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natural reaction which is sure to follow: crass materialism will be the consequence and the result
of centuries of blind faith, unless the loss of old ideals is replaced by other ideals, unassailable,
because universal, and built on the rock of eternal truths, instead of the shifting sands of human
fancy. Pure immateriality must replace, in the end, the terrible anthropomorphism of those ideals
in the conceptions of our modern dogmatists. Otherwise, why should Christian dogmas -- the
perfect counterpart of those belonging to other exoteric and pagan religions -- claim any
superiority? The bodies of all these were built upon the same astronomical and physiological (or
phallic) symbols. Astrologically, every religious dogma the world over, may be traced to, and
located in, the Zodiacal signs and the Sun. And so long as the science of comparative symbology
or any theology has only two keys to open the mysteries of religious dogmas -- and these two
only very partially mastered, how can a line of demarcation be drawn, or any difference made
between the religions of say, Chrishna and Christ, between salvation through the blood of the
"first-born primeval male" of one faith, and that of the "only begotten Son" of the other, far
younger, religion?
Study the Vedas; read even the superficial, often disfigured writings of our great Orientalists, and
think over what you will have learnt. Behold Brahmans, Egyptian Hierophants, and Chaldean
Magi, teaching several thousand years before our era that the gods themselves had been only
mortals (in previous births) until they won their immortality by offering their blood to their
Supreme God or chief. The Book of the Dead, teaches that mortal man "became one with the
gods through an interflow of a common life in the common blood of the two." Mortals gave the
blood of their first-born sons in sacrifice to the Gods. In his Hinduism, p. 35, Professor Monier
Williams, translating from the Taitiriya Brahmana, writes: -- "By means of the sacrifice the gods
obtained heaven." And in the Tandya Brahmana: -- "The lord of creatures offered himself a
sacrifice for the gods." . . . And again in the Satapatha Brahmana: -- "He who, knowing this,
sacrifices with the Purusha-medha or the sacrifice of the primeval male, becomes everything."
Whenever I hear the Vedic rites discussed and called "disgusting human sacrifices," and
cannibalism (sic.), I feel always inclined to ask, where's the difference? Yet there is one, in fact;
for while Christians are compelled to accept the allegorical (though, when understood, highly
philosophical) drama of the New Testament Crucifixion, as that of Abraham and Isaac literally
(43), Brahmanism -- its philosophical schools at any rate -- teaches its adherents, that this
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(pagan) sacrifice of the "primeval male" is a purely allegorical and philosophical symbol. Read
in their dead-letter meaning, the four gospels are simply slightly altered versions of what the
Church proclaims as Satanic plagiarisms (by anticipation) of Christian dogmas in Pagan
religions. Materialism has a perfect right to find in all of them the same sensual worship and
"solar" myths as anywhere else. Analyzed and criticized superficially and on its dead-letter face,
Professor Joly ("Man before Metals," pp. 189-190) finding in the Svastika, the crux ansata, and
the cross pure and simple, mere sexual symbols -- is justified in speaking as he does. Seeing that
"the father of the sacred fire (in India) bore the name of Twashtri, that is the divine carpenter
who made the Swastika and the Pramantha, whose friction produced the divine child Agni, in
Latin Ignis; that his mother was named Maya; he himself, styled Akta (anointed, or Christos)
after the priests had poured upon his head the spirituous soma and on his body butter purified by
sacrifice"; seeing all this he has a full right to remark that:
The close resemblance which exists between certain ceremonies of the worship of
Agni and certain rites of the Catholic religion may be explained by their common
origin. Agni in the condition of Akta, or anointed, is suggestive of Christ; Maya,
Mary, his mother; Twashtri, St. Joseph, the carpenter of the Bible.
Has the professor of the Science Faculty of Toulouse explained anything by drawing attention to
that which anyone can see? Of course not. But if, in his ignorance of the esoteric meaning of the
allegory he has added nothing to human knowledge, he has on the other hand destroyed faith in
many of his pupils in both the "divine origin" or Christianity and its Church and helped to
increase the number of Materialists. For surely, no man, once he devotes himself to such
comparative studies, can regard the religion of the West in any light but that of a pale and
enfeebled copy of older and nobler philosophies.
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