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" KABATHEAN AGRICULTURE " 453 ages." These "

Nabaiheans " — as some critics thought — were simply the
Sabaeans, or Chaldaean star-worshipers. The work is a retranslation
from the Arabic, into which language it was at first translated from
the Chaldaean. Masudi, the Arabic historian, speaks of these
Nabatheans, and explains their origin in this wise : After the Deluge
[?] the nations established themselves in various countries. Among
these were the Nabatheans, who founded the city of Babylon, and
were those descendants of Ham who settled in the same province
under the leadership of Nimrod, the son of Cush, who was the son
of Ham, and great-grandson of Noah. . . . This took place at the time
when Nimrod received the governorship of Babylonia as the delegate
of Dzahhak named Biurasp. The translator, Chwolsohn, finds that the
asseitions of this historian are m perfect accord with those of Moses
in Genesis; while more irreverent critics might express the opinion
that for this very reason their truth should be suspected. It is useless
to argue this point, which is of no value in the present question. The
weather-beaten, long-sinceburied problem, and the difficulty of
accounting, on any logical ground, for the phenomenal derivation of
millions of people of various races, of many civilized nations and
tribes, from three couples (Noah's sons) in 346 years"' after the
Deluge, may be left to the Karma of the author of Genesis, whether
he is called Moses or Ezra. That which is interesting in the work
noticed is its contents, the doctrines enunciated in it, which are
again, if read esoterically, almost al! of them identical with the
Secret Teachings. Quatremere suggested that this book might have
been simply a copy made under Nebuchadnezzar 11, from some
Hamitic treatise, "infinitely more ancient," while the author
maintains, on " internal and external evidence," that its Chaldaean
original was written out from the oral discourses and teachings of a
wealthy Babylonian landowner, named Qu-tamy, who had used for
those lectures still more ancient materials. The first Arabic
translation is placed by Chwolsohn so far back as the Xlllth century
b. c. On the first page of this " revelation," the author, ot
amanuensis, Qii-tamy, declares that " the doctrines propounded
therein, were originally told by Saturn to the Moon, who
communicated them to her idol, which idol revealed them to her
devotee, the writer " — the adept Scribe of that work — Qii-tamy.
The details given by the God for the benefit and instruction of
mortals, show periods of incalculable duration and a series of
numberless kingdoms and Dynasties that preceded the appearance
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 454 THB SECEET DOCTRIN2 Adami (the " red-earth ").
These periods have aroused, as nugbt have been expected, the
defenders of the chronology of the Biblical deadletter meaning
almost to fury. De Rougemont was the first to make a levie-in-iTms
against the translator. He reproaches him •" with " smrificing Moses
to an anonymous author." Berosus, he urges, " however great were
his chronological errors, was at least in perfect accord with the
prophet with regard to the first men, since he speaks of AlorusAdam,
or Xisuthrus-Noah, and of Belus-Nimrod," etc, " Therefore," he adds,
" the work must he an Apockypha to be Anged with its
contemporaries — the fourth book of Esdras, that of Enoch, the
Sibylline Oracles, and the Book of Hermes — every one of these
dating no farther back than two or three centuries B. C." Ewald
came down still harder on Chwolsohn, and finally M. Renan. In the
Revue Germantque*** the ex-pupil pulls down the authority of his
master, by asking him to show a reason why his Nabathean
Agriculture should not be the fraudulent work of some Jew of the
third or fourth century of our era? It can hardly be otherwise —
argues the romancer of the Life of Jesus. Since, in this in-folio on
astroli^y and Sorcery " we recognize in the personages introduced
by Qu-tamy, all the patriarchs of the Biblical legends, such as
Adam~Adami, Anouka-Noah, and his Ibrahim-Abraham etc., etc."
This is no reason, since Adam and others are generic names.
Meanwhile it is humbly submitted that, all things considered, an
apocrypha — if even of the third century a. d., instead of the
thirteenth century B. c, as suggested by Quatremere — is old
enough to appear genuine as a document, and so satisfy the
demands of the most exacting archaeologist and critic. For, even
admitting, for argument's sake, that this literary relic has been
compiled by " some Jew of the third century of our era " — what of
that? Leaving the credibility of its doctrines for a moment aside, why
should it be less entitled to a hearing, or less instructive as reflecting
older opinions, than any other religious work, also a " compilation
from old texts " or oral tradition — of the same or even a later age?
In such case we should have to reject and call " apocryphal " the
Kuran — two centuries older, though we know it to have sprung,
Minerva-like, direct from the brain of the Arabian prophet; and we
should have to pooh-pooh all the information we can get from the
Taimttd, which, in its present form, was also compiled from older
materials, and is not earlier than the IXth century of our era. The
curious " Bible " of the Chaldaean adept, and the various criticisms
upon it (as in Chwolsohn's translation), are noticed, because it has
an important bearing upon a great portion of the present work. »S1
AnutUi it FhOtstthU, Jane. IWO, p. 4]}. 954. April », IBCO.
