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284 I'HK SECRET DOCTRINE.
Such experimenters as Pasteur are the best friends and helpers of the
Destroyers, and the worst enemies of the Creators—if the latter were
not at the same time Destroyers also. However it may be, one thing is
certain in this: the knowledge of these primary causes, and of the ultimate
essence of every Element, of its lyives, their functions, properties,
and conditions of change—constitutes the basis of Magic. Paracelsus
was, perhaps, the only Occultist in Europe, during the latter centuries of
Had not a criminal
the Christian era, who was versed in this mystery.
hand put an end to his life years before the time allotted him by Nature,
phj^siological Magic would have fewer secrets for the civilized v/orld
than it now has.
(d) But what has the Moon to do in all this, we may be asked. What
have "Fish, Sin and Soma [Moon]," in the apocalyptic sentence of the
Stanza, to do in company with the Eife-microbes With the latter
nothing, except that they avail themselves of the tabernacle of clay
prepared by them; with divine perfect Man everything, since "Fish,
Sin and Moon" conjointly compose the three symbols of the immortal
Being.
This is all that can be given. Nor does the writer pretend to know
more of these strange symbols than may be inferred about them from
exoteric religions— from the mysteiy, perhaps, which underlies the
Matsya (Fish) Avatara of Vishnu, the Chaldean Cannes, the Man-Fish,
recorded in the imperishable sign of the Zodiac, Pisces, and nmning
throughout the two Testaments in the personages of Joshua "Son of
Nun (the Fish)" and Jesus; from the allegorical "Sin," or Fall of
Spirit into Matter; and from the Moon—in so far as it relates to the
Eunar Ancestors, the Pitris.
For the present, it maj- be as well to remind the reader, that while
the Moon-Goddesses were connected in every mythology, especially
the Grecian, with child-birth, because of the influence of the Moon on
women and conception, the Occult and actual connection of our satellite
with fecundation is to this day unknown to Physiology, which regards
every popular practice in this connection as gross superstition. As it
is useless to discuss these in detail, we can only stop for the present to
notice the lunar symbology casuall}^, to show that the said superstition
belongs to the most ancient beliefs, and even to Judaism—the basis of
Christianity. With the Israelites, the chief function of Jehovah was
child-giving, and the Esotericism of the Bible, interpreted kabalistically,
shows undeniably that the Holy of Holies in the Temple was simply