Chapter LI: Part II: , Section XXV, “Seven in Astronomy, Science, and Magic.”

997 The four Karmic Gods, called the Four Mahârâjahs in the Stanzas.

998 _Mythical Monsters_, p. 19.

999 _Travels in Egypt_, vol. ii.

1000 _The Mythological Astronomy of the Ancients Demonstrated_ (p. 3), by
a strangely intuitional Symbologist and Astronomer, a kind of a
self‐made Adept of Norwich, who lived in the first quartet of this
century.

1001 See Proctor, _Knowledge_, i. pp. 242, 400.

1002 Rawlinson’s _Herodotus_, ii. 345.

1003 _The Great Pyramid_, pp. 36, 37.

1004 Staniland Wake, _op. cit._, pp. 6, 7.

1005 _Ibid._

1006 _The Mythological Astronomy of the Ancients Demonstrated_, pp. 4, 5.

1007 The term “Atlantean” must not mislead the reader to regard these as
one race only, or even a nation. It is as though one said
“Asiatics.” Many, multityped, and various were the Atlanteans, who
represented several “humanities,” and almost a countless number of
races and nations, more varied indeed than would be the “Europeans,”
were this name to be given indiscriminately to the five existing
parts of the world, which, at the rate colonization is proceeding,
will be the case, perhaps, in less than two or three hundred years.
There were brown, red, yellow, white and black Atlanteans; giants
and dwarfs, as some African tribes comparatively are, even now.

1008 Says a teacher in _Esoteric Buddhism_ (p. 64): “In the Eocene age,
even in its very first part, the great cycle of the Fourth Race men,
the [Lemuro‐] Atlanteans, had already reached its highest point [of
civilization], and the great Continent, the father of nearly all the
present continents, showed the first symptoms of sinking.” And on
page 70, it is shown that Atlantis as a whole perished during the
Miocene period. To show how the continents, races, nations and
cycles overlap each other, one has but to think of Lemuria, the last
of whose lands perished about 700,000 years before the beginning of
the Tertiary period (p. 65), and the last of “Atlantis” only 11,000
years ago; thus both overlapping—one the Atlantean period, and the
other the Âryan.

1009 See _Traité de l’Astronomie Indienne et Orientale_, part iii.

1010 Ceylon.

1011 This is not so. The forefathers of the Âryan Brâhmans had their
Zodiac and Zodiacal calculations from those born by Kriyâshakti
power, the “Sons of Yoga”; the Egyptians from the Atlanteans of
Ruta.

1012 The former, therefore, may have registered time for seven or eight
millions of years, but the Egyptians _could not_.

1013 _Op. cit._, p. 6.

1014 This question was amply challenged, and as amply discussed and
answered. See _Five Years of Theosophy_, Art., “Mr. Sinnett’s
_Esoteric Buddhism_,” pp. 325‐346.

1015 _Ruins of Empires_, p. 360. Volney says that, as Aries was in its
15th degree 1,447 B.C., it follows that the first degree of Libra
could not have coincided with the Vernal Equinox more lately than
15,194 years B.C., to which if you add 1,790 since Christ, when
Volney wrote this, it appears that 16,984 years have elapsed since
the (Greek or rather Hellenic) origin of the Zodiac.

1016 The word “historical” is used, because, although historians have
almost absurdly dwarfed the dates that separate certain events from
our modern day, nevertheless, once that they are known and accepted,
they belong to history. Thus, the Trojan War _is_ a historical
event, which, though even less than 1,000 years B.C. are assigned to
it, really took place more nearly 6,000 than 5,000 years B.C.

1017 It is a historical fact that Sanchuniathon compiled the full record
of the Phœnician religion from annals and state documents in the
archives of the _older_ Phœnician cities, and wrote it in Phœnician
characters in 1,250 B.C.

1018 Prof. Virchow, in Appendix I, to Schliemann’s _Ilios_. Murray, 1880.

1019 Gosse writes of the latter: “She is set down a thorough heretic, not
at all to be believed, a manufacturer of unsound natural history, an
inventor of false facts in science.” (_Romance of Natural History_,
2nd Series, p. 227.)

1020 Pp. 9, 10.

1021 _Popular Science Monthly_, No. 60, April, 1877.

1022 Dr. Cover writes: “That famous bird of Washington was a myth; either
Audubon was mistaken, or else, as some do not hesitate to affirm, he
_lied_ about it.”

1023 _Ibid._, pp. 10, 11.

1024 _Mythical Monsters_, p. 13, note.

1025 So far back as July, 1888, at a time when the MS. of this work had
not yet left my writing table, and _The Secret Doctrine_ was utterly
unknown to the world, it was already being denounced as a product of
my brain and no more. These are the flattering terms in which the
_Evening Telegraph_ (of America) referred to this still unpublished
work in its issue of June 30, 1888: “_Among the fascinating books
for July reading_ is Mme. Blavatsky’s new book on Theosophy ... (!)
_The Secret Doctrine_.... But because she can soar back into the
Brahmin ignorance ... (!?) _is no proof that everything she says is
true_.” And once the prejudiced verdict has been given on the
mistaken notion that my book was out, and that the reviewer had read
it—neither of which was or could be the case—now that it is really
out, the critic will have to support his first statement, whether
correct or otherwise, and will get out of it, probably by a more
slashing criticism than ever.

1026 _Science of Language_, p. 168.

1027 _The Human Species_, p. 274.

1028 See above, the diagram of the Genealogical Tree of the Fifth Race.

1029 The Hegelian doctrine, which identifies Absolute Being or “Be‐ness”
with “Non‐Being,” and represents the Universe as an Eternal
Becoming, is identical with the Vedânta Philosophy.

1030 _The Religions of India_, p. xiii.

1031 Myer’s _Qabbalah_, p. 175.

1032 See De Mirville, _Pneumatologie_, iii. pp. 218 _et seqq._

1033 _Op. cit._, _ibid._

1034 See _Genesis_ and the authorized chronology. In chapter viii, “Noah
leaveth the ark”—2,348 B.C. In chapter x, “Nimrod the first
monarch,” stands over 1,998 B.C.

1035 _Annales de Philosophie Chrétienne_, June, 1860, p. 415.

1036 April 30, 1860.

1037 “I will mention to thee the writings ... respecting the belief and
institutions of the Sabæans,” he says. “The most famous is the Book,
_The Agriculture of the Nabatheans_, which has been translated by
Ibn Wahohijah. This book is full of heathenish foolishness.... It
speaks of preparations of Talismans, the drawing down of the powers
of the Spirits, Magic, Demons, and Ghouls, which make their abode in
the desert.” (Maimonides, quoted by Dr. D. Chwolsohn; _Die Ssabier
und der Ssabismus_, ii. 458.) The Nabatheans of Mount Lebanon
believed in the seven Archangels, as their forefathers had believed
in the seven Great Stars, the abodes and bodies of these Archangels,
which are believed in to this day by the Roman Catholics, as is
shown elsewhere.

