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Hebrew and Greek, or the Qur'an in Arabic! Does this astonish you! It is nevertheless a fact; these sacred scriptures that I have wamed are all written in two languages, not in one. The wordl-symbolism used in their composition, no doubt, is the spoken tongue of a particular people, but tbere is a sense symbolism behind the words which is the real language of the text. It is this language which I have termed Picto-krit (the language of Pictures) in the Foreword. The scholars knew nothing of this sense-symbolism and exhausted themselves on the outer husk. They missed the kernel of truth altogether. This is why the Vedas, the Zend Avesta, the Bible and the Quran have appeard to contain only such childish stuff as nature myths, and the personifications of lakes and rivers and brooks. Generally these scriptures themselves caution us against a literal interpretation). Louis Jacolliot, citing the authori. ty of the Agrouchade Parikchai, says of the Hindu Scriptures (see the Occult Science in India, p. 102) - “The sacred scriptures ought not to be taken in their apparent
meaning, as in the case of ordinary books. Of what ose would it be to forbid their revelation to the profane if their secret meaning were contained in the literal senge of the language usually employed.... The Vedas do not explain themselves, and they can only be understood when the guru has removed the garment with which they are clothed, and scattered the clouds that
veil their celestial light.” Unfortunately Jacolliot bimself acquired no true insight in Hinduism though he understood the true prio,
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