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
Finally, it is shown in every ancient Scripture and Cosmogony that man
evolved primarily as a _luminous incorporeal form_, over which, like
molten brass poured into the model of the sculptor, the physical frame of
his body was built by, through and from, the lower forms and types of
animal terrestrial life. Says the _Zohar_:
The Soul and the _Form_ when descending on Earth put on an earthly
garment.
His protoplastic body was not formed of that matter of which our mortal
frames are fashioned.
When Adam dwelled in the garden of Eden, he was dressed in the
celestial garment, which is the garment of heavenly light ...
_light of that light which was used in the garden of Eden_.(258)
Man [the Heavenly Adam] was _created_ by the ten Sephiroth of the
Jetziratic World, and by their _common power_ the seven Angels of
a still lower World engendered the Earthly Adam. First Samaël
fell, and then _deceiving_ (?) man, caused his fall also.
(_b_) The sentence, “they were the shadows of the Shadows of the
Lords”—_i.e._, the Progenitors created man out of their own Astral
Bodies—explains a universal belief. The Devas are credited in the East
with having no “shadows” of their own. “The Devas cast no shadows,” and
this is the sure sign of a _good holy Spirit_.
(_c_) Why had they “no Fire or Water of their own”?(259) Because that
which Hydrogen is to the elements and gases on the objective plane, its
Noumenon is in the world of mental or subjective phenomena; since its
trinitarian latent nature is mirrored in its three active emanations from
the three higher principles in man, namely, Spirit, Soul, and Mind, or
Âtmâ, Buddhi, and Manas. It is the spiritual and also the material human
basis. Rudimentary man, having been nursed by the “Air” or the “Wind,”
becomes the perfect man later on; when, with the development of “Spiritual
Fire,” the Noumenon of the “Three in One” within his Self, he acquires
from his Inner Self, or Instructor, the Wisdom of Self‐Consciousness,
which he does not possess in the beginning. Thus here again Divine Spirit
is symbolized by the Sun or Fire; Divine Soul by Water and the Moon, both
standing for the Father and Mother of Pneuma, the Human Soul, or Mind,
symbolized by the Wind or Air, for Pneuma, means “Breath.”
Hence in the _Smaragdine Tablet_, disfigured by Christian hands:
The Superior agrees with the Inferior; and the Inferior with the
Superior; to effect that one truly wonderful work—[which is Man].
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