Universal Brotherhood, Volume XIII, No. 10, January 1899: A Magazine Devoted to the Brotherhood of Humanity, the Theosophical Movement, Philosophy, Science and Art — John Shaqi
Universal Brotherhood, Volume XIII, No. 10, January 1899: A Magazine Devoted to the Brotherhood of Humanity, the Theosophical Movement, Philosophy, Science and ArtVarious
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Universal Brotherhood, Volume XIII, No. 10, January 1899: A Magazine Devoted to the Brotherhood of Humanity, the Theosophical Movement, Philosophy, Science and Art
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Theosophy -- Periodicals
Reaching from the One White Light of Absolute Being down to the tiniest
atom of matter, each plane of existence is governed by Divine
Intelligences. All one can say is that after reaching to the highest
conception possible to us of the Divine Intelligences that rise above us
and to the highest knowledge attainable of the Divine Worlds, still
stretching far beyond the highest, beyond the utmost reach of human
thought, there exists: What? "An omnipresent, eternal, boundless and
immutable Principle, on which all speculation is impossible, since it
transcends the power of human conception and can only be dwarfed by any
human expression or similitude. It is beyond the reach and power of
thought, unthinkable and unspeakable."
This is the postulate of sublime and everlasting Deity. As far as we may
go in endless Eternity, yet above and beyond all there reigneth absolute
Law.
Recognizing then, that the great unknowable Deity is beyond our ken, our
study must be confined to the lesser Deities, though some of these seem
unknowable; but we may partially learn the relation they bear to men.
All the great religions present a series of divine Presences, and
generally a triune Godhead stands as the primal object of all adoration.
The Hebrew Bible traces three Deities, the highest of these being the
Most High God, supreme ruler over all, and synonymous with Law; the
second Deity is God, the Elohim, a great hierarchy, or rather a series
of hierarchies of Gods, who formed the earth and filled it with living
creatures and endowed man with his human nature; while the third in rank
among the ancient Hebrews was Jehovah, who stands as their tribal Deity.
The distinction between the Most High God and Jehovah is clearly shown
in Deuteronomy (32: 8-9), where it says: "When the Most High divided the
nations, their inheritance, when He separated the Sons of Adam, He set
the bounds of the people.... The Lord's [Jehovah's] portion is his
people, Jacob is the lot of His inheritance."
The New Testament also gives a triple Godhead in the Father, Son and
Holy Spirit. Among the Brahmins, Brahma is the Creator, Vishnu the
Preserver and Siva the Destroyer; with the Greeks it was Uranos, Kronos
and Zeus; and with the Egyptians, Osiris, Isis and Horus. These were not
necessarily the most powerful Gods in the Pantheon, but those most
popularly known. The Hindus, for instance, are said to call their chief
Deity, Zyaus—which bears a close resemblance to the Greek Zeus; and the
Egyptians called their Unknown God, Amen or Ammon. All religions tell
also of lesser divinities, as archangels and angels.
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