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358 THE SECRET DOCTRINE.
the same as all the creative Protologoi. Of Brahma, however, it could
not be said, as of DionySOS, "Trpwrdyovov Sicjivrj Tpiyovov BaKxeiov "AvttKTa
"kypiov apprfTov Kpxxjtiov SiKspwra 8tyu,o/)(/)ov"—a lunar Jchovah, Bacchus truly,
with David dancing nude before his symbol in the ark—because no licentious
Dionysia were ever established in his name and honour.
All such
public worship was exoteric, and the great universal symbols were distorted
universally, as those of Krishna are now by the Vallabacharyas
of Bombay, the followers of the "infant" God. But are these popular
Gods the true Deity Are they the apex and synthesis of the sevenfold
creation, man included Impossible! Each and all are one of the
rungs of that septenary ladder of Divine Consciousness, Pagan as
Christian. Ain Suph is said to manifest through the Seven Letters of
the Name of Jehovah who, having usurped the place of the Unknown
lyimitless, was given b}^ his devotees his Seven Angels of the Presence
-—his Seven Principles. But, indeed, they are mentioned in almost
every school. In the pure Sankhya philosophy Mahat, Ahamkara and
the five Tanmatras are called the Seven Prakritis, or Natures, and are
counted from Maha-Buddhi, or Mahat, down to Earth.*
Nevertheless, however disfigured by Ezra for
Rabbinical purposes is
the original Elohistic version, however repulsive at times is even the
esoteric meaning in the Hebrew scrolls, far more so indeed than its
outward
veil or cloaking may be—once the Jehovistic portions are eliminated,
the Mosaic Books are found full of purely Occult and priceless
knowledge, especially in the first six chapters.
Read by the aid of the Kabalah, one finds a matchless temple of
Occult truths, a well of deeply concealed beauty, hidden under a
structure, the visible architecture of which, notwithstanding its apparent
symmetry, is unable to stand the criticism of cold reason, or
to reveal the age of its hidden truth, for it belongs to all the ages.
There is more Wisdom concealed under the exoteric fables of the
Purayias and Bible than in all the exoteric facts and science in the
literature of the world, and more Occult true Science, than there is
of exact knowledge in all the academies. Or, in plainer and stronger
language, there is as much esoteric wisdom in some portions of the
exoteric Ptira^ias and Pentateuch, as there is of nonsense and of designedly
childish fancy, when read only in the dead-letter and murderous
interpretations of the great dogmatic religions, and especially of
their sects.
» See Sdnkhya KdrikA III, and Commentaries.