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
Ten numbers without what? One: the Spirit of the living God ...
who liveth in eternities! Voice and Spirit and Word, and this is
the Holy Spirit. Two: Air out of Spirit. He designed and hewed
therewith twenty‐two letters of foundation, three mothers, and
seven double and twelve single, and one Spirit out of them. Three:
Water out of Spirit; he designed and hewed with them the barren
and the void, mud and earth. He designed them as a flower‐bed,
hewed them as a wall, covered them as a paving. Four: Fire out of
Water. He designed and hewed therewith the throne of glory and the
wheels, and the seraphim and the holy animals as ministering
angels, and of the three He founded his dwelling, as it is said,
He makes his angels spirits, and his servants fiery flames!
The words “founded his dwelling” show clearly that in the _Kabalah_, as in
India, the Deity was considered as the Universe, and was not, in his
origin, the extra‐cosmic God he now is.
Thus was the world made “through Three Seraphim—Sepher, Saphar, and
Sipur,” or “through Number, Numbers, and Numbered.” With the astronomical
key, these “Sacred Animals” become the signs of the Zodiac.
4. THIS WAS THE ARMY OF THE VOICE, THE DIVINE MOTHER OF THE SEVEN. THE
SPARKS OF THE SEVEN ARE SUBJECT TO, AND THE SERVANTS OF, THE FIRST, THE
SECOND, THE THIRD, THE FOURTH, THE FIFTH, THE SIXTH, AND THE SEVENTH OF
THE SEVEN (_a_). THESE(162) ARE CALLED SPHERES, TRIANGLES, CUBES, LINES
AND MODELLERS; FOR THUS STANDS THE ETERNAL NIDÂNA—THE OI‐HA‐HOU
(_b_).(163)
(a) This Shloka gives again a brief analysis of the Hierarchies of the
Dhyân Chohans, called Devas (Gods) in India, or the Conscious Intelligent
Powers in Nature. To this Hierarchy correspond the actual types into which
Humanity may be divided; for Humanity, as a whole, is in reality a
materialized, though as yet imperfect, expression thereof. The “Army of
the Voice” is a term closely connected with the mystery of Sound and
Speech, as an effect and corollary of the Cause—Divine Thought. As
beautifully expressed by P. Christian, the learned author of _Histoire de
la Magie_ and _L’Homme Rouge des Tuileries_, the words spoken by, as well
as the name of, every individual largely determine his future fate. Why?
Because:
When our soul [mind] creates or evokes a thought, the
representative sign of that thought is self‐engraved upon the
astral fluid, which is the receptacle and, so to say, the mirror
of all the manifestations of being.
The sign expresses the thing: the thing is the [hidden or occult]
virtue of the sign.
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