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
Finding in Sanskrit such syllables as Jah and Yah, _e.g._, Jâh‐navî,
“Ganges,” and Jagan‐nâtha, “Lord of the World,” it becomes clear why Mr.
Rawlinson is so very confident in his works of an Âryan or Vedic influence
on the early mythology of Babylon. Nor is it to be much wondered at that
the alleged ten tribes of Israel disappeared during the captivity period,
without leaving a trace behind them, when we are informed that the Jews
had _de facto_ but two tribes—those of Judah and of Levi. The Levites,
moreover, were not a tribe at all, but a priestly caste. The descendants
have only followed their progenitors, the various patriarchs, into thin,
sidereal air. There were _Brahms_ and _A‐brahms_, in days of old, truly,
and before the first Jew had been born. Every nation held its first God
and Gods to be androgynous; nor could it be otherwise, since they regarded
their distant primeval progenitors, their dual‐sexed ancestors, as divine
Beings and Gods, just as do the Chinese to this day. And they were divine
in one sense, as also was their first human progeny, the “mind‐born”
primitive humanity, which was most assuredly bi‐sexual, as all the more
ancient symbols and traditions show.
Under the emblematical devices and peculiar phraseology of the
priesthood of old, lie latent hints of sciences as yet
undiscovered during the present cycle. Well acquainted as may be a
scholar with the hieratic writing and hieroglyphical system of the
Egyptians, he must first of all learn to sift their records. He
has to assure himself, compasses and rule in hand, that the
picture‐writing he is examining fits, to a line, _certain fixed
geometrical figures_ which are the hidden keys to such records,
before he ventures on an interpretation.
But there are myths which speak for themselves. In this class we
may include the double‐sexed first creators of every Cosmogony.
The Greek Zeus‐Zên (Æther), and Chthonia (the Chaotic Earth) and
Metis (Water), his wives; Osiris and Isis‐Latona—the former God
also representing Æther, the first emanation of the Supreme Deity,
Amun, the primeval source of Light; the Goddess Earth and Water
again; Mithras, the rock‐born God, the symbol of the male Mundane
Fire, or the personified Primordial Light, and Mithra, the Fire‐
Goddess, at once his mother and his wife; the pure element of Fire
(the active, or male principle) regarded as light and heat, in
conjunction with Earth and Water, or Matter (the female or passive
element of cosmical generation).(304)
All these are records of the primeval divine Hermaphrodite.
Stanza VI. The Evolution Of The “Sweat‐Born.”
22. The evolution of the three Races continued. 23. The Second
Race creates the Third and perishes.
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