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[7/2/2011 6:05:14 PM] Van Atman: 49. The “Serpents” who re-descended; who made
peace with the Fifth (Race), who taught and instructed it (b) . . . .
(a) This verse (47) relates to the Fifth Race. History does not begin with it,
but living and ever-recurring tradition does. History — or what is called
history — does not go further back than the fantastic origins of our fifth
sub-race, a “few thousands” of years. It is the sub-divisions of this first
sub-race of the Fifth Root-Race which are referred to in the sentence, “Some
yellow, some brown and black, and some red, remained.” The “moon coloured”
(i.e., the First and the Second Races) were gone for ever — ay, without leaving
any traces whatever; and that, so far back as the third “Deluge” of the Third
Lemurian race, that “Great Dragon,” whose tail sweeps whole nations out of
existence in the twinkling of an eye. And this is the true meaning of the Verse
in the Commentary which says:
“The Great Dragon has respect but for the ‘Serpents’ of Wisdom, the Serpents
whose holes are now under the triangular stones,” i.e., “the Pyramids, at the
four corners of the world.”
(b) This tells us clearly that which is mentioned more than once elsewhere in
the Commentaries; namely, that the Adepts or “Wise” men of the three Races (the
Third, Fourth and the Fifth) dwelt in subterranean habitats, generally under
some kind of pyramidal structure, if not
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actually under a pyramid. For such “pyramids” existed in the four corners of the
world and were never the monopoly of the land of the Pharaohs, though until
found scattered all over the two Americas, under and over ground, beneath and
amidst virgin forests, as in plain and vale, they were supposed to be the
exclusive property of Egypt. If the true geometrically correct pyramids are no
longer found in European regions, many of the supposed early neolithic caves, of
the colossal triangular, pyramidal and conical menhirs in the Morbihan, and
Brittany generally; many of the Danish tumuli and even of the “giant tombs” of
Sardinia with their inseparable companions, the nuraghi, are so many more or
less clumsy copies of the pyramids. Most of these are the works of the first
settlers on the newly-born continent and isles of Europe, the — “some yellow,
some brown and black, and some red” — races that remained after the submersion
of the last Atlantean continents and islands (850,000 years ago), with the
exception of Plato’s Atlantean island, and before the arrival of the great Aryan
races; while others were built by the earliest immigrants from the East. Those
who can hardly accept the antiquity of the human race so far back as the 57,000
years assigned by Dr. Dowler to the skeleton found by him at New Orleans on the
banks of the Mississippi, will, of course, reject these facts. But they may find
themselves mistaken some day. It is the foolish self-glorification of the
Arcadians who styled themselves [[proselenoi]] — older than the moon — and of
the people of Attica, who claimed that they had existed before the sun appeared
in heaven, that we may disparage, not their undeniable antiquity. Nor can we
laugh at the universal belief that we had giant ancestors. The fact that the
bones of the mammoth and mastodon, and, in one case, those of a gigantic
salamander, have been mistaken for human bones, does not make away with the
difficulty that, of all the mammalians, man is the only one whom science will
not allow to have dwarfed down, like all other animal frames, from the giant
homo diluvii to the creature between 5 and 6 feet that he is now.
But the “Serpents of Wisdom” have preserved their records well, and the history
of the human evolution is traced in heaven as it is traced on underground walls.
Humanity and the stars are bound together indissolubly, because of the
intelligences that rule the latter.
Modern symbologists may scoff at this and call it “fancy,” but “it is
unquestionable that the Deluge has (ever) been associated in the legends of some
Eastern peoples not only with the Pyramids, but also with the constellations,”
writes Mr. Staniland Wake (“The Great Pyramid”).The “Old Dragon” is identical
with the “great Flood,” says Mr. Proctor (in “Knowledge,” Vol. I., p. 243): “We
know that in the past the constellation of the Dragon was at the pole, or boss,
of the celestial sphere. In stellar temples . . . the Dragon would be the
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uppermost or ruling constellation . . . it is singular how closely the
constellations . . . correspond in sequence and in range of right ascension with
the events recorded respecting the (Biblical) Flood.”
