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356 THE SECRET DOCTRINE.
ness," becomes manifested in the Golden Egg. It is from this Kgg,
from
II. "That which is the undiscrete [undifferentiated] Cause, eternal,
which is and is 7iot, from It issued that Male who is called in the world
Brahma."
Here, as in all genuine philosophical systems, we find even the
"Egg," or the Circle, or Zero, Boundless Infinity, referred to as "It,"*
and Brahma, the first Unit only, referred to as the " Male" God, i.e., the
fructifying Principle. It is (J),
or lo (ten), the Decad. On the plane
of the Septenary, or our World, only, it is called Brahma. On that
of the Unified Decad, in the realm of Reality, this male Brahma is an
Illusion.
14. "From Self {Atmanah) he created Mind, which is and is not;
and from Mind, Ego-ism [Self-Consciousness] {a), the ruler {b), the
Lord."
(«) The Mind is Manas. Medhatithi, the commentator, justly observes
here that it is the reverse of this, and shows already interpolation
and rearranging; for it is Manas that springs from Ahamkara or (Universal)
Self-Consciousness, as Manas in the microcosm springs from
Mahat, or Maha-Buddhi (Buddhi, in man). For Manas is dual. As
shown and translated by Colebrooke, " Mind, serving both for sense and
action, is an organ by affinity, being cognate with the rest";t "the
rest" here meaning that Manas, our Fifth Principle (the fifth, because
the body was named the first, which is
the reverse of the true philosophical
order), is in affinity both with Atma-Buddhi and with the
lower Four Principles. Hence, our teaching: namely, that Manas
follows Atma-Buddhi to Devachan, and that the Lower Manas, that is
to say, the dregs or residue of Manas, remains with Kama Rupa, in
Limbus, or Kama Loka, the abode of the " Shells."
(J)
Medhatithi translates this as "the one conscious of the I," or
Ego, not "the ruler," as do the Orientalists. Thus also they translate
the following shloka:
16. "He also, having made the subtile parts of those six [the great
Self and the five; organs of sense], of unmeasured brightness, to
enter
into the elements of self (dtmamdt'dsu), created all beings."
When, according to Medhatithi, it ought to read mdtrdbhih instead of
dtmamdtrdsu, and thus would read
• The ideal apex of the Pythagorean Triangle.
t See A. Coke Bumell's translation, edited by Ed. W. Hopkins, Ph. D.