“As with the Gentile nations, the symbols of the Israelites were ever bearing, directly or indirectly, upon sun-worship. The exoteric Jehovah of the Bible is a dual god, like all the other gods; and the fact that David – who is entirely ignorant of Moses – praises his “Lord”, and assures him that the “Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods”, may be of a very great importance to the descendants of Jacob and David, but their national God concerns us in no wise. We are quite ready to show the “Lord God” of Israel the same respect as we do to Brahma, Zeus, or any other secondary deity. But we decline, most emphatically, to recognize him in either the Deity worshipped by Moses, or the “Father” of Jesus, or yet the “Ineffable Name” of the kabalists.
Jehovah is perhaps, one of the Elohim, who was concerned in the formation (which is not creation) of the universe, one of the architects who built from pre-existing matter, but he never was the “Unknowable” Cause, that created “bara”, in the night of the Eternity. These Elohim first form and bless; then they curse and destroy; as one of these Powers, Jehovah is therefore by turns, beneficent and malevolent; at one moment he punishes and then repents. He is the antitype of several of the patriarchs – of Esau and of Jacob, the allegorical twins, emblems of the ever manifest dual principle in nature.
So Jacob, who is Israel, is the left pillar – the feminine principle of Esau, who is the right pillar and the male principle. When he wrestles with Malach-Iho, the Lord, it is the latter who becomes the right pillar, and Jacob-Israel names God; although the Bible interpreters have endeavored to transform him into a mere “angel of the Lord” (Genesis xxxii), Jacob conquers him – as matter will but too often conquer spirit – but his thigh is put out of joint in the fight.
The name of Israel has its derivation from Isaral or Asar, the Sun-God, who is known as Suryal, Surya, and Sur. Isra-el means “striving with God”. The “sun rising upon Jacob- Israel”, is the Sun-God Isaral, fecundating matter, or earth, represented by the female-Jacob. As usual, the allegory has more than one hidden meaning in the Kabala. Esau, Aesaou, Asu, is also the sun. Like the “Lord”, Esau fights with Jacob and prevails not. The God-Sun first strives against, and then rises on him in covenant.
“And as he passed over Penuel, the sun rose upon him, and he (Jacob) halted upon his thigh”, (Genesis xxxii., 31). Israel Jacob, opposed by his brother Esau, is Samael, and “the names of Samael are, Azazel and Satan”, (the opposer).
If it will be argued that Moses was unacquainted with the Hindu philosophy, and therefore, could not have taken Siva, the regenerator, and the destroyer, as his model for Jehovah, then we must admit that there was some miraculous international intuition which prompted every nation to choose for its exoteric national deity the dual type we find in the “Lord God” of Israel. All these fables speak for themselves. Siva, Jehovah, Osiris, are all the symbols of the active principle in nature par excellence. They are the forces which preside at the formation or regeneration of matter and its destruction. They are the types of Life and Death, ever fecundating and decomposing under the never-ceasing influx of the anima mundi- the Universal Intellectual Soul, the invisible but ever-present spirit which is behind the correlation of the blind forces. This spirit alone is immutable, and therefore the forces of the universe, cause, and effect, are ever in perfect harmony with this one great Immutable Law.
Spiritual Life is the one primordial principle above; Physical Life is the primordial principle below, but they are one under their dual aspect. When the Spirit is completely untrammeled from the fetters of correlation, and its essence has become so purified as to be reunited with its CAUSE, it may – and yet who can tell whether it really will – have a glimpse of the Eternal Truth. Till then, let us not build ourselves idols in our own image and accept the shadows for the Eternal Light!”
H. P. Blavatsky
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