120)
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