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	{{Style P-No indent\|objective kingdom of minerals, in which latter that apperception is entirely latent, to re-develop only in the plants). The ''mukhya ''“ Creation,” then, is the middle point between the three lower and the three higher kingdoms, which represent the seven esoteric kingdoms of Kosmos, as of Earth.}}		{{Style P-No indent\|objective kingdom of minerals, in which latter that apperception is entirely latent, to re-develop only in the plants). The ''mukhya ''“ Creation,” then, is the middle point between the three lower and the three higher kingdoms, which represent the seven esoteric kingdoms of Kosmos, as of Earth.}}

	(V.) The ''Tiryaksrotas ''(or Tairyagyonya) creation, * that of the “ (''sacred'') animals,” corresponding only on Earth, to the dumb animal creation. That which is meant by “ animals,” in ''primary ''Creation, is the germ of awakening consciousness or of ''apperception'', that which is faintly traceable in some sensitive plants on Earth and more distinctly in the ''protistic ''monera. † On our globe, during the first round, animal “ creation ” precedes that of man, while the former (or mammal) evolves from the latter in our fourth round — on the physical plane : in Round I. the animal atoms are drawn into a cohesion of human physical form ; while in Round IV. the reverse occurs according to magnetic conditions developed during life. And this is ''metempsychosis ''(''See ''“''Mineral Monad''” ''in ''“''Five Years of Theosophy'',”		(V.) The ''Tiryaksrotas ''(or Tairyagyonya) creation, * that of the “ (''sacred'') animals,” corresponding only on Earth, to the dumb animal creation. That which is meant by “ animals,” in ''primary ''Creation, is the germ of awakening consciousness or of ''apperception'', that which is faintly traceable in some sensitive plants on Earth and more distinctly in the ''protistic ''monera. † On our globe, during the first round, animal “ creation ” precedes that of man, while the former (or mammal) evolves from the latter in our fourth round — on the physical plane : in Round I. the animal atoms are drawn into a cohesion of human physical form ; while in Round IV. the reverse occurs according to magnetic conditions developed during life. And this is ''metempsychosis'' (''See ''“''Mineral Monad''” ''in ''“''Five Years of Theosophy'',” ''p. ''276). This fifth stage of evolution, called exoterically “ Creation,” may be viewed in both the ''Primary ''and ''Secondary ''periods, one as the Spiritual and Cosmic, the other as the material and ''terrestrial. ''It is ''Archibiosis'', or life-origination — “ origination,” so far, of course, as the ''manifestation ''of life on all the seven planes is concerned. It is at this period of Evolution that the ''absolutely eternal ''universal motion, or vibration, that which is called in Esoteric language “ the {{Style S-Small capitals\|great breath}},” differentiates in the primordial, first manifested atom. More and more, as chemical and physical sciences progress, does this occult axiom find its corroboration in the world of knowledge : the scientific hypothesis, that even the simplest elements of matter are identical in nature and differ from each other only owing to the variety of the distributions of ''atoms ''in the molecule or speck of substance, or by the modes of its ''atomic vibration'', gains every day more ground.

	''p. ''276). This fifth stage of evolution, called exoterically “ Creation,” may be viewed in both the ''Primary ''and ''Secondary ''periods, one as the Spiritual and Cosmic, the other as the material and ''terrestrial. ''It is ''Archibiosis'', or life-origination — “ origination,” so far, of course, as the ''manifestation ''of life on all the seven planes is concerned. It is at this period of Evolution that the ''absolutely eternal ''universal motion, or vibration, that which is called in Esoteric language “ the {{Style S-Small capitals\|great breath}},” differentiates in the primordial, first manifested atom. More and more, as chemical and physical sciences progress, does this occult axiom find its corroboration in the world of knowledge : the scientific hypothesis, that even the simplest elements of matter are identical in nature and differ from each other only owing to the variety of the distributions of ''atoms ''in the molecule or speck of substance, or by the modes of its ''atomic vibration'', gains every day more ground.

