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"leaders of Saints," "Spear-holders" (Saktidhara), etc., etc. Karttikeya is the original of Michael and St. George, as surely as Indra is the prototype of Karttikeya. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [[Vol. 2, Page]] 383 THE GODS, THE FACETS OF ONE GEM. to Indra, Karttikeya, and even Kasyapa-Aditya, and at the same time to Michael (as the Angelic form of Jehovah) the "angel of the Sun," who is "like," and "one with, God." Later ingenious interpretations for monotheistic purposes, elevated though they be into not-to-be questioned Church dogmas, prove nothing, except the abuse of human authority and power, perhaps. Apollo is Helios (the Sun), Phoibus-Apollo ("the light of life and of the World"*) who arises out of the golden-winged cup (the sun); hence he is the sun-god par excellence. At the moment of his birth he asks for his bow to kill Python, the Demon Dragon, who attacked his mother before his birth,** and whom he is divinely commissioned to destroy -- like Karttikeya, who is born for the purpose of killing Taraka, the too holy and wise demon. Apollo is born on a sidereal island called Asteria -- "the golden star island," the "earth which floats in the air," which is the Hindu golden Hiranyapura; "he is called the pure, [[agnos]], Agnus Dei (the Indian Agni, as Dr. Kenealy thinks), and in the primal myth he is exempt "from all sensual love" ("Book of God," p. 88). He is, therefore, a Kumara, like Karttikeya, and as Indra was in his earlier life and biographies. Python, moreover, the "red Dragon," connects Apollo with Michael, who fights the Apocalyptic Dragon, who wants to attack the woman in child-birth (See Revelation xii.), as Python attacks Apollo's mother. Can any one fail to see the identity? Had the Rt. Hon. W. E. Gladstone, who prides himself on his Greek scholarship and understanding of the spirit of Homer's allegories, ever had a real inkling of the esoteric meaning of the Iliad and Odyssey, he would have understood St. John's "Revelation," and even the Pentateuch, better than he does. For the way to the Bible lies through Hermes, Bel, and Homer, as the way to these is through the Hindu and Chaldean religious symbols. The repetition of this archaic tradition is found in ch. xii. of St. John's Revelations, and comes from the Babylonian legends without the smallest doubt, though the Babylonian story had its origin in the allegories of the Aryans. The fragment read by the late George Smith (See "The Chaldean account of Genesis," p. 304) is sufficient to disclose the source of the xii. chapter of the Apocalypse. Here it is as given by the eminent Assyriologist: "Our . . . fragment refers to the creation of mankind, called Adam; as (the man) in the Bible, he is made perfect . . . but afterwards joins [[Footnote(s)]] ------------------------------------------------- * The "life and the light" of the material physical world, the delight of the senses -- not of the soul. Apollo is pre-eminently the human god, the god of emotional, pomp-loving and theatrical Church ritualism, with lights and music. ** See chap. xii. in Revelation where we find Apollo's mother persecuted by that Python, the Red Dragon, who is also Porphyrion, the scarlet or red Titan. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [[Vol. 2, Page]] 384 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. with the dragon of the Deep, the animal of Tiamat, the Spirit of Chaos, and offends against his god, who curses him, and calls down on his head all the evils and troubles of Humanity."* "This is followed by a war between the dragon and the powers of evil, or chaos on one side and the gods on the other." "The gods have weapons forged for them,** and Merodach (the archangel Michael in Revelation) undertakes to lead the heavenly host against the dragons. The war, which is described with spirit, ends, of course, in the triumph of the principles of Good. . . . ."*** This war of gods with the powers of the Deep, refers also, in its last and terrestrial application, to the struggle between the Aryan adepts of the nascent Fifth Race and the Sorcerers of Atlantis, the Demons of the Deep, the Islanders surrounded with water who disappeared in the Deluge. (See the last pages of Vol. I., "Isis Unveiled," Atlantis.) The symbols of the dragons and "War in Heaven" have, as already stated, more than one significance; religious, astronomical and geological events being included in the one common allegory. But it had also a Cosmological meaning. In India the Dragon story is repeated in one of its forms in the battles of Indra with Vritra. In the Vedas this Ahi-Vritra is referred to as the Demon of Drought, the terrible hot Wind. Indra is shown to be constantly at war with him; and with the help of his thunder and lightning the god compels Ahi-Vritra to pour down in rain on Earth, and then slays him. Hence, Indra is called the Vritra-Han or "the slayer of Vritra," as Michael is called the Conqueror and "Slayer of the Dragon." Both these "Enemies" are then the "Old Dragon" precipitated into the depths of the Earth, in this one sense. The Zend-Avestic Amshaspends are a Host with a leader like St. Michael over them, and seem identical with the legions of Heaven, when one reads the Vendidad. Thus in Fargard XIX., ii. 13 (42), Zarathustra is told by Ahura Mazda to "invoke the Amesha Spenta who rule over the seven Karshvares**** of the Earth"; which Karshvares in their seven [[Footnote(s)]] ------------------------------------------------- * No "god" who curses his (supposed) own work, because he has made it imperfect, can be the one infinite absolute wisdom, whether called Bel or Jehovah. ** In the Indian allegory of Tarakamaya, the war between the gods and the Asuras headed by Soma (the moon, the King of Plants), it is Viswa-Karma, the artificer of the gods, who forges, like Vulcan (Tubal-Kain), their weapons for them. *** We have said elsewhere that the "woman with child" of Revelation (xii.) was Aime, the great mother, or Binah, the third Sephiroth, "whose name is Jehovah"; and the "Dragon," who seeks to devour her coming child (the Universe), is the
