“Turn wherever we will, from the prophets to the Apocalypse, and we will see the biblical writers constantly using the numbers three, four, seven, and twelve. And yet we have known some partisans of the Bible who maintained that the Vedas were copied from the Mosaic books! The Vedas, which are written in Sanscrit, a language whose grammatical rules and forms, as Max Muller and other scholars confess, were completely established long before the days when the great wave of emigration bore it from Asia all over the Occident, are there to proclaim their parentage of every philosophy, and every religious institution developed later among Semitic peoples. And which of the numerals most frequently occur in the Sanscrit chants, those sublime hymns to creation, to the unity of God, and the countless manifestations of His power? ONE, THREE, and SEVEN. Read the hymn by Dirghatamas.
“TO HIM WHO REPRESENTS ALL THE GODS.”
“The God here present, our blessed patron, our sacrificer, has a brother who spreads himself in mid-air. Ther exists a third Brother whom we sprinkle with our libations. …It is he whom I have seen master of men and armed with seven rays.”
And again:
“Seven Bridles aid in guiding a car which has but ONE wheel, and which is drawn by a single horse that shines with seven rays. The wheel has three limbs, an immortal wheel, never-wearying, whence hang all the worlds.”
“Sometimes seven horses drag a car of seven wheels, and seven personages mount it, accompanied by seven fecund nymphs of the water.”
And the following again, in honor of the fire-god – Agni, who is so clearly shown but a spirit subordinate to the ONE God.
Ever ONE, although having three forms of double nature (androgynous) – he rises! And the priests offer to God, in the act of sacrifice, their prayers which reach the heavens, borne aloft by Agni.”
Is this a coincidence, or, rather, as reason tells us, the result of the derivation of many national cults from one primitive, universal religion? A mystery for the uninitiated, the unveiling of the most sublime (because correct and true) psychological and physiological problems for the initiate. Revelations of the personal spirit of man which is divine because that spirit is not only the emanation of the ONE Supreme God, but is the only God man is able, in his weakness and helplessness, to comprehend – to feel within himself. This truth the Vedic poet clearly confesses, when saying:
“The Lord, Master of the Universe and full of wisdom, has entered with me (into me) – weak and ignorant – and has formed me of himself in that place where the spirits obtain, by the help of Science, the peaceful enjoyment of the fruit, as sweet as ambrosia.”
Whether we call this fruit an “apple” from the Tree of Knowledge, or the pippala of the Hindu poet, it matters not. It is the fruit of esoteric wisdom. Our object is to show the existence of a religious system in India for many thousands of years before the exoteric fables of the Garden of Eden and the Deluge had been invented. Hence the identity of doctrines. Instructed in them, each of the initiates of other countries became, in his turn, the founder of some great school of philosophy in the West.
Who of our Sanscrit scholars have ever felt interested in discovering the real sense of the following hymns, palpable as it is:
“Pippala, the sweet fruit of that tree upon which come spirits who love the science (?), and where the gods produce all marvels. This is a mystery for him who knows not the Father of the world.”
Or this one again:
“These stanzas bear at their head a title which announces that they are consecrated to the Viswadevas (that is to say, to all the gods). He who knows not the Being whom I sing in all his manifestations, will comprehend nothing of my verses; those who do know HIM, are not strangers to this reunion.”
This refers to the reunion and parting of the immortal and mortal parts of man. “The immortal Being”, says the preceding stanza, is in the cradle of the mortal Being, These two eternal spirits go and come everywhere; only some men know the one without knowing the other”, (Dirghatamas).
Who can give a correct idea of HIM of whom the Rig-Veda says:
“That which is One the wise call it in divers manners.”
That One is sung by the Vedic poets in all its manifestations in nature; and the books considered “childish and foolish”, teach how at will to call the beings of wisdom for our instruction. They teach, as Porphyry says: “a liberation from all terrene concerns…a flight of the alone, to the ALONE.””
H. P. Blavatsky
The Mark Of God: Understanding Your "I AM Presence" 