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
And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against
the Dragon; and the Dragon fought and his angels, and prevailed
not; neither was their place found any more in Heaven. And the
great Dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil and
Satan, which deceiveth the whole world.(301)
The Kabalistic version of the same story is given in the _Codex Nazaræus_,
the scripture of the Nazarenes, the real mystic Christians of John the
Baptist, and the Initiates of Christos. Bahak Zivo, the “Father of the
Genii,” is ordered to construct creatures—to “create.” But, as he is
“ignorant of Orcus,” he fails to do so, and calls in Fetahil, a still
purer spirit, to his aid, who fails still worse. This is a repetition of
the failure of the “Fathers,” the Lords of Light, who fail one after the
other.(302)
We will now quote from our earlier volumes:(303)
Then steps on the stage of creation the Spirit(304) (of the Earth
so‐called, or the Soul, Psyche, which St. James calls “devilish”),
the lower portion of the Anima Mundi or Astral Light. [See the
close of this Shloka.] With the Nazarenes and the Gnostics this
Spirit was _feminine_. Thus the Spirit of the Earth, perceiving
that for Fetahil,(305) the newest man (the latest), the splendour
was “changed,” and that for splendour existed “decrease and
damage,” she awakes Karabtanos,(306) “who was frantic and _without
sense and judgment_,” and says to him: “Arise, see, the Splendour
(Light) of the _Newest_ Man (Fetahil) has failed (to produce or
create men), the decrease of this Splendour is visible. Rise up,
come with thy Mother (the Spiritus) and free thee from limits by
which thou art held, and those more ample than the whole world.”
After which, follows the union of the frantic and blind matter,
guided by the insinuations of the Spirit (not the _Divine_ Breath
but the _Astral_ Spirit, which by its double essence is already
tainted with matter); and the offer of the Mother being accepted,
the Spiritus conceives “Seven Figures,” and the Seven Stellars
(Planets), which represent also the _seven capital sins_, the
progeny of an Astral Soul, separated from its divine source
(spirit), and _matter_, the blind demon of concupiscence. Seeing
this, Fetahil extends his hand towards the abyss of matter, and
says: “Let the earth exist, just as the abode of the Powers has
existed.” Dipping his hand in the chaos, which he condenses, he
creates our planet.
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