Category: Kuan-Shih-Yin And Kuan-Yin

"To close, Kuan-shih-yin and Kuan-yin are the two aspects (male and female) of the same principle in the Kosmos, Nature and Man, of divine wisdom and intelligence.   They are the "Christos-Sophia" of the mystic Gnostics - the Logos and its Sakti.   In their longing for the expression of some mysteries never to be [...]

"Kuan-shih-yin, then, is "the Son identical with his Father" mystically, or the Logos - the Word. He is called the "Dragon of Wisdom", as all the Logoi of all the ancient religious systems are connected with, and symbolized by, serpents.   In old Egypt, the god Nehebkau, "he who unites the doubles", (astral light reuniting [...]

"Kuan-shih-yin (Avalokitesvara) and Kuan-yin, besides being now the patron deities of the Buddhist ascetics, the yogis of Tibet, are the gods of chastity, and are, in their esoteric meaning, not even that which is implied in the rendering of T. W. Rhys Davids' Buddhism (London, 1877, 202-203): "The name Avalokitesvara...means 'the Lord who looks down from [...]

"As this Bodhisattva is said "to assume any form he pleases" from the beginning of a Manvantara to its end, though his special birthday (memorial day) is celebrated according to Chin-kuang-ming ching ("Luminous Sutra of Golden Light") in the second month on the nineteenth day, and that of "Maitreya Buddha" in the first month on [...]

"Like Avalokitesvara, Kuan-shih-yin has passed through several transformations, but it is an error to say of him that he is a modern invention of the Northern Buddhists, for under another appellation he has been known from the earliest times.   The Secret Doctrine teaches that "He who is the first to appear at Renovation will [...]