1038 See _Isis Unveiled_, ii. 197.

1039 i. 354.

1040 Sayce; _cf._, p. 115, 2nd ed.

1041 _Op. cit._, pp. 418, 419.

1042 _Ibid._, p. 118.

1043 Simply, the womb, the “Holy of Holies” with the Semites.

1044 See the Valentinian Table in Epiphanius, _Adv. Hær._, I. xxxi. 2.

1045 But it was not so in reality, as witness their prophets. It is the
later Rabbis and the Talmudic scheme that killed out all
spirituality from the body of their symbols; leaving only their
Scriptures—a dead shell, from which the soul has departed.

1046 See _II Samuel_, vi. 16‐22.

1047 _Psalms_, xxiv. 3.

1048 _II Kings_, xxiii. 7; see Dunlap, _Sôd; The Mysteries of Adoni_, p.
41.

1049 _Judges_, xxi. 21, 23 _et passim_.

1050 _I Kings_, xviii. 26.

1051 _Isis Unveiled_, ii. 49.

1052 _Ibid._, ii. 444.

1053 The author of the _Qabbalah_ makes several attempts to prove
conclusively the antiquity of the _Zohar_. Thus he shows that Moses
de Leon could not be the author or the forger of the Zoharic works
in the thirteenth century, as he is accused of being, since Ibn
Gebirol gave out the same philosophical teaching 225 years before
the day of Moses de Leon. No true Kabalist or scholar will ever deny
the fact. It is certain that Ibn Gebirol based his doctrines upon
the oldest Kabalistic sources, namely, the Chaldæan _Book of
Numbers_, as well as some no longer extant Midrashim, the same, no
doubt, as those used by Moses de Leon. But it is just the difference
between the two ways of treating the same Esoteric subjects,
which—while proving the enormous antiquity of the Esoteric
System—points to a decided ring of Talmudistic and even Christian
sectarianism in the compilation and glossaries of the Zoharic system
by Rabbi Moses. Ibn Gebirol _never quoted_ from the Scriptures to
enforce the teachings (Myer’s _Qabbalah_, p. 7). Whereas Moses de
Leon has made of the _Zohar_ that which it has remained to this day,
“a running commentary on the Five Books, or Pentateuch” (_ibid._),
with a few later additions made by Christian hands. One follows the
Archaic Esoteric Philosophy; the other, only that portion which was
adapted to the _lost_ Books of Moses restored by Ezra. Thus, while
the system, or the trunk on which the primitive original _Zohar_ was
engrafted, is of an immense antiquity, many of the (later) Zoharic
offshoots are strongly coloured by the peculiar views held by
Christian Gnostics (Syrian and Chaldæan), the friends and co‐workers
of Moses de Leon who, as shown by Munk, accepted their
interpretations.

1054 See Franck’s _Kabbala_, Preface.

1055 i. 14.

1056 See Schwartze, _op. cit._, _pagg._ 359, 361, _et seqq._

1057 Sayce, _Hibbert Lectures_, 1887, p. 374.

1058 Timæus, the Locrian, speaking of “Arka” [Arche], calls her “the
principle of best things” (Ἀρχὰ τῶν ἁρίστων). The word _arcane_,
“hidden,” or secret, is derived from this. “To no one is the
_Arcane_ shown except to the ... Most High” (_Codex
Nazaræus_)—alluding to Nature the female, and Spirit, the male
Power. Æsculapius, as a Sun‐God was called _Archagetas_, “born from
the Archa,” the divine Virgin‐Mother of the Heavens. (See Kenealy,
_Book of God_, p. 10.)

1059 Kenealy, _op. cit._, _ibid._

1060 This is composed of ten dots arranged triangularly in four rows. It
is the Tetragrammaton of the Western Kabalists.

1061 From an MS.

1062 See G. Maspéro, _Guide au Musée Boulaq_, 1884, p. 168, No. 1981.

1063 _Ibid._, p. 169, No. 1998.

1064 _Ibid._, p. 172, No. 2068.

1065 The student must be aware that Jethro is not called the “father‐in‐
law” of Moses because Moses was really married to one of his seven
daughters. Moses was an Initiate, if he ever existed, and as such an
Ascetic, a Nazar, and could never have been married. It is an
allegory like everything else. Zipporah (the “shining”) is one of
the personified Occult Sciences given by Reuel‐Jethro, the Midian
priest Initiator, to Moses, his Egyptian pupil. The “well” by which
Moses sat down in his flight from the Pharaoh symbolizes the “Well
of Knowledge.”

1066 i. pp. 106‐108 and elsewhere.

1067 In Hebrew the phallic symbol Lingam and Yoni.

1068 See Vol. I, Stanza IV, Shloka 3.

1069 It is at that Step that one arrives on the plane of the level or
floor and open entrance to the King’s Chamber, the Egyptian “Holy of
Holies.”

1070 The Candidate for Initiation always personified the God of the
Temple he belonged to, as the High Priest personified the God at all
times; just as the Pope now personates Peter and even Jesus Christ
upon entering the inner sanctuary—the Christian “Holy of Holies.”

1071 _Genesis_, i. 27.

1072 Jehovah says to Moses: “the summation of my name is _sacr_, the
carrier of the germ”—phallus. “It is ... the vehicle of enunciation,
and truly enough, as the _sacr_, or carrier of the germ, its use
passed down through ages to the _sacr‐factum_ of the Roman priest,
and the _sacr‐fice_, and _sacr‐ment_ of the English speaking race.”
(_Source of Measures_, p. 236.) Hence marriage is a _sacrament_ in
the Greek and Roman Churches.

1073 4to, London, 1684, vol. i. pp. 120, 121.

1074 _Op. cit._, p. 67.

1075 _Source of Measures_, 159.

1076 _Op. cit._, p. 187.

1077 _Op. cit._, p. 271.

1078 From the same author. See also the Section on “The Symbolism of the
Mystery Names Iao and Jehovah.”

1079 In _Genesis_ (iv. 26), it is mis‐translated. “And he called his name
Enos [man]: then began men to call upon the name of the Lord”—which
has no sense in it, since Adam and the others must have done the
same.

