HPB-SD(ed.1) v.1 p.3 sec.15: Difference between revisions

But the Duad, although the origin of Evil, or Matter — thence ''unreal ''in philosophy — is still Substance during Manvantara, and is often called the ''third ''monad, in Occultism, and the connecting line as between two Points, . . . or Numbers which proceeded from that, “ which was before all Numbers,” as expressed by Rabbi Barahiel. And from this Duad proceeded all the ''Scintillas ''of the three upper and the four lower worlds or planes — which are in constant interaction and correspondence. This is a teaching which the Kabala has in common with Eastern Occultism. For in the occult philosophy there are the “ {{Style S-Small capitals|One}} Cause ” and the “ ''Primal ''Cause,” which latter thus becomes, paradoxically, the second, as clearly expressed by the author of the “ ''Qabbalah'', ''from the philosophical writings of Ibn Gabirol'',” — “ in the treatment of the Primal cause, two things must be considered, the Primal Cause ''per se'', and the relation and connection of the Primal Cause with the visible and unseen universe.’ Thus he shows the early Hebrews following in the steps of the Oriental philosophy — Chaldean, Persian, Hindu, Arabic, etc. Their Primal Cause was designated at first “ by the triadic Shaddaï, the (triune) Almighty, subsequently by the Tetragrammaton, YHVH, symbol of the Past, Present, and Future,” and, let us add, of the eternal Is, or the I Am. Moreover, in the Kabala the name YHVH (or Jehovah) expresses a He and a She, male and female, two in one, or Hokhmah and Binah, and his, or rather their ''Shekinah ''or synthesizing spirit (grace), which makes again of the Duad a Triad. This is demonstrated in the Jewish Liturgy for Pentecost, and the prayer, “ In the name of Unity, of the Holy and Blessed Hû (He), and His Shekinah, the Hidden and Concealed Hû, blessed be YHVH (the Quaternary) for ever.” “ Hû is said to be masculine and YAH feminine, together they make the {{Style S-Hebrew|יהוה אחד}} ''i.e.'', one YHVH. One, but of a male-female nature. The Shekinah is always considered in the Qabbalah as feminine ” (p. 175). And so it is considered in the ''exoteric ''Purânas, for Shekinah is no more than ''Sakti'' — the female double or lining of any god, in such case. And so it was with the early Christians whose Holy Spirit was feminine, as Sophia was with the Gnostics. But in the transcendental Chaldean Kabala or “ Book of Numbers,” “ Shekinah ” is sexless, and the purest abstraction, a State, like Nirvana, not subject or object or anything except an absolute {{Style S-Small capitals|Presence}}.