“All the legends of the creation, the fall of man and the resultant deluge, belong to universal history, and are no more the property of the Israelites than that of any other nation. What specially belongs to them, kabalists excepted, are the disfigured details of every tradition. The Genesis of Enoch is by far anterior to the books of Moses, and Guillaume Postel has presented it to the world, explaining the allegories as far as he dared; but the groundwork is still unexposed. For the Jews, the Book of Enoch is as canonical as the Mosaic books; and if the Christians accepted the latter as an authority, we do not see why they should reject the former as an apocrypha.
No more can the age of one than that of the other be determined with anything like certainty. At the time of the separation, the Samaritans recognized only the books of Moses and that of Joshua, says Dr. Jost. In 168 B.C., Jerusalem had its temple plundered, and all the sacred books were destroyed; therefore, the few manuscripts that remained were to be found only among the “teachers of tradition.” The kabalistic Tanaim, and their initiates and prophets had always practiced its teachings in common with the Canaanites, the Hamites, Midianites, Chaldeans, and all other nations. The story of Daniel is proof of it.
There was a sort of Brotherhood, or Freemasonry among the kabalists scattered all over the world, since the memory of man; and, like some societies of the Mediaeval Masonry of Europe, they called themselves Companions and Innocents. It is a belief, founded on knowledge, among the kabalists, that no more than the Hermetic rolls are the genuine sacred books of the seventy-two elders (books which contained the “Ancient Word”) lost, but that they have all been preserved from the remotest times among secret communities. Emanuel Swedenborg says as much, and his words are based, he says, on the information he had from certain spirits, who assured him that “they performed their worship according to this Ancient Word.” “Seek for it in China”, adds the great seer, “peradventure you may find it in Great Tartary!” Other students of occult sciences have had more than the word of “certain spirits” to rely upon in this special case they have seen in books.
We must choose, therefore, perforce between two methods, either to accept the Bible exoterically or esoterically. Against the former we have the following facts: That, after the first copy of the Book of God has been edited and launched on the world by Hilkiah, this copy disappears, and Ezra has to make a new Bible, which Judas Maccabeus finishes; that when it was copied from the horned letters into square letters, it was corrupted beyond recognition; that the Masorah completed the work of destruction; that, finally, we have a text, not 900 years old, abounding with omissions, interpolations, and premeditated perversions; and that, consequently, as this Masoretic Hebrew text has fossilized its mistakes, and the key to the “Word of God” is lost, no one has a right to enforce upon so-called “Christians”, the divagations of a series of hallucinated and, perhaps, spurious prophets, under the warranted and untenable assumption that the author of it was the “Holy Ghost” in propria personae.”
H. P. Blavatsky
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