Rawlinson is so very confident in his works of an Aryan or Vedic influence on the early mythology of Babylon.
Nor is it to be much wondered at that the alleged ten tribes of Israel disappeared during the captivity period, without leaving a trace behind them, when we are informed that the Jews had de facto but two tribes -- those of J udah and of Levi.
The Levies, moreover, were not a tribe at all, but a priestly caste.
The descendants have only followed their progenitors, the various patriarchs, into thin, sidereal air.
There were Brahms and A-brahms, in days of old, truly, and before the first Jew had been born.
Every nation held its first god and gods to be androgynous; nor could it be otherwise, since they regarded their distant primeval progenitors, their dual-sexed ancestors, as divine Beings and Gods, just as do the Chinese to this day.
And they were divine in one sense, as also were their first human progeny, the "mind-born" primitive humanity, which were most assuredly bi-sexuals as all the more ancient symbols and traditions show.
Under the emblematical devices and peculiar phraseology of the priesthood of old, lie latent hints of sciences as yet undiscovered during the present cycle.
Well acquainted as may be a scholar with the hieratic writing and hieroglyphical system of the Egyptians, he must first of all learn to sift their records.
He has to assure himself, compasses and rule in hand, that the picture writing he is examining fits, to a line, certain fixed geometrical figures which are the hidden keys to such records, before he ventures on an interpretation." "But there are myths which speak for themselves.
In this class we may include the double-sexed first creators of every Cosmogony.
The Greek Zeus-Zen (AEther), and Chthonia (the chaotic earth) and Metis (water), his wives; Osiris and Isis-Latona -- the former god also representing AEther, the first emanation of the Supreme Deity, Amun, the primeval source of Light; the goddess Earth and Water again; Mithras, the rock-born god, the symbol of the male mundane fire, or the personified primordial light, and Mithra, the fire goddess, at once his mother and his wife; the pure element of fire (the active, or male principle) regarded as light and heat, in conjunction with Earth and Water, or Matter, the female or passive element of cosmical generation" -- all these are records of the primeval divine Hermaphrodite.
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 demonstrates that the same underlying structure (the primeval Hermaphrodite) is reflected across Greek, Egyptian, Persian, and Chinese mythological traditions, making each a legible map of the others.
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 explicitly lists 'the double-sexed first creators of every Cosmogony' and surveys Greek, Egyptian, and Persian cosmogonic myths as records of the same primeval principle.
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 entire passage centers on the androgynous nature of first gods, the male-female generative principle (fire/earth-water, active/passive) operating as a structural feature of creation, culminating in the 'primeval divine Hermaphrodite.'
Esoteric teachings reserved for those ready to receive them; outer meaning conceals an inner liberating truth.
The passage states that 'under the emblematical devices and peculiar phraseology of the priesthood of old, lie latent hints of sciences as yet undiscovered,' and that Egyptian records require hidden geometrical keys to interpret.