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The Secret Doctrine by H.
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STANZA III.
ATTEMPTS TO CREATE MAN.
§§ (11) The Descent of the Demiurge.
(12) The lunar gods ordered to create.
(13) The higher gods refuse.
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T HE L ORD OF THE L ORDS CAME.
F ROM HER BODY HE SEPARATED THE WATERS, AND THAT WAS HEAVEN ABOVE, THE FIRST HEAVEN ( the atmosphere, or the air, the firmament ) ( a ) .
( a ) Here tradition falls again into the Universal.
As in the earliest version, repeated in the Puranas, so in the latest, the Mosaic account.
In the first it is said: "He the Lord" (the god who has the form of Brahma) "when the world had become one ocean ( Harivamsa I.
36) concluding that within the waters lay the earth, and desirous to raise it up," to separate it, "created himself in another form.
As in the preceding Kalpa (Manvantara) he had assumed the shape of a tortoise, so in this one he took the shape of a boar, etc.
etc." In the Elohistic "creation" ( Genesis, verses 6, 7, 8, and 9) "God" creates a firmament in the midst of the waters .
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and says "let dry land appear." And now comes the traditional peg whereunto is hung the esoteric portion of the Kabalistic interpretation.
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T HE GREAT CHOHANS ( Lords ) , CALLED THE L ORDS OF THE M OON, OF THE AIRY B ODIES ( a ).
"BRING FORTH MEN, ( they were told ) , MEN OF YOUR NATURE.
G IVE THEM ( i.e., the Jivas or Monads ) THEIR FORMS WITHIN.
S HE ( Mother Earth or Nature ) WILL BUILD COVERINGS WITHOUT ( external bodies ).
( For ) MALES-FEMALES WILL THEY BE.
L ORDS OF THE FLAME, ALSO." ( a ) Who are the Lords of the Moon?
In India they are called Pitris or "lunar ancestors," but in the Hebrew scrolls it is Jehovah himself who is the "Lord of the Moon," collectively as the Host, and also as one of the Elohim.
The astronomy of the Hebrews and their observance of times was regulated by the moon.
A Kabalist, having shown that "Daniel .
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told off God's providence by set times," and that the "Revelation" of John "speaks of a carefully measured cubical city descending out of the heavens," etc., adds -- [[Vol.
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"But the vitalizing power of heaven lay chiefly with the moon .
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It was the Hebrew (Jehovah), and St.
Paul enjoins: 'Let no man judge you for your observance of the seventh day, and the day of the new moon, which are a shadow of things to come; but the body (or substance) is of Christ" or Jehovah, that function of this power that "made the barren woman .
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a mother .
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for they are the gift of Jehovah" .
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which is a key to the objection which her husband made to the Shunamite, as to her going to the man of God -- "for it is neither the seventh day nor the day of the new moon.
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(2 Kings , iv., 23.) The living spiritual powers of the constellations had mighty wars, marked by the movements and positions of the stars and planets, and especially as the result of the conjunction of the moon, earth, and sun.
Bentley comments on the Hindu "War between the gods and the giants," as marked by the eclipse of the Sun at the ascending node of the Moon, 945 B.C .
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Sri is also Venus-Aphrodite the Western emblem "of the luni-solar year or the moon (as Sri is the wife of the moon; vide foot-note), the goddess of increase*** .
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"the grand monument and landmark of the exact period of the lunar year and month, by which this cycle (of 19 tropical years and 235 revolutions of the moon) could be calculated, was Mount Sinai -- the Lord Jehovah coming down thereon.
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Paul speaks (then) as a mystagogue, when he says concerning the freed woman and bond woman of Abraham: 'For this Hagar (the bond-woman) is Mount Sinai in Arabia.' How could a woman be a mountain?
and such a mountain!
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Her name was Hagar, Hebrew , whose numbers re-read 235, or in exact measure, the very number of lunar months to equal nineteen tropical years to complete this cycle.
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Mount Sinai being, in the esoteric language of the wisdom, the monument of the exact time of the lunar [[Footnote(s)]] ------------------------------------------------- * According to the wonderful chronology of Bentley, who wrote in days when Biblical chronology was still undisputed; and also according to that of those modern Orientalists who dwarf the Hindu dates as far as they can.
** Now Sri is the daughter of Bhrigu, one of the Prajapatis and Rishis, the chief of the Bhrigus, "the Consumers," the aerial class of gods.
