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The division of the vault above from the Abyss, or Chaos, below is one of the first acts of
creation or rather of evolution, in every cosmogony. Hermes in Pymander speaks of a
heaven seen in seven circles with seven Gods in them. We examine the Assyrian tiles and
find the same on them - the seven creative Gods busy each in his own sphere. The
cuneiform legends narrate how Bel prepared the seven mansions of the Gods; how heaven
was separated from the earth. In the Brahmanical allegory everything is septenary, from the
seven zones, or envelopes, of the Mundane Egg down to the seven continents, islands,
seas, etc. The six days of the week and the seventh, the Sabbath, are based primarily on the
seven creations of the Hindu Brahma, the seventh being that of man; and secondarily on the
number of generation. It is pre-eminently and most conspicuously phallic. In the Babylonian
system the seventh day, or period, was that in which man and the animals were created.
2. The Elohim make a woman out of Adam’s rib. [ Gen., ii.21, 22.] This process is found in
the Magical Texts translated by G. Smith.
The seven Spirits bring forth the woman from the loins of the man,
explains Mr. Sayce in his Hibbert Lectures. [ Op.cit., p.395, note.]
(Page 192) The mystery of the woman who was made from the man is repeated in every
national religion, and in Scriptures far antedating the Jewish. You find it in the Avestan
fragments, in the Egyptian Book of the Dead, and finally in Brahmâ, the male, separating
from himself, as a female self, Vâch, in whom he creates Virâj.
3. The two Adams of the first and second chapters in Genesis originated from garbled
exoteric accounts coming from the Chaldaeans and the Egyptian Gnostics, revised later from
the Persian traditions, most of which are old Aryan allegories. As Adam Kadmon is the
seventh creation, [ The seventh esoterically, exoterically the sixth.] so the Adam of dust is
the eighth; and in the Purânas one finds an eighth, the Anugraha creation, and the Egyptian
Gnostics had it. Irenaeus, complaining of the heretics says of the Gnostics:
Sometimes they will have him [man] to have been made on the sixth day, and
sometimes on the eighth. [ Contra Hereses. 1. xviii.2.]
The author of The Hebrew and Other Creations writes:
These two creations of man on the sixth day and on the eighth were those of
the Adamic, or fleshly man, and of the spiritual man, who were known to Paul
and the Gnostics as the first and second Adam, the man of earth and the man
of Heaven. Irenaeus also says they insisted that Moses began with the
Ogdoad of the Seven Powers and their mother, Sophia (the old Kefa of Egypt,
who is the Living Word at Ombos). Op. cit, by Gerald Massey. p.19]
Sophia is also Aditi with her seven sons.
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