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† Another suggestive analogy between the Aryan or Brahmanical and the Egyptian esotericism. The former call the Pitris “ the lunar ancestors ” of men ; and the Egyptians made of the Moon-God, Taht-Esmun, the first human ancestor. This “ moon-god ” “ expressed the Seven nature-powers that were prior to himself, and were summed up in him as his seven souls, of which he was the manifestor as the eighth one (hence the eighth sphere). The seven rays of the Chaldean Heptakis or Iao, on the Gnostic stones indicate the same septenary of souls.” . . . “ The first form of the mystical seven was seen to be figured in heaven, by the seven large stars of the Great Bear, the constellation assigned by the Egyptians to the Mother of Time, and of the seven elemental powers.” (See ''The Seven Souls'', etc.) As well known to every Hindu, this same constellation represents in India the Seven Rishis, and as such is called ''Riksha'', and ''Chitra-Sikhandinas.''

{{Style P-No indent|Juno, etc., that connection was due to a thorough knowledge of physiology and female nature, physical as much as psychic. But, primarily, the Sun and Moon were the only visible and, so to say, ''tangible ''[by their effects] psychic and physiological deities — the Father and the Son, while Space and air in general, or that expanse of Heaven called Noot by the Egyptians, was the concealed Spirit or Breath of the two. These “ Father and Son ” were interchangeable in their functions and worked harmoniously together in their effects upon terrestrial nature and humanity ; hence they were regarded as {{Style S-Small capitals|one}}, though two in personified Entities. They were both males, and both had their distinct and also collaborative work in the causative generation of Humanity. So much from the astronomical and cosmic standpoints viewed and expressed in symbolical language — which became in our last races theological and dogmatic. But behind this veil of Cosmic and Astrological symbols, there were the Occult mysteries of Anthropography and the primeval genesis of man. And in this, no knowledge of symbols —  or even the key to the ''post-diluvian ''symbolical language of the Jews —  will, or can help, save only with reference to that which was laid down in national scriptures for exoteric uses ; the sum of which, however cleverly veiled, was only the smallest portion of the real primitive history of each people, often relating, moreover, — as in the Hebrew Scriptures — merely to the terrestrial human, not divine life of that nation. That psychic and spiritual element belonged to {{Style S-Small capitals|mystery}} and {{Style S-Small capitals|initiation}}. There were things never recorded in scrolls, but, as in Central Asia, on rocks and in subterranean crypts.}}

Therefore, when it is proved to us that the Kabalistic identification of Jehovah with Binah, a female Sephiroth, has still another, a sub-occult meaning in it, then and then only the Occultist will be ready to pass the palm of perfection to the Kabalist. Until then, it is asserted that, as Jehovah is in the abstract sense of a “ one living God,” a single number, a metaphysical figment, and a reality only when put in his proper place as an emanation and a Sephiroth — we have a right to maintain that the Zohar (as witnessed by the Book of Numbers, at any rate), gave out originally, before the Christian Kabalists had disfigured it, and still gives out the same doctrine that we do ; ''i.e.'', it makes Man emanate, not from one Celestial Man, but from a Septenary group of Celestial men or Angels, just as in “ Pymander, the Thought Divine.”