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MANY VIEWS OF MANY MINDS 4SS With the exception of

M, Renan, an iconoclast by principle — so pointedly called by Jules
Lemaitre " le Paganini du Niant " — the worst fault found with the
work is, it would seem, that the " apocrypha " pretends to have
been communicated as a revelation to an adept by, and from, the "
idol of the moon," who received it from " Saturn." Hence, very
naturally, it is " a fairy tale all round." To this there is but one
answer: it is no more a fairy tale than the Bible, and if one falls, the
other must follow it. Even the mode of divination through " the idol
of the moon " is the same as practised by David, Saul, and the High
Priests of the Jewish Tabernacle by means of the Teraphim. In
Volume III, Part II, of this present work, the practical methods of
such ancient divination will be found. The Nabaihean Agriculture is a
compilation indeed ; it is no apocrypha, but the repetition of the
tenets of the Secret Doctrine under the exoteric Chaldaean form of
national symbols, for the purpose of "cloaking" the tenets, just as
the Books of Hermes and the Puranas are Egyptian and Hindu
attempts at the same. The work was as well known in antiquity as it
was during the Middle Ages. Maimonides speaks of it, and refers
more than once to this Chaldaeo-Arabic MS., calling the Nabatheans
by their co-religionary name, »'. e., " starworshipers," or Sabaeans,
but yet failing to see in this disfigured word " Nabatheans " the
mystic name of the caste devoted to Neba (god of secret wisdom),
which shows on its face that the Nabatheans were an occult
Brotherhood."'* The Nabatheans who, according to the Persian
Yezidi, originally came to Syria from Busrah, were the degenerate
members of that fraternity; still their religion, even at that late day,
was purely Kabalistic.'" Nebo is the deity of iJie planet Mercury, and
Mercury is the god of Wisdom or Hermes, and Budka, which the
Jews called f2J "the Lord on high, the aspiring,. , ." and the Greeks
Nabo, NajSu, hence Nabatheans. Notwithstanding that Maimonides
calls their doctrines " heathenish foolishness " and their archaic
literature " SabaeoTum foetum" he places their "agriculture," the
Bible of Qu-tamy, in the first rank of Archaic literature; and
Abarbanel praises it in unmeasured terms. Spencer, quoting the
latter, speaks of it as that 95S. "I will mention to th« the writ- Mis,
quoted by Dr. D. ChwolKihn, Di* JjciW#f inBB . . . R^ecting llu btlitf
of tkt Sab- und dtr Smbitmiis, II. p. 458.) Tlie Natmtam," he say). "
The mott funoQ* la tbe thuna of Moant Lebanon believed in the
Book the 'Atriailttirt «/ Iht Nabolhfaiu/ Seven Archangels, u their
forefithen had which hu been tnmaUted hr Ibn WohoHiioli. bellercd
la the Seven Great Stan, the abodei Thii booh it full of heatheniih
foollihnru. and hodiei of these Archanseli, believed in ... It (peaks of
prepantioni of Tuisuahi. to tiila da; br the Komaa Catholic*, ai la the
drawing down of the poweri of the rtiown elacwhere. Sntin, Macic.
DmoHi, and ghoula. whicb 9S$. See " ItU UwetHtd," Vol. IL pan
make their abode In the deaeit." (UalmDn- 197. ijGoogle
 456 THB SECS£T DOCTRINS "most excellent Oriental
work," adding"^ that by Nabatheans, the Sabaeans, the Chaldaeans,
and the Egyptians, in short all those nations against whom the laws
of Moses were most severely enacted, have to be understood. Nebo,
the oldest God of Wisdom of Babylonia and Mesopotamia, was
identical with the Hindii Budha and Hermes-Mercury of the Greeks. A
slight change in the sexes of the parents is the only alteration. As
Budha was the Son of Soma (the Moon) in India, and of the wife of
Brihaspati (Jupiter), so Nebo was the son of Zarpa-nttu (the Moon
deity) and of Merodach, who had become Jupiter, after having been
a Sun God. As Mercury the planet, Nebo was the " overseer " among
the seven gods of the planets ; and as the personification of the
Secret Wisdom he was Nabin, a seer and a prophet. The fact that
Moses is made to die and disappear on the mount sacred to Nebo,
shows him an initiate and a priest of that god under another name ;
for this God of Wisdom was the great creative deity, and was
worshiped as such, not alone at Borsippa in his gorgeous Temple, or
planet-tower. He was likewise adored by tfie Moabites, the
Canaanites, the Assyrians, and throughout the whole of Palestine:
then why not by the Israelites? " The planetary temple of Babylon "
had " its holy of holies " within the shrine of Nebo, the prophet god
of Wisdom. We are told in the Hibbert Lectures, " The ancient
Babylonians had an intercessor between men and the gods . . . and
Nebo, was the ' proclaimer ' or ' prophet,' as he made known the
desire of his father Merodach." Nebo is a creator, like Budha, of the
Fourth and also of the Fifth Race. For the former starts a new race
of Adepts, and the latter, the Solar-lunar Dynasty, or the men of
these Races and Round. Both are the Adams of their respective
creatures. Adam-Adami is a personation of the dual Adam: of the
paradigmic Adam-Kadmon, the creator, and of the lower Adam, the
terrestrial, who, as the Syrian Kabalists have it, had only nephesh, "
the breath of life," but no living soul, until after his Fall. If, therefore,
Renan persists in regarding the Chaldaean Scriptures — or what
remains of Uiem — as apocryphal, it is quite immaterial to truth and
fact. There are other Orientalists who may be of a different opinion;
and even were they not, it would still really matter very little. These
doctrines contain the teachings of Esoteric philosophy, and this must
suffice. To those who understand nothing of symbol
 THE KABALISTIC FOUR ADAMS 457 silence and secrecy
upon the true meaning of Mosaic sayings, and thus came to grief.