Dragon of absolute Wisdom -- that Wisdom which, recognising the non-separateness of the Universe and everything in it from the Absolute ALL, sees in it no better than the great Illusion, Mahamaya, hence the cause of misery and suffering. **** The "Seven Karshvares of the Earth" -- the seven spheres of our planetary chain, [[Footnote continued on next page]] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [[Vol. 2, Page]] 385 THE BUILDERS OF THE MATERIAL WORLD. applications refer equally to the seven spheres of our planetary chain, to the seven planets, the seven heavens, etc., according to whether the sense is applied to a physical, supra-mundane, or simply a sidereal world. In the same Fargard (ii. and iii.), in his invocation against Angra Mainyu and his Host, Zarathustra appeals to them in these words: "I invoke the seven bright Sravah with their sons and their flocks" (42 Vendid. Saddh). The "Sravah" -- a word which the Orientalists have given up as one "of unknown meaning" -- means the same Amshaspends, but in their highest occult meaning. The "Sravah" are the noumenoi of the phenomenal Amshaspends, the souls or spirits of those manifested Powers; and "their sons and their flock" refers to the planetary angels and their sidereal flock of stars and constellations. "Amshaspend" is the exoteric term used in terrestrial combinations and affairs only. Zarathustra addresses Ahura Mazda constantly as "thou, the maker of the material world." Ormazd is the father of our earth (Spenta Armaiti), and she is referred to, when personified, as "the fair daughter of Ahura Mazda" (Fargard, XIX. ii.), who is also the creator of the Tree (of occult and spiritual knowledge and wisdom) from which the mystic and mysterious Caresma is taken. But the occult name of the bright God was never pronounced outside the temple. Samael or Satan, the seducing Serpent of Genesis, and one of the primeval angels who rebelled, is the name of the "Red Dragon." He is the Angel of Death, the Talmud saying that "the Angel of Death and Satan are the same," and, killed by Michael, he is once more killed by St. George, who also is a Dragon Slayer; but see the transformations of this. Samael is identical with the Simoom, the hot wind of the desert, or again with the Vedic demon of drought, as Vritra; "Simoom is called Atabutos" or -- Diabolos, the devil. Typhon, or the Dragon Aphophis -- the Accuser in the "Book of the Dead" -- is worsted by Horus, who pierces his opponent's head with a spear; and Typhon is the all-destroying wind of the desert, the rebellious element that throws everything into confusion. As Set -- he is the darkness of night, the murderer of Osiris, who is the light of day and the sun. Archaeology demonstrates that Horus is identical with Anubis,* whose effigy was discovered upon an Egyptian monument, with a cuirass and a spear, like Michael and St. George. Anubis is also represented [[Footnote(s)]] ------------------------------------------------- § [[Footnote continued from previous page]] the seven worlds -- also mentioned in the Rig-Veda -- are fully referred to elsewhere. There are six rajamsi (worlds) above prithivi -- the earth, or "this" (idam), as opposed to that which is yonder (the six globes on the three other planes). (See Rig-Veda, I., 34; III., 56; VII., 10411, and V., 60, 6. See § on Chronology.) * Verse 62, chap. xvii., "Book of the Dead": Anubis is Horus who melts in him who is eyeless. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [[Vol. 2, Page]] 386 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. as slaying a dragon, that has the head and tail of a serpent. (See Lenoir's "Du Dragon de Metz.") Cosmologically, then, all the Dragons and Serpents conquered by their "Slayers" are, in their origin, the turbulent confused principles in Chaos, brought to order by the Sun-gods or creative powers. In the "Book of the Dead" those principles are called "the Sons of Rebellion." (See also "Egyptian Pantheon," pp. 20, 23.) "In that night, the oppressor, the murderer of Osiris, otherwise called the deceiving Serpent (Verse 54) . . . . calls the Sons of Rebellion in Air, and when they arrive to the East of Heavens, then there is War in Heaven and in the entire World" (v. 49, "Book of the Dead," xvii.). In the Scandinavian Eddas the "War" of the Ases with the Hrim-thurses (frost-giants), and of Asathor with the Jotuns, the Serpents and Dragons and the "wolf" who comes out of "Darkness" --- is the repetition of the same myth. The "evil Spirits,"* having begun by being simply the emblems of Chaos, became euhemerized by the superstition of the rabble, until they have finally won the right of citizenship in the most civilized and learned races of this globe -- since its creation as alleged -- and became a dogma with Christians. As George Smith has it: "The evil principles (Spirits) emblems of Chaos" (in Chaldea and Assyria as in Egypt, we see) . . "resist this change and make war on the Moon, the eldest son of Bel, drawing over to their side the Sun, Venus and the atmospheric god Vul." ("Assyrian Discoveries," p. 403.) This is only another version of the Hindu "War in Heaven," between Soma, the moon, and the gods -- Indra being the atmospheric Vul; which shows it plainly to be both a Cosmogonical and an astronomical allegory, woven into and drawn from the earliest theogony as taught in the Mysteries. It is in the religious doctrines of the Gnostics that the real meaning of the Dragon, the Serpent, the Goat, and all those symbols of powers now called Evil, can be seen the best; as it is they who divulged the esoteric nature of the Jewish Substitute for AIN-SOPH in their teachings; of the true meaning of which, while the Rabbins concealed it, the Christians, with a few exceptions, knew nothing. Surely Jesus of Nazareth would have hardly advised his apostles to show themselves as wise as the serpent, had the latter been a symbol of the Evil one; nor would the Ophites, the learned Egyptian Gnostics of "the Brotherhood of the Serpent," have reverenced a living snake in their ceremonies as the emblem of WISDOM, the divine Sophia (and a type of the all-good, not the all-bad), were that reptile so closely connected with Satan. The fact is, that even as a common ophidian it has ever been a dual symbol; and [[Footnote(s)]] ------------------------------------------------- * These "evil Spirits" can by no means be identified with Satan or the Great Dragon. They are the Elementals generated or begotten by ignorance -- Cosmic and human passions -- or Chaos. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [[Vol. 2, Page]] 387 WHO FIRST CREATED WOMAN?
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Various Deluges ... 141 The Arkite
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CONCLUSION ... 437 ------- BOOK II.
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The Seven Sabbaths ... 747 "Revelat
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* As it is now asserted that the Ch
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upheaval of the continent, changed
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Beauteous Daughter of the Ether, Pa
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VI. 22. THEN THE SECOND EVOLVED THE
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(b) This expression shows in plain
