He shines forth like the sun. He is the Logos (this first manifestation, being the synthesis or the aggregate of Universal Wisdom). This one is four, and the four takes to itself three, and the union produces the seven in whom are the seven (the Seven Creative Hosts) which become the hosts and the multitudes, the root-number which is thirty-three (12 Adityas, the 8 Vasus, the 11 Rudras, and 2 Aswins).(b)
He lifts the veil and unfurls it from East to West. He shuts out the above and leaves the below to be seen as the great illusion. He marks the places for the stars and turns the upper space into infinite Akasha (the first radiation from the Root, the Mulaprakriti, the undifferentiated Cosmic Substance, which becomes Astral Matter), and the one manifested element into pregenetic matter. (c)
3.8. Where was abstract matter? And where was the Eternal Matrix? Where is the spirit of the flame that burns in your lamp? Abstract Matter is THAT (the concealed and the unrevealed Principle), and THAT is Light (the same Omnipresent Spiritual Ray, which has entered and now fecundated the Divine Egg); that male or temporary deity, as he, the emanation of the primordial Ray, is made to serve as a Vahan or vehicle for that divine Ray, which otherwise could not manifest itself in the Universe.
3.9. Light, is the unmanifested soul of things, and the soul of things (flame) is the creator, preserver and destoyer of light (fire), the soul of things (fire) produces Cosmic heat, the energy that actuates matter after its first formation into atoms our plane (water of life) in chaos.
7. Behold, oh Lanoo!† the radiant Child of the two, the unparalleled refulgent Glory, Bright Space, Son of Dark Space, who emerges from the depths of the great Dark Waters. It is Oeaohoo, the Younger, the * * * (whom thou knowest now as Kwan-Shai-Yin. — Comment) (a).
Bright Space, son of dark Space: the Ray dropped at the first thrill of the new “Dawn” into the great Cosmic depths, from which it re-emerges differentiated as Oeaohoo the younger, (the “new LIFE”), to become, to the end of the life-cycle, the germ of all things. He is “the Incorporeal man who contains in himself the divine Idea,” — the generator of Light and Life, to use an expression of Philo Judaeus. (SD1, 70)
The radiant result of the union of the two (the divine Ray and Chaos), the unparalleled refulgent glory, Bright Space, the progeny of dark space, emerges from the depths of chaos. It is Oeaohoo, the younger (Avalokitesvara), the Logos, the synthesis of Universal Wisdom, the essence of manifested Wisdom.(a)
He shines forth as the Sun. He is the blazing Divine Dragon of Wisdom. The Eka is Chatur (four), and Chatur takes to itself three, and the union produces the Sapta (seven) in whom are the seven which become the Tridasa‡ (the thrice ten) the hosts and the multitudes (b).
Blazing Dragon of Wisdom: is that which the Greek philosophers called the Logos, the Verbum of the Thought Divine; and secondly, because in Esoteric philosophy this first manifestation, being the synthesis or the aggregate of Universal Wisdom, Oeaohoo, “the Son of the Son,” contains in himself the Seven Creative Hosts (The Sephiroth), and is thus the essence of manifested Wisdom. “He who bathes in the light of Oeaohoo will never be deceived by the veil of Maya.” (SD1, 70-71)… “The “Dragon of Wisdom” is the One, the “Eka” (Sanskrit) or Saka. (SD1, 73)
Tri-dasa: three times ten (30), alludes to the Vedic deities, in round numbers, or more accurately 33 — a sacred number. They are the 12 Adityas, the 8 Vasus, the 11 Rudras, and 2 Aswins — the twin sons of the Sun and the Sky. This is the root-number of the Hindu Pantheon, which enumerates 33 crores or over three hundred millions of gods and goddesses.
