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
Moreover, Man was regarded in several systems as the Third Logos. The
Esoteric meaning of the word Logos—Speech or Word, Verbum—is the rendering
in objective expression, as in a photograph, of the concealed thought. The
Logos is the mirror reflecting DIVINE MIND, and the Universe is the mirror
of the Logos, though the latter is the _esse_ of that Universe. As the
Logos reflects _all_ in the Universe of Plerôma, so Man reflects in
himself all that he sees and finds in _his_ Universe, the Earth. It is the
Three Heads of the Kabalah—“_unum intra alterum, et alterum super
alterum._”(36) “Every Universe (World or Planet) has its own Logos,” says
the Doctrine. The Sun was always called by the Egyptians the “Eye of
Osiris,” and was himself the Logos, the First‐begotten, or Light made
manifest to the world, “which is the Mind and divine Intellect of the
Concealed.” It is only by the seven‐fold Ray of this Light that we can
become cognizant of the Logos through the Demiurge, regarding the latter
as the “Creator” of our Planet and everything pertaining to it, and the
former as the guiding Force of that “Creator”—good and bad at the same
time, the origin of good and the origin of evil. This “Creator” is neither
good nor bad _per se_, but its differentiated aspects in Nature make it
assume one or the other character. With the invisible and the unknown
Universes disseminated through Space, none of the Sun‐Gods had anything to
do. The idea is expressed very clearly in the Books of Hermes, and in
every ancient folk‐lore. It is symbolized generally by the Dragon and the
Serpent—the Dragon of Good and the Serpent of Evil, represented on Earth
by the right and the left‐hand Magic. In the epic poem of Finland, the
_Kalevala_,(37) the origin of the Serpent of Evil is given: it is born
from the spittle of Suoyatar, and endowed with a Living Soul by the
Principle of Evil, Hisi. A strife is described between the two, the “thing
of evil,” the Serpent or Sorcerer, and Ahti, the Dragon of the white
magician, Lemminkainen. The latter is one of the seven sons of Ilmatar,
the virgin “daughter of the air,” she “who fell from heaven into the sea,”
before Creation, _i.e._, Spirit transformed into the matter of sensuous
life. There is a world of meaning and Occult thought in the following few
lines, admirably rendered by Dr. J. M. Crawford, of Cincinnati. The hero
Lemminkainen,
Hews the wall with might of magic,
Breaks the palisade in pieces,
Hews to atoms _seven_ pickets,
Chops the _serpent‐wall_ to fragments.
When the monster little heeding,
Pounces with his mouth of venom
At the head of Lemminkainen.
But the hero, quick recalling,
Speaks the _master‐words of knowledge_,
Words that came from distant ages,
Words his ancestors had taught him.
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