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{{Style P-No indent|wherein the circle is the ''naught'', its vertical diameter line is the first or primal one (the ''Word ''or ''Logos''), from which springs the series of the other numbers up to 9, the limit of the digits. The 10 is the first Divine Manifestation † containing “ every possible power of exact expression of proportion.” By this Kabalistic speculation we are taught that the Sephiroth “ were the numbers or emanations of the Heavenly Light (figures 20612 to 6561), they were the 10 ‘ Words,’ dbrim, 41224, the light, of which they were the flux, was the Heavenly Man, the Adam kdm (the 144-144) ; and the Light, by the New Testament or Covenant (or 41224) created God ; just as, by the Old Testament God (Alhim, 31415) creates light (20612 to 6561).”}}
{{Style P-No indent|wherein the circle is the ''naught'', its vertical diameter line is the first or primal {{Style S-Small capitals|one}} (the ''Word ''or ''Logos''), from which springs the series of the other numbers up to 9, the limit of the digits. The 10 is the first Divine Manifestation † containing “ every possible power of exact expression of proportion.” By this Kabalistic speculation we are taught that the Sephiroth “ were the numbers or emanations of the Heavenly Light (figures 20612 to 6561), they were the 10 ‘ Words,’ dbrim, 41224, the light, of which they were the flux, was the Heavenly Man, the Adam kdm (the 144-144) ; and the Light, by the New Testament or Covenant (or 41224) created God ; just as, by the Old Testament God (Alhim, 31415) creates light (20612 to 6561).”}}


Now there are three kinds of light in Occultism, as in the Kabala.
Now there are three kinds of light in Occultism, as in the Kabala.
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“ Mental perception,” he says, “ to become physical perception, must have the Cosmic principle of ''light : ''and by this, our mental circle must become visible through light ; or, for its complete manifestation, the Circle must be that of physical visibility, or Light itself. Such conceptions, thus formulated, became the groundwork of the philosophy of the divine manifesting in the Universe.”
“ Mental perception,” he says, “ to become physical perception, must have the Cosmic principle of ''light : ''and by this, our mental circle must become visible through light ; or, for its complete manifestation, the Circle must be that of physical visibility, or Light itself. Such conceptions, thus formulated, became the groundwork of the philosophy of the divine manifesting in the Universe.”


This is philosophy. It is otherwise when we find the Rabbi in ''Al-Chazari ''saying that “ under s’ph-r is to be understood ''calculation ''and ''weighing ''of created bodies. For the ''calculation'', by means of which a body must be constructed in harmony or symmetry, by which it must be in construction rightly arranged and made to correspond to the object in design, consists at last in ''number'', ''extension'', ''mass'', ''weight ; ''coordinate relation of movements, then harmony of music, must consist altogether by number, that is (S’ph-r). . . By Sippor (s’phor) is to be understood the words of Alhim whereunto joins or adapts itself the design of the frame or form of construction ; for example, it was said ‘ Let Light be.’ The ''work became as the ''words ''were spoken'', that is, as the numbers of the work came forth. ”
This is philosophy. It is otherwise when we find the Rabbi in ''Al-Chazari ''saying that “ under s’ph-r is to be understood ''calculation ''and ''weighing ''of created bodies. For the ''calculation'', by means of which a body must be constructed in harmony or symmetry, by which it must be in construction rightly arranged and made to correspond to the object in design, consists at last in ''number'', ''extension'', ''mass'', ''weight ; ''coordinate relation of movements, then harmony of music, must consist altogether by number, that is (S’ph-r). . . By Sippor (s’phor) is to be understood the words of Alhim whereunto joins or adapts itself the design of the frame or form of construction ; for example, it was said ‘ Let Light be.’ The ''work became as the'' {{Style S-Small capitals|words}} ''were spoken'', that is, as the numbers of the work came forth. ”


