"It was rendered entirely desolate during twelve hours, as is written." It is in the Thirteenth (twice six and the Synthesis) that everything shall be restored "and the six will continue." Thus the author of the Qabbalah remarks quite truly that "Long before his (Ibn Gebirol's) time .
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many centuries before the Christian era, there was in Central Asia a 'Wisdom Religion;' fragments of which subsequently existed among the learned men of the archaic Egyptians, the ancient Chinese, Hindus, etc.
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"The Qabbalah most likely originally came from Aryan sources, through Central Asia, Persia, India and Mesopotamia, for from Ur and Haran came Abraham and many others into Palestine" (p.
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And such was the firm conviction of C.
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King, the author of "The Gnostics and their Remains." Vamadeva Modelyar ( Modely ) describes the coming "night" most poetically.
Though it is given in Isis Unveiled , it is worthy of repetition.
"Strange noises are heard, proceeding from every point .
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These are the precursors of the Night of Brahma; dusk rises at the horizon , and the Sun passes away behind the thirteenth degree of Macara (sign of the Zodiac), and will reach no more the sign of the Minas (zodiacal pisces , or fish).
The gurus of the pagodas appointed to watch the rasichakr (Zodiac), may now break their circle and instruments, for they are henceforth useless.
"Gradually light pales, heat diminishes, uninhabited spots multiply on the earth, the air becomes more and more rarified; the springs of waters dry up, the great rivers see their waves exhausted, the ocean shows its sandy bottom and plants die.
Men and animals decrease in size daily.
Life and motion lose their force, planets can hardly gravitate in space; they are extinguished one by one, like a lamp which the hand of the chokra (servant) neglects to replenish.
Surya (the Sun) flickers and goes out, matter falls into dissolution (pralaya), and Brahma merges back into Dayus, the Unrevealed God, and, his task being [[Vol.
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accomplished, he falls asleep.
Another day is passed, night sets in, and continues until the future dawn.
"And now again he re-enters into the golden egg of His Thought, the germs of all that exist, as the divine Manu tells us.
During His peaceful rest, the animated beings, endowed with the principles of action, cease their functions, and all feeling (manas) becomes dormant.
When they are all absorbed in the S UPREME S OUL, this Soul of all the beings sleeps in complete repose till the day when it resumes its form, and awakes again from its primitive darkness."* As the " Satya - yuga " is always the first in the series of the four ages or Yugas, so the Kali ever comes the last.
The Kali yuga reigns now supreme in India, and it seems to coincide with that of the Western age.
Anyhow, it is curious to see how prophetic in almost all things was the writer of Vishnu Purana when foretelling to Maitreya some of the dark influences and sins of this Kali Yug.
For after saying that the "barbarians" will be masters of the banks of the Indus, of Chandrabhaga and Kasmera, he adds: "There will be contemporary monarchs, reigning over the earth -- kings of churlish spirit, violent temper, and ever addicted to falsehood and wickedness.
They will inflict death on women, children, and cows; they will seize upon the property of their subjects, and be intent upon the wives of others; they will be of unlimited power, their lives will be short, their desires insatiable.
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People of various countries intermingling with them, will follow their example; and the barbarians being powerful (in India) in the patronage of the princes, while purer tribes are neglected, the people will perish (or, as the Commentator has it, 'The Mlechchhas will be in the centre and the Aryas in the end.')** Wealth and piety will decrease until the world will be wholly depraved.
Property alone will confer rank; wealth will be the only source of devotion; passion will be the sole bond of union between the sexes; falsehood will be the only means of success in litigation; and women will be objects merely of sensual gratification.
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External types will be the only distinction of the several orders of life; .
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a man if rich will be reputed pure; dishonesty ( anyaya ) will be the universal means of subsistence, weakness the cause of dependence, menace and presumption will be substituted for learning; liberality will be devotion; mutual assent, marriage; fine clothes, dignity.
He who is the strongest will reign; the people, unable to bear the heavy burthen, Khara bhara (the load of taxes) will take refuge among the valleys.
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Thus, in the Kali age will decay constantly proceed, until [[Footnote(s)]] ------------------------------------------------- * See Jacquolliot's " Les Fils de Dieu "; l'Inde des Brahmes, p.
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** If this is not prophetic, what is?
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the human race approaches its annihilation (pralaya) .
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When the close of the Kali age shall be nigh, a portion of that divine being which exists, of its own spiritual nature .