	Thus, as the differentiation of the primordial germ of life has to precede the evolution of the Dhyan Chohan of ''the third ''group or hierarchy of Being in Primary Creation, before those “ gods ” can become ''rûpa ''(embodied in their first ethereal form), so animal creation has to ''precede'',		Thus, as the differentiation of the primordial germ of life has to precede the evolution of the Dhyan Chohan of ''the third ''group or hierarchy of Being in Primary Creation, before those “ gods ” can become ''rûpa ''(embodied in their first ethereal form), so animal creation has to ''precede'',
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	{{Style P-No indent\|for that same reason, ''divine'' {{Style S-Small capitals\|man}} on earth. And this is why we find in the Purânas : “ The fifth, the Tairyagyonya creation, was that of animals, and —}}		{{Style P-No indent\|for that same reason, ''divine'' {{Style S-Small capitals\|man}} on earth. And this is why we find in the Purânas : “ The fifth, the Tairyagyonya creation, was that of animals, and —}}

	(VI). The Urdhvasrotas creation, or that of divinities ''(Vishnu Purâna Book I. chap. i.)''. But these (divinities) are simply the prototypes of the First Race, the fathers of their “ mind-born ” progeny with the ''soft ''bones. * It is these who became the ''Evolvers ''of the “ Sweat-born ” — an expression explained in Book II. Finally, the sixth “ Creation ” is followed, and “ ''Creation ''in general, closed by —		(VI). The ''Urdhvasrotas'' creation, or that of divinities ''(Vishnu Purâna, Book I. chap. i.)''. But these (divinities) are simply the prototypes of the First Race, the fathers of their “ mind-born ” progeny with the ''soft ''bones. * It is these who became the ''Evolvers ''of the “ Sweat-born ” — an expression explained in Book II. Finally, the sixth “ Creation ” is followed, and “ ''Creation ''in general, closed by —

	(VII.) The evolution of the “ ''Arvaksrotas ''beings, which was the seventh, and was that of man ” (''Vishnu Purâna'', ''Book I.'').		(VII.) The evolution of the “ ''Arvaksrotas ''beings, which was the seventh, and was that of man ” (''Vishnu Purâna'', ''Book I.'').
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	{{Style P-No indent\|— the chief of the Kumâras — is called Ambhamsi, “ Waters,” — according to the commentary on ''Vishnu Purâna. ''Why ? Because the “ Waters ” is another name of the “ Great Deep,” the primordial Waters of space or ''Chaos'', and also means “ Mother,” ''Amba'', meaning Aditi and Akâsa, the Celestial Virgin-Mother of the visible universe. Furthermore, the “ Waters of the flood ” are also called “ the {{Style S-Small capitals\|Great Dragon}},” or Ophis, Ophio-Morphos.}}		{{Style P-No indent\|— the chief of the Kumâras — is called Ambhamsi, “ Waters,” — according to the commentary on ''Vishnu Purâna. ''Why ? Because the “ Waters ” is another name of the “ Great Deep,” the primordial Waters of space or ''Chaos'', and also means “ Mother,” ''Amba'', meaning Aditi and Akâsa, the Celestial Virgin-Mother of the visible universe. Furthermore, the “ Waters of the flood ” are also called “ the {{Style S-Small capitals\|Great Dragon}},” or Ophis, Ophio-Morphos.}}

	The Rudras will be noticed in their Septenary character of “ Fire-Spirits ” in the “ Symbolism ” attached to the Stanzas in Book II. ~~<sup>~~There we shall also consider the Cross (3 + 4) under its primeval and ~~</sup>~~later forms, and shall use for purposes of comparison the Pythagorean numbers side by side with Hebrew Metrology. The immense importance of the number ''seven ''will thus become evident, as the root number of nature. We shall examine it from the standpoints of the Vedas and the Chaldean Scriptures, as it existed in Egypt thousands of years B.C., and as treated in the Gnostic records ; we shall show how its importance as a basic number has gained recognition in physical Science ; and we shall endeavour to prove that the importance attached to the number ''seven ''throughout all antiquity was due to no fanciful imaginings of uneducated priests, but to a profound knowledge of natural law.		The Rudras will be noticed in their Septenary character of “ Fire-Spirits ” in the “ Symbolism ” attached to the Stanzas in Book II. There we shall also consider the Cross (3 + 4) under its primeval and later forms, and shall use for purposes of comparison the Pythagorean numbers side by side with Hebrew Metrology. The immense importance of the number ''seven ''will thus become evident, as the root number of nature. We shall examine it from the standpoints of the Vedas and the Chaldean Scriptures, as it existed in Egypt thousands of years B.C., and as treated in the Gnostic records ; we shall show how its importance as a basic number has gained recognition in physical Science ; and we shall endeavour to prove that the importance attached to the number ''seven ''throughout all antiquity was due to no fanciful imaginings of uneducated priests, but to a profound knowledge of natural law.

