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breath of an infant, and the "Breath of Brahm."
There is universal and eternal Unity and Equilibrium
in the midst of universal diversity; Perpetual
Involution of Spirit or essence, and endless evolution
of form and variety; and back of all, the One
Eternal Principle, unknown and forever unknownable,
without beginning, without end, without
change. Space is the mantle that forever conceals
Him. Abstract, absolute Motion is his Fiat. Creation
is His Logos, Word, Speech, Expression, Will,
Thought—call it what you will. Man is a "Spark"
from this "Flame," and, in the last analysis, as incomprehensible
to himself as God. This Spark of
Divinity in man is his consciousness, and this in a
previous chapter we have postulated as a fact,
nothing more.
This brings us to the origin of the Tetraktys, the
origin of the Ineffable Name, the Lost Word. The
Hebrews seem to have derived their Tetraktys from
the Chaldo-Egyptian Mysteries, and these may be
traced to the Zoroastrian Fire Philosophy, till finally
the Word is A •. . U •. M •. In both Persian or
.
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Zend and in Sanscrit, the three letters are found in
many names that designate fire, flame. Spirit, essence,
etc. This again is a glyph or form of expression.
Every emanation is a trinity ; and Fire,