| There was also a god named Himavata, which is Sanskrit and means “snowy” or Himaraja “king of snow.” He was the ruler of the Himalaya Kingdom of Ancient India, which finds mention in the epic Mahabharata. Himavat had a daughter Ganga, the river goddess, as well as Ragini and Parvati, the wife of Shiva. His wife and queen consort is Vedic Menavati, the daughter of Mount Meru. (33) Here is what Madam Blavatski has to say regarding “Meru,” extracted from The Secret Doctrine: “The ‘Mountain of God’ means the ‘Mountain of the Gods’ or Meru, whose representative in the Fourth Race was Mount Atlas, the last form of one of the divine Titans, so high in those days that the ancients believed that the heavens rested on its top. Did not Atlas assist the giants in their war against the gods? (Hyginus). Another version shows the fable as arising from the fondness of Atlas, son of Iapetus and Clymene, for astronomy, and from his dwelling for that reason on the highest mountain peaks. The truth is that Atlas, “the mountain of the gods,” and also the hero of that name, are the esoteric symbols of the Fourth Race, and his seven daughters, the Atlantides, are the symbols of its Seven Sub-races. Mount Atlas, according to all the legends, was three times as high as it is now; having sunk at two different times. It is of a volcanic origin, and therefore the voice the secret doctrine within Ezekiel says: ‘I will bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee,’ etc.” (34) What she has done here is to confound a sacred mountain in the Himalayas with Atlas, the hero, first of all. Next, she mixes it and ties it to the Titans, or Giants, and then brings in an entirely new mountain, Mount Atlas, which exists in Africa, and creates a story about “Atlantis,” then associates the mountain with a volcano and the “internal fire” of “soma” with the volcano fire. This is just a major misappropriation of iconography and characteristics and for what purpose? It’s called, dear readers, “myth-making.” The “Prophets” of the New Age are the mythmakers of today. One of them, who is a follower of Blavatsky even goes by the name Elizabeth Claire Prophet. Madam H.P. Blavatsky is known as one of the greatest intellectual spiritualists of the 20th century. She is responsible for many books on the “occult sciences,” such as The Secret Doctrine and Isis Unveiled, which seemed to be shallow esotericism and didn’t get to the true meaning of the “Mysteries.” In his book on Madam Blavatsky and the Book of Dzyan, Tim Maroney investigates Blavatsky’s background extensively to determine exactly what transpired in her life. The book is very insightful, and I quote two passages that I feel are noteworthy: “There is no evidence that Blavatsky ever entered Tibet, which at the time was a closed country. Its climate and terrain have always made it inaccessible even to the most capable adventurer. In any case, this was (according to her official biography) the period of her life during which she would have seen the The Book of Dzyan and learned its ancient language, Senzar, “the secret sacerdotal tongue, from the words of Divine Beings, who dictated it to the Sons |
of Light, in Asia, at the very beginning of our Fifth Race.” (35) Furthermore, Maroney writes, based on his research, in his opinion: “She was an enlightened charlatan, a trickster teacher of foolish wisdom, the protagonist and antagonist alike of the weird tales she made of her life. Blavatsky was a truly hermetic character, and many more people today than realize it are under her spell.” (36) According to Frawley, a perpetrator of Blavatsky’s fantasies, the Sanskrit language can be traced to Hawaiians and Polynesians, and he even mentions that they have tales of Lemuria: “The Polynesian people possess a mantric language much like Sanskrit. The Hawaiian language itself appears to have many roots in common with Sanskrit. The cultures were probably based on that of east and south India. Polynesians relate their culture to Lemuria or Mu, a Pacific continent said to have been the culture of a previous World Age, like Atlantis destroyed by a flood. India appears to have been part of Lemuria as well.” (37) Like Prophet and Blavatsky, Frawley appears to be a mythmaker as well. Hyperboreans & Arimaspians In the words of Carl Ruck, a well-respected professor of Classical Studies at Boston University: “Now the Hyperboreans no longer existed in this world. They were a construct of mythopoeia, the remembrance of the homeland in the Asiatic high plateau from which the Indo-Europeans with their original fungal Soma sacrament had migrated. If one were to trace the route for the transference of the sacred offering from tribe to tribe on its route to Delos, the first historically documented people beyond the further realms of mythical imagination would have been the Scythians, and it is from them that the actual offering must have originated, as it materialized into an actual plant from the fantasies of mythical tradition.” (38) The origin of the story of the “one-eyed” god who has given up his eye for knowledge, according to Crowley, originates not from the Norse mythology of Odin but from one or more early Saive saints, one called Kannapa and the other, a Buddhist siddha called Kanhapa. Both of these “holy” people are said to have lost an eye in exchange for wisdom. (39) (33) W. J. Wilkins (2003). Hindu Gods and Goddesses. Courier Dover Publications. Page 287; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himavat (34) The Secret Doctrine, p. 494-95 (35) From The Secret Doctrine, vol. 1, p. xliii. p. 18; The Book of Dzyan, Edited and Introduced by Tim Maroney, 2000, Chaosium Inc. (36) The Book of Dzyan, p. 69 (37) Gods, Sages, Kings, p. 296 (38) Sacred Mushrooms of the Goddess, Secrets of Eleusis, Carl Ruck, Ronin Publishing, 2006, p. 177 (39) Secret Drugs of Buddhism, p. 147 |