Israel and Humanity - Israel and the mysteries of paganism

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VI.

Israel and the mysteries of paganism.

Proselytism and intermarriage with pagan converts we prove that Israel entered into communication with the rest of humanity and show us how this merger took place. This contact of Jews with Gentiles were continued without interruption during their political existence and after their dispersal. If the location of their countries and their historical vicissitudes, they are constantly found in relations with other nations, the reciprocal work exchange and assimilation has become all more intense, we imagine, since the disappearance of their nationality.

So there are three phases to the mutual penetration of Israel and the Gentile, the era of political independence of the Jews, that of foreign domination which is characterized by a proselytizing activity greater and more numerous conversions and finally, the dispersion of Israel among the nations. At each of these periods, the action was felt simultaneously in up and down in the crowd and among the elite minds and we can even say, for better illustrate our thinking, both in mythology and in theology, each taking what suited best to his nature, the vulgar, the outer envelope or symbolic cultivated minds, the doctrine hidden under the myth. A glance at the mysteries of paganism we will certainly understand the imminence exerted by the Gentiles on the educated classes of Israel. Perhaps, we will also dispel some doubts about the possibility of reconciling the duality that we have reported in Judaism with the unity of origin of mankind and the unity of revelation are valuable teaching and glory the life of the Jewish religion at the same time as the hope of humanity.

It is a fact that in ancient Israel wherever pitched his tent, he met the pagan mysteries in Egypt as in Syria, Babylon and Persia, as in the Greco-Roman. What was exactly these mysteries? Many hypotheses have been advanced as their sources in their historical nature, but what seems the best established is that they contain, on religious issues and in ways appropriate to the times and different countries, the teachings and incomparably purer higher than folk religion. This is a very important consideration, if one thinks that the Jews, who were themselves professional beliefs superior in all respects, found themselves in relation to the pagan initiates the esoteric mysteries, and that therefore, they could not fail to be interested. The resemblance was so striking indeed between the doctrines of each other we might wonder at first if one side or another there was no imitation. But should he not rather see is the duplication of an ancient belief and unique as the radiation of a single reflected light in different media under various colors? A oneness of mankind responds oneness of doctrine to successive splits, the differentiation of the various breeds are religious trends. Such is the nature of all the developments that started in the germ unit where all qualities are in power, proceed with the ever more marked differences in accidental and ending finally with a return to unity , matching all your differing opinions in a higher conception that embraces.

The contrast between the religion of the Semites and the Aryans belonged to the second phase of historical development and the third, the period of unification, involves the interaction of one over the other leading to the doctrine which synthetic humanity will regain its unity first. And what started to happen when Judaism, with its large base searched among the monotheistic religions which foreigners could adapt to his faith and he encountered the mysteries of Paganism, Judaism in this kind of middle of the Gentile. Was not he himself, by his religious constitution, a mystery in humanity and nature does it not predisposed to assimilate what was true in others? In this sense, the most rigorous orthodoxy can not refuse to recognize the influence of the Egyptian mysteries of the legislator of the Hebrews and loans made by them, that rationalism thought out as a decisive objection against the Mosaic revelation, appear rather as a striking confirmation of our principles.

Moses took the Egyptian religion which was the monopoly of priestly caste for transfer to Israel, the entire priestly nation. Circumcision, for example, distinguishing insiders, is the common law of the Jews which was the privilege of a few followers is now the heritage of a people, composed as a priest of humanity and called to preach to all this faith in A God that the pope reserved to rare Egyptian faithful in the secret shrine. Should we be surprised that Judaism has been accused of forming a sort of freemasonry? What is certain is that theology Masonic is basically that of theosophy and corresponds fairly well with that of the Kabbalah. Moreover, a thorough study of the monuments to the early centuries of rabbinical AD provides abundant evidence that the Haggadah was the popular form of providing a science reserved by the methods of initiation, the most striking resemblance Masonic institution.

Those who wish to take the trouble to examine carefully the question of the relationship. Judaism with philosophical Freemasonry, theosophy and mysteries in general, we are convinced will lose a bit of their superb disdain for Kabbalah. They cease to smile with pity at the thought that the Kabbalistic theology may have a role to play in the religious transformation of the future. Instead of seeing only what she Hasidic rabbis are miracle workers in Russia and Poland have come to know them, they will better reflect the real value of education, the results present- tion obtained by the study of comparative religions tend more and more to highlight the importance and antiquity. We will not tire of repeating this doctrine, which brings in the element of Judaism Semitic and Aryan element also supports the key to the modern religious problem. Same time it gives the solution of problems faced by those involved in the reform of Christian shared so many hostile sects.

Discrepancies reported by Burnouf between the Eastern Churches which have preserved their strong tendency Alexandrian metaphysics and hence pantheist and Rome's earliest Semitism "show that some churches are better kept the spirit of ancient tradition, while others are rather formed from the letter of Scripture.

But they nevertheless are based on a confusion in the sense that we speak Semitism which is not true that Judaism, to some extent, is connected, we have said, the mysteries of paganism. Even if one wants to hear from Semitic monotheism popular outside of tradition, one could argue that it will fall more complete, more absolute in Christianity than in Judaism itself, because it is mainly Christianity that must the doctrine of creation ex nihilo , which in its literal meaning, is more rigid form of monotheism. This dogma indeed between God the world by abolishing the doctrine of emanation which unites the world to God, whereas in fact the true Jewish tradition recognizes both the immanence and transcendence of God and unites and pantheism, in that it has reasonable with monotheism. The true belief in one God, as Israel custody, harmonizes the requirements of science and the needs of religious faith and may also one day reconcile the divided churches.