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Wake. "This animal was the especial
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first pp. of Book I) and fallen int
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(c) Number Seven, the fundamental f
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"Now light," explains the author, "
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mysticism Adam was not a man but a
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ate of the forbidden fruit. The for
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Continuing to create, Brahma assume
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evolution of life on Earth, there m
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tribes and people are also represen
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passage by Mr. Laing, which gives t
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exact period of the lunar year and
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in its spiritual aspects and emanat
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What is Binah Understanding? But wh
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of termination required to express
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love the science, and where the god
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possess an intelligence of their ow
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correlatives and contraries inhabit
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(Omoroka) who presided over the mon
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The occult doctrine, anyhow, can be
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and Adam is the collective name for
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dissociated matter in the critical
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Vaivasvata produces a daughter and
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have declared that "Ila was primari
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In the same letter, "The Evolution
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3. The Third Root-Race, the "Two-fo
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generally) larger by one cubic inch
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Darwinism," p. 159.) Apart from suc
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who after refusing to "create proge
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WHAT MAY BE THE OBJECTIONS TO THE F
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eason that no "missing links" betwe
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others, PROBABLY arose in the tropi
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the same conditions and by the same
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Panini (!); that the Hindus had all
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To close this rather lengthy commen
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Mankind -- MAN was on earth in this
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to distinguish them. Even at the ag
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traditions about Hermes (of whom Eg
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(a) Such were the first truly physi
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cherub . . . thou hast walked up an
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Whether Milton's grandiose descript
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anthropomorphic deity, and adopt fr
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Melia, Decharme thinks, is the pers
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symbolized by the strong, powerful
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as Cornutus*** shows, was sometimes
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called Venus' Looking-Glass, becaus
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genuine philosophers and students o
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Again, let the reader read the Hind
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their FORTY AND NINE POWERS, and th
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eluctantly admits that "they may me
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Kapila, the great sage and philosop
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But the true esoteric sense of the
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god; and history will not recognize
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mysteries of the unseen Universe an
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WE must not close this Part on the
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the Moon from the Earth; from the M
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(the Sun) are made therein parallel
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Puranas, their mother, Diti -- the
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expressed than is the four-fold Bra
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only in speaking thus demonstrate t
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tidal wave of "science-adulation."
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estiality of the primeval mindless
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texture, so every living (so-called
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founder of modern philosophy; the p
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Quaternary lasted 1,600,000 years (
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woolly rhinoceros), whom some over-
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portions should not be dredged from
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IS Science against those who mainta
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in the arena, breaking a lance with
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which is of still earlier date . .
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neolithic flints in the Jordan vall
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shown to claim the same descent lik
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Atlantis. So, also, the war between
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Touching on the problem in another
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800 and 1,000 leagues, and that, ac
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of the skin on both sides of the At
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periods of history and tradition. B
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