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§§ (11) The Descent of the Demiurge. (12) The lunar gods ordered to create. (13) The higher gods refuse.
- 11. The Lord of the Lords came. From her body he separated the waters, and that was heaven above, the first heaven ( the atmosphere, or the air, the firmament ) (a).
(a) Here tradition falls again into the Universal. As in the earliest version, repeated in the Purânas, so in the latest, the Mosaic account. In the first it is said : “ He the Lord ” (the god who has the form of Brahmâ) “ when the world had become one ocean ( Harivamsa I. 36) concluding that within the waters lay the earth, and desirous to raise it up,” to separate it, “ created himself in another form. As in the preceding Kalpa (Manvantara) he had assumed the shape of a tortoise, so in this one he took the shape of a boar, etc. etc.” In the Elohistic “ creation ” (Genesis, verses 6, 7, 8, and 9) “ God ” creates a firmament in the midst of the waters . . . . . and says “ let dry land appear.” And now comes the traditional peg whereunto is hung the esoteric portion of the Kabalistic interpretation.