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
Then the _Codex_ proceeds to tell how Bahak Zivo was separated
from the Spiritus, and the Genii or Angels from the Rebels.(307)
Then (the greatest) Mano,(308) who dwells with the greatest Ferho,
calls Kebar Zivo (known also by the name of Nebat Iavar bar Iufin
Ifafin), the Helm and Vine of the Food of Life(309)—he being the
third Life, and commiserating the rebellious and foolish Genii, on
account of the magnitude of their ambition, says: “Lord of the
Genii(310) (Æons), see what the Genii (the Rebellious Angels) do,
and about what they are consulting.(311) They say: ‘Let us call
forth the world, and let us call the “Powers” into existence. The
Genii are the Princes (Principes), the Sons of Light, but Thou art
the Messenger of Life’.”
And in order to counteract the influence of the seven “badly
disposed” principles the progeny of Spiritus, Kebar Zivo (or Cabar
Zio), the mighty Lord of Splendour, produces _seven other lives_
(the cardinal virtues), who shine in their own form and light
“from on high,”(312) and thus reëstablish the balance between good
and evil, light and darkness.
Here one finds a repetition of the early _allegorical_ dual systems, such
as the Zoroastrian, and detects a germ of the dogmatic and dualistic
religions of the future, a germ which has grown into such a luxuriant tree
in ecclesiastical Christianity. It is already the outline of the two
“Supremes”—God and Satan. But in the Stanzas no such idea exists.
Most of the Western Christian Kabalists—preëminently Éliphas Lévi—in their
desire to reconcile the Occult Sciences with Church Dogmas, did their best
to make of the “Astral Light” only and preeminently the Plerôma of the
early Church Fathers, the abode of the Hosts of the Fallen Angels, of the
Archôns and Powers. But the Astral Light, though only the lower aspect of
the Absolute, is still dual. It is the Anima Mundi, and ought never to be
viewed otherwise, except for Kabalistic purposes. The difference which
exists between its “Light” and its “Living Fire,” ought ever to be present
in the mind of the Seer and the Psychic. The higher aspect of this
“Light,” without which only creatures of matter can be produced, is this
Living Fire, and its Seventh Principle. It is stated in _Isis Unveiled_,
in a complete description of it:
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