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- 12. The great chohans ( Lords ), called the Lords of the Moon, of the airy bodies (a). “ Bring forth men, ( they were told ), men of your nature. Give them (i.e., the Jivas or Monads ) their forms within. She ( Mother Earth or Nature ) will build coverings without ( external bodies ). (For ) males-females will they be. Lords of the flame, also.”
(a) Who are the Lords of the Moon ? In India they are called Pitris or “ lunar ancestors,” but in the Hebrew scrolls it is Jehovah himself who is the “ Lord of the Moon,” collectively as the Host, and also as one of the Elohim. The astronomy of the Hebrews and their observance of times was regulated by the moon. A Kabalist, having shown that “ Daniel . . . told off God’s providence by set times,” and that the “ Revelation ” of John “ speaks of a carefully measured cubical city descending out of the heavens,” etc., adds —
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“ But the vitalizing power of heaven lay chiefly with the moon. . . . It was the Hebrew יהוה (Jehovah), and St. Paul enjoins : ‘ Let no man judge you for your observance of the seventh day, and the day of the new moon, which are a shadow of things to come ; but the body (or substance) is of Christ ” or Jehovah, that function of this power that “ made the barren woman . . . a mother . . . for they are the gift of Jehovah ” . . . which is a key to the objection which her husband made to the Shunamite, as to her going to the man of God — “ for it is neither the seventh day nor the day of the new moon. . . .” (2 Kings, iv., 23.) The living spiritual powers of the constellations had mighty wars, marked by the movements and positions of the stars and planets, and especially as the result of the conjunction of the moon, earth, and sun. Bentley comments on the Hindu “ War between the gods and the giants,” as marked by the eclipse of the Sun at the ascending node of the Moon, 945 B.C. (! !), at which time was born * or produced from the sea, Sri (Sarai, S-r-i, the wife of the Hebrew A-bram †). Sri is also Venus-Aphrodite the Western emblem “ of the luni-solar year or the moon (as Sri is the wife of the moon ; vide foot-note), the goddess of increase ‡ . . .” Therefore “ the grand monument and landmark of the exact period of the lunar year and month, by which this cycle (of 19 tropical years and 235 revolutions of the moon) could be calculated, was Mount Sinai — the Lord Jehovah coming down thereon. . . . Paul speaks (then) as a mystagogue, when he says concerning the freed woman and bond woman of Abraham : ‘ For this Hagar (the bond-woman) is Mount Sinai in Arabia.’ How could a woman be a mountain ? and such a mountain ! Yet . . . she was. . . . Her name was Hagar, Hebrew הגר, whose numbers re-read 235, or in exact measure, the very number of lunar months to equal nineteen tropical years to complete this cycle. . . . Mount Sinai being, in the esoteric language of the wisdom, the monument of the exact time of the lunar
* According to the wonderful chronology of Bentley, who wrote in days when Biblical chronology was still undisputed ; and also according to that of those modern Orientalists who dwarf the Hindu dates as far as they can.
† Now Sri is the daughter of Bhrigu, one of the Prajâpatis and Rishis, the chief of the Bhrigus, “ the Consumers,” the aërial class of gods. She is Lakshmi, the wife of Vishnu, and she is “ the bride of Siva ” (Gauri), and she is Sarasvati, “ the watery,” the wife of Brahmâ, because the three gods and goddesses are one, under three aspects. Read the explanation by Parasâra, in Vishnu Purâna in Bk. I., ch. viii. (Vol. I., Wilson’s trans., p. 119), and you will understand. “ The Lord of Sri ” is the moon, he says, and “ Sri is the wife of Narâyâna, the God of Gods ” ; Sri or Lakshmi (Venus) is Indrâni, as she is Sarasvati, for in the words of Parasâra : “ Hari (or Iswara, “ the Lord ”) is all that is called male in the Universe ; Lakshmi is all that is termed female. There is nothing else than they.” Hence she is “ female,” and “ God ” is male Nature.
‡ Sri is goddess of, and herself “ Fortune and Prosperity.”
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years and months, by which this spiritual vitalizing cycle could be computed — and which mountain, indeed, was called (see Fuerst), “ the Mountain of the Moon (Sin). So also Sarai (SRI), the wife of Abram, could have no child until her name was changed to Sarah, שרה, giving to her the property of this lunar influence.” *
This may be regarded as a digression from the main subject ; but it is a very necessary one with a view to Christian readers. For who, after studying dispassionately the respective legends of Abram or Abraham, Sarai or Sarah, who was “ fair to look upon,” and those of Brahmâ and Sarasvati, or Sri, Lakshmi-Venus, with the relations of all these to the Moon and Water ; — and especially one who understands the real Kabalistic meaning of the name Jehovah and its relation to, and connection with, the moon — who can doubt that the story of Abram is based upon that of Brahmâ, or that Genesis was written upon the old lines used by every ancient nation ? All in the ancient Scriptures is allegorical — all based upon and inseparably connected with Astronomy and Cosmolatry.
* “ Masonic Review ; ” Cincinnati, June 1886, Art. “ The Cabbalah.”