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512 THK SECRET DOCTRINE.
Buddhi, the Sixth Principle, or Divine Soul in man.
sense, Avalokiteshvara-Kwan-Shi-Yin, referred to as
In a still higher
the seventh Universal
Principle, is the Logos perceived by the Universal Buddhi, or
Soul, as the synthetic aggregate of the Dhyani-Buddhas ; and is not
the "Spirit of Buddha present in the Church," but the Omnipresent
Universal Spirit manifested in the temple of Kosmos or Nature.
This
Orientalistic etymology of Kwan and Yin is on a par with that of
Yogini, which, we are told by Mr. Hargrave Jennings, is a Sanskrit
word, "in the dialects pronounced Jogi or Zogee (!), and is . . .
equivalent with Sena, and exactly the same as Duti or Dutica," i.e., a
sacred prostitute of the temple, worshipped as Yoni or Shakti.* "The
books of morality [in India] direct a faithful wife to shun the society of
Yogini or females who have been adored as Sacti."t Nothing should
surprise us after this. And it is, therefore, with hardly a smile that we
find another preposterous absurdity quoted about "Budh," as being a
name "which signifies not only the sun as the source of generation
but also the male organ."| Max Miiller, in treating of "False Analogies,"
says that "the most celebrated Chinese scholar of his time, Abel
Remusat . . . maintains that the three syllables I Hi Wei [in the
fourteenth chapter of the Tao-te-King] were meant for Je-ho-vah";§
and again. Father Amyot "felt certain that the three persons of the
Trinity could be recognized" in the same work. And if Abel Remusat,
why not Hargrave Jennings Every scholar will recognize the absurdity
of ever seeing in Budh, the "enlightened" and the "awakened,"
a "phallic sj'mbol."
Kwan-Shi-Yin, then, is "the Son identical with his Father," mystically,
or the Logos, the Word. He is called the "Dragon of Wisdom,"
in Stanza III, for all the Logoi of all the ancient religious systems are
connected with, and symbolized by, serpents. In old Egypt, the God
Nahbkoon, "he who unites the doubles," was represented as a serpent
on human legs, either with or without arms. This was the Astral
Light reiiniting by its dual physiological and spiritual potency the
Divine-Human to its purely Divine Monad, the Prototype in "Heaven"
or Nature. It was the emblem of the resurrection of Nature ; of Christ
with the Ophites ; and of Jehovah as the brazen serpent healing those
who looked at him. The serpent was also an emblem of Christ with
* op. cit., p. 60.
t- Ibid.
t O'Brien, Round Towers of Ireland, p. 61, quoted by Hargrave Jennings in his Phallicism, p. 246.
\ Introduction to the Science of Religion, p. 332.