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	the howling and terrific ''destroyer of human passions and physical senses'', which are ever in the way of the development of the higher spiritual perceptions and the growth of the ''inner ''eternal man — mystically, * are the progeny of Siva, the ''Mahâyogi'', the great patron of all the Yogis and mystics of India. They themselves, being the “ Virgin-Ascetics,” refuse to create the ''material ''being man. Well may they be suspected of a direct connection with the Christian Archangel Michael, the “ Virgin Combatant ” of the Dragon ''Apophis'', whose victim is every soul united too loosely to its immortal Spirit, the Angel who, as shown by the Gnostics, ''refused to create ''just as the Kumâras did. (''See Book II.'', “ ''The Mystic Dragons and their Slayers.''” ) . . . Does not that patron-Angel of the Jews ''preside ''over Saturn (Siva or Rudra), and the Sabbath, the day of Saturn ? Is he not shown of the same essence with his father (Saturn), and called the “ Son of Time,” ''Kronos'', ''or Kâla ''(time), a form of Brahmâ (Vishnu and Siva) ? ” And is not “ Old Time ” of the Greeks, with its scythe and sand-glass, identical with the “ Ancient of Days ” of the Kabalists ; the latter “ Ancient ” being one with the Hindu “ Ancient of Days,” Brahmâ (in his ''triune ''form), whose name is also “ Sanat,” the Ancient ? Every Kumâra bears the prefix of ''Sanat ''and ''Sana ; ''and Sanaischara is Saturn, the planet (Sani and Sarra), the King Saturn whose Secretary in Egypt was Thot-Hermes the first. They are thus identified both with the planet and the god (Siva), who are, in their turn, shown the prototypes of Saturn, who is the same as Bel, Baal, Siva, and Jehovah Sabbaoth, ''The angel of whose face is'' {{Style S-Small capitals\|Mikael}} ( {{Style S-Hebrew\|מיבַאֶל}} “ who is as God ”). He is the patron, and guardian Angel of the Jews, as Daniel tells us (v. 21) ; and, before the Kumâras were degraded, by those who were ignorant of their very name, into demons and fallen angels, the Greek Ophites, the occultly inclined predecessors and precursors of the Roman Catholic Church after its secession and separation from the primitive Greek Church, had identified Michael with their ''Ophiomorphos'', the rebellious and opposing spirit. This means nothing more than the reverse aspect (symbolically) of Ophis — divine Wisdom or Christos. In the ''Talmud'', ''Mikael ''(Michael) is “ Prince of ''Water ”'' and the chief of the seven Spirits, for the same reason that his prototype (among many others) Sanat-Sujâta,		the howling and terrific ''destroyer of human passions and physical senses'', which are ever in the way of the development of the higher spiritual perceptions and the growth of the ''inner ''eternal man — mystically, * are the progeny of Siva, the ''Mahâyogi'', the great patron of all the Yogis and mystics of India. They themselves, being the “ Virgin-Ascetics,” refuse to create the ''material ''being {{Style S-Small capitals\|man}}. Well may they be suspected of a direct connection with the Christian Archangel Michael, the “ Virgin Combatant ” of the Dragon ''Apophis'', whose victim is every soul united too loosely to its immortal Spirit, the Angel who, as shown by the Gnostics, ''refused to create ''just as the Kumâras did. (''See Book II.'', “ ''The Mystic Dragons and their Slayers.''” ) . . . Does not that patron-Angel of the Jews ''preside ''over Saturn (Siva or Rudra), and the Sabbath, the day of Saturn ? Is he not shown of the same essence with his father (Saturn), and called the “ Son of Time,” ''Kronos'', ''or Kâla ''(time), a form of Brahmâ (Vishnu and Siva) ? ” And is not “ Old Time ” of the Greeks, with its scythe and sand-glass, identical with the “ Ancient of Days ” of the Kabalists ; the latter “ Ancient ” being one with the Hindu “ Ancient of Days,” Brahmâ (in his ''triune ''form), whose name is also “ Sanat,” the Ancient ? Every Kumâra bears the prefix of ''Sanat ''and ''Sana ; ''and Sanaischara is Saturn, the planet (Sani and Sarra), the King Saturn whose Secretary in Egypt was Thot-Hermes the first. They are thus identified both with the planet and the god (Siva), who are, in their turn, shown the prototypes of Saturn, who is the same as Bel, Baal, Siva, and Jehovah Sabbaoth, ''The angel of whose face is'' {{Style S-Small capitals\|Mikael}} ( {{Style S-Hebrew\|מיבַאֶל}} “ who is as God ”). He is the patron, and guardian Angel of the Jews, as Daniel tells us (v. 21) ; and, before the Kumâras were degraded, by those who were ignorant of their very name, into demons and fallen angels, the Greek Ophites, the occultly inclined predecessors and precursors of the Roman Catholic Church after its secession and separation from the primitive Greek Church, had identified Michael with their ''Ophiomorphos'', the rebellious and opposing spirit. This means nothing more than the reverse aspect (symbolically) of Ophis — divine Wisdom or Christos. In the ''Talmud'', ''Mikael ''(Michael) is “ Prince of ''Water ”'' and the chief of the seven Spirits, for the same reason that his prototype (among many others) Sanat-Sujâta,

