The Power of God
The Phoenicians secret doctrine. Part 1
“When, therefore, the earth, covered with mud from the recent flood, became heated up by the hot and genial rays of the sun, she brought forth innumerable forms of life, in part of ancient shapes, and – in part creatures new and strange.”1
We see with religious institutions a system of doctrines – an outer doctrine for the masses, which usually involves ritual worship of certain deities, the making of vows etc, and at the same-time an inner secret doctrine, kept for the elite or priest class. What is the purpose of this split between the esoteric (inner) and exoteric (outer) teachings? What knowledge do they conceal?
Astrology was practised among all the ancient nations, and their religions were intimately connected with astronomy.2 Whether it originated with the Indians, the Chaldeans, Phoenicians, Persians, Babylonias or the Egyptians is not of importance here.
In ‘Morals and Dogma’, Freemason Albert Pike reveals this intimate connection between the Sacred Science of the Mysteries and ancient astronomy and physics:
“And thus the theory of the spheres, and of the signs and intelligences which preside there, and the whole system of astronomy, were connected with that of the soul and its destiny; and so were taught in the Mysteries, in which were developed the great principles of physics and metaphysics as to the origin of the soul, its condition here below, its destination, and its future fate.”3
