Lunar myth and worship through the ages

Lunar myth and worship through the ages

Author: Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

Publisher: Philaletheians UK

Published: 2017-08-16

Total Pages: 28

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The Sun is the giver of life to the whole planetary system. The Moon is the giver of life to our globe. The Hindus proudly call themselves descendants of Solar and Lunar dynasties. The Christians pretend to regard such beliefs as idolatry, yet they adhere to a religion entirely based upon solar and lunar worship. Mystery 1. The lowest key to the androgynous Moon is anthropomorphic and phallic. The highest key is purely theogonic and divine. The Jewish god, with which the Christians have burdened themselves, is no higher than the lunar symbol of Nature’s reproductive or generative faculty. The entire Pantheon of lunar gods and goddesses consists of “sons” and “husbands” of their “mothers,” and is identical with the Christian Trinity. Mystery 2. The riddle of the Two Ones unriddled. The One Divine Essence, ever unmanifested, perpetually begets a second One, manifested and androgynous in its nature. The latter brings forth immaculately everything macro- and micro-cosmical in the universe. But human procreation in the infernal regions of matter is far from divine, it is a deadly sin. Deus Lunus, a male lunar deity, became overtly androgyne in the Lemurian Race of our Round when sexes separated. Later on, its dual hermaphrodite power was exploited by Atlantean sorcerers. Still, in the present Aryan Race, the same lunar-solar worship continues, dividing nations into two distinct and essentially antagonistic factions and cults. Pagan and Papal cosmogonies are diametrically opposed. The one is an ever-youthful Mother-Nature, antitype of Sun and Moon, creating immaculately the ideal universe; the other, by concocting an infernal “Virgin Mary” who brings forth a “son” of the earth earthy, degrades everything divine and sacred to the lowest anthropomorphic goddess of the rabble. The “virgin” goddess of the Latin Church is a faithful copy of the old pagan goddesses, albeit counterfeit; the twelve apostles stand for the twelve tribes, the latter being personifications of the twelve great gods and the twelve signs of the Zodiac. The liberal adoption by the Latin Church of such symbols as water, fire, sun, moon, and stars, and a good many other things, is a continuation of the old worship of Pagan nations under different names. The belief that Fire finds refuge in Water was not limited to the old Scandinavians. It was shared by all nations before taken up by the early Christians, who symbolized the Holy Ghost under the shape of Fire, the breath of the Father-Sun, descending into the Water or Sea, Mother, Mare, Mary, etc.


Madame Blavatsky on the Ten Sephiroth

Madame Blavatsky on the Ten Sephiroth

Author: Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

Publisher: Philaletheians UK

Published: 2024-05-21

Total Pages: 13

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The Aïn Soph or Boundless is Infinite, all-inclusive, and unconditioned. In order to make Its existence perceptible to finite minds, the Boundless becomes a bounded creative force by emanating from the Divine Light of a female power (Sephirah), Nine Sephiroth or Intelligences. Sephirah is the Crown and Essence of the Nine Sephiroth which emanate from Her. The host of Ten Kabbalistic Sephiroth, issuing from One Cause, construct the Universe out of Chaos. Three trinities or triads with their emanative principle form the Pythagorean mystic Decad, which represents the whole Kosmos. Sephiroth are identical with Amshaspends or the Holy Seven, and with the Dhyani-Chohans of the Secret Doctrine. How do the Seven Sephiroth emanate the Sephirah? Complete with three diagrams: “Hindu versus Chaldeo-Jewish Cosmogonies,” “Eastern


The One Light for All, in which we live, and move, and have our being

The One Light for All, in which we live, and move, and have our being

Author: Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

Publisher: Philaletheians UK

Published: 2023-08-13

Total Pages: 14

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1. The One Life works incessantly for humanity. 2. Precosmic Ultimates. 3. Triple Law governs Universe and Man. 3.1 Karma is the First Cause, Unknown and Unknowable. 3.2 Yajna is Compassion and Sacrifice. 3.3 Karma-Action gives rise to Yugas-Cycles 4. Precosmic Stages. 4.1 Kama-Eros-Pothos + Nous ever yearn for self-analysing reflection. 4.2 First Logos is Divine Thought radiating from the Spiritual Sun. 4.3 Mulaprakriti is Creative Nature emanating from a Physical Sun. 5. Logos in us is the Amaranthine dream.


