The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1889-03-24

no sooner is one of these overcome by u more
or less ingenious hypothesis, than ten more
difficulties are forthwith discovered behind
the one disposed Of" So much for the oc-
cult stage of creation, which occupied 800
OOO,0OO years in development, the primordial
period lasting III, 200 900 years, the primary
l0S, 0io, 600, the secondary 80, 10000, the ter
tiary 1890, 900, and the quaternary 100000
years. Daring the primordial epoch the di-
vine men, the 'Crcators' and progcnitors
existed; during the primary the two and a
half races OF Creators, during the secondary,
the third race; during the tertiary the third
race almost utterly disappeared, carried
away by the fearful geological cataclysms
OF the secondary age, leaving behind II but
a few hybrid races, and the fourth born
millions Of years before the cataclysm per
ishea during what scientists classify as the
Mioccne period, when the 9th root four
Aryan race) had already 1000, 600 years of
independent existence. How much older is
IL from It's origin-who knowsG As the Ellis
t%orical' period has begun, with the Indian
Aryans, with their Vcdas for their multi
tudes and far earlier In the Esoteric Records,
II is useless TO establish here any parallels.
The Esotoric Doctrine teaches distinctly the
dogma OF the risings and falls OF civilization
and that idols and their worship died out
with the Fourth Race, until the survivors Of
the hybrid races OF the latter (Chinamcn,
African negroes, etc. gradually brought
the worship back. The Vedas counten-
ance no idols; all the modern Hindoo
writings do. NO more than Science does
estoeric philosophy admit design or special
creation. It rejects every claim to the mir
a%culous, and accepts nothing outside the
uniform and immutable laws Of Nature.
But Il teaches a cyclic law. a double stream
Of force Tor spirit) and Of matter, which,
starting from the natural center Of Being,
deyclopcs In It's cyclic progress and inccs-
saut transformations. . . IL Classics
the human body with the brute creation,
and maintains It In the path Of animal oyO-
luton from first 10 last. while science leaves
man a parcntlcss orphan, born Of sircs un-
known, an unspccializcd skeleton truly"
have thus attempted TO give the read.
er n very concise opitomo Of the Secret
Doctrine and some idea OF the strength
Of contrasting statement with which the
writer reaches out after tho expound-
crs Of Christianity and the scientists,
Darwin especially. but I canno give
even an idea Of the abstrusc and intri-
cate, almost labyr'nthian maze that one
must patiently study through IN order To
know what the progress and process Of ma
turo has been n to worlds aud a. to men.
II these two volumes are, as the writer Of
them claims mere subscriptions Of archaic
history and knowledge, they are marvellous
works, even from that assumption, aud
II they are the special creation Of the
writer, then they arr douhly M. hut al
course this last IL out of the question. They
are the latest results of lifetime u study
devoted n the csotcric doctrine, bearing. as
they d., internal evidence Of u source com.
mon 10 all the lesser works touching IN
some Of the subjects they treat OF that have
within the past ten years been placed before
the worldly J. G. Street, Laurence ELEPHANT,
4. T.. Sinnctt aud Others. No one will take
up those volumes without q feeling Of admit.
ration aud inspect for The patient industry
that Is evidenced on every pare. the deep In.
Prospective md philosophio power that h
displayed. thccomparisOnsan and conimsts with
science by which the writer seeks to make
good her claim for the superiority Of the
Secret Doctrine ns an exposition of lie In
every one Of IT, phases and the perseverance
that resulted Ia n work that however II may
be viewed from tho standpoint II education
or religion, Il one that entities Mime
Blavaisky Ia the respect u thinking people.
To those who are curious In regard Ia occult
knowledge the Secret Doctrine will be- a
mine of information, aud 10 those who are
already given 10 II will be especially hc
ccpiablc as the ~proioundcst, ablcst and most
exhaustive work In our language upon a
subject Of which they have hitherto hal the
mem tailings and which il here prrsc ntcd
as fully ~ the modern mind can grasp itand
by the one living person who, above oil
others, eau speak 10 Thcosophists the
world over with the highest authori.
~. Nine. Blayatsky has had an extra.
ordinary experience within the past ten
years, since she left New York. She has
travelled many thIusand miles has been an
inccsSant worker in the cause 81 Thcosophy.
aud has broken down many burners aud
overcome many prcjudiccs, oven ln India,
the homc 81 the csotcric doctrine. but she
has done nothing moro crcliiablc. speaking
from her own standpoint than these two
volumes Of Secret Doctrine"
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