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“false”—as Gods of the ancients. They are no better than pretenders; the cunning copies of
the real Angels, produced beforehand through the craft and power of Lucifer and of the fallen
Angels. Now, what are the Kabiri
Kabiri, as a name, is derived from Habir , great, and also from Venus, this Goddess
being called to the present day Kabar, as in also her star. The Kabiri were worshipped at
Hebron, the city of the Anakim, or anakas (kings, princes). They are the highest Planetary
Spirits, the “greatest Gods” and “the powerful.” Varro, following Orpheus, (Page 316 ) calls
these Gods ευδυνατοι“divine Powers.” The word Kabirim when applied to men, and the
words Heber, Gheber (with reference to Nimrod, or the “giants” of Genesis, vi.) and Kabir,
are all derived from the “mysterious Word”—the Ineffable and the “Unprounceable.’ Thus it is
they who represent tsaba, the “host of heaven.” The Church, however, bowing before the
angel Anael (the regent of Venus). [ Venus with the Chaldæans and Egyptians was the wife
of Proteus, and is regarded as the mother of the Kabiri, the sons of Phta or Emepth—the
divine light or the Sun. The angels answer to the stars in the following order: The Sun, the
Moon, Mars, Venus, Mercury, Jupiter and Saturn: Michael, Gabriel, Samael, Anael, Raphael,
Zachariel, and Orifiel: this is in religion and Christian Kabalism; astrologically and esoterically
the places of the “regents” stand otherwise, as also in the Jewish, or rather the real
Chaldæan Kabalah.] connects the planet Venus with Lucifer, the chief of the rebels under
Satan—so poetically apostrophized by the prophet Isaiah as “O, Lucifer, son of the morning.”
[ Loc.cit., xiv.12.] All the Mystery Gods were Kabiri. As these “seven lictors” relate directly to
the Secret Doctrine their real status is of the greatest importance.
Suidas defines the Kabiri as the Gods who command all the other dæmons
(Spirits), Macrobius introduces them as
Those Penates and tutelary deities, through whom we live and learn and know
(Saturn, I.iii. ch.iv.).
The teraphim through which the Hebrews consulted the oracles of the Urim and the
Thummim, were the symbolical hieroglyphics of the Kabiri. Nevertheless, the good Fathers
have made of Kibir the synonym of devil and of daimon (spirit) a demon.
The Mysteries of the Kabiri at Hebron (Pagan and Jewish) were presided over by the seven
Planetary Gods, among the rest by Jupiter and Saturn under their mystery names, and they
are referred to as and and by Euripides as
Creuzer, moreover, shows that whether in Phœnicia or in Egypt, the
Kabiri were always the seven planets as known in antiquity, who together with their Father
the Sun—referred to elsewhere as their “elder brother”—composed a powerful ogdoad; [This
is one more proof that the Ancients knew of seven planets besides the Sun: for otherwise
which is the eighth in such a case The seventh, with two others, as stated, were “mystery”
planets, whether Uranus or any other.] the eight superior powers, as . or solar
assessors, danced around him the sacred circular dance, the symbol of the rotation of the
planets around the Sun. Jehovah and Saturn, moreover, are one.
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