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THE SECRET DOCTRINE.
Binah, or Intelligence, a feminine passive potency, represented by the
divine name Jehovah (rr"irT"') ; which two potencies form, with Sephira
the third, the Jewish Trinity or the Crown, Kether. These two Sephiroth,
called Abba, Father, and Amona, Mother, are the Duad, or the
double-sexed Logos, from which issued the other seven Sephiroth.
Thus, the first Jewish Triad, Sephira, Chokmah and Binah, is the
Hindu Trimurti.* However veiled even in the Zohar, and still more in
the exoteric Pantheon of India, every particular connected with one is
reproduced in the other. The Prajapatis are the Sephirotli. Ten with
Brahma, they dwindle to seven when the Trimurti, or the Kabalistic
Triad, are separated from the rest. The seven Builders, or "Creators,"
become the seven Prajapati, or the seven Rishis, in the same order as
the Sephiroth become the Creators, then the Patriarchs, etc. In both
Secret Systems, the One Universal Essence is incomprehensible and
inactive, in its Absoluteness, and can be -connected with the Building
of the Universe only in an indirect way. In both, the primeval Malefemale,
or Androgynous, Principle and its ten and seven Emanations
Brahma-Viraj and Aditi-Vach, on the one hand; and the Elohim-
Jehovah, or Adam-Adami (x\dam Kadmon) and Sephira-Eve, on the
other; with their Prajapatis and Sephiroth—in their totality, represent
primarily the Archetypal Man, the Protologos ; and it is only in their
secondary aspect that they become cosmic powers, and astronomical or
sidereal bodies. If Aditi is the Mother of the Gods, Deva-Matri, Eve
is the Mother of All Living; both are the Shakti, or Generative Power,
in their female aspect, of the Heavenly Man, and they are both compound
Creators. Says a Gupta Vidya Sutra:
In the beginning, a Ray, issimig from Paramarthika \_the one and only
True Existence^ became manifested in
Vyavahdrika {^Conventional Existence]^,
which was used as a Vdhana to descend with itito the Utiivcrsal
Mother, and to cause her to expand \jwell, brih].
And in the Zohar it is stated
The Infinite Unity, formless and without similitude, after the Form of the
Heavenly Man was created, used it. The Unknown L,ightt [Darkness] used the
Heavenly Form (Twh'^'S mN—Adam Oilah) as a Chariot (mDID—Mercabah),
* In the Indian Pantheon the doiible-sexed I,ogos is Brahma, the Creator, whose seven "Mindborn"
Sons are the primeval Rishis—the Builders.
t Says Rabbi Simeon: "Oh, companions, companions, man as an emanation was both man and
woman, as well on the side of the 'Father' as on the side of the 'Mother.' And this is the sense of
the words: 'And Elohim spake, Let there be Light, and it was Light'; . . . and this is the i'zfO-yb/(f
man." (Ausziige aiis dem So/tar, 13, 15.) Light, then, in Genesis, stood for the Androgyne Ray, or
"Heavenly Man."