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'''{{Style S-Small capitals|Vishnu}}'''. The second person of the Hindu Trimûrti (trinity), composed of Brahmâ, Vishnu and Siva. From the root '''vish''', “to pervade”. in the ''Rig ‐Veda'', Vishnu is no high god, but simply a manifestation of the solar energy, described as “striding through the seven regions of the Universe in ''three'' steps and enveloping all things with the dust (of his beams ”.) Whatever may be the six other occult significances of the statement, this is related to the same class of types as the seven and ten Sephiroth, as the'' '' ''seven'' and ''three'' orifices of the perfect Adam Kadmon, as the seven “principles” and the higher triad in man, etc., etc. Later on this mystic type becomes a great god, the preserver and the renovator, he “of a thousand names — Sahasranâma ”. | '''{{Style S-Small capitals|Vishnu}}'''. The second person of the Hindu Trimûrti (trinity), composed of Brahmâ, Vishnu and Siva. From the root '''vish''', “to pervade”. in the ''Rig ‐Veda'', Vishnu is no high god, but simply a manifestation of the solar energy, described as “striding through the seven regions of the Universe in ''three'' steps and enveloping all things with the dust (of his beams ”.) Whatever may be the six other occult significances of the statement, this is related to the same class of types as the seven and ten Sephiroth, as the'' '' ''seven'' and ''three'' orifices of the perfect Adam Kadmon, as the seven “principles” and the higher triad in man, etc., etc. Later on this mystic type becomes a great god, the preserver and the renovator, he “of a thousand names — Sahasranâma ”. | ||
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H. P. Blavatsky
Vishnu. The second person of the Hindu Trimûrti (trinity), composed of Brahmâ, Vishnu and Siva. From the root vish, “to pervade”. in the Rig ‐Veda, Vishnu is no high god, but simply a manifestation of the solar energy, described as “striding through the seven regions of the Universe in three steps and enveloping all things with the dust (of his beams ”.) Whatever may be the six other occult significances of the statement, this is related to the same class of types as the seven and ten Sephiroth, as the seven and three orifices of the perfect Adam Kadmon, as the seven “principles” and the higher triad in man, etc., etc. Later on this mystic type becomes a great god, the preserver and the renovator, he “of a thousand names — Sahasranâma ”.
Source: H. P. Blavatsky, The Theosophical Glossary, art. Vishnu