and its fourth commentary to find that the 3, 4 -- (7), and the thrice seven, or 1065, the number of Jehovah, is the number of the 21 Prajapati mentioned in the Mahabharata, or the three Sephrim (words in cipher or figures).
And this comparison between the Creative Powers of Archaic philosophy and the anthropomorphic Creator of exoteric Judaism (since their esotericism shows its identity with the Secret Doctrine) will lead the student to perceive and discover that, in truth, Jehovah is but a lunar and [[Footnote(s)]] ------------------------------------------------- * In the " Book Al-Chazari " by Jehuda-ha-Levi, translated by Dr.
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"generation" god.
(See Book I, Part 2 , " Deus Lunus.
") It is a fact well known to every conscientious student of the Kabala, that the deeper he dives into it, the more he feels convinced that unless the Kabala -- or what is left of it -- is read by the light of the Eastern esoteric philosophy, its study leads only to the discovery that, on the lines traced by exoteric Judaism and Christianity, the monotheism of both is nothing more exalted than ancient Astrolatry, now vindicated by modern Astronomy.
The Kabalists never cease to repeat that primal intelligence can never be understood.
It cannot be comprehended, nor can it be located, therefore it has to remain nameless and negative.
Hence the Ain-Soph -- the "UNKNOWABLE" and the "UNNAMEABLE" -- which, as it could not be made manifest, was conceived to emanate manifesting Powers.
It is then with its emanations alone that human intellect has to, and can deal.
Christian theology, having rejected the doctrine of emanations and replaced them with direct, conscious creations of angels and the rest out of nothing, now finds itself hopelessly stranded between Supernaturalism, or miracle, and materialism.
An extra -cosmic god is fatal to philosophy, an intra -cosmic Deity -- i.e.
Spirit and matter inseparable from each other -- is a philosophical necessity.
Separate them and that which is left is a gross superstition under a mask of emotionalism.
But why "geometrize," as Plato has it, why represent these emanations under the form of an immense arithmetical table?
The question is well answered by the author just cited.
His remarks are quoted in Part II., § " The Theogony of the Creative Gods.
" "Mental perception," he says, "to become physical perception, must have the Cosmic principle of light : and by this, our mental circle must become visible through light; or, for its complete manifestation, the Circle must be that of physical visibility, or Light itself.
Such conceptions, thus formulated, became the groundwork of the philosophy of the divine manifesting in the Universe." This is philosophy.
It is otherwise when we find the Rabbi in Al-Chazari saying that "under s'ph-r is to be understood calculation and weighing of created bodies.
For the calculation, by means of which a body must be constructed in harmony or symmetry, by which it must be in construction rightly arranged and made to correspond to the object in design, consists at last in number, extension, mass, weight; co-ordinate relation of movements, then harmony of music, must consist altogether by number, that is (S'ph-r).
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By Sippor (s'phor) is to be understood the words of Alhim whereunto joins or adapts itself the design of the frame or form of construction; for example, it was said 'Let Light be.' The work became as the WORDS were spoken, that is, as the numbers of the work came forth.
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But the Kabala [[Vol.
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was not always so well adapted to anthropo-monotheistic conceptions.
Compare this with any of the six schools of India.
For instance, in Kapila's "Sankhya" Philosophy, unless, allegorically speaking, Purusha mounts on the shoulders of Prakriti, the latter remains irrational, while the former remains inactive without her.
Therefore Nature (in man) must become a compound of Spirit and Matter before he becomes what he is; and the Spirit latent in Matter must be awakened to life and consciousness gradually.
The Monad has to pass through its mineral, vegetable and animal forms, before the Light of the Logos is awakened in the animal man.
Therefore, till then, the latter cannot be referred to as "MAN," but has to be regarded as a Monad imprisoned in ever changing forms.
Evolution, not creation, by means of WORDS is recognized in the philosophies of the East, even in their exoteric records.
Ex oriente lux .
Even the name of the first man in the Mosaic Bible had its origin in India, Professor Max Muller's negation notwithstanding.
The Jews got their Adam from Chaldea; and Adam-Adami is a compound word and therefore a manifold symbol, and proves the occult dogmas.
This is no place for philological disquisitions.