1080 Strictly speaking, the Jews are an artificial Âryan race, born in
India, and belonging to the Caucasian division. No one who is
familiar with the Armenians and the Parsîs can fail to recognize in
the three the same Âryan, Caucasian type. From the seven primitive
types of the Fifth Race there now remain on Earth but three. As
Prof. W. H. Flower aptly said in 1885: “I cannot resist the
conclusion so often arrived at by various anthropologists—that the
primitive man, whatever he may have been, has in the course of ages
diverged into three extreme types, represented by the Caucasian of
Europe, the Mongolian of Asia, and the Ethiopian of Africa, and that
all existing individuals of the species can be ranged around these
types.” (The President’s Address at the Anthropological Institute of
Great Britain, etc.) Considering that our Race has reached its fifth
sub‐race, how can it be otherwise?

1081 Whenever such analogies between the Gentiles and the Jews, and later
the Christians, have been pointed out, it has been the invariable
custom of the latter to say that it was the work of the Devil who
forced the Pagans to imitate the Jews for the purpose of throwing a
slur on the religion of the _one, true living_ God. To this Faber
says very justly: “Some have imagined that the Gentiles were servile
copyists of the Israelites, and that each point of similitude was
borrowed from the Mosaical Institutes. But this theory will by no
means solve the problem. Both because we find the very same
resemblance in the ceremonies of nations far distant from Palestine,
as we do in the rites of those who are in its immediate vicinity,
and because it seems incredible that all should have borrowed from
one which was universally disliked and despised.” (_Pagan Idolatry_,
i. 104.)

1082 _Luke_, i. 28.

1083 Their consecrated Pillars (unhewn stones) erected by Abraham and
Jacob were _Lingams_.

1084 _Op. cit._, p. 67.

1085 See _Introduction to the Old Testament_, and also Bishop Colenso’s
_Elohistic and Jehovistic Writers_.

1086 King’s _Gnostics and their Remains_, p. 327, 2nd ed.

1087 _Ibid._, p. 326.

1088 Such a Pseudo‐Kabalist was the Marquis de Mirville in France, who
studied the _Zohar_ and other old remnants of Jewish Wisdom under
the “Chevalier” Drach, an ancient Rabbi Kabalist converted to the
Romish Church, and with his help wrote half a dozen volumes full of
slander and calumnies against every prominent Spiritualist and
Kabalist. From 1848 up to 1860 he persecuted unrelentingly the old
Count d’Ourches, one of the earliest Eastern Occultists in France, a
man the scope of whose Occult knowledge will never be appreciated
correctly by his survivors, because he screened his real beliefs and
knowledge under the mask of Spiritism.

1089 See _Hibbert Lectures_, 1887, pp. 101‐115.

1090 _Exodus_, xxii. 28.

1091 _Deut._, iv. 19.

1092 _Jude_, 8, 9.

1093 See _Isis Unveiled_, ii. 487, _et seqq._

1094 Treat, _Kiddusheem_, 81. But see Myer’s _Qabbalah_, pp. 92, 94.

1095 Marangone, in his _Delle Grandezze del Archangelo Sancti Mikaele_,
exclaims: “O grandest Star, who followest the Sun who is Christ!...
O living image of Divinity! O great thaumaturgist of the Old
Testament! O invisible Vicar of Christ in his Church!...” The work
is held in great honour in the Latin Church.

1096 _Pneumatologie_, v. 516.

1097 _Ibid._, p. 515.

1098 _Ibid._, p. 514.

1099 _Isaiah_, lxiii. 8, 9.

1100 Metator and ἡγεμών.

1101 _Pneumatologie_, p. 515. “La Face et le Représentant du Verbe.”

1102 That which is called in the _Vendidâd_ Fravarshi, the immortal part
of an individual; that which outlives man—the Higher Ego, say the
Occultists, or the Divine Double.

1103 Darmesteter’s Trans., p. 208.

1104 _Orm. Ahr._, §§ 112, 113; quoted by Darmesteter, “Sacred Books of
the East,” vol. iv. introd., p. lxxiv.

1105 _De Idol._, ii. 373.

1106 See De Mirville, _ibid._, p. 515.

1107 _Ibid._ See also plates in King’s _Gnostics and their Remains_.

1108 P. 518.

1109 _The Book of Enoch the Prophet_, p. xlviii. Ed. 1883.

1110 _Op. cit._, pp. xxxiv, xxxv.

1111 Saith Uriel in the _Book of Enoch_ (xxvi. 3): “Those who have
received mercy shall for ever bless God ... the _Everlasting
King_”—who will reign over them.

1112 _Vishnu Purâna_, III. ii; Wilson’s Trans., iii. 31.

1113 _Matthew_, xxiv. 27.

1114 _Luke_, x. 18.

1115 The Protestant _Bible_ defines Behemoth _innocently_—“The _elephant_
as some think”; see marginal note (_Job_, xl. 15) in the Authorized
Version.

1116 _Job_, xl. 19.

1117 Astronomy, however, knows nothing of stars that have _disappeared_,
unless it be simply from visibility; but never from existence since
the science of Astronomy became known. Temporary stars are only
_variable_ stars, and it is believed that even the _new_ stars of
Kepler and Tycho Brahé may still be seen.

1118 This refers to the “Kings of Edom.”

1119 Another proof, if any were needed, that the ancient Initiates knew
of more than _seven_ planets is to be found in the _Vishnu Purâna_
(II. xii) where, describing the chariots attached to Dhruva (the
Pole Star), Parâshara speaks of “the chariots of the _nine_
planets,” which are attached by aërial cords.

1120 Justin, _Cum Tryphone_, p. 284.

1121 A division indicative of time.

1122 Sanchuniathon calls Time the oldest Æon, Protogonos, the “First‐
born.”

1123 Philo Judæus, _Cain and his Birth_, p. xvii.

1124 _Principles of Psychology_, 474.

1125 It is suggestive of that spirit of paradoxical negation so
conspicuous in our day, that while the evolution hypothesis has won
its rights of citizenship in Science as taught by Darwin and Hæckel,
yet both the Eternity of the Universe and the Preëxistence of a
Universal Consciousness, are rejected by modern Psychologists.
“Should the Idealist be right, the doctrine of evolution is a
dream,” says Mr. Herbert Spencer.

1126 _Zohar_, 9b.

1127 Verse 6.

1128 Mercure Trismegiste, _Pimandre_, chap. i, sec. 16: “Oh, ma pensée,
que s’ensuit‐il? car je désire grandement ce propos. Pimandre diet,
ceci est un mystère celé, jusques à ce jour d’hui. Car nature, soit
mestant avec l’hôme, a produit le miracle très merveilleux, aîant
celluy qui ie t’av diet, la nature de l’harmonie des sept du père,
et de l’esprit. _Nature ne s’arresta pas là_, mais incontinent a
produict _sept hômes, selon les natures des sept gouverneurs_ en
puissance des deux sexes et esleuez.... La génération de ces _sept_
s’est donnée en ceste manière....”

