The Secret Doctrine: Synthesis of Science, Religion and Philosophy Vol. 2

Humans evolved from Nature and the "Heavenly Man" in a collective sense—specifically from the Creative Spirits. In the fragments of Chaldæan original: "Chaldæan"; referring to the ancient region of Babylonia tablets collected by George Smith, which contain the Babylonian Legend of Creation, the first column of the Cutha tablet mentions seven human beings "with the faces of ravens" (meaning they had dark, swarthy complexions) whom "the [seven] Great Gods created." Or, as explained in lines 16, 17, and 18:

In the midst of the earth they grew up and became great,
And increased in number,
Seven kings, brothers of the same family.†

These are the seven Kings of Edom referred to in the Kabbalah; they represent the First Race, which was imperfect because it was born before the "balance" (the separation of the sexes) existed, and was therefore destroyed.‡

Seven Kings, who were brothers, appeared and fathered children; their people numbered 6,000. The God Nergal original: "Nergas"; likely a typo for Nergal, the Babylonian god of death and the underworld [death] destroyed them. "How did he destroy them?" By bringing into equilibrium [or balance] those who did not yet exist.§

They were "destroyed" as a race by being merged into their own descendants (through a process of exudation exudation: a process where the physical form "sweats out" or gives rise to the next form). In other words, the sexless Race reincarnated into the (potentially) bisexual race; the bisexual race then reincarnated into the androgynous androgynous: having both male and female characteristics race; and these, in turn, became the sexual beings of the later Third Race. If the tablets were less damaged, they would be found to contain a word-for-word account of the same history found in the Archaic Records and in the works of Hermes Hermes: referring to Hermes Trismegistus, the legendary figure associated with ancient Egyptian-Greek wisdom—at least regarding the fundamental facts, if not the minute details. This is because the writings of Hermes have been significantly distorted by poor translations.

It is quite certain that the seemingly supernatural nature of these teachings—though they are allegorical—is directly opposed to the literal interpretation of the Bible,|| as well as to the latest theories of modern Science.

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• Thus says Pymander original: "Pymander"; a dialogue in the Hermetica representing Divine Mind: "This is the mystery that was hidden until this day. Nature, being joined with the Heavenly Man [the Elohim Elohim: a Hebrew term for divine beings or gods, or Dhyânis Dhyânis: high-level spiritual beings in Eastern philosophy], brought forth a wonder . . . seven Men, all both male and female [Androgynous] . . . according to the nature of the seven Governors" (ii. 29), or the seven Hosts of the Pitris Pitris: "fathers" or ancestral spirits who provide the blueprint for human forms or Elohim, who projected or created him. This is very clear. Yet, look at the interpretations of even our modern theologians—men who are supposed to be intellectual and learned. In the Theological and Philosophical Works of Hermes Trismegistus, Christian [?] Neoplatonist, a work compiled by John David Chambers of Oriel College, Oxford, the translator wonders "for whom these seven Men are intended?" He solves the difficulty by concluding that, as "the original pattern Man [the Adam Kadmon Adam Kadmon: the Primordial Man or universal archetype in the Kabbalah of Genesis i] was masculine-feminine . . . the seven may signify the succeeding patriarchs named in Genesis" (p. 9). This is truly a theological way of cutting the Gordian knot!

† George Smith’s Chaldean Account of Genesis, p. 103.

‡ Compare the Zohar, the Siphra Dzenioutha original: "Siphra Dzenioutha"; The Book of Concealment, and the Idra Suta original: "Idra Suta"; The Lesser Holy Assembly, 2928; also Adolphe Franck's The Kabbalah original: "La Kabbale", p. 205.

§ Book of Concealment original: "Siphra Dzenioutha".

|| Since it is now asserted that the Chaldæan tablets—which give the allegorical description of Creation, the Fall, and the Flood, and even the legend of the Tower of Babel—were written "before the time of Moses" (Smith’s Chaldean Account of Genesis), how can the Pentateuch Pentateuch: the first five books of the Hebrew Bible be called a "revelation"? It is simply another version of the same story.