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Now then, we Catholic priests, teach that this same Son, this same Word, was made flesh: Verbum caro factum est (John, i, 14—Nicene Creed). Here it is in a few words: This only Son, this Word conceived from all eternity by the Father-Mother who is God <big>'''ⵀ'''</big>, then begotten by En-Soph, I, in the bosom of Ochmah, <big>'''ⵔ'''</big>, has come to our Earth, to the south pole of Creation, to take a body and a soul like ours, but not a Spirit, mark well, not a human personality. There are not two persons in the Man-God, there is only the Person of the eternal Son, of the Principle as he calls himself (John, viii, 25); but there are two natures, the assuming nature which is wholly divine, and the assumed nature which is yours, Madame, which is mine, as it is that of the Bushman and the Zulu savage, as it is that of the greatest rascal to be found on earth.

Now then, we Catholic priests, teach that this same Son, this same Word, was made flesh: Verbum caro factum est (John, i, 14—Nicene Creed). Here it is in a few words: This only Son, this Word conceived from all eternity by the Father-Mother who is God <big>'''ⵀ'''</big>, then begotten by En-Soph, I, in the bosom of Ochmah, <big>'''ⵔ'''</big>, has come to our Earth, to the south pole of Creation, to take a body and a soul like ours, but not a Spirit, mark well, not a human personality. There are not two persons in the Man-God, there is only the Person of the eternal Son, of the Principle as he calls himself (John, viii, 25); but there are two natures, the assuming nature which is wholly divine, and the assumed nature which is yours, Madame, which is mine, as it is that of the Bushman and the Zulu savage, as it is that of the greatest rascal to be found on earth.

Man had nothing to do with that generic conception; that mystery was accomplished within a Virgin, and could be accomplished only therein. Because that Virgin was none other than Ochmah, the feminine Principle herself, the Spouse of En-Soph, the immaculate {{Page aside|390}}Wisdom clothed with a body,<ref>No initiate is ignorant of the fact that spirits clothe themselves to descend and divest themselves to re-ascend.</ref> as a preliminary to causing the same Word she had already conceived by the Holy Ghost at the north pole of Creation, to pass into human Nature;<ref>I have already had the honour of telling the Abbé Roca that his “Ochmah” (Chokhmah then, if you please) was a masculine principle, the “Father.” Does he want to make of the Virgin Mary the bearded Macroprosopus? Let him open the Zohar and learn therein the hierarchy of the Sephiroth, before saying and writing things which are . . . . impossible. Here is what the Zohar of Rosenroth says, as translated by Ginsburg: Chokhmah or “Wisdom” (<cso_hebrew>), the active and masculine power (or principle), represented in the circle of divine names by Jah (<cso_hebrew>). See Isaiah, xxvi, 4—“Put your trust in Jah, <cso_hebrew> ,” etc. Whether Jah be translated as “Eternal,” in the French Bible of Ostervald, or even as “Lord God,” in the English version, he is always God, the Father, and not the mother-goddess, Mary.—H.P. B.</ref> and she came, under the name of Mary, to conceive again at the south pole in order to place it within reach of the fallen.

Man had nothing to do with that generic conception; that mystery was accomplished within a Virgin, and could be accomplished only therein. Because that Virgin was none other than Ochmah, the feminine Principle herself, the Spouse of En-Soph, the immaculate {{Page aside|390}}Wisdom clothed with a body,<ref>No initiate is ignorant of the fact that spirits clothe themselves to descend and divest themselves to re-ascend.</ref> as a preliminary to causing the same Word she had already conceived by the Holy Ghost at the north pole of Creation, to pass into human Nature;<ref>I have already had the honour of telling the Abbé Roca that his “Ochmah” (Chokhmah then, if you please) was a masculine principle, the “Father.” Does he want to make of the Virgin Mary the bearded Macroprosopus? Let him open the Zohar and learn therein the hierarchy of the Sephiroth, before saying and writing things which are . . . . impossible. Here is what the Zohar of Rosenroth says, as translated by Ginsburg: Chokhmah or “Wisdom” (????), the active and masculine power (or principle), represented in the circle of divine names by Jah (??). See Isaiah, xxvi, 4—“Put your trust in Jah, ?? ,” etc. Whether Jah be translated as “Eternal,” in the French Bible of Ostervald, or even as “Lord God,” in the English version, he is always God, the Father, and not the mother-goddess, Mary.—H.P. B.</ref> and she came, under the name of Mary, to conceive again at the south pole in order to place it within reach of the fallen.

Hence the expression occurring so often in the Church Fathers: “Prius conseperat in mente quam in corpore, prius in coelis quam in terris” I am referring here to things which are perfectly intelligible, if not for everyone, than at least for an open-minded understanding as is that of Madame Blavatsky.

Hence the expression occurring so often in the Church Fathers: “Prius conseperat in mente quam in corpore, prius in coelis quam in terris” I am referring here to things which are perfectly intelligible, if not for everyone, than at least for an open-minded understanding as is that of Madame Blavatsky.

I foresee what she will reply; in fact it is already in her article. She will say: the Incarnation of Divinity in Humanity is “the Apotheosis of the Mysteries of Initiation. The Word made flesh is the heritage of the human race, etc.” Nothing is more true; that language is absolutely Catholic. It is also true, as she adds: “The vos Dii estis applies to every man born of woman.” Here is the way we explain it in the light of the Zohar:

I foresee what she will reply; in fact it is already in her article. She will say: the Incarnation of Divinity in Humanity is “the Apotheosis of the Mysteries of Initiation. The Word made flesh is the heritage of the human race, etc.” Nothing is more true; that language is absolutely Catholic. It is also true, as she adds: “The vos Dii estis applies to every man born of woman.” Here is the way we explain it in the light of the Zohar:

Astral Humanity, or the original and universal Adam-Eve, formed, before the Fall, an integral and homogeneous body of which the divine Christ was the Spirit, if not the soul. The soul of it was rather Ochmah, or the immaculate Wisdom. The Fall took place—I will not determine either the cause or the nature of it now, so as not to have two controversies at once. That fact, well known to Madame Blavatsky, but explained differently by her, brought about the dislocation of that great body—if one can call by that name the biological Constitutions of the spiritual or north pole. My antagonist {{Page aside|391}}

Astral Humanity, or the original and universal Adam-Eve, formed, before the Fall, an integral and homogeneous body of which the divine Christ was the Spirit, if not the soul. The soul of it was rather Ochmah, or the immaculate Wisdom. The Fall took place—I will not determine either the cause or the nature of it now, so as not to have two controversies at once. That fact, well known to Madame Blavatsky, but explained differently by her, brought about the dislocation of that great body—if one can call by that name the biological Constitutions of the spiritual or north pole. My antagonist {{Page aside|391}}would express it otherwise; she would say that Humanity passed from a state of Homogeneity or the Heavenly, to a state of Heterogeneity in which it finds itself on earth. Be it so. I am quite willing here to ignore the idea of sin which is implied in our dogma. In any case she was compelled to touch upon the question, very embarrassing for her, of the origin of evil; she has extricated herself as well as she could, but not brilliantly.<ref>It is not for me to say whether I have extricated myself brilliantly or not. I always know, at least, what I am talking about, and the actual value as well as meaning of the words and the names I use, which is not always the case with the Abbé Roca. I regret to say it, but before giving lessons to others, it would perhaps be well for him to study the elementary Kabalah.—H. P. BLAVATSKY.</ref> The Kabalah explains it far better, and The Eternal Gospel printed in London in 1857 (Trübner and Co., 60 Paternoster Row) throws a vivid light upon that mystery. It is of little consequence to the main point of our discussion.

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