Hence their great sacredness and the silence maintained throughout the
Vedic and the Brahmanical periods about any object concerned with, or
referring to, reading and writing. It was the language of the gods. If
our Western critics can only understand what the Ancient Hindu writers
meant by Rhutaliai, so often mentioned in their mystical writings, they
will be in a position to ascertain the source from which the Hindus
first derived their knowledge of writing.
A secret language, common to all schools of occult science once
prevailed throughout the world. Hence Orpheus learnt "letters" in the
course of his initiation. He is identified with Indra; according to
Herodotus he brought the art of writing from India; his complexion
swarthier than that of the Thracians points to his Indo-Aryan
nationality--supposing him to have been "a bard and priest," and not a
god; the Pelasgians are said to have been born in Thracia; they are
believed (in the West) to have first possessed the art of writing, and
taught the Phoenicians; from the latter all modern alphabets proceed.
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