Confluence of Opposites

SR No.: 006704
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: Champat Rai Jain
Publication Year: 1921
Total Pages: 422
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 15 MB

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CONFLUENCE OF OPPOSITES
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having à peculiar numerical value; aliph=I; beth=2; gimel=3; daleth=4, and so forth. This is the foundation of the doctrine that every word is a number and every number a word. We have the identical system of numerical values of words in Urdu and Persian, commonly known as the abjad ( ) method. The Jews seem to have made the greatest use of this system in composing their scriptures. The scriptures thus represent a real body of secret doctrines that can only be known by the elucidation of the symbolism, in which they are couched. “According to the Kabbalah, all these esoteric doctrines are contained in the Hebrew Scriptures. The uninitiated cannot perceive them ; but they are plainly revealed to the spiritually minded, who discern the profound import of this theosophy beneath the surface of the letters and words of Holy writ" (Ency. Brit. Eleventh Edi. Vol. XV. p. 621, art. Kabbalah). "This secret mysticism," we learn from ERL. (vol. VII.
p. 622 art. Kabbalah)," was no late growth. Difficult though it is to prove the date and origin of this system of philosophy and the intluences and causes which produced it, we can be fairly certain that its roots stretch back very far, and that the medieval and Geonic Kabbalah was the colmination and not the inception of Jewisla
esoteric mysticism." This method of secret instruction is also followed in the New Testament. Mr. J. M. Pryse tells us (see the Apocalypse Unsealed, p. I.) :"Every thoughtful student of the literature of the ancient
religions, including that of early Christianity, cannot