New-York,
[1877]
Friend
of my soul, Nadéjinka [my little Nadine]
Do
not be astonished that I write to you on paper which is not letter-paper. I do
this because I absolutely must speak to you very seriously; since the very day
of my getting your letter —and may the heavenly powers grant you happiness
because of it— I am thinking, thinking all the time and I have at last decided
to write to you the whole truth, such as it is.
I shall lay before you my whole
inner being: my soul, my heart, my brain — and then, come what come may. If you
understand me, then —thanks to God— fate will have favored me; if you do not
understand, if you get angry — that will grieve and trouble me.
In
the other world, in future life, where we
shall certainly meet, all will be cleared up and we shall know who is right
and who is wrong; but meanwhile, as we are both sincere and obey our conscience
and do not deceive anyone because of fear or cowardness, however much we might
be deceived in our calculations, our hopes, our beliefs, we nevertheless remain
honest people.
If you were Madame Ghan or that foolish Romonof, I should not
have spoken of these things. But you know yourself that you are
extra-intelligent and that you are really much more learned than I am, for your
learning is a solid emanation from your own brain and understanding and mine is
hereditary.
I
am but the reflection of an unknown bright light. However this may be, this
light has gradually been incorporated into me, it has been filtered into me, it
has, as it were, pierced through me; and, therefore, I cannot help myself that
all these ideas have come into my brain, into the depth of my soul; I am
sincere although perhaps I am wrong.
This
long preface is called forth, because you and your uncle, through goodness of
heart and family-feeling, wish to have two copies of my book Isis Unveiled. The first volume “Against
Exact Science” will no doubt interest you very much. But I fear for the second
volume “Against Theology and for Religion”.
I
know how sincere and devout you are, how clear and pure your faith is, and my
only hope is that you will understand that my books are not written against
religion, against the Christ, but against the cowardly hypocrisy of those who
murder, burn, kill in the name of the Almighty Son of God —even since the first
moment after His death on the Cross for the whole of humanity, for the sinners,
in particular for the fallen, for the heathens, for the fallen women and for
those w ho have left the straight road— and all in His Name!
Where is Truth? Where to find it?
Three
great, so-called Christian, Churches; in England, Germany and other Protestant
countries there are 232 sects, in America 176: everyone claims respect and
wishes it to be recognized that its own dogmas are true and those of the other
sects untrue.
“Where
is truth—what is it?” asked Pilate of the Christ, and that is 1877 years ago.
Where is it?
I,
poor sinner, asked and nowhere is it to be found. Everywhere are found deceit,
falsehood, ferocity — and the sad heritage of the Jewish Bible, which burdens
the Christians and by which half of the Christian world has stifled the
teachings of even the Christ.
Understand
me: here our orthodoxy does not come in. The book does not mention it. I have
refused once for all to analyze it, for I wish to keep at least one small
corner of my heart, where doubt does not work its way in — a feeling which I
put from me with all my strength.
The
orthodox populace is sincere; their faith may be blind, unintelligent, but that
faith leads the masses to the good. And though our priests are often
drunkards and thieves (idiots often) yet their faith is pure and can but lead
to the good.
The
Master admits this and He says that the only people in the world, whose
religion is not a speculation, are the orthodox people. As to our privileged
classes, let them go to the devil. They are the same hypocrites everywhere.
They do not believe in either God or devil, being full of nihilistic ideas and
materializing all that exists. There is no question of them, but of universal
religions.
What after all is the essence of all religion?
“Love
your neighbor as yourself.”
Are these not the words spoken by Jesus?
Has
He left behind even one single dogma, has He taught a single one of the
thousand articles of faith which the Church-fathers have invented afterwards?
Not one. On the Cross, He prayed for His enemies and, in His Name, as well as
in the name of Moloch, fifty to sixty million people have been thrown into the
fire and burnt.
He spoke against the Jewish Sabbath and purposely belittled it,
and here, in free America, fines and imprisonment are imposed for the violation
of the Sabbath, called “Sabbath-day”, although they have altered it to Sunday
(the day of the Resurrection); but what has been done?
“Saturne”
has been changed into “Sol”, Dies Solis,
day of the Sun and of Jupiter. At least with us Russians, Sunday reminds us of
the day of Resurrection (Voskressénité),
but with those heathenish
Protestants and Catholics, it is only the day of the Sun, “Sunday”.
St.
Paul clearly says that every one acts as he chooses: to one it is a day that
pleases, to another something else. St. Justinian the Martyr is absolutely opposed
to the observing of Sunday, because the heathens on that day observe the day of
Jupiter; and here people are put into prison.
If we believe in the New
Testament, then it is impossible to believe in the Old Testament. Jesus and the
Old Testament and the ancient books are in opposition to each other.
His
Sermon on the Mount (see the Gospel according to St. Mark) gives a
diametrically opposed teaching to the Ten Commandments of Sinai. On the Mount
of Sinai, in the books of Moses, it is said “a tooth for a tooth”, etc., and
“But I say unto you”, etc.
