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GOD IS OUR HIGHER SEI.F. 479
who vanished from Earth for ever. Numerically, in the Kabalah,
Jehovah, Adam, Noah, are one. At best, then, it is Deity descending
on Ararat and later, on Sinai, to incarnate henceforth in man, his
image, through the natural process, the mother's womb, whose symbols
are the Ark, the Mount (Sinai), etc., in Genesis. The Jewish allegory
is astronomical and physiological, rather than anthropomorphic.
And here lies the abyss between the Aryan and Semitic systems,
though both are built on the same foundation. As shown by an expounder
of the Kabalah
The basic idea underlyiug the philosophy of the Hebrews was that God contained
all things within himself and that man was his inias;e; man, including woman [as
androg3'nes;
and that] geometry (and numbers and measures applicable to astro-
and the apparent incongruity
nomy) are contained in the terms man and woman ;
of such a mode was eliminated by showing the connection of man and woman with
a particular system of numbers and measures and geonietr\% by the parturient
time-periods, which furnished the connecting link between the terms used and the
facts shown, and perfected the mode used.*
It is argued that, the primal cause being absolutely incognizable,
"the symbol of its first cofnpreheisible manifestation was the conception
of a circle with its diameter line, so as at once to carr}^ the idea of
geometry, phallicism, and astronomy"; and this was finally applied to
the "signification of simply human generative organs." Hence the
whole cycle of events from Adam and the Patriarchs down to Noah is
made to apply to phallic and astronomical uses, the one regulating the
other, as the lunar periods, for instance. Hence, too, the Genesis of the
Hebrews begins after their coming out of the Ark, and the end of the
Flood, i.e., at the Fourth Race. With the Aryan people it is different.
Eastern Esotericism has never degraded the One Infinite Deity, the
Container of all things, to such uses; and this is shown by the absence
of Brahma from the Rig Veda and the modest positions occupied
therein by Rudra and Vishnu, who became the powerful and great
Gods, the "Infinites" of the exoteric creeds, ages later. But even
they, "Creators" as they all three maybe, are not the direct "Creators"
and "forefathers of men." The latter are shown occupying a still
lower scale, and are called the Prajapatis, the Pitris, our Lunar Ancestors,
etc., but never the One Infinite God. Esoteric Philosophy
shows only />//>'./Va/ man as created in the image of the Deity; which
Deity, however, is only the ''minor Gods.'' It is the Higher-Self, the
real Ego, who alone is divine and God.
• From an unpublished MS.