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less philosophical and more immoral religions (! !) of the ancient world." Only, while we find in Biblical esotericism
physiological sexual mysteries symbolised, and very little
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* Mr. Gladstone's unfortunate attempt to reconcile the Genetic account with science (see Nineteenth Century, "Dawn of
Creation" and the "Proem to Genesis," 1886) has brought upon him the Jovian thunderbolt hurled by Mr. Huxley. The
dead-letter account warranted no such attempt; and his fourfold order, or division of animated creation, has turned into
the stone which, instead of killing the fly on the sleeping friend's brow, killed the man instead. Mr. Gladstone killed
Genesis for ever. But this does not prove that there is no esotericism in the latter. The fact that the Jews and all the
Christians, the modern as well as the early sects, have accepted the narrative literally for two thousand years, shows only
their ignorance; and shows the great ingenuity and constructive ability of the initiated Rabbis, who have built the two
accounts -- the Elohistic and the Jehovistic -- esoterically, and have purposely confused the meaning by the vowelless
glyphs or word-signs in the original text. The six days -- yom -- of creation do mean six periods of evolution, and the
seventh that of culmination of perfection (not of rest), and refer to the seven Rounds and the seven Races with a distinct
"creation" in each; though the use of the words boker, dawn or morning, and crib, evening twilight -- which have
esoterically the same meaning as sandhya, twilight, in Sanskrit -- have led to a charge of the most crass ignorance of the
order of evolution.
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more (something for which very little real philosophy is requisite), in the Puranas one may find the most scientific and
philosophical "dawn of creation," which, if impartially analyzed and rendered into plain language from its fairy tale-like
allegories, would show that modern zoology, geology, astronomy, and nearly all the branches of modern knowledge, have
been anticipated in the ancient Science, and were known to the philosophers in their general features, if not in such detail
as at present!
Puranic astronomy, with all its deliberate concealment and confusion for the purpose of leading the profane off the real
track, was shown even by Bentley to be a real science; and those who are versed in the mysteries of Hindu astronomical
treatises, will prove that the modern theories of the progressive condensation of nebulae, nebulous stars and suns, with
the most minute details about the cyclic progress of asterisms -- far more correct than Europeans have even now -- for
chronological and other purposes, were known in India to perfection.
If we turn to geology and zoology we find the same. What are all the myths and endless genealogies of the seven
Prajapati, and their sons, the seven Rishis or Manus, and of their wives, sons and progeny, but a vast detailed account of
the progressive development and evolution of animal creation, one species after the other? Were the highly philosophical
and metaphysical Aryans -- the authors of the most perfect philosophical systems of transcendental psychology, of Codes
of Ethics, and such a grammar as Panini's, of the Sankhya and Vedanta systems, and a moral code (Buddhism),
proclaimed by Max Muller the most perfect on earth -- such fools, or children, as to lose their time in writing fairy-tales;
such tales as the Puranas now seem to be in the eyes of those who have not the remotest idea of their secret meaning?
What is the fable, the genealogy and origin of Kasyapa, with his twelve wives, by whom he had a numerous and
diversified progeny of nagas (serpents), reptiles, birds, and all kinds of living things, and who was thus the father of all
kinds of animals, but a veiled record of the order of evolution in this round? So far, we do not see that any Orientalist ever
had the remotest conception of the truths concealed under the allegories and personifications. "The Satapatha
Brahmana," says one, "gives a not very intelligible account of Kasyapa's origin. . . . He was the son of Marichi, the Son of
Brahma, the father of Vivasvat, the father of Manu, the progenitor of mankind. . . . Having assumed the form of a tortoise,
Prajapati created offspring. That which he created he made akarot, hence the word kurma (tortoise). Kasyapa means
tortoise; hence men say: 'All creatures are descendants of Kasyapa,' etc., etc. (Hindu Class. Dict.)
He was all this; he was also the father of Garuda, the bird, the "King
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of the feathered tribe," who descends from, and is of one stock with the reptiles, the nagas; and who becomes their
mortal enemy subsequently as he is also a cycle, a period of time, when in the course of evolution the birds which
developed from reptiles in their "struggle for life," -- "survival of the fittest," etc., etc., turned in preference on those they
issued from, to devour them, -- perhaps prompted by natural law, in order to make room for other and more perfect
species. (Vide Part II., "Symbolism.")
In that admirable epitome of "Modern Science and Modern Thought," a lesson in natural history is offered to Mr.
Gladstone, showing the utter variance with it of the Bible. The author remarks that Geology, commencing with --
" . . . the earliest known fossil, the Eozoon Canadense of the Laurentian, continued in a chain, every link of which is firmly
welded, through the Silurian, with its abundance of molluscous, crustacean, and vermiform life and first indication of
fishes; the Devonian, with its predominance of fish and first appearance of reptiles; the Mesozoic with its batrachians (or
frog family); the Secondary formations, in which reptiles of the sea, land and air preponderated, and the first humble
forms of vertebrate land animals began to appear; and finally, the Tertiary, in which mammalian life has become
abundant, and type succeeding to type and species to species, are gradually differentiated and specialized, through the
Eocene, Miocene, and Pliocene periods, until we arrive at the Glacial and Pre-historic periods, and at positive proof of the
existence of man."
The same order, plus the description of animals unknown to modern science, is found in the commentaries on the
Puranas in general, and in the Book of Dzyan -- especially. The only difference, a grave one, no doubt, -- as implying a
spiritual and divine nature of man independent of his physical body in this illusionary world, in which the false personality
and its cerebral basis alone is known to orthodox psychology -- is as follows. Having been in all the so-called "Seven
creations," allegorizing the seven evolutionary changes, or the sub-races, we may call them, of the First Root-race of