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228 THE SECRET DOCTRINE.
"Divine origin" does not here mean a revelation from an anthropomorphic
God on a mount amidst thunder and lightning; but, as we
understand it, a language and a system of science imparted to early
mankind by a more advanced mankind, so much higher as to be divine
in the sight of that infant humanity: by a "mankind," in short, from
other spheres ; an idea which contains nothing supernatural in it, but
the acceptance or rejection of which depends upon the degree of
conceit and arrogance in the mind of him to whom it is stated.
For,
if the professors of modern knowledge would only confess that, though
they know nothing of the future of the disembodied man—or rather
will accept nothing— yet this future may be pregnant with surprises
and unexpected revelations to them, once their Egos are rid of their
gross bodies—then materialistic unbelief would have fewer chances
than it has. Who of them knows, or can tell, what may happen when
once the Ivife-Cycle of this Globe is run down, and our mother Earth
herself falls into her last sleep Who is bold enough to say that the
divine Egos of our mankind—at least the elect out of the multitudes
passing on to other spheres—will not become in their turn the "divine"
instructors of a new mankind generated by them on a new Globe, called
to life and activity by the disembodied "principles" of our Earth
this may have been the experience of the Past, and these strange
records lie embedded in the "Mystery Language" of the pre-historic
ages, the language now called Symbolism.
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