This esotericism is the common property of all, and belongs neither to the Aryan 5th Race, nor to any of its numerous Sub-races.
It cannot be claimed by the Turanians, so-called, the Egyptians, Chinese, Chaldeans, nor any of the Seven divisions of the Fifth Root Race, but really belongs to the Third and Fourth Root Races, whose descendants we find in the Seed of the Fifth, the earliest Aryans.
The Circle was with every nation the symbol of the Unknown -- "Boundless Space," the abstract garb of an ever present abstraction -- the Incognisable Deity.
It represents limitless Time in Eternity.
The Zeroana Akerne is also the "Boundless Circle of the Unknown Time," from which Circle issues the radiant light -- the Universal S UN, or Ormazd** -- and the latter [[Footnote(s)]] ------------------------------------------------- * The numbers 3, 5, and 7 are prominent in speculative masonry, as shown in "Isis." A mason writes: -- "There are the 3, 5, and 7 steps to show a circular walk.
The three faces of 3, 3; 5, 3; and 7, 3; etc., etc.
Sometimes it comes in this form -- 753/2 = 376.5 and 7635/2 = 3817.5 and the ratio of 20612/6561 feet for cubit measure gives the Great Pyramid measures," etc., etc.
Three, five and seven are mystical numbers, and the last and the first are as greatly honoured by Masons as by the Parsis -- the triangle being a symbol of Deity everywhere.
(See the Masonic Cyclopedia , and " Pythagorean Triangle ," Oliver.) As a matter of course, doctors of divinity (Cassel, for instance) show the Zohar explaining and supporting the Christian trinity (!).
It is the latter, however, that had its origin from the of the Heathen, in the Archaic Occultism and Symbology.
The three strides relate metaphysically to the descent of Spirit into matter, of the Logos falling as a ray into the Spirit, then into the Soul, and finally into the human physical form of man, in which it becomes L IFE.
** Ormazd is the Logos, the "First Born" and the Sun.
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is identical with Kronos, in his AEolian form, that of a Circle.
For the circle is Sar, and Saros, or cycle, and was the Babylonian god whose circular horizon was the visible symbol of the invisible, while the sun was the ONE Circle from which proceeded the Cosmic orbs, and of which he was considered the leader.
Zero-ana, is the Chakra or circle of Vishnu, the mysterious emblem which is, according to the definition of a mystic, "a curve of such a nature that as to any, the least possible part thereof, if the curve be protracted either way it will proceed and finally re-enter upon itself, and form one and the same curve -- or that which we call the circle." No better definition could thus be given of the natural symbol and the evident nature of Deity, which having its circumference everywhere (the boundless) has, therefore, its central point also everywhere; in other words, is in every point of the Universe.
The invisible Deity is thus also the Dhyan Chohans, or the Rishis, the primitive seven, and the nine, without, and ten, including, their synthetical unit; from which IT steps into Man.
Returning to the Commentary (4) of Stanza IV.
the reader will understand why, while the trans-Himalayan Chakra has inscribed within it | | (triangle, first line, cube second line, and a pentacle with a dot in the centre thus: , and some other variations), the Kabalistic circle of the Elohim reveals, when the letters of the word (Alhim or Elohim) are numerically read, the famous numerals 13514, or by anagram 31415 -- the astronomical (pi) number, or the hidden meaning of Dhyani-Buddhas, of the Gebers, the Geborim, the Kabeiri, and the Elohim, all signifying "great men," "Titans," "Heavenly Men," and, on earth, "the giants." The Seven was a Sacred Number with every nation; but none applied it to more physiologically materialistic uses than the Hebrews.
With these it was pre-eminently the generative number and 9 the male causative one, forming as shown by the Kabalists the or otz -- "the Tree of the Garden of Eden,"* the "double hermaphrodite rod" of the fourth race.
Whereas with the Hindus and Aryans generally, the significance was manifold, and related almost entirely to purely metaphysical [[Footnote(s)]] ------------------------------------------------- * This was the symbol of the "Holy of Holies," the 3 and the 4 of sexual separation.
Nearly every one of the 22 Hebrew letters are merely phallic symbols.
Of the two letters -- as shown above -- one, the ayin, is a negative female letter, symbolically an eye; the other a male letter, tza , a fish -hook or a dart.
