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taught that the Spirits of Wickedness, the inferior Seven, derived their origin
from the great Mother alone, who produced without the fatherhood! It was in
the image, then, of the sevenfold Elohim that the seven races were formed
which we sometimes hear of as the Pre-Adamite races of men, because they
were earlier than the fatherhood, which was individualised only in the second
Hebrew Creation. [ See Stanza ii.,5, Secret Doctrine. ii.16 ]
This shows sufficiently how the echo of the Secret Doctrine - of the Third and Fourth Races
of men, made complete by the incarnation in humanity of the Manasa Putra, Sons of
Intelligence or Wisdom - reached every corner of the globe. The Jews, however, although
they borrowed of the older nations the groundwork on which to build their (Page 198)
revelation, never had more than three keys out of the seven in their mind, while composing
their national allegories - the astronomical, or numerical (metrology) and above all the purely
anthropological, or rather physiological key. This resulted in the most phallic religion of all,
and has now passed, part and parcel, into Christian theology, as is proved by the lengthy
quotations made from a lecture of an able Egyptologist, who can make naught of it save
astronomical myths and phallicism, as is implied by his explanations of “fatherhood” in the
allegories.
SECTION XXII
The “Zohar” on Creation and the Elohim
(Page 199) THE opening sentence in Genesis, as every Hebrew scholar knows, is:
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Now there are two well-known ways of rendering this line, as any other Hebrew writing: one
exoteric, as read by the orthodox Bible interpreters (Christian), and the other Kabalistic, the
latter, moreover, being divided into the Rabbinical and the purely Kabalistic or Occult
method. As in Sanskrit writing, the words are not separated in the Hebrew, but are made to
run together - especially in the old systems. For instance, the above, divided, would read:
“B’rashith bara Elohim eth hashamayim v’eth h’areths;” and it can be made to read thus:
“B’rash ithbara Elohim ethhashamayim v’eth’arets,” thus changing the meaning entirely. The
latter means, “In the beginning God made the heavens and the earth,” whereas the former,
precluding the idea of any beginning, would simply read that “out of the ever-existing
Essence [divine] [or out of the womb - also head - thereof] the dual [or androgyne] Force
[Gods] shaped the double heaven;” the upper and the lower heaven being generally
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