“Professor Müller and Jacolliot may have ever so great claims to erudition, and be ever so familiar with Sanscrit and other ancient Oriental languages, but both lack the key to the thousand and one mysteries of the old secret doctrine and its philosophy. Only, while the German philologist does not even take the trouble to look into this magical and “theological twaddle”, we find the French Indianist never losing an opportunity to investigate. Moreover, he honestly admits his incompetency to ever fathom this ocean of mystical learning.
In its existence he not only firmly believes, but throughout his works he incessantly calls the attention of science to its unmistakable traces at every step in India. Still, though the learned Pundits and Brahmans – his “revered masters” of the pagodas of Villenoor and Chelambrum in the Carnatic, as it seems, positively refused to reveal to him the mysteries of the magical part of the Agrouchada-Parikshai, and of Brahmatma’s triangle – he persists in the honest declaration that everything is possible in Hindu metaphysics, even to Kapila and Vyasa systems having been hitherto misunderstood. M. Jacolliot weakens his assertion immediately afterward with the following contradiction:
“We were one day inquiring of a Brahman of the Pagoda of Chelambrum, who belonged to the skeptical school of the naturalists of Vyasa, whether he believed in the existence of God. He answered us, smiling: ‘Ahem eva param Brahma’ – I am myself a god.
‘What do you mean by that?’
‘I mean that every being on earth, however humble, is an immortal portion of the immortal matter.’”
The answer is one which would suggest itself to every ancient philosopher, Kabalist, and Gnostic of the early days. It contains the very spirit of the Delphic and kabalistic commandment, for esoteric philosophy solved, ages ago, the problem of what man was, is, and will be. If persons believing the Bible verse which teaches that the “Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life”, reject at the same time the idea that every atom of this dust, as every particle of this “living soul”, contains “God” within itself, then we pity the logic of that Christian. He forgets the verses which precede the one in question. God blesses equally every beast of the field and every living creature, in the water as in the air, and He endows them all with life, which is a breath of His own Spirit, and the soul of the animal.
Humanity is Adam Kadmon of the “Unknown”, His microcosm, and His only representative on earth, and every man is a god on earth. We would ask this French scholar, who seems so unfamiliar with every sloka of the books of Manu, and other Vedic writers, the meaning of this sentence so well known to him: “Plants and vegetation reveal a multitude of forms because of their precedent actions; they are surrounded by darkness, but are nevertheless endowed with an interior soul, and feel equally, pleasure and pain.” (Manu, book 1).
If the Hindu philosophy teach the presence of a degree of soul in the lowest forms of vegetable life, and even in every atom in space, how is it possible that it should deny the same immortal principle to man? And if it once admits the immortal spirit in man, how can it logically deny the existence of the parent source – I will not say the first, but the eternal Cause? Neither rationalists nor sensualists, who do not comprehend Indian metaphysics should estimate the ignorance of Hindu metaphysicians by their own.”
H. P. Blavatsky
The Mark Of God: Understanding Your "I AM Presence" 