The reasons for this singularity have been made clear in this work. But it shows
only that there were several Deluges mixed up in the memories and traditions of
the sub-races of the Fifth Race. The first great “Flood” was astronomical and
cosmical, while several others were terrestrial. Yet, this did not prevent our
very learned friend Mr. Gerald Massey — an Initiate truly in the mysteries of
the British Museum, still only a Self-initiate — from declaring and insisting
that the Atlantean submersion and Deluge were only the anthropomorphized fancies
of ignorant people; and that Atlantis was no better than an astronomical
allegory. Nevertheless, the great Zodiacal allegory is based upon historical
events, and one can hardly interfere with the other; and it stands also to
reason that every student of Occultism knows what that astronomical and zodiacal
allegory means. Smith shows in the Nimrod Epic of the Assyrian tablets the real
meaning of it. Its “twelve cantos” refer to the “annual course of the Sun
through the twelve months of the year. Each tablet answers to a special month,
and contains a distinct reference to the animal forms in the signs of the
Zodiac”; the eleventh canto being “consecrated to Rimmon, the God of storms and
of rain, and harmonizes with the eleventh sign of the Zodiac — Aquarius, or the
Waterman” (Nineteenth Century, 1882, p. 236). But even this is preceded in the
old records by the pre-astronomical Cosmic flood, which became allegorized and
symbolized in the above Zodiacal or Noah’s Flood. But this has nothing to do
with Atlantis. The Pyramids are closely connected with the ideas of both the
Great Dragon (the constellation), the “Dragons of Wisdom,” or the great
Initiates of the Third and Fourth Races, and the Floods of the Nile, regarded as
a divine reminder of the great Atlantic Flood. The astronomical records of
Universal History, however, are said to have had their beginnings with the Third
Sub-race of the Fourth Root-race or the Atlanteans. When was it? Occult data
show that even since the time of the regular establishment of the Zodiacal
calculations in Egypt, the poles have been thrice inverted.
We will presently return once more to this statement. Such symbols as are
represented by the Signs of the Zodiac — a fact which offers a handle to
materialists upon which to hang their one-sided theories and opinions — have too
profound a signification, and their bearing upon our Humanity is too important
to suffer dismissal in a few words. Meanwhile, we have to consider the meaning
of that other statement which mentions (verse 48) the first divine Kings, who
are said to have “redescended,” guided and instructed our Fifth Race after the
last deluge!
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We shall consider this last claim historically in the sections that follow, but
must end with a few more details on the subject of “Serpents.”
The rough commentaries on the Archaic Stanzas have to end here. Further
elucidation requires proofs obtained from ancient, mediaeval, and modern works
that have treated of these subjects. All such evidence has now to be gathered
in, collated and brought together in better order, so as to compel the attention
of the reader to this wealth of historical proofs. And as the manifold meaning
of the weird symbol — so often referred to and suggestive of the “tempter of
man” in the orthodox light of the church — can never be too strongly insisted
upon, it seems more advisable to exhaust the subject by every available proof at
this juncture, even at the risk of repetition. The Titans and Kabirs have been
invariably made out by our theologians and some pious symbologists as
indissolubly connected with the grotesque personage called devil, and every
proof to the contrary has been hitherto as invariably rejected and ignored;
therefore, the occultist must neglect nothing which may tend to defeat this
conspiracy of slander. It is proposed to divide the subjects involved in these
three last verses into several groups, and examine them in this final chapter as
carefully and as fully as space permits. A few more details may thus be added to
the general evidences of antiquity, on the most disputed tenets of Occultism and
the Esoteric Doctrine — the bulk of which will be found in Part II. on
Symbology.
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Serpents and Dragons under different Symbolisms.
