Category: The Theogony of the Creative Gods

"The Esoteric doctrine of the East having thus furnished and struck the keynote - which is as scientific as it is philosophical and poetical, as may be seen, under its allegorical garb - every nation has followed its lead.   It is from the exoteric religions that we have to dig out the root-idea before [...]

"One thing is thus undeniably proven. The more one studies their Hierarchies and finds out their identity, the more proofs one acquires that there is not one of the past and present personal gods, known to us from the earliest days of history, that does not belong to the third stage or cosmic manifestation.   [...]

"Pythagoras esteemed the Deity (the Logos) to be the center of unity and "Source of Harmony".   We say this Deity was the Logos, not the MONAD that dwelleth in Solitude and Silence, because Pythagoras taught that UNITY being indivisible is no number.   And this is also why it was required of the candidate, [...]

"There are two distinct aspects in universal Esotericism, Eastern and Western, in all those personations of the female Power in nature, or nature - the noumenal and the phenomenal.   One is its purely metaphysical aspect; the other terrestrial and physical, and at the same time divine from the standpoint of practical human conception and [...]

"This great circle (which Eastern Esotericism reduces to the point within the Boundless Circle) is the Avalokitesvara, the Logos or Verbum of which Subba Row speaks.   But this circle or manifested God is as unknown to us, except through its manifested universe, as the ONE, though easier, or rather more possible to our highest [...]

"The best metaphysical definition of primeval theogony in the spirit of the Vedantins may be found in the "Notes on the Bhagavad Gita" by T. Subba Row.   Parabrahman, the unknown and the incognizable, as the lecturer tells his audience:  "is not Ego, it is not non-ego, nor is it consciousness...it is not even Atman...(but) [...]

"As Thomas Taylor, the most intuitional of all the translators of Greek Fragments, shows, no nation has ever conceived the One principle as the immediate creator of the visible universe, for no sane man would credit a planner and architect with having built the edifice he admires with his own hands.   On the testimony [...]

"To thoroughly comprehend the idea underlying every ancient cosmology necessitates the study, in a comparative analysis, of all the great religions of antiquity; as it is only by this method that the root idea will be made plain.   Exact Science - could the latter soar so high, while tracing the operations of nature to [...]