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SYNONYMS OF THE l,OGOS. 463
This Great Circle, which Eastern Esotericism reduces to
the Point
within the Boundless Circle, is the Avalokiteshvara, the Logos, or
Verbum, of which T. Subba Row speaks. But this Circle or manifested
God is as unknown to us, except through its }ia7iifested Universe, as is
the One, though easier, or rather more possible to our highest conceptions.
This L^gos which sleeps in the bosom of Parabrahmau,
during Pralaya, as our "Ego is
latent [in us] at the time of Sushupti,"
or sleep, which cannot cognize Parabrahman otherwise than as
Miilaprakriti—the
latter being a Cosmic Veil which is "the mighty expanse
of Cosmic Matter"—is thus only an organ in Cosmic Creation, through
which radiate the Energy and Wisdom of Parabrahman, zinknown to the
Logos, as it is to ourselves. Moreover, as the Logos is as unknown to us
as Parabrahman is unknown in reality to the Logos, both Eastern
Esotericism and the Kabalah, in order to bring the Logos within the
range of our conceptions, have resolved the abstract synthesis into
concrete images ; viz., into the reflections or multiplied aspects of that
Logos, or Avalokiteshvara, Brahma Ormazd, Osiris, Adam Kadmon,
call it by any of such names you will ; which aspects, or manvantaric
emanations, are
the Dhyan Chohans, the Elohim, the Devas, the Amshaspends,
etc. Metaphysicians explain the root and germ of the
latter, according to T. Subba Row, as the first
manifestation of Parabrahman,
"the highest trinity that we are capable of understanding,"
which is Mulaprakriti, the Veil, the Logos, and the Conscious Energy
of the latter, or its Power and Light, called in the Bhagavad Giid,
Daiviprakriti';
or "Matter, Force and the Ego, or the one root of Self,
of which every other kind of self is but a manifestation or a reflection."
It is then only in this Light of consciousness, of mental and physical
perception, that practical Occultism can throw the Logos into visibility
by geometrical figures, which, when closely studied, will yield not only
a scientific explanation of the real, objective, existence* of the "Seven
Sons of the Divine Sophia," which is this Light of the Logos, but will
show, by means of other yet undiscovered keys, that, with regard to
Humanity, these "Seven Sons" and their numberless emanations,
centres of energy personified, are an absolute necessity. Make away
with them, and the
Myster\' of Being and Mankind will never be unriddled,
nor even closely approached.
It is through this Light that everything is created. This Root of
mental Self is also the root of physical Self, for this Light is the permu-
* Objective—in the world of Miyii, of course ; still as real as we are.