The name of the Dragon in Chaldea was not written phonetically, but was
represented by two monograms, probably meaning, according to the Orientalists,
“the scaly one.” “This description,” very pertinently remarks G. Smith, “of
course might apply either to a fabulous dragon, a serpent, or a fish,” and we
may add: “It applies in one case to Makara, the tenth Zodiacal sign, meaning in
Sanskrit a non-descript amphibious animal, generally called Crocodile, and
really signifying something else. (Vide Part II., “The Mysteries of the
Hebdomad.”) This, then, is a virtual admission that the Assyriologists, at all
events, know nothing certain as to the status of the “Dragon” in ancient
Chaldea, whence the Hebrews got their symbolism, only to be afterwards robbed of
it by the Christians, who made of the “Scaly one” a living entity and a
maleficent power.
A specimen of Dragons, “winged and scaled,” may be seen in the British Museum.
Representing the events of the Fall according to the same authority, there are
also two figures sitting on each side of a tree, and holding out their hands to
the “apple,” while at the back of the “Tree”
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is the Dragon-Serpent. Esoterically, the two figures are two “Chaldees” ready
for initiation, the Serpent symbolising the “Initiator”; while the jealous gods,
who curse the three, are the exoteric profane clergy. Not much of the literal
“Biblical event” there, as any occultist can see.
“The Great Dragon has respect but for the Serpents of Wisdom,” says the Stanza;
thus proving the correctness of our explanation of the two figures and the
“Serpent.”
“The Serpents who redescended . . . . who taught and instructed” the Fifth Race.
What sane man is capable of believing in our day that real serpents are hereby
meant? Hence the rough guess, now become almost an axiom with the men of
science, that those who wrote in antiquity upon various sacred Dragons and
Serpents either were superstitious and credulous people, or were bent upon
deceiving those more ignorant than themselves. Yet, from Homer downwards, the
term implied something hidden from the profane.
“Terrible are the gods when they manifest themselves” — those gods whom men call
Dragons. And AElianus, treating in his “De Natura Animalium” of these Ophidean
symbols, makes certain remarks which show that he understood well the nature of
this most ancient of symbols. Thus he most pertinently explains with regard to
the above Homeric verse — “For the Dragon, while sacred and to be worshipped,
has within himself something still more of the divine nature of which it is
better (for others?) to remain in ignorance” (Book xi., ch. 17).
This “Dragon” having a septenary meaning, the highest and the lowest may be
given. The former is identical with the “Self-born,” the Logos (the Hindu Aja).
He was the second person of the Trinity, the Son, with the Christian Gnostics
called the Naasenians, or Serpent-Worshippers. His symbol was the constellation
of the Dragon.* Its seven “stars” are the seven stars held in the hand of the
“Alpha and Omega” in Revelation. In its most terrestrial meaning, the term
“Dragon” was applied to the Wise men.
This portion of the religious symbolism of antiquity is very abstruse and
mysterious, and may remain incomprehensible to the profane. In our modern day it
so jars on the Christian ear that it can hardly escape, all civilization
notwithstanding, being regarded as a direct denunciation of the most cherished
Christian dogmas, the subject of which required, to do it justice, the pen and
genius of Milton, whose poetical fiction has now taken root in the Church as a
revealed dogma.
Did the allegory of the Dragon and his supposed conqueror in
Footnote(s) ———————————————
* As shown by H. Lizeray in the “Trinite Chretienne Devoilee” — placed between
the immutable Father (the Pole, a fixed Point) and mutable matter, the Dragon
transmits to the latter the influences received by him from the Pole, whence his
name — the Verbum.
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Heaven originate with St. John, and in his Revelation? Emphatically we answer —
No. His “Dragon” is Neptune, the symbol of Atlantean magic.
To demonstrate the negation the reader is asked to examine the symbolism of the
Serpent or the Dragon under its several aspects.
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The Sidereal and Cosmic Glyphs.
