ANOTHER THEOSOPHICAL PROPHECY
IN the first number of THE PATH
was inserted a prophecy made from certain books in India called
Nadigrandhams, respecting the Society.
This called forth from the N.Y. Sun, that model of
journalism, a long tirade about the superficial knowledge which
it claims pervades the Society on the subject of oriental philosophy.
Unfortunately for the learned editorial writer in that paper,
he never before heard of Nadigrandhams, which are almost
as common in India as the Sun is here, nor does he appear
to know what a Nadi may be, nor a Grandham, either.
But without trying to drag the daily press of this country
into the path of oriental knowledge, we will proceed to record
another prophecy or two.
The first will seem rather bold, but is placed far enough
in the future to give it some value as a test. It is this:--The
Sanscrit language will one day be again the language used by
man upon this earth, first in science and in metaphysics, and
later on in common life. Even in the lifetime of the Sun's
witty writer, he will see the terms now preserved in that
noblest of languages creeping into the literature and the press
of the day, cropping up in reviews, appearing in various books
and treatises, until even such men as he will begin perhaps to
feel that they all along had been ignorantly talking of "thought"
when they meant "cerebration," and of "philosophy"
when they meant "philology," and that they had been
airing a superficial knowledge gained from cyclopædias
of the mere lower powers of intellect, when in fact they were
totally ignorant of what is really elementary knowledge. So this
new language cannot be English, not even the English acquired
by the reporter of daily papers who ascends fortuitously to the
editorial rooms--but will be one which is scientific in all that
makes a language, and has been enriched by ages of study of metaphysics
and the true science.
The secondary prophecy is nearer our day, and may be interesting.--It
is based upon cyclic changes. This is a period of such a change,
and we refer to the columns of the N. Y. Sun of the
time when the famous brilliant sunsets were chronicled and discussed
not long ago for the same prognostication. No matter about dates;
they are not to be given; but facts may be. This glorious country,
free as it is, will not long be calm:
Unrest is the word for this cycle. The people will
rise. For what, who can tell? The statesman who can see for
what the uprising will be might take measures to counteract.
But all your measures can not turn back the iron will of fate.
And even the City of New York will not be able to point its finger
at Cincinnati and St. Louis. Let those whose ears can hear the
whispers, and the noise of the gathering clouds, of the future,
take notice; let them read, if they know how, the physiognomy
of the United States, whereon the mighty hand of nature has traced
the furrows to indicate the character of the moral storms that
will pursue their course no matter what the legislation may be.
But enough. Theosophists can go on unmoved, for they know that
as Krishna said to Arjuna, these bodies are not the real man,
and that "no one has ever been non-existent nor shall any
of us ever cease to exist."
Path, May, 1886
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