Isis unveiled, Volume 2 (of 2), Theology : $b A master-key to the mysteries of ancient and modern science and theologyBlavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna)
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Isis unveiled, Volume 2 (of 2), Theology : $b A master-key to the mysteries of ancient and modern science and theology
Blavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna)
Theosophy
The Supreme Lord of splendor and of light, luminous and refulgent,
before which no other existed, is called Corona (the crown); Lord
Ferho, the unrevealed life which existed in the former from eternity;
and Lord Jordan--the spirit, the living water of grace.[438] He is
the one through whom alone we can be saved; and thus he answers
to the Shekinah, the spiritual garment of En-Soph, or the Holy
Ghost. These three constitute the trinity in _abscondito_. The
second trinity is composed of the three lives. The first is the
similitude of Lord Ferho, through whom he has proceeded forth;
and the second Ferho is the King of Light--MANO (_Rex Lucis_). He
is the heavenly life and light, and older than the Architect of
heaven and earth.[439] The second life is _Ish Amon_ (Pleroma), the
vase of election, containing the visible thought of the _Iordanus
Maximus_--the _type_ (or its intelligible reflection), the prototype
of the living water, who is the “spiritual Jordan.”[440] Third life,
which is produced by the other two, is ABATUR (_Ab_, the Parent or
Father). This is the mysterious and decrepit “Aged of the Aged,” the
“Ancient _Senem sui obtegentem et grandævum mundi_.” This latter
third Life is the Father of the Demiurge Fetahil, the Creator of
the world, whom the Ophites call Ilda-Baoth,[441] though Fetahil is
the _only-begotten one_, the reflection of the Father, Abatur, who
begets him by looking into the “dark water;”[442] but the Lord Mano,
“the Lord of loftiness, the Lord of all genii,” is higher than the
Father, in this kabalistic _Codex_--one is purely spiritual, the
other material. So, for instance, while Abatur’s “only begotten” one
is the genius Fetahil, the Creator of the physical world, Lord Mano,
the “Lord of Celsitude,” who is the son of Him, who is “the Father
of all who preach the Gospel,” produces also an “only-begotten” one,
the Lord Lehdaio, “a just Lord.” He is the Christos, the anointed,
who pours out the “grace” of the Invisible Jordan, the Spirit of the
_Highest Crown_.
In the Arcanum, “in the assembly of splendor, lighted by MANO, to
whom the scintillas of splendor owe their origin,” the genii who
live in light “rose, they went to the visible Jordan, and flowing
water ... they assembled for a counsel ... and called forth the
Only-Begotten Son of an imperishable image, and who cannot be
conceived by reflection, Lehdaio, the just Lord, and sprung from
Lehdaio, the just lord, whom the life had produced by his word.”[443]
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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