The Doctrines of Qti-tamy, the Chaldaean, are, in short, the
allegorical rendering of the religion of the earliest nations of the Fifth
Race. Why then should M. Renan treat the name " Adam-Adami "
with such academical contempt? The author of the Origins of
Christianity evidently knows nothing of the " origins of pagan
symbolism " or of Esotericism either, otherwise he would have
known that the name was a form of universal symbol, referring,
even zvith the Jews, not to one man, but to four distinct humanities
or mankinds. This is very easily proven. The Kabalists teach the
existence of four distinct Adams, or the transformation of four
consecutive Adams, the emanations from the Dyooknak (divine
phantom) of the Heavenly Man, an ethereal combination of
Neshamah, the highest Soul or Spirit : this Adam having, of course,
neither a gross human body, nor a body of desire. This "Adam" is
the prototype (tsure) of the second Adam. That they represent our
Five Races is certain, as everyone can see by their description in the
Kabala : the first being the "perfect. Holy Adam" ; , . . " a shadow
that disappeared " (the Kings of Edom) produced from the divine
Tzelem (Image) ; the second is called the protoplastic androgyne
Adam of the future terrestrial and separated Adam ; the third Adam
is the man made of "dust" (the first, innocent Adam); and the
fourth, is the supposed forefather of our own race — the Fallen
Adam. See, however, the admirably clear description of these in Mr.
Isaac Myer's Qabbalah.*** He gives only four Adams, because of
the Kings of Edom, no doubt. " The fourth Adam," he writes, ". , ,
was clothed with skin, flesh, nerves, etc. This answers to the lower
Nepkesh and Guff, i.e., body, united. He has the animal power of
reproduction and continuance of species," and this is the human
Root-Race. It is just at this point that the modem Kabalists — led
into error by the long generations of Christian mystics who have
tampered with the Kabalistic records wherever they could — diverge
from the Occultists in their interpretations, and take the later
thought for the earlier idea. The original Kabala was entirely
metaphysical, and had no concern with animal, or terrestrial sexes ;
the later Kabala has suffocated the divine ideal under the heavy
phallic element. The Kabalists say: — " God made man male and
female." " Among the Qabbalists, the necessity to continued creation
and existence is called the Balance," says the author of Qabbalak
;***' and being without this "Balance," connected with Ma-gom
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 458 THS SKCBKT DOCTRINE DOt, as we have seen,
recognized by the Sons of the Fifth Adam. From the highest
Heavenly Man, the upper Adam who is " male female " or
Androgyne, down to the Adam of dust, these personified symbols
are all connected with sex and procreation. With the Eastern
Occultists it is entirely the reverse. The sexual relation they consider
as a " Karma " pertaining only to the mundane relation of man, who
is dominated by Illusion, a thing to be put aside, the moment that
the person becomes " wise." They consider it a most fortunate
circumstance if the Guru (teacher) found in his pupil an aptitude for
the pure life of Brahmacharya. Their dual symbols were to them but
the poetical imagery of the sublime correlation of creative Cosmic
forces. And this ideal conception is found beaming like a golden ray
upon each idol, however coarse and grotesque, in the crowded
galleries of the somber fanes of India and other Mother lands of
cults. This will be demonstrated in the following Section. Meanwhile,
it may be added that, with the Gnostics, the second Adam also
emanates from the Primeval Man, the Ophite Adamas, in "whose
image he is made"; the third, from this second — an Androgyne.
