HPB-SD(ed.1) v.2 p.2 sec.22 ch.A: Difference between revisions

The Brahmanical “ Golden Egg,” from within which emerges Brahmâ, the creative deity, is the “ circle with the Central Point ” of Pythagoras, and its fitting symbol. In the Secret Doctrine the concealed {{Style S-Small capitals|Unity}} — whether representing {{Style S-Small capitals|Parabrahmam}}, or the “ {{Style S-Small capitals|Great Extreme}} ” of Confucius, or the Deity concealed by {{Style S-Small capitals|Phta}}, the Eternal Light, or again the Jewish {{Style S-Small capitals|En-Soph}}, is always found to be symbolized by a circle or the “ nought ” (absolute ''No-Thing ''and Nothing, because it is ''infinite ''and the {{Style S-Small capitals|All}}) ; while the god-manifested (by its works) is referred to as the ''diameter of that circle. ''The symbolism of the underlying idea is thus made evident : the right line passing through the centre of a circle has, in the geometrical sense, length, but neither breadth or thickness : it is an imaginary and feminine symbol, crossing eternity and made to rest on the plane of existence ''of the phenomenal world. ''It is ''dimensional'', whereas its circle is dimensionless, or, to use an algebraical term, it is the dimension of an equation. Another way of symbolizing the idea is found in the Pythagorean sacred ''Decade ''which synthesizes, in the dual numeral ''Ten ''(the 1 and a circle or cipher), the absolute {{Style S-Small capitals|All}} manifesting itself in the {{Style S-Small capitals|Word}} or generative Power of Creation.