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 is upon these true Mathematics that the knowledge of the Kosmos and of
all mysteries rests, and to one acquainted with them, it is the easiest
thing possible to prove that both Vaidic and Biblical structures are based
upon “God‐in‐Nature” and “Nature‐in‐God,” as the radical law. Therefore,
this law—as everything else immutable and fixed in eternity—could find a
correct expression only in those purest transcendental Mathematics
referred to by Plato, especially in Geometry as transcendentally applied.
_Revealed_ to men—we fear not and will not retract the expression—in this
geometrical and symbolical garb, Truth has grown and developed into
additional symbology, invented by man for the wants and better
comprehension of the masses of mankind that came too late in their cyclic
development and evolution to have shared in the primitive knowledge, and
would never have grasped it otherwise. If later on, the clergy—crafty and
ambitious of power in every age—anthropomorphised and degraded abstract
ideals, as well as the real and divine Beings who do exist in Nature, and
are the Guardians and Protectors of our manvantaric world and period, the
fault and guilt rests with those would‐be leaders, not with the masses.
But the day has come when the gross conceptions of our forefathers during
the Middle Ages can no longer satisfy the thoughtful religionist. The
mediæval Alchemist and Mystic are now transformed into the sceptical
Chemist and Physicist; and most of them are found to have turned away from
truth, on account of the purely anthropomorphic ideas, the gross
Materialism, of the forms in which it is presented to them. Therefore,
future generations have either to be gradually initiated into the truths
underlying Exoteric Religions, including their own, or be left to break
the feet of clay of the last of the gilded idols. No educated man or woman
would turn away from any of the now called “superstitions” which they
believe to be based on nursery tales and ignorance, if they could only see
the basis of fact that underlies every “superstition.” But let them once
learn for a certainty that there is hardly a claim in the Occult Sciences
that is not founded on philosophical and scientific facts in Nature, and
they will pursue the study of those Sciences with the same, if not with
greater, ardour than that they have expended in shunning them. This cannot
be achieved at once, for to benefit mankind such truths have to be
revealed gradually and with great caution, the public mind not being
prepared for them. However much the Agnostics of our age may find
themselves in the mental attitude demanded by Modern Science, people are
always apt to cling to their old hobbies so long as the remembrance of
them lasts. They are like the Emperor Julian—called the Apostate, because
he loved truth too well to accept aught else—who, though in his last
Theophany he beheld his beloved Gods as pale, worn‐out, and hardly
discernible shadows, nevertheless clung to them.
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