“O companions, companions, man as emanation was both man and woman, as well on the side of the FATHER as on the side of the MOTHER. And this is the sense of the words, “and Elohim spoke, Let there be Light, and it was Light! …And this is the ‘two-fold man’!” A spiritual woman was necessary as a contrast for the spiritual man. Harmony is the universal law.
In Taylor’s translation, Plato’s discourse upon creation is rendered so as to make him say of the universe that “He caused it to move with circular motion. …When, therefore, that God who is perpetually reasoning Divinity, cogitated about that God, man, who was destined to subsist at some certain period of time, He produced his body smooth and even, and every way even and whole from the centre, and made it perfect. This perfect circle of the created God, He decussated in the form of the letter X.”
The italics of both these sentences from Timaeus belong to Dr. Lundy, the author of that remarkable work mentioned once before, Monumental Christianity; and attention is drawn to the words of the Greek philosopher, with the evident purpose of giving them the prophetic character which Justin Martyr applied to the same, when accusing Plato of having borrowed his “physiological discussion in the Timaeus…concerning the Son of God placed crosswise in the universe”, from Moses and his serpent of brass. The learned author seems to fully accord an unpremeditated prophecy to these words; although he does not tell us whether he believes that like Plato’s created god, Jesus was originally a sphere, “smooth and even, and every way even and whole from the centre.”
Even if Justin Martyr were excusable for his perversion of Plato, Dr. Lundy ought to know that the day for that sort of casuistry is long gone by. What the philosopher meant was, man, who before being encased in matter had no use for limbs but was pure spiritual entity. Hence if the Deity, and his universe, and the stellar bodies are to be conceived as spheroidal, this shape would be archetypal man’s. As his enveloping shell grew heavier, there came the necessity for limbs, and the limbs sprouted. If we fancy a man with arms and legs naturally extended at the same angle, by backing him against the circle that symbolizes his prior shape as a spirit, we would have the very figure described by Plato – the X cross, within the circle.”
H. P. Blavatsky
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