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This “ fire ” is spoken of in all the Hindu Books, as also in the Kabalistic works. The ''Zohar ''explains it as the “ white hidden fire, in the ''Resha trivrah ”'' (the White Head), whose Will causes the fiery fluid to flow in 370 currents in every direction of the universe. It is identica with the “ Serpent that runs with 370 leaps ” of the ''Siphrah Dzenioota'', which, when the “ Perfect Man,” the Metatron, ''is raised'', ''i.e.'', when the ''divine ''man indwells in the ''animal ''man, it, the Serpent, becomes ''three spirits'', that is to say, is Atma-Buddhi-Manas, in our theosophical phraseology. (''Vide ''Part II. in Vol. II., §§ 3, “ The Many Meanings of the War in Heaven.”) | This “ fire ” is spoken of in all the Hindu Books, as also in the Kabalistic works. The ''Zohar ''explains it as the “ white hidden fire, in the ''Resha trivrah ”'' (the White Head), whose Will causes the fiery fluid to flow in 370 currents in every direction of the universe. It is identica with the “ Serpent that runs with 370 leaps ” of the ''Siphrah Dzenioota'', which, when the “ Perfect Man,” the Metatron, ''is raised'', ''i.e.'', when the ''divine ''man indwells in the ''animal ''man, it, the Serpent, becomes ''three spirits'', that is to say, is Atma-Buddhi-Manas, in our theosophical phraseology. (''Vide ''Part II. in Vol. II., §§ 3, “ The Many Meanings of the War in Heaven.”) | ||
Spirit, then, or Cosmic Ideation, and Cosmic Substance — one of whose ''principles ''is Ether — are ''one'', and include the {{Style S-Small capitals|elements}}, in the sense St. Paul attaches to them. These Elements are the veiled Synthesis standing for Dhyan Chohans, Devas, Sephiroth, Amshaspends, Archangels, etc., etc. The Ether of science — the ''Ilus ''of Berosus, or the ''Protyle ''of Chemistry — constitutes, so to speak, the ''rude ''material (relatively) out of which the above-named “ Builders,” following the plan traced out for them eternally in the {{Style S-Small capitals|divine thought}}, fashion the systems in the Cosmos. They are “ myths,” we are told. “ No more so than Ether and the Atoms,” we answer. The two latter are ''absolute ''necessities of physical science ; the “ Builders ” are as absolute a necessity of metaphysics. We are twitted with : “ You ''never saw them.''” We ask the materialists : “ Have you ever seen Ether, ''or your Atoms'', or, again, your force ? ” Moreover, one of the greatest Western Evolutionists of our modern day, the coadjutor of Darwin, Mr. A. R. Wallace, when discussing the inadequacy of Natural Selection alone to account for the physical form of Man, admits the guiding action of “ higher intelligences ” as a “ ''necessary ''part of the great laws which govern the material Universe ” (“ ''Contributions to Theory of Natural Selection ”''). | Spirit, then, or Cosmic Ideation, and Cosmic Substance — one of whose ''principles ''is Ether — are ''one'', and include the {{Style S-Small capitals|elements}}, in the sense St. Paul attaches to them. These Elements are the veiled Synthesis standing for Dhyan Chohans, Devas, Sephiroth, Amshaspends, Archangels, etc., etc. The Ether of science — the ''Ilus ''of Berosus, or the ''Protyle ''of Chemistry — constitutes, so to speak, the ''rude ''material (relatively) out of which the above-named “ Builders,” following the plan traced out for them eternally in the {{Style S-Small capitals|divine thought}}, fashion the systems in the Cosmos. They are “ myths,” we are told. “ No more so than Ether and the Atoms,” we answer. The two latter are ''absolute ''necessities of physical science ; the “ Builders ” are as absolute a necessity of metaphysics. We are twitted with : “ You ''never saw them.''” We ask the materialists : “ Have you ever seen Ether, ''or your Atoms'', or, again, your {{Style S-Small capitals|force}} ? ” Moreover, one of the greatest Western Evolutionists of our modern day, the coadjutor of Darwin, Mr. A. R. Wallace, when discussing the inadequacy of Natural Selection alone to account for the physical form of Man, admits the guiding action of “ higher intelligences ” as a “ ''necessary ''part of the great laws which govern the material Universe ” (“ ''Contributions to Theory of Natural Selection ”''). | ||
These “ higher intelligences ” are the Dhyan Chohans of the | These “ higher intelligences ” are the Dhyan Chohans of the ''Occultists.'' | ||
''Occultists.'' | |||
Indeed, there are few Myths in any religious system worthy of the name, but have an ''historical ''as well as a ''scientific ''foundation. “ Myths,” justly observes Pococke, “ are now proved to be fables, ''just in proportion as we misunderstand ''them ; ''truths'', in proportion as ''they were once understood.''” | Indeed, there are few Myths in any religious system worthy of the name, but have an ''historical ''as well as a ''scientific ''foundation. “ Myths,” justly observes Pococke, “ are now proved to be fables, ''just in proportion as we misunderstand ''them ; ''truths'', in proportion as ''they were once understood.''” | ||
