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HPB-SD(ed.1) v.2 p.1 st.10 sl.38-39 ch.Early Races (view source)
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{{Style P-No indent|Thought Divine.” St. Paul, another Initiate, called our world “ the enigmatical mirror of pure truth,” and St. Gregory, of Nazianzen, corroborated Hermes by stating that “ things visible are but the shadow and delineation of things that we cannot see.” It is an eternal combination, and images are repeated from the higher rung of the ladder of being down to the lower. The “ Fall of the Angels,” and the “ War in Heaven ” are repeated on every plane, the lower “ mirror ” disfiguring the image of the superior mirror, and each repeating it in its own way. Thus the Christian dogmas are but the reminiscences of the ''paradigms ''of Plato, who spoke of these things cautiously, as every Initiate would. But it is all as expressed in these few sentences of the ''Desatir :'' —}} | {{Style P-No indent|Thought Divine.” St. Paul, another Initiate, called our world “ the enigmatical mirror of pure truth,” and St. Gregory, of Nazianzen, corroborated Hermes by stating that “ things visible are but the shadow and delineation of things that we cannot see.” It is an eternal combination, and images are repeated from the higher rung of the ladder of being down to the lower. The “ Fall of the Angels,” and the “ War in Heaven ” are repeated on every plane, the lower “ mirror ” disfiguring the image of the superior mirror, and each repeating it in its own way. Thus the Christian dogmas are but the reminiscences of the ''paradigms ''of Plato, who spoke of these things cautiously, as every Initiate would. But it is all as expressed in these few sentences of the ''Desatir :'' —}} | ||
“ All that is on Earth, saith the Lord (Ormazd), is the ''shadow of something that is in the superior spheres. ''This luminous object (light, fire, etc.) is the shadow of that which is still more luminous than itself, and so on till it reaches me, who am the light of lights.” | “ All that is on Earth, saith the Lord (Ormazd), is the ''shadow of something that is in the superior spheres. ''This luminous object (light, fire, etc.) is the shadow of that which is still more luminous than itself, and so on till it reaches {{Style S-Small capitals|me}}, who am the light of lights.” | ||
In the Kabalistic books, and in the ''Zohar ''pre-eminently, the idea that everything objective on earth or in this Universe is the Shadow — ''Dyooknah'' — of the eternal Light or Deity, is very strong. | In the Kabalistic books, and in the ''Zohar ''pre-eminently, the idea that everything objective on earth or in this Universe is the Shadow — ''Dyooknah'' — of the eternal Light or Deity, is very strong. | ||