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
Returning to Commentary 4 of Stanza IV, the reader now will understand
why, while the Trans‐Himâlayan Chakra has inscribed within it [triangle]
[square] [5‐point star with middle dot]—triangle, first line, square,
second line, and a pentacle with a point in the centre, either thus
[5‐point star with middle dot] or some other variation—the Kabalistic
Circle of the Elohim reveals, when the letters of the word אלהים (Alhim or
Elohim) are read numerically, the famous numerals 13514, or
anagrammatically 31415—the astronomical π (pi), or the hidden meaning of
the Dhyâni‐Buddhas, of the Gebers, the Giburim, the Kabeiri, and the
Elohim, all signifying “Great Men,” “Titans,” “Heavenly Men,” and, on
earth, “Giants.”
The Seven was a Sacred Number with every nation; but none applied it to
more physiologically materialistic uses than the Hebrews. With them 7 was
preëminently the generative number, and 9 the male causative one, forming
as shown by the Kabalists the otz, עצ (90, 70), or “the Tree of the Garden
of Eden,” the “double hermaphrodite rod” of the Fourth Race. This was the
symbol of the “Holy of Holies,” the 3 and the 4 of sexual separation.
Nearly every one of the 22 Hebrew letters are merely phallic symbols. Of
the two letters—as shown above—one, the _ayin_, is a negative female
letter, symbolically an eye; the the other a male letter, _tzâ_, a
_fish_‐hook or dart. Whereas with the Hindûs and Âryans generally, the
significance was manifold, and related almost entirely to purely
metaphysical and astronomical truths. Their Rishis and Gods, their Demons
and Heroes, have historical and ethical meanings.
Yet we are told by a Kabalist, who, in a work not yet published, contrasts
the _Kabalah_ and _Zohar_ with Âryan Esotericism, that:
The Hebrew clear, short, terse and exact, modes far and beyond
measure surpass the toddling word‐talk of the Hindûs—just as by
parallelisms the Psalmist says, “My mouth speaks with my tongue, I
know not thy numbers” (lxxi., 15).... The Hindû glyph shows by its
insufficiency in the large admixture of adventitious sides the
same borrowed plumage that the Greeks (the lying Greeks) had, and
that Masonry has: which, in the rough monosyllabic (and apparent)
poverty of the Hebrew, shows the latter to have come down from a
far more remote antiquity than any of these, and to have been the
source [! ?], or nearer the old original source than any of them.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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