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	{{Style P-No indent\|and what not, only not the seven planets, which are Surya’s ''brothers'', not his ''Sons. ''These ''Astral ''gods, whose chief with the Gnostics was Ildabaoth * (from ''Ilda ''“ child,” and ''Baoth ''“ the egg ”), the son of Sophia Achamoth, the daughter of Sophia (Wisdom), whose region is the Pleroma, were his (Ildabaoth’s) sons. He produces from himself these six stellar spirits : ''Jove ''(Jehovah), ''Sabaoth'', ''Adonai'', ''Eloi'', ''Osraios'', ''Astaphaios'', † and it is they who are the second, or inferior ''Hebdomad. ''As to the third, it is composed of the seven primeval men, the shadows of the lunar gods, projected by the first Hebdomad. In this the Gnostics did not, as seen, differ much from the esoteric doctrine except that they veiled it. As to the charge made by Irenæus, who was evidently ignorant of the true tenets of the “ Heretics,” with regard to man being created on the ''sixth ''day, and man being created on the ''eighth'', this relates to the mysteries of the ''inner ''man. It will become com prehensible to the reader only after he has read Book II., and understood well the ''Anthropogenesis ''of the Esoteric doctrine.}}		{{Style P-No indent\|and what not, only not the seven planets, which are Surya’s ''brothers'', not his ''Sons. ''These ''Astral ''gods, whose chief with the Gnostics was Ildabaoth * (from ''Ilda ''“ child,” and ''Baoth ''“ the egg ”), the son of Sophia Achamoth, the daughter of Sophia (Wisdom), whose region is the Pleroma, were his (Ildabaoth’s) sons. He produces from himself these six stellar spirits : ''Jove ''(Jehovah), ''Sabaoth'', ''Adonai'', ''Eloi'', ''Osraios'', ''Astaphaios'', † and it is they who are the second, or inferior ''Hebdomad. ''As to the third, it is composed of the seven primeval men, the shadows of the lunar gods, projected by the first Hebdomad. In this the Gnostics did not, as seen, differ much from the esoteric doctrine except that they veiled it. As to the charge made by Irenæus, who was evidently ignorant of the true tenets of the “ Heretics,” with regard to man being created on the ''sixth ''day, and man being created on the ''eighth'', this relates to the mysteries of the ''inner ''man. It will become com prehensible to the reader only after he has read Book II., and understood well the ''Anthropogenesis ''of the Esoteric doctrine.}}

