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{{Style P-HPB SB. Title continued|A few Questions to “Hiraf * * * * *”|1-44}} | {{Style P-HPB SB. Title continued|A few Questions to “Hiraf * * * * *”|1-44}} | ||
by religious and political revolutions and social cataclysms, Asia has remained stationary. What was, two thousand years ago, exists now with very little variation. Such practical knowledge as was possessed by the ancients could not die out so soon with such a people. The hope of finding remnants even of such wisdom as Ancient Asia possessed, ought to tempt our conceited modern science to explore her territory. | {{Style P-No indent|by religious and political revolutions and social cataclysms, Asia has remained stationary. What was, two thousand years ago, exists now with very little variation. Such practical knowledge as was possessed by the ancients could not die out so soon with such a people. The hope of finding remnants even of such wisdom as Ancient Asia possessed, ought to tempt our conceited modern science to explore her territory.}} | ||
And thus is it that all we know of what we profess and live upon, comes to us from the scorned, despised Occultism of the East. Religion and sciences, laws and customs—all of these, are closely related to Occultism, and are but its result, its direct products, disguised by the hand of time, and palmed upon us under new pseudonyms. If people ask me for the proof, I will answer that it does not enter my province to teach others what they can learn themselves with very little difficulty, provided they give themselves the trouble to read and think over what they read. Besides, the time is near when all the old superstitions and the errors of centuries must be swept away by the hurricane of Truth. As the prophet Mohammed, when he perceived that the mountain would not come to him, went himself towards the mountain, so Modern Spiritualism made its unexpected appearance from the East, before a skeptical world, to terminate in a very near future the oblivion into which the ancient secret wisdom had fallen. | And thus is it that all we know of what we profess and live upon, comes to us from the scorned, despised Occultism of the East. Religion and sciences, laws and customs—all of these, are closely related to Occultism, and are but its result, its direct products, disguised by the hand of time, and palmed upon us under new pseudonyms. If people ask me for the proof, I will answer that it does not enter my province to teach others what they can learn themselves with very little difficulty, provided they give themselves the trouble to read and think over what they read. Besides, the time is near when all the old superstitions and the errors of centuries must be swept away by the hurricane of Truth. As the prophet Mohammed, when he perceived that the mountain would not come to him, went himself towards the mountain, so Modern Spiritualism made its unexpected appearance from the East, before a skeptical world, to terminate in a very near future the oblivion into which the ancient secret wisdom had fallen. | ||
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{{Style P-Signature in capitals|Henry S. Olcott.<br> | {{Style P-Signature in capitals|Henry S. Olcott.<br> | ||
H. P. Blavatsky. }} | H. P. Blavatsky. }} | ||
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| title = | | title = Foreword for “Quid Divinum” | ||
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| source title = | | source title = Spiritual Scientist | ||
| source details = | | source details = v. 2, No. 15, June 17, 1875, p. 172 | ||
| publication date = | | publication date = 1875-06-17 | ||
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| notes = | | notes = Only four badly damaged lines have survived in current version of SB, the rest is restored from original newspaper. This text is a foreword for the article “Quid Divinum” by Emma A. Wood, which is not included in SB. | ||
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{{Style S-HPB SB. Restored|THE articles that}} follow in this connection are in answer to a letter in a former number of the Rerun, to whose writer our author, while substantially agreeing with him in sentiment, yet replies by “Quid divinum.” The insertion of the letter, however, is not necessary to a comprehension of “Quid divinum,” which {{Style S-HPB SB. Restored|will. I think, be found sufficiently interesting and important, treating as it does of the intimate relation of all material things to things spiritual. It is also interesting as an illustration of the manner in which the subject is treated by French Spiritists of different schools and of different views in the same school — showing how a subject assumes new aspects in passing through various forms of mind.}} | |||
{{Style S-HPB SB. Restored|Foreign Spiritists, it is well known, hold some peculiar views, which though adopted, either wholly or partially, by some of our own people, have not, as yet, been fully indorsed by the majority among us, the principal one being the reincarnation of the soul through various human bodies, either in this or in other worlds, until the soul’s purification has reached its highest degree. They, however. expressly repudiate the ancient idea of the human soul entering the body of an inferior animal. Everything progressing to good, no backward step is permitted by the Infinite Ruler of all. This doctrine of reincarnation so permeates all their writings, that every argument and every exemplification is colored by it, and those who reed, as well as those who translate, must look at their arguments from the stand-point of their own philosophy; finding, as they will, in every new investigation, fresh proofs of the goodness and wisdom of the Creator.}} | |||
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