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prevent posterity from looking into it, and thus seeing their original prototype. The
Occultists, however, believe the time has come to give everyone his due. As to our
other opponents - the modern sceptic and the Epicurean, the cynic and the
Sadducee - they may find an answer to their denials in our earlier volumes. As to
many unjust aspersions on the ancient doctrines, the reason for them is given in
these words in Isis Unveiled:
The thought of the present-day commentator and critic as to the ancient
learning, is limited to and runs round the exoterism of the temples; his
insight is either unwilling or unable to penetrate into the solemn adyta of
old, where the hierophant instructed the neophyte to regard the public
worship in its true light. No ancient sage would have taught that man is
the king of creation, and that the starry heaven and our mother earth
were created for his sake. [i.535.]
When we find such works as Phallicism [ By Hargrave Jennings.] appearing in our
day in print, it is easy to see that the day of concealment and travesty has passed
away. Science, in Philology, Symbolism and Comparative Religion, has progressed
too far to make wholesale denials any longer, and the Church is too wise and
cautious not to be now making the best of the situation. Meanwhile, the "rhombs of
Hecate" and the "wheels of Lucifer," [ See de Mirville's Pneumatologie, iii, 267 et
seq.] daily exhumed on the sites of Babylonia, can no longer be used as clear
evidence of a Satan-worship, since the same symbols are shown in the ritual of the
Latin Church. The latter is too learned to be ignorant of the fact that even the later
Chaldaeans, who had gradually fallen into dualism, reducing all things to two primal
Principles, never worshipped Satan or idols, any more than did the Zoroastrians, who
now lie under the same accusation, but that their Religion was as highly philosophical
as any; their dual and exoteric Theosophy became the heirloom of the Jews, who, in
their turn, were forced to share it with the Christians. Parsis are to this day charged
with Heliolatry, and yet in the Chaldean Oracles, under the "Magical and
Philosophical Precepts of Zoroaster" one finds the following:
Chaldean Oracles - (Page 35)
Direct not thy mind to the vast measures of the earth;
For the plant of truth is not upon ground.
Nor measure the measures of the sun, collecting rules,
For he is carried by the eternal will of the Father, not for your sake.
Dismiss the impetuous course of the moon; for she runs always by work
of
necessity.
The progression of the stars was not generated for your sake.
There was a vast difference between the true worship taught to those who showed
themselves worthy, and the state religions. The Magians are accused of all kinds of
superstition, but this is what the same Chaldaean Oracle says:
The wide aerial flight of birds is not true,
Nor the dissections of the entrails of victims; they are all mere toys,
The basis of mercenary fraud; flee from these
If you would open the sacred paradise of piety,
Where virtue, wisdom, and equity are assembled.
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