The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 3 of 4: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and PhilosophyBlavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna)
Religion
The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 3 of 4: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy
Blavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna)
Theosophy
“_Darkness alone filled the Boundless All, for Father, Mother and Son were
once more One._”(345)
Space was, and is ever, as it is between the Manvantaras. The Universe in
its pre‐kosmic state was once more homogeneous and one—outside its
aspects. This was a Kabalistic, and is now a Christian teaching.
As is constantly shown in the _Zohar_, the Infinite Unity, or Ain‐Suph, is
ever placed outside human thought and appreciation; and in _Sepher
Jetzirah_ we see the Spirit of God—the Logos, not the Deity itself—called
One.
One is the Spirit of the living God, ... who liveth for ever.
Voice, Spirit, [of the Spirit], and Word: this is the Holy
Spirit,(346)
—and the Quaternary. From this Cube emanates the whole Kosmos.
Says the Secret Doctrine:
“_It is called to life. The mystic Cube in which rests the Creative Idea,
the manifesting Mantra_ [or articulate speech—Vâch] _and the holy Purusha_
[both radiations of prima materia] _exist in the Eternity in the Divine
Substance in their latent state_”
—during Pralaya.
And in the _Sepher Jetzirah_, when the Three‐in‐One are to be called into
being—by the manifestation of Shekinah, the first effulgency or radiation
in the manifesting Kosmos—the “Spirit of God,” or Number One,(347)
fructifies and awakens the dual Potency, Number Two, Air, and Number
Three, Water; in these “are darkness and emptiness, slime and dung”—which
is Chaos, the Tohu‐Vah‐Bohu. The Air and Water emanate Number Four, Ether
or Fire, the Son. This is the Kabalistic Quaternary. This Fourth Number,
which in the manifested Kosmos is the One, or the Creative God, is with
the Hindus the “Ancient,” Sanat, the Prajâpati of the _Vedas_ and the
Brahmâ of the Brâhmans—the heavenly Androgyne, as he becomes the male only
after separating himself into two bodies, Vâch and Virâj. With the
Kabalists, he is at first the Jah‐Havah, only later becoming Jehovah, like
Virâj, his prototype; after separating himself as Adam‐Kadmon into Adam
and Eve in the formless, and into Cain‐Abel in the semi‐objective, world,
he became finally the Jah‐Havah, or man and woman, in Enoch, the son of
Seth.
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