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
(_a_) “Bright Space, Son of Dark Space,” corresponds to the Ray dropped at
the first thrill of the new Dawn into the great Cosmic Depths, from which
it reëmerges differentiated as “Oeaohoo, the Younger” (the “New Life”), to
be to the end of the Life‐Cycle the Germ of all things. He is “the
Incorporeal Man who contains in himself the Divine Idea,” the generator of
Light and Life, to use an expression of Philo Judæus. He is called the
“Blazing Dragon of Wisdom,” because, firstly, he is that which the Greek
philosophers called the Logos, the Verbum of the Thought Divine; and
secondly, because in Esoteric Philosophy this first manifestation, being
the synthesis or the aggregate of Universal Wisdom, Oeaohoo, the “Son of
the Sun,” contains in himself the Seven Creative Hosts (Sephiroth), and is
thus the essence of manifested Wisdom. “_He who bathes in the Light of
Oeaohoo will never be deceived by the Veil of Mâyâ._”
“Kwan‐Shai‐Yin” is identical with, and an equivalent of the Sanskrit
Avalokiteshvara, and as such is an androgynous deity, like the
Tetragrammaton and all the Logoi of antiquity. It is only by some sects in
China that he is anthropomorphized, and represented with female
attributes; under his female aspect becoming Kwan‐Yin, the Goddess of
Mercy, called the “Divine Voice.”(116) The latter is the patron deity of
Tibet and of the island of Puto in China, where both deities have a number
of monasteries.(117)
The higher gods of antiquity are all “Sons of the Mother” before they
become “Sons of the Father.” The Logoi, like Jupiter or Zeus, son of
Cronus‐Saturn, “Infinite Time” (Kâla), in their origin were represented as
male‐female. Zeus is said to be the “beautiful virgin,” and Venus is made
bearded. Apollo was originally bisexual, so is Brahmâ‐Vâch in _Manu_ and
the _Purânas_. Osiris is interchangeable with Isis, and Horus is of both
sexes. Finally in St. John’s vision in _Revelation_, the Logos, who is now
connected with Jesus, is hermaphrodite, for he is described as having
female breasts. So also is Tetragrammaton, or Jehovah. But there are two
Avalokiteshvaras in Esotericism; the First and the Second Logos.
No religious symbol can escape profanation and even derision in our days
of politics and science. In Southern India the writer has seen a converted
native making pûjâ with offerings before a statue of Jesus clad in woman’s
clothes and with a ring in its nose. On asking the meaning of this
masquerade, we were answered that it was Jesu‐Maria blended in one, and
that it was done by the permission of the Padre, as the zealous convert
had no money to purchase two statues, or “idols” as they, very properly,
were called by a witness, another but a non‐converted Hindû. Blasphemous
this will appear to a dogmatic Christian, but the Theosophist and the
Occultist must award the palm of logic to the converted Hindû. The
esoteric Christos in the Gnôsis is, of course, sexless, but in exoteric
Theology he is male and female.
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