And a gap is made in the translation, which can be filled partially
by resorting to the Latin text of Apuleius. The commentator, the
Bishop, says: “Nature produced in him [man] seven men” (seven
principles).

1129 xxviii. 2‐8.

1130 _Ibid._

1131 _Ibid._, 17.

1132 _Ibid._, 13‐16.

1133 _Ibid._, 18.

1134 _Ibid._, 19.

1135 xxxi. 16, 17. The only Pharaoh whom the _Bible_ shows going down
into the Red Sea was the king who pursued the Israelites, and who
remained unnamed, for very good reasons perhaps. The story was
surely made up from the Atlantean legend.

1136 xxviii. 13, 14.

1137 xxxi. 3‐9.

1138 _Vishnu Purâna._ I. xv.

1139 This is pure allegory. The Waters are a symbol of Wisdom and of
Occult Learning. Hermes represented the Sacred Science under the
symbol of Fire; the Northern Initiates, under that of Water. The
latter is the production of Nara, the “Spirit of God,” or rather
Paramâtman, the “Supreme Soul,” says Kullûka Bhatta; Nârâyana,
meaning “he who abides in the deep” or is plunged in the Waters of
Wisdom—“water being the body of Nara” (_Vâyu Purâna_). Hence arises
the statement that for 10,000 years they remained in austerity “in
the vast ocean”; and are shown emerging from it. Ea, the God of
Wisdom, is the “Sublime Fish,” and Dagon or Oannes is the Chaldæan
Man‐Fish, who emerges from the Waters to teach Wisdom.

1140 Chap. v; “Sacred Books of the East,” vol. viii. p. 257.

1141 This is explained by the able translator of _Anugîtâ_ in a foot‐note
(p. 258) in these words: “The sense appears to be this: The course
of worldly life is due to the operations of the life‐winds which are
attached to the Self, and lead to its manifestations as individual
souls.”

1142 Vaishvânara is a word often used to denote the Self—explains
Nîlakantha.

1143 _Ibid._, p. 259. Translated by Kâshinâth Trimbak Telang, M.A.,
Bombay.

1144 _Matthew_, iii. 10.

1145 _Isaiah_, x. 19.

1146 _Op. cit._, i. 133.

1147 1845, p. 41.

1148 See Dowson’s _Hindû Classical Dictionary_ for further information on
above.

1149 See _Five Years of Theosophy_, art., “The Elixir of Life.”

1150 The partaker of Soma finds himself both linked to his external body,
and yet away from it in his Spiritual Form. Freed from the former,
he soars for the time being in the ethereal higher regions, becoming
virtually “as one of the Gods,” and yet preserving in his physical
brain the memory of what he sees and learns. Plainly speaking, Soma
is the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge forbidden by the jealous
Elohim to Adam and Eve or Yah‐ve, “lest man should become as one of
us.”

1151 We see the same in the modern exoteric religions.

1152 _Historical View of the Hindû Astronomy._ Quoting from the work in
reference to “Argabhatta” [? Âryabhatta] who is said to give a near
approach to the true relation among the various values for the
computations of the value of π, the author of _The Source of
Measures_ reproduces a curious statement. “Mr. Bentley,” it is said,
“was greatly familiar with the Hindû astronomical and mathematical
knowledge.... This statement of his may then be taken as authentic.
The same remarkable trait, among so many Eastern and ancient
nations, of _sedulously concealing the arcana of this kind of
knowledge, is a marked one_ among the Hindûs. That which was given
out to be popularly taught, and to be exposed to public inspection,
_was but the approximate of a more exact but hidden knowledge_. And
this very formulation of Mr. Bentley will strangely exemplify the
assertion; and, explained, will show that it [the Hindû _exoteric_
astronomy and sciences] was derived _from a system exact beyond the
European one_, in which Mr. Bentley himself, of course, trusted, as
far in advance of the Hindû knowledge, at any time, in any
generation” (pp. 86, 87).

This is Mr. Bentley’s misfortune, and does not take away from the
glory of the ancient Hindû Astronomers, who were all Initiates.

1153 The Secret Doctrine teaches that every event of universal
importance, such as geological cataclysms at the end of one Race and
the beginning of a new one, involving a great change each time in
mankind, spiritual, moral and physical—is precogitated and
preconcerted, so to say, in the sidereal regions of our planetary
system. Astrology is built wholly upon this mystic and intimate
connection between the heavenly bodies and mankind; and it is one of
the great secrets of Initiation and Occult Mysteries.

1154 See Darmesteter’s _Vendidâd_, Introd., p. lviii.

1155 See _Isaiah_, xiv. 12.

1156 _Genesis_, vi.

1157 The Nâgas are described by the Orientalists as a mysterious people
whose landmarks are found abundantly in India to this day, and who
lived in Nâga‐dvîpa, one of the _seven_ continents or divisions of
Bhâratavarsha (old India); the town of Nagpur being one of the most
ancient cities in the country.

1158 xxviii. 3, 4.

1159 Not less suggestive are the qualities attributed to Rudra Shiva, the
great Yogî, the forefather of all the Adepts—in Esotericism one of
the greatest Kings of the Divine Dynasties. Called the “earliest”
and the “last,” he is the patron of the Third, Fourth, and the Fifth
Root‐Races. For, in his earliest character, he is the ascetic Dig‐
ambara, “clothed with the elements,” Tri‐lochana, the “three‐eyed,”
Pancha‐ânana, the “five‐faced,” an allusion to the past Four and the
present Fifth Race, for, though five‐faced, he is only “four‐armed,”
as the Fifth Race is still alive. He is the “God of Time,” Saturn‐
Cronus, as his “drum” Damaru, in the shape of an hour‐glass, shows;
and if he is accused of having cut off Brahma’s fifth head, and left
him with only four, it is again an allusion to a certain degree in
Initiation, and also to the Races.

1160 Gustav Seiffarth’s idea that the signs of the Zodiac were in ancient
times only ten is erroneous. Ten only were known to the profane; the
Initiates, however, knew them all, _from the time of the separation
of mankind into sexes_, whence arose the separation of Virgo‐Scorpio
into two. This separation, owing to the addition of a secret sign
and the Libra invented by the Greeks, instead of the secret name
which was not given, made twelve. (See _Isis Unveiled_, ii. 456.)

1161 The above is, perhaps, a key to the Dalaï Lama’s symbolical name—the
“Ocean” Lama, meaning the Wisdom‐Ocean. Abbé Huc speaks of this.

