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 three pronouns, הוא, אתה, אני, Hua, Ateh, Ani—He, Thou, I—are
used to symbolize the ideas of Macroposopus and Microprosopus in
the Hebrew Qabalah. Hua, “He,” is applied to the hidden and
concealed Macroprosopus; Ateh, “Thou,” to Microprosopus; and Ani,
“I,” to the latter when He is represented as speaking. (See
_Lesser Holy Assembly_, 204 _et seq_.) It is to be noted that each
of these names consists of three letters, of which the letter
Aleph א, A, forms the conclusion of the first word Hua, and the
commencement of Atah and Ani, as if it were the connecting link
between them. But א is the symbol of the Unity and consequently of
the unvarying Idea of the Divine operating through all these. But
behind the א in the name Hua are the letters ו and ה, the symbols
of the numbers Six and Five, the Male and the Female, the Hexagram
and the Pentagram. And the numbers of these three words, Hua,
Ateh, Ani, are 12, 406, and 61, which are resumed in the key
numbers of 3, 10, and 7, by the Qabalah of the Nine Chambers which
is a form of the exegetical rule of Temura.
It is useless to attempt to explain the mystery in full. Materialists and
the men of Modern Science will never understand it, since, in order to
obtain clear perception of it, one has first of all to admit the postulate
of a universally diffused, omnipresent, eternal Deity in Nature; secondly,
to have fathomed the mystery of electricity in its true essence; and
thirdly, to credit man with being the septenary symbol, on the terrestrial
plane, of the One Great Unit, the Logos, which is Itself the seven‐
vowelled sign, the Breath crystallized into the Word.(125) He who believes
in all this, has also to believe in the multiple combination of the seven
planets of Occultism and of the _Kabalah_, with the twelve zodiacal signs;
and attribute, as we do, to each planet and to each constellation an
influence which, in the words of Mr. Ely Star (a French astrologer), “is
proper to it, beneficent or maleficent, and this, after the planetary
spirit which rules it, who, in his turn, is capable of influencing men and
things which are found in harmony with him and with which he has any
affinity.” For these reasons, and since few believe in the foregoing, all
that can now be given is that in both cases the symbol of Hansa (whether
I, He, Goose or Swan) is an important symbol, representing, among other
things, Divine Wisdom, Wisdom in Darkness beyond the reach of men. For all
exoteric purposes, Hansa, as every Hindû knows, is a fabulous bird which,
when (in the allegory) given milk mixed with water for its food, separated
the two, drinking the milk and leaving the water; thus showing inherent
wisdom—milk standing symbolically for spirit, and water for matter.
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