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We shall have to enter more fully upon this subject, and bring practical illustrations to prove the statements made in the text. | We shall have to enter more fully upon this subject, and bring practical illustrations to prove the statements made in the text. | ||
For the present it is sufficient to show, by a few instances, the truth of what was asserted at the beginning of this Monograph, namely, that no Cosmogony, the world over, with the sole exception of the Christian, has ever attributed to the One Highest cause, the {{Style S-Small capitals|universal}} Deific Principle, the immediate creation of our Earth, man, or anything connected with these. This statement holds as good for the Hebrew or Chaldean Kabala as it does for ''Genesis'', had the latter been ever thoroughly understood, and — what is still more important — correctly translated. † Everywhere there is either a logos — a “ ''Light ''shining | For the present it is sufficient to show, by a few instances, the truth of what was asserted at the beginning of this Monograph, namely, that no Cosmogony, the world over, with the sole exception of the Christian, has ever attributed to the One Highest cause, the {{Style S-Small capitals|universal}} Deific Principle, the immediate creation of our Earth, man, or anything connected with these. This statement holds as good for the Hebrew or Chaldean Kabala as it does for ''Genesis'', had the latter been ever thoroughly understood, and — what is still more important — correctly translated. † Everywhere there is either a {{Style S-Small capitals|logos}} — a “ ''Light ''shining | ||
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<nowiki>*</nowiki> The statement will, of course, be found preposterous and absurd, and simply laughed at. But if one believes in the final submersion of Atlantis 850,000 years ago, as taught in “ ''Esoteric Buddhism ”'' (the gradual first sinking having begun during the Eocene age), one has to accept the statement for the so-called Lemuria, the continent of the Third Root Race, first nearly destroyed by combustion, and then submerged. This is what the Commentary says : “ The first earth having been purified by the forty-nine fires, her people, born of Fire and Water, could not die . . . etc. ; the Second Earth (with its race) disappeared as vapour vanishes in the air . . . the Third Earth had everything consumed on it after the ''separation'', and went down into the lower Deep (the Ocean). This was ''twice ''eighty-two cyclic years ago.” Now a ''cyclic ''year is what we call a ''sidereal ''year, and is founded on the precession of the equinoxes, or 25,868 years each, and this is equal, therefore, in all to 4,242,352 years. More details will be found in the text of Book II. Meanwhile, this doctrine is embodied in the “ Kings of Edom.” | <nowiki>*</nowiki> The statement will, of course, be found preposterous and absurd, and simply laughed at. But if one believes in the final submersion of Atlantis 850,000 years ago, as taught in “ ''Esoteric Buddhism ”'' (the gradual first sinking having begun during the Eocene age), one has to accept the statement for the so-called Lemuria, the continent of the Third Root Race, first nearly destroyed by combustion, and then submerged. This is what the Commentary says : “ The first earth having been purified by the forty-nine fires, her people, born of Fire and Water, could not die . . . etc. ; the Second Earth (with its race) disappeared as vapour vanishes in the air . . . the Third Earth had everything consumed on it after the ''separation'', and went down into the lower Deep (the Ocean). This was ''twice ''eighty-two cyclic years ago.” Now a ''cyclic ''year is what we call a ''sidereal ''year, and is founded on the precession of the equinoxes, or 25,868 years each, and this is equal, therefore, in all to 4,242,352 years. More details will be found in the text of Book II. Meanwhile, this doctrine is embodied in the “ Kings of Edom.” | ||
† The same reserve is found in the Talmud and in every national system of religion whether monotheistic or exoterically polytheistical. From the superb religious poem by the Kabalist Rabbi Solomon Ben Gabirol in “ the Kether Malchuth,” we select a few definitions given in the prayers of Kippûr. . . . “ Thou art one, the beginning of all numbers, and the foundation of all edifices ; Thou art One, and in the secret of Thy unity the wisest of men are lost, because they know it not. Thou art one, and Thy Unity is never diminished, never extended, and cannot be changed. Thou art one, but ''not as an element of numeration ; for Thy Unity admits not of multiplication'', ''change or form. ''Thou art existent ; but the understanding and vision of mortals cannot attain to thy existence, nor determine for thee the Where, the How, and the Why. Thou art Existent, but in thyself alone, there being none other that can exist with thee. Thou art Existent, before all time and without Place. Thou art Existent, and thy existence is so profound and secret that none can penetrate and discover thy secrecy. Thou art Living, but within no time that can be fixed or known ; Thou art Living, but not by a spirit or a soul, for ''Thou art thyself'', the soul of all souls,” etc., etc. There is | † The same reserve is found in the Talmud and in every national system of religion whether monotheistic or exoterically polytheistical. From the superb religious poem by the Kabalist Rabbi Solomon Ben Gabirol in “ the Kether Malchuth,” we select a few definitions given in the prayers of Kippûr. . . . “ Thou art one, the beginning of all numbers, and the foundation of all edifices ; Thou art One, and in the secret of Thy unity the wisest of men are lost, because they know it not. Thou art one, and Thy Unity is never diminished, never extended, and cannot be changed. Thou art one, but ''not as an element of numeration ; for Thy Unity admits not of multiplication'', ''change or form. ''Thou art existent ; but the understanding and vision of mortals cannot attain to thy existence, nor determine for thee the Where, the How, and the Why. Thou art Existent, but in thyself alone, there being none other that can exist with thee. Thou art Existent, before all time and without Place. Thou art Existent, and thy existence is so profound and secret that none can penetrate and discover thy secrecy. Thou art Living, but within no time that can be fixed or known ; Thou art Living, but not by a spirit or a soul, for ''Thou art thyself'', {{Style S-Small capitals|the soul of all souls}},” etc., etc. There is | ||
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<nowiki>*</nowiki> Rev. Joseph Edkins “ ''On Cosmogony'',” p. 320. And very wisely they have acted. | <nowiki>*</nowiki> Rev. Joseph Edkins “ ''On Cosmogony'',” p. 320. And very wisely they have acted. | ||
† If he rejected it, it was on the ground of what he calls the changes — in other words, rebirths — of man, and constant transformations. He denied immortality to the ''personality ''of man — as we do — not to man. | † If he rejected it, it was on the ground of what he calls the changes — in other words, rebirths — of man, and constant transformations. He denied immortality to the ''personality'' of man — as we do — not to {{Style S-Small capitals|man}}. | ||
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