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As a full explanation is found in Stanza V. (''Vide ''paragraph (''a'') ), a few remarks will now suffice. The “ Father ” of primitive physical man, or of his body, is the vital electric principle residing in the Sun. The Moon is its Mother, because of that mysterious power in the Moon which has as decided an influence upon human gestation and generation, which it regulates, as it has on the growth of plants and animals. The “ Wind ” or Ether, standing in this case for the agent of transmission by which those influences are carried down from the two luminaries and diffused upon Earth, is referred to as the “ nurse ” ; while “ Spiritual Fire ” alone makes of man a divine and perfect entity. | As a full explanation is found in Stanza V. (''Vide ''paragraph (''a'') ), a few remarks will now suffice. The “ Father ” of primitive physical man, or of his body, is the vital electric principle residing in the Sun. The Moon is its Mother, because of that mysterious power in the Moon which has as decided an influence upon human gestation and generation, which it regulates, as it has on the growth of plants and animals. The “ Wind ” or Ether, standing in this case for the agent of transmission by which those influences are carried down from the two luminaries and diffused upon Earth, is referred to as the “ nurse ” ; while “ Spiritual Fire ” alone makes of man a divine and perfect entity. | ||
Now what is that “ Spiritual Fire ” ? In alchemy it is hydrogen, in general ; while in esoteric actuality it is the emanation or the Ray which proceeds from its ''noumenon'', the “ Dhyan of the first Element.” Hydrogen is ''gas ''only on our terrestrial plane. But even in chemistry hydrogen “ would be the only existing form of matter, in our sense of the term,” * and is very nearly allied to ''protyle'', which is our ''layam. ''It is the father and generator, so to say, or rather the ''Upadhi ''(basis), of both {{Style S-Small capitals|air}} and {{Style S-Small capitals|water}}, and is “ fire, air and water,” in fact : ''one ''under three aspects ; hence the chemical and alchemical trinity. In the world of manifestation or matter it is the objective symbol and the material emanation from the subjective and purely spiritual entitative Being in the region of ''noumena. ''Well might Godfrey Higgins have compared Hydrogen to, and even identified it with, the To on, the “ One ” of the Greeks. For, as he remarks, Hydrogen is ''not ''Water, though it generates it ; Hydrogen is not fire, though it manifests or creates it ; nor is it Air, though air may be regarded as a product of the union of Water and | Now what is that “ Spiritual Fire ” ? In alchemy it is {{Style S-Small capitals|hydrogen}}, in general ; while in esoteric actuality it is the emanation or the Ray which proceeds from its ''noumenon'', the “ Dhyan of the first Element.” Hydrogen is ''gas ''only on our terrestrial plane. But even in chemistry hydrogen “ would be the only existing form of matter, in our sense of the term,” * and is very nearly allied to ''protyle'', which is our ''layam. ''It is the father and generator, so to say, or rather the ''Upadhi ''(basis), of both {{Style S-Small capitals|air}} and {{Style S-Small capitals|water}}, and is “ fire, air and water,” in fact : ''one ''under three aspects ; hence the chemical and alchemical trinity. In the world of manifestation or matter it is the objective symbol and the material emanation from the subjective and purely spiritual entitative Being in the region of ''noumena. ''Well might Godfrey Higgins have compared Hydrogen to, and even identified it with, the To on, the “ One ” of the Greeks. For, as he remarks, Hydrogen is ''not ''Water, though it generates it ; Hydrogen is not fire, though it manifests or creates it ; nor is it Air, though air may be regarded as a product of the union of Water and | ||
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