“Kain, presiding over the Taurus (Bull) of the Zodiac, is also very suggestive. Taurus belongs to the earthy trigon, and in connection with this sign it will not be amiss to remind the student of an allegory from the Persian Avesta. The story goes that Ormazd produced a being – source and type of all the universal beings – called LIFE, or Bull in the Zend. Ahriman (Cain) kills this being (Abel), from the seed of which (Seth) new beings are produced. Abel, in Asyrian, means son, but in Hebrew it means something ephemeral, not long-lived, valueless, and also a “Pagan idol”, as Kain means a Hermaic statue (a pillar, the symbol of generation). Likewise, Abel is the female counterpart of Cain (male), for they are twins and probably androgynous; the latter answering to Wisdom, the former to Intelligence. So, with all other patriarchs.
Enos, is Homo again – a man, or the same Adam, and Enoch in the bargain; and Kain-an is identical with Cain. Seth is Teth, or Thoth, or Hermes; and this is the reason, no doubt, why Josephus, in his first book (chapter 3) shows Seth so proficient in astrology, geometry, and other occult sciences. Foreseeing the flood, he says, he engraved the fundamental principles of his art on two pillars of brick and stone, the latter which “he saw himself [Josephus] to remain in Syria in his own time.” Thus is it that Seth is identified also with Enoch, to whom kabalists and Masons attribute the same feat; and, at the same time, with Hermes again, for Enoch is identical with the former; He-NOCH means a teacher, an initiator, or an initiate; in Grecian mythology, Inachus. We have seen the part he is made to play in the Zodiac.
Mahalaleel, if we divide the word and write ma-ha-la, means tender, merciful; and therefore, is he made to correspond with the fourth Sephira, Love or Mercy, emanated from the first triad. Irad, or Iared, is (minus the vowels) precisely the same. If from the verb, it means descent; if from arad, it means offspring, and thus corresponds perfectly with the kabalistic emanations.
Lamech is not Hebrew, but Greek. Lam-ach means Lam – the father, and Ou-Lom-Ach is the father of the age; or the father of him (Noah) who inaugurates a new era or period of creation after the pralaya of the deluge; Noah being the symbol of a new world, the Kingdom (Malchuth) of the Sephiroth; hence his father, corresponding to the ninth Sephiroth, is the Foundation. Furthermore, both father and son answer to Aquarius and Pisces in the Zodiac; and thus the former belonging to the airy and the latter to the watery trigons, they close the list of the biblical myths.
But if, as we see, every patriarch represents, in one sense, like each of the Pradjapatis, a new race of antediluvian human beings; and if, as it may as easily be proved, they are the copies of the Babylonian Saros, or ages, the latter themselves copies of the Hindu ten dynasties of the “Lords of Beings”, yet, however we may regard them, they are among the profoundest allegories ever conceived by philosophical minds.”
H. P. Blavatsky
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