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494 I'HE SKCRET DOCTRINK.
moment that he is in the presence of the " Angels of Darkness," the
mythical "great enemy" of his Church. Therefore, he contrives to
"elucidate" no more than that "these [Divinities] declining to create
progeny, [and thus rebelling against Brahma], remained, as
the name
of the first [Sanatkumara] implies, ever boys, Kumaras; that is, ever
pure and innocent, whence their creation is called the Kaumara."
The Puranas, however, may afford a little more light. "Being ever as
he was born, he is here called a youth; and hence his name is well
known as Sanatkumara."* In the Shaiva Purayias, the Kumaras are
always described as Yogins. The Kurna Purdna, after enumerating
them, says: "These five, O Brahmans, were Yogins, who acquired
entire exemption from passion." They are five, because two of the
Kumaras y