whereas, the gnostic Ophis contained the same triple symbolism in its seven vowels as the One, Three and Seven-syllabled Oeaohoo of the Archaic doctrine; i.e., the One Unmanifested Logos, the Second manifested, the triangle concreting into the Quaternary or Tetragrammaton, and the rays of the latter on the material plane. (SD1, 73)
The “Spirit of God moving on Chaos” was symbolized by every nation in the shape of a fiery serpent breathing fire and light upon the primordial waters, until it had incubated cosmic matter and made it assume the annular shape of a serpent with its tail in its mouth — which symbolises not only Eternity and Infinitude, but also the globular shape of all the bodies formed within the Universe from that fiery mist. (SD1, 74)
† By “God, the Father,” the seventh principle in Man and Kosmos are here unmistakeably meant, this principle being inseparable in its Esse and Nature from the seventh Cosmic principle. In one sense it is the Logos of the Greeks and the Avalokiteswara of the esoteric Buddhists. (SD1, 74)
He shines forth like the sun. He is the blazing dragon of divine wisdom, the Logos (this first manifestation, being the synthesis or the aggregate of Universal Wisdom). This one is four, and the four takes to itself three, and the union produces the seven in whom are the seven (the Seven Creative Hosts) which become the hosts and the multitudes, the root-number which is thirty-three (12 Adityas, the 8 Vasus, the 11 Rudras, and 2 Aswins).
Behold him lifting the Veil, and unfurling it from East to West. He shuts out the above and leaves the below to be seen as the great Illusion. He marks the places for the shining ones (stars) and turns the upper (space) into a shoreless Sea of Fire, and the One manifested (element) into the Great Waters (c).
Sea of Fire: is then the Super-Astral (i.e., noumenal) Light, the first radiation from the Root, the Mulaprakriti, the undifferentiated Cosmic Substance, which becomes Astral Matter. It is also called the “Fiery Serpent,” as above described. (SD1, 75)
All the Kabalists and Occultists, Eastern and Western, recognise (a) the identity of “Father-Mother” with primordial AEther or Akasa, (Astral Light)*; and (b) its homogeneity before the evolution of the “Son,” cosmically Fohat, for it is Cosmic Electricity. “Fohat hardens and scatters the seven brothers” (Book III. Dzyan); which means that the primordial Electric Entity — for the Eastern Occultists insist that Electricity is an Entity — electrifies into life, and separates primordial stuff or pregenetic matter into atoms, themselves the source of all life and consciousness. (SD1, 75-76)
But there are two secret Hermetical operations, one spiritual, the other material-correlative, and for ever united. “Thou shalt separate the earth from the fire, the subtile from the solid . . . that which ascends from earth to heaven and descends again from heaven to earth. It (the subtile light), is the strong force of every force, for it conquers every subtile thing and penetrates into every solid. Thus was the world formed” (Hermes). (SD1, 76)
The veil is lifted and unfurled from East to West. The spiritual plane is shut out and the material plane is left to be seen as the great illusion. He marks the places for the stars and turns the upper space into infinite Akasha (the first radiation from the Root, the Mulaprakriti, the undifferentiated Cosmic Substance, which becomes Astral Matter), and the one manifested element into pregenetic matter.
8. Where was the germ, and where was now darkness? Where is the spirit of the flame that burns in thy lamp, oh Lanoo? The germ is that, and that is light; the white brilliant son of the dark hidden father (a).
Germ: the point in the Mundane Egg, represented by matter in its abstract sense.sd 1 57 The Pythagorean Monad is also said to dwell in solitude and darkness like the “germ.” (SD1, 63)
Darkness: Darkness, then, is the eternal matrix in which the sources of light appear and disappear. “Darkness is Father-Mother: light their son,” says an old Eastern proverb. (SD1, 40-41)
That: In the Sanscrit Commentary on this Stanza, the terms used for the concealed and the unrevealed Principle are many. In the earliest MSS. of Indian literature this Unrevealed, Abstract Deity has no name. It is called generally “That” (Tad in Sanskrit), and means all that is, was, and will be, or that can be so received by the human mind.
