As Aditi is called Surarani (the matrix or "mother" of the sura gods), so Kunti, the mother of the Pandavas, is called in Mahabharata Pandavarani -- which term is already physiologized.
But Devaki, the antetype of the Roman Catholic Madonna, is a later anthropomorphized form of Aditi.
The latter is the goddess mother, the "Deva-matri" of Seven Sons (the six and the seven Adityas of early Vedic times); the mother of Krishna, Devaki, has six embryos conveyed into her womb by Jagaddhatri (the "nurse of the world"), the seventh (Krishna, the Logos,) being transferred to that Rohini.
Mary, the mother of Jesus, is the mother of seven children, of five sons and two daughters, (a later transformation of sex) in Matthew's Gospel ( xiii.
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No one of the worshippers of the Roman Catholic Virgin would object to reciting in her honour the prayer addressed by the gods to Devaki.
Let the reader judge.
"Thou art that Prakriti (essence), infinite and subtile, which bore Brahma in its womb.
Thou eternal being, comprising in thy substance the essence of all created things, wast identical with creation; thou wast the parent of the triform sacrifice, becoming the germ of all.
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Thou art sacrifice, whence all fruit proceeds; thou art the arani whose attrition engenders fire" .
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("Womb of Light," "holy Vessel," are the epithets of the Virgin).
"As Aditi, thou art the parent of the gods.
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Thou art Jyotsna (the morning twilight)." The Virgin [[Vol.
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is often addressed as the "morning Star" and the "star of Salvation" -- the light whence day is begotten.
"Thou art Samnati (humility, a daughter of Daksha), the mother of Wisdom; thou art Niti, the parent of harmony ( Naya ) ; thou art modesty, the progenitrix of affection ( Prasraya or vinaya ); thou art desire, of whom love is born.
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Thou art the mother of knowledge ( Avabodha ); patience ( Dhriti ) , the parent of fortitude ( Dhairya ) .
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etc., etc." Thus arani is shown here as the Roman Catholic "vase of election" and no worse.
As to its primitive meaning, it was purely metaphysical.
No unclean thought traversed these conceptions in the ancient mind.
Even in the Zohar -- far less metaphysical than any other symbolism -- the idea is an abstraction and nothing more.
Thus, when the Zohar (iii., 290) says: "All that which exists, all that which has been formed by the ancient, whose name is holy, can only exist through a male and female principle," it means no more than this: "The divine Spirit of Life is ever coalescing with matter." It is the W ILL of the Deity that acts; and the idea is purely Schopenhauerian.
"When Atteekah Kaddosha, the ancient and the concealed of the concealed, desired to form all things, it formed all things like male and female.
This wisdom cornprises ALL when it goeth forth." Hence Chochmah (male wisdom) and Binah (female consciousness or Intellect) are said to create all between the two -- the active and the passive principles.
As the eye of the expert jeweller discerns under the rough and uncouth oyster shell the pure immaculate pearl, enshrined within its bosom, his hand dealing with the former but to get at its contents, so the eye of the true philosopher reads between the lines of the Puranas the sublime Vedic truths, and corrects the form with the help of the Vedantic wisdom.
Our Orientalists, however, never perceive the pearl under the thick coating of the shell, and -- act accordingly.
From all that has been said in this section, one sees clearly that, between the Serpent of Eden and the Devil of Christianity, there is an abyss.
Alone the sledge hammer of ancient philosophy can kill this dogma.
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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 entire passage is structured around cross-cultural correspondences: Aditi↔Devaki↔Mary, the seven-sons motif across Vedic and Christian traditions, the arani as 'vase of election,' and the Zohar's male-female principle as equivalent to the Vedic creative polarity.
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 explicitly states that all existence 'can only exist through a male and female principle' and that Chochmah (male wisdom) and Binah (female consciousness) create 'between the two — the active and the passive principles,' making the masculine-feminine generative dyad a structural feature of creation itself.
Esoteric teachings reserved for those ready to receive them; outer meaning conceals an inner liberating truth.
The jeweller-and-pearl metaphor ('the eye of the true philosopher reads between the lines of the Puranas the sublime Vedic truths') and the critique that 'Our Orientalists never perceive the pearl under the thick coating of the shell' make the concealment of inner truth beneath outer form the passage's central hermeneutic argument.
The ten attributes or emanations through which the Ein Sof (Infinite) reveals itself and creates the universe in Kabbalistic theology.
Chochmah (male wisdom) and Binah (female consciousness or Intellect) are explicitly named as Sephirotic attributes that 'are said to create all between the two.'