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In the same way Venus, Manas and the left eye are set down as correspondences.
Exoterically, there is, in reality, no such association of physical eyes and physical planets;
but Esoterically there is: for the right eye is the “Eye of Wisdom,” i.e., it corresponds
magnetically with that Occult centre in the brain which we call the “Third Eye”; [See supra,
ii.302. et seq.] while the left corresponds with the intellectual brain, or those cells which are
the organ on the physical plane of the thinking faculty. The kabalistic triangle of Kether,
Chokmah and Binah shows this. Chokmah and Binah, or Wisdom and Intelligence, the
Father and Mother or, again, the Father and Son, are on the same plane and reäct mutually
on one another.
When the individual consciousness is turned inward, a conjunction of Manas and Buddhi
takes place. In the spiritually regenerated man this conjunction is permanent, the Higher
Manas clinging to Buddhi beyond the threshold of Devachan, and the Soul, or rather the
Spirit, which should not be confounded with Ãtmâ, the Super-Spirit, is then said to have the
“Single Eye.” Esoterically, in other words, the “Third Eye” is active. Now Mercury is called
Hermes, and Venus, Aphrodite, and thus their conjunction in man on the psycho-physical
plane gives him the name of the Hermaphrodite, or Androgyne. The absolutely Spiritual Man
is, however, entirely disconnected from sex. The Spiritual Man corresponds directly with the
higher “coloured circles,” the Divine Prism which emanates from the One Infinite White
Circle; while physical man emanates from the Sephiroth, which are the Voices or Sounds of
Eastern Philosophy.
Seeing Sounds and Hearing Colours - (Page 459) And these “Voices” are lower than
the “Colours,” for they are the seven lower Sephiroth, or the objective Sounds, seen, not
heard, as the Zohar shows, [Op. cit., ii. 81.6.] and even the Old Testament also. For, when
properly translated, verse 18 of chapter xx. Exodus would read: “And the people saw the
Voices” (or Sounds, not the “thunderings” as now translated); and these Voices, or Sounds,
are the Sephiroth. [See Frank’s Die Kabbala, p.314, et seq.]
In the same way the right and left nostrils, into which is breathed the “Breath of Lives,”
[Genesis, ii, 7.] are here said to correspond with Sun and Moon, as Brahmâ-Prajâpati and
Vâch, or Osiris and Isis, are the parents of the natural life. This Quaternary, viz.: the two eyes
and two nostrils, Mercury and Venus, Sun and Moon, constitutes the Kabalistic Guardian-
Angels of the Four Corners of the Earth. It is the same in the Eastern Esoteric Philosophy,
which, however, adds that the Sun is not a planet, but the central star of our system, and the
Moon a dead planet, from which all the principles are gone, both being substitutes, the one
for an invisible inter-Mercurial planet, and the other for a planet which seems to have now
altogether disappeared from view. These are the Four Mahârâjahs, [Supra, i. 147.] the “Four
Holy Ones” connected with Karma and Humanity, Kosmos and Man, in all their aspects.
They are: the Sun, or its substitute Michael; Moon, or substitute Gabriel; Mercury, Raphael;
and Venus, Uriel. It need hardly be said here again that the planetary bodies themselves,
being only physical symbols, are not often referred to in the Esoteric System, but, as a rule,
their cosmic, psychic, physical and spiritual forces are symbolized under these names. In
short, it is the seven physical planets which are the lower Sephiroth of the Kabalah, and our
triple physical Sun whose reflection only we see, which is symbolized, or rather personified,
by the Upper Triad, or Sephirothal Crown. [We may refer for confirmation to Origen’s works,
who says that “the seven ruling daimons” (genii or planetary rulers) are Michael, the Sun (the
lion-like): the second in order, the Bull, Jupiter or Suriel, etc.: and all these, the “Seven of the
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