	Ildabaoth is a copy of Manu. The latter boasts, “ Oh, best of twice-born men ! Know that I (Manu) am he, the creator of all this world, whom that male Virâj . . . spontaneously produced ” (I., 33). He first creates the ten lords of Being, the Prajâpatis, who, as verse 36 says . . . “ produce seven other Manus.” (''The Ordinances of Manu.'') Ildabaoth does likewise : “ I am Father and God, and there is no one above me,” he exclaims. For which his mother coolly puts him down by saying, “ Do not lie, Ildabaoth, for the father of all, the ''first ''man (''Anthropos'') ''is above thee'', ''and so is Anthropos'', ''the Son of Anthropos ”'' (Irenæus, b. i, ch. xxx., 6). This is a good proof that there were three Logoi (besides the Seven born of the First), one of these being the ''Solar Logos. ''And, again, who was that “ Anthropos ” himself, so much higher than Ildabaoth ? The Gnostic records alone can solve this riddle. In ''Pistis Sophia ''the four-vowelled name Ieov is in each case accompanied by the epithet of “ the Primal, or First man.” This shows again that the gnosis was but an echo of our archaic doctrine. The names answering to Parabrahm, to Brahm, and Manu (the first ''thinking ''man) are composed of one-vowelled, three-vowelled and seven-vowelled sounds. Marcus, whose philosophy was certainly more Pythagorean than anything else, speaks of a revelation to him of the seven heavens sounding each one vowel as they pronounced the seven names of the seven (angelic) hierarchies.		Ildabaoth is a copy of Manu. The latter boasts, “ Oh, best of twice-born men ! Know that I (Manu) am he, the creator of all this world, whom that male Virâj . . . spontaneously produced ” (I., 33). He first creates the ten lords of Being, the Prajâpatis, who, as verse 36 says . . . “ produce seven other Manus.” (''The Ordinances of Manu.'') Ildabaoth does likewise : “ I am Father and God, and there is no one above me,” he exclaims. For which his mother coolly puts him down by saying, “ Do not lie, Ildabaoth, for the father of all, the ''first ''man (''Anthropos'') ''is above thee'', ''and so is Anthropos'', ''the Son of Anthropos ”'' (Irenæus, b. i, ch. xxx., 6). This is a good proof that there were three Logoi (besides the Seven born of the First), one of these being the ''Solar Logos. ''And, again, who was that “ Anthropos ” himself, so much higher than Ildabaoth ? The Gnostic records alone can solve this riddle. In ''Pistis Sophia ''the four-vowelled name {{Style S-Small capitals\|Ieov}} is in each case accompanied by the epithet of “ the Primal, or First man.” This shows again that the gnosis was but an echo of our archaic doctrine. The names answering to Parabrahm, to Brahm, and Manu (the first ''thinking ''man) are composed of one-vowelled, three-vowelled and seven-vowelled sounds. Marcus, whose philosophy was certainly more Pythagorean than anything else, speaks of a revelation to him of the seven heavens sounding each one vowel as they pronounced the seven names of the seven (angelic) hierarchies.

	When spirit has permeated every minutest atom of the seven principles of Kosmos, then the ''secondary ''creation, after the above-mentioned period of rest, begins.		When spirit has permeated every minutest atom of the seven principles of Kosmos, then the ''secondary ''creation, after the above-mentioned period of rest, begins.
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	In India these creations were described as follows : —		In India these creations were described as follows : —

	(I.) Mahat-tattwa creation — so-called because it was the primordial self-evolution of that which had to become ''Mahat'' — the “ divine Mind, conscious and intelligent ” ; esoterically, “ the ''spirit ''of the Universal soul.” . . . “ Worthiest of ascetics, through its potency (''the potency of that cause'') ; every ''produced ''cause comes by its proper nature.” (''Vishnu Purâna.'') “ Seeing that the potencies of all beings are under-		(I.) Mahat-tattwa creation — so-called because it was the primordial self-evolution of that which had to become ''Mahat'' — the “ divine {{Style S-Small capitals\|Mind}}, conscious and intelligent ” ; esoterically, “ the ''spirit ''of the Universal soul.” . . . “ Worthiest of ascetics, through its potency (''the potency of that cause'') ; every ''produced ''cause comes by its proper nature.” (''Vishnu Purâna.'') “ Seeing that the potencies of all beings are under-

