Band 2 Anthropogenesis - H.P. Blavatsky
Band 2 Anthropogenesis - H.P. Blavatsky
Band 2 Anthropogenesis - H.P. Blavatsky
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[[Vol. 2, Page]] 107 BATH-KOL, DAUGHTER OF THE VOICE.<br />
and their union is LIFE." In the Kabala, Bath-Kol is the daughter of the Divine Voice, or primordial light, Shekinah. In the<br />
Puranas and Hindu exotericism, Vach (the Voice) is the female Logos of Brahma -- a permutation of Aditi, primordial light.<br />
And if Bath-Kol, in Jewish mysticism, is an articulate praeternatural voice from heaven, revealing to the "chosen people"<br />
the sacred traditions and laws, it is only because Vach was called, before Judaism, the "Mother of the Vedas," who<br />
entered into the Rishis and inspired them by her revelations; just as Bath-Kol is said to have inspired the prophets of<br />
Israel and the Jewish High-Priests. And both exist to this day, in their respective sacred symbologies, because the<br />
ancients associated sound or Speech with the Ether of Space, of which Sound is the characteristic. Hence Fire, Water<br />
and Air are the primordial Cosmic Trinity. "I am thy Thought, thy God, more ancient than the moist principle, the light that<br />
radiates within Darkness (Chaos), and the shining Word of God (Sound) is the Son of the Deity." ("Pymander," § 6.)*<br />
Thus we have to study well the "Primary creation," before we can understand the Secondary. The first Race had three<br />
rudimentary elements in it; and no fire as yet; because, with the Ancients, the evolution of man, and the growth and<br />
development of his spiritual and physical senses, were subordinate to the evolution of the elements on the Cosmic plane<br />
of this Earth. All proceeds from Prabhavapyaya, the evolution of the creative and sentient principles in the gods, and even<br />
of the so-called creative deity himself. This is found in the names and appellations given to Vishnu in exoteric scriptures.<br />
As the Protologos (the Orphic), he is called Purvaja, "pregenetic," and then the other names connect him in their<br />
descending order more and more with matter.<br />
The following order on parallel lines may be found in the evolution of the Elements and the Senses; or in Cosmic<br />
terrestrial "MAN" or "Spirit," and mortal physical man:--<br />
1. Ether ... Hearing ... Sound.<br />
2. Air ... Touch ... Sound and Touch.<br />
3. Fire, or Light ... Sight ... Sound, Touch and Colour.<br />
4. Water ... Taste ... Sound, Touch, Colour and Taste.<br />
5. Earth ... Smell ... Sound, Touch, Colour, Taste and Smell.<br />
As seen, each Element adds to its own characteristics, those of its<br />
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* The opponents of Hinduism may call the above Pantheism, Polytheism, or anything they may please. If Science is not<br />
entirely blinded by prejudice, it will see in this account a profound knowledge of natural Sciences and Physics, as well as<br />
of Metaphysics and Psychology. But to find this out, one has to study the personifications, and then convert them into<br />
chemical atoms. It will then be found to satisfy both physical and even purely materialistic Science, as well as those who<br />
see in evolution the work of the "Great Unknown Cause" in its phenomenal and illusive aspects.<br />
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[[Vol. 2, Page]] 108 THE SECRET DOCTRINE.<br />
predecessor; as each Root-Race adds the characterizing sense of the preceding Race. The same is true in the septenary<br />
creation of man, who evolves gradually in seven stages, and on the same principles, as will be shown further on.<br />
Thus, while Gods or Dhyan Chohans (Devas) proceed from the First Cause -- which is not Parabrahm, for the latter is the<br />
ALL CAUSE, and cannot be referred to as the "First Cause," -- which First Cause is called in the Brahmanical Books<br />
Jagad-Yoni, "the womb of the world," mankind emanates from these active agents in Kosmos. But men, during the first<br />
and the second races, were not physical beings, but merely rudiments of the future men: Bhutas, which proceeded from<br />
Bhutadi, "origin," or the "original place whence sprung the Elements." Hence they proceeded with all the rest from<br />
Prabhavapyaya, "the place whence is the origination, and into which is the resolution of all things," as explained by the<br />
Commentator. Whence also our physical senses. Whence even the highest "created" deity itself, in our philosophy. As<br />
one with the Universe, whether we call him Brahma, Iswara, or Purusha, he is a manifested deity, -- hence created, or<br />
limited and conditioned. This is easily proven, even from the exoteric teachings.<br />
After being called the incognizable, eternal Brahma (neuter or abstract), the Punda-Rikaksha, "supreme and imperishable<br />
glory," once that instead of Sadaika-Rupa, "changeless" or "immutable" Nature, he is addressed as Ekanaka-Rupa, "both<br />
single and manifold," he, the cause, becomes merged with his own effects; and his names, if placed in esoteric order,<br />
show the following descending scale:--<br />
1. Mahapurusha or Paramatman ........ Supreme Spirit.<br />
2. Atman or Purvaja (Protologos) .... The living Spirit of Nature.<br />
3. Indriyatman, or Hrishikesa ....... Spiritual or intellectual soul (One with the senses).<br />
5. Bhutatman ........................ The living, or Life Soul.<br />
6. Kshetrajna ....................... Embodied soul, or the Universe of Spirit and Matter.<br />
7. Bhrantidarsanatah ................ False perception -- Material Universe.<br />
The last name means something perceived or conceived of, owing to false and erroneous apprehension, as a material<br />
form; but, in fact, only Maya, illusion, as all is in our physical universe.<br />
It is in strict analogy with ITS attributes in both the spiritual and material worlds, that the evolution of the Dhyan Chohanic<br />
Essences takes place; the characteristics of the latter being reflected, in their turn, in Man, collectively, and in each of his<br />
principles; every one of which contains in itself, in the same progressive order, a portion of their various "fires" and<br />
elements.<br />
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[[Vol. 2, Page]] 109 THE TABULA SMARAGDINA.