1162 _Zohar_, iii. 9b, 10a, Brody Ed. Cremona Ed. iii. fol. 4a, col. 14.
Myer’s _Qabbalah_, pp. 416, 417.

1163 Such was the name given in ancient Judea to the Initiates, called
also the “Innocents” and the “Infants,” _i.e._, once more “reborn.”
This _key_ opens a vista into one of the _New Testament_ mysteries;
the slaughter by Herod of the 40,000 “Innocents.” There is a legend
to this effect, and the event, which took place almost a century
B.C., shows the origin of the tradition blended at the same time
with that of Krishna and his uncle Kansa. In the case of the _New
Testament_, Herod stands for Alexander Jannæus (of Lyda), whose
persecution and murder of hundreds and thousands of Initiates led to
the adoption of the _Bible_ story.

1164 _Zohar_, ii. 34.

1165 i. § 16.

1166 _Op. cit._, lxxiv. 13.

1167 _Ibid._, § 33.

1168 P. 16.

1169 “Biographical and Critical Essay,” p. xxxviii.

1170 _Histoire de la Magic_, pp. 16, 17.

1171 _Ibid._, _loc. cit._

1172 What _devil_ could be possessed of more cunning, craft and cruelty
than the Whitechapel murderer, “Jack the Ripper” of 1888, whose
unparalleled, blood‐thirsty and cool wickedness led him to slaughter
and mutilate in cold blood seven unfortunate and _otherwise_
innocent women! One has but to read the daily papers to find in
those wife‐ and child‐beating, drunken brutes (husbands and
fathers!), a _small_ percentage of whom is daily brought before the
courts, the complete personifications of the devils of the Christian
Hell!

1173 _Psalm_, lxxxii.

1174 _Genesis_, xvii. 7.

1175 _Op. cit._, p. 209.

1176 _Ibid._, pp. 144, 145.

1177 _Ibid._, p. 146.

1178 _Op. cit._, p. 9. After the Polymorphic Pantheism of some Gnostics
came the Exoteric Dualism of Manes, who was accused of personifying
Evil and making of the Devil a God—the rival of God himself. We do
not see that the Christian Church has so much improved on that
exoteric idea of the Manicheans, for she calls God her King of
Light, and Satan the King of Darkness, to this day.

1179 To quote in this relation Mr. S. Laing, in his admirable work
_Modern Science and Modern Thought_ (p. 222): “From this dilemma
[the existence of evil in the world] there is no escape, unless we
give up altogether the idea of an anthropomorphic deity, and adopt
frankly the scientific idea of a First Cause, inscrutable and past
finding out; and of a universe whose laws we can trace, but of whose
real essence we know nothing, and can only suspect or faintly
discern a fundamental law which may make the polarity of good and
evil a necessary condition of existence.” Were Science to know “the
real essence,” instead of knowing nothing of it, the faint suspicion
would turn into the certitude of the existence of such a law, and
the knowledge that this law is connected with Karma.

1180 _Histoire de la Magie_, pp. 196, 197.

1181 Âkâsha is _not_ the Ether of Science, as some Orientalists translate
it.

1182 Says Johannes Tritheim, the Abbot of Spanheim, the greatest
Astrologer and Kabalist of his day: “The art of divine magic
consists in the ability to perceive the essence of things in the
Light of Nature [Astral Light], and by using the soul‐powers of the
spirit to produce material things from the unseen universe, and in
such operations the Above and the Below must be brought together and
made to act harmoniously. The Spirit of Nature [Astral Light] is a
unity, creating and forming everything, and by acting through the
instrumentality of man it may produce wonderful things. Such
processes take place according to law. You will learn the law by
which these things are accomplished, if you learn to know yourself.
You will know it by the power of the spirit that is in yourself, and
accomplish it by mixing your spirit with the essence that comes out
of yourself. If you wish to succeed in such a work you must know how
to separate spirit and life in Nature, and, moreover, to separate
the astral soul in yourself and to make it tangible, and then the
substance of the soul will appear visibly and tangibly, rendered
objective by the power of the spirit.” (Quoted in Dr. Franz
Hartmann’s _Paracelsus_, pp. 164, 165.)

1183 The real original text of _I Corinthians_, xv. 44, rendered
kabalistically and Esoterically would read: “It is sown a _soul_
body [not ‘natural’ body], it is raised a _spirit_ body.” St. Paul
was an Initiate, and his words have quite a different meaning when
read Esoterically. The body “is sown in _weakness_ [passivity]; it
is raised in power” (v. 43)—or in spirituality and intellect.

1184 “The War in Heaven” (_Theosophist_, iii. 24, 36, 67), by Godolphin
Mitford, later in life Murad Ali Beg. Born in India, the son of a
missionary, G. Mitford was converted to Islam, and died a Mahomedan
in 1884. He was a most extraordinary Mystic, of great learning and
remarkable intelligence. But he left the Right Path and forthwith
fell under Karmic retribution. As well shown by the author of the
article quoted, “The followers of the defeated ‘Elohim’ first
massacred by the victorious Jews [the Jehovites], and then persuaded
by the victorious Christians and Mohamedans, continued
[nevertheless].... Some [of these scattered sects] ... have lost
even the tradition of the true rationale of their belief—to worship
in secrecy and mystery the Principle of Fire, Light, and Liberty.
Why do the Sabean Bedouins (avowedly Monotheists when dwelling in
the Mohamedan cities) in the solitude of the desert night yet invoke
the starry ‘Host of Heaven’? Why do the Yezidis, the ‘Devil
Worshippers,’ worship the ‘Muluk‐Taoos’—the ‘Lord Peacock’—the
emblem of _Pride_ and of Hundred‐eyed Intelligence [and of
Initiation also], which was expelled from Heaven with Satan,
according to an old Oriental tradition? Why do the Gholaites and
their kindred Mesopotamo‐Iranian Mohamedan Sects believe in the
‘Noor Illahee’—the ‘Light of the Elohim’—transmitted in _anastasis_
through a hundred Prophet‐Leaders? It is because they have continued
in ignorant superstition the traditional religion of the ‘Light
Deities’ whom Jahveh overthrew!” (p. 69)—is _said_ to have
overthrown rather; for by overthrowing _them_ he would have
overthrown himself. The Muluk‐Taoos is Maluk, “Ruler,” as is shown
in the foot‐note. It is only a new form of Moloch, Melek, Molech,
Malayak, and Malachim—Messengers, Angels, etc.

1185 So does every Yogi and even Christian, for one must take the Kingdom
of Heaven _by violence_—we are taught. Why then should such a desire
make of any one a Devil?

1186 _Acad. des Inscrip._, xxxix. 690.

