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
Moses was an initiated priest, versed in all the mysteries and the Occult
knowledge of the Egyptian temples—hence thoroughly acquainted with
primitive Wisdom. It is in the latter that the symbolical and astronomical
meaning of that “Mystery of Mysteries,” the Great Pyramid, has to be
sought. And having been so familiar with the geometrical secrets that lay
concealed for long æons in her strong bosom—the measurements and
proportions of the Kosmos, our little Earth included—what wonder that he
should have made use of his knowledge? The Esoterism of Egypt was that of
the whole world at one time. During the long ages of the Third Race it had
been the heirloom, in common, of the whole of mankind, received from their
Instructors, the “Sons of Light,” the primeval Seven. There was a time
also when the Wisdom‐Religion was not symbolical, for it became Esoteric
only gradually, the change being necessitated by misuse and by the Sorcery
of the Atlanteans. For it was the “misuse” only, and not the use, of the
divine gift that led the men of the Fourth Race to Black Magic and
Sorcery, and finally to become “forgetful of Wisdom”; while those of the
Fifth Race, the inheritors of the Rishis of the Tretâ Yuga, used their
powers to atrophise such gifts in mankind in general, and then, as the
“Elect Root,” dispersed. Those who escaped the “Great Flood” preserved
only its memory, and a belief founded on the knowledge of their direct
fathers of one remove, that such a Science existed, and was now jealously
guarded by the “Elect Root” exalted by Enoch. But there must again come a
time when man shall once more become what he was during the second Yuga
(age), when his probationary cycle shall be over and he shall gradually
become what he was—semi‐corporeal and pure. Does not Plato, the Initiate,
tell us in the _Phædrus_ all that man once was, and that which he may yet
again become:
Before man’s spirit sank into sensuality and became embodied
through the loss of his wings, he lived among the Gods in the airy
spiritual world where everything is true and pure.(125)
Elsewhere he speaks of the time when men did not perpetuate themselves,
but lived as pure spirits.
Let those men of Science who feel inclined to laugh at this, themselves
unravel the mystery of the origin of the first man.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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