Is this not a revolt against the ancient
institutions of the Synagogue?
All
the Churches may be against me, mankind
may curse me, God, the great
invisible God, sees why I rebel against the teaching of the Church.
I shall
never believe that the absolutely pure personality of the Christ was the son of
the Jehovah of the Jews, of that wicked, cruel Jehovah, who expressly rouses
cruelty in the heart of the Pharaoh and, later, strikes him down for it; who
tempts the Jewish people, who tempts it personally and who, from behind the
clouds, hits them with stones like a Spanish bandit; who materializes himself
in the cleft of a rock.
If the Christ had believed in Jehovah, He would not
have been crucified. Has He ever, even once, pronounced His name?
[No]
Jehovah
is a mere national God of the Jews, and they would never have admitted that He
could have been the God of anyone except of the chosen people. They are
wonderful, the chosen people! Jehovah is simply Bacchus and it can be proved,
just as two and two make four. One of the names of Bacchus was Sabbaoth and El,
and Bacchus was Dionysos, Dio-Nysos, the God of Niza — that is the Mount of
Sinai, so that the Egyptians called Sinai, Niziel.
And what do we find in the
Bible?
“And
Moses built an altar on the mount and named it Jehova-Nizi.” (see Exodus from
Egypt, Exodus XVII-15).
We
find that all the names of Jehovah belong to heathen gods, all of them, even
the last. Solomon has no idea of Jehovah, and David has taken that name from
the Phoenicians. Yago was one of the four gods of the Kabiri — hidden gods who
took a part in all the mysteries.
The old Jewish nationality is a legend.
There has been no Jewish Nation until the second century B.C.; all their books
are apocryphal.
Where are the historic documents to prove that their books are
original?
Which is the first sacred Jewish book of note?
The
Septuagint. It
was translated by order of Ptolemy by seventy translators.
Who mentions it?
Only
Josephus the writer, who upholds the Jews with all his might and who is a great
liar.
Why is this story of the 70 translators never mentioned in any book,
neither by Greek writers, nor in any archives or documents?
Who better than the Greeks and Romans could
have made known the deeds of Ptolemy?
If
all the divines of the whole world united, yet they never would find in any
book, or in any record a single word on the “Jews as a nation”.
Who has ever heard it spoken of?
Herodotus,
the most exact writer, traveler, historian, whose every word, every indication
is now confirmed by archaeology, palaeology, philosophy and all the sciences,
was born in 484 B.C.; he travelled in Assyria and in Babylonia during the life
of Cyrus.
It
is only half a century after the transformation of Nabuchodonosor into a bull
by the prophet Daniel; during seven years that king bellowed as a bull; 42,000
Jews, under the guidance of Zorobabel, returned to Jerusalem (538 B.C.) after
their exile to build a temple.
Herodotus resided there for a few years; now,
he, who described so minutely and often with bothersome detail (see Book VI.
98) the reign of Nabuchodonosor (584 B.C.) after Jerusalem had been taken by
him, who wrote of Cyrus, Darius and Artaxerxes, does not allude to this transport
of the Jews, to the prophets, nor to any Jew who so ever. Except for a few
lines, where he mentions that the Syrians inhabiting Palestine, have learned
the practice of circumcision from the Egyptians — nothing more.
Is this possible?
An
event like the metamorphosis of a king into a bull by the chief of the Magians
(Daniel) would this not at least have been described by other historians as a
legend?
How
can one reconcile, if the chronology of the Bible, established by our scholars
and theologians is correct, that the prophet Ezekiel, who wrote in 605 B.C.
speaks, twice over, of Daniel as of an ancient sage — although Daniel had not
yet been born?
Why,
if Judah was a nation w here Solomon, David, Saul and all those had reigned, is
there now here in the world an ancient coin with a Hebrew inscription — that is
Hebrew coins, although
there are a number of Samaritan coins?
Would
the Jews, who hated the Samaritans, have consented to use the coins of their
enemies and would they not have coined their own money?
Coins,
thousands of years old, are found again and again; tombs of those, w ho have
lived before Moses, have been opened and some small indication is found
confirming their existence. But of the Jewish nation — nothing.
Neither
tombs, nor coins — nothing. It is as if all had evaporated and had disappeared
by magic. Only the Sacred Books remain (the God of which has been killed by
the Jew s) in which mankind must believe blindly.
But of such events as the
exodus from Egypt by nearly 3 million people (as compared to the 70 taken by
Jacob 150 years earlier —that means that they have multiplied quicker than red
herrings— think this out according to statistical law!) surely of such events
some trace would have been found on monuments for the dead, on tombs or in some
ancient scripts. And there is nothing — dead silence! Nowhere a hint, nowhere the slightest
confirmation!
Impossible!
And then as to the Scriptures — where is historical confirmation of their
existence 200 or even 150 years B.C.?