1187 Fargard, xix. 47; Darmesteter’s Trans., p. 218.

1188 _Vendidad_, Far. xx. 12; _op. cit._, p. 222.

1189 _Ibid._, Far. xix. 43; _op. cit._, p. 218.

1190 From the _Vendidad Sadah_, quoted by Darmesteter, _op. cit._, p.
223.

1191 See the Gâtha in Yasna xliv.

1192 _Op. cit._, p. 441.

1193 _Apollodorus_, I. 7, 1.

1194 Ovid., _Metam._, I. 81. _Etym. M._, v. Προμηθεύς.

1195 Pausanias, X. 4, 4.

1196 _Op. cit._, p. 264.

1197 Pausanias, II. 19, 5; _cf._ 20, 3.

1198 _Timæus_, p. 22.

1199 _Strom._, I. p. 380.

1200 Decharme, _ibid._, p. 265.

1201 _Opera et Dies_, 142‐145. According to the Occult Teaching, three
Yugas passed away during the time of the Third Root‐Race, _i.e._,
the Satya, the Tretà, and the Dvâpara Yuga—answering to the Golden
Age in its early innocence; to the Silver, when it reached its
maturity; and to the Bronze Age, when, separating into sexes, it
became the mighty Demi‐gods of old.

1202 _Asgard and the Gods_, pp. 11, 13.

1203 _Op. cit._, p. 266.

1204 _Ibid._, p. 258.

1205 _Ibid._, p. 257.

1206 _Ibid._, p. 258.

1207 _Op. cit._, p. 145.

1208 _Transactions of the Royal Society_, London, 1868.

1209 _The Age and Origin of Man._

1210 The modern attempt of some Greek scholars (poor and pseudo scholars,
they would have appeared in the day of the old Greek writers!) to
explain the real meaning of the ideas of Æschylus—which, as being an
ignorant ancient Greek, he could not express so well himself—is
absurdly ludicrous!

1211 _Revue Germanique_, 1861, pp. 356, _et seqq._ See also _Mémoires de
la Société de la Linguistique_, i. pp. 337. _et seqq._

1212 Quoted by Decharme, _op. cit._, pp. 258, 259. There is the _upper_
and _nether_ piece of timber used to produce this sacred fire by
attrition at sacrifices, and it is the Aranì which contains the
socket. This is proven by an allegory in the _Vâyu_ and other
_Purânas_, which tell us that Nimi, the son of Ikshvàku, had left no
successor, and that the Rishis, fearing to leave the Earth without a
ruler, introduced the king’s body into the socket of an Arani—like
an upper Aranì—and produced from it a prince named Janaka. “It was
by reason of the peculiar way in which he was engendered that he was
called Janaka.” See also Goldstücker’s _Sanskrit Dictionary_, _sub
voce_. (_Vishnu Purána_, Wilson’s Trans., iii. 330.) Devaki,
Krishna’s mother, in a prayer addressed to her, is called “the Aranî
whose attrition engenders fire.”

1213 The Monad of the animal is as immortal as that of man, yet the brute
knows nothing of this; it lives an animal life of sensation just as
the first human would have lived, on attaining physical development
in the Third Race, had it not been for the Agnishvâtta and the
Mânasa Pitris.

1214 _Op. cit._, p. 259.

1215 Ἰαπετιονίδης. _Theog._, p. 528.

1216 _Theog._, 565.

1217 The Fallen Angels, therefore; the Asuras of the Indian Pantheon.

1218 Decharme, _op. cit._, pp. 259, 260.

1219 _Ibid._, p. 263.

1220 _Ibid._, p. 261.

1221 _Die Herabkunft des Feuers und des Göttertranks_ (Berlin, 1859).

1222 The italics are ours; they show how assumptions are raised to laws
in our day.

1223 Decharme, _op. cit._, p. 262.

1224 _Philosoph. Placit._, iii. 3.

1225 Baudry, _Revue Germanique_, 14 avril, 1861, p. 368.

1226 _Op. cit._, pp. 264, 265.

1227 See _Vishnu Purâna_, Wilson’s Trans., v. 96, note.

1228 xiii. 55, 56.

1229 “Womb of Light,” “Holy Vessel,” are the epithets of the Virgin.

1230 The Virgin is often addressed as the “Morning Star” and the “Star of
Salvation.”

1231 Wilson translates: “Thou art kingly policy, the parent of order.”

1232 _Vishnu Purâna_, Wilson’s Trans., iv. pp. 264, 265.

1233 iii. 290.

1234 See _Joshua_, xv, 15.

1235 Surât xix.

1236 See Mackenzie’s _Royal Masonic Cyclopædia_, _sub voce_ “Enoch.”

1237 Khanoch, or Hanoch, or Enoch Esoterically means the “Initiator” and
“Teacher,” as well as Enos, the “Son of Man.” (See _Genesis_, iv.
26.)

1238 De Mirville, _Pneumatologie_, iii. 70.

1239 Mackenzie, _op. cit._, _sub voc._

1240 _Hebrews_, xi. 5.

1241 De Mirville, _ibid._, p. 71.

1242 Compare the “thieves and robbers” incident, p. 506, _supra_.

1243 De Mirville, _ibid._, p. 73.

1244 _Ibid._, p. 76.

1245 _Antiquities_, ix. 2.

1246 Cap. viii.

1247 Says the _Zohar_, “Hanokh had a book which was one with the Book of
the Generations of Adam; this is the Mystery of Wisdom.”

1248 Noah is heir to the Wisdom of Enoch; in other words, the Fifth is
heir to the Fourth Race.

1249 See _Isis Unveiled_, i. 575, _et seqq._

1250 See the illustration in _Isis Unveiled_, ii. 452.

1251 See Danielo’s criticisms upon De Sacy, in the _Annales de
Philosophie_, p. 393, deuxième article.

1252 De Mirville, _ibid._, pp. 77, 78.

1253 Ch. lxxix, Laurence’s Trans.

1254 _Ibid._, ch. lxiv.

1255 _Ibid._, _loc. cit._, v. 6.

1256 Bailly, _Astronomie Ancienne_, i. 203, and ii. 216; De Mirville,
_ibid._, p. 79.

1257 De Mirville, _ibid._, p. 80.

1258 _City of God_, XV. xxiii.

1259 _Op. cit._, xxxii. 8, 9.

1260 Of the Protestant Biblical Society of Paris, according to the
version revised in 1824 by J. E. Ostervald.

1261 With the Egyptian Gnostics it was Thoth (Hermes), who was chief of
the Seven (see _Book of the Dead_). Their names are given by Origen,
as Adonai (of the Sun), Iao (of the Moon), Eloi (Jupiter), Sabao
(Mars), Orai (Venus), Astaphai (Mercury), and, finally, Ildabaoth
(Saturn). See King’s _Gnostics and their Remains_, p. 344.