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	Esoteric doctrine teaches that the Dhyan Chohans are the collective aggregate of divine Intelligence or primordial ''mind'', and that the first Manus — the seven “ mind-born ” Spiritual Intelligences — are identical with the former. Hence the “ Kwan-shi-yin ” — “ the golden Dragon in whom are the seven,” of Stanza III. — is the primordial Logos, or Brahmâ, the first manifested creative Power ; and the Dhyani-Energies are the Manus, or ''Manu-Swayambhûva collectively. ''The direct connection, moreover, between the “ Manus ” and “ Mahat ” is easy to see. ''Manu ''is from the root ''man'', “ to think ” ; and thinking proceeds from the mind. It is, in Cosmogony, the pre-nebular period.		Esoteric doctrine teaches that the Dhyan Chohans are the collective aggregate of divine Intelligence or primordial ''mind'', and that the first Manus — the seven “ mind-born ” Spiritual Intelligences — are identical with the former. Hence the “ Kwan-shi-yin ” — “ the golden Dragon in whom are the seven,” of Stanza III. — is the primordial Logos, or Brahmâ, the first manifested creative Power ; and the Dhyani-Energies are the Manus, or ''Manu-Swayambhûva collectively. ''The direct connection, moreover, between the “ Manus ” and “ Mahat ” is easy to see. ''Manu ''is from the root ''man'', “ to think ” ; and thinking proceeds from the mind. It is, in Cosmogony, the pre-nebular period.

	(II.) “ The ''second ''Creation,” “ Bhûta,” was of the rudimental principles (Tanmâtras), thence termed the elemental creation (''Bhûta-sarga''). * It is the period of the first breath of the differentiation of the ''pre-Cosmic ''Elements or matter. ''Bhûtâdi ''means literally “ the origin of the Elements,” and precedes ''Bhûta-sarga'' — the “ creation ” or differentiation of those Elements in primordial “ Akâsa ” (Chaos or Vacuity). † In the “ Vishnu Purâna ” it is said to proceed along, and belong to, the triple aspect of ''Ahankâra'', translated Egotism, but meaning rather that untranslateable term the “ I-am-ness,” that which first issues from “ Mahat,” or divine mind ; the first shadowy outline of Self-hood, for “ pure ” Ahankâra becomes “ passionate ” and finally “ rudimental ”		(II.) “ The ''second ''Creation,” “ Bhûta,” was of the rudimental principles (Tanmâtras), thence termed the elemental creation (''Bhûta-sarga''). * It is the period of the first breath of the differentiation of the ''pre-Cosmic ''Elements or matter. ''Bhûtâdi ''means literally “ the origin of the Elements,” and precedes ''Bhûta-sarga'' — the “ creation ” or differentiation of those Elements in primordial “ Akâsa ” (Chaos or Vacuity). † In the “ Vishnu Purâna ” it is said to proceed along, and belong to, the triple aspect of ''Ahankâra'', translated Egotism, but meaning rather that untranslateable term the “ {{Style S-Small capitals\|I-am-ness}},” that which first issues from “ Mahat,” or divine mind ; the first shadowy outline of Self-hood, for “ pure ” Ahankâra becomes “ passionate ” and finally “ rudimental ”

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	Only this “ likeness ” and the ''ogdoad ''itself is a blind, just as in the seven creations of the Vishnu Purânas, to which two more are added of which the eighth, termed Anûgraha, “ possesses both the qualities of goodness and darkness,” a Sankhyan more than a Purânic idea. For Irenæus says again (b. i. xxx. 6) that “ they (the Gnostics) had a like eighth creation which was good and bad, divine and human. They affirm that man was formed ''on the eighth day''. Sometimes they affirm that he was made on the ''sixth day'', and at others on the eighth ; unless, perchance, they mean that his earthly part was formed on the sixth day and his fleshly part (?) on the eighth day ; these two being distinguished by them.”		Only this “ likeness ” and the ''ogdoad ''itself is a blind, just as in the seven creations of the Vishnu Purânas, to which two more are added of which the eighth, termed Anûgraha, “ possesses both the qualities of goodness and darkness,” a Sankhyan more than a Purânic idea. For Irenæus says again (b. i. xxx. 6) that “ they (the Gnostics) had a like eighth creation which was good and bad, divine and human. They affirm that man was formed ''on the eighth day''. Sometimes they affirm that he was made on the ''sixth day'', and at others on the eighth ; unless, perchance, they mean that his earthly part was formed on the sixth day and his fleshly part (?) on the eighth day ; these two being distinguished by them.”

