WAS JESUS A REAL PERSON?
Mar 24, 2006 06:04 AM
by W.Dallas TenBroeck
WAS JESUS A REAL PERSON?
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"...except a handful of self-styled Christians who subsequently won the day,
all the civilized portion of the Pagans who knew of Jesus honored him as a
philosopher, an adept whom they placed on the same level with Pythagoras and
Apollonius.
Whence such a veneration on their part for a man, were he simply, as
represented by the Synoptics, a poor, unknown Jewish carpenter from
Nazareth? As an incarnated God there is no single record of him on this
earth capable of withstanding the critical examination of science; as one of
the greatest reformers, an inveterate enemy of every theological dogmatism,
a persecutor of bigotry, a teacher of one of the most sublime codes of
ethics, Jesus is one of the grandest and most clearly-defined figures on the
panorama of human history. His age may, with every day, be receding farther
and farther back into the gloomy and hazy mists of the past; and his
theology -- based on human fancy and supported by untenable dogmas may, nay
must with every day lose more of its unmerited prestige; alone the grand
figure of the philosopher and moral reformer instead of growing paler will
become with every century more pronounced and more clearly defined. It will
reign supreme and universal only on that day when the whole of humanity
recognizes but one father -- the UNKNOWN ONE above -- and one brother -- the
whole of mankind below." ISIS II 150
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An impression seems to have arisen that H.P.B. denied that Jesus ever lived
at all.
My understanding is that she never said that but only denied the historicity
of the Gospel's "Jesus," -- i.e., Jesus, as portrayed in the four Gospels,
she says is a fabrication, a concoction.
She brings forward esoteric teaching to show that the Gospel account is an
historizing of the zodiacal signs and cycles of the most ancient
philosophers, under which they concealed some of their Cosmogonical facts as
myths, and she adds there indeed lived a great reformer, the Adept Jesus.
There are literally hundreds of references to Jesus and Christianity in
Theosophical Literature the most significant are by H P B.
Let me offer a few of these and some notes made in the course of studying
ISIS UNVEILED and The SECRET DOCTRINE.
But first consider these:
"The position THEY [MASTERS] give to Jesus, as far as we know, is that of a
great and pure man, a reformer who would fain have lived but who had to die
for that which he regarded as the greatest birth-right of man -- absolute
Liberty of conscience; of an adept who preached a universal Religion knowing
of, and having no other "temple of God" but man himself; that of a noble
Teacher of esoteric truths which he had no time given to him to explain;
that, of an initiate who recognized no difference -- save the moral one --
between men; who rejected caste, and despised wealth; and who preferred
death rather than to reveal the secrets of initiation. And who, finally,
lived over a century before the year of our vulgar, so called, Christian
era." THEOSOPHIST July 1883
[ This quotation from an account by Charles Johnston of his interview with
H.P.B. when he met her for the first time in London, in the Spring of 1887,
soon after her arrival from Ostende appeared originally in Theosophical
Forum (New York) for April, May, June and July 1900-1 ] and was reprinted in
The Theosophical Movement, April 1964.
Question: "How do the adepts guide the souls of men?"
H.P.B.: "In many ways, but chiefly by teaching their souls direct, in the
spiritual world But that is difficult for you to understand. This is
quite intelligible, though. At certain regular periods, they try to give
the world at large a right understanding of spiritual things. One of their
number comes forth to teach the masses, and is handed down to tradition as
the Founder of a religion. Krishna was such a Master; so was Zoroaster; so
were Buddha and Shankara Acharya, the great sage of Southern India. And, so
also was the Nazarene. He went forth against the counsel of the rest, to
give to the masses before the time, moved by a great pity, and enthusiasm
for humanity; he was warned that the time was unfavorable, but nevertheless
he elected to go, and so was put to death at the instigation of the
priests."
Question: "Have the adepts any secret records of his life?"
H.P.B.: "They must have," she answered; "for they have records of the lives
of all Initiates. Once I was in a great cave-temple in the Himalaya
mountains, with my Master," and she looked at the picture of the splendid
Rajput; "there were many statues of adepts there; pointing to one of them,
he said: 'This is he whom you call Jesus. We count him to be one of the
greatest among us.' "But that is not the only work of the adepts. At much
shorter periods, they send forth a messenger to try to teach the world.
Such a period comes in the last quarter of each century, and the
Theosophical Society represents their work for this epoch." THE
THEOS. FORUM, New York, Apl, 1900
"...Jesus, whether of Nazareth or Lud, (*) was a Chrestos, as undeniably as
that he never was entitled to the appellation of Christos, during his
life-time and before his last trial.
