Blavatsky H.P. - The Esoteric Character of the Gospels: Difference between revisions

Nevertheless, {{Style S-Small capitals|Truth}} has not allowed herself to remain without witnesses. There are, besides great Initiates into scriptural symbology, a number of quiet students of the mysteries of archaic esotericism, of scholars proficient in Hebrew and other dead tongues, who have devoted their lives to unriddle the speeches of the Sphinx of the world-religions. And these students, though none of them has yet mastered all the “seven keys” that open the great problem, have discovered enough to be able to say: There ''was'' a universal mystery-language, in which all the World Scriptures were written, from ''Vedas'' to ''Revelation'', from the ''Book of the Dead'' to the ''Acts''. One of the keys, at any rate, the numerical and geometrical key<ref>“The key to the recovery of the language so far as the writer’s efforts have been concerned was found in the use, strange to say, of the discovered integral ratio in numbers of diameter to circumference of a circle,” by a geometrician. “This ratio is 6561 for diameter and 20612 for circumference.” (Cabalistic MSS.)⁶ In one of the future numbers of ''Lucifer'' more details will be given, with the permission of the discoverer.—''Ed''.⁷</ref> to the Mystery Speech is now rescued; an ancient language, truly, which up to this time remained hidden, but the evidences of which abundantly exist, as may be proven by undeniable mathematical demonstrations. If, indeed, the Bible is forced on the acceptance of the world in its {{Page aside|181}}dead-letter meaning, in the face of the modern discoveries by Orientalists and the efforts of independent students and kabalists, it is easy to prophesy that even the present new generations of Europe and America will repudiate it, as all the materialists and logicians have done. For, the more one studies ancient religious texts, the more one finds that the ground-work of the New Testament is the same as the ground-work of the Vedas, of the Egyptian theogony, and the Mazdean allegories. The atonements by blood—blood-covenants and blood-transferences from gods to men, and by men, as sacrifices to the gods—are the first key-note struck in every cosmogony and theogony; soul, life and blood were synonymous words in every language, pre-eminently with the Jews; and that blood-giving was life-giving. Many a legend among (geographically) alien nations ascribes soul and consciousness in newly-created mankind to the blood of the god-creators Berosus records a Chaldean legend ascribing the creation of a new race of mankind to the admixture of dust with the blood that flowed from the severed head of the god Belus. “On this account it is that men are rational, and partake of divine knowledge,” explains Berosus.<ref>Cory’s ''Ancient Fragments'', p. 59. So do Sanchoniathon and Hesiod, who both ascribe the ''vivifying'' of mankind to the spilt blood of the Gods. But blood and ''soul'' are one (''nephesh''), and the blood of the gods means here the informing soul.</ref> And Lenormant has shown (''The Beginnings of History'', etc., p. 52, footnote) that “the Orphics . . . said that the ''immaterial part of man, his soul'' [his life], sprang from the blood of Dionysos Zagreus, whom these Titans had torn to pieces. . . .”⁸ Blood “revivifies the dead”—''i.e''., interpreted metaphysically, it gives ''conscious'' life and a soul to the man of matter or clay—such as the modern materialist is now. The mystic meaning of the injunction, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, except ''ye eat the flesh'' of the Son of man and ''drink his blood'', ye have not life in yourselves” [''John'', vi, 53], can never be understood or appreciated at its true ''occult'' value, except by those who {{Page aside|182}}hold some of the seven keys, and yet care little for St. Peter. <ref>The existence of these seven keys is virtually admitted, owing to deep research in the Egyptological lore, by Mr. G. Massey again. While opposing the teachings of Esoteric Buddhism—unfortunately misunderstood by him in almost every respect—in his Lecture on “The Seven Souls of Man and their Culmination in Christ,” he writes (p. 21):—<br>

{{Style P-Quote|“. . . this system of thought, this mode of representation, this septenary of powers, in various aspects, had been established in Egypt at least seven thousand years ago, as we learn from certain allusions to Atum [the god ‘in whom the fatherhood was individualised as the begetter of an eternal soul,’ the seventh principle of the Theosophists] found in the inscriptions lately discovered at Sakkarah. I say in various aspects because the Gnosis of the Mysteries was at least sevenfold in its nature—it was Elemental, Biological, Elementary (human), Stellar, Lunar, Solar, and Spiritual—and nothing short of a grasp of the whole system can possibly enable us to discriminate the various parts, distinguish one from the other, and determine the which and the what, as we try to follow the symbolical Seven through their several phases of character.” ⁹}}</ref> These words, whether said by Jesus of Nazareth, or Jeshua Ben-Panthera, are the words of an INITIATE. They have to be interpreted with the help of three keys—one opening the psychic door, the second that of physiology, and the third that which unlocks the mystery of terrestrial being, by unveiling the inseparable blending of theogony with anthropology. It is for revealing a few of these truths, with the sole view of saving intellectual mankind from the insanities of materialism and pessimism, that mystics have often been denounced as the servants of Antichrist, even by those Christians who are most worthy, sincerely pious and respectable men.