Archaeology and Aryan Symbology Are the Enemies of Clerical Fraud

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky · Blavatsky Speaks Series · 51 pages

Fifty-one pages drawn from Isis Unveiled, volume II, chapter VI, pages 251 to 288, opened as usual in this series by an abstract of central ideas giving each position with its page number, so the file can be consulted as readily as read. The full title runs "Archaeology and Aryan symbology are the implacable enemies of clerical fraud and false pretences"; the shortened form is used here and on the section list.

The argument is that the spade and the comparative study of symbols between them make certain claims of exclusive revelation untenable, because they keep turning up the same emblems in older hands. It opens on the condition of the two disciplines it is about to use: science bereft of spiritual intuition and religion reduced to dogmatic theology are each, in the phrase repeated here, a corpse without a soul. A historical section follows on the fate of the Neoplatonists, with Hypatia given at some length — a pupil of Plutarch at the Athenian school, versed in theurgy, whose standing is said to have been built on immutable natural law where her opponent's rested on authority. From there the file turns to the symbols themselves. The ankh is treated as the figure of man, and its route into Christian use traced through the Gnostics and Kabbalists, who had the Tau from Egypt, with the Latin cross said to have come separately from India by way of Buddhist missionaries. The fish follows: Joshua read as Jesus, son of the fish-god; Vishnu issuing from the mouth of a fish with the lost Veda in his hands, reclining on the seven-headed serpent and moving over the primeval waters. A comparison of Vishnu's tenth avatar with Maitreya as the fifth Buddha closes that run. The last third is cosmological rather than archaeological — the One Infinite Essence alternately passive and active in the days and nights of Brahma, Parabrahman as framer of an abstract universe lying dormant in Divine Thought, and two diagrams of the chaotic and formative periods explained from the Brahmanical, Buddhistic and Chaldean standpoints together. A table excerpted from pages 266 to 271 of the same volume sits in the middle of the file. It ends with the series' suggested reading and the motto, she being dead, yet speaketh.

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