Blavatsky H.P. - The Ten Sephiroth: Difference between revisions

''all things together'' found the cravings of their mind satisfied by this theosophy or religion is an additional reason why those who desire truth should learn the real claims of the ''Cabala'' upon all who enter on the pursuit of the ''Occult Science''. This Theosophy born of God in Paradise was nursed and reared by the choicest of the Angelic Hosts of heaven and appears only to the holiest of men upon Earth—they who receive it are Priests and Kings—( ).<ref>{{HPB-CW-comment|[Here occurs a word in parenthesis which is either “Klinca” or something similar to it.—''Comp''.]}}</ref> The angels who formed a theosophic school in Paradise received from God and communicated to men the knowledge that the protoplast might know of and aid destiny in returning to;<ref>{{HPB-CW-comment|[At this point in the MSS., there is a peculiar symbol followed by what appears to be a fraction.—''Comp''.]}}</ref> from man to man, to Egypt to the East, to Judea, this doctrine passed. Moses, learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians was initiated and in the first four books of the Pentateuch laid down in symbols the principles of the ''Secret Doctrine'', but withheld them from Deuteronomy=this constitutes the former Man=and the latter the ''Woman''. Moses initiated the 70 Elders and they again from hand to hand taught the ''Marvellous Thought''. Of all who formed the unbroken line David and Solomon were most initiated in the mysteries of the ''Cabala—No one however dared to write it down till Simon ben Jochai'' who lived at the time of the Second Temple’s {{Page aside|320}}destruction, after his death his son Rabbi Eleazar and his secretary Rabbi ''Abbah'' took his treatises and out of them formed the celebrated work known under the name ''Zohar'' (that is splendor) the most famous book in the World and the Authority and storehouse of the ''Cabala''—it has been handed down in unbroken line since its reception by the Patriarchs, the Prophets etc. and it is for this reason that it is called Cabala from two Hebrew words denoting “''to receive''” or a doctrine received by oral instruction or tradition, because also that it was handed down only by tradition ''through'' the initiated, and as indicated in the Hebrew Scriptures by signs which are ''hidden'' and unintelligible to those who have not been instructed in its mysteries—it is also called from certain initial letters ''grace'' — the difference between the word Cabala — and the term ''Masorah'' is that the former expresses the act of ''receiving'', which in a technical sense could ''only be'' on the part of one who has reached a certain age of life—attained a certain ''State of Sanctity'' and has a certain Secrecy. ''Masorah'' signifies the act of giving over without promising any peculiar age Sanctity or degree of Secrecy. The design of the Cabala is to solve the following grand problems.