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the sexes, and before humanity had received the creative, or sacred, fire of
Prometheus.]
remaining Kaumâric (virgin and undefiled): therefore it is said they refuse to create. For this
they are cursed and sentenced to be born and reborn “Adams,” as the Semites would say.
Meanwhile let me quote a few lines more from Mr. G. Massey’s lecture, the fruit of his long
researches in Egyptology and other ancient lore, as it shows that the septenary division was
at one time a universal doctrine:
Adam as the father among the Seven is identical with the Egyptians Atum, . . .
whose other name of Adon is identical with the Hebrew Adonai. In this way the
second Creation in Genesis reflects and continues the later creation in the
mythos which explains it. The Fall of Adam to the lower world led to his being
humanised on earth, by which process the celestial was turned into the mortal,
and this, which belongs to the astronomical allegory, got literalised as the Fall
of Man, or descent of the soul into matter, and the conversion of the angelic
into an earthly being . . . .
The Father and Mother-
(Page 197) It is found in the [Babylonian] texts, when Ea, the first father, is said
to “grant forgiveness to the conspiring gods,” for whose “redemption did he
create mankind.” (Sayce; Hib. Lec.,p. 140) . . . The Elohim, then, are the
Egyptian, Akkadian, Hebrew, and Phoenician form of the universal Seven
Powers, who are Seven in Egypt, Seven in Akkad, Babylon, Persia, India,
Britain, and Seven among the Gnostics and Kabalists. They were the Seven
fathers who preceded the Father in Heaven, because they were earlier than
the individualised fatherhood on earth . . .
When the Elohim said: “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.”
there were seven of them who represented the seven elements, powers, or
souls that went to the making of the human being who came into existence
before the Creator was represented anthropomorphically, or could have
conferred the human likeness on the Adamic man. It was in the sevenfold
image of the Elohim that was first created, with his seven elements, principles,
or souls, [ The Secret Doctrine says that this was the second creation, nor the
first, and that it took place during the Third Race, when men separated, i.e.,
began to be born as distinct men and women. See Vol. ii. of this work,
Stanzas and Commentaries.] and therefore he could not have been formed in
the image of the one God. The seven Gnostic Elohim tried to make a man in
their own image, but could not for lack of virile power. [ This is a Western
mangling of the Indian doctrine of the Kumaras.] Thus their creation in earth
and heaven was a failure . . . because they themselves were lacking in the
soul of the fatherhood! When the Gnostic Ildabaoth, [ He was regarded by
several Gnostic sects as one with Jehovah. See Isis Unveiled, vol ii., p.184.]
chief of the Seven, cried: “I am the father and God,” his mother Sophia
[Achamoth] replied: “Do not tell lies, Ildabaoth, for the first man (Anthropos,
son of Anthropos [ Or “man, son of man.” The Church found in this a prophecy
and a confession of Christ, the “Son of Man!”] ) is above thee.” That is, man
who had now been created in the image of the fatherhood was superior to the
gods who were derived from the Mother-Parent alone! [ See Stanza ii., Secret
Doctrine. ii.16.] For, as it had been first on earth, so was it afterwards in
heaven [the Secret Doctrine reaches the reverse]; and thus the primary gods
were held to be soulless like the earliest races of men . . . . The Gnostics
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