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------------------------------------------------------------------------ [[Vol. 2, Page]] 692 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. Sayce's remarks are promising. For he explains the difficulty by saying that as -- "the Nineveh library contained mostly copies of older Babylonian texts, and the copyists pitched upon such tablets only as were of special interest to the Assyrian conquerors, belonging to a comparatively late epoch, this added much to the greatest of all our difficulties -- namely, our being so often left in the dark as to the age of our documentary evidence, and the precise worth of our materials for history." Thus one has a right to infer that some still fresher discovery may lead to a new necessity for pushing the Babylonian dates so far beyond the year 4,000 B.C., as to make them pre-Kosmic in the judgment of every Bible worshipper. How much more would paleontology have learned had not millions of works been destroyed! We talk of the Alexandrian literary lore, which has been thrice destroyed, namely, by Julius Caesar B.C. 48, in A.D. 390, and lastly in the year 640, A.D., by the general of Kaliph Omar. What is this in comparison with the works and records destroyed in the primitive Atlantean Libraries, wherein records are said to have been traced on the tanned skins of gigantic antediluvian monsters? Or again the destruction of the countless Chinese books by command of the founder of the Imperial Tsin dynasty, Tsin Shi Hwang-ti, in 213 B.C.? Surely the brick-clay tablets of the Imperial Babylonian Library, and the priceless treasures of the Chinese collections could have never contained such information as one of the aforesaid "Atlantean" skins would have furnished to the ignorant world. But even with the extremely meagre data at hand, Science has been able to see the necessity of throwing back nearly every Babylonian date, and has done so quite generously. We learn from Professor Sayce that even the archaic statues at Tel-loh, in Lower Babylonia, have suddenly been assigned a date contemporary with the fourth dynasty in Egypt. Unfortunately, dynasties and Pyramids have the fate of geological periods; their dates are arbitrary, and depend on the respective whims of the men of science. Archaeologists know now, it is said, that the afore-mentioned statues are fashioned out of green diorite, that can only be got in the Peninsula of Sinai; and "they accord in the style of art, and in the standard of measurement employed, with the similar diorite statues of the pyramid builders of the third and fourth Egyptian dynasties. . . . . Moreover, the only possible period for a Babylonian occupation of the Sinaitic quarries must be placed shortly after the close of the epoch at which the pyramids were built; and thus only can we understand how the name of Sinai could have been derived from that of Sin, the primitive Babylonian moon-god." This is very logical, but what is the date fixed for these "dynasties"? Sanchoniathon's and Manetho's Synchronistic tables and their figures have been rejected, or whatever ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [[Vol. 2, Page]] 693 NO AGREEMENT BETWEEN SCIENTISTS. remained of these after holy Eusebius' handling of them; and still we have to remain satisfied with the four or five thousand years B.C. so liberally allotted to Egypt. At all events one point is gained. There is, at last, a city on the face of the earth which is allowed, at least, 6,000 years, and it is Eridu. Geology has found it out. According to Professor Sayce again, -- "They are now also able to obtain time for the silting up of the head of the Persian Gulf, which demands a lapse of between 5,000 and 6,000 years since the period when Eridu, now twenty-five miles inland, was the seaport at the mouth of the Euphrates, and the seat of Babylonian commerce with Southern Arabia and India. More than all, the new chronology gives time for the long series of eclipses recorded in the great astronomical work called 'The Observations of Bel'; and we are also enabled to understand the otherwise perplexing change in the position of the vernal equinox, which has occurred since our present zodiacal signs were named by the Earliest Babylonian astronomers. When the Accadian calendar was arranged and the Accadian months were named, the sun at the vernal equinox was not, as now, in Pisces, or even in Aries, but in Taurus. The rate of the precession of the equinoxes being known, we learn that at the vernal equinox the sun was in Taurus from about 4,700 years B.C., and we thus obtain astronomical limits of date which cannot be impugned."* It may make our position plainer if we state at once that we use Sir C. Lyell's nomenclature for the ages and periods, and that when we talk of the Secondary and Tertiary age, of the Eocene, Miocene and Pliocene periods -- this is simply to make our facts more comprehensible. Since these ages and periods have not yet been allowed fixed and determined durations, 2 1/2 and 15 million years being assigned at different times to one and the same age (the Tertiary) -- and since no two geologists and naturalists seem to agree on this point -- Esoteric teachings may remain quite indifferent to whether man is shown to appear in the Secondary or the Tertiary age. If the latter age may be allowed even so much as 15 million years' duration -- well and good; for the Occult doctrine, jealously guarding its real and correct figures as far as concerns the First, Second, and two-thirds of the Third Root-Race -- gives clear information upon one point only -- the age of "Vaivasvata Manu's humanity." (Vide Part I., Vol. II., "Chronology of the Brahmins.") Another definite statement is this: It is during the so-called Eocene period that the continent to which the Fourth Race belonged, and on which it lived and perished, showed the first symptoms of sinking. And it was in the Miocene age, that it was finally destroyed -- save the little island mentioned by Plato. It is these points that have to be checked by the scientific data. [[Footnote(s)]] ------------------------------------------------- * From a Report of the "Hibbert Lectures, 1887. Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion, and Illustrated by the Religion of the Ancient Babylonians." By A. H. Sayce. (London: Williams and Norgate.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [[Vol. 2, Page]] 694 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. A. MODERN SCIENTIFIC SPECULATIONS ABOUT THE AGES OF THE GLOBE, ANIMAL EVOLUTION, AND MAN.
