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
The Creator is they—“God the Host”—called in the Secret Doctrine the Dhyân
Chohans; with the Hindus the Prajâpatis; with the Western Kabalists the
Sephiroth; and with the Buddhist the Devas—impersonal because blind
forces. They are the Amshaspends with the Zoroastrians, and while with the
Christian Mystic the “Creator” is the “Gods of the God,” with the dogmatic
Churchman he is the “God of the Gods,” the “Lord of lords,” etc.
“Jehovah” is only the God who is greater than all Gods in the eyes of
Israel.
I know, that the Lord [of Israel] is great and that our Lord is
above all gods.(390)
And again:
For all the gods of the nations are idols, but the Lord made the
heavens.(391)
The Egyptian Neteroo, translated by Champollion “_the other Gods_” are the
Elohim of the Biblical writers, behind which stands concealed the One God,
considered in the diversity of his powers.(392) This One is not
Parabrahman, but the Unmanifested Logos, the Demiurgos, the real Creator
or Fashioner, that follows him, standing for the Demiurgi collectively
taken. Further on the great Egyptologist adds:
We see Egypt concealing and hiding, so to say, _the_ God of Gods
behind the _agents_ she surrounds him with; she gives the
precedence to her great gods before the one and sole Deity, so
that the attributes of that God become their property. Those great
Gods proclaim themselves uncreate.... Neith is “_that which is_,”
as Jehovah;(393) Thoth is self‐created(394) without having been
begotten, etc. Judaism annihilating these potencies before the
grandeur of its God, they cease to be simply Powers, like Philo’s
Archangels, like the Sephiroth of the _Kabalah_, like the Ogdoades
of the Gnostics—they merge together and become transformed into
God himself.(395)
Jehovah is thus, as the _Kabalah_ teaches, at best but the “Heavenly Man,”
Adam Kadmon, used by the self‐created Spirit, the Logos, as a chariot, a
vehicle in His descent towards manifestation in the phenomenal world.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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