1262 See Origen’s Copy of the Chart or Diagramma of the Ophites, in his
_Contra Celsum_.

1263 See Part III of this Volume, Section IV, B, “On Chains of Planets
and their Plurality.”

1264 _Exodus_, xxxiii. 18, 19; see Myer’s _Qabbalah_, p. 226.

1265 _Ibid._, _loc. cit._

1266 _Supra_, p. 481.

1267 See _Revelation_, xxii. 16.

1268 _Op. cit._, ii. 301.

1269 _Gnostics and their Remains._

1270 _II Samuel._

1271 By very few though, for the creators of the material universe were
always considered as subordinate Gods to the Most High Deity.

1272 _Op. cit._, ii. 296, 297. Fürst gives citations from Lydus and
Cedrenus in support of his statements.

1273 See plate 77 in vol. i of Montfaucon’s _Antiquities_. The disciples
of Hermes, after their death, go to his planet, Mercury—their
Kingdom of Heaven.

1274 Cornutus.

1275 Lydus, _De Mensibus_, iv.

1276 _Preparat. Evang._, I. iii. 2.

1277 But see p. 480, _supra_, concerning the Gnostic Priapus.

1278 _Op. cit._, p. 52.

1279 _Ibid._, pp. 3, 4.

1280 Let the reader refer to the _Zohar_ and the two _Qabbalahs_ of Isaac
Myer and S. L. MacGregor Mathers, with interpretations, if he would
satisfy himself of this.

1281 _Ibid._, p. 5.

1282 _Ibid._, p. 12.

1283 See _Book of the Dead_, xvii. 45‐47.

1284 _Op. cit._, i. 421, 422.

1285 _De la Croix Ansée_, _Mem. de l’Académie des Sciences_, pl. 2, Nos.
8, 9, also 16, 2, p. 320; quoted in _Natural Genesis_, p. 423.

1286 Vol. xviii. p. 393, pl. 4; Inman, fig. 38; Gerald Massey, _op.
cit._, _ibid._, p. 422.

1287 Certainly not; for very often there are symbols _made to symbolize
other symbols_, and these are in turn used in ideographs.

1288 The R of the Slavonian and Russian alphabets (the Kyriletza
alphabet) is also the Latin P.

1289 _Ibid._, p. 423.

1290 See Moor’s _Hindû Pantheon_, plate xiii.

1291 See Dowson’s _Hindû Classical Dictionary_, _sub voc._ “Rudra.”

1292 Described in the _Mission des Juifs_, by the Marquis St. Yves
d’Alveydre, the hierophant and leader of a large party of French
Kabalists, as the Golden Age!

1293 V. xxiii.

1294 Translated from Burnouf’s French Translation, quoted by Fitzedward
Hall, in Wilson’s _Vishnu Purâna_, ii. 307.

1295 The more so since he is the reputed slayer of Tripurâsura and the
Titan Târaka. Michael is the conqueror of the dragon, and Indra and
Kârttikeya are often made identical.

1296 _Ibid._, iv. 235.

1297 _Op. cit._, XII. ii. 26‐32; quoted in _Vishnu Purâna_, Wilson’s
Trans., iv. 230. Nanda is the first Buddhist sovereign,
Chandragupta, against whom all the Brâhmans were so arrayed, he of
the Morya Dynasty, and the grandfather of Ashoka. This is one of
those passages that do not exist in the earlier Paurânic MSS. They
were added by the Vaishnavas, who, out of sectarian spite, were
almost as great interpolators as the Christian Fathers.

1298 _Historical View of the Hindû Astronomy_, p. 65, as quoted by
Wilson, _op. cit._, p. 233.

1299 See _Ezekiel_, i.

1300 _In Quint. Lib. Euclid._

1301 The Goddess Basht, or Pasht, was represented with the head of a cat.
This animal was held sacred in Egypt for several reasons. It was a
symbol of the Moon, the “Eye of Osiris” or the “Sun,” during night.
The cat was also sacred to Sokhit. One of the mystic reasons was
because of its body being rolled up in a circle when asleep. The
posture is prescribed for occult and magnetic purposes, in order to
regulate, in a certain way, the circulation of the vital fluid, with
which the cat is preëminently endowed. “The nine lives of a cat” is
a popular saying based on good physiological and occult reasons. Mr.
Gerald Massey gives also an astronomical reason for it which may be
found in vol. i. pp. 322, 323, of the present work. “The cat saw the
sun, had it in its eye by night [was the eye of night], when it was
otherwise unseen by men [for as the Moon reflects the light of the
Sun, so the cat was supposed to reflect it on account of its
phosphorescent eyes]. _We_ might say the moon _mirrored_ the solar
light, because we have _looking glasses_. With them the cat’s eye
_was_ the mirror.” (_Luniolatry Ancient and Modern_, p. 2.)

1302 _Ezekiel_, i. 4, 15, 16, 20.

1303 _Eccles._, i. 6.

1304 Fol. 87, col. 346.

1305 Vol. ii. pp. 299, 300.

1306 _Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie_, i. 124. Also in _T’sang‐t‐ung‐
ky_, by Wei‐Pa‐Yang.

1307 Cocker’s _Christianity and Greek Philosophy_, xi. p. 377.

1308 The cry of despair uttered by Count de Montlosier, in his _Mystères
de la Vie Humaine_ (p. 117), is a warrant that the Cause of
“excellence and goodness,” supposed by Plato to pervade the Universe
is neither _his_ Deity, nor _our_ World. “Au spectacle de tant de
grandeur opposé à celui de tant de misère, l’esprit qui se met à
observer ce vaste ensemble, se represente je ne sais quelle grande
divinité, _qu’ une divinité, plus grande et plus pressante_ encore,
aurait comme brisée et mise en pièces en dispersant les débris dans
tout l’Univers.” The “still greater and still more exacting
divinity” than the God of this world, supposed to be so “good”—is
Karma. And this true Divinity shows well that the lesser one, our
_inner_ God (personal for the time being), has no power to arrest
the mighty hand of this greater Deity—the Cause awakened by our
actions generating smaller causes—which is called the Law of
Retribution.

1309 See _Isis Unveiled_, i. xii and xviii.

1310 Stobæus, _Ecl._, i. 862.

1311 The Svastika is certainty one of the oldest symbols of the Ancient
Races. In our century, says Kenneth R. H. Mackenzie (_Royal Masonic
Cyclopædia_), the Svastika “has survived in the form of the mallet”
in the Masonic Fraternity. Among the many “meanings,” given by the
author, we do not find the most important, Masons evidently being
ignorant of it.

