The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 1 of 4: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and PhilosophyBlavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna)
Religion
The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 1 of 4: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy
Blavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna)
Theosophy
Thus, while in the metaphysical world, the Circle with the one central
Point in it has no number, and is called Anupâdaka—parentless and
numberless, for it can fall under no calculation; in the manifested world,
the Mundane Egg or Circle is circumscribed within the groups called the
Line, the Triangle, the Pentagram, the second Line and the Square (or
13514); and when the Point has generated a Line, and thus becomes a
diameter which stands for the androgynous Logos, then the figures become
31415, or a triangle, a line, a square, a second line, and a pentagram.
“_When the Son separates from the Mother he becomes the Father_,” the
diameter standing for Nature, or the feminine principle. Therefore it is
said: “_In the World of Being, the One Point fructifies the Line, the
Virgin Matrix of Kosmos [the egg‐shaped zero], and the immaculate Mother
gives birth to the Form that combines all forms_.” Prajâpati is called the
first procreating male, and “his mother’s husband.”(161) This gives the
key‐note to all the later “Divine Sons” from “Immaculate Mothers.” It is
strongly corroborated by the significant fact that Anna, the name of the
Mother of the Virgin Mary, now represented by the Roman Catholic Church as
having given birth to her daughter in an immaculate way (“Mary conceived
without sin”), is derived from the Chaldean Ana, Heaven, or Astral Light,
Anima Mundi; whence Anaitia, Devî‐Durgâ, the wife of Shiva, is also called
Annapurna, and Kanyâ, the Virgin; Umâ‐Kanyâ being her esoteric name, and
meaning the “Virgin of Light,” Astral Light in one of its multitudinous
aspects.
(_c_) The Devas, Pitris, Rishis; the Suras and the Asuras; the Daityas and
Âdityas; the Dânavas and Gandharvas, etc., etc., have all their synonyms
in our Secret Doctrine, as well as in the _Kabalah_ and Hebrew Angelology;
but it is useless to give their ancient names, as it would only create
confusion. Many of these may be now also found even in the Christian
Hierarchy of divine and celestial Powers. All those Thrones and Dominions,
Virtues and Principalities, Cherubs, Seraphs and Demons, the various
denizens of the Sidereal World, are the modern copies of archaic
prototypes. The very symbolism in their names, when transliterated and
arranged, in Greek and Latin, are sufficient to show it, as will be proved
in several cases further on.
(_d_) The “Sacred Animals” are found in the _Bible_ as well as in the
_Kabalah_, and they have their meaning—a very profound one, too—on the
page of the origins of Life. In the _Sepher Jetzirah_ it is stated that:
“God engraved in the Holy Four the Throne of his Glory, the Auphanim [the
Wheels or World‐Spheres], the Seraphim, and the Sacred Animals, as
Ministering Angels, and from these [Air, Water, and Fire or Ether] he
formed his habitation.”
The following is the literal translation from the IXth and Xth Sections:
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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