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( Kalki Avatar ) endowed with the eight superhuman faculties.
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He will re-establish righteousness on earth, and the minds of those who live at the end of Kali Yuga shall be awakened and become as pellucid as crystal.
The men who are thus changed .
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shall be the seeds of human beings , and shall give birth to a race who shall follow the laws of the Krita age, the age of purity.
As it is said, 'When the sun and moon and the lunar asterism Tishya and the planet Jupiter are in one mansion, the Krita (or Satya) age shall return.' " ".
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Two persons, Devapi, of the race of Kuru and Moru, of the family of Ikshwaku, continue alive throughout the four ages, residing at Kalapa.* They will return hither in the beginning of the Krita age .
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Moru** the son of Sighru through the power of Yoga is still living .
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and will be the restorer of the Kshattriya race of the Solar dynasty."*** ( Vayu Purana , Vol.
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197).
The doctrine of the periodic restoration or recurrence of all things to their original state after vast cycles.
The passage explicitly describes the periodic restoration of all things: the cycle of pralaya and renewal, the return of the Krita age after Kali, and Brahma's cyclical sleep and awakening—'continues until the future dawn.'
Describing the divine only by negation—God transcends all positive categories and concepts; the via negativa.
Dayus is described as 'the Unrevealed God' and the Supreme Soul sleeps in 'primitive darkness,' pointing to the divine as beyond all positive categories and concepts.
The cosmic law that manifests as each being's own duty — right order known not as abstract truth but as the specific obligation of one's nature and station (svadharma), so that maintaining the cosmos and performing one's proper work are one act; the Gita's 'one's own duty, though defective, is better than another's well performed.' Sits beside asha_cosmic_order and maat_cosmic_order as a right-order concept but is distinct in individuating the order into personal vocation; distinct from good_thought_word_deed (ethical triad) in binding duty to cosmic station.
The Kali Yuga prophecy describes the progressive breakdown of dharma—righteousness, social order, and moral law—and the Kalki Avatar's role in re-establishing it.
The supreme God's radical concealment beyond ordinary knowledge or perception; the Hidden Father.
Dayus is explicitly named 'the Unrevealed God,' and the passage speaks of 'primitive darkness' from which the Supreme Soul awakens, emphasizing radical divine concealment.
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 describes Brahma emerging from and merging back into Dayus (the Unrevealed God), with the 'golden egg of His Thought' containing the germs of all that exist, indicating a hierarchical cascade from a supreme source.
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 explicitly traces a chain of transmission from a Central Asian 'Wisdom Religion' through Aryan sources to Persia, India, Mesopotamia, and Palestine, credentialed by Ibn Gebirol and C.W. King.
Esoteric teachings reserved for those ready to receive them; outer meaning conceals an inner liberating truth.
The passage frames the Qabbalah and the 'Wisdom Religion' of Central Asia as esoteric knowledge whose fragments exist in various traditions, implying concealed inner meaning.
The doctrine that the divine or a spiritual principle takes on a specific, bounded material or bodily form — descending from an unconditioned state into individual, corporeal existence — as a discrete act rather than a diffuse pervading presence. The Christian Word made flesh, the Hindu avatara, the Egyptian pharaoh as living Horus, the Vajrayana tulku. Distinct from divine_immanence (the general claim that the divine pervades all of creation diffusely, not a specific embodiment-event) and separation_from_source (the felt exile FROM origin, the opposite motion) in describing a specific, individuated descent INTO a particular body or form.
The Kalki Avatar is described as a portion of the divine being descending on Earth endowed with superhuman faculties—a specific, individuated descent into material existence to re-establish righteousness.
The soul's journey back to its divine origin, reversing the fall into matter through stages of purification or illumination.
Brahma 'merges back into Dayus, the Unrevealed God' and 're-enters into the golden egg of His Thought,' describing a cosmic return to the divine origin.
The Hermetic doctrine of a measured swing or pendulum motion between poles — action and reaction, flow and outflow, rise and fall — operating in mental, physical, and cosmic-historical registers alike. Distinct from apocatastasis (cosmic-scale eschatological restoration after vast cycles) in naming a constant, ever-present oscillation rather than a singular restorative event.
The entire passage is structured around the cyclical rhythm of cosmic ages (Satya through Kali and back), the Night and Day of Brahma, and the pendulum between manifestation and dissolution (pralaya).