Every astronomer — besides Occultists and Astrologers — knows that,
figuratively, the astral light, the milky way, and also the path of the Sun to
the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, as well as the circles of the Sidereal or
Tropical year, were always called “Serpents” in the allegorical and mystic
phraseology of the adepts.
This, cosmically, as well as metaphorically. Poseidon is a “Dragon”: “Chozzar,
called by the profane Neptune” (Peratae Gnostics); the “Good and Perfect
Serpent,” the Messiah of the Naaseni, whose symbol in Heaven is Draco.
But one ought to discriminate between the characters of this symbol. For
instance: Zoroastrian Esotericism is identical with that of the Secret Doctrine;
and when, as an example, we read in the Vendidad complaints uttered against the
“Serpent,” whose bites have transformed the beautiful, eternal spring of
Airyana-Vaego, changing it into winter, generating disease and death, at the
same time as mental and psychic consumption, every occultist knows that the
Serpent alluded to is the north pole, as also the pole of the heavens.* The
latter produces the seasons according to the angle at which it penetrates the
centre of the earth. The two axes were no more parallel; hence the eternal
spring of Airyana Vaego by the good river Daitya had disappeared, and “the Aryan
Magi had to emigrate to Sagdiani” — say the exoteric accounts. But the esoteric
teaching states that the pole had passed through the equator, and that the “land
of bliss” of the Fourth Race, its inheritance from the Third, had now become the
region of desolation and woe. This alone ought to be an incontrovertible proof
of the great antiquity of the Zoroastrian Scriptures. The Neo-Aryans of the
post-diluvian age could, of course, hardly recognise the mountains, on the
summits of which their forefathers had met before the Flood, and conversed with
the pure “Yazathas” (celestial Spirits of the Elements), whose life and food
they had once shared. As shown by Eckstein (Revue Archeologique, 8th year,
1885), “the Vendidad seems to point out a great change in the atmosphere of
central Asia; strong volcanic eruptions and the collapse of a whole range of
mountains in the neighbourhood of the Kara-Korum chain.”
Footnote(s) ———————————————
* Symbolized by the Egyptians under the form of a Serpent with a hawk’s head.
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The Egyptians, according to Eusebius, who for once (and for a wonder) wrote the
truth, symbolised Kosmos by a large fiery circle, representing a serpent with a
hawk’s head lying across its diameter. “Here we have the pole of the earth
within the plane of the ecliptic, attended with all the fiery consequences that
must arise from such a state of the heavens: when the whole Zodiac in 25,000
(odd) years, must have reddened with the solar blaze, and each sign must have
been vertical to the polar region.” (See Mackey’s “Sphinxiad.”)
Meru — the abode of the gods — was placed, as before explained, in the North
Pole, while Patala, the nether region, was supposed to lie in the South. As each
symbol in esoteric philosophy has seven keys, geographically, Meru and Patala
have one significance and represent localities; while astronomically, they have
another, and mean “the two poles,” which meanings ended by their being often
rendered in exoteric sectarianism — the “Mountain” and the “Pit,” or Heaven and
Hell. If we hold at present only to the astronomical and geographical
significance, it may be found that the ancients knew the topography and nature
of the Arctic and Antarctic regions better than any of our modern astronomers;
they had reasons, and good ones for naming one the “Mountain” and the other the
“Pit.” As the author just quoted half explains, Helion and Acheron meant nearly
the same: “Heli-on is the Sun in the highest” (Helios, Heli-on, the “most
high”); “and Acheron is 32 deg. above the pole, and 32 below it, the allegorical
river being thus supposed to touch the northern horizon in the latitude of 32
degrees. The vast concave, that is for ever hidden from our sight and which
surrounded the southern pole, being therefore called the Pit, while observing,
toward the Northern pole that a certain circuit in the heavens always appeared
above the horizon — they called it the Mountain. As Meru is the high abode of
the Gods, these were said to ascend and descend periodically; by which
(astronomically) the Zodiacal gods were meant, the passing of the original North
Pole of the Earth to the South Pole of the heaven.” “In that age,” adds the
author of that curious work, the “Sphinxiad” and of “Urania’s Key to the
Revelations” — “at noon, the ecliptic would be parallel with the meridian, and
part of the Zodiac would descend from the North Pole to the north horizon;
crossing the eight coils of the Serpent (eight sidereal years, or over 200,000
solar years), which would seem like an imaginary ladder with eight staves
reaching from the earth up to the pole, i.e., the throne of Jove. Up this
ladder, then, the Gods, i.e., the signs of the Zodiac, ascended and descended.
