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It is evident that Philolaus referred to the central spiritual Sun, whose beams and effulgence
are only mirrored by our central Star, the Sun. This is as clear to the Occultists as it was to
the Pythagoreans. As for the profane of pagan antiquity, it was, of course, the physical Sun
that was the “highest God” for them, as it seems - if Chevalier Drach’s view be accepted - to
have now virtually become for the modern Roman Catholics. If words mean anything, the
statements made by the Chevalier Drach that “this sun is, undeniably, the second hypostasis
of the Deity,” imply what we say; as “this Sun” refers to the Kabalistic Sun, and “hypostasis”
means substance or subsistence of the Godhead or Trinity - distinctly personal. As the
author, being an ex-Rabbi, thoroughly versed in Hebrew, and in the mysteries of the Zohar,
ought to know the value of words; and as, moreover, in writing this, he was bent upon
reconciling “the seeming contradictions,” as he puts it, between Judaism and Christianity -
the fact becomes quite evident.
But all this pertains to questions and problems which will be solved naturally and in the
course of the development of the doctrine. The Roman Catholic Church stands accused, not
of worshipping under other names the Divine Beings worshipped by all nations in Antiquity,
but of declaring idolatrous, not only the Pagans ancient and modern, but every Christian
nation that has freed itself from the Roman yoke. The accusation brought against herself by
more than one man of Science, of worshipping the stars like true Sabaeans of old, stands to
this day uncontradicted, yet no star-worshipper has ever addressed his adoration to the
material stars and planets, as will be shown before the last page of this work is written; none
the less it is true that those Philosophers alone who studied Astrology and Magic knew that
the last word of those sciences was to be sought in, and expected from, the Occult forces
emanating from those constellations.
SECTION XXIV
Modern Kabalists in Science and Occult Astronomy
(Page 215) THERE is a physical, an astral, and a super-astral Universe in the three chief
divisions of the Kabalah; as there are terrestrial, super-terrestrial, and spiritual Beings. The
“Seven Planetary Spirits” may be ridiculed by Scientists to their hearts’ content, yet the need
of intelligent ruling and guiding Forces in so much felt to this day that scientific men and
specialists, who will not hear of Occultism or of ancient systems, find themselves obliged to
generate in their inner consciousness some kind of semi-mystical system. Metcalf’s “sunforce”
theory, and that of Zaliwsky, a learned Pole, which made Electricity the Universal
Force and placed its storehouse in the Sun, [ La Gravitation par l’Electricité, p.7. quoted by
De Mirville, iv. 156 ] were revivals of the Kabalistic teachings. Zaliwsky tried to prove that
Electricity, producing “the most powerful, attractive, calorific, and luminous effects,” was
present in the physical constitution of the Sun and explained its peculiarities. This is very
near the Occult teaching. It is only by admitting the gaseous nature of the Sun-reflector, and
the powerful Magnetism and Electricity of the solar attraction and repulsion, that one can
explain (a) the evident absence of any waste of power and luminosity in the Sun -
inexplicable by the ordinary laws of combustion; and (b) the behaviour of the planets, so
often contradicting every accepted rule of weight and gravity. And Zaliwsky makes this “solar
electricity” “differ from anything known on earth.”
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