The latter is symbolized in the 6th and 7th pairs of the male- female
Aeons, — Amphain-Essumene, and Vananin-Lamer (Father and
Mother; vide Valentinian Table, in Epiphanius) — while the fourth
Adam, or Race, is represented by a Priapean monster. The latter — a
post-Christian fancy — is the degraded copy of the anteChristian
Gnostic symbol of the " Good One," or " He, who created before
anylking existed," the Celestial Priapus — truly bom from Venus and
Bacchus when that God returned from his expedition into India, for
Venus and Bacchus are the post-types of Aditi and the Spirit. The
later Priapus, one, however, with Agathodaimon, the Gnostic Savior,
and even with Abraxas, is no longer the glyph for abstract creative
Power, but symbolizes the four Adams, or Races, the fifth being
represented by the five branches cut off from the Tree of Life on
which the old man stands in the Gnostic gems. The number of the
Root-Races was recorded in the ancient Greek temples by the seven
vowels, of which five were framed in a panel in the Initiation halls of
the Adyta. The Egyptian glyph for it was a hand with five fingers
spread, the fifth or little finger being only halfgrown, and also five "
N's " — hieroglyphs standing for that letter, The Romans used the
five vowels A E I O V in their fanes ; and this archaic symbol was
adopted during the middle ages as a motto by the House of the
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THE "cod" sub ROSA § XVII THE "HOLY OF HOLIES" ITS

DEGRADATION The Sanctum Sanctorum of the Ancients, ». e., that
recess on the Western side of the Temple which was enclosed on
three sides by blank walls and had its only aperture or door hung
over with a curtain — also called the Adytum — was common to all
ancient nations. Nevertheless, a great difference is found between
the secret meanings of this symbolical place, in the esotedcism of
the Pagans and that of later Jews; though the symbology of it was
originally identical throughout the ancient Races and Nations. The
Gentiles, by placing in the Adytum a sarcophagus, or a tomb
(taphos), and the solar-god to whom tfie temple was consecrated,
held it, as Pantheists, in the greatest veneration. They regarded it —
in its esoteric meaning — as the symbol of resurrection, cosmic,
solar (or diurnal), and human. It embraced the wide range of
periodical and (in time) punctual, Manvantaras, or the re-awakenings
of Kosmos, Earth, and Man to new existences; the sun being the
most poetical and also the most grandiose symbol of the same in
heaven, and man — in his re-incamations — on Earth. The Jews —
whose realism, if judged by the dead-letter, was as practical and
gross in the days of Moses as it is now •'* — in the course of their
estrangement from the gods of their pagan neighbors, consummated
a national and levitical polity, by the device of setting forth their Holy
of Holies as the most solemn sign of their Monotheism —
exoterically; while seeing in it but a universal phallic symbol —
esoterically. While the Kabalists knew but Ain-Soph and the " gods "
of the Mysteries, the Levites had no tomb, no god in their adytum
but the " Sacred " Ark of the Covenant — their " Holy of Holies."
When the esoteric meaning of this recess is made clear, however, the
profane will be better able to understand why David danced "
uncovered " before the ark of the Covenant, and was so anxious to
appear vile for the sake of his " Lord," and base in his own sight."^
The ark is the navi-form Argha of the Mysteries. Parkhurst, who 960.
Bat it wu not to, in nilllT, wltncn >pir)tdtlitr (rom the bod; of their
iTmbola; tluir prophet*. Il ii the later Stbbii 4ad levltw anijr tbelr
ScHptiuti — a dead riiell, the Talmodlc •cbcme dwt killed out all from
whlcb tbe Soul hai departed. 9«1. See II Smmtt, t). 16^2.
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4150 THE SECRET DOCTRINE has a long dissertation upon

it in his Greek dictionary, and who never breathes a word about it in
the Hebrew lexicon, explains it thus: — 'Afixi in this application
answers to the Hebrew ratil or wisdom ... a word which had the
meaning of the emblem of the female generative power, the Arg or
j4rca, in which the germ of all nature was supposed to float or brood
on the great abyss during the interval which took place after every
mundane cycle. Quite SO ; and the Jewish ark of the Covenant had
precisely the same significance; with the supplementary addition
that, instead of a beautiful and chaste sarcophagus (the symbol of
the matrix of Nature and resurrection) as in the Sanctum sanctorum
of the pagans, they had the ark made still more realistic in its
construction by the two cherubs set up on the coffer or ark of the
covenant, facing each other, with their wings spread in such a
