“To close, Kuan-shih-yin and Kuan-yin are the two aspects (male and female) of the same principle in the Kosmos, Nature and Man, of divine wisdom and intelligence.
They are the “Christos-Sophia” of the mystic Gnostics – the Logos and its Sakti.
In their longing for the expression of some mysteries never to be wholly comprehended by the profane, the Ancients, knowing that nothing could be preserved in human memory without some outward symbol, have chosen the (to us) often ridiculous images of the Kuan-yins to remind man of his origin and inner nature.
The subjective can hardly be expressed by the objective.
Therefore, since the symbolic formula attempts to characterize that which is above scientific reasoning, and as often far beyond our intellects, it must needs go beyond that intellect in some shape or other, or else it will fade out from human remembrance.”
H. P. Blavatsky
The Mark Of God: Understanding Your "I AM Presence" 