“One who has rendered an esoteric reading of symbolism the greatest service, by discovering the chief key to ancient Hebrew symbology, interwoven strongly with metrology – one of the keys of the once universal mystery language – J. Ralston Skinner, of Cincinnati, the author of the Key to the Hebrew – Egyptian Mystery in the Source of Measures, has our thanks.
A mystic and Kabbalist by nature, he has labored for many years in this direction, and his efforts were certainly crowned with great success. In his words:
“The writer is quite certain that there was an ancient language which modernly and up to this time appears to have been lost, the vestiges of which, however, abundantly exist….
The peculiarity of this language was that it could be contained in another, concealed and not to be perceived, save through the help of special instruction; letters and syllabic signs possessing at the same time the powers or meaning of numbers, of geometrical shapes, pictures, or ideographs and symbols, the designed scope of which would be determinatively helped out by parables in the shape of narratives or parts of narratives; while also it could be set forth separately, independently, and variously, by pictures, in stone work, or in earth construction.
To clear up an ambiguity as to the term language: Primarily the word means the expression of ideas by human speech; but, secondarily, it may mean the expression of ideas by any other instrumentality.
This old language is so composed in the Hebrew text, that by the use of the written characters, which uttered shall be the language first defined, a distinctly separated series of ideas may be intentionally communicated, other than those ideas expressed by the reading of the sound signs.
This secondary language sets forth, under a veil, series of ideas, copies in imagination of things sensible, which may be pictured, and of things which may be classed as real without being sensible;
as, for instance: the number 9 may be taken as reality, though it has no sensible existence, so also a revolution of the moon, as separate from the moon itself by which that revolution has been made, may be taken as giving rise to, or causing a real idea, though such a revolution has no real substance.” (Skinner)
All this may have been the experience of the PAST, and these strange records lie embedded in the “Mystery language” of the prehistoric ages, the language now called SYMBOLISM.”
H. P. Blavatsky
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