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“Darkness alone filled the Boundless All, for Father, Mother and Son were
once more One.” [ Stanza i. 4. ]
Space was, and is ever, as it is between the Manvantara. The Universe in its pre-kosmic
state was once more homogeneous and one - outside its aspects. This was a Kabalistic, and
is now a Christian teaching.
As is constantly shown in the Zohar, the Infinite Unity, or Ain-Suph, is ever placed outside
human thought and appreciation; and in Sepher Jetzirah we see the Spirit of God - the
Logos, not the Deity itself -
One is the Spirit of the Living God . . Who liveth forever. Voice, Spirit, [of the
spirit], and Word: this is the Holy Spirit, [ Mishna, i. 9.]
Three-in-one and Four - (Page 181) - and the Quaternary. From this Cube emanates the
whole Kosmos.
Says the Secret Doctrine:
“It is called to life. The mystic Cube in which rests the Creative Idea, the manifesting Mantra
[or articulate speech - Vâch] and the holy Pûrusha [both radiations of prima material] exist in
the Eternity in the Divine Substance in their latent state.
- during Pralaya.
And in the Sepher Jetzirah, when the Three-in-One are to be called into being - by the
manifestation of Shekinah, the first effulgency or radiation in the manifesting Kosmos - the
“Spirit of God,” or Number One, [ In its manifested state it becomes Ten, the Universe. In the
Chaldaean Kabalah it is sexless. In the Jewish, Shekinah is female, and the early Christians
and Gnostics regarded the Holy Ghost, as a female potency. In the Book of Numbers
“Shekina” is made to drop the final “h” that makes it a female potency. Nârâyana, the Mover
on the Waters, is also sexless: but it is our firm belief that Shekinah and Daiviprakriti, the
“Light of the Logos,” are one and the same thing philosophically.] fructifies and awakens the
dual Potency, Number Two, Air, and Number Three, Water; in these “are darkness and
emptiness, slime and dung” - which is Chaos, the Tohu-Vah-Bohu. The Air and Water
emanate Number Four, Ether or Fire, the Son. This is the Kabalistic Quaternary. This Fourth
Number, which in the manifested Kosmos is the One, or the Creative God, is with the Hindus
the “Ancient,” Sanat, the Prajâpati of the Vedas and the Brahmâ of the Brâhmans - the
heavenly Androgyne, as he becomes the male only after separating himself into two bodies,
Vâch and Virâj. With the Kabalists, he is at first the Jah-Havah, only later becoming Jehovah,
like Virâj, his prototype; after separating himself as Adam-Kadmon into Adam and Eve in the
formless, and into Cain-Abel in the semi-objective world, he became finally the Jah-Havah, or
man and woman, in Enoch, the son of Seth.
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