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444 'J'^^ SECRET DOCTRINE.
Night, or the Sun and Moon. Then the Hosts of the Solar and I^unar
Deities were made to represent them, and the Dragon of Darkness was
contrasted with the Dragon of I^ight. The Host of Satan is a Son of
God, no less than the Host of the B'ne Alhim, the Children of God who
came to "present themselves before the I^ord," their Father.* "The
Sons of God" become the "Fallen Angels" only after perceiving that
the daughters of men were fair. \
In the Indian philosophy, the Suras
are among the earliest and the brightest Gods, and become Asuras only
when dethroned by Brahmanical fancy, Satan never assumed an
anthropomorphic, individualized shape, until
the creation by man, of
a "one /z7;z«o- personal God," had been accomplished; and then merely
as a matter of prime necessity. A screen was needed; a scape-goat to
explain the cruelty, blunders, and but too-evident injustice, perpetrated
by him for whom absolute perfection, mercy and goodness were
claimed. This was the first Karmic effect of abandoning a philosophical
and logical Pantheism, to build, as a prop for lazy man, "a
merciful Father in Heaven," whose daily and hourly actions, as Natura
Naturans, the "comely Mother but stone cold," belie the assumption.
This led to the primal twins, Osiris-Typhon, Ormazd-Ahriman, and
finally Cain-Abel and the tutti quaiiti of contraries.
Having commenced by being synonymous with Nature, "God," the
Creator, ended by being made its author. Pascal settles the difficulty
very cunningly by saying:
Nature has perfections, in order to show that she is the image of God; and
defects, in order to show that she is only his image.
The further back one recedes into the darkness of the prehistoric
ages, the more philosophical does the prototypic figure of the later
Satan appear. The first "Adversary," in individual human form, that
one meets with in old Puranic literature, is one of her greatest Rishis
and Yogis—Narada, surnamed the "Strife-maker."
And he is a Brahmaputra, a son of Brahma, the male. But of him
later on. Who the great "Deceiver" really is, one can ascertain by
searching for him, with open eyes and an unprejudiced mind, in every
old Cosmogony and Scripture.
It is
the anthropomorphized Demiurge, the Creator of Heaven and
Earth, when separated from the collective Hosts of his Fellow-Creators,
whom, so to speak, he represents and synthesizes. It is now the God
of Theologies. "The wish is father to the thought." Once upon a
• Job, ii.
+ Genesis, vi.