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.448 THE SECRET DOCTRINE.
was the work of Destiny [Karma]. Anger is the passion of fools; it becometh not
a wise man. By whom, it may be asked, is any one killed Every man reaps the
consequences of his own acts. Anger, my son, is the destruction of ail that man
obtains . . . and prevents the attainment ... of emancipation. The . . .
sages shun wrath: be not thou, my child, subject to its influence. Let no more
of those unoffending spirits of darkness be consumed; let this th}' sacrifice cease.
Mercy is the might of the righteous.*
Thus, every such "sacrifice" or prayer to God for help is no better
than an act of Black Magic. That which Parashara prayed for, was the
destruction of the Spirits of Darkness, for his personal revenge. He
is called a Pagan, and the Christians have doomed him, as such, to
Eternal Hell. Yet, in what respect is the praj^er of sovereigns and
generals, who pray before every battle for the destruction of their
enemy, any better Such a prayer is in every case Black Magic of
the worst kind, concealed like a demon "Mr. Hyde" under a sanctimonious
"Dr. Jekyll."
In human nature, evil denotes only the polarity of Matter and Spirit,
a "struggle for life" between the two manifested Principles in Space
and Time, which Principles are one per se, inasmuch as they are rooted
in the Absolute. In Cosmos, the equilibrium must be preserved. The
operations of the two contraries produce harmony, like the centripetal
and centrifugal forces, which, being mutually inter-dependent,
are necessary to each other, "in order that both should live,"
If oneshould
be arrested, the action of the other would become immediately
self-destructive.
Since the personification called
Satan has been amply analyzed from
its triple aspect, in the O/d Testament, Christian Theology and the
ancient Gentile attitude of thought, those who would learn more of
the subject are referred to Iszs Unveiled\ and the Second Part 01
Volume II of the present work. The subject is here touched upon,
and fresh explanations are attempted, for a very good reason. Before
we can approach the evolution of Physical and Divine Man, we have
first
to master the idea of Cyclic Evolution, to acquaint ourselves with
the philosophies and beliefs of the four Races which preceded our
present Race, and to learn what were the ideas of those Titans and
Giants—Giants, verily, mentally, as well as physically. The whole oi
antiquity was imbued with that philosophy which teaches the involution
of Spirit into Matter, the progressive, downward cyclic descent, or
active, self-conscious evolution. The Alexandrian Gnostics have sufiB-
• VUhnu Purina, I. i. + Vol. II. ch. x.