Theos-Talk Archives (November 2002 Message tt00474)

Steve:Brahmin language was to them what Latin was to RCs. 

Brian: This is Sanskrit !

Sanskrit was only used (yes just like the Chatolocs with their mass 
in "Latin" that time only) not as a spoken language but only for ritual 
means and singing mantrams.

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- In theos-talk@y..., "Steve Stubbs" <stevestubbs@y...> wrote:
> --- In theos-talk@y..., "brianmuehlbach" <brianmuehlbach@y...> 
wrote:
> > Brian: I thought you would catch on, so what about Blavatsky's 
> senzar ?
> 
> Blavatsky herself said it came from the name of the Zend Avesta, the 
> Zoroastrian sacred book, thus Zend-Zar.
> 
> It should be said to make this fair that she was right in saying that 
> the Brahmins of India had a "secret" language which they used for 
> esoteric purposes, which sounds very much like Senzar, which is 
> supposed to be a dialect of Sanskrit. The existence of this language 
> was written about by one of the first Jesuit missionaries who went 
> there to pester people into becoming Catholic, despite the fact they 
> allready had an indigenous spirituality. I found a quote from this 
> guy years ago, but regret that I cannot specify where I found it 
> aafter al this time. I do remember the Jesuit guy said the secret 
> Brahmin language was to them what Latin was to RCs. The 
description 
> was not complete enough to make it clear whether the language was 
> Sanskrit or something which has been kept private by the Pundits.