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of our Globe with all its products, organic and inorg-anic—strange word
for an Occultist to use !—is that the whole Kosmos has sprung from the
Divine Thought. This Thought impregnates Matter, which is coeternal
with the One Reality ; and all that lives and breathes evolves
from the Emanations of the One Immutable, Parabrahman-Mulaprakriti,
the Eternal One-Root. The former of these, in its aspect of the
Central Point turned inward, so to say, into regions quite inaccessible
to human intellect, is Absolute Abstraction ; whereas, in its aspect as
Mulaprakriti, the Eternal Root of all, it gives one at least some hazy
comprehension of the Mystery of Being.
Therefore, it was taught in the inner temples that this visible Universe of Spirit
and Matter is but the concrete Image of the ideal Abstraction; it was built on the
Model of the first Divine Idea. Thus our Universe existed from eternity in a latent
state. The Soul animating this purely spiritual Universe is the Central Sun, the
highest Deity Itself.
It was not the One who built the concrete form of the idea,
but the First-Begotten ; and, as it was constructed on the geometrical figure of the
dodecahedron,* the First-Begotten "was pleased to employ 12,000 years in its creation."
The latter number is expressed in the Tyrrhenian Cosmogony, t which
shows man created in the sixth millennium.
This agrees with the Egyptian theory
of 6,000 "years," J and with the Hebrew computation. But it is the exoteric form
of it. The secret computation explains that the "12,000 and the 6,000 years" are
Years of Brahmd, one Day of Brahma being equal to 4,320,000,000 years. Sanchuniathon,
in his Cosmogony,^ declares that when the Wind (Spirit) became enamoured
of its own principles (Chaos), an intimate union took place, which connection was
called Pothos (tto^os), and from this sprang the seed of all. And the Chaos knew
not its own production, for it was senseless; but from its embrace with the Wind
was generated Mot, or the Ilus (Mud).|| From this proceeded the spores of creation
and the generation of the Universe.H
Zeus-Zen (^ther), and Chthonia (Chaotic Earth) and Metis (Water), his wives;
Osiris—also representing .^ther, the first emanation of the Supreme Deity, Amun,
the primeval source of Light—and Isis-Latona, the Goddess Earth and Water
again; Mithras,** the rock-born God, the symbol of the male Mundane Fire, or the
personified Primordial Light, and Mithra, the Fire-Goddess, at once his mother and
his wife—the pure element of Fire, the active or male principle, regarded as light
and heat, in conjunction with Earth and Water, or matter, the female,
or passive,
element of cosmical generation—Mithras who is the son of Bordj, the Persian
• Plato, Timaus.
+ Suidas, sub voc. "Tyrrhenia." See Cory's Ancient Fragments, p. 309, 2nd ed.
X The reader will viiiderstand that by "years" is meant "ages," not mere periods of 13 lunar
months each.
\ See the Greek translation by Philon Byblius.
II Cory, Op. cit., p. 3.
ir Isis Unveiled, I. 342.
•• Mithras was regarded among the Persians as the theos ek petyas—the God from the rock.