The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 2 of 4: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy — John Shaqi
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 thus becomes easy to account for the reason why Adam‐Adami is found in
the Chaldæan scripture, certainly earlier than the Mosaic Books. In
Assyrian _Ad_ is the “father,” and in Aramæan _Ad_ is “one,” and _Ad‐ad_
the “only one,” while _Ak_ is in Assyrian “creator.” Thus _Ad‐am‐ak‐ad‐
mon_ became Adam‐Kadmon in the Kabalah (_Zohar_), meaning as it did, the
“One (Son) of the divine Father, or the Creator,” for the words _am_ and
_om_ meant at one time in nearly every language the _divine_, or the
_deity_. Thus Adam‐Kadmon and Adam‐Adami came to mean “The first Emanation
of the Father‐Mother or Divine Nature,” and literally the “first Divine
One.” And it is easy to see that _Ad_‐Argat (or Aster’t, the Syrian
Goddess, the consort of _Ad‐on_, the Lord God of Syria or the Jewish
Adonai), and Venus, Isis, Ister, Mylitta, Eve, etc., are identical with
the Aditi and Vâch of the Hindûs. They are all the “Mothers of all living”
and “of the Gods.” On the other hand—cosmically and astronomically—all the
male Gods became at first “Sun‐Gods,” then, theologically, the “Suns of
Righteousness,” and the Logoi, all symbolized by the Sun.(79) They are all
Protogonoi—First‐born—and Mikroprosopoi. With the Jews Adam‐Kadmon was the
same as Athamaz, Tamaz, or the Adonis of the Greeks—“the One _with_, and
_of_ his Father”—the “Father” becoming during the later Races Helios, the
Sun, as Apollo Karneios,(80) for instance, who was the “Sun‐born”; Osiris,
Ormazd, and so on, were all followed by, and found themselves transformed
later on into, still more earthly types: such as Prometheus, the crucified
of Mount Kajbee, Hercules, and so many others, Sun‐Gods and Heroes, until
all of them came to have no better significance than phallic symbols.
In the _Zohar_ it is said:
Man was created by the Sephiroth (Elohim‐Javeh, also) and they
engendered by common power the _earthly_ Adam.
Therefore in _Genesis_ the Elohim say: “Behold Man is become _as one of
us_.” But in Hindû Cosmogony or “Creation,” Brahmâ‐Prajâpati _creates_
Virâj and the Rishis, spiritually; therefore the latter are distinctly
called the “Mind‐born Sons of Brahmâ”; and this specified mode of
_engendering_ precluded every idea of Phallicism, at any rate in the
earlier human nations. This instance well illustrates the respective
_spirituality_ of the two nations.
3. SAID THE LORD OF THE SHINING FACE: “I SHALL SEND THEE A FIRE WHEN THY
WORK IS COMMENCED. RAISE THY VOICE TO OTHER LOKAS; APPLY TO THY FATHER,
THE LORD OF THE LOTUS(81) (_A_), FOR HIS SONS.... THY PEOPLE SHALL BE
UNDER THE RULE OF THE FATHERS.(82) THY MEN SHALL BE MORTALS. THE MEN OF
THE LORD OF WISDOM,(83) NOT THE SONS OF SOMA,(84) ARE IMMORTAL. CEASE THY
COMPLAINTS (_B_). THY SEVEN SKINS ARE YET ON THEE.... THOU ART NOT READY.
THY MEN ARE NOT READY” (_C_).
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