manner as to form a perfect yoni (as now seen in India). Besides
which, this generative symbol had its significance enforced by the
four mystic letters of Jehovah's name, namely, mn* ; or ^ meaning
Jod (membrum virile, see Kabala) ; n (H^ the womb) ; 1 (Vau, a
crook or a hook, a nail), and n again, meanii^ also " an opening ") ;
the whole forming the perfect bisexual emblem or symbol or Y (e) H
(o) V (a) H, the male and female symbol. Perhaps, also, when
people realize the true meaning of the office and title of the Kadesh
Kadeshim, " the holy ones," or " the consecrated to the temple of
the Lord," — the " Holy of Holies " of the latter may assume an
aspect far from edifying. lacchus again is lao or Jehovah; and Baal or
Adon, like Bacchus, was a phallic god. " Who shall ascend into the
hill (the high place) of the Lord ? " asks the hoty king David, "who
shall stand in the place of his Kadushu itnp ? " *" Kadesh may mean
in one sense to devote, hallow, sanctify, and even to initiate or set
apart ; but it also means the ministry of lascivious rites (the Venus-
worship) and the true interpretation of the word Kadesh is bluntly
rendered in Deuteronomy xxiu, 17; Hosea iv. 14; and Genesis xxxviii,
from verses IS to 22, The " holy " Kadeshuth of the Bible were
identical, as to the duties of their office, with the Nautch-girls of the
later Hindii pagodas. The Hebrew Kadeshim, or galli, lived " by the
house of the Lord, where the women wove hangings for the grove,"
or the bust of Venus-Astarte, says verse the seventh in the twenty-
third chapter of H Kings. The dance performed by David round the
ark was the " circle-dance," said to have been prescribed by the
Amazons for the Mysteries. Such was the dance of the daughters of
Shiloh,"' and the leaping of the prophets of Baal,*** It was simply a
characteristic of the Sabaean 9«3. Ftalmt xxlv. 3. MJ. Juilni nd. 21,
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WHAT WAS THE CISCLE-DANCE ? 461 worship, for it

denottd the motion of the planets round the sun. That the dance
was a Bacchic frenzy is apparent. Sistra were used chi the occasion,
and the taunt of Michal and the King's reply are very expressive."' "
The Ark, in which are preserved the germs of all living things
necessary to repeople the earth, represents the survival of life, and
the supremacy of spirit over matter, through the conflict of the
opposing powers of nature. In the Astro-Theosophic chart of the
Western Rite, the Ark corresponds with the navel, and is placed at
the sinister side, the side of the woman (the moon), one of whose
symbols is the left pillar of Solomon's temple — Boaz. The umbilicus
is connected through the placenta with the receptacle in which are
fructified the embryos of the race. . . . The Ark is the sacred Argha
of the Hindijs, and thus the relation in which it stands to Noah's ark
may be easily inferred when we leam that the Ar^ta was an oblong
vessel, used by the high priests as a sacrificial chalice in the worship
of Isis, Astarte, and Venus-Aphrodite, all of whwn were goddesses of
the generative powers of nature, or of matter — hence representing
symbolically the Ark containing the germs of all living things." •"
Mistaken is he who accepts the Kabalistic works of today, and the
interpretations of the Zohar by the Rabbis, for the genuine Kabalistic
lore of old I *" For no more today than in the day of Friedrich von
Schelling does the KabaU accessible to Europe and America, contain
much more than " ruins and fragments, much distorted remnants
still of that primitive system which is the key to all religions
systems."*** MS. Iiit Umvtilti, VoL II. p. *i. 9tt. tiii UmvtiUd. VoL II,
p. 444. of Uie Z«lurlc ijnMa br Ribbi Uoh*. Iba 9t7. Tbc author of Ibe
" Qabbalak" Gctrirol nrvrr ipiettd (rem iht Scriftum to make> Mvcral
(llcaipti to prove conduiinlT enforce the tudiinii ifidi I. Mrti't QahbaIht
iniiquitr of tbe Ztlur. Tkn* be abon lak, p. 7). Ho*c> dc Leon hu
made of tbal Udki de t.con could not be tbe ■albot tbe Zckar that
which it haa remained to at the forfet of the Zohaiic worin In tiie thi*
iaj, " a runniag conmentiry db the Xlllth centnrj, u he i* acciued of
beinc. . . . Book* of the Pentiieucb " (tfttJ,), wltb tiocc Ibn GcUiol
gave out the nox philo- a few later additiooa made hj Chrlatiui
■ophical teaching 225 yean before the inj of handi. One followa the
artkale etoterlc Uote* de Leon. No true Kabaliat or Kbalar
philoaopbj; tbe other, only (hat portion which wilt crer denj tbe fact.
It la certain that waa adapted to the toil Booka of Uoaea Ibn Cebirol
baeed hia dactrixca upon tbe old' rtatorcd by Eira. Tbua. while ilw
ayitem, CM Kabaliatic loDrcea, namelj, the " CAal- or tbe trtuh cm
which tbe piimitlTt ori|ln>] daron Bmli ef Nmmbm," aa well o aome
Zaiiar waa encnfted, la ot an Immtnie anno loBBer extant Uldiaahin.