* Or Lydda, reference is made here to the Rabbinical tradition in the
Babylonian Gemara, called Sepher Toldoth Jeshu, about Jesus being the son of
one named Pandira, and having lived a century earlier than the era called
Christian, namely, during the reign of the Jewish king Alexander Jannaeus
and his wife Salome, who reigned from the year 106 to 79 B.C. Accused by the
Jews of having learned the magic art in Egypt, and of having stolen from the
Holy of Holies the Incommunicable Name, Jehoshua (Jesus) was put to death by
the Sanhedrin at Lud. He was stoned and then crucified on a tree, on the
eve of Passover. The narrative is ascribed to the Talmudistic authors of
"Sota" and "Sanhedrin," p.19 Book of Zechiel." Isis Unveiled, II. 201
"A thick film of allegory and blinds, the "dark sayings" of fiction and
parable, thus covers the original esoteric texts from which the New
Testament--as now known--was compiled. Whence, then, the Gospels, the life
of Jesus of Nazareth? Has it not been repeatedly stated that no human,
mortal brain could have invented the life of the Jewish Reformer, followed
by the awful drama on Calvary? We say, on the authority of the esoteric
Eastern School, that all this came from the Gnostics, as far as the name
Christos and the astronomico-mystical allegories are concerned, and from the
writings of the ancient Tanaim as regards the Kabalistic connection of Jesus
or Joshua, with the Biblical personifications. One of these is the mystic
esoteric name of Jehovah--not the present fanciful God of the profane Jews
ignorant of their own mysteries, the God accepted by the still more ignorant
Christians--but the compound Jehovah of the pagan Initiation. This is
proven very plainly by the glyphs or mystic combinations of various signs
which have survived to this day in the Roman Catholic hieroglyphics.
The Gnostic Records contained the epitome of the chief scenes enacted during
the mysteries of initiation, since the memory of man; though even that was
given out invariably under the garb of semi-allegory, whenever entrusted to
parchment or paper. But the ancient Tanaim, the Initiates from whom the
wisdom of the Kabala (oral tradition) was obtained by the later Talmudists,
had in their possession the secrets of the mystery language, and it is in
this language that the Gospels were written."
HPB ART III 197
"We can assert, with entire plausibility, that there is not one of all these
sects--Kabalism, Judaism, and our present Christianity included-- but sprung
from the two main branches of that one mother-trunk, the once universal
religion, which antedated the Vedic ages--we speak of that prehistoric
Buddhism which merged later into Brahmanism. The religion which the
primitive teaching of the early few apostles most resembled--a religion
preached by Jesus himself--is the elder of these two, Buddhism.
The latter as taught in its primitive purity, and carried to perfection by
the last of the Buddhas, Gautama, based its moral ethics on three
fundamental principles. It alleged that 1, everything existing, exists from
natural causes; 2, that virtue brings its own reward, and vice and sin their
own punishment; and, 3, that the state of man in this world is probationary.
We might add that on these three principles rested the universal foundation
of every religious credal God, and individual immortality for every man --
if he could but win it." ISIS II 123
"... the secret doctrines of the Magi, of the pre-Vedic Buddhists, of the
hierophants of the Egyptian Thoth or Hermes, and of the adepts of whatever
age and nationality, including the Chaldean kabalists and the Jewish nazars,
were identical from the beginning. When we use the term Buddhists, we do
not mean to imply by it either the exoteric Buddhism instituted by the
followers of Gautama-Buddha, nor the modern Buddhistic religion; but the
secret philosophy of Sakyamuni, which in its essence is certainly identical
with the ancient wisdom-religion of the sanctuary, the pre-Vedic Brahmanism.