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{{Style P-No indent|with reference to Cosmic Evolution and the first “ creation ” of our Globe with all its products, organic and ''inorganic ''(strange word for an Occultist to use) — is that the whole Kosmos has sprung from the {{Style S-Small capitals|divine thought}}. This thought impregnates matter, which is co-eternal with the {{Style S-Small capitals|one reality}} ; and all that lives and breathes evolves from the emanations of the {{Style S-Small capitals|one}} ''Immutable'' — Parabrahm <nowiki>=</nowiki> Mulaprakriti, the eternal one-root. The former of these is, so to say, the aspect of the central point turned inward into regions quite inaccessible to human intellect, and is absolute abstraction ; whereas, in its aspect as ''Mulaprakriti'' — the eternal root of all, — it gives one some hazy comprehension at least of the Mystery of Being.}} | {{Style P-No indent|with reference to Cosmic Evolution and the first “ creation ” of our Globe with all its products, organic and ''inorganic ''(strange word for an Occultist to use) — is that the whole Kosmos has sprung from the {{Style S-Small capitals|divine thought}}. This thought impregnates matter, which is co-eternal with the {{Style S-Small capitals|one reality}} ; and all that lives and breathes evolves from the emanations of the {{Style S-Small capitals|one}} ''Immutable'' — Parabrahm <nowiki>=</nowiki> Mulaprakriti, the eternal one-root. The former of these is, so to say, the aspect of the central point turned inward into regions quite inaccessible to human intellect, and is absolute abstraction ; whereas, in its aspect as ''Mulaprakriti'' — the eternal root of all, — it gives one some hazy comprehension at least of the Mystery of Being.}} | ||
{{Style P-Quote|“ Therefore, it was taught in the ''inner ''temples that this visible universe of spirit and matter is but the concrete image of the ideal abstraction ; it was built on the model of the first divine idea. Thus our universe existed from Eternity in a latent state. The soul animating this purely spiritual universe is the central sun, the highest deity itself. It was not the ''One ''who built the concrete form of the idea, but the first-begotten ; and as it was constructed on the geometrical figure of the dodecahedron, * the first-begotten ‘ was pleased to employ twelve thousand years in its creation.’ The latter number is expressed in the Tyrrhenian cosmogony, † which shows man created in the sixth millenium. This agrees with the Egyptian theory of 6,000 ‘ years ’ ‡ and with the Hebrew computation. But it is the exoteric form of it. The ''secret ''computation explains that the ‘ twelve thousand and the 6,000 years ’ are {{Style S-Small capitals|years of Brahma}} — one ''day ''of Brahmâ being equal to 4,320,000,000 years. Sanchoniathon<sup>§ </sup>in his ''Cosmogony'', declares that when the wind (spirit) became enamoured of its own principles (the chaos), an intimate union took place, which connection was called ''pothos'', and from this sprang the seed of all. And the chaos knew not its own production, for it was ''senseless ; ''but from its embrace with the wind was generated Môt, or the ilus (mud).<nowiki>||</nowiki> From this proceeded the spores of creation and the generation of the universe. | {{Style P-Quote|“ Therefore, it was taught in the ''inner ''temples that this visible universe of spirit and matter is but the concrete image of the ideal abstraction ; it was built on the model of the first {{Style S-Small capitals|divine idea}}. Thus our universe existed from Eternity in a latent state. The soul animating this purely spiritual universe is the central sun, the highest deity itself. It was not the ''One ''who built the concrete form of the idea, but the first-begotten ; and as it was constructed on the geometrical figure of the dodecahedron, * the first-begotten ‘ was pleased to employ twelve thousand years in its creation.’ The latter number is expressed in the Tyrrhenian cosmogony, † which shows man created in the sixth millenium. This agrees with the Egyptian theory of 6,000 ‘ years ’ ‡ and with the Hebrew computation. But it is the exoteric form of it. The ''secret ''computation explains that the ‘ twelve thousand and the 6,000 years ’ are {{Style S-Small capitals|years of Brahma}} — one ''day ''of Brahmâ being equal to 4,320,000,000 years. Sanchoniathon<sup>§ </sup>in his ''Cosmogony'', declares that when the wind (spirit) became enamoured of its own principles (the chaos), an intimate union took place, which connection was called ''pothos'', and from this sprang the seed of all. And the chaos knew not its own production, for it was ''senseless ; ''but from its embrace with the wind was generated Môt, or the ilus (mud).<nowiki>||</nowiki> From this proceeded the spores of creation and the generation of the universe. | ||