May we not be permitted to throw a glance at the works of Specialists? The work on "Comparative Geology: the World- Life," by Prof. A. Winchell, furnishes us with curious data. Here we find an opponent of the Nebular theory, a reverend gentleman, smiting with all the force of the hammer of his odium theologicum on the rather contradictory hypothesis of the great stars of Science, in the matter of sidereal and cosmical phenomena based on their respective relations to terrestrial durations. The "too imaginative physicists and naturalists" do not fare very easily under this shower of their own speculative figures when placed side by side, and cut rather a sorry figure. Thus he shows:-- "Sir William Thomson, on the basis of the observed principles of cooling, concludes that no more than ten million years (elsewhere he makes it 100,000,000) can have elapsed since the temperature of the Earth was sufficiently reduced to sustain vegetable life.* Helmholz calculates that twenty million years would suffice for the original nebula to condense to the present dimensions of the sun. Prof. S. Newcomb requires only ten millions to attain a temperature of 212 [[degrees]] Fahr.** Croll estimates seventy million years for the diffusion of the heat, etc.*** Bischof calculates that 350 million years would be required for the earth to cool from a temperature of 2,000 [[degrees]] to 200 [[degrees]] Centigrade. Read, basing his estimate on observed rates of denudation, demands 500 million years since sedimentation began in Europe.**** Lyell ventured a rough guess of 240 million years; Darwin thought 300 million years demanded by the organic transformations which his theory contemplates, and Huxley is disposed to demand a 1,000 millions" (!!). To this Prof. Winchell observes that "some biologists . . . . seem to close their eyes tight and leap at one bound into the abyss of millions of years, of which they have no more adequate estimate than of infinity."***** Then he proceeds to give what he takes to be more correct geological figures: a few will suffice. According to Sir W. Thomson "the whole incrusted age of the world is 80,000,000 years"; and agreeably with Prof. Houghton's calculations of a minimum limit for the time since the elevation of [[Footnote(s)]] ------------------------------------------------- * Nat. Philos. App. D., Trans. Royal Soc., Edin. ** "Popular Astronomy," p. 509. *** "Climate and Time," p. 335. **** Read. Address, "Liverpool Geolog. Society, 1876." ***** "World-Life," p. 180. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [[Vol. 2, Page]] 695 MATERIALISTS AT LOGGER-HEADS. Europe and Asia, three hypothetical ages for three possible and different modes of upheaval are given: varying from the modest figures of 640,730 years, through 4,170,000 years to the tremendous figures of 27,491,000 years!! This is enough, as one can see, to cover our claims for the four continents and even the figures of the Brahmins. Further calculations, the details of which the reader may find in Prof. Winchell's work,* bring Houghton to an approximation of the sedimentary age of the globe -- 11,700,000 years. These figures are found too small by the author, who forthwith extends them to 37,000,000 years. Again, according to Croll,** 2,500,000 years "represents the time since the beginning of the Tertiary age" in one work; and according to another modification of his view, 15,000,000 only have elapsed since the beginning of the Eocene period;*** which, being the first of the three Tertiary periods, leaves the student suspended between 2 1/2 and 15 millions. But if one has to hold to the former moderate figures, then the whole incrusted age of the world would be 131,600,000 years.**** As the last glacial period extended from 240,000 to 80,000 years ago (Prof. Croll's view), therefore, man must have appeared on earth from 100 to 120,000 years ago. But, as says Prof. Winchell, with reference to the antiquity of the Mediterranean race, "it is generally believed to have made its appearance during the later decline of the continental glaciers." Yet, he adds, this "does not concern, however, the antiquity of the Black and Brown races, since there are numerous evidences of their existence in more southern regions, in times remotely pre-glacial" (p. 379). As a specimen of geological certainty and agreement, these figures also may be added. Three authorities -- Messrs. T. Belt, F.G.S.; J. Croll, F.R.S.; and Robert Hunt, F.R.S., -- in estimating the time that has elapsed since the Glacial epoch, give absolutely different figures, namely:-- Mr. Belt ... 20,000 years. Mr. J. Croll ... 240,000 " Mr. R. Hunt ... 80,000 " [[Footnote(s)]] ------------------------------------------------- * "World-Life," pp. 367-8. ** "Climate and Time." *** Quoted in Mr. Ch. Gould's "Mythical Monsters," p. 84.
