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Pavel Malakhov at 04:45, 24 September 2025

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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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Pavel Malakhov at 10:51, 23 September 2025

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	{{Style P-No indent\|they who became the first Race, and thus shared its destiny and further evolution. They ''would ''not, simply because they ''could ''not, give to man that sacred spark which burns and expands into the flower of human reason and self-consciousness, for they had it not to give. This was left to that class of Devas who became symbolised in Greece under the name of Prometheus, to those who had nought to do with the physical body, yet everything with the purely spiritual man. ''( See Part II. of this volume'', “ ''The Fallen Angels ”'' ;'' ''also “ ''The Gods of Light proceed from the Gods of Darkness.''” )}}		{{Style P-No indent\|they who became the first Race, and thus shared its destiny and further evolution. They ''would ''not, simply because they ''could ''not, give to man that sacred spark which burns and expands into the flower of human reason and self-consciousness, for they had it not to give. This was left to that class of Devas who became symbolised in Greece under the name of Prometheus, to those who had nought to do with the physical body, yet everything with the purely spiritual man. ''( See Part II. of this volume'', “ ''The Fallen Angels ”'' ;'' ''also “ ''The Gods of Light proceed from the Gods of Darkness.''” )}}

	Each class of Creators endows man with what it has to give : the one builds his external form ; the other gives him its essence, which later on becomes the Human ''Higher Self ''owing to the ''personal exertion of the individual ; ''but they could not make men as they were themselves — perfect, because sinless ; sinless, because having only the first, pale shadowy outlines of attributes, and these all perfect — from the human standpoint — white, pure and cold as the virgin snow. Where there is no struggle, there is no merit. Humanity, “ of the Earth earthy,” was not destined to be created by the angels of the first divine Breath : therefore they are said to ''have refused ''to do so, and man had to be formed by more material creators, * who, in their turn, could give only what they had in their own natures, and no more. Subservient to eternal law, the pure gods could only project out of themselves ''shadowy ''men, a little less ethereal and spiritual, less ''divine and perfect ''than themselves —  shadows still. The first humanity, therefore, was a pale copy of its progenitors ; too material, even in its ethereality, to be a hierarchy of gods ; too spiritual and pure to be men, endowed as it is with every ''negative ''(''Nirguna'') perfection. Perfection, to be fully such, must be born out of imperfection, the ''incorruptible ''must grow out of the corruptible, having the latter as its vehicle and basis and contrast. Absolute light is absolute darkness, and ''vice versâ. ''In fact, there is neither light nor		Each class of Creators endows man with what it has to give : the one builds his external form ; the other gives him its essence, which later on becomes the Human ''Higher Self ''owing to the ''personal exertion of the individual ; ''but they could not make men as they were themselves — perfect, because sinless ; sinless, because having only the first, pale shadowy outlines of attributes, and these all perfect — from the human standpoint — white, pure and cold as the virgin snow. Where there is no struggle, there is no merit. Humanity, “ of the Earth earthy,” was not destined to be created by the angels of the first divine Breath : therefore they are said to ''have refused ''to do so, and man had to be formed by more material creators, * who, in their turn, could give only what they had in their own natures, and no more. Subservient to eternal law, the pure gods could only project out of themselves ''shadowy ''men, a little less ethereal and spiritual, less ''divine and perfect ''than themselves —  shadows still. The first humanity, therefore, was a pale copy of its progenitors ; too material, even in its ethereality, to be a hierarchy of gods ; too spiritual and pure to be {{Style S-Small capitals\|men}}, endowed as it is with every ''negative ''(''Nirguna'') perfection. Perfection, to be fully such, must be born out of imperfection, the ''incorruptible ''must grow out of the corruptible, having the latter as its vehicle and basis and contrast. Absolute light is absolute darkness, and ''vice versâ. ''In fact, there is neither light nor

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Pavel Malakhov at 11:48, 22 September 2025

