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730 'I*HE SECRET DOCTRINE.
origin in the epoch of the year 3102 B.C., and it is a demonstrative prooL' of the
reality of that epoch.*
Bailly is referred to at such length, as he is one of the few scientific
men who have tried to do full justice to the Astronomy of the Aryans.
From John Bentley down to Burgess' Surya-Siddhanta, not one Astronomer
has been fair enough to the most learned people of Antiquity.
However distorted and misunderstood the Hindu Symbology may be,
no Occultist can fail to do it justice once that he knows something of
the Secret Sciences ; nor will he turn away from their metaphysical
and mystical interpretation of the Zodiac, even though the whole
Pleiades of Royal Astronomical Societies rise in arms against their
mathematical rendering of it.
The descent and reascent of the Monad
or Soul cannot be disconnected from the Zodiacal signs, and it looks
more natural, in the sense of the fitness of things, to believe in a
mysterious sympathy between the metaphysical Soul and the bright
constellation., and in the influence of the latter on the former, than in
the absurd notion that the creators of Heaven and Earth have placed
in Heaven the types of twelve vicious Jews. And if, as the author of
The Gnostics and their Remains asserts, the aim of all the Gnostic
schools and the later
Platonists
was to accommodate the old faith to the influence of Buddhistic theosophy, the
verj' essence of which was that the innumerable gods of the Hindu mythology were
but names for the Energies of the First Triad in its successive Avatars or manifestations
unto man,
whither can we better turn to trace these theosophic ideas to their very
root, than to the old Indian wisdom We say again: Archaic Occultism
would remain incomprehensible to all, if it were to be rendered
otherwise than through the more familiar channels of Buddhism and
Hinduism. For the former is the emanation of the latter; and both
are children cf one mother—ancient Ivcmuro-Atlantean Wisdom.
* BaiUy's Traite deV Astronomie Indienne et Orienialc, pp. xx. el seq. Ed. 1787.