The most Jehovah, male and female, or absurd cosmogonical the idealization of humanity allegories, if analyzed embodied in the first man. without prejudice, will be Thus is it that we can prove found built on strict and that, while the Jewish logical necessarianism. kabalists, in common with their initiated masters, the “Being was born from Chaldeans and the Hindus, not-being,” says a verse in adored the Supreme and the _Rig-Veda_.[564] The Unknown God, in the sacred first being had to become silence of their androgyne and finite, by the sanctuaries, the ignorant very fact of its creation as masses of every nation were a being. And thus even the left to adore something sacred Trimurti, containing which was certainly less Brahma, Vishnu, and Siva than the Eternal Substance will have an end when the of the Buddhists, the “night” of Para-Brahma so-called Atheists. As succeeds the present “day,” Brahma, the deity manifested or period of universal in the mythical _Manu_, or activity. the first man (born of Swayambhuva, or the The second, or rather the Self-existent), is finite, first, triad---as the so Jehovah, embodied in Adam highest one is a pure and Eve, is but a _human_ abstraction--is the god. He is the symbol of intellectual world. The Vâch humanity, a mixture of good which surrounds it is a more with a portion of definite transformation of unavoidable evil; of spirit Aditi. Besides its occult fallen into matter. In significance in the secret worshipping Jehovah, we Mantrâm, Vâch is personified simply worship nature, as as the active power of embodied in man, Brahma proceeding from him. half-spiritual and In the _Vedas_ she is made half-material, at best: we to speak of herself as the are Pantheists, when not supreme and universal soul. fetich worshippers, like the “I bore the Father on the idolatrous Jews, who head of the universal mind, sacrificed on high places, and _my origin is in the in groves, to the midst of the ocean_; and personified male and female therefore do I pervade all principle, ignorant of IAO, beings.... Originating all the Supreme “Secret Name” of beings, I pass like the the Mysteries. breeze (Holy Ghost). I am above this heaven, beyond Shekinah is the Hindu Vâch, this earth; and _what is the and praised in the same