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Various Deluges ... 141 The Arkite
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CONCLUSION ... 437 ------- BOOK II.
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The Seven Sabbaths ... 747 "Revelat
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* As it is now asserted that the Ch
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upheaval of the continent, changed
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Beauteous Daughter of the Ether, Pa
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VI. 22. THEN THE SECOND EVOLVED THE
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(b) This expression shows in plain
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Wake. "This animal was the especial
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first pp. of Book I) and fallen int
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(c) Number Seven, the fundamental f
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"Now light," explains the author, "
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mysticism Adam was not a man but a
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ate of the forbidden fruit. The for
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Continuing to create, Brahma assume
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evolution of life on Earth, there m
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tribes and people are also represen
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passage by Mr. Laing, which gives t
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exact period of the lunar year and
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in its spiritual aspects and emanat
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What is Binah Understanding? But wh
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of termination required to express
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* Whence the subsequent assertions
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love the science, and where the god
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possess an intelligence of their ow
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[[Vol. 2, Page]] 107 BATH-KOL, DAUG
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correlatives and contraries inhabit
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(Omoroka) who presided over the mon
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The occult doctrine, anyhow, can be
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** Schol. Eurip. "Orestes," 463, Di
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and Adam is the collective name for
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This is a very curious statement as
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dissociated matter in the critical
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Vaivasvata produces a daughter and
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have declared that "Ila was primari
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In the same letter, "The Evolution
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As far as XIXth century thought is
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3. The Third Root-Race, the "Two-fo
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generally) larger by one cubic inch
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Darwinism," p. 159.) Apart from suc
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who after refusing to "create proge
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WHAT MAY BE THE OBJECTIONS TO THE F
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eason that no "missing links" betwe
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others, PROBABLY arose in the tropi
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the same conditions and by the same
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The above is suggestive. We will se
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originals, who were symbolized by s
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** Vide infra, "The Septenary," in
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In other words, they were the Lemur
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Panini (!); that the Hindus had all
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to Hades (the cave of Initiation) t
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To close this rather lengthy commen
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When reading of "the last transform
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Mankind -- MAN was on earth in this
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to distinguish them. Even at the ag
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As witnesses to the Lemurians but a
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traditions about Hermes (of whom Eg
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(a) Such were the first truly physi
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Happily for the human race the "Ele
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a physical nature and spiritual att
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This period is the one described in
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A few more occult teachings must no
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a Spirit, or Deva; and the "Bird's
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evolve, and that our humanity is ju
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Thus, if we are to believe esoteric
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Here reference is also made to the
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II. The several meanings of the wor
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Which means again, that our globe i
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When it is maintained that no large
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De Mirville -- who seeks to justify
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Snakes). The eminent scholar saw in
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eing regarded as a direct denunciat
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It is the Kabiri who are credited w
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"Now," says Panadoras, "it is befor
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fourth book of Laws, says that, lon
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through the pen of Biblical scholar
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Rahu, mythologically is a Daitya --
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Dragon of absolute Wisdom -- that W
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Satan represents metaphysically sim
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The Noachian Deluge, as described i
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In the same tradition that wise pri
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the abode of the wicked (the Atlant
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Thus, we believe we know that, thou
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islands beyond, which are not far f
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"Supreme Deity" bears, in every anc
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that she must travel eastward, afte
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Brahminical and Buddhistic legends,
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the physical brain may forget event
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"The waters arose, and covered the
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some still older records -- to whic
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Thus let it be. No disbeliever who
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ecause while the evolution of the F
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is born from Asat, and ASAT is bego
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less entitled to a hearing, or less
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THE "HOLY OF HOLIES." ITS DEGRADATI
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Now Eustathius declares that ([IO])
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Measures," 159). Besides the same a
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in his supposed monotheism over the
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help half a dozen volumes full of s
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This "pagan" view was accepted from
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since man appeared on earth, and ma
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Perchance, this is justified on tha
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cherub . . . thou hast walked up an
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In the exoteric works, however, the
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Whether Milton's grandiose descript
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anthropomorphic deity, and adopt fr
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Thus, esoteric philosophy shows tha
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Melia, Decharme thinks, is the pers
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"This process, such as it is minute
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symbolized by the strong, powerful
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Nevertheless, one thing is patent:
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as Cornutus*** shows, was sometimes
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called Venus' Looking-Glass, becaus
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* Nanda is the first Buddhist Sover
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genuine philosophers and students o
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Again, let the reader read the Hind
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their FORTY AND NINE POWERS, and th
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eluctantly admits that "they may me
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Kapila, the great sage and philosop
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But the true esoteric sense of the
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god; and history will not recognize
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