Theos-Talk Archives (September 2002 Message tt00147)

Jerry and John (my old friend), thanks for pointing out several books which
for sure I need to use in the research of this subject.

Jerry, thanks for the insight of who are the "some scholars," no doubt those
are the guys; but also I would like to add that HPB was enthusiastic about
the way pyramidology and the traslation and interpretation of the Egyptian
Book of the Dead was evolving (see Pag.I-312) as a way to explain the
Christian Dogmas. Also I like very much the book Zohar by Nurho de Manhar ,
Wizards Bookshelf. Any more references on who this Nurho de Manhar may be??

Another area of research would be the connection of the Christian Dogmas
with the Roman Mystery-Religion of Mithras, which I have been studying in
the last few years. But I don't participate in the thought that without
Christianity we would worshiping Mithras, since they did not admit women
into their sanctuaries and the future key note, the way I see it, was to be
the gradual involvement of women into all aspects of religion and mystcism.

My interest in the subject comes from SD I-341. HPB just touches my soul:

"The fragments of the systems that have now reached us are rejected as
absurd fables. Nevertheless, occult Science -- having survived even the
great Flood that submersed the antediluvian giants and with them their very
memory, save in the Secret Doctrine, the Bible and other Scriptures -- still
holds the Key to all the world problems.

Let us apply that Key to the rare fragments of long-forgotten cosmogonies
and try by their scattered parts to re-establish the once Universal
Cosmogony of the Secret Doctrine. The Key fits them all. No one can study
ancient philosophies seriously without perceiving that the striking
similitude of conception between all -- in their exoteric form very often,
in their hidden spirit invariably -- is the result of no mere coincidence,
but of a concurrent design: and that there was, during the youth of mankind,
one languages, one knowledge, one universal religion, when there were no
churches, no creeds or sects, but when every man was a priest unto himself.
And, if it is shown that already in those ages which are shut out from our
sight by the exuberant growth of tradition, human religious thought
developed in uniform sympathy in every portion of the globe; then, it
becomes evident that, born under whatever latitude, in the cold North or the
burning South, in the East or West, that thought was inspired by the same
revelations, and man was nurtured under the protecting shadow of the same
TREE OF KNOWLEDGE."

Jerry and anyone interested in the Sefer Yetzirah -- Mark, a member of our
study group (West Los Angeles) moderates a list for the study of the Sefer
Yetzirah. His email is: veritas00@earthlink.net.

Jerry, are you or someone else taking notes of what is being commented in
your study group? "Transactions of the Turlock Study Group"!!!

John, books of Dunlap's are hard to find, so thanks for the lead about the
Brown University Library.

Thanks again to both.


Martin Leiderman