This is ''materialising the Spiritual ''without scruple. But the Kabala
This is ''materialising the Spiritual ''without scruple. But the Kabala
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{{Page|42|the secret doctrine.}}
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{{Style P-No indent|was not always so well adapted to anthropo-monotheistic conceptions. Compare this with any of the six schools of India. For instance, in Kapila’s “ Sankhya ” Philosophy, unless, allegorically speaking, Purusha mounts on the shoulders of Prakriti, the latter remains irrational, while the former remains inactive without her. Therefore Nature (in man) must become a compound of Spirit and Matter before he becomes what he is ; and the Spirit latent in Matter must be awakened to life and consciousness gradually. The Monad has to pass through its mineral, vegetable and animal forms, before the Light of the Logos is awakened in the animal man. Therefore, till then, the latter cannot be referred to as “ {{Style S-Small capitals|man}},” but has to be regarded as a Monad imprisoned in ever changing forms. ''Evolution'', not ''creation'', by means of words is recognized in the philosophies of the East, even in their exoteric records. ''Ex oriente lux''. Even the name of the first man in the Mosaic Bible had its origin in India, Professor Max Müller’s negation notwithstanding. The Jews got their Adam from Chaldea ; and Adam-Adami is a compound word and therefore a manifold symbol, and proves the occult dogmas.}}
{{Style P-No indent|was not always so well adapted to anthropo-monotheistic conceptions. Compare this with any of the six schools of India. For instance, in Kapila’s “ Sankhya ” Philosophy, unless, allegorically speaking, Purusha mounts on the shoulders of Prakriti, the latter remains irrational, while the former remains inactive without her. Therefore Nature (in man) must become a compound of Spirit and Matter before he becomes what he is ; and the Spirit latent in Matter must be awakened to life and consciousness gradually. The Monad has to pass through its mineral, vegetable and animal forms, before the Light of the Logos is awakened in the animal man. Therefore, till then, the latter cannot be referred to as “ {{Style S-Small capitals|man}},” but has to be regarded as a Monad imprisoned in ever changing forms. ''Evolution'', not ''creation'', by means of {{Style S-Small capitals|words}} is recognized in the philosophies of the East, even in their exoteric records. ''Ex oriente lux''. Even the name of the first man in the Mosaic Bible had its origin in India, Professor Max Müller’s negation notwithstanding. The Jews got their Adam from Chaldea ; and Adam-Adami is a compound word and therefore a manifold symbol, and proves the occult dogmas.}}


This is no place for philological disquisitions. But the reader may be reminded that the words ''Ad ''and ''Adi ''mean in Sanskrit “&nbsp;the first&nbsp;”&nbsp;; in Aramæan, “&nbsp;One&nbsp;” (''Ad-ad'', “&nbsp;the only one&nbsp;”)&nbsp;; in Assyrian, “&nbsp;father&nbsp;” whence ''Ak-Ad ''or “&nbsp;father-creator.”&nbsp;* And once the statement is found correct it becomes rather difficult to confine Adam to the Mosaic Bible alone, and to see therein simply a Jewish name. ''Vide ''Part II. of this Volume,<sup>&nbsp;§ </sup>“&nbsp;Adam-Adami.”
This is no place for philological disquisitions. But the reader may be reminded that the words ''Ad ''and ''Adi ''mean in Sanskrit “&nbsp;the first&nbsp;”&nbsp;; in Aramæan, “&nbsp;One&nbsp;” (''Ad-ad'', “&nbsp;the only one&nbsp;”)&nbsp;; in Assyrian, “&nbsp;father&nbsp;” whence ''Ak-Ad ''or “&nbsp;father-creator.”&nbsp;* And once the statement is found correct it becomes rather difficult to confine Adam to the Mosaic Bible alone, and to see therein simply a Jewish name. ''Vide ''Part II. of this Volume,<sup>&nbsp;§ </sup>“&nbsp;Adam-Adami.”


