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
It is not Indra, who in this case figures in the _Purânas_, but Kâmadeva,
the God of love and desire, who sends Pramlochâ on Earth. Logic, as well
as the Esoteric Doctrine, shows that it must be so. For Kâma is the king
and lord of the Apsarases, of whom Pramlochâ is one; and, therefore, when
Kandu, cursing her, exclaims: “Thou hast performed the office assigned by
the monarch of the gods, go!”—he must mean by that monarch Kâma, and not
Indra, to whom the Apsarases are not subservient. For Kâma, again, is in
the _Rig Veda_(403) the personification of that feeling which leads and
propels to creation. He was the _First Movement_ that stirred the ONE,
after its manifestation from the purely Abstract Principle, to create.
Desire first arose in IT, which was the Primal Germ of Mind; and
which Sages, searching with their intellect, have discovered to be
the bond which connects Entity with Non‐Entity.
A Hymn in the _Atharva Veda_ exalts Kâma into a supreme God and Creator,
and says:
Kâma was born the first. Him, neither Gods nor Fathers [Pitris]
nor Men have equalled.
The _Atharva Veda_ identifies him with Agni, but makes him superior to
that God. The _Taittirîya Brâhmana_ makes him allegorically the son of
Dharma (moral religious duty, piety and justice) and of Shraddhâ (faith).
Elsewhere Kâma is born from the heart of Brahmâ; therefore he is Âtmabhû
“Self‐Existent,” and Aja, the “Unborn.” His sending Pramlochâ has a deep
philosophical meaning; sent by Indra—the narrative has none. As Erôs was
connected in early Greek mythology with the world’s creation, and only
afterwards became the sexual Cupid, so was Kâma in his original Vedic
character; the _Harivamsha_ making him a son of Lakshmî, who is Venus. The
allegory, as said, shows the psychic element developing the physiological,
before the birth of Daksha—_the progenitor of real physical men_—who is
made to be born from Mârishâ and before whose time living beings and men
were procreated “by the will, by sight, by touch, and by yoga,” as will be
shown.
This, then, is the allegory on the mode of procreation of the Second or
the “Sweat‐born.” The same for the Third Race in its final development.
Mârishâ, through the exertions of Soma, the Moon, is taken to wife by the
Prachetases, the production of the “Mind‐born” sons of Brahmâ also,(404)
from whom they beget the Patriarch Daksha—a son of Brahmâ also in a former
Kalpa or life, explain and add the _Purânas_, in order to mislead, yet
speaking the truth.
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