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
Thus the _Book of Enoch_ is entirely symbolical. It relates to the history
of the human Races and of their early relation to Theogony, the symbols
being interblended with astronomical and cosmic mysteries. One chapter is
missing, however, in the Noachian records (from both the Paris and the
Bodleian MSS.), namely, Chapter lviii. in Sect. X; this could not be
remodelled, and therefore it had to disappear, disfigured fragments alone
having been left of it. The dream about the cows, the black, red and white
heifers, relates to the first Races, their division and disappearance.
Chapter lxxxviii, in which one of the four Angels “went to the white cows
and taught them a mystery,” after which, the mystery being born “became a
man,” refers to (_a_) the first group evolved of primitive Âryans, and
(_b_) to the “mystery of the Hermaphrodite” so called, having reference to
the birth of the first human Races as they are now. The well‐known rite in
India, one that has survived in that patriarchal country to this day,
known as the passage, or rebirth through the cow—a ceremony to which those
of lower castes who are desirous of becoming Brâhmans have to submit—has
originated in this mystery. Let any Eastern Occultist read with careful
attention the above‐named chapter in the _Book of Enoch_, and he will find
that the “Lord of the Sheep,” in whom Christians and European Mystics see
Christ, is the Hierophant Victim whose name in Sanskrit we dare not give.
Again, that while the Western Churchmen see Egyptians and Israelites in
the “sheep and wolves,” all these animals relate in truth to the trials of
the Neophyte and the mysteries of initiation, whether in India or Egypt,
and to that most terrible penalty incurred by the “wolves”—those who
reveal indiscriminately that which is only for the knowledge of the Elect
and the “Perfect.”
The Christians who, thanks to later interpolations,(157) have made out in
that chapter a triple prophecy relating to the Deluge, Moses and Jesus,
are mistaken, as in reality it bears directly on the punishment and loss
of Atlantis and the penalty of indiscretion. The “Lord of the sheep” is
Karma and the “Head of the Hierophants” also, the Supreme Initiator on
earth. He says to Enoch, who implores him to save the leaders of the sheep
from being devoured by the beasts of prey:
I will cause a recital to be made before me ... how many they have
delivered up to destruction, and ... what they will do; whether
they will act as I have commanded them or not.
Of this, however, they shall be ignorant; neither shalt thou make
any explanation to them, neither shalt thou reprove them; but
there shall be an account of all the destruction done by them in
their respective seasons.(158)
... He looked in silence, rejoicing they were devoured, swallowed
up, and carried off, and leaving them in the power of every beast
for food....(159)
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