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and astronomical truths.* Their Rishis and gods, their Demons and Heroes, have historical and ethical meanings, and the Aryans never made their religion rest solely on physiological symbols, as the old Hebrews have done.
This is found in the exoteric Hindu Scriptures.
That these accounts are blinds is shown by their contradicting each other, a different construction being found in almost every Purana and epic poem.
Read esoterically -- they will all yield the same meaning.
Thus one account enumerates Seven worlds, exclusive of the nether worlds, also seven in number; these fourteen upper and nether worlds have [[Footnote(s)]] ------------------------------------------------- * We are told by a Kabalist, who in a work not yet published contrasts the Kabala and Zohar with Aryan Esotericism, that "The Hebrew clear, short, terse and exact modes far and beyond measure surpass the toddling word-talk of the Hindus -- just as by parallelisms the Psalmist says, 'My mouth speaks with my tongue, I know not thy numbers' (lxxi., 15).
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The Hindu Glyph shows by its insufficiency in the large admixture of adventitious sides the same borrowed plumage that the Greeks (the lying Greeks) had, and that Masonry has: which in the rough monosyllabic (and apparent) poverty of the Hebrew, shows the latter to have come down from a far more remote antiquity than any of these, and to have been the source (!?), or nearer the old original source than any of them." This is entirely erroneous.
Divine archetypal beings or eternal attributes dwelling within the Pleroma, often arranged in male-female syzygies.
The Dhyan Chohans, Rishis, and the 'primitive seven, and the nine, without, and ten, including, their synthetical unit' are presented as the divine emanations or attributes of the invisible Deity, functioning as aeon-like archetypal beings.
Ormazd is named and identified with the Logos, the First Born, the Sun, and the AEolian Kronos as Circle, making the Zoroastrian divine ordering principle a central referent of the passage.
Describing the divine only by negation—God transcends all positive categories and concepts; the via negativa.
The Deity is characterized as 'Incognisable' and 'the Unknown,' described only through the negative symbol of the boundless circle rather than through positive attributes, consistent with a via negativa approach.
The Hermetic axiom that the structure of the cosmos is reflected at every scale — 'as above, so below; as within, so without' — making each level a legible map of the others.
The passage systematically maps the same symbol (the circle) and the same numbers (3, 5, 7) across Babylonian, Hindu, Parsi, Masonic, and Kabbalistic traditions, demonstrating that the same principle is legible at every cultural and cosmic scale.
Narratives or doctrines of cosmic origin — how heaven, earth, and the primordial deities first came into being. The Kojiki's deities born alone on the Plain of High Heaven, Voluspo's Ginnungagap, Genesis's tohu wa-bohu, the Timaeus's Demiurge fashioning the Receptacle, the Hesiodic Theogony, the Kalevala's egg-cosmogony, Egyptian Nun-and-Atum. Distinct from emanation_hierarchy (structural-ontological cascade), letters_of_creation (mechanism of creation), and apocatastasis/frashokereti (end-state restoration); cosmogony is temporally-narrative beginning.
The passage describes the origin of cosmic orbs from the ONE Circle (the sun) and the descent of spirit through successive stages into material form, presenting a narrative of cosmic origin.
The supreme God's radical concealment beyond ordinary knowledge or perception; the Hidden Father.
The circle is described as 'the symbol of the Unknown,' representing 'the abstract garb of an ever present abstraction — the Incognisable Deity,' and the 'Boundless Circle of the Unknown Time' — emphasizing the supreme principle's radical concealment beyond knowledge.
The doctrine that the divine is present within all things and the universe itself, pervading creation rather than remaining solely transcendent above it. Distinct from unity_of_being (the general claim that all existence is one substance, agnostic about whether that substance indwells its parts) and from kingdom_within (the divine present specifically IN THE INDIVIDUAL human, accessible without mediation) — divine_immanence is the general pervading-presence claim applied to all of creation, not a human-specific indwelling.
The passage states that the invisible Deity 'having its circumference everywhere (the boundless) has, therefore, its central point also everywhere; in other words, is in every point of the Universe,' a clear assertion of divine pervading presence throughout all creation.
The uncreated luminous quality of the divine, sometimes experienced directly in mystical states; illumination as revelation.
The passage states that 'from which Circle issues the radiant light — the Universal SUN, or Ormazd,' identifying the divine principle with luminous radiance emanating from the boundless circle.
