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
Now Light, as shown, is 20612 to 6561, as the proper enunciation
of the integral and numerical relation of diameter to
circumference of a circle. God (Alhim, that is, 31415 to One, a
modified form of the above) is the reduction of this, so as to
obtain a standard unit _One_, as the basis, in general, of all
calculation and all mensuration. But for the production of animal
life, and for especial _time measure_, or the lunar year, that
influence which causes conception and embryotic development, the
numbers of the Jehovah measure (the “_man even Jehovah_” measure),
viz., 113 to 355, have to be specialized.(71) But this last ratio
is but a modified form of Light, or 20612 to 6561, as a _pi
value_, being only a variation of the same (that is 20612 to 6561
is 31415 to one, and 355 to 113 is 31415 or Alhim or God), and in
such a manner that one can be made to flow into and be derived
from the other:—and these are the three steps by which the _Unity_
and sameness can be shown of the Divine names. That is, the two
are but variations of the same ratio, viz., that of _pi_. The
object of this comment is to show the same symbolic measuring use
for the Cabbalah, as taught, with that of the Three Covenants of
the _Bible_, and with that of Masonry as just noticed.
First, then, the Sephiroth are described as _Light_, that is, they
themselves are a function of, indeed, the same as, the
manifestation of the Ain Soph; and they are so from the fact that
“_Light_” represents the ratio 20612 to 6561, as part of the
“Words,” DBRIM, 41224, or, as to the Word, Dabar, 206 (= 10
cubits). “_Light_” is so much the burden of the Cabbalah as to
explaining the Sephiroth, that the most famous book on the
Cabbalah is called _Sohar_, or “_Light_.” In this we find
expressions of this kind: “The infinite was entirely unknown and
diffused no light before the luminous point violently broke
through into vision.” “When He first assumed the form (of the
crown, or the first Sephira), He caused 9 splendid lights to
emanate from it, which, shining through it, diffused a bright
light in all directions:”—that is, these 9 with his one (which was
the origin, as above, of the 9), together, made the 10, that is
[Symbol: circle with vertical line through it], or [Symbol: circle
with “x” inside], or the sacred Ten (numbers or Sephiroth), or
_Jod_—and these numbers were “_the Light_.” Just as in the Gospel
of St. John, God (Alhim, 31415 to one) was that Light (20612 to
6561) by which (Light) all things were made.(72)
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