HPB-SD(ed.1) v.1 p.1 st.7 sl.5: Difference between revisions

{{Style P-No indent|''earth ''as a state of matter to their stock as well as the three other elements in their present transformation. In short, none of the so-called elements were, in the three preceding Rounds, as they are now. For all we know, fire may have been ''pure ''{{Style S-Small capitals|akasa}}, the first Matter of the ''Magnum Opus ''of the Creators and “ Builders,” that Astral Light which the paradoxical Eliphas Lévi calls in one breath “ the body of the Holy Ghost,” and in the next “ Baphomet,” the “ Androgyne Goat of Mendes” * ; {{Style S-Small capitals|air}}, simply}}

{{Style P-No indent|Nitrogen, “ the breath of the Supporters of the Heavenly Dome,” as the Mahometan mystics call it ; water, that primordial fluid which was required, according to Moses, to make ''a living soul ''with. And this may account for the flagrant discrepancies and unscientific statements found in Genesis. Separate the first from the second chapter ; read the former as a scripture of the Elohists, and the latter as that of the far younger Jehovists ; still one finds, if one reads between the lines, the same order in which things created appear — namely, Fire (light), Air, Water, and man (or the Earth). For the sentence : “ In the beginning God created Heaven and Earth ” is a mistranslation ; it is not “ Heaven and Earth,” but the ''duplex ''or dual Heaven, the ''upper ''and the ''lower ''Heavens, or the separation of primordial substance that was light in its upper and dark in its lower portions — or the manifested Universe — in its duality of the ''invisible ''(to the senses) and the ''visible ''to our perceptions. God divided the light from the Darkness (v. 4) ; and then made the firmament, air (5), “ a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters,” (6), ''i.e.'', “ the waters which were under the firmament (our manifested visible Universe) from the waters ''above ''the firmament,” or the (to us) invisible planes of being. In the second chapter (the Jehovistic), plants and herbs are created before water, just as in the first, ''light is produced before the Sun. ''“ God made the Earth and the Heavens and every plant of the field ''before it was in the Earth ''and every herb of the field ''before it grew ; ''for the Elohim (‘ gods ’) had not caused it to rain upon the earth, etc.” (v. 5) —  an absurdity unless the esoteric explanation is accepted. The plants ''were ''created before they were in the earth — ''for there was no earth then such as it is now ; ''and the herb of the field was in existence before it grew as it does now in the fourth Round.}}