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
Hence Eve stands as the evolution and the never‐ceasing “becoming” of
Nature. Now if we take the almost untranslatable Sanskrit word Sat, which
means the quintessence of absolute immutable Being, or Be‐ness—as it has
been rendered by an able Hindu Occultist—we shall find no equivalent for
it in any language; but it may be regarded as most closely resembling
“Ain,” or “En‐Suph,” Boundless Being. Then the term Hâyâh, “to be,” as
passive, changeless, yet manifested existence may perhaps be rendered by
the Sanskrit Jîvâtmâ, universal life or soul, in its secondary and cosmic
meaning; while “Châyâh,” “to live,” as “motion of existence,” is simply
Prâna, the ever‐changing life in its objective sense. It is at the head of
this third category that the Occultist finds Jehovah—the Mother, Binah,
and the Father, Arelim. This is made plain in the _Zohar_, when the
emanation and evolution of the Sephiroth are explained: First, Ain‐Suph,
then Shekinah, the Garment or Veil of Infinite Light, then Sephira or the
Kadmon, and, thus making the fourth, the spiritual Substance sent forth
from the Infinite Light. This Sephira is called the Crown, Kether, and has
besides, six other names—in all seven. These names are: 1. Kether; 2. the
Aged; 3. the Primordial Point; 4. the White Head; 5. the Long Face; 6. the
Inscrutable Height; and 7. Ehejeh (“I am”.)(350) This septenary Sephira is
said to contain in itself the nine Sephiroth. But before showing how she
brought them forth, let us read an explanation about the Sephiroth in the
_Talmud_, which gives it as an archaic tradition, or Kabalah.
There are three groups (or orders) of Sephiroth: 1. The Sephiroth called
“divine attributes” (the Triad in the Holy Quaternary); 2. the sidereal
(personal) Sephiroth; 3. the metaphysical Sephiroth, or a periphrasis of
Jehovah, who are the first three Sephiroth (Kether, Chokmah and Binah),
the rest of the seven being the personal “Seven Spirits of the Presence”
(also of the planets, therefore). Speaking of these, the angels are meant,
though not because they are seven, but because they represent the seven
Sephiroth which contain in them the universality of the Angels.
This shows (_a_) that, when the first four Sephiroth are separated, as a
Triad‐Quaternary—Sephira being its synthesis—there remain only seven
Sephiroth, as there are seven Rishis; these become ten when the
Quaternary, or the first divine Cube, is scattered into units; and (_b_)
that while Jehovah might have been viewed as the Deity, if he be included
in the three divine groups or orders of the Sephiroth, the collective
Elohim, or the quaternary indivisible Kether, once that he becomes a male
God, he is no more than one of the Builders of the lower group—a Jewish
Brahmâ.(351) A demonstration is now attempted.
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