The Vedas (sacred teachings) represent the oldest and most important texts of Hinduism. The Aryans who invaded Northwest India around 1500 BC compiled them.
ANTIQUlTY OF THE VEDAS
By H.P. Blavatsky From:
A JOURNAL interested like the THEOSOPHIST in the explorations of archæology and archaic religions, as well as the study of the occult in nature, has to be doubly prudent and discreet.
The I Ching and the Vedas
Both I Ching and the Vedas are said to contain the totality of all human knowledge.
Both the Vedic Gods and the Hexagrams represent aspects of the human genetic makeup and of life in general.
Vedas Most sacred and ancient of Sanskrit works, written in hymn form.
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VAN HELMONT (Mercure).--Principia Philosophique antiquissimæ et recentissimæ, Amsterdam, 1690. Mercury Van Helmont is reputed to have initiated Leibnitz.
It was His work, the division of the Vedas; His work the compiling of the Puranas and so on.
" The third Division of the Vedas, and classed with revelations (Sruti or "revealed word"). Some 150 of the Upanishads still remain extant, though no more than about twenty can be fully relied upon as free from falsification.
By mid-century, Arthur Schopenhauer's Die welt als wille und vorstellung (1819, The World as Will and Idea) had become popular and referenced the Vedas, ...
Though the rock-hewn sanctuaries of the ancient Brahmins be now deserted and their carvings crumbled into dust, still the wisdom of the Vedas endures.
As a subject of comparison, we should remember that the truly religious man will not be worried to enquire whether the Bible, the Coran or the Vedas, etc. have a historical value or fully match the findings of scientific research.
These are based on the inherent power of symbols as an aid to contact the Divine; the symbols can either take the form of diagrams or mandalas (Yantra) or repetitious chants (Mantra), the latter being taken from the Vedas and Tantric hymns of the ...
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