“With the Buddhist the last incarnation is the fifth. When Maitree-Buddha comes, then our present world will be destroyed; and a new and better one will replace it. The four arms of every Hindu Deity are the emblems of the four preceding manifestations of our earth from its invisible state, while its head typifies the fifth and last Kalki-Avatar, when this would be destroyed, and the power of Budh – Wisdom, (with the Hindus of Brahma), will be again called into requisition to manifest itself – as a Logos – to create the future world.
In this diagram, the male gods typify Spirit in its deific attributes while their female counterparts – the Sakti, represent the active energies of these attributes. The Durga, (active virtue), is a subtile, invisible force, which answers to Shekinah – the garment of En-Soph. She is the Sakti through which the passive “Eternal” calls forth the visible universe from its first ideal conception. Every one of the three personages of the exoteric Trimurti are shown as using their Sakti as a Vehan, (vehicle). Each of them is for the time being the form which sits upon the mysterious wagon of Ezekiel. Nor do we see less clearly carried out in this succession of avatars, the truly philosophical idea of a simultaneous spiritual and physical evolution of creatures and man.
From a fish the progress of this dual transformation carries on the physical form through the shape of a tortoise, a boar, and a man-lion; and then, appearing in the dwarf of humanity, it shows Parasu Rama physically, a perfect, spiritually, an undeveloped entity, until it carries mankind personified by one god-like man, to the apex of physical and spiritual perfection – a god on earth.
In Christna and other Saviours of the world we see the philosophical idea of the progressive dual development understood and as clearly expressed in the Sohar. The “Heavenly man”, who is the protogonos, Tikkun, the firstborn of God, or the universal Form and Idea, engenders Adam. Hence the latter is god-born in humanity and endowed with the attributes of all the ten Sephiroth. These are – Wisdom, Intelligence, Justice, Love, Beauty, Splendor, Firmness, etcetera. They make him the Foundation or basis, “the mighty living one”, yhla, and the crown of creation, thus placing him as the Alpha and Omega to reign over the “kingdom” – Malkuth. “Man is both import and the highest degree of creation”, says the Sohar. “As soon as man was created, everything was complete, including the upper and nether worlds, for everything is comprised in man. He unites in himself all forms.” (iii., page 48 a). But this does not relate to our degenerated mankind; it is only occasionally that men are born who are the types of what man should be, and yet is not.”
H. P. Blavatsky
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