“ Zeus-Zen (æther), and Chthonia (the chaotic earth) and Metis (the water), his wives ; Osiris and Isis-Latona — the former god also representing ether — the first emanation of the Supreme Deity, Amun, the primeval source of light ; the goddess earth and water again ; Mithras,¶ the rock-born god, the symbol of the male mundane-fire, or the personified primordial light, and Mithra, the fire-goddess, at once his mother and his wife : the pure element of fire (the active or male principle) regarded as light and heat, in conjunction with earth and water, or matter (female, or passive, elements of Cosmical generation)}} | “ Zeus-Zen (æther), and Chthonia (the chaotic earth) and Metis (the water), his wives ; Osiris and Isis-Latona — the former god also representing ether — the first emanation of the Supreme Deity, Amun, the primeval source of light ; the goddess earth and water again ; Mithras,¶ the rock-born god, the symbol of the male mundane-fire, or the personified primordial light, and Mithra, the fire-goddess, at once his mother and his wife : the pure element of fire (the active or male principle) regarded as light and heat, in conjunction with earth and water, or matter (female, or passive, elements of Cosmical generation)}} | ||
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The fragments of the systems that have now reached us are rejected as absurd fables. Nevertheless, occult Science — having survived even the great Flood that submerged the antediluvian giants and with them their very memory, save in the Secret Doctrine, the Bible and other Scriptures — still holds the Key to all the world problems. | The fragments of the systems that have now reached us are rejected as absurd fables. Nevertheless, occult Science — having survived even the great Flood that submerged the antediluvian giants and with them their very memory, save in the Secret Doctrine, the Bible and other Scriptures — still holds the Key to all the world problems. | ||
Let us apply that Key to the rare fragments of long-forgotten cosmogonies and try by their scattered parts to re-establish the once Universal Cosmogony of the Secret Doctrine. The Key fits them all. No one can study ancient philosophies seriously without perceiving that the striking similitude of conception between all — in their exoteric form very often, in their hidden spirit invariably — is the result of no mere coincidence, but of a concurrent design : and that there was, during the youth of mankind, one language, one knowledge, one universal religion, when there were no churches, no creeds or sects, but when every man was a priest unto himself. And, if it is shown that already in those ages which are shut out from our sight by the exuberant growth of tradition, human religious thought developed in uniform sympathy in every portion of the globe ; then, it becomes evident that, born under whatever latitude, in the cold North or the burning South, in the East or West, that thought was inspired by the same revelations, and man was nurtured under the protecting shadow of the same | Let us apply that Key to the rare fragments of long-forgotten cosmogonies and try by their scattered parts to re-establish the once Universal Cosmogony of the Secret Doctrine. The Key fits them all. No one can study ancient philosophies seriously without perceiving that the striking similitude of conception between all — in their exoteric form very often, in their hidden spirit invariably — is the result of no mere coincidence, but of a concurrent design : and that there was, during the youth of mankind, one language, one knowledge, one universal religion, when there were no churches, no creeds or sects, but when every man was a priest unto himself. And, if it is shown that already in those ages which are shut out from our sight by the exuberant growth of tradition, human religious thought developed in uniform sympathy in every portion of the globe ; then, it becomes evident that, born under whatever latitude, in the cold North or the burning South, in the East or West, that thought was inspired by the same revelations, and man was nurtured under the protecting shadow of the same {{Style S-Small capitals|tree of knowledge}}. | ||
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<nowiki>*</nowiki> Bordj is called a fire-mountain — a volcano ; therefore it contains fire, rock, earth and water : the male, or active and the female, or passive, elements. The myth is suggestive. | <nowiki>*</nowiki> Bordj is called a fire-mountain — a volcano ; therefore it contains fire, rock, earth and water : the male, or active and the female, or passive, elements. The myth is suggestive. | ||
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