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the symbol of the womb. This is now proven beyond doubt and cavil,
by the numerical reading of the Bible in general, and of Gcjiesis especially.
This idea must certainly have been borrowed by the Jews from
the Egyptians and Indians, whose Holy of Holies is symbolized by the
King's Chamber in the Great Pyramid and the Yoni 'symbols of exoteric
Hinduism. To make the matter clearer, and to show at the same time
the enormous difference in the spirit of interpretation and the original
meaning of the same symbols between the ancient Eastern Occultists
and the Jewish Kabalists, we refer the reader to the Section on "The
Holy of Holies," in the second Volume.
Phallic worship has developed only with the loss of the keys to the
true meaning of the symbols. It was the last and most fatal turning
from the highway of truth and divine knowledge into the side path of
fiction, raised into dogma through human falsification and hierarchic
ambition.
STANZA Nil.— Continued.
6. From the First-Born,* the Thread between the Silent
Watcher and his Shadow becomes more strong and radiant
with every Change. t The morning sun-light has changed into
NOON-DAY GLORY
This sentence, "the Thread between the Silent Watcher and his
Shadow [Man] becomes more strong with every Change," is another
psychological myster>', that will find its explanation in Volume II.
For the present, it will suffice to say that the "Watcher" and his
"Shadows"—the latter numbering as many as there are reincarnations
for the Monad—are one. The Watcher, or the Divine Prototype, is at
the upper rung of the lyadder of Being; the Shadow, at the lower.
Withal, the Monad of every living being, unless his moral turpitude
breaks the connection, and he runs loose and astray into the " Lunar
Path"— to use the Occult expression is an individual Dhydn Chohan,
distinct from others, with a kind of spiritual hidividziality of its own, during
one special Manvantara. Its Primary, the Spirit (Atman), is one,
of course, with the One Universal Spirit (Paramatma), but the Vehicle
(Vahan) it is enshrined in, the Buddlii, is part and parcel of that
Dhyan-Chohanic Essence ; and it is in this that lies the mystery of that
• Primitive, or First Man.
t Reincarnation.