The Secret Doctrine Volume 3.pdf

considered as the unique incarnation on this earth of the One Living God in heaven, fades
into thin air, on the authority of the properly read and correctly interpreted Bible itself.
Moreover, since on the authority of Jerome himself and his accepted and authentic
confession, the book written by the hand of Matthew “exhibits matter not for edification but for
destruction” (of Church and human Christianity, and only that) what truth can be expected
from his famous Vulgate Human mysteries, concocted by generations of Church Fathers
bent upon evolving a religion of their own invention, are seen instead of a divine Revelation;
and that this was so is corroborated by a prelate of the Latin Church. Saint Gregory
Nazianzen wrote to his friend and confidant, St. Jerome:
Nothing can impose better on a people than verbiage; the less they
understand the more they admire . . . Our fathers and doctors have often said,
not what they thought, but that to which circumstances and necessity forced
them.
(Page 158) Which then of the two - clergy, or the Occultists and Theosophists - are the more
blasphemous and dangerous Is it those who would impose upon the world’s acceptance a
Saviour of their own fashioning, a God with human shortcomings, and who therefore is
certainly not a perfect divine Being; or those others who say: Jesus of Nazareth was in
Initiate, a holy, grand and noble character, but withal human, though truly “a Son of God”
If Humanity is to accept a so-called supernatural Religion, how far more logical to the
Occultist and the Psychologist seems the transparent allegory given of Jesus by the
Gnostics. They, as Occultists, and with Initiates for their Chiefs, differed only in their
renderings of the story and in their symbols, and not at all in substance. What say the
Ophites, the Nazarenes, and other “heretics” Sophia, “the Celestial Virgin,” is prevailed
upon to send Christos, her emanation, to the help of perishing humanity, from whom Ilda-
Baoth (the Jehovah of the Jews) and his six Sons of Matter (the lower terrestrial Angels) are
shutting out the divine light. Therefore, Christos, the perfect, [ The Western personification of
that power, which the Hindus call the Vija, the “one seed,” or Maha Vishnu - a power, not the
God - or that mysterious Principle that contains in itself the Seed of Avatârism.]
Uniting himself with Sophia [divine wisdom] descended through the seven
planetary regions, assuming in each an analogous form . . . [and] entered into
the man Jesus at the moment of his baptism in the Jordan. From this time
forth Jesus began to work miracles; before that he had been entirely ignorant
of his own mission.
Ilda-Baoth, discovering that Christos was bringing to an end his kingdom of Matter, stirred up
the Jews, his own people, against Him, and Jesus was put to death. When Jesus was on the
Cross Christos and Sophia left His body, and returned to Their own sphere. The material
body of Jesus was abandoned to the earth, but He Himself, the Inner Man, was clothed with
a body made up of aether. [ Arise into Nervi from this decrepit body into which thou hast
been sent. Ascend into thy former abode, O blessed Avatâr!”]
Thenceforth he consisted merely of soul and spirit . . . During his sojourn upon
earth of eighteen months after he had risen, he received from Sophia that
perfect knowledge, that true Gnosis, which he communicated to the small
portion of the Apostles who were capable of receiving the same. [ The
Gnostics and their Remains. King. pp.100, 101.]
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