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
(_b_) “The Radiant Essence curdles and spreads throughout the Depths” of
Space. From an astronomical point of view this is easy of explanation: it
is the Milky Way, the World‐Stuff, or Primordial Matter in its first form.
It is more difficult, however, to explain it in a few words, or even
lines, from the standpoint of Occult Science and Symbolism, as it is the
most complicated of glyphs. Herein are enshrined more than a dozen
symbols. To begin with, it contains the whole pantheon of mysterious
objects,(102) every one of them having some definite Occult meaning,
extracted from the Hindû allegorical “Churning of the Ocean” by the Gods.
Besides Amrita, the water of life or immortality, Surabhi, the “cow of
plenty,” called “the fountain of milk and curds,” was extracted from this
“sea of milk.” Hence the universal adoration of the cow and bull, one the
productive, the other the generative power in Nature: symbols connected
with both the solar and the cosmic deities. The specific properties, for
Occult purposes, of the “fourteen precious things,” being explained only
at the Fourth Initiation, cannot be given here; but the following may be
remarked. In the _Shatapatha Brâhmana_ it is stated that the Churning of
the Ocean of Milk took place in the Satya Yuga, the first Age which
immediately followed the “Deluge.” As, however, neither the _Rig Veda_ nor
_Manu_—both preceding Vaivasvata’s “Deluge,” that of the bulk of the
Fourth Race—mention this Deluge, it is evident that it is neither the
Great Deluge, nor that which carried away Atlantis, nor even the Deluge of
Noah, which is here meant. This “Churning” relates to a period before the
earth’s formation, and is in direct connection with another universal
legend, the various and contradictory versions of which culminated in the
Christian dogma of the “War in Heaven,” and the “Fall of the Angels.” The
_Brâhmanas_, reproached by the Orientalists with their versions on the
same subjects often clashing with each other, _are preëminently occult
works_, hence used purposely as blinds. They are allowed to survive for
public use and property only because they were and are absolutely
unintelligible to the masses. Otherwise they would have disappeared from
circulation as long ago as the days of Akbar.
5. THE ROOT REMAINS, THE LIGHT REMAINS, THE CURDS REMAIN, AND STILL
OEAOHOO IS ONE.
“Oeaohoo” is rendered “Father‐Mother of the Gods” in the Commentaries, or
the “Six in One,” or _the Septenary Root from which all proceeds_. All
depends upon the accent given to these seven vowels, which may be
pronounced as one, three, or even seven syllables, by adding an _e_ after
the final _o_. This mystic name is given out, because without a thorough
mastery of the triple pronunciation it remains for ever ineffectual.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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