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
And these three are all quaternaries completed by their Root, Fire. The
Spirit, beyond Manifested Nature, is the Fiery BREATH in its absolute
Unity. In the Manifested Universe, it is the Central Spiritual Sun, the
electric Fire of all Life. In our System it is the visible Sun, the Spirit
of Nature, the terrestrial God. And in, on, and around the Earth, the
fiery spirit thereof—Air, fluidic Fire; Water, liquid Fire; Earth, solid
Fire. All is Fire—Ignis, in its ultimate constitution, or I, the root of
which is 0 (nought) in our conceptions, the All in Nature and its Mind.
“Pro‐Metor” is divine Fire. It is the Creator, the Destroyer, the
Preserver. The primitive names of the Gods are all connected with fire,
from Agni, the Âryan, to the Jewish God who is a “consuming fire.” In
India, God is called in various dialects, Eashoor, Esur, Iswur, and
Îshvara, in Sanskrit, the Lord, from Isha, but this is primarily the name
of Shiva, the Destroyer; and the three chief Vedic Gods are Agni (Ignis),
Vâyu, and Sûrya—Fire, Air, and the Sun, three Occult degrees of Fire. In
the Hebrew, אזא (Aza) means to “illuminate,” and אשא (Asha) is “Fire.” In
Occultism, to “kindle a fire” is synonymous to evoking one of the three
great Fire‐powers, or to “call on God.” In Sanskrit the root Ush is fire
or heat; and the Egyptian word Osiris is compounded, as shown by
Schelling, of the two primitives Aish and Asr, or a “fire‐enchanter.”
Aesar in the old Etruscan meant a God, being perhaps derived from Asura of
the _Vedas_. Îshvara is an analogous term, as Dr. Kenealy thought, who
quotes the _Bhagavad Gitâ_ to the effect that:
Îshvara resides in every mortal being and puts in motion, by his
supernatural powers, all things which mount on the wheel of time.
It is the Creator and the Destroyer, truly.
The primitive Fire was supposed to have an insatiable appetite for
devouring. Maximus of Tyre relates that the ancient Persians threw
into the fire combustible matter crying, _Devour, O Lord!_ In the
Irish language _easam_, or _asam_, means to _make_ or _create_.
[And] _Aesar_ was the name also of one of the ancient Irish gods;
the literal meaning of the word is “to kindle a fire.”(261)
The Christian Kabalists and Symbologists who disfigured
_Pymander_—prominent among them the Bishop of Ayre, François de Tours, in
the 16th century—divide the Elements in the following way:
_The four Elements formed from divine Substances and the Spirits of the
Salts of Nature represented by_:
[Symbol: Root symbol] ... St. Matthew ... Angel‐Man ... Water (Jesus‐
Christ, Angel‐Man, Mikael)
Α‐Ω ... St. Mark ... The Lion ... Fire
Ε‐Υ ... St. Luke ... The Bull ... Earth
Ι‐Ο ... St. John ... The Eagle ... Air(262)
Η ... _The Quintessence_, Ἡ ΦΛΟΞ, _Flamma‐Virgo_ [Virgin Oil], _Flamma
Durissima_, _Virgo_, _Lucis Æterna Mater_.
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