She is Lakshmi, the wife of Vishnu, and she is "the bride of Siva" (Gauri), and she is Sarasvati, "the watery," the wife of Brahma, because the three gods and goddesses are one, under three aspects.
Read the explanation by Parasara, in Vishnu Purana in Bk.
I., ch.
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(Vol.
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119), and you will understand.
"The Lord of Sri" is the moon, he says, and "Sri is the wife of Narayana, the God of Gods"; Sri or Lakshmi (Venus) is Indrani, as she is Sarasvati, for in the words of Parasara: "Hari (or Iswara, "the Lord") is all that is called male in the Universe; Lakshmi is all that is termed female.
There is nothing else than they." Hence she is "female," and "God" is male Nature.
*** Sri is goddess of, and herself "Fortune and Prosperity." [[Vol.
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years and months, by which this spiritual vitalizing cycle could be computed -- and which mountain, indeed, was called (see Fuerst), "the Mountain of the Moon (Sin).
§ Ask Guru about this passage →Themes
Correspondencecosmology
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 explicitly draws structural parallels between Hindu, Hebrew, and other traditions: 'As in the earliest version, repeated in the Puranas, so in the latest, the Mosaic account.'
All passages →Cosmogonycosmology
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 is explicitly a cosmogonic narrative: separation of waters, the descent of the Demiurge, the ordering of lunar gods to create man, and the building of external bodies by Mother Earth.
All passages →Demiurgecosmology
A secondary creator deity—often ignorant or malevolent—responsible for fashioning the material world, distinct from the supreme transcendent God.
The section is explicitly titled 'The Descent of the Demiurge' and describes the secondary creator's process of fashioning the material world, distinct from the higher gods who refuse.
All passages →Divine Sparkscosmology
Fragments of divine light or spirit trapped inside material bodies, awaiting liberation and return to their source.
The Jivas or Monads are the divine principles being given forms within, implying fragments of the divine being clothed in material bodies built by Mother Earth.
All passages →Gendercosmology
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 centrally asserts that the masculine-feminine generative principle operates on every plane: 'Males-females will they be,' the three gods and goddesses are 'one, under three aspects,' and 'Hari is all that is called male... Lakshmi is all that is termed female.'
All passages →Monadcosmology
The absolutely simple, undivided first principle from which all multiplicity and existence flows.
The Jivas are explicitly identified as Monads: 'Give them (i.e., the Jivas or Monads) their forms within.'
All passages →Related passages · 15 of 62 parallels
neoplatonism|Select Works of Plotinus|Select Works, Section 448
“Section 16 16. We have, of course, already seen that a secondary must follow upon the First, and that this is a power immeasurably fruitful; and we indicated that this truth is confirmed by the entire order of things since there is nothing,…”
Shared concept: Monad — The absolutely simple, undivided first principle from which all multiplicity and existence flows. (derived)
western_esoteric|The Kybalion (Three Initiates)|Chapter XIII (part 1)
“CHAPTER XIII GENDER "Gender is in everything; everything has its Masculine and Feminine Principles; Gender manifests on all planes."--The Kybalion.
The great Seventh Hermetic Principle--the Principle of Gender--embodies the truth that ther…”
Shared concept: Gender — 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. (derived)
neoplatonism|Select Works of Plotinus|Select Works, Section 451
“Section 1 1. Anything existing after The First must necessarily arise from that First, whether immediately or as tracing back to it through intervenients; there must be an order of secondaries and tertiaries, in which any second is to be re…”
Shared concept: Monad — The absolutely simple, undivided first principle from which all multiplicity and existence flows. (derived)
shinto|The Kojiki: The Beginning of Heaven and Earth|Section 1
“p. 15 RECORDS OF ANCIENT MATTERS [SECT. I.—THE BEGINNING OF HEAVEN AND EARTH.] The names of the Deities 1 that were born 2 in the Plain of High Heaven 3 when the Heaven and Earth began were the Deity Master-of-the-August-Centre-of-Heaven, 4…”
Shared concept: Cosmogony — Narratives or doctrines of cosmic origin — how heaven, earth, and the primordial deities first came into being. (derived)
western_esoteric|The Kybalion (Three Initiates)|Chapter V (part 3)
“You speak of the Fatherhood of God, and the Motherhood of Nature--of God, the Divine Father, and Nature the Universal Mother--and have thus instinctively acknowledged the Principle of Gender in the Universe.