tbe aame. no tiqnitr, manj of the (later) Zoharic offaboota donht. aa
thoae uaed bj Moau de Leon. are atronslj colored bj the peculiar
*icwa But it i* jait tbe difference between tbe two held hr Chriatian
Gnoilica (Syrian and Chaldaean). the fricnda and co-workera of a
anliquitr Uoica de Leon who, aa ahown by Monk, F Profcaaor Franck,
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 462 THE SECRET DOCTRINE The oldest system and the
Chaldaean Kabala were identical. The latest renderings of the Zohar
are those of the Synagogue in the early centuries — ». e., the
Thorah, dogmatic and uncompromising. The " King's Chamber " in
Cheops' Pyramid is thus an ^yptian " Holy of Holies." On the days of
the Mysteries of Initiation, the candidate, representing the solar god,
had to descend into the Sarcophagus, and represent the energizing
ray, entering into the fecund womb of Nature. Emerging from it on
tfie following morning, he typified the resurrection of life after the
change called Death. In the great Mysteries his figurative death
lasted two days, when with the Sun he arose on the third moming,
after a last night of the most cruel trials. While the postulant
represented the Sun — the all-vivifying Orb that "resurrects" every
moming but to impart life to all — the Sarcophagus was symbolic of
the female principle. This, in Egypt ; its form and shape changed
with every country, provided it remained a vessel, a symbolic navis
or boat-shaped vehicle, and a container, symbolically, of germs or
the germ of life. In India, it is the " golden " Cow through which the
candidate for Brahmanism has to pass if he desires to be a Brahman,
and to become Dvija ("reborn a second time"). The crescent-form
Argha of the Greeks was the type of the Queen of Heaven — Diana,
or the Moon. She was the great Mother of all Existences, as the Sun
was the Father. The Jews, previous to, as well as after their
metamorphosis of Jehovah into a male god, worshiped Astoreth,
which made Isaiah declare; "Your new moons and feasts my soul
hateth " *** ; saying which, he was evidently unjust Astoreth and
the New-moon (the crescent argka) festivals, had no worse
significance as a form of public worship than had the hidden
meaning of the moon in general, which was Kabalistically connected
directly with, and sacred to, Jehovah, as is well known; with the sole
difference that one was the female and the other the male aspect of
the moon, and of the star Venus. The Sun (the Father), the Moon
(the Mother), and MerxiuryThoth (the Son), were the earliest Trinity
of the Egyptians, who personified them in Osiris, Isis, and Thoth
(Hermes). In niZTIS 204IA, the seven great gods, divided into two
triads and the highest God (the Sun) are: the lower TpA/fAituf,
whose powers reside respectively in Mars, Mercury and Venus ; and
the higher Triad (" the three unseen gods ") who dwell in the Moon,
Jupiter and Saturn.**" This requires no proof. Astoreth was in one
sense an impersonal symbol of nature, the ship of Life carrying
throughout the boundless Sidereal Ocean the germs of all being.
And when she was not identified with Venus, like every other "
Queen of Heaven " to whom cakes 9e». L 14. 970. Vidt 11 3S9 and
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CHRISTIAN SYUBOLISU 463 and buns were offered in

sacrifice, Astoreth became the reflection of the Chaldaean " Nuah,
the Universal Mother " ( female Noah, considered as one with the
ark) , and of the female triad, Ana, Belita and Davldna ; called, when
blended into one, " Sovereign goddess, lady of the Nether Abyss,
Mother of gods. Queen of the Earth, and Queen of fecundity." Later,
Belita or Damti (the sea), the Mother of ihe City of Brech (the great
Chaldean Necropolis) became Eve; and now she is Mary the Virgin,
in the Latin Church, represented as standing on the crescentmoon,
and, at times on the Globe, to vary the prc^am. The turvi, or ship-
like form of the crescent, which blends in itself all those conunon
symbols of the ship of life, such as Noah's ark, the Yoni of the
Hindus, and the ark of the Covenant, is the female symbol of the
Universal " Mothers of the gods," and is now found under its
Christian symbol in every Church, as the nave (from aazds, the
ship),*** The navU — the Sidereal vessel — is fructified by the Spirit
of Life — the male God ; or, as the learned Kenealy (in his
Apocalypse) calls it very appropriately — the Holy Spirit. In Western
religious symbology the Crescent was the male, the full moon, the
female aspect of that universal Spirit The mystic word Aim, which
the prophet Mahomet prefixed to many chapters of the Koran,
alludes to her as the Aim, the immaculate Virgin of the heavens. And
— the sublime ever falling into the ridiculous — it is from this root
Aim that we have to derive the word Almefi — the Egyptian dancing-
girls. The latter are " Virgins " of the same type as the NcMtchnis in
India, and the (female) Kadeshim, the Holy Ones of the Jewish
temples (those consecrated to Jehovah, who represented both
sexes), whose holy functions in the Israelite fanes were identical
with those of the Nautchnis. Now Eustathius declares that (lO) lO
means the moon, in the dialect of the Argians; and it was one of the
names of the same in Egl^pt Says Jablonski, " in, loh, Aegyptiis
Lunah significat neque kabent illi in communi sermonis usu, aliud
nomen quo Lunam designent praeter 10." The pillar and Circle (lO),
now constituting the first decimal number, and which with
Pythagoras was the perfect number contained in the Tetraktys,*^*
became later a pre-eminently phallic Number — amongst the Jews,
foremost of all, widi whom it is the male and female Jehovah. 971.
