SECOND CHAPTER

THE TRIUMPHANT ERROR

Pythagoras fights against pagan mentality.

His efforts to reconstitute the Proto-Synthesis

Paganism in the era of Pythagoras. - Resistance of the Third-Orders. - Pythagoras and Aristotle. - Is Pythagoras a philosopher? - His masters. - The ancient religious Unity. - The different Synthesis; their superimposition. - Adam. - Citation of Moses. - Koush; the Kashiddins (Kashs or African Hasidins, Tr.). – Pythagoras, pilgrim of Unity. – The Books of Orpheus. - Thoith and Thoth. – The Names of the Word in the two first syntheses. - Pythagoras rejects paganism. - Theophany of Pythagoras. - The Orphism. - The Noahite mastership - The OSIoi (Essenes, Tr.). - Pythagoras destroys his own works.

Philosophical paganism, the result from that mental regression of which we have been following the pace from childhood till mastery, and which dominates contemporary Europe, was already enslaving the latter in the era of Pythagoras. It is against it that the great Initiate and the Orders he has founded based on the plans of the orphic Synthesis tried, in vain, to act as social therapists, among the debris of the Ionian and Phoenician Third-Orders which had vitiated the spirit and overthrown that organization of antique Greece and Italy, Celt-Slavs and Pelasges, of whom we have talked above.

These laic theologians who stand out, above all Pythagoras and Aristotle, from the common background of their era as men of another race of another Cycle, came from the metropolitan Polytheistic Temples, to make an effort to plot a perpetual double flail, that of the civil Revolution and its military corrective, known as: War. In his Epistles to the Romans, Saint Paul defined wonderfully the mediocrity of the third mental and moral cast, and one would say that these philosophers had had that presentiment.

Alas! History only proves that many, how many, of those environments kept refracting the action of those men, with the utmost hierarchal spirit, with the utmost sociology, and how by itself, the second mental race, that of the military Head Quarters, could unite them into forced peace.

That admirable Pythagoras, who introduced the word Philosophy to the Greek language, was he himself a philosopher, in the sense we use the term Philosophy: The Having/Being of ones own wisdom? A religious person, yes; a founder of Orders, be it; the saint Benoit (Consecrated, Tr.) of the almost divine Orpheus, certainly; but a philosopher, that is total and simultaneously meaningful and meaningless.

The chiefs of the orphic confraternities who then directed Greece and Italy were called, for many centuries, theologians and prophets. Before Pythagoras, Numa had been one of their envoys to the raising anarchy of the Romans. He is the king elected from an Etruscan Sacred-College, according to the patriarchal rites. The Mediterranean masters of the great Samien had the same characteristics: Epimenides, Pherecydes of Syros, Aristeas of Proconnesus; all theologians and prophets, the second a thaumaturge, the third a priest. His predecessor in Italy, Xenophanes, the spiritual father of the Eleats, also a theologian, openly combated the Ionian Paganism and even their Polytheism, as well as that of the Phoenicians.

Furthermore, the hierophants who instructed Pythagoras were not philosophers: Themistocles, great priestess of Delphos; Abaris, priest of the solar Word among the Hyperboreans; Aristeas, already mentioned; Zalmoxis, the chief of the Thracian Priests; Aglaophemes, great-priest of Lesbetra, etc., etc.

I have not mentioned but the chiefs of the Temples of the proto-Greece, the Orphic, the Slav, union treatises of all the Celt-Slav and Pelasge Federations going back to the patriarchal Church that Manu and Moses call by the name of Koush and Rama.

But let us follow Pythagoras within the African and Asian initiatic metropolis. His sacerdotal masters are, at Sais, the prophet of Oshi; at Om, Heliopolis, in the temple where Moses, under the name of Oshar-Siph, had been the prophet of Oshi-Rish and the initiator of Orpheus, the prophet Hon-Ophi. In Babylon, it is Nazarath (and this name is suggestive, prophet Daniel, the Nazarene, was then the Grand-Master of the Sacred-College of the Mages). In Persia, it is the chief of the Neo-Zoroastrians, the Gheber Zarothosh. In Nepal, also visited by Lao-Tse, it is the first pundit of the Sacred-College of Brahma since Krishna, and before the latter of IshVa-Ra.

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