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 discovery is most wonderful, and has led to further and minor
unveilings of various riddles in reference to Symbology and biblical
names. It is thoroughly understood and proven, as shown by Nachanides,
that in the days of Moses the initial sentence in _Genesis_ was made to
read _B’rash ithbara Elohim_, or “In the head‐source [or Mûlaprakiti—the
Rootless Root] developed [or evolved] the Gods [Elohim], the heavens and
the earth;” whereas it is now, owing to the Massora and theological
cunning, transformed into _B’rashith bara Elohim_, or, “In the beginning
God created the heavens and the earth”—which word juggling alone has led
to materialistic anthropomorphism and dualism. How many more similar
instances may not be found in the _Bible_, the last and latest of the
Occult works of antiquity? There is no longer any doubt in the mind of the
Occultist, that, notwithstanding its form and outward meaning, the
_Bible_—as explained by the _Zohar_ or _Midrash_, the _Yetzirah_ (Book of
Creation) and the _Commentary on the Ten Sephiroth_ (by Azariel Ben
Manachem of the XIIth century)—is part and parcel of the Secret Doctrine
of the Âryans, which explains in the same manner the _Vedas_ and all other
allegorical books. The _Zohar_, in teaching that the Impersonal One Cause
manifests in the Universe through Its Emanations, the Sephiroth—that
Universe being in its totality simply the veil woven from the Deity’s own
substance—is undeniably the copy and faithful echo of the earliest
_Vedas_. Taken by itself, without the additional help of the Vaidic and of
Brâhmanical literature in general, the _Bible_ will never yield the
universal secrets of Occult Nature. The cubits, inches, and measures of
this physical plane will never solve the problems of the world on the
spiritual plane—for Spirit can neither be weighed nor measured. The
working out of these problems is reserved for the “mystics and the
dreamers” who alone are capable of accomplishing it.
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