, 10.)* Besides which the Hebrew sacred name of God applied to this letter M is Meborach , the "Holy" or the "Blessed," and the name for the water of the Flood is M ' bul.
A reminder of the " three Maries" at the Crucifixion and their connection with Mar , the Sea, or Water , may close this example.
This is why in Judaism and Christianity the Messiah is always connected with Water, Baptism, the Fishes (the sign of the Zodiac called Meenam in Sanskrit), and even with the Matsya (fish) Avatar, and the Lotus -- the symbol of the womb, or the water-lily, which is the same.
In the relics of ancient Egypt, the greater the antiquity of the votive symbols and emblems of the objects exhumed, the oftener are the lotus flowers and the water found in connection with the Solar Gods.
The god Khnoom -- the moist power -- water, as Thales taught it, being the principle of all things, sits on a throne enshrined in a lotus (Saitic epoch, Serapeum ) .
The god Bes stands on a lotus, ready to devour his progeny.
( Ibid , Abydos.) Thot, the god of mystery and Wisdom, the sacred Scribe of Amenti, wearing the Solar disc as head gear, sits with a bull's head (the sacred bull of Mendes being a form of Thot) and a human body, on a full blown lotus.
( IVth Dynasty.
) Finally it is the goddess Hiquet , under her shape of a frog, who rests on the lotus, thus showing her connection with water.
And it is this frog-symbol, undeniably the most ancient of their Egyptian deities, from whose unpoetical shape the Egyptologists have been vainly trying to unravel her mystery and functions.
Its adoption in the Church by the early Christians shows that they knew it better than our modern Orientalists.
The "frog or toad goddess" was one of the chief cosmic deities connected with creation, on account of her amphibious nature, and chiefly because of her apparent resurrection, after long ages of solitary life enshrined in old walls, in rocks, etc.
She not only participated in the organization of the world, together with Khnoom , but was also connected with the [[Footnote(s)]] ------------------------------------------------- * Even to the seven daughters of the Midian priest, who, coming to draw the water , had Moses water their flock, for which service the Midian gives to Moses Zipporah ( sippara = the shining wave) as wife ( Exod.
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dogma of resurrection.
* There must have been some very profound and sacred meaning attached to this symbol, since, notwithstanding the risk of being charged with a disgusting form of zoolatry, the early Egyptian Christians adopted it in their Churches.
A frog or toad enshrined in a lotus flower, or simply without the latter emblem, was the form chosen for the Church lamps , on which were engraved the words "I am the resurrection" "[[ ego eimi anastasis ]]."** These frog goddesses are also found on all the mummies.
------------- [[This page continued in next section]] [[Footnote(s)]] ------------------------------------------------- * With the Egyptians it was the resurrection in rebirth after 3,000 years of purification, either in Devachan or "the fields of bliss." ** Such "frog-goddesses" may be seen at Bulaq, in the Cairo Museum.
For the statement about the Church lamps and inscriptions it is the learned ex-director of the Bulaq Museum, Mr.
Gaston Maspero, who must be held responsible.
( See his " Guide du Visiteur au Musee de Bulaq ," p.
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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 water/lotus/fish principle across Hebrew letters, Sanskrit zodiac signs, Hindu avatars, Egyptian deities, and Christian symbols, demonstrating the Hermetic axiom of structural reflection at every scale.
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 presents water as 'the principle of all things' (citing Thales) and the divine as present in natural symbols like the lotus and water throughout creation.
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 implies a continuous chain of secret wisdom connecting Hebrew, Egyptian, Hindu, and Christian traditions as instances of one underlying teaching transmitted across cultures.
Esoteric teachings reserved for those ready to receive them; outer meaning conceals an inner liberating truth.
The passage explicitly states 'All this has the same secret meaning' and presents the esoteric interpretation of religious symbols as concealed inner truth beneath the outer religious narrative.
The twenty-two Hebrew letters as the building blocks through which God creates and sustains all existence.
The passage centres on the Hebrew letter M as a building block carrying the sacred name of God and encoding the principle of water, directly illustrating the doctrine of letters as cosmic creative elements.
Divine names or formulas that carry ontological power, used in prayer, liturgy, or magical practice.
The passage explicitly discusses the Hebrew sacred name Meborach applied to the letter M, the name M'bul for the Flood water, and the Sanskrit Meenam, treating these as ontologically powerful divine designations.