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502 the; secret doctrine.
ciples, more elevated than we modern Sadducees know of, "were hidden
under the transparent veil of such merely natural divinities as thunder,
the winds, and rain." The Ancients knew and could distinguish the
corporeal from the spiritual I^lements in the Forces of Nature.
The four-fold Jupiter, as the four-faced Brahma, the aerial, the
fulgurant, the terrestrial, and the marine God, the lord and master of
the four Elements, may stand as a representative for the great Cosmic
Gods of every nation. Although deputing power over the fire to
Hephaestus-Vulcan, over the sea to Poseidon-Neptune, and over the
Earth to Pluto-Aidoneus, the Aerial Jove was still all these ; for ^ther,
from the first, had preeminence over, and was the synthesis of, all the
Elements.
Tradition tells of a grotto, a vast cave in the deserts of Central Asia,
whereinto light pours, through four seemingly natural apertures, or
clefts placed crossways at the four cardinal points. From noon till an
hour before sunset the light streams in, of four different colours, as
averred, red, blue, orange-gold, and white, owing to some either
natural or artificially prepared conditions of vegetation and soil. The
light converges in the centre round a pillar of white marble with a
globe upon it, which represents our earth. It is named the " Grotto of
Zaratushta."
Included under the arts and sciences of the Fourth Race, the Atlanteans,
the phenomenal manifestation of the Four Elements, which were
justly attributed by these believers to the intelligent interference of the
Cosmic Gods, assumed a scientific character. The Magic of the ancient
priests consisted, in those days, in addressing their Gods in their own
language.
The speech of the men of the Earth cannot reach the Lords. Each
viust be addressed in the language of his respective Element.
So says The Book of Rides, in a sentence which will be shown pregnant
with meaning, adding as an explanation of the nature of that
^/^w^«/-language
// is composed of Sounds, 7iot words; of sounds, mimbers and figures.
He who kfiows hozv to blend the three, will call forth the response of the
superi7itending Power \Jhe Regent- God of the specific Elcmeiit needed'].
Thus this "language" is that of incantations or of mantras, as they
are called in India; sound being the most potent aiid effectual magic
agent, and the first of the keys which opens the door of conmwiication
between Mortals and Immortals. He who believes in the words and