“The Midianites were known as the wise men, or sons of snakes, as well as Canaanites and Hamites; and such was the renown of the Midianites, that we find Moses, the prophet, led on and inspired by “the Lord”, humbling himself before Hobab, the son of Raguel, the Midianite, and beseeching him to remain with the people of Israel: “Leave us not, I pray thee; forasmuch as thou knowest how we are to camp IN THE WILDERNESS, thou mayest be to us instead of eyes.” Further, when Moses sends spies to search out the land of Canaan, they bring as proof of the wisdom (kabalistically speaking) and goodness of the land, a branch with one cluster of grapes, which they are compelled to bear between two men on a staff. Moreover, they add: “We saw the children of ANAK there.” They are the giants, the sons of ANAK, “which come of the giants, and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were, in their sight.” ANAK is Enoch, the Patriarch, who dies not, and who is the first possessor of the “mirific name”, according to the Kabala, and the ritual of Freemasonry.
Comparing the biblical patriarchs with the descendants of Vaiswasvata, the Hindu Noah, and the old Sanscrit traditions about the deluge in the Brahmanical Mahabharata, we find them mirrored in the Vaidic patriarchs who are the primitive types upon which all the others were modeled. But before comparison is possible, the Hindu myths must be comprehended in their true significance.
Each of these mythical personages bears, besides an astronomical significance, a spiritual or moral, and an anthropological or physical meaning. The patriarchs are not only euhemerized gods – the prediluvian answering to the twelve great gods of Berosus, and to the ten Pradjapati, and the postdiluvian to the seven gods of the famous tablet in the Ninevean Library, but they stand also as the symbols of the Greek Aeons, the kabalistic Sephoroth, and the zodiacal signs, as types of a series of human races. This variation from ten to twelve will be accounted for presently and proved on the very authority of the Bible. Only they are not the first gods described by Cicero, which belong to a hierarchy of higher powers, the Elohim – but appertain rather to the second class of the “twelve gods”, the Dii minores, and who are the terrestrial reflections of the first, among whom Herodotus places Hercules.
Alone out of the group of twelve, Noah, by reason of his position at the transitional point, belongs to the highest Babylonian triad, Noah, the spirit of the waters. The rest are identical with the inferior gods of Assyria and Babylonia, who represented the lower order of emanations, introduced around Bel, the Demiurge, and help him in his work, as the patriarchs are shown to assist Jehovah – the “Lord God”. Besides these, many of which were local gods, the protecting deities of rivers and cities, there were the four classes of genius, we see Ezekiel making them support the throne of Jehovah in his vision. A fact which, if it identifies the Jewish “Lord God” with one of the Babylonian trinity, connects, at the same time, the present Christian God with the same triad, inasmuch as it is these four cherubs, if the reader will remember, on which Irenaeus makes Jesus ride, and which are shown as the companions of the evangelists.”
H. P. Blavatsky
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