(p. 143)
Already some time before our era, the adepts, except in India, had ceased to
congregate in large communities; but whether among the Essenes, or the
Neo-platonists, or, again, among the innumerable struggling sects born but
to die, the same doctrines, identical in substance and spirit, if not always
in form, are encountered. By Buddhism, therefore, we mean that religion
signifying literally the doctrine of wisdom, and which by many ages
antedates the metaphysical philosophy of Siddartha Sakyamuni." ISIS
II 142
"...the followers of Jesus evidently adhered to a sect which became a still
more exasperating thorn...It appeared as a heresy within another heresy;
for while the nazars of the olden time...were Chaldean kabalists, the adepts
of the new dissenting sect showed themselves reformers and innovators from
the first...The Essenes...were the converts of Buddhist missionaries who had
overrun Egypt, Greece, and even Jude at one time, since the reign of Asoka
the zealous propagandist; and while it is evidently to the Essenes that
belongs the honor of having had the Nazarene reformer, Jesus, as a pupil,
still the latter is found disagreeing with his early teachers on several
questions of formal observance. He cannot strictly be called an
Essene...neither was he a nazar, or Nazaria of the older sect...He is the
founder of the sect of the new nazars, and...a follower of the Buddhist
doctrine...what is self-evident is that he preached the philosophy of
Buddha-Sakyamuni. Denounced by the later prophets, cursed by the Sanhedrin,
the nazars--they were confounded with others of that name...they were
secretly, if not openly persecuted by the orthodox synagogue. It becomes
clear why Jesus was treated with such contempt from the first..."
ISIS II 132
"The motive of Jesus was evidently like that of Gautama-Buddha, to benefit
humanity at large by producing a religious reform which should give it a
religion of pure ethics; the true knowledge of God and nature having
remained until- then solely in the hands of the esoteric sects, and their
adepts. p. 137 - To assure ourselves that Jesus was a true Nazarene --
albeit with ideas of a new reform -- we must not search for the proof in the
translated Gospels, but in such original versions as are accessible. ...
Thus, if we take in account all that is puzzling and incomprehensible in the
four Gospels, revised and corrected as they now stand, we shall easily see
for ourselves that the true, original Christianity, such as was preached by
Jesus, is to be found only in the so-called Syrian heresies. Only from them
can we extract any clear notions about what was primitive Christianity."
ISIS II 133
"... belief in reincarnation has nothing in it that can militate against the
teachings of Christ. We affirm, furthermore, that the great Nazarene Adept
distinctly taught it. So did Paul and the Synoptics, and nearly all the
earliest Church Fathers, with scarcely an exception, accepted it, while some
actually taught the doctrine." HPB ART I 172
"Jesus, the Adept we believe in, taught our Eastern doctrines, KARMA and
REINCARNATION foremost of all. When the so-called Christians will have
learnt to read the New Testament between the lines, their eyes will be
opened and -- they will see." HPB ART I 175
Question: "Do not the words and teachings of Jesus, taken in their esoteric
sense, point one (the) way to the Theosophic Path?"
"WQJ: Taken in the sense he intended the people to take them, they lead to
the way. Taken in the sense in which he desired his Disciples to receive
them, they are teachings upon the way. Taken in their esoteric sense -- as
he knew them -- they are the way. Were the wisdom of Egypt and India today
blotted out from both the seen and unseen worlds -- the true seeker would
find in his teachings, when rightly studied, all the teachings of Isis and
Buddha. As he received his instruction from Egypt, heired from India, it is
more than probable that esoterically his teachings are identical with both."
WQJ ART II 459
"...in common with Pythagoras and other hierophant reformers, Jesus divided
his teachings into exoteric and esoteric." ISIS II 147
"...what the Homilies do prove, is again our assertion that there was a
secret doctrine preached by Jesus to the few who were deemed worthy to
become its recipients and custodians. ... If we now recall the fact that a
portion of the Mysteries of the "Pagans" consisted of the ... aporrheta, or
secret discourses; that the secret Logia or discourses of Jesus contained in
the original Gospel according to Matthew, the meaning and interpretation of
which St. Jerome confessed to be "a difficult task" for him to achieve, were
of the same nature; and if we remember, further, that to some of the
interior or final Mysteries only a very select few were admitted; and that
finally it was from the number of the latter chat were taken all the
ministers of the holy "Pagan" rites, we will then clearly understand this
expression of Jesus quoted by Peter: "Guard the Mysteries for me and the
sons of my house," i.e. of my doctrine. And, if we understand it rightly,
we cannot avoid thinking that this "secret" doctrine of Jesus, even the
technical expressions of which are but so many duplications of the Gnostic
and Neo-platonic mystic phraseology --that this doctrine, we say, was based
on the same transcendental philosophy of the Oriental Gnosis as the rest of
the religions of those and earliest days. That none of the later Christian
sects, despite their boasting, were the inheritors of it, is evident from
the contradictions, blunders, and clumsy repatching of the mistakes of every
preceding century by the discoveries of the succeeding one." SIS II 191
Whether Jesus belonged to the sect of the Nazarenes or Essenes is difficult
to establish but Jesus preached the philosophy of Sakyamuni, the Buddha.