But the reader may be reminded that the words Ad and Adi mean in Sanskrit "the first"; in Aramaean, "One" ( Ad-ad, "the only one"); in Assyrian, "father" whence Ak-Ad or "father-creator."* And once the statement is found correct it becomes rather difficult to confine Adam to the Mosaic Bible alone, and to see therein simply a Jewish name.
Vide Part II.
of this Volume, § "Adam-Adami." There is frequent confusion in the attributes and genealogies of the gods in their theogonies, as given to the world by the half-initiated writers, Brahmanical and Biblical, the Alpha and the Omega of the records of that symbolical science.
Yet there could be no such confusion made by the earliest nations, the descendants and pupils of the divine instructors: for both the attributes and the genealogies were inseparably linked with cosmogonical symbols, the "gods" being the life and animating "soul-principle" of the various regions of the Universe.
Nowhere and by no people was speculation allowed to range beyond those manifested gods.
The boundless and infinite UNITY remained with every nation a virgin forbidden soil, untrodden by man's thought, [[Footnote(s)]] ------------------------------------------------- * The appellation Ak-ad (or Akkadians) is of the same class as Ad-m, Ha-va (Eve), AEd-en (Eden); Ak-Ad meaning "Son of Ad " (like the sons of Ad in Ancient Arabia).
Ad-ad, the "Only One" and the First, was the Ad-on or "Lord" of Syria and consort of Ad-ar-gat or Aster't, the Syrian goddess.
And Gan-AEden (Eden) or Gandunia was Babylonia and Mesopotamia.
Attributing human characteristics, emotions, or form to the divine; embodied divine imagery.
The passage explicitly critiques the 'anthropomorphic Creator of exoteric Judaism' and the 'anthropo-monotheistic conceptions' into which the Kabala was adapted.
A secondary creator deity—often ignorant or malevolent—responsible for fashioning the material world, distinct from the supreme transcendent God.
Jehovah is identified as 'but a lunar and generation god' and the 'anthropomorphic Creator of exoteric Judaism' is contrasted with the Creative Powers of Archaic philosophy, positioning him as a secondary creator distinct from the supreme.
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 asserts that 'Spirit and matter inseparable from each other -- is a philosophical necessity' and that the 'gods' are 'the life and animating soul-principle of the various regions of the Universe,' making the divine pervading rather than extra-cosmic.
The infinite, unknowable aspect of the divine prior to and beyond all emanation; the hidden root from which the Sephirot unfold.
Ain-Soph is explicitly named as the 'UNKNOWABLE' and 'UNNAMEABLE' from which emanations proceed, and is described as the primal intelligence that can never be understood, comprehended, or located.
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 centrally discusses emanations from Ain-Soph, states that 'human intellect has to, and can deal' with emanations alone, and contrasts the doctrine of emanations with Christian creation ex nihilo.
Esoteric teachings reserved for those ready to receive them; outer meaning conceals an inner liberating truth.
The passage emphasizes that the Kabala must be 'read by the light of the Eastern esoteric philosophy' and that exoteric readings lead only to false conclusions, implying concealed inner meanings.
The absolutely simple, undivided first principle from which all multiplicity and existence flows.
The passage explicitly states 'The Monad has to pass through its mineral, vegetable and animal forms, before the Light of the Logos is awakened in the animal man' and describes man as 'a Monad imprisoned in ever changing forms.'
The doctrine that all existence is ultimately one substance or one divine reality; non-duality as a theological claim.
The passage states 'Spirit and matter inseparable from each other -- is a philosophical necessity' and that 'Separate them and that which is left is a gross superstition,' affirming the fundamental oneness of spirit and matter.
The doctrine and practice that spoken or sung word carries causal-magical force — that uttering names, formulas, songs, or incantations alters reality directly rather than merely communicating about it. Vainamoinen's runo-songs that move mountains and command iron, Norse galdr, Vedic mantra, Shinto kotodama, the magician's barbarous names in the Greek Magical Papyri, Iamblichean arcane signatures and inexplicable symbols, biblical creation-by-word. Distinct from sacred_names (the ontological power of names themselves) and prayer (address to the divine); word_power_incantation is the magical-causal efficacy of the spoken word as such.
The passage quotes Al-Chazari: 'it was said Let Light be. The work became as the WORDS were spoken, that is, as the numbers of the work came forth,' and contrasts this with Eastern evolution versus creation by words.