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besides Mercury, belong to our system of worlds" Now if by "system
of worlds" our Terrestrial Chain, or "String," was intended, in the mind
of the querist, instead of the "Solar System of Worlds," as it should
have been, then of course the answer was likely to have been misunderstood.
For the reply was: ''Mars, etc., and four other planets of
which Astronomy knows nothiyig. Neither A, B, nor Y, Z, are kiown,
7ior can they be seen through physical means, however perfected." This
is plain : (a) Astronomy as yet knows nothing in reality of the
planets, neither the ancient ones, nor those discovered in modern
times, (^b) No companion planets from A to Z, i.e., no upper Globes of
any Chain in the Solar S^^stem, can be seen; with the exception of
course of all the planets which come foicrtk in number, as our Earth,
the Moon, etc., etc. As to Mars, Mercury, and "the four other
planets," they bear a relation to Earth of which no Master or high
Occultist will ever speak, much less explain the nature.
In this same letter the impossibility is
distinctly stated by one of the
Teachers to the author of Esoteric Buddhism: " Try to understand that
yori are pjitting me questions pertaining to the highest Initiation ; that I can
give you {only) a general view, bid that I dare not, nor will I, enter into
details. . .
." Copies of all the letters ever received, or sent, with
the exception of a few private ones
"ifi
which there was no teaching''
the Master saj^s—are with the writer. As it was her duty, in the
beginning, to answer and explain certain points not touched upon, it is
more than likely that, notwithstanding the many annotations on these
copies, the writer, in her ignorance of English and her fear of saying
too much, may have bungled the information given. She takes the
whole blame for it upon herself in any and every case. But it is impossible
for her to allow students to remain any longer under erroneous
impressions, or to believe that the fault lies with the Esoteric
system.
t,et it then be now distinctly stated that the theory broached is
impossible, with or without the additional evidence furnished by
modern Astronomy. Physical Science can supply corroborative,
though still very uncertain, evidence, but only as regards heavenly
bodies on the same plane of materiality as our objective Universe.
Mars and Mercury, Venus and Jupiter, like every hitherto discovered
planet, or those still to be discovered, are all, per se, the representatives
on our plane of such Chains. As distinctl}- stated in one of the
numerous letters of Mr. Sinnett's Teacher: '' there are other and innu-