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
This Light, abstractly taken, (in a metaphysical or symbolical
sense) is Alhim (Elohim, God), while the clear penetrating Light
is Jehovah. The light of Alhim belongs to the world in general, in
its allness and general fulness, but the light of Jehovah is that
pertaining to the chiefest production, man, whom this light
penetrated to and made.(69)
The author of the _Source of Measures_ pertinently refers the reader to
Inman’s _Ancient Faiths Embodied in Ancient Names_, ii. 648. There, an
engraving of
The _vesica piscis_, Mary, and the female emblem, copied from a
Rosary of the blessed Virgin Mary, which was printed at Venice,
1542,
and therefore, as Inman remarks, “with a licence from the Inquisition, and
consequently orthodox,” will show the reader what the Latin Church
understood by this “penetrating power of light and its effects.” How sadly
disfigured—applied as they were to the grossest anthropomorphic
conceptions—have, under Christian interpretation, become the noblest and
grandest, as the most exalted, ideas of Deity of the Eastern Philosophy!
The Occultists in the East call this Light Daiviprakriti, and in the West
the Light of Christos. It is the Light of the Logos, the direct reflection
of the ever Unknowable on the plane of Universal Manifestation. But here
is the interpretation thereof given by the modern Christians from the
Kabalah. As declared by the author just cited;
To the fulness of the world in general with its chiefest content,
man, the term Elohim‐Jehovah applies. In extracts from Sohar, the
Rev. Dr. Cassell [a Kabalist], to prove that the Cabbalah sets
forth the doctrine of the Trinity, among other things says:
“Jehovah is Elohim (Alhim)” ... By _three_ steps God, (Alhim) and
Jehovah become the same, and though separated, each and together
they are of the same One.(70)
Similarly, Vishnu becomes the Sun, the visible symbol of the Impersonal
Deity. Vishnu is described as “striding through the seven regions of the
Universe in _three steps_.” But with the Hindûs this is an _exoteric_
account, a surface tenet and an allegory, while the Kabalists give it out
as the Esoteric and final meaning. But to proceed:
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