(Jacob’s ladder and the angels) . . . . It is more than 400,000 years since the
Zodiac formed the sides of this ladder.” . . . .
This is an ingenious explanation, even if it is not altogether free from occult
heresy. Yet it is nearer the truth than many of a more scientific
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and especially theological character. As just said, the Christian trinity was
purely astronomical from its beginning, which made Rutilius say — of those who
euhemerized it — “Judaea gens, radix stultorum.”
But the profane, and especially the Christian fanatics, ever in search of
scientific corroboration for their dead-letter texts, will persist in seeing in
the celestial pole the true Serpent of Genesis, Satan, the Enemy of mankind,
instead of what it is — a cosmic metaphor. When the gods are said to forsake the
earth, it does not only mean the gods, protectors and instructors, but also the
minor gods — the regents of the Zodiacal signs. Yet, the former, as actual and
existing Entities which gave birth to, nursed, and instructed mankind in its
early youth, appear in every Scripture, in that of the Zoroastrians as much as
in the Hindu Gospels. Ormazd, or Ahura-Mazda, the “Lord of Wisdom,” is the
synthesis of the Amshaspends (or Amesha-Spenta — “Immortal Benefactors”),* the
“Word,” however, or the Logos and its six highest aspects in Mazdyanism. These
“Immortal Benefactors” are described in Zamyad yasht as the “Amesha-Spentas, the
shining, having efficacious eyes, great, helpful . . . . imperishable and pure
which are all seven of like mind, like speech, all seven doing alike . . . .
which are the creators and destroyers of the creatures of Ahura-Mazda, their
creators and overseers, their protectors and rulers . . . .”
These few lines alone indicate the dual and even the triple character of the
Amshaspends, our Dhyan-Chohans or the “Serpents of Wisdom.” They are identical
with, and yet separate from Ormazd (Ahura-Mazda). They are also the Angels of
the Stars of the Christians — the Star-yazatas of the Zoroastrians — or again
the seven planets (including the sun) of every religion.† The epithet — “the
shining having efficacious eyes” — proves it. This on the physical and sidereal
planes. On the spiritual, they are the divine powers of Ahura-Mazda; but on the
astral or psychic plane again, they are the “Builders,” the “watchers,” the
Pitar (fathers), and the first Preceptors of mankind.
When mortals shall have become sufficiently spiritualised, there will be no more
need of forcing them into a correct comprehension of ancient Wisdom. Men will
know then, that there never yet was a great World-reformer, whose name has
passed into our generation, who (a) was not a direct emanation of the Logos
(under whatever name known to us), i.e., an essential incarnation of one of “the
seven,” of the “divine Spirit who is sevenfold”; and (b) who had not appeared
before, during the
past Cycles. They will recognise, then, the cause which produces in history and
chronology certain riddles of the ages; the reason why, for instance, it is
impossible for them to assign any reliable date to Zoroaster, who is found
multiplied by twelve and fourteen in the Dabistan; why the Rishis and Manus are
so mixed up in their numbers and individualities; why Krishna and Buddha speak
of themselves as re-incarnations, i.e., Krishna is identified with the Rishi
Narayana, and Gautama gives a series of his previous births; and why the former,
especially, being “the very supreme Brahma,” is yet called Amsamsavatara — “a
part of a part” only of the Supreme on Earth. Finally, why Osiris is a great
God, and at the same time a “prince on Earth,” who reappears in Thoth-Hermes,
and why Jesus (in Hebrew, Joshua) of Nazareth is recognised, cabalistically, in
Joshua, the Son of Nun, as well as in other personages. The esoteric doctrine
explains it by saying that each of these (as many others) had first appeared on
earth as one of the seven powers of the Logos, individualized as a God or
“Angel” (messenger); then, mixed with matter, they had re-appeared in turn as
great sages and instructors who “taught the Fifth Race,” after having instructed
the two preceding races, had ruled during the Divine Dynasties, and had finally
sacrificed themselves, to be reborn under various circumstances for the good of
mankind, and for its salvation at certain critical periods; until in their last
incarnations they had become truly only “the parts of a part” on earth, though
de facto the One Supreme in Nature.
