The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 2 of 4: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and PhilosophyBlavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna)
Religion
The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 2 of 4: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy
Blavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna)
Theosophy
And Adam ... begat a son in _his own likeness_, after his image;
and called his name Seth.(294)
After which he begets other sons and daughters, thus proving that Cain and
Abel are his own allegorical permutations. Adam stands for the primitive
_Human_ Race, especially in its cosmo‐sidereal sense. Not so, however, in
its theo‐anthropological meaning. The compound name of Jehovah, or Jah‐
Hovah, meaning _male life_ and _female life_—first androgynous, then
separated into sexes—is used in this sense in _Genesis_ from Chapter V
onwards. As the author of the _Source of Measures_ says:
The two words of which _Jehovah_ is composed make up the original
idea of male‐female, as the birth originator.(295)
For the Hebrew letter _Jod_ was the _membrum virile_ and _Hovah_ was Eve,
the mother of all living, or the procreatrix, Earth and Nature. The author
believes, therefore, that:
It is seen that the _perfect one_ [the perfect female circle or
Yoni, 20612, numerically], as _originator of measures_, takes also
the form of _birth_ origin, as _hermaphrodite one_; hence the
phallic form and use.
Precisely; only “the phallic form and use” came long ages later; and the
first and original meaning of Enos, the son of Seth, was the first Race
born in the present usual way from man and woman—for Seth is no man, but a
_race_. Before him humanity was hermaphrodite. While Seth is the first
result (physiologically) after the “Fall,” he is also the first _man_;
hence his son Enos is referred to as the “Son of _Man_.” Seth represents
the _later_ Third Race.
To screen the real mystery name of Ain Suph—the Boundless and Endless No‐
Thing—the Kabalists have brought forward the compound attribute‐
appellation of one of the personal Creative Elohim, whose name was Yah or
Jah—the letters _i_ or _j_ or _y_ being interchangeable—or Jah‐Hovah,
_i.e._, _male_ and _female_;(296) Jah‐Eve a hermaphrodite, or the _first
form of humanity_, the original Adam of Earth, not even Adam Kadmon, whose
“Mind‐born Son” is the earthly Jah‐Hovah, mystically. And knowing this,
the crafty Rabbin‐Kabalist has made of it a name so _secret_, that he
could not divulge it later on without exposing the whole scheme; and thus
he was obliged to make it _sacred_.
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