Is this not so?
But, the Herme…”
Shared concept: Gender — 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. (derived)
celtic|The Mabinogion|Tale KILHWCH AND OLWEN-u
“Seek not therefore to do me harm.” Said Arthur, “Not to injure thee came I hither, but to seek for the prisoner that is with thee.” “I will give thee my prisoner, though I had not thought to give him up to any one; and therewith shalt thou…”
Shared concept: Cosmogony — Narratives or doctrines of cosmic origin — how heaven, earth, and the primordial deities first came into being. (derived)
finnic|The Kalevala|Rune I-b
“Surely would the winds destroy it, Far away the waves would wash it." Then the daughter of the Ether, Now the hapless water-mother, Raised her shoulders out of water, Raised her knees above the ocean, That the duck might build her dwelling,…”
Shared concept: Cosmogony — Narratives or doctrines of cosmic origin — how heaven, earth, and the primordial deities first came into being. (derived)
finnic|The Kalevala|Rune I-c
“Wainamoinen, old and trusty, Lingering within his dungeon Thirty summers altogether, And of winters, also thirty, Peaceful on the waste of waters, On the broad-sea's yielding bosom, Well reflected, long considered, How unborn to live and fl…”
Shared concept: Cosmogony — Narratives or doctrines of cosmic origin — how heaven, earth, and the primordial deities first came into being. (derived)
finnic|The Kalevala|Rune II-a
“'S SOWING.
Then arose old Wainamoinen, With his feet upon the island, On the island washed by ocean, Broad expanse devoid of verdure; There remained be many summers, There he lived as many winters, On the island vast and vacant, well consi…”
Shared concept: Cosmogony — Narratives or doctrines of cosmic origin — how heaven, earth, and the primordial deities first came into being. (derived)
finnic|The Kalevala|Rune III-c
“Slowly perches swim in Autumn, Wry-backed, hunting deeper water, Spawn in shallows in the summer, Bounding on the shore of ocean.
Should this wisdom seem too little, I can tell thee other matters, Sing thee other wizard sayings: All the No…”
Shared concept: Cosmogony — Narratives or doctrines of cosmic origin — how heaven, earth, and the primordial deities first came into being. (derived)
finnic|The Kalevala|Rune III-d
“Thou wert never seen or heard of When the earth was first created, When were made the ether-spaces, When the air was crystal-pillared, When the Moon was placed in orbit, When the silver Sun was planted, When the Bear was firmly stationed, W…”
Shared concept: Cosmogony — Narratives or doctrines of cosmic origin — how heaven, earth, and the primordial deities first came into being. (derived)
finnic|The Kalevala|Rune VII-e
“Forged the air a hollow cover; Nowhere see we hammer-traces, Nowhere find a single tongs-mark." Thus replied the hostess, Louhi: "Him alone I'll give my daughter, Promise him my child in marriage, Who for me will forge the Sampo, Hammer me…”
Shared concept: Cosmogony — Narratives or doctrines of cosmic origin — how heaven, earth, and the primordial deities first came into being. (derived)
finnic|The Kalevala|Rune VIII-b
“Come, sweet maiden, to my snow-sledge, I am not despised as hero, Not the meanest of magicians; Come with me and I will make thee Wife and queen in Kalevala." Thus the Maid of Beauty answered— "Would consider thee a hero, Mighty hero, I wou…”
Shared concept: Cosmogony — Narratives or doctrines of cosmic origin — how heaven, earth, and the primordial deities first came into being. (derived)
finnic|The Kalevala|Rune VIII-c
“But the stream flows like a brooklet, Rushing like a maddened torrent, Stains the herbs upon the meadows, Scarcely is a bit of verdure That the blood-stream does not cover As it flows and rushes onward From the knee of the magician, From th…”
Shared concept: Cosmogony — Narratives or doctrines of cosmic origin — how heaven, earth, and the primordial deities first came into being. (derived)
finnic|The Kalevala|Rune IX-b
“"Then the blacksmith, Ilmarinen, Came to earth to work the metal; He was born upon the Coal-mount, Skilled and nurtured in the coal-fields; In one hand, a copper hammer, In the other, tongs of iron; In the night was born the blacksmith, In…”
Shared concept: Cosmogony — Narratives or doctrines of cosmic origin — how heaven, earth, and the primordial deities first came into being. (derived)