3.7. The radiant result
of the union of the two (the divine Ray
and Chaos), the unparalleled refulgent glory, manifested Space, the progeny of
unmanifested 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 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.
