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THE SECRET DOCTRINE.
says: Ancient Wisdom has solved the problem ages ago.
Aye; earnest,
as well as mocking reader, Science is slowly but surely approaching
our domains of the Occult. It is forced by its own discoveries to adopt
nolens volens our phraseology and symbols. Chemical Science is now
compelled, by the very force of things, to
accept even our illustration
of the evolution of the Gods and Atoms, so suggestively and undeniably
figured in the Caduceus of Mercury, the God of Wisdom, and in the
allegorical language of the Archaic Sages.
Esoteric Doctrine:
Says a Commentary in the
The trunk of the Asvattha (the tree of Life and Being, the rod of
the Caduceus) grows from arid descends at every Beginning (every new
Manvantara)yr{7;« the two dark witigs of the Swan (Hansa) of Life. The
two Serpents, the ever-liviig and its illusiott (Spirit and matter) whose
two heads grow from the one head between the wings, descend along the
trunks interlaced in close embrace. The two tails join on earth (the manifested
Universe) into one, and this is the great illusioi, O Lanoo!
Every one knows what the Caduceus is,
modified considerably by the Greeks. The
original symbol—with the triple head of
the serpent—became altered into a rod
with a knob, and the two lower heads were
separated, thus disfiguring somewhat the
original meaning. Yet it is as good an
illustration as can be for our purpose, this
laya rod, entwined by two serpents.
Verily
the wonderful powers of the magic Caduceus
were sung by all the ancient poets,
with a very good reason for those who
understood the secret meaning.
Now what says the learned President of
the Chemical Society of Great Britain,
that same lecture, which has any reference
to, or bearing upon, our above-mentioned
doctrine Very little; only this—and nothing
more:
In the Birmingham address already referred to I asked my audience to
in
picture
the action of two forces on the original protyle—one being time, accompanied by a
lowering of temperature; the other, swinging to and fro like a mighty pendulum,
having periodic cycles of ebb and swell, rest and activity, being intimately connected