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made plain to any one who reads " The Source of Measures, " or " Hebrew Egyptian Mystery, " and understands the undeniable, clear, and mathematical proofs that the esoteric foundations, or the system used in the building of the Great Pyramid, and the architectural measurements in the Temple of Solomon (whether the latter be mythical or real), Noah's ark, and the ark of the Covenant, are the same.
If anything in the world can settle the dispute that the old, as much as the later, Jews (post-Babylonian), and especially the former, built their theogony and religion on the very same foundation as all Pagans did, it is the work in question.
And now it may be as well to remind the reader of that which was said of I A O , in our work, " Isis Unveiled.
" "No other deity affords such a variety of etymologies as Jaho, nor is there any name which can be so variously pronounced.
It is only by associating it with the Masoretic points that the later Rabbins succeeded in making Jehovah read 'Adonai' -- or Lord, as Philo Byblus spells it in Greek letters [[IEUO]] -- IEVO .
Theodoret says that the Samaritans pronounced it Jahe (yahra), and the Jews Yaho; which would make it as we have shown, I -- Ah -- O.
Diodorus states that 'among the Jews they relate that Moses called the god Iao.' It is on the authority of the Bible itself, therefore, that we maintain that before his initiation by Jethro, his father-in-law, Moses had never known the word Jaho."* The above receives corroboration in a private letter from a very learned Kabalist.
In S TANZA IV .
and elsewhere it is stated that exoterically Brahma (neuter), so flippantly and so often confused by the Orientalists with Brahma -- the male, is sometimes called Kala - hansa (Swan in the eternity), and the esoteric meaning of A - ham - sa, is given.
(I -- am -- he, so ham being equal to sah "he," and aham "I" -- a mystic anagram and permutation).
It is also the "four-faced" Brahma, the Chatur mukha (the perfect cube) forming itself within, and from the infinite circle; and again the use of the 1, 3, 5, and = 14, as the esoteric hierarchy of the Dhyan Chohans is explained.
On this, the said correspondent comments in this way: -- "Of the 1, 3, 5, and twice 7, intending and very especially 13,514, which on a circle may be read as 31415 (or [[ pi ]] value), I think there cannot be a possibility of doubting; and especially when considered with symbol marks on sacr ,** 'Chakra,' or Circle of Vishnu.
"But let me carry your description a step further: -- You say 'The One from [[Footnote(s)]] ------------------------------------------------- * The student must be aware that Jethro is called the "father-in-law" of Moses; not because Moses was really married to one of his seven daughters.
Moses was an Initiate, if he ever existed, and as such an ascetic, a nazar, and could never be married.
It is an allegory like everything else.
Zipporah (the shining) is one of the personified Occult Sciences given by Revel-Jethro, the Midian priest Initiator, to Moses, his Egyptian pupil.
The "well" by which Moses sat down in his flight from the Pharaoh symbolizes the "well of Knowledge." ** In Hebrew the phallic symbol lingham and Yoni.
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the Egg, the six, and the five ( See Stanza IV., Book I.
) give the numbers 1065, the value of the first born'.
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If it be so, then in 1065 we have the famous Jehovah's name, the Jve or Jave , or Jupiter, and by change of to or h to n , then or the Latin Jun or Juno, the base of the Chinese riddle, the key measuring numbers of Sni (Sinai) and Jehovah coming down on that mount, which numbers (1,065) are but the use of our ratio of 113 to 355 because 1,065 = 355 x 3 which is circumference to a diameter of 113 x 3 = 339.
Thus the first born of Brahma Prajapati (or any Demiurgos) indicates a measuring use of a circular relation taken from the Chakra (or Vishnu) and, as stated above, the Divine manifestation takes the form of life and the first born." "It is a most singular thing: At the entrance passage to the King's chamber the measurement from the surface of the Great Step* and the Grand Gallery to the top of the said gallery, is by the very careful measures of Piazzi Smyth 339 inches.
Take A as a centre and with this radius describe a circle; the diameter of that circle will be 339 x 2 = 678, and these numbers are those of the expression and the raven, in the 'Dove and raven' scenes or pictures of the Flood of Noah; (the radius is taken to show division into two parts, which are 1,065 each) for 113 ( man ) x 6 = 678; and the diameter to a circumference of 1,065 x 2 -- so we have here an indication of cosmic man on this high grade or step, at the entrance of the King's Chamber (the Holy of Holies) -- which is the womb.
Now this passage is of such a height that a man to enter it must stoop.
But a man upright is 113, and broken, or stooping, he becomes 133 / 2 = 5 .
65 or Jehovah.
That is, he personifies** him as entering the Holy of Holies.
But by Hebrew Esotericism the chief function of Jehovah was child giving, etc., and that because, by the numbers of his name, he was the measure of the lunar year, which cycle of time, because by its factor of 7 (seven) it ran so co-ordinately with the periods of the quickening, viability, and gestation, was taken as the causative of the generative action and therefore was worshipped and besought." This discovery connects Jehovah still more with all the other creative and generative gods, solar and lunar, and especially with "King" Soma, the Hindu Deus Lunus, the moon, because of the esoteric influence attributed to this planet in Occultism.
There are other corroborations of it, however, in Hebrew tradition itself.
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 entire passage is structured around demonstrating that the same mathematical and esoteric foundations underlie the Great Pyramid, Temple of Solomon, Noah's ark, Hindu cosmology, and Jewish theogony — the core 'as above, so below' principle across scales and traditions.
The ritual admission of an individual into esoteric knowledge or a sacred order through a formal rite of passage — testing, ordeal, or ceremony — marking a definite before/after threshold in the initiate's status and access. Distinct from hidden_sayings (the doctrine being concealed, not the rite of admission to it) and esoteric_lineage (the historical chain of transmission across generations, not a single individual's admission).
Moses' 'initiation by Jethro, his father-in-law' is explicitly discussed, with the allegory explained as a rite of passage into esoteric knowledge from an Initiator to a pupil.
The twenty-two Hebrew letters as the building blocks through which God creates and sustains all existence.
The Hebrew letters composing the divine name (I-Ah-O, IAO) are central to the passage, with their Masoretic points, permutations, and etymological variations treated as the building blocks of the divine identity.
The human being as a small-scale image of the entire cosmos; the body, soul, and intellect mirroring the structure of the heavens and the divine — distinct from correspondence in that it makes the human the privileged mirror.
The passage explicitly identifies 'cosmic man' (113) in the measurements of the King's Chamber entrance, using the human figure as a measuring key to cosmic architecture.
Numbers, proportions, and mathematical relationships as the underlying structure of divine reality.
Numbers and their mathematical relationships (1, 3, 5, 14, 31415, 1065, 113, 355, 339, 678) are the primary analytical tool throughout the passage, treated as the underlying structure of divine reality and cosmic architecture.
Combining, transposing, or cycling through letters or names as a meditative or theurgical technique.
The passage explicitly describes A-ham-sa as 'a mystic anagram and permutation' and traces the various letter-forms of the divine name (IAO, Iah, Yaho, Jahe, IEVO) through transliteration and rearrangement.
Divine names or formulas that carry ontological power, used in prayer, liturgy, or magical practice.
The entire passage is devoted to the divine name Jaho/Jehovah/IAO — its etymologies, pronunciations, numerical values, and generative power — making the ontological power of the divine name the central subject.