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THE SECRET DOCTRINE.
Unless the Science of the Zodiac is
admitted to be of the highest
antiquity and universality, how can we account for its Signs being
traced in the oldest Theogonies I^aplace is said to have felt struck
with amazement at the idea of the days of Mercury (Wednesday),
Venus (Friday), Jupiter (Thursday), Saturn (Saturday), and others,
being related to the days of the week in the same order and with the
same names in India as in Northern Kurope,
Try, if you can, with the present system of autochthonous civilizations, so much
in fashion in our day, to explain how nations with no ancestry, no traditions or
birthplace in common, could have succeeded in inventing a kind of celestial phantasmagoria,
a veritable imbroglio of sidereal denominations, without sequence or
object, having no figurative relation with the constellations they represent, and
still less, apparently, with the phases of our terrestrial life they are made to signify,
—had there not been a gcieral intention and a universal cause and
belief, at the root of all this *
! Most truly has Dupuis asserted the same
II est impossible de d^couvrir le moindre trait de ressemblance entre les parties
du ciel et les figures que les astronomes y ont arbitrairement tracees; et de I'autre
c6te, le hasard est impossible.^
Most certainly chance is "impossible.'" There is no "chance" in
Nature, wherein everything is mathematically coordinate, and interrelated
in its units.
Says Coleridge:
Chance is but the pseudonym of God [or Nature], for those particular cases which
He does not choose to subscribe openly with His sign manual.
Replace the word "God" by Karma, and it will become an Eastern
axiom.
Therefore, the sidereal "prophecies" of the Zodiac, as they are
called by Christian Mystics, never point to any one particular event,
however solemn and sacred it may be for some one portion of humanity,
but to ever-recurrent, periodical laws in Nature, understood only by the
Initiates of the Sidereal Gods themselves.
No Occultist, no Astrologer of Eastern birth, will ever agree with
Christian Mystics, or even with Kepler's mystical Astronomy, his great
vScience and erudition notwithstanding; and this because, if his premisses
are quite correct, his deductions therefrom are one-sided and
biassed by Christian preconceptions. Where Kepler finds a prophecy
directly pointing to the Saviour, other nations see a symbol of an
eternal law, decreed for the actual Manvantara. Why see in Pisces a
direct reference to Christ—one of the several world-reformers, a
Saviour for his direct
followers, but only a great and glorious Initiate
" Des Esprils, iv. pp. 59, 60. t Origine detous les Cultes, "Zodiaque."