This is the metaphysics of Theogony. And, as every “Power” among the seven has
(once individualized) in his charge one of the elements of creation, and rules
over it,* hence the many meanings in every symbol, which, unless interpreted
according to the esoteric methods, generally lead to an inextricable confusion.
Does the Western Kabalist — generally an opponent of the Eastern Occultist —
require a proof? Let him open Eliphas Levi’s Histoire de la Magie,” p. 53, and
carefully examine his “Grand Symbole Kabalistique” of the Zohar. He will find,
on the engraving given, a white man standing erect and a black woman upside
down, i.e., standing on her head, her legs passing under the extended arms of
the male figure, and protruding behind his shoulders, while their hands join at
an angle on each side. Eliphas Levi makes of it, God and Nature; or God,
“light,” mirrored inversely in “Nature and Matter,” darkness. Kabalistically and
symbolically he is right; but only so far as emblematical cosmogony goes. Nor
has he invented the symbol any more
Footnote(s) ———————————————
* These elements are: — The cosmic, the terrene, the mineral, the vegetable, the
animal, the aqueous, and finally the human — in their physical, spiritual, and
psychic aspects.
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than the Kabalists have: the two figures in white and black stone have existed
in the temples of Egypt from time immemorial — agreeably to tradition; and
historically — ever since the day of King Cambyses, who personally saw them.
Therefore the symbol must have been in existence since nearly 2,500 years ago.
This, at the very least, for that Persian sovereign, who was a son of Cyrus the
Great, succeeded his father in the year 529 B.C. These figures were the two
Kabiri personifying the opposite poles. Herodotus (Thalia, No. 77) tells
posterity that when Cambyses entered the temple of the Kabirim, he went into an
inextinguishable fit of laughter, on perceiving what he thought a man erect and
a woman standing on the top of her head before him. These were the poles,
however, whose symbol was intended to commemorate “the passing of the original
North Pole of the Earth to the South Pole of the Heaven,” as perceived by
Mackey.* But they represented also the poles inverted, in consequence of the
great inclination of the axis, bringing each time as a result the displacement
of the Oceans, the submersion of the polar lands, and the consequent upheaval of
new continents in the equatorial regions, and vice versa. These Kabirim were the
“Deluge” gods.
This may help us to get at the key of the seemingly hopeless confusion among the
numbers of names and titles given to one and the same gods, and classes of gods.
Faber showed already, at the beginning of this century, the identity of the
Corybantes, Curetes, Dioscuri, Anactes, Dii Magni, Idei Dactyli, Lares, Penates,
Manes,† Titans, and Aletae with the Kabiri. And we have shown that the latter
were the same as the Manus, the Rishis and our Dhyan Chohans, who incarnated in
the Elect of the Third and Fourth Races. Thus, while in Theogony the
Kabiri-Titans were seven great gods: cosmically and astronomically the Titans
were called Atlantes, because, perhaps, as Faber says, they were connected
Footnote(s) ———————————————
* Who adds that the Egyptians had various ways of representing the angles of the
Poles. Also in Perry’s View of the Levant there is “a figure representing the
South Pole of the Earth in the constellation of the Harp,” in which the poles
appear like two straight rods, surmounted with hawks’ wings, but they were also
often represented as serpents with heads of hawks, one at each end.
