fatherhood, which was individualised only in the second Hebrew Creation.(380) This shows sufficiently how the echo of the Secret Doctrine—of the Third and Fourth Races of men, made complete by the incarnation in humanity of the Mânasa Putra, Sons of Intelligence or Wisdom—reached every corner of the globe. The Jews, however, although they borrowed of the older nations the groundwork on which to build their revelation, never had more than three keys out of the seven in their mind, while composing their national allegories—the astronomical, the numerical (metrology), and above all the purely anthropological, or rather physiological key. This resulted in the most phallic religion of all, and has now passed, part and parcel, into Christian theology, as is proved by the lengthy quotations made from a lecture of an able Egyptologist, who can make naught of it save astronomical myths and phallicism, as is implied by his explanations of “fatherhood” in the allegories. SECTION XXII. THE “ZOHAR” ON CREATION AND THE ELOHIM. The opening sentence in _Genesis_, as every Hebrew scholar knows, is: בראשית ברא אלהים את השמים ואת הארץ Now there are two well‐known ways of rendering this line, as any other Hebrew writing: one exoteric, as read by the orthodox _Bible_ interpreters (Christian), and the other Kabalistic, the latter, moreover, being divided into the Rabbinical and the purely Kabalistic or Occult method. As in Sanskrit writing, the words are not separated in the Hebrew, but are made to run together—especially in the old systems. For instance, the above, divided, would read: “_B’rashith bara Elohim eth hashamayim v’eth h’areths_;” and it can be made to read thus: “_B’rash ithbara Elohim ethhashamayim v’eth’arets_,” thus changing the meaning entirely. The latter means, “In the beginning _God made the heavens_ and the earth,” whereas the former, precluding the idea of any beginning, would simply read that “out of the ever‐existing Essence [divine] [or out of the _womb_—also head—thereof] the dual [or androgyne] Force [Gods] shaped the double heaven;” the upper and the lower heaven being generally explained as heaven and earth. The latter word means Esoterically the “Vehicle,” as it gives the idea of an empty globe, within which the manifestation of the world takes place. Now, according to the rules of Occult symbolical reading as established in the old _Sepher Jetzirah_ (in the Chaldæan _Book of Numbers_(381)) the initial fourteen letters (or “B’rasitb’ raalaim”) are in themselves quite sufficient to explain the theory of “creation” without any further explanation or qualification. Every letter of them is a sentence; and, placed side by side with the hieroglyphic or pictorial initial version of “creation” in the _Book of Dzyan_, the origin of the Phœnician and Jewish letters would soon be found out. A whole volume of explanations would give no more to the student of primitive Occult