1312 _Isis Unveiled_, i. 508.

1313 _Ibid._, p. 506.

1314 _Ibid._, p. 572.

1315 _Ezekiel_, ix. 4.

1316 _Exodus_, xii. 22.

1317 viii. 29.

1318 _Op. cit._, p. 204.

1319 See Dowson’s _Hindû Classical Dictionary_.

1320 _The Source of Measures_, p. 204.

1321 _Ibid._, p. 205.

1322 See Moor’s _Hindû Pantheon_, where Vittoba’s left foot, in the
figure of his idol, bears the mark of the nails.

1323 See Dr. Lundy’s _Monumental Christianity_, fig. 72.

1324 _Source of Measures_, p. 52.

1325 _Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie_, ii. 88.

1326 The “Heavens” are identical with “Angels,” as already stated.

1327 _Philosophumena_, vi. 48; quoted by King, _op. cit._, p. 200.

1328 _Op. cit._, x. 3, 4.

1329 _Pistis Sophia_, _pag._ 378; King, _ibid._, _loc. cit._

1330 See the Section on “The Chronology of the Brâhmans,” p. 69, _supra_.

1331 As confessed by C. W. King, the great authority on Gnostic
antiquities, these “Gnostic” gems are not the work of the Gnostics,
but belong to Pre‐Christian periods, and are the work of “magicians”
(_op. cit._, p. 241).

1332 King, _ibid._, p. 218.

1333 The lack of intuition in Orientalists and Antiquarians past and
present, is remarkable. Thus, Wilson, the translator of _Vishnu
Purâna_, declares in his Preface that in the _Garuda Purâna_ he
found “no account of the birth of Garuda.” Considering that an
account of “Creation” in general is given therein, and that Garuda
is coëternal with Vishnu, the Mahâ Kalpa, or Great Life‐Cycle,
beginning with and ending with the _manifesting_ Vishnu, what other
account of Garuda’s birth could be expected!

1334 _Ibid._, _loc. cit._

1335 See _Revelation_, xvii. 2 and 10; and _Leviticus_, xxiii. 15 to 18;
the first passage speaking of the “seven Kings,” of whom _five_ have
gone; and the second about the “seven Sabbaths,” etc.

1336 _Op. cit._, x. 5‐7.

1337 _Pistis Sophia_ is an extremely important document, a genuine
Evangel of the Gnostics, ascribed, at random to Valectinus, but much
more probably a Pre‐Christian work as to its original. A Coptic MS.
of this work was brought back by Bruce from Abyssinia and discovered
by Schwartze, in the British Museum, quite accidentally, and
translated by him into Latin. The text and Schwartze’s version were
published by Petermann in the year 1853. In the text itself the
authorship of this Book is ascribed to Philip the Apostle, whom
Jesus bids sit down and write the revelation. It is genuine and
ought to be as canonical as any other Gospel. Unfortunately it
remains to this day untranslated into English.

1338 King, _op. cit._, p. 200.

1339 In the Cycle of Initiation, which was very long, Water represented
the first and lower steps toward purification, while trials
connected with Fire came last. Water could regenerate the Body of
Matter; Fire alone, that of the Inner Spiritual Man.

1340 Chap. ix.

1341 See the Introduction by Káshináth Trimbak Telang, M.A.

1342 “Sacred Books of the East,” vol. viii. p. 276.

1343 _Ibid._

1344 _Ibid._

1345 Pp. 258, 259.

1346 _Ibid._, p. 257.

1347 _Ibid._, p. 259.

1348 In the astronomical and cosmical key, Vaishvânara is Agni, son of
the Sun, or Vishvânara, but in the psycho‐metaphysical symbolism it
is the Self, in the sense of non‐separateness, _i.e._, both divine
and human.

1349 Here the speaker personifies the said divine Self.

1350 _Ibid._

1351 Compare with these “pairs of opposites,” in the _Anugîtâ_, the
“pairs” of Æons, in the elaborate system of Valentinus, the most
learned and profound Master of the Gnosis. As the “pairs of
opposites,” male and female, are all derived from Âkâsha
(undeveloped and developed, differentiated and undifferentiated, or
Self or Prajâpati), so are the Valentinian “pairs” of male and
female Æons shown to emanate from Bythos, the preëxisting eternal
Depth, and in their secondary emanation from Ampsiu‐Ouraan, or
sempiternal Depth and Silence, the second Logos. In the Esoteric
emanation there are seven chief “pairs of opposites”; and so also in
the Valentinian system there were fourteen, or twice seven.
Epiphanius “copied one pair twice over,” Mr. C. W. King thinks, “and
thus adds one pair to the proper fifteen.” (_The Gnostics and their
Remains_, pp. 263, 264.) Here King falls into the opposite error;
the pairs of Æons are not 15 (a “blind”) but 14, as the _first_ Æon
is That from which others emanate, Depth and Silence being the first
and only emanation from Bythos. As Hippolytus shows: “The Æons of
Valentinus are confessedly the _six_ Radicals of Simon (Magus),”
with the _seventh_, Fire, at their head. And these are: Mind,
Intelligence, Voice, Name, Reason and Thought, subordinate to Fire,
the Higher Self, or precisely the “Seven Winds” or the “Seven
Priests” of _Anugîtâ_.

1352 Not necessarily at death only, but during Samâdhi or mystic trance.

1353 All the words and sentences between parenthetical marks are the
writer’s. This is translated directly from the Latin translation.
King’s translation conforms too much to Gnosticism as explained by
the Church Fathers.

1354 Barbelo is one of the three “Invisible Gods,” and, as C. W. King
believes, includes the “Divine Mother of the Saviour,” or rather
Sophia Achamoth (_cf._ _Pistis Sophia_, pag. 359).

1355 _Pagg._ 378, 379.

1356 In other _Purânas_ Jatâyu is the son of Aruna, Garuda’s brother,
both the sons of Kashyapa. But all this is external allegory.

1357 IX. viii. 12, 13.

1358 From Burnouf’s Translation; see Wilson’s _Vishnu Purâna_, iii. 300.

1359 Wilson, _ibid._, p. 302, note.

1360 See _Vâyu Purâna_, which places him in the list of the forty
renowned sons of Kashyapa.

1361 _The Ordinances of Manu_, i. 16; Burnell’s Translation, p. 3, note.

1362 _Ibid._, 27; p. 5.

1363 Vol. i. pp. 355, _et seqq._

1364 _Orthodoxie Maçonnique Suivie de la Maçonnerie Occulte et de
l’Initiation Hermétique_, J. M. Ragon, p. 430; see also the whole of