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
The Shadow, the Astral Form, is annihilated, “devoured by the Uræus,”(358)
the Manes will be annihilated; the two Twins (the Fourth and Fifth
Principles) will be scattered; but the Soul‐Bird, “the Divine Swallow, and
the Uræus of Flame” (Manas and Âtmâ‐Buddhi) will live in the eternity, for
they are their mother’s husbands.
Another suggestive analogy between the Âryan, or Brâhmanical, and the
Egyptian Esotericism. The former call the Pitris the “Lunar Ancestors” of
men, and the Egyptians make of the Moon‐God, Taht‐Esmun, the first human
ancestor.
This Moon‐God “expressed the Seven nature‐powers that were prior
to himself, and were summed up in him as his seven souls, of which
he was the manifestor as the Eighth One. [Hence the eighth
sphere.]... The seven rays of the Chaldean ... Heptakis or Iao, on
the Gnostic stones, indicate the same septenary of souls.... The
first form of the mystical Seven was seen to be figured in heaven,
by the seven large stars of the Great Bear, the constellation
assigned by the Egyptians to the Mother of Time, and of the seven
Elemental Powers.”(359)
As well known to every Hindû, this same constellation represents in India
the Seven Rishis, and is called Riksha, and Chitrashikandinas.
Like alone produces like. The Earth gives Man his body, the Gods (Dhyânis)
give him his five inner principles, the psychic Shadow, of which these
Gods are often the animating principle. Spirit (Âtman) is one, and
indiscrete. It is not in the Tiaou.
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