The
Hebrew language, that is the universal language, called old Hebrew, has never
existed; it is a language without a single original root; it is a language
composed from Greek, Arabic and Chaldean parts. I have proved this to Professor
Rawson (Yale College). Take any Hebrew word whatsoever, and I shall prove to
you that its root is Arabic, Greek or Chaldean. It is like a harlequin’s coat.
All
the biblical names are composed of foreign words and they indicate why they
have thus been composed. It is an Arabic-Ethiopean dialect with a mixture of
Chaldean; and the Chaldean comes from Sanskrit. It has now been proved that
Babylonia at one time was inhabitated by Brahmans and was a school for
Sanskrit.
The Akkadians are recognized by our Assyriologists, so it seems, (according
to Rawlinson) as coming from Armenia and taught the Magians a priestly
language, that is a kind of sacred language; they are simply the Aryans from
whom our Slavonic language has also come.
Here
is an example (excuse the diversion) of the Rig-Veda:
Dyaurvah pita prithvi mata somo bhrataditih svasa.
(Hymn
of the Mandalas to the Maruts. 1, 191-6)
Translated
it is:
"Heaven is your father; Earth, your mother;
Soma, your brother; Aditi, your sister."
This
is why it is ridiculous to demand to believe that the Hebrew manuscripts are
ancient revelations or the Word of God.
God
would never have written nor dictated anything which would give occasion at the
same time for the earth, created by Him, mankind, science, etc., to accuse Him
of falsehood. To believe absolutely
in the Jewish Scriptures and to believe at the same time in the Heavenly Father
of Jesus is absurd, it is worse — it is sacrilege.
If
the Father of Heaven and Earth, and the Father of the whole unlimited Universe
had had to write, He would not have allowed mankind to be obliged to accuse Him
of contra dictions, which are often without sense. 64'900 mistakes have been
actually pointed out in the Bible by a “revision” society and when these
mistakes had been corrected, as many contradictions were still found. This has
all been done by the Jewish Massorah.
Yes,
the most learned Rabbis have lost the key to their books and do not know how to
correct them. It is well known that the Jews from Tiberia constantly amended
their Bible, altering words and numbers, taking these from the Fathers of the
Christian Church or accusing them of the evil habit of falsifying the texts and
the chronology at every discussion, to defeat the opposing party. And that is
how they have made a mess of it. For we have no MSS. of the Old Testament
before the tenth century.
The Codex
of the Bodleian is considered to be the oldest. And w ho can guarantee its
exactness?
Tischendorf
has stated in his history, and has persuaded the whole of Europe to believe
him, that he has found in Sinai the so-called Codex of Sinai. And, as a matter of fact, two other scholars [one
of whom is our Theosophist] who have lived in Palestine during several years
and on the Mount of Sinai, are prepared to prove that such a Codex did not even exist in the library.
They
have made investigations during two years, they have visited all the hidden
places with a monk, w ho had lived in the country for 60 years and who had
known Tischendorf. And this monk has sworn that for years he has known every script,
every book, but that he never had heard that one spoken of.
It
is clear that this monk will be made to disappear and as to Tischendorf, the
Russian Government has simply deceived him with a falsehood. Out of 260 MSS.,
Hebrew, Greek, etc., of the Old and New Testaments, there are not two similar
ones. And is this to be wondered at?
The
books of Moses have been lost during several centuries. Suddenly Ezekiel finds
them back in the year 600 B.C. Solomon’s temple is destroyed and his people are
driven out . . . (II Kings XXIII) and again they all disappear.
Ezra
writes them down from memory (40 books) in 40 days in 425 B. C.; again they are
lost; Antiochus Epiphanus burns them all in 150 B.C.; once more, by a wonder,
they are found.
All
this is but a legend, there is not one historic fact.
Now comes the famous
Massorah.
Jehovah
is changed into Adonis and Adonais, with the help of the Massorites, and he
might as easily have been transformed through their wily processes into Ivan
Petrovitch as into Adonais. And at the same time their Cabalah teaches, as well
as Onkelos, the most famous Rabbi of Babylonia, that Jehovah is not God, but
that he is Nemro — a word which means Logos (the word).
Analyze
the word Iodhevau and you will have Adam and Eve, because Jehovah is the first
Adam (not the second), the chief of the creation of the world, not the earthly
Adam, but the first chief male and female Elohim [bard]. A man was created that
is an Adam Kadmon, fantastic, bi-sexual, whose name is composed of the letters
of Iod and of the three letters of Eve.
Jehovah,
the personification of sinful humanity — but enough of these Jewish fables!
(To
be concluded)
(Note:
letter addressed to Mademoiselle Nadine Fadeeff, who died at Odessa, cousin of
Madame Blavatsky. The French translation of the letter, which was in Russian,
was sent to Mr. Jinarajadasa by H.P.B's grand-niece. The English translation is
by J.v.I.)
(Theosophist, October 1931, p.32-40)
OBSERVATION
I agree with Blavatsky that there are many lies on which
the Judeo-Christian religions are based. When Blavatsky stated this in the 19th century, she
caused a great shock, but today this asseveration is much more widely accepted.
