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
mathematical language of the author of _The Source of Measures_. Speaking
of the “Measure of a Man” and his numerical (Kabalistic) value, he writes
that in _Genesis_, iv. 1—
It is called the “Man even Jehovah” Measure, and this is obtained
in this way, viz.: 113 x 5 = 565, and the value 565 can be placed
under the form of expression 56.5 x 10 = 565. Here the Man‐number
113 becomes a factor of 56.5 x 10, and the (Kabalistic) reading of
this last numbered expression is Jod, He, Vau, He, or Jehovah....
The expansion of 565 into 56·5 x 10 is purposed to show the
emanation of the male (Jod) from the female (Eva) principle; or,
so to speak, the birth of a male element from an immaculate
source, in other words, an immaculate conception.
Thus is repeated on earth the mystery enacted, according to the Seers, on
the divine plane. The Son of the Immaculate Celestial Virgin (or the
Undifferentiated Cosmic Protyle, Matter in its infinitude) is born again
on earth as the Son of the terrestrial Eve, our mother Earth, and becomes
Humanity as a total—past, present, and future—for Jehovah, or Jod‐Hé‐Vau‐
Hé, is androgyne, or both male and female. Above, the Son is the whole
Kosmos; below, he is Mankind. The Triad or Triangle becomes Tetraktys, the
sacred Pythagorean number, the perfect Square, and a six‐faced Cube on
earth. The Macroprosopus (the Great Face) is now Microprosopus (the Lesser
Face); or, as the Kabbalists have it, the Ancient of Days, descending on
Adam Kadmon whom he uses as his vehicle to manifest through, gets
transformed into Tetragrammaton. It is now in the “Lap of Mâyâ,” the Great
Illusion, and between itself and the Reality has the Astral Light, the
Great Deceiver of man’s limited senses, unless Knowledge through
Paramârthasatya comes to the rescue.
5. THE SEVEN(92) WERE NOT YET BORN FROM THE WEB OF LIGHT, DARKNESS ALONE
WAS FATHER‐MOTHER, SVABHÂVAT; AND SVABHÂVAT WAS IN DARKNESS.
The Secret Doctrine, in the Stanzas here given, occupies itself chiefly,
if not entirely, with our Solar System, and especially with our Planetary
Chain. The “Seven Sons,” therefore, are the creators of the latter. This
teaching will be explained more fully hereafter.
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