Theos-Talk Archives (June 2005 Message tt00455)

Vladimir, there may be an error in reasoning on your side.
In the quote you gave she did NOT spoke about Solomon as a historical 
person.
She speaks there about him (the type figure) as a kabalist.
And that is quite correct.
Gottfried de Purucker confirmes HPB on that point.
Solomon is the same type of historical person as the Jesus of the 
Christians.
Frank

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Vladimir" <forums@sova.us>
To: <theos-talk@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 8:33 PM
Subject: Theos-World HPB about Solomon: man or myth?


I'd like to pose an interesting question:

Why sometimes HPB said that Solomon and his Temple are both a mere
allegory (e.g. see Konstantin's quotations from SD), and at other
occasions she spoke about him as quite a historical personage?
E.g.:

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The philosophy of the distribution of heat and moisture by means of
ascending and descending currents between the equator and the poles,
has a very recent origin; but here has the hint been lying unnoticed
in our most familiar book, for nearly three thousand years. And even
now, in quoting it, we are obliged to recall the fact that Solomon was
a kabalist, and in the above texts, simply repeats what was written
thousands of years before his time.
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Isis Unveiled, Vol. 1, Page 410


Maybe this is a hint to the answer:


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Thence King Solomon, whose traces are nowhere to be found outside of
the Bible, and the description of whose magnificent palace and city
dovetail with those of the Persian tales; though they were unknown to
all pagan travellers, even to Herodotus.
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The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 2, Page 396, Footnote




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