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== H. P. Blavatsky == | == [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]] == | ||
'''{{Style S-Small capitals|Ptah}}'''. The son of Kneph in the Egyptian Pantheon. He is the Principle of Light and Life through which “creation” or rather evolution took place. The Egyptian logos and creator, the Demiurgos. A very old deity, as, according to Herodotus, he had a temple erected to him by Menes, the first king of Egypt. He is “giver of life” and the self‐born, and the father of Apis, the sacred bull, conceived through a ray from the Sun. Ptah is thus the prototype of Osiris, a later deity. Herodotus makes him the father of the Kabiri, the mystery‐gods; and the ''Targum of Jerusalem ''says: “Egyptians called the wisdom of the First Intellect Ptah”; hence he is ''Mahat ''the “divine wisdom”; though from another aspect he is ''Swabhâvat'', the self‐created substance, as a prayer addressed to him in the ''Ritual of the Dead'' says, after calling Ptah “father of fathers and of all gods, generator of all men produced from his substance”: “Thou art without father, being. engendered by thy own will; thou art without mother, ''being born by the'' ''renewal of '' ''thine own substance from whom proceeds substance''”. | '''{{Style S-Small capitals|Ptah}}'''. The son of Kneph in the Egyptian Pantheon. He is the Principle of Light and Life through which “creation” or rather evolution took place. The Egyptian logos and creator, the Demiurgos. A very old deity, as, according to Herodotus, he had a temple erected to him by Menes, the first king of Egypt. He is “giver of life” and the self‐born, and the father of Apis, the sacred bull, conceived through a ray from the Sun. Ptah is thus the prototype of Osiris, a later deity. Herodotus makes him the father of the Kabiri, the mystery‐gods; and the ''Targum of Jerusalem ''says: “Egyptians called the wisdom of the First Intellect Ptah”; hence he is ''Mahat ''the “divine wisdom”; though from another aspect he is ''Swabhâvat'', the self‐created substance, as a prayer addressed to him in the ''Ritual of the Dead'' says, after calling Ptah “father of fathers and of all gods, generator of all men produced from his substance”: “Thou art without father, being. engendered by thy own will; thou art without mother, ''being born by the'' ''renewal of '' ''thine own substance from whom proceeds substance''”. | ||
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