† Faber and Bishop Cumberland would make them all the later pagan
personifications, as the former writer has it, of “the Noetic Ark, and no other
than the Patriarch (Noah) and his family” (!) See his “Kabiri,” Vol. 1., 136;
because, we are told, “after the Deluge in commemoration of the event, the pious
Noachidae had established a religious festival, which was, later on, corrupted
by their impious descendants; demons or hero-gods; and at length unblushing
obscenity usurped the name and garb of religion” (Vol. I., p. 10.). Now this is
indeed putting an extinguisher upon the human reasoning powers, not only of
antiquity, but even of our present generations. Reverse the statement, and
explain after the words “Noah and his family” that what is meant by that
patriarch and family is simply the Jewish version of a Samothracian mystery, of
Saturn, or Kronos-Sadic and his Sons, and then we may say Amen.
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(a) with At-al-as “the divine Sun,” and (b) with tit “the deluge.” But this, if
true, is only the exoteric version. Esoterically, the meaning of their symbols
depends on the appellation, or title, used. The seven mysterious, awe-inspiring
great gods — the Dioscuri,* the deities surrounded with the darkness of occult
nature — become the Idei (or Idaeic finger) with the adept-healer by metals. The
true etymology of the name lares (now signifying “ghosts”) must be sought in the
Etruscan word “lars,” “conductor,” “leader.” Sanchoniathon translates the word
Aletae as fire worshippers, and Tabor believes it derived from Al-Orit, “the god
of fire.” Both are right, as in both cases it is a reference to the Sun (the
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268. Và lúc bấy giờ, hỡi kẻ theo đuổi Chân Lý, Hồn con sẽ như con voi điên cuồng
gây náo loạn trong rừng. Lầm tưởng cây rừng là kẻ thù của nó, nó phải vong mạng
trong khi lao đến chém giết những bóng cây lung linh trên vách đá phơi mình dưới
ánh Mặt Trời.
Trong rừng rậm, tôi không biết sự việc có xảy ra như thế không, nhưng ý tưởng
trên cho biết rõ là khi Con Voi trở nên điên cuồng, nó tưởng cây cối là kẻ thù
của nó, hoặc tệ hơn nữa, nó đâm đầu vào các tảng đá và bỏ mạng. Cũng thế, nhiều
người có thể nhận thấy năng lực mới được khơi động từ Chơn Ngã tuôn xuống, Cái
Trí nổi loạn một cách hung hăng vô cùng để chống lại với chủ mới của nó; trong
sự kiêu căng và kinh hãi, nó không thể từ bỏ sự độc lập của nó đã hưởng thụ từ
lâu. Rồi nó điên cuồng, ngờ vực và nghi kỵ, nó bỏ những nơi ẩn náu cuối cùng của
mình và quay lại chiến đấu với ánh sáng, vì nó cho rằng mỗi tia sáng là một kẻ
thù của nó. Cái Trí là sào huyệt của sự kiêu căng và cái mà nó chấp chứa trong
đó cũng nổi lên như khí giới chống lại cấp trên của nó, như những người ngược
đãi Chúa Kitô đã nổi lên chống lại và giết chết Ngài, vì họ không chịu nổi sự
khiết bạch và cao cả của Ngài, so với bản chất thấp hèn của họ.
[7/2/2011 8:51:01 PM] Thuan Thi Do:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.sanatansociety.org/indian_music_and_mantras/mantras_saraswati_mantra.htm
[7/2/2011 9:02:44 PM] Thuan Thi Do:
http://www.sanatansociety.org/indian_music_and_mantras/mantras_saraswati_mantra.htm
[7/2/2011 9:04:45 PM] Thuan Thi Do:
http://www.sanatansociety.org/hindu_gods_and_goddesses/saraswati.htm
[7/2/2011 9:24:27 PM] *** Call ended, duration 3:22:44 ***