“In Chapter VIII, we will attempt to show the esoteric meaning of genesis, and its complete agreement with the ideas of other nations. The six days of creation will be found to have meaning little suspected by the multitude of commentators, who have exercised their abilities to the full extent in attempting to reconcile them by turns with Christian theology and un-Christian geology. Disfigured as the Old Testament is, yet in its symbolism is preserved enough of the original in its principal features to show the family likeness to the cosmogonies of older nations than Jews.
We here give the diagrams of the Hindu and Chaldeo-Jewish cosmogonies. The antiquity of the diagram of the former may be inferred from the fact that many of the Brahmanical pagodas are designed and built on this figure, called the “Sri-Iantara”. And yet we find the highest honors paid to it by the Jewish and mediaeval kabalists, who call it “Solomon’s seal”. It will be quite an easy matter to trace it to its origin, once we are reminded of the history of the king-kabalist and his transaction with King Hiram and Ophir – the country of peacocks, gold, and ivory – for which land we have to search in old India.
EXPLANATION OF THE TWO DIAGRAMS REPRESENTING THE CHAOTIC AND THE FORMATIVE PERIODS, BEFORE AND AFTER OUR UNIVERSE BEGAN TO BE EVOLVED FROM THE ESOTERIC BRAHMANICAL, BUDDHISTIC, AND CHALDEAN STANDPOINTS, WHICH AGREE IN EVERY RESPECT WITH THE EVOLUTIONARY THEORY OF MODERN SCIENCE.
THE HINDU DOCTRINE – The Upper Triangle:
Contains the Ineffable Name. It is the AUM – to be pronounced only mentally, under penalty of death. The Unrevealed Para-Brahma, the Passive Principle; the absolute and unconditioned “mukta”, which cannot enter into the condition of a Creator, as the latter, in order to think, will, and plan, must be bound and conditioned, (baddha); hence, in one sense, be a finite being. “THIS (Para-Brahma) was absorbed in the non-being, imperceptible, without any distinct attribute, non-existent for our senses. He was absorbed in his, (to us), eternal, (to himself), periodical sleep”, for it was one of “Nights of Brahma.” Therefore, he is not the First, but the Eternal Cause. He is the Soul of Souls, whom no being can comprehend in this state. But “he who studies the secret Mantras and comprehends the Vâch”, (the Spirit or hidden voice of the Mantras, the active manifestation of the latent Force), will learn to understand him in his “revealed” aspect.
THE CHALDEAN DOCTRINE – The Upper Triangle:
Contains the Ineffable Name. It is En-Soph, the Boundless, the Infinite, whose name is known to no one but the initiated, and could not be pronounced aloud under the penalty of death. No more than Para-Brahma can En-Soph create, for he is in the same condition of non-being as the former; he is wya, non-existent so long as he lies in his latent or passive state within Oulom, (the boundless and termless time); as such he is not the Creator of the visible universe; neither is he the Aur, (Light). He will become the latter when the period of creation shall have compelled him to expand the Force within himself, according to the Law of which he is the embodiment and essence. “Whosoever acquaints himself with the Mercaba and the lahgash, (secret speech or incantation), will learn the secret of secrets.”
Both “THIS” and En-Soph, in their first manifestation of Light, emerging from within Darkness, may be summarized in the Svabhâvât, the Eternal and uncreated Self-existing Substance which produces all; while everything which is of its essence produces itself out of its own nature.”
H. P. Blavatsky
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