Madame Blavatsky on the Hidden Esotericism of the Bible

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky · Blavatsky Speaks Series · 10 pages

Ten pages from the chapter the Collected Writings call Old Wine in New Bottles, and the abstract on the first page states the whole position compactly. The Bible is a tale sublime in its morality and didactics — still, a tale and an allegory, whose fables are ingeniously concealed verities revealed only to those who hold a key to their inner meaning. Its older Jewish portions are described as a repertory of invented personages and its later additions as dark sayings and parables, so that the book is misleading to anyone ignorant of its esotericism.

The double claim that follows is the one the study is built to support: that read exoterically the Pentateuch is astrolatry and Sabaean worship pure and simple, and that read in the light of Eastern occultism the same text yields archaic science and astronomy to a remarkable degree. The historical argument supporting it concerns the Reformation: it is more than likely, she writes, that the Protestants of that period knew nothing of the true origin of Latin ecclesiasticism, nor probable that the Greek Church knew much more — the separation between the two having come at a time when the Latin Church was securing at any cost the alliance of educated and ambitious pagans, who were willing to assume the outward appearance of the new worship provided they kept their power.

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