	They were so “ distinguished,” but not as Irenæus gives it. The Gnostics had a superior ''Hebdomad'', and an inferior one, in Heaven ; and a third terrestrial ''Hebdomad'', on the plane of matter. Iao, the mystery god and the Regent of the Moon, as given in Origen’s chart, was the chief of these superior “ ''Seven Heavens'',” † hence identical with the chief of the lunar Pitris, that name being given by them to the lunar Dhyan-Chohans. “ They affirm that these seven heavens are intelligent, and ''speak of them as being angels'',” writes the same Irenæus ; and adds that on this account they termed Iao Hebdomas, while his mother was called “ ''Ogdoas'',” because, as he explains, “ she preserved the number of ''the first begotten and primary Ogdoad of the Pleroma.''” (Ibid. b. i, v. 2).		They were so “ distinguished,” but not as Irenæus gives it. The Gnostics had a superior ''Hebdomad'', and an inferior one, in Heaven ; and a third terrestrial ''Hebdomad'', on the plane of matter. {{Style S-Small capitals\|Iao}}, the mystery god and the Regent of the Moon, as given in Origen’s chart, was the chief of these superior “ ''Seven Heavens'',” † hence identical with the chief of the lunar Pitris, that name being given by them to the lunar Dhyan-Chohans. “ They affirm that these seven heavens are intelligent, and ''speak of them as being angels'',” writes the same Irenæus ; and adds that on this account they termed Iao Hebdomas, while his mother was called “ ''Ogdoas'',” because, as he explains, “ she preserved the number of ''the first begotten and primary Ogdoad of the Pleroma.''” (Ibid. b. i, v. 2).

	This “ first begotten ''Ogdoad ”'' was (''a'') in theogony the ''second Logos ''(the manifested) because he was born of the Seven-fold ''first Logos'', hence he is the eighth on this manifested plane ; and (''b'') in astrolatry, it was the ''Sun'', Mârttanda — the eighth son of Aditi, whom she rejects while preserving her Seven Sons, ''the planets. ''For the ancients have never regarded the Sun as a planet, but ''as a central and fixed Star. ''This, then, is the second Hebdomad born of the ''Seven-rayed ''one, Agni, the Sun		This “ first begotten ''Ogdoad ”'' was (''a'') in theogony the ''second Logos ''(the manifested) because he was born of the Seven-fold ''first Logos'', hence he is the eighth on this manifested plane ; and (''b'') in astrolatry, it was the ''Sun'', Mârttanda — the eighth son of Aditi, whom she rejects while preserving her Seven Sons, ''the planets. ''For the ancients have never regarded the Sun as a planet, but ''as a central and fixed Star. ''This, then, is the second Hebdomad born of the ''Seven-rayed ''one, Agni, the Sun

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	The ''Seven Creations ''are found in almost every Purâna. They are all preceded by what Wilson translates — “ the indiscrete Principle,” absolute Spirit independent of any relation with objects of sense. They are — (1) ''Mahattattwa'', the Universal Soul, Infinite Intellect, or Divine Mind ; (2) ''Bhûta ''or ''Bhûtasarga'', elemental creation, the first differentiation of Universal indiscrete Substance ; (3) ''Indriya ''or ''Aindriyaka'', organic evolution. “ These three were the Prâkrita creations, the ''developments of indiscrete nature ''preceded by indiscrete principle ” ; (4) ''Mukhya'', the fundamental creation of perceptible things, was that of inanimate bodies † ; (5) ''Tairyagyonya'', or ''Tiryaksrotas'', was that of animals ; (6) ''Urdhwasrotas'', or that of divinities ‡ (?) ; (7) ''Arvaksrotas'', was that of man. (''See Vishnu Purâna.'')		The ''Seven Creations ''are found in almost every Purâna. They are all preceded by what Wilson translates — “ the indiscrete Principle,” absolute Spirit independent of any relation with objects of sense. They are — (1) ''Mahattattwa'', the Universal Soul, Infinite Intellect, or Divine Mind ; (2) ''Bhûta ''or ''Bhûtasarga'', elemental creation, the first differentiation of Universal indiscrete Substance ; (3) ''Indriya ''or ''Aindriyaka'', organic evolution. “ These three were the Prâkrita creations, the ''developments of indiscrete nature ''preceded by indiscrete principle ” ; (4) ''Mukhya'', the fundamental creation of perceptible things, was that of inanimate bodies † ; (5) ''Tairyagyonya'', or ''Tiryaksrotas'', was that of animals ; (6) ''Urdhwasrotas'', or that of divinities ‡ (?) ; (7) ''Arvaksrotas'', was that of man. (''See Vishnu Purâna.'')