Among such appellations, given, of course, only in esoteric philosophy, as the “Unfathomable Darkness,” the “Whirlwind,” etc. — it is also called the “It of the Kalahansa, the Kala-ham-sa,” and even the “Kali Hamsa,” (Black swan). Here the m and the n are convertible, and both sound like the nasal French an or am, or, again, en or em (Ennui, Embarras, etc.) (SD1, 78)
As to the strange symbol chosen, it is equally suggestive; the true mystic significance being the idea of a universal matrix, figured by the primordial waters of the “deep,” or the opening for the reception, and subsequently for the issue, of that one ray (the Logos), which contains in itself the other seven procreative rays or powers (the logoi or builders). (SD1, 80)
Light: the same Omnipresent Spiritual Ray, which has entered and now fecundated the Divine Egg, and calls cosmic matter to begin its long series of differentiations. (SD1, 68)
White Brillant Son of Dark Father: The “Swan or goose” (Hansa) is the symbol of that male or temporary deity, as he, the emanation of the primordial Ray, is made to serve as a Vahan or vehicle for that divine Ray, which otherwise could not manifest itself in the Universe, being, antiphrastically, itself an emanation of “Darkness” — for our human intellect, at any rate. It is Brahma, then, who is Kala-Hansa, and the Ray, the Hansa-Vahana. (SD1, 80)
The answer to the first question, suggested by the second, which is the reply of the teacher to the pupil, contains in a single phrase one of the most essential truths of occult philosophy. It indicates the existence of things imperceptible to our physical senses which are of far greater importance, more real and more permanent, than those that appeal to these senses themselves. Before the Lanoo can hope to understand the transcendentally metaphysical problem contained in the first question he must be able to answer the second, while the very answer he gives to the second will furnish him with the clue to the correct reply to the first. (SD1, 77)
Where was abstract matter? And where was the Eternal Matrix? Where is the spirit of the flame that burns in your lamp? Abstract Matter is THAT (the concealed and the unrevealed Principle), and THAT is Light (the same Omnipresent Spiritual Ray, which has entered and now fecundated the Divine Egg); that male or temporary deity, as he, the emanation of the primordial Ray, is made to serve as a Vahan or vehicle for that divine Ray, which otherwise could not manifest itself in the Universe.
9. Light is cold flame, and flame is fire, and the fire produces heat, which yields water, the water of life in the great mother (Chaos) (a).
All these — “Light,” “Flame,” “Hot,” “Cold,” “Fire,” “Heat,” “Water,” and the “water of life” are all, on our plane, the progeny; or as a modern physicist would say, the correlations of electricity. (SD1, 81)
Electricity: Electricity, the one Life at the upper rung of Being, and Astral Fluid
Fire: the creator, the preserver and the destroyer; of light — the essence of our divine ancestors;
Flame: the Soul of things.
Cosmic heat: the energy that actuates matter after its first formation into atoms our plane
Water of Life: matter after its first formation into atoms our plane.
Now, why is Light called in the Stanzas “cold flame”? Because in the order of Cosmic evolution (as taught by the Occultist), the energy that actuates matter after its first formation into atoms is generated on our plane by Cosmic heat; and because Kosmos, in the sense of dissociated matter, was not, before that period. The first primordial matter, eternal and coeval with Space, “which has neither a beginning nor an end,” is “neither hot nor cold, but is of its own special nature,” says the Commentary (Book II). Heat and cold are relative qualities and pertain to the realms of the manifested worlds, which all proceed from the manifested Hyle, which, in its absolutely latent aspect, is referred to as the “cold Virgin,” and when awakened to life, as the “Mother.”… (SD1, 82)
Light, is the unmanifested soul of things, and the soul of things (flame) is the creator, preserver and destroyer of light (fire), the soul of things (fire) produces Cosmic heat, the energy that actuates matter after its first formation into atoms our plane (water of life) in chaos.
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