A chain of divine beings or principles flowing downward from a single transcendent source (the One or the Father), each level less perfect than the one above.
The passage explicitly describes 'the descent of Spirit into matter, of the Logos falling as a ray into the Spirit, then into the Soul, and finally into the human physical form of man, in which it becomes LIFE,' a clear cascading emanation from a single source through successive levels.
A historical or mythical chain of transmission for secret wisdom from master to disciple across time and cultures — the credential of the teaching, not merely its content. Distinct from oral_tradition (the spoken-not-written modality of transmission, which a lineage may or may not use) and hidden_sayings (the concealment-for-readiness of a teaching's meaning, independent of who transmitted it or in what unbroken chain).
The passage traces the esoteric teaching as belonging to the Third and Fourth Root Races and passed through the 'Seed of the Fifth, the earliest Aryans,' establishing a historical chain of transmission across races and cultures.
The Hermetic doctrine that a masculine-feminine generative principle operates on every plane of being, not only the biological — present at all times as a structural feature of creation itself. Distinct from divine_marriage (a specific reunification event or symbol) and aeons (paired divine beings arranged in syzygies, not a universal structural claim).
The passage explicitly discusses the 'double hermaphrodite rod of the fourth race,' the 3 and 4 of sexual separation, the male causative number 9, and the gendered Hebrew letters (ayin as female, tza as male), presenting masculine-feminine as a structural principle at the metaphysical level.
Esoteric teachings reserved for those ready to receive them; outer meaning conceals an inner liberating truth.
The passage explicitly states that the exoteric Hindu Scriptures contain 'blinds' that 'contradict each other' but that 'read esoterically — they will all yield the same meaning,' and that the esotericism 'cannot be claimed' by any one race, framing the text itself as a hidden teaching with an outer and inner sense.
The doctrine of the universe as boundless and without center or circumference, populated by innumerable worlds — Bruno's rejection of the closed Aristotelian sphere; the divine and the cosmos as ontologically infinite.
The passage repeatedly emphasizes 'Boundless Space,' 'limitless Time in Eternity,' and the circle having 'its circumference everywhere (the boundless) has, therefore, its central point also everywhere; in other words, is in every point of the Universe.'
The twenty-two Hebrew letters as the building blocks through which God creates and sustains all existence.
The passage states that 'nearly every one of the 22 Hebrew letters are merely phallic symbols' and discusses specific letters (ayin, tza) as gendered creative signs, treating the Hebrew letters as building blocks with cosmological significance.
The divine reason, word, or ordering principle through which the universe was created; mediates between the transcendent God and the material world.
Ormazd is explicitly identified as 'the Logos, the First Born and the Sun,' and the Logos is described as falling as a ray into the Spirit in the emanation chain, mediating between the transcendent and the material.
The human being as a small-scale image of the entire cosmos; the body, soul, and intellect mirroring the structure of the heavens and the divine — distinct from correspondence in that it makes the human the privileged mirror.
The descent from the boundless Deity through the Dhyan Chohans into Man ('from which IT steps into Man') and the identification of the same symbols (circle, triangle) at both cosmic and human scales implies the human as a mirror of the cosmos.
The absolutely simple, undivided first principle from which all multiplicity and existence flows.
The sun is described as 'the ONE Circle from which proceeded the Cosmic orbs,' and the Incognisable Deity is presented as a single undivided boundless principle from which all multiplicity flows.
Numbers, proportions, and mathematical relationships as the underlying structure of divine reality.
Numbers are the central organizing principle of the entire passage: 3, 5, and 7 as mystical numbers, the numerals 13514/31415 (pi) hidden in the word Elohim, the seven as sacred number, the nine as male causative, and the geometric figures (triangle, cube, pentacle) all encode divine reality through mathematical relationships.
Organized, persisting groups — fraternities, orders, lodges — that maintain esoteric knowledge or practices as an institution distinct from public religion or mainstream society, holding 'the keys' collectively rather than through any one master-disciple pair. Distinct from esoteric_lineage (a genealogical chain of individual transmission, not an institution) and hidden_sayings (the concealment of a teaching's meaning, independent of whether any organized body holds it).
Masonry is referenced as a holder of esoteric knowledge ('the 3, 5, and 7 steps to show a circular walk'), and the passage contrasts the esoteric teaching as belonging to no single institution or race, implying organized bodies that hold fragments of the universal wisdom.