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
There were two constellations with seven stars each. _We_ call
them the Two Bears. But the seven stars of the Lesser Bear were
once considered to be the seven heads of the Polar Dragon, which
we meet with—as the beast with seven heads—in the Akkadian Hymns
and in _Revelation_. The mythical dragon originated in the
crocodile, which is the dragon of Egypt.... Now in one particular
cult, the Sut‐Typhonian, the first god was Sevekh [the seven‐
fold], who wears the crocodile’s head, as well as the Serpent, and
who is the Dragon, or whose constellation was the Dragon.... In
Egypt the Great Bear was the constellation of Typhon, or _Kepha_,
the old genetrix, called the Mother of the Revolutions; and the
Dragon with seven heads was assigned to her son, Sevekh‐Kronus, or
Saturn, called the Dragon of Life. That is, the typical dragon or
serpent with seven heads was female at first, and then the type
was continued, as male in her son Sevekh, the Sevenfold Serpent,
in Ea the Sevenfold, ... Iao Chnubis, and others. We find these
two in _The Book of Revelation_. One is the Scarlet Lady, the
mother of mystery, the great harlot, who sat on a scarlet‐coloured
beast with seven heads, which is the Red Dragon of the Pole. She
held in her hand the unclean things of her fornication. That means
the emblems of the male and female, imaged by the Egyptians at the
Polar Centre, the very uterus of creation, as was indicated by the
Thigh constellation, called the Khepsh of Typhon, the old Dragon,
in the northern birthplace of Time in heaven. The two revolved
about the _pole of heaven_, or the Tree, as it was called, which
was figured at the centre of the starry motion. In _The Book of
Enoch_ these two constellations are identified as Leviathan and
Behemoth‐Bekhmut, or the Dragon and Hippopotamus = Great Bear, and
they are the primal pair that were first created in the Garden of
Eden. So that the Egyptian first mother, Kefa [or Kepha] whose
name signifies “mystery,” was the original of the Hebrew Chavah,
our Eve; and therefore Adam is one with Sevekh the sevenfold one,
the solar dragon in whom the powers of light and darkness were
combined, and the sevenfold nature was shown in the seven rays
worn by the Gnostic Iao‐Chnubis, god of the number seven, who is
Sevekh by name and a form of the first father as head of the
Seven.(373)
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