While Nazars of olden time were the Chaldean Kabalists, the Essenes were the
converts of Buddhist missionaries who had overrun the Middle East, Egypt,
Greece and even Judea at one time, since the reign of king Asoka [Glos. pp.
55-6], a zealous Buddhist, who sent out missionary Buddhist monks far and
wide -- even as far as Ireland it is rumored.
[see ISIS UNVEILED II 132 and 133]
The Essenes [Glos. p. 115] were Buddhists, and have the honour of the
Nazarene reformer, Jesus, as a pupil, yet, the latter is found disagreeing
with his early teachers on questions of formal observance. "He cannot
strictly be called a Nazar, or a nazaria of the older sect. What Jesus was,
may be found in the Codex Nazaraeus, in the unjust accusations of the
Bardesanian Gnostics." (we must note this hint and inquire into the Codex
and accounts of Bardesanian Gnostics). [Glos. pp. 226, 129, 50]
What does the Codex Nazareus [Glos., p. 86] say ? "Jesu is Nebu, the false
Messiah, the destroyer of the old orthodox religion." It is further said in
ISIS UNVEILED : He is the founder of the sect of the new nazars -- a
follower of the Buddhist doctrine. Nebu is from naba, meaning inspiration in
Hebrew, and Nebo is god of wisdom. "But Nebo is also Mercury, and Mercury is
Buddha in the Hindu monogram of planets. Moreover, we find the Talmudists
holding that Jesus was inspired by the genius of Mercury."
[Bodha - Wisdom. Glos. p. 226]."
He preached the philosophy of Buddha--Sakhyamuni. He belonged to one of
these sects who were cursed by the Sanhendrin and was secretly persecuted by
the orthodox.
Both in the KEY TO THEOSOPHY and ISIS UNVEILED we see parallels drawn
between the two great Reformer--Teachers : Jesus and Gautama Buddha. [see
ISIS UNVEILED II p. 133] It is said that both of them had the same
motive: 1. to reform the current popular Jewish religion, and, 2.
teaching pure Ethics, the true teaching having been concealed as an
exclusive property of certain esoteric sects.
ISIS UNVEILED II p. 136 and 137 -- an account is given of how
Iranaeus manipulated the Gospels to make it appear that
(a) Jesus did not belong to the sect of Nazarenes, the school of John the
Baptist, and
(b) that his appellation Nazarene is derived from the fact that his father
's residence was at Nazareth, and not because he belonged to the sect of
Nazarenes.
ISIS UNVEILED II p. 127 We are given a clue that Jesus was a true
Nazarene. With ideas of reform, we must not look for evidence in the
Gospels, which are fabrications, but seek in the true original Christianity
-- the remnants of the Gnostics. H P B writs: "Thus, if we take into
account all that is puzzling and incomprehensible in the four Gospels,
revised and corrected as they now stand, we shall easily see for ourselves
that the true, original Christianity, such as was preached by Jesus, is to
be found in the so-called Syrian heresies. Only from them can we extract any
clear notions about what was primitive Christianity".
ISIS UNVEILED II p. 144. Jesus belonged to and received initiation from
Nazarenes in the desert and separated himself from them and became an
independent wandering Nazaria -- a travelling therapeutae, a healer.
Here we see parallel between Gautama Buddha and Jesus. The former received
initiation from Brahmin Initiates and learnt all from them, and seeing that
the great life-giving truths were withheld by this proud and exclusive caste
from the masses, he separated himself from his teachers and began preaching
pure ethics and the non-violent life to despised out-castes, servants,
villagers, and pariahs.
ISIS UNVEILED II p. 144 "Both Jesus and St. John the Baptist
preached the end of the Age ; which proves their knowledge of the secret
computation of the priests and Kabalists, who with the chief of the Essene
communities alone had the secret of the duration of the cycles. The latter
were kabalists and theurgists." We are told that the meaning of the
division of time into ages is esoteric, and Buddhistic. The uninitiated
Christians never understood this, and accepted the words of Jesus literally,
believing the world would end abruptly.
ISIS UNVEILED II p. 145 : Virtues such as renunciation, charity,
non-violence, etc., taught by Jesus were practiced by both Essnes and
Nazarenes. Christ was a teacher of 'metempsychoses' or reincarnation --
repeating the Essenean teachings. The Essenes were Pythagoreans in their
doctrines and habits. Jesus spoke in parables and metaphors that can be
traced to the Essenes and Nazarenes.
