The legacy of Н.P. Blavatsky

"Nothing proves that civilization and knowledge then rise and progress with her as in the case of other peoples, but everything seems to be referable, in the same perfection, to the earliest dates. That no nation knew as much as herself, is a fact demonstrated by history."

"Mechanism," says Eusebe Salverte, "was carried by the ancients to a point of perfection that has never been attained in modern times. We would inquire if their inventions have been surpassed in our age? Certainly not; and at the present day, with all the means that the progress of science and modern discovery have placed in the hands of the mechanic, have we not been assailed by numerous difficulties in striving to place on a pedestal one of those monoliths that the Egyptians forty centuries ago erected in such numbers before their sacred edifices."

As far back as we can glance into history, to the reign of Menes, the most ancient of the kings that we know anything about, we find proofs that the Egyptians were far better acquainted with hydrostatics and hydraulic engineering than ourselves. The gigantic work of turning the course of the Nile — or rather of its three principal branches — and bringing it to Memphis, was accomplished during the reign of that monarch!

If we now turn to architecture, we find displayed before our eyes, wonders which baffle all description. Referring to the temples of Philæ, Abu Simbel, Dendera, Edfu, and Karnak, Professor Carpenter remarks that "these stupendous and beautiful erections … these gigantic pyramids and temples" have a "vastness and beauty" which are "still impressive after the lapse of thousands of years."

Who, of our modern architects and chemists, will rediscover the indestructible cement of the oldest Egyptian buildings?

"The skill of the ancients in quarrying," says Bunsen, "is displayed the most in the extracting of the huge blocks, out of which obelisks and colossal statues were hewn — obelisks ninety feet high, and statues forty feet high, made out of one stone!"

"Philologists, astronomers, chemists, painters, architects, physicians, must return to Egypt to learn the origin of language and writing; of the calendar and solar motion; of the art of cutting granite with a copper chisel, and of giving elasticity to a copper sword; of making glass with the variegated hues of the rainbow; of moving single blocks of polished syenite, nine hundred tons in weight, for any distance, by land and water; of building arches, rounded and pointed, with masonic precision unsurpassed at the present day, and antecedent by 2,000 years to the 'Cloaca Magna' of Rome; of sculpturing a Doric column 1,000 years before the Dorians are known in history; of fresco painting in imperishable colors; of practical knowledge in anatomy; and of time-defying pyramid-building."

The sun gives everything and takes nothing back from its system. The Sun is not something "solid" or "liquid", not even incandescent gases, but a gigantic ball of electro-magnetic Forces, a reserve of world life and movement, which pulsates in all directions, saturating the smallest atom with radiant energy, which is inexhaustible and knows no increase nor diminishing and will continue its self-generating activity until the end of our Solar Manvantara.

The sun is only one of a myriad of magnets scattered in space. There is no more warmth in the sun than in the moon, or in the host of sparkling stars that overwhelm space. Gravity, as Newton understood it, does not exist, but only magnetic attraction and repulsion, and only thanks to their magnetism, the movement of the planets of the solar system in their orbits is regulated by the even more powerful magnetism of the sun, and not by their weight or gravity.

The space between the sun and the earth is filled with a material environment that corresponds to the Kabbalistic "astral light". The passage of light through this medium creates tremendous friction. Friction generates electricity; it is that electricity and its relative magnetism that create those terrible forces of nature that produce various changes in, on and around our planet, with which we meet everywhere.

Earthly heat cannot be directly extracted from the sun, for heat rises. In any case, science should know that the heat that the Earth receives from the rays of the sun is, to the greatest extent, only a third, if not less, of the amount it receives directly from meteors. The increase in the average temperature on the planet comes from the expansion of the atmosphere, which itself owes the same meteoric presence.