Formless Space is Abstract Universe, Infinite, and Immutable Be-ness

Formless Space is Abstract Universe, Infinite, and Immutable Be-ness

Author: Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

Publisher: Philaletheians UK

Published: 2024-09-13

Total Pages: 11

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The universe of being is subject to changes in its periodical manifestations. Man is the little universe (Microcosm) made in the image of his creator, the Great Universe (Macrocosm). The matter composing the objects we see and touch, continually returns to its pre-primordial condition of purity and light, which no mortal eye can see or bear its radiance. The man of clay was the first human being to appear on earth, the animal kingdoms coming after him. Animals were “created” much later than Adam, and brought to him to be named. Their bodies have been formed out of the cast off atoms of human life-waves that preceded ours. The constitution of man is seven-fold: his Immortal Higher Triad (Divine Self or Spiritual Soul) is his True Individuality; his Lower Tetrad, overshadowed by the Divine Self, is the false individuality (I-ness or “personality”) or soul of the man of clay who, being of the earth earthly, his animal soul and body are perishable — though his molecules are thrown off for the benefit of lower kingdoms. Nirvana is an actionless yet impersonal subjective state, rooted in non-being, and a refuge against rebirth — but the nirvanee can no longer return to earth, should he change his mind. Nirvana is illusion for it does not exist for us. The immortality of Spirit is inculcated on the neophyte by the Hierophant, and realised during Initiation. At the solemn moment of death, no man can fail to see himself under his true colours, and no self-deception is of use to him any longer. Even when drowning, man follows with his mind’s eye the whole of his life marshalling past, with all its events (causes and effects) to the minutest detail, and sees himself as he truly is, in all his moral nakedness, unadorned by either human flattery or self-adulation.


How vibration brings forth sound, form, and colour

How vibration brings forth sound, form, and colour

Author: C. Kotayya

Publisher: Philaletheians UK

Published: 2020-07-21

Total Pages: 21

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Universal Consciousness is A–U–M or Pranavam, i.e., Spirit–Breath–Sound–Life. Spirit or Eternal Breath is Motion, and motion animates matter. Eternal Motion is Svara or Vibration, the substratum of the Pythagorean Music of the Spheres. And thus by endless combinations, modifications, and individualisations of the Seven Tattvas or Forces of Nature, which in turn produce every sound, form, and colour, the Divine Mind exhibits periodically aspects of itself to the perception of finite minds. There can be no sound without vibration, for the former is the consequence of the latter. Vibration is caused by the difference in the density of material particles, the solid being moved by the liquid, and the liquid by the gaseous. Divine spirit animates inert mass. Air, breath, life, sound, and form are interconnected. Cosmic mind is the prime mover of everything in the manifested universe. Physical forces are only secondary effects, guided by spiritual forces. Colours of the human voice. Colours of musical instruments. Colours of languages. Table of Tattvas showing their sounds, forms, and colours. The four states of matter correspond to the four states of consciousness.


Moon Lore: Myths, Worship, and Superstitions

Moon Lore: Myths, Worship, and Superstitions

Author: Timothy Harley

Publisher: Read Books Ltd

Published: 2024-08-28

Total Pages: 175

ISBN-13: 1528799976

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A rare grimoire of lunar folklore, myth, and legend, Moon Lore explores the cultural and historical significance of the Moon, offering astronomical, spiritual, and astrological insight. 'Soon as the evening shades prevail, The Moon takes up the wondrous tale.' —Addison, Ode, 1712 A masterpiece of storytelling, Moon Lore brings Timothy Harley's rigorous academic research to life in a collection of myths surrounding the lunar phases, deities, and eclipses. Harley details the anthropology of the Moon's worship and the agricultural rituals tailored to her cycles. In an exploration of our celestial neighbour's influence on our tides and emotions, as well as the evolution of our scientific knowledge, Moon Lore is an ode to humanity's enduring fascination with the Moon. First published in 1885, this Wyrd Books edition features the original black-and-white illustrations throughout, with a new introduction and William Wordsworth's 1837 lyrical poem 'To the Moon'. Moon Lore is the perfect grimoire for those seeking a little lunar magic and is not to be missed by astrology and astronomy lovers alike.


Moon Lore

Moon Lore

Author: Timothy Harley

Publisher: London, S. Sonnenschein

Published: 1885

Total Pages: 322

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Time was not, Eternity is.

Time was not, Eternity is.

Author: Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

Publisher: Philaletheians UK

Published: 2017-07-31

Total Pages: 15

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There are two Times, Universal and Finite. The one is the abstraction or noumenon of Infinite Time (Kala); the other, its phenomenon appearing periodically as the effect of Mahat. What is called temporal can exist only in time, which is a portion of the revolution of the highest sphere. Time is asleep in the bosom of the Orphic trinity. Secondary Logoi, like Zeus-Jupiter are born in and out of Chronos-Saturn, or Infinite Time. The last vibration of the Seventh Eternity, when Time was not, is First Logos. Time dawns in Second Logos, and is fully expressed in the Third. All Logoi are all the Sons of the Mother before they become those of the Father. Time is the panoramic succession of our states of consciousness. Present, “past,” and “future” are compound phenomenal time.