ISIS UNVEILED II p.147 : Like Pythagorean-Essenean methods Jesus
divided his teachings into the exoteric and the esoteric, and divided his
followers into "neophytes," "brethren" and the "perfect." "But his career at
least as a public Rabbi, was of a too short duration tallow him to establish
a regular school of his own ; and with the exception, perhaps, of John, it
does not seem that he had initiated any other apostle."
ISIS UNVEILED II p. 148 : Sadducees (Zadokites) accused and crucified
Jesus for practicing the magic of Egyptians.
"... Talmudist says, in substance, the following: Jesus was thrown in
prison, and kept there forty days; then flogged as a seditious rebel; then
stoned as a blasphemer in a place called Lud, and finally allowed to expire
upon a cross. "All this," explains Levi, "because he revealed to the people
the truths which they (the Pharisees) wished to bury for their own use. He
had divined the occult theology of Israel, had compared it with the wisdom
of Egypt, and found thereby the reason for a universal] religious
synthesis." ISIS II 202
[A similar description is given in H.P.B.'s Theosophical Articles, Vol. III,
pp. 180-181 ]
"...Jesus, whether of Nazareth or Lud,* was a Chrestos, as undeniably as
that he never was entitled to the appellation of Christos, during his
life-time and before his last trial.
*. "Lud" or Lydda, reference is made here to the Rabbinical tradition in the
Babylonian Gemara, called SEPHER TOLDOTH JESHU, about Jesus being the son of
one named Pandira, and having lived a century earlier than the era called
Christian, namely, during the reign of the Jewish king Alexander Jannaeus
and his wife Salome, who reigned from the year 106 to 79 B.C. Accused by the
Jews of having learned the magic art in Egypt, and of having stolen from the
Holy of Holies the Incommunicable Name, Jehoshua (Jesus) was put to death by
the Sanhedrin at Lud. He was stoned and then crucified on a tree, on the
eve of Passover. The narrative is ascribed to the Talmudist authors of
"Sota" and "Sanhedrin," p.19, Book of Zechiel." Isis Unveiled, II.
201
ISIS UNVEILED II p. 150 : Here Jesus is shown to be a real historical
character, a great reformer.
"All this points to the fact, that except a handful of self-styled
Christians who subsequently won the day, all the civilized portion of the
pagan world who knew of Jesus honoured him as a philosopher an adept whom
they placed on the same level with Pythagoras and Apollonius. Whence such a
veneration on their part for a man, were he simply, as represented by the
Synoptics, a poor, unknown Jewish carpenter from Nazareth ? As an incarnated
God there is no single record of him on this earth capable of withstanding
the critical examination of science ; as one of the greatest reformers, an
inveterate enemy of every theological dogmatism, a persecutor of bigotry, a
teacher of one of the most sublime codes of ethics, Jesus is one of the
grandest and most clearly-defined figures on the panorama of human
history...." I U II p. 150
ISIS UNVEILED II p. 152 : Early Nazarenes believed Jesus to have been
over-shadowed by the Divine and that its influence waned when he was on the
cross.
'THEOSOPHIST' for March 1883, has an article on the "Real Jesus." There it
states that Jesus was never a historical personage but a myth built on the
historical Jeshu of Lydda -- a Jewish Adept who lived from 120 to 70 BC, and
that the real founder of Christianity was St. Paul.
Jesus was also known as Ben Panthera [also Ben PANDERA] (son of Panthera)
[Glos. p 248, I U II p. 201, H P B Articles III 173].
ISIS UNVEILED II 135 :- Jesus is there said to be over 40 years of age,
according to Kabalisits, when he arrived at Jerusalem.
For the origin of non-existent Jesus of the Gospels we must turn to accounts
of the Gnostic sect of Marcion. [ Glos. p. 207]
I U II p. 137 - We are told, "To assure ourselves that Jesus was a
true Nazarene-- albeit with ideas of a new reform--we must not search for
the proof in the translated Gospels, but in such original versions as are
accessible...Thus, if we take into account all that is puzzling and
incomprehensible in the four Gospels, revised and corrected as they now
stand, we shall easily see for ourselves that the true, original
Christianity, such as was preached by Jesus, is to be found only in the
so-called Syrian heresies. Only from them can we extract any clear notions
about what was primitive Christianity."
Who were the Syrian Gnostics ?