	This is the order given in the ''exoteric ''texts. According to esoteric teaching there are seven primary, and seven secondary “ creations ; ” the former being the Forces ''self-evolving ''from the one ''causeless ''force ; the latter, showing the manifested Universe emanating from the already differentiated ''divine ''elements.		This is the order given in the ''exoteric'' texts. According to esoteric teaching there are seven primary, and seven secondary “ creations ; ” the former being the Forces ''self-evolving'' from the one ''causeless'' {{Style S-Small capitals\|force}} ; the latter, showing the manifested Universe emanating from the already differentiated ''divine ''elements.

	Esoterically, as well as exoterically, all the above enumerated Creations stand for the (7) periods of Evolution, whether after an “ Age ” or a “ Day ” of Brahmâ. This is the teaching ''par excellence ''of Occult Philosophy, which, however, never uses the term “ creation,” nor even that of evolution, “ with regard to ''primary ''‘ Creation ’ : ” but calls all such ''forces ''“ the ''aspects ''of the Causeless Force.” In the Bible		Esoterically, as well as exoterically, all the above enumerated Creations stand for the (7) periods of Evolution, whether after an “ Age ” or a “ Day ” of Brahmâ. This is the teaching ''par excellence ''of Occult Philosophy, which, however, never uses the term “ creation,” nor even that of evolution, “ with regard to ''primary ''‘ Creation ’ : ” but calls all such ''forces ''“ the ''aspects ''of the Causeless Force.” In the Bible

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	“ {{Style S-Small capitals\|There}} was neither day nor night, nor sky nor earth, nor darkness nor light, nor any other thing save only one, unapprehensible by intellect, or that which is Brahma and Pum<sup>˙ </sup>is (Spirit) and Prâdhâna (crude matter) ” (''Veda : ''“ ''Vishnu Purâna Commentary ”'') ;'' ''or literally : “ One Prâdhânika Brahma Spirit : {{Style S-Small capitals\|that}} was.” The “ Prâdhânika Brahma Spirit ” is Mulaprakriti and Parabrahmam.		“ {{Style S-Small capitals\|There}} was neither day nor night, nor sky nor earth, nor darkness nor light, nor any other thing save only {{Style S-Small capitals\|one}}, unapprehensible by intellect, or that which is Brahma and Pum<sup>˙ </sup>is (Spirit) and Prâdhâna (crude matter) ” (''Veda : ''“ ''Vishnu Purâna Commentary ”'') ;'' ''or literally : “ One Prâdhânika Brahma Spirit : {{Style S-Small capitals\|that}} was.” The “ Prâdhânika Brahma Spirit ” is Mulaprakriti and Parabrahmam.

	In Vishnu Purâna, Parâśara says to Maitreya, his pupil : — “ I have thus explained to you, excellent Muni, six creations. . . . the creation of the Arvâksrotas beings was the seventh, and was that of man.” Then he proceeds to speak of two additional and very mysterious creations, variously interpreted by the commentators.		In Vishnu Purâna, Parâśara says to Maitreya, his pupil : — “ I have thus explained to you, excellent Muni, six creations. . . . the creation of the Arvâksrotas beings was the seventh, and was that of man.” Then he proceeds to speak of two additional and very mysterious creations, variously interpreted by the commentators.

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