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(''b'') These “ shadows ” were born “ each of his own colour and kind,” each also “ inferior to his creator,” because the latter was a complete being of his kind. The Commentaries refer the first sentence to the colour or complexion of each human race thus evolved. In ''Pymander'', the Seven primitive men, created by Nature from the “ heavenly Man,” all partake of the qualities of the “ Seven ''Governors'',” or Rulers, who loved Man — their own reflection and synthesis. | (''b'') These “ shadows ” were born “ each of his own colour and kind,” each also “ inferior to his creator,” because the latter was a complete being of his kind. The Commentaries refer the first sentence to the colour or complexion of each human race thus evolved. In ''Pymander'', the Seven primitive men, created by Nature from the “ heavenly Man,” all partake of the qualities of the “ Seven ''Governors'',” or Rulers, who loved Man — their own reflection and synthesis. | ||
In the Norse Legends, one recognizes in Asgard, the habitat of the gods, as also in the ''Ases ''themselves, the same mystical ''loci ''and personifications woven into the popular “ myths,” as in our Secret Doctrine ; and we find them in the Vedas, the Purânas, the Mazdean Scriptures and the Kabala. The ''Ases ''of Scandinavia, the rulers of the world which preceded ours, whose name means literally the “ pillars of the world,” its “ supports,” are thus identical with the Greek ''Cosmocratores'', the “ Seven Workmen or Rectors ” of Pymander, the seven Rishis and Pitris of India, the seven Chaldean gods and seven evil spirits, the seven Kabalistic Sephiroth synthesised by the upper triad, and even the seven Planetary Spirits of the Christian mystics. The Ases create the earth, the seas, the sky and the clouds, the whole visible world, from the remains of the slain giant Ymir ; but they do not create Man, but only his form from the ''Ask ''or ash-tree. It is Odin who endows him with life and soul, after Lodur had given him blood and bones, and finally it is Hönir who furnishes him with his intellect (''manas'') and with his conscious senses. The Norse Ask, the Hesiodic Ash-tree, whence issued the men of the generation of bronze, the Third Root-Race, and the ''Tzite ''tree of the ''Popol-Vuh'', out of which the Mexican ''third ''race of men was created, are all one. * This may be plainly seen by any reader. But the Occult reason why the Norse Yggdrasil, the Hindu Aswatha, the Gogard, the Hellenic tree of life, and the Tibetan Zampun, are one with the Kabalistic Sephirothal Tree, and even with the Holy Tree made by Ahura Mazda, and the Tree of Eden — who among the western scholars can tell ? † Nevertheless, the fruits of all those “ Trees,” whether Pippala or Haoma or yet the more prosaic apple, are the “ plants of life,” in fact and verity. The prototypes of our races were all enclosed in the microcosmic tree, which grew and developed ''within and under ''the great mundane macrocosmic tree ‡ ; and the mystery is half revealed in the ''Dirghotamas'', where it is said : “ Pippala, the sweet fruit of that tree upon which come ''spirits who'' | In the Norse Legends, one recognizes in Asgard, the habitat of the gods, as also in the ''Ases ''themselves, the same mystical ''loci ''and personifications woven into the popular “ myths,” as in our Secret Doctrine ; and we find them in the Vedas, the Purânas, the Mazdean Scriptures and the Kabala. The ''Ases ''of Scandinavia, the rulers of the world which preceded ours, whose name means literally the “ pillars of the world,” its “ supports,” are thus identical with the Greek ''Cosmocratores'', the “ Seven Workmen or Rectors ” of Pymander, the seven Rishis and Pitris of India, the seven Chaldean gods and seven evil spirits, the seven Kabalistic Sephiroth synthesised by the upper triad, and even the seven Planetary Spirits of the Christian mystics. The Ases create the earth, the seas, the sky and the clouds, the whole visible world, from the remains of the slain giant Ymir ; but they do not create {{Style S-Small capitals|Man}}, but only his form from the ''Ask ''or ash-tree. It is Odin who endows him with life and soul, after Lodur had given him blood and bones, and finally it is Hönir who furnishes him with his intellect (''manas'') and with his conscious senses. The Norse Ask, the Hesiodic Ash-tree, whence issued the men of the generation of bronze, the Third Root-Race, and the ''Tzite ''tree of the ''Popol-Vuh'', out of which the Mexican ''third ''race of men was created, are all one. * This may be plainly seen by any reader. But the Occult reason why the Norse Yggdrasil, the Hindu Aswatha, the Gogard, the Hellenic tree of life, and the Tibetan Zampun, are one with the Kabalistic Sephirothal Tree, and even with the Holy Tree made by Ahura Mazda, and the Tree of Eden — who among the western scholars can tell ? † Nevertheless, the fruits of all those “ Trees,” whether Pippala or Haoma or yet the more prosaic apple, are the “ plants of life,” in fact and verity. The prototypes of our races were all enclosed in the microcosmic tree, which grew and developed ''within and under ''the great mundane macrocosmic tree ‡ ; and the mystery is half revealed in the ''Dirghotamas'', where it is said : “ Pippala, the sweet fruit of that tree upon which come ''spirits who'' | ||
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