The Secret Doctrine: The Synthesis of Science Religion and Philosophy. Vol. I. Cosmogenesis

95 The Ogdoad and the Heptad 99 The Stellar Sons of Light " io3 STANZA V.-FOHAT : THE CHILI) OF THE SEPTENARY HIERARCHIES 1°6 The Fiery Whirlwind and the Primordial Seven Io6 They Produce Fohat Io8 The Correlation of the " Gods "... [...] THE GLOBES AND THE MONADS 170 The Lunar Chain and the Earth Chain 172 The Earth the Child of the Moon 173 Classification of the Monads... [...] p. 27) every work of a character that might have led the profane to the ultimate discovery and comprehension of some of the mysteries of the Secret Science was owing to the combined efforts of the members of the Brotherhoods diligently searched for. [...] If one turns to the ancient literature of the Semitic religions to the Chaldean Scriptures the elder sister and instructress if not the fountaihead of the Mosaic Bible the basis and starting-point of Christianity what do the scholars find ? To perpetuate the memory of the ancient religions of Babylon ; to record the vast cycle of astronomical observtions of the Chaldean Magi ; to justif [...] That they do so and to the full extent of their mental powers is shown by the absurd attempts of late to prove that the whole Puranic story about Chrishna was plagiarized by the Brahmins from the Bible ! But the facts cited by the Oxford Professor in his Lectures on the " Science of Religion " concerning the now famous interpolations for the benefit and later on to the sorrow of Col.