“In the Nuctemeron, the evolution of the universe and its successive periods of formation, together with the gradual development of the human races, are illustrated as fully as possible in the twelve “hours” into which the allegory is divided. Each “hour” typifies the evolution of a new man, and in its turn is divided into four quarters or ages. This work shows how thoroughly was the ancient philosophy imbued with the doctrines of the early Aryans, who were the first to divide the life on our planet into four ages. If one would trace this doctrine from its source in the night of the traditional period down to the Seer of Patmos, he need not go astray among the religious systems of all nations.
The Babylonians he would find teaching that in four different periods, four Oannes, or suns, appeared; the Hindus asserting their four Yuga; the Greeks, Romans, and others firmly believing in the golden, silver, brazen, and iron ages, each of the epochs being heralded by the appearance of a saviour. The four Buddhas of the Hindus and the three prophets of the Zoroastrians – Oshedar-Cami, Oshedar-mah, and Sosiosh – preceded by Zarotushtra, are the types of these ages.
In the Bible, the very opening tells us that before the sons of God saw the daughters of men, the latter lived from 365 to 969 years. But when the “Lord God” saw the iniquities of mankind, He concluded to allow them at most, 120 years of life, (Genesis 6:3). To account for such a violent oscillation in the human mortality-table is only possible by tracing this decision of the “Lord God” to its origin. Such incongruities as we meet at every step in the Bible can be only attributed to the fact that the book of Genesis and the other books of Moses were tampered with and remodeled by more than one author; and that in their original state they were, with the exception of the external form of the allegories, faithful copies from the Hindu sacred books.
In Manu, book 1, we find the following: “In the first age, neither sickness nor suffering were known. Men lived four centuries.” This was in the Krita or Satya yug: “The Krita-yug is the type of justice. The bull which stands firm on its four legs is its image; man adheres to truth, and evil does not as yet direct his actions.” But in each of the following ages primitive human life loses one-fourth of its duration, that is to say, in Treta-yug man lives 300, in Dwarpara-yug 200, and in Kali-yug, our own age, but 100 years generally, at the most.
Noah, son of Lamech – Oulom-Ach, or father of the age – is the distorted copy of Manu, son of Swayambhu, and the six Manus or Rishis, issued from the Hindu “first man” are the originals of Terah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, and Moses, the Hebrew sages, who beginning with Terah were all alleged to have been astrologers, alchemists, inspired prophets, and soothsayers; or in a more profane but plainer language – magicians.
If we consult the Talmudistic Mishna we find therein the first emanated divine couple, the androgyne Demiurge Chochmah, or Hachma Achamoth, and Binah, building themselves a house with seven pillars. They are the architects of God – Wisdom and Intelligence – and His “compass and square”. The seven columns are the future seven worlds, or the typical seven primordial “days” of creation. “Chochmah immolates her victims.” These victims are the numberless forces of nature which must “die”, expend themselves, in order that they should live; when one force dies out, it is but to give birth to another force, its progeny. It dies, but lives in its children, and resuscitates at every seventh generation. The servants of Chochmah, or wisdom, are the souls of H-Adam, for in him are all the souls of Israel.
There are twelve hours in the day, says the Mishna, and it is during these hours that is accomplished the creation of man. Would this be comprehensible, unless we had Manu to teach us that this “day”, embraces the four ages of the world, and has a duration of twelve thousand divine years of the Devas? “The Creators, Elohim, outline in the second” hour “the shape of a more corporeal form of man. They separate it into two and prepare the sexes to become distinct from each other. Such is the way the Elohim proceeded in reference to every created thing.” “Every fish, fowl, plant, beast, and man, was androgyne at the first hour.””
H. P. Blavatsky
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