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SECTION V.
On the Hidden Deity, Its Symbols and Glyphs.
The Logos, or Creative Deity, the "Word made Flesh," of every
religion, has to be traced to its ultimate source and essence. In India,
it
is a Proteus of i,oo8 divine names and aspects in each of its personal
transformations, from Brahma- Purusha, through the Seven Divine
Rishis and Ten Semi-divine Prajapatis (also Rishis), down to the
Divine-human Avataras. The same puzzling problem of the "One in
Many," and the Multitude in One, is found in other Pantheons ; in the
Egyptian, the Greek and the Chaldeo-Judaic, the latter having made
confusion still more confused by presenting its Gods as euhemerizations,
in the shapes of Patriarchs. And these Patriarchs are now
accepted by those who reject Romulus as a myth, and are
as living and historical Entities.
Verbum satis sapienti!
represented
In the Zohar, Ain Suph is also the One, the Infinite Unit}'. This
was known to the very few learned Fathers of the Church, who were
aware that Jehovah was no "highest" God, but a third-rate Potency.
But while complaining bitterly of the Gnostics, and saying: "our
Heretics hold. . . that Propator is known but to the Only-begotten
Son* [who is Brahma], that is to the Mind [Nous]," Irenaeus failed to
mention that the Jews did the same in their real secret books. Valentinus,
"the profoundest doctor of the Gno.sis," held that "there was a
perfect Aion who existed before Bythos [the first Father of unfathomable
nature, which is the Second Logos], called Propator." It is this
Aion who springs as a Ray from Ain Suph, which does not create, and
Aion who creates, or through whom, rather, everything is created, or
evolves. For, as the Basilidians taught, " there was a Supreme God,
* Just as Mfilaprakriti is kuowu only to Ishvara, the Logos, as he is called by T. Subba Row.