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	''giants ''and ''sorcerers'', concealed the truth — ''astronomical'', ''physical'', and ''divine'', as it is a page out of ''pre-cosmic ''theogony — under various allegories. Its esoteric, true interpretation s a veritable Theodice of the “ Fallen Angels,” so called ; the ''willing ''and the ''unwilling'', the ''creators ''and those who ''refused to create'', being now mixed up most perplexingly by Christian Catholics, who forget that their highest Archangel, St. Michael, who is shown to conquer (to master and to assimilate) the {{Style S-Small capitals\|Dragon of Wisdom}} and of divine Self-sacrifice (now miscalled and calumniated as Satan), {{Style S-Small capitals\|was the first to refuse to create}} ! This led to endless confusion. So little does Christian theology understand the paradoxical language of the East and its symbolism, that it even explains, in its ''dead letter sense'', the Chinese Buddhist and Hindu exoteric rite of raising a noise during certain eclipses to scare away the “ great red Dragon,” which laid a plot to carry away the light ! But here “ Light ” means esoteric Wisdom, and we have sufficiently explained the secret meaning of the terms ''Dragon'', ''Serpent'', etc., etc., all of which refer to Adepts and Initiates.		{{Style P-No indent\|''giants ''and ''sorcerers'', concealed the truth — ''astronomical'', ''physical'', and ''divine'', as it is a page out of ''pre-cosmic ''theogony — under various allegories. Its esoteric, true interpretation s a veritable Theodice of the “ Fallen Angels,” so called ; the ''willing ''and the ''unwilling'', the ''creators ''and those who ''refused to create'', being now mixed up most perplexingly by Christian Catholics, who forget that their highest Archangel, St. Michael, who is shown to conquer (to master and to assimilate) the {{Style S-Small capitals\|Dragon of Wisdom}} and of divine Self-sacrifice (now miscalled and calumniated as Satan), {{Style S-Small capitals\|was the first to refuse to create}} ! This led to endless confusion. So little does Christian theology understand the paradoxical language of the East and its symbolism, that it even explains, in its ''dead letter sense'', the Chinese Buddhist and Hindu exoteric rite of raising a noise during certain eclipses to scare away the “ great red Dragon,” which laid a plot to carry away the light ! But here “ Light ” means esoteric Wisdom, and we have sufficiently explained the secret meaning of the terms ''Dragon'', ''Serpent'', etc., etc., all of which refer to Adepts and Initiates.}}
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Pavel Malakhov at 01:10, 29 January 2022

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	(''c'') Chhaya, as already explained, is the astral image. It bears this meaning in Sanskrit works. Thus Sanjna (Spiritual Consciousness), the wife of Sûrya, the Sun, is shown retiring into the jungle to lead an ascetic life, and leaving behind to her husband her Chhaya, shadow or image.		(''c'') Chhaya, as already explained, is the astral image. It bears this meaning in Sanskrit works. Thus Sanjna (Spiritual Consciousness), the wife of Sûrya, the Sun, is shown retiring into the jungle to lead an ascetic life, and leaving behind to her husband her Chhaya, shadow or image.

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			<nowiki>*</nowiki> The “ Father of the Sacred Fire,” writes Prof. Jolly, “ is Twashtri . . . his mother was Maya. He himself was styled ''Akta ''(anointed, χριστὸς), after the priest had poured upon his head the ''spirituous ''(?) Soma, and on his body butter purified by sacrifice ” ; (“ ''Man before Metals'',” p. 190). The source of his information is not given by the French Darwinist. But the lines are quoted to show that light begins to dawn even upon the materialists. Adalbert Kühn, in his “ ''Die Herabkunft des Feuers'',” identifies the two signs [[File:Sd-svastica.jpg\|x20px]] and [[File:Sd-svastica with dots.jpg\|x20px]] with ''Arani'', and designates them under this name. He adds : “ This process of kindling fire naturally led men to the idea of sexual reproduction,” etc. Why could not a more dignified idea, and one more occult, have led man to invent that symbol, in so far as it is connected, in one of its aspects, with human reproduction ? But its chief symbolism refers to Cosmogony.

			“ ''Agni'', in the condition of ''Akta'', or anointed, is suggestive of Christ,” remarks Prof. Jolly. “ ''Maya'', Mary, his mother ; ''Twastri'', St. Joseph, the carpenter of the Bible.” In the ''Rig Veda'', Viswakarman is the highest and oldest of the Gods and their “ Father.” He is the “ carpenter or builder,” because God is called even by the monotheists, “ the Architect of the Universe.” Still, the original idea is purely metaphysical, and had no connection with the later Phallicism.
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