There is frequent confusion in the attributes and genealogies of the gods in their theogonies, as given to the world by the half-initiated writers, Brahmanical and Biblical, the Alpha and the Omega of the records of that symbolical science. Yet there could be no such confusion made by the earliest nations, the descendants and pupils of the divine instructors&nbsp;: for both the attributes and the genealogies were inseparably linked with cosmogonical symbols, the “&nbsp;gods&nbsp;” being the life and animating “&nbsp;soul-principle&nbsp;” of the various regions of the Universe. Nowhere and by no people was speculation allowed to range ''beyond ''those ''manifested ''gods. The boundless and infinite unity remained with every nation a virgin forbidden soil, untrodden by man’s thought,
There is frequent confusion in the attributes and genealogies of the gods in their theogonies, as given to the world by the half-initiated writers, Brahmanical and Biblical, the Alpha and the Omega of the records of that symbolical science. Yet there could be no such confusion made by the earliest nations, the descendants and pupils of the divine instructors&nbsp;: for both the attributes and the genealogies were inseparably linked with cosmogonical symbols, the “&nbsp;gods&nbsp;” being the life and animating “&nbsp;soul-principle&nbsp;” of the various regions of the Universe. Nowhere and by no people was speculation allowed to range ''beyond ''those ''manifested ''gods. The boundless and infinite {{Style S-Small capitals|unity}} remained with every nation a virgin forbidden soil, untrodden by man’s thought,


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In the ''Zohar ''it is said “&nbsp;Man was created by the Sephiroth (Elohim-Javeh, also) and they engendered by common power the ''earthly ''Adam.” Therefore in ''Genesis ''the Elohim say&nbsp;:&nbsp;—&nbsp;“&nbsp;Behold Man is become ''as one of us.''” But in Hindu Cosmogony or “&nbsp;Creation,” Brahmâ-Prajâpati ''creates ''Virâj and the Rishis, spiritually&nbsp;; therefore the latter are distinctly called “&nbsp;the Mind-born Sons of Brahmâ&nbsp;”&nbsp;; and this specified mode of ''engendering ''precluded every idea of ''Phallicism'', at any rate in the earlier human nations. This instance well illustrates the respective ''spirituality ''of the two nations.
In the ''Zohar ''it is said “&nbsp;Man was created by the Sephiroth (Elohim-Javeh, also) and they engendered by common power the ''earthly ''Adam.” Therefore in ''Genesis ''the Elohim say&nbsp;:&nbsp;—&nbsp;“&nbsp;Behold Man is become ''as one of us.''” But in Hindu Cosmogony or “&nbsp;Creation,” Brahmâ-Prajâpati ''creates ''Virâj and the Rishis, spiritually&nbsp;; therefore the latter are distinctly called “&nbsp;the Mind-born Sons of Brahmâ&nbsp;”&nbsp;; and this specified mode of ''engendering ''precluded every idea of ''Phallicism'', at any rate in the earlier human nations. This instance well illustrates the respective ''spirituality ''of the two nations.
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{{Style P-No indent|''bloodshed'', was but a secondary idea flowing out of the primary one of shedding of blood in ''conception ''for the first time.” Hence Jehovah became later a ''fighting ''god, “&nbsp;Lord of Hosts,” and one who commands war. He is the aggressive ''Zodh''&nbsp;—&nbsp;or Cain by permutation who ''slew ''his (female) “&nbsp;''brother'',” whose “&nbsp;blood crieth from the ground,” the ''Earth ''having opened ''her mouth ''to receive ''the blood. ''(''Genesis ''iii.)}}
<nowiki>*</nowiki> Apollo ''Karneios ''is certainly a Greek transformation from the Hindu Krishna ''Karna''. “&nbsp;Karna&nbsp;” means ''radiant ''from “&nbsp;carne,” “&nbsp;''a ray'',” and ''Karneios'', which was a title of Apollo with the Celts as with the Greeks, meant “&nbsp;Sun born.”
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