TlmdcM lb* LoorUn, (On tk* Pomr. All lit Sira.Cad* ««« oiled S»tU of
tk* Werli, I), ipttldnt of Aethaitlu, "torn from the Art*," the ArtM.
call* bet "the Principle at beM dlTloc Virgin-MoUwr o( the Hovtoi.
tUnsi.'' The mrd artamt, "hiddcB," or ■Krel, it dcdfcd (rem Aria. " To
no one 972. BecviM compoaed of ten dot* arI* the Artamt ahowii
except to the moM ranged trUmalarlr In foBr mm. It la Hl«b " iCeiti
NoMamnu). altudlni to the Tilratrammatmi of the Weffem Kabnatnn
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464 THE S£CRST DOCTUHS This is how a scholar explains

it ; — I find, on th« Rosetta stone of Uhlemann, the word moulh,
also in Seiffarth, viz., the name of the Moon used as a cycle of Time,
hence the Itmar moitth from the hieroglyph /^^-^,^^\ *'f' "f^ *™^
CO"* determinatives given, as the Coptic I OH, or I OH. The Hebrew
im may also be used as I OH. for the letter vau, or ^ , was used for
o and for >, and for v or w. This, before the Moisora, of which the .
was used as 1 ==o, i ^u, and 1 =^v or w. Now I had worked it out
by original search that the great distinctive (unction of the god-name
Jehovah was designative of the influence of the moon as the
causative of generation, and as of its exact value as a lunar year in
the natural measwe of days, as you will fully see, . . . And here
comes this linguistic same word from a source far more ancient; viz.,
the Coptic, or rather from the old Egyptian in time of the Coptic . . .
(From a MS.) This is the more remarkable when ^yptolt^y compares
this with the little which it knows about the Theban triad —
composed of Amen, Mulh (or Mut), and their son Khonsu. This triad
was, when united, contained in the moon as their common symbol ;
and when separated, it was Khonsu who was the god, Lunus, being
thus confounded with Thoth and Ptah. His mother Mut(A) — the
name signifying Mother, by the bye, not the moon, which was only
her Symbol — is called the " Queen of Heaven " ; the " Virgin," etc.,
etc., as she is an aspect of Isis, Hathor, and other mother
goddesses. She was less the wife than the mother of Amen, whose
distinct title is " the husband of his Mother." In a statuette at Bulaq,
Cairo, this triad is represented"* as a mummy-god holding in his
hand three different scepters, and bearing the lunar disc on his
head, the characteristic tress of hair showing the design of
representing it as that of an infant god, or " the Sun," in the triad.
He was the god of Destinies in Thebes, and appears under two
aspects (1) as "Khonsu, the Lunar god, and Lord of Thebes, Nofir-
hoipu — 'he who is in absolute repose'; and (2) as Khonsu Iri-
sokhru, or ' Khonsu, who executes Destiny ' : the former preparing
the events and conceiving them for those bom under his generative
influence; the latter putting them into action."'^* Under theogonic
permutations Amen becomes Horus, HOR-AMEN, and Mut(h)-Isis is
seen suckling him in a statuette of the Saitic period.*" In his turn, in
this transformed triad, Khonsu becomes Thoth-Lunus, "he who
operates salvation." His brow is crowned with the head of an ibis
decorated with the lunar disc and the diadem called lO-tef. Now all
these symbols are certainly found reflected in (some believe them
identical with) the Yaz/e, or Jehovah of the Bible. This will be 973.
Number 19S1 Scnpenm, Gndt PeHod. 974. See Hupero'i DeGnidoni.
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tHE " FOUR-?ACBD " BRAHmA 465 made plain to any one
who reads The Source of Measures, or HebreivEgyPlian 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 foimdatioa 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
aSords 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 Byblias spells it in Greek
letters lEYO — lEVO. Theodoret says that the Samaritans
pronounced it labi (yahva), 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 lao." It is on the authority
of the Bible itself, therefore, that we maintain that before his
initiation by Jetbro, bis father-in-law, Moses had never known the
word Jaho."* The above receives corroboration in a private letter
from a very learned Kabalist. In Stanza IV and elsewhere it is stated
that exoter-. ically Brahma (neuter), so flippantly and so often
confused by the Orientalists with Brahma — the male, is sometimes
called Kalor-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 Chalur mukha (the perfect cube)
forming itself within, and from the infinite circle; and again the use
of the 1, 3, 5, and J = 14, as the esoteric hierarchy of the Dhyan
Chohans is explained. On this, the same 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 x
value), I think there cannot be a possibility of doubting; and
especially when considered with symbol marks on «kt,*" "Chakra,"
or Circle of Vishnu. But let me carry your description a step further:
— You say "The One from 976. Vol II, p. 301. ZippoTBh (Ihe
shining) li one of Che perThe (tudent miut be amre that Jethro it
Miaified Occult Scienccg gWcn by Rev«tctUtd the " fstber-in-law " of
Ha*«>i not Jethro, the Midian prieit InJtlalor, to Hoan. becauM Hoaei
waa resUy married to one hla Egjptian puplL The " well " hjr which
of hii aeren daughtera. Moaea wu an Ini- Hows ut down la hia fii^t
from the Phartlate, if he erer exiated, and ai aach an aoh ajinlxilizeB
the " well of Knowledge." uctttc. a naiar, and eonid never be mar-
977. In Hebitw the phallic armbol lied. It la an allegory like
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4ti6 TBlt secsar DOCtititt the Egg, the six, and the five "*
give the numbers 1065, the value of the first bora" ... If it be so,
then in 1065 we have the famous Jehovah's name, the Jve or Jave,
or Jupiter, and by change of n to j or A to n, then ^M or the Latin
Jun or Juno, the base of the Chinese riddle, the key measurii^
numbers of Sni (Sinai) and Jehovah coming down on that mount,
which numbers (106S), are but the use of our ratio of 113 to 3S5
because 106S = 355x3 which is circumference to a diameter of
113x3^339. Thus the first born of Brahma Frajapati (or any
Deroiourgos) indicates a measuring use of a circular relation taken
from the Ckakra (or Vishnu) and, as stated above, the Divine
manifestation takes the form of life and the first bora. It is a most
singular thing: At the entrance passage to the King's chamber the
measurement from the tvrface of Ike 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 center and with this --^
radius describe a circle; the diameter of ^^ _ that circle will be
339x2 = 678, and these ^y^ « numbers are those of the expression
attd j^ the raven, in the "Dove and raven" scenes ^/'''^ j^| or
pictures of the Flood of Noah; (the " radius is taken to show division
into two parts, which are 1065 each) for 113 (man) x6 = 678; and
the diameter to a circumference of 1065x2 — 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 m the womb.