They are early sects founded by Marcion and Bardesanes. Hence it would be
highly profitable to study whatever is available of these two sects and
their philosophy. C. W. King recalls (GNOSTICS AND THEIR REMAINS) that
according to tradition they were of Persian origin and Magians by religious
training. In I U II 157-60 and 161-164 and in the Glossary more
information is available.
Hers is a brief summary of these references :
SYRIAN GNOSTICS
Gnostic doctrines held that Christ did not and cannot ever die but only the
bodily form which he had occupied died. But the Church regards this as a
heresy.
Gnostics taught the doctrine of Maya--Illusion, of the Real and the Unreal,
as Buddhists and Vedantins do. "Thus Christos, as a unity, is but an
abstraction : a general idea representing the collective aggregation of the
numberless spirit-entities, which are the direct emanations of the infinite,
invisible, incomprehensible FIRST CAUSE--the individual spirits of men."
I U II p. 159
Orthodox Christians called the Gnostics 'Illusionists' for believing that
Christ did not and never could die. Gnosis was an offshoot of Buddhism and
held the same metaphysical ideas. They made a clear distinction between
Christos and the illusionary Jesus.
Christos was for them what it is for Theosophists -- the Higher Manas, Ego,
Son of the Universal Mind, MANASA-PUTRA, the Vedic VISWAKARMAN, who
sacrificed himself to himself [his Higher Self to serve the Lower Self, and
thus to redeem the worlds]. [ see S D II 167]
Christos or Christ--Krishna is explained as: ".the incarnating Egos have
taken upon themselves, voluntarily and knowingly, the burden of all the
future personalities. Thence it is easy to see that it is neither Mr. A nor
Mr. B, nor any of the personalities that periodically clothe the
Self-sacrificing Ego, which are real sufferers, but verily the innocent
Christos in us."
Transactions of Blavatsky Lodge, p. 68. [ B: CW Vol. X ]
VICARIOUS ATONEMENT
The Church dogma of Vicarious Atonement arose from the mystico-metaphysical
doctrine that Jesus died on the cross to save the world. This imposed as
dogma and enforced by the Church is productive of immorality (another can
take our blame) and this is the source of much evil in society.
THE FIRST SON OF GOD
Gnostics held the old theosophical doctrine that described Christ as the
Logos, the first emanation from the invisible ABSOLUTE [the God-Head]
manifesting itself as tangible in Spirit. It is the same as the Greek Logos,
the Hebrew Messiah, the Latin Verbum, the Hindu Viraj -- they are viewed
metaphysically as "collective entities, flames detached from the one eternal
centre of Light."
(I U 1 p. 59).
In the majority of mankind this Christos [the HIGHER SELF] is latent. It
only overshadows the mortal, (which are its radiations [Rays] on earth, but
also, actively manifesting in such god-like figures as the Buddha, Jesus,
Krishna, etc., because all these succeeded earlier in uniting themselves
permanently with their divine prototype, their "Father in Heaven."
Gnostic sects held this view of Christ, and of the perfectibility of all
men, which the ambitious, ignorant Church Fathers sought to destroy and
declared, as "pre-existence" to be anathema.
SAGES and WISE MEN
Concerning the Knowers of the Wisdom of the Universe, We find H P B wrote:
"Their spiritual visions, real explorations by, and through, physical and
spiritual senses untrammeled by blind flesh, were systematically checked and
compared one with the other, and their nature sifted. All that was not
corroborated by unanimous and collective experience was rejected, while that
only was recorded as established truth which, in various ages, under
different climes, and throughout an untold series of incessant observations,
was found to agree and receive constantly further corroboration."
[Key, p. 85]
"Let no man set up a popery instead of Theosophy, as this would be suicidal
and has ever ended most fatally" has been the plea of H.P.B. to students.
( "Five Messages to American Theosophists" from H. P. Blavatsky. First
Message).
Students are invited to seek for and make their own in-depth study for of
all the keys H.P.B. gives out in her books: ISIS UNVEILED, SECRET DOCTRINE,
and other of her numerous articles pertaining to the roots of Christianity,
the pagan origins of Church rituals and dogmas ; of those Keys, we might
mention: the Anthropological, Mystical, Historical, Astrological,
Astronomical, Metaphysical, Cosmogonical, Psychical, Physiological,
Numerical, Ethnological Keys she has furnished in respect to both Old and
New Testaments, especially, the Book of Genesis, the Gospels and the
Revelations, and some Kabalistic texts.
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