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through which to descend, and wished to be called by this Form, which is the
sacred name Jehovah.
As the Zohar again says
In the beginning was the Will of the King, prior to any other existence
It [the Will] sketched the forms of all things that had been concealed but nov/
came into view. And there went forth as a sealed secret, from the head of Ain
vSuph, a nebulous spark of matter, without shape or form. . . Life is drawn from
below, and from above the source renews itself, the sea is always full and spreads
its waters everywhere.
Thus the Deity is compared to a shoreless sea, to Water which is
"the fountain of life."* "The seventh palace, the fountain of life, is
the first in the order from above."! Hence the Kabalistic tenet on the
lips of the very Kabalistic Solomon, who says in Proverbs: "Wisdom
hath builded her house; it hath hewn out its seve^i pillars."!
Whence, then, all this identity of ideas, if there were no primeval
Universal Revelation The few points so far brought out are like a
few straws in a stack, in comparison to that which will be disclosed as
the work proceeds. If we turn to the Chinese Cosmogony-, the most
hazy of all, even there the same idea is found. Tsi-tsai, the Self-
Existent, is the Unknown Darkness, the Root of the Wu-liang-sheu,
Boundless Age; Amitabha, and Tien, Heaven, come later on. The
"Great Extreme" of Confucius gives the same idea, his "straws" notwithstanding.
The latter are a source of great amusement to the
missionaries, who laugh at every "heathen" religion, despise and hate
that of their brother Christians of other denominations, and yet one
and all accept their own Ge7iesis,
If we turn to
literally.
the Chaldean we find in it Anu, the Concealed Deity,
the One, whose name, moreover, shows it to be of Sanskrit origin ; for
Anu in Sanskrit means Atom, Aniyamsam-aniyasam, smallest of the
small, being a name of Parabrahman, in the Vedantic philosophy, in
which Parabrahman is described as smaller than the smallest atom, and
greater than the greatest sphere or tmiverse, Anagraniyas and Mahatoruvat.
In the first verses of the Akkadian Geiesis, as fotmd in the
cuneiform texts on the Babylonian tiles or Lateres Coctiles, and as
translated by George Smith, we find Anu, the Pas.sive Deity, or Ain
Suph ; Bel, the Creator, the Spirit of God, or Sephira, moving on the
Face of the Waters, hence Water itself; and Hea, the Universal Soul,
or Wisdom of the Three combined.
• Zohar, iii. 290. t Op. cit., ii. 261. % vs.. i.