Now this passage is of such a height that a man to enter it must
sloop. But a man upright is 113, and broken, or stooping, be
becomes 113=56.5 or 5.65x10, or Jehovah. That is, he personifies"
him T in •< as entering the Holy of Holies. But by Hebrew
Esoteridsm the chief function of Jehovah was child giving, etc., and
that because, by the numbers of his name, he was the measure of
Ike 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 worshiped 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 Dens
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. Adam is spoken of in pcnaalfied the lod at
the temple he bclonicd a to, u the High Priest pemmiSed the gixl OS
the pUce of the Icrel or floor and open at all time*; Juat ai the Pope
now pei^ entrance to tbt KIng'g dismber, the Esn>- •onite* Peter
and even Jeaui CbriH apcn tlan "Hair of HoUei." entcrios the Inner
altir — the Hiriftlin no. Tbe cuuUdsle (or InltUthni alirars " Hol^ of
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THE ETYMOLOGY OI' " SACKAMENT " 46? Maimonides*^^

in two aspects; as a man, like all others born of a man and a
woman, and — as the prophet of the Moon; the reason of which is
now made apparent, and has to be explained. Adam, as the
supposed great "Progenitor of the human race," is, as Adam
Kadmon, made in the image of God — a priapic image, therefore.
The Hebrew words sacr and n'cabvah are, literally translated, Imgam
(phallus) and yoni, notwithstanding their translation in the Bible **' "
male and female." As said there " God creates ' Man in his own
image ' ... in the image of God created he him, male and female
created he them," the androgyne Adam-Kadmon. Now this Kabalistic
name is not that of a living man, nor even of a human or divine
Beii^, but of the two sexes or organs of procreation, called in
Hebrew with that usual sincerity of language pre-eminently Biblical,
sacr and n'cabvah*"; these two being, therefore, the image imder
which the " Lord God " appeared usually to his chosen people. That
this is so, is now undeniably proven by almost all the symbologists
and Hebrew scholars as well as by the Kabala. Therefore Adam is in
one sense Jehovah. This makes plain another general tradition in the
East mentioned in Gregorie's Notes and Observations upon several
passages in Scripture*'* and quoted by Hargrave Jennings in his
Phallicism.-''*' " That Adam was commanded by God that his dead
body should be kept above ground till committed to the middle of
the earth by a priest of the most High God," Therefore, " Noah daily
prayed in the ark before the body of Adam," or before the Phallus in
the ark, or Holy of Holies, again. He who is a Kabalist and
accustomed to the incessant permutation of Biblical names, once
they are interpreted numerically and symbolically, will understand
what is meant. Jehovah, from the two words of which his name is
composed, "makes up the original idea of male-female as birth-
originator, for the ^ was the membrum virile and Hovah was Eve."
So ". . . the perfect one, as originator of measures, takes also the
form of birth origin, as hermaphrodite one; hence the phallic form
and use,"'" Besides, the same author shows and demonstrates
numerically and geometrically that (a) Arets, earth, Adam, man, and
H'Adam-h are cognate with each other, and are personified in the
Bible under one form, as the Egyptian and Hebrew Mars, god of the
generation; and (i) that Jehovah, or " Jah, is 981. ttart Nnoclum, "
The Guide of Oe the Koman pricM, ind Ibe ucr-fice, ud Peivlend " —
truljl ncr-ment of the Engli^h-ipeating race." 983. Cmtis 1. 27.
(Setirct of Utaturti, p. 236.) Thence mu983. JeboTKh Hjn to Moki
"the Sam- riage acramml In the Greek and KomDUtfon of mr
name i* Sacr, the caTrier of an ChurchCL the eenn" —
phatlui. "It ii the vehicle 984. 4to, London, 1684. Vol, I, 120-
121, of enondatlon, and the ncr hai paaaed $84a. Page 67.
down Ihrongh agca to the tatr-tattim of 985. Sourci of
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