Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

1897.] UONTHIRUTlONS AND ANSWERS TO QUlo.:STIONM 517
the spiritualized harmonic Soul-V et~ture. Another queiltion I would
like to ask you is, Why do you set a higher value on the Hebraic Bible
than on the Hindu Scriptures, seeing that the former doell not contain all
the doctrines you teach, and the latter does? For instance. you teach
re-incarnation, which is not in the Bible, hut was alway• taught by
the Hindus. Where in the Hebrew Bible can we find any teaching
more exalted o1· comecutiue than that contained in the " Bhagavad­
Gita" or the .. Upanishads?" Fraternally, R. J. B .
.A na. We publish this letter because it pri!Bents points in regarcl
to which many are now seriously questioning. It is not difficult to
ac•count for the experience that the writer descrihe11; but first permit
me to say, that there is no word or name that has any value or occult
power independent of the thought connected with its meaning. It is
true. however. that particular sounds and word formations suggeat certain
thoughts, and thu11 produce certain conditions in the organism;
h11t the most potential of all theae may he entirely distorted by the
belief of the individual using it. Our friend, evidently believing the
authorities that he ~sert, on no leu an authority upon the
Hebrew than Ge11eniuo~, that there is no such tl1ought as our correspondent
sugge"'ts connected with thi~ great name. At the p1·e11ent time there
a1·e a great number of ~.-duc·ated men, and even authors of note, who
are so thoroughly contt·olled by the 11ex passion, that it gives color to
every thought: accordingly. they see in ancient boob and sacred
names. hut that one idea. There is a vulgar saying that "one puts
green glauea on a horse to make him eat shavings; " and the11e men
would· put their green goggles on every one who is seeking knowledge,
so aa to make him partake of their vitiating pabulum.
Therefore we will repeat in this connection certain explanations of
tht> ancient meanings of that name. In addition to the surface mean·
ing of the word, which is " I will he what I will to be," every Hebrew
letter employed in the spelling of this namt! has a definite idea belong·
ing to it.. Connected in their &88ociate relations, they expreu the
central thought of the ages, and, in fact, the ultimate toward which
all intellectual religionists of every clau and nation aspire. Y od, the
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