56. Theosophy and the Bible

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It is very difficult, especially in Genesis, to find the actual meaning of the wording; for the ancient peoples had a way of communicating through rhythm and the consonance of vowels, which our modern, so banal language has completely lost. “In the beginning God created heaven and earth.” There is something in this that today's man must first conquer again. The Bible offers the greatest knowledge of the human soul. As an occultist, for example, one discovers the relationship between the individual sense organs, and then one finds: these things are in the Bible; this discovery is one of the most harrowing experiences.

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