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Babinet - the deadliest enemy and opponent of the phenomena of levitation - (cited by Arago)
says:
Are There Angels in Stars-
(Page 221) Everyone knows the theory of bolides [meteors] and aerolithes . . .
. In Connecticut an immense aerolith was seen [a mass of eighteen hundred
feet in diameter], bombarding a whole American zone and returning to the
spot [in mid-air] from which it had started. [ Oeuvres d'Arago.vol.i., 219:
quoted by De Mirville, iii. 462.]
Thus we find in both of the cases above cited - that of self-correcting planets and meteors of
gigantic size flying back into the air - a “blind force” regulating and resisting the natural
tendencies of “blind matter,” and even occasionally repairing its mistakes and correcting its
failures. This is far more miraculous and even “extravagant,” one would say, than any “Angelguided”
Element.
Bold is he who laughs at the idea of Von Haller, who declares that:
The stars are perhaps an abode of glorious Spirits; as here Vice reigns, there
is Virtue master. [“Die Sterne sind vielleicht ein Sitz Verklarter Geister;
Wie hier das Laster herrscht, ist dort die Tugend Meister. ]
SECTION XXV
Eastern and Western Occultism
(Page 222) IN The Theosophist for March, 1886, [ Op.cit.,p.411] in an answer to the “Solar
Sphinx,” a member of the London Lodge of the Theosophical Society wrote as follows:
We hold and believe that the revival of Occult Knowledge now in progress will some day
demonstrate that the Western system represents ranges of perceptions which the Eastern -
at least as expounded in the pages of The Theosophist—has yet to attain.[ Whenever Occult
doctrines were expounded in the pages of The Theosophist, care was taken each time to
declare a subject incomplete when the whole could not be given in its fullness, and no writer
has ever tried to mislead the reader. As to the Western “ranges of perception” concerning
doctrines really Occult, the Eastern Occultists have been made acquainted with them for
some time past. Thus they are enabled to assert with confidence that the West may be in
possession of Hermetic philosophy as a speculative system of dialectics, the latter being
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