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

that it will provoke passionate denial. The Occultists, however, know that the traditions of Esoteric Philosophy must be the correct ones, simply because they are the most logical and reconcile every difficulty. Besides, we have the Egyptian Books of Thoth and Book of the Dead, and the Hindu Puranas with their seven Manus Manus: in Hindu mythology, the ancestral progenitors of humanity who preside over different ages of the world, as well as the Chaldeo-Assyrian accounts. The tablets from those accounts mention seven primitive Men, or "Adams," the real meaning of which name may be determined by using the Kabbalah original: "Kabalah". Those who know anything of the Samothracian Mysteries Samothrace: an island in the northern Aegean Sea, famous in antiquity for its secretive religious rites will also remember that the collective name of the Kabiri Kabiri: (also Cabiri) ancient deities of the mystery religions associated with fire, metallurgy, and fertility was the "Holy Fires." These fires created, on seven locations of the island of Electria (or Samothrace), the "Kabiri born of the Holy Lemnos"—the island sacred to Vulcan original: "Vulcan"; the Roman god of fire and metalworking, known to the Greeks as Hephaestus.

According to the poet Pindar, this Kabir—whose name was Adamas—was, in the traditions of Lemnos, the model of the primitive man born from the heart of the Earth. He was the archetype archetype: a first or original model from which others are copied of the first males in the order of generation and was one of the seven autochthonous autochthonous: indigenous, or literally "born from the earth" rather than descended from ancestors elsewhere ancestors or progenitors of mankind.† If we combine this with the fact that Samothrace was colonized by the Phoenicians, and before them by the mysterious Pelasgians who came from the East, and also remember the shared identity of the "Mystery" Gods of the Phoenicians, Chaldeans, and Israelites, it becomes easy to discover the source of the confused account of the Noachian Deluge Noachian Deluge: the Great Flood associated with Noah in the Bible. It has recently become undeniable that the Jews (who obtained their primitive ideas about creation from Moses, who in turn had them from the Egyptians) compiled their Genesis and first traditions about the beginning of the world from the Chaldeo-Akkadian account when they were rewritten by Ezra and others. It is, therefore, sufficient to examine the Babylonian and Assyrian cuneiform and other inscriptions to find, scattered here and there, not only the original meaning of the name Adam, Admi, or Adami, but also the creation of seven "Adams" or roots of Men. These were born of Mother Earth physically, and of the Divine Fire of the Progenitors spiritually or astrally. One could hardly expect Assyriologists Assyriologists: scholars who study the language, history, and culture of ancient Mesopotamia, who are unaware of Esoteric teachings, to pay any more attention to the mysterious and recurring number seven on the Babylonian cylinders than they pay to it when finding it in Genesis and the rest of the Bible. Yet the numbers of the ancestral spirits and their seven groups of human offspring are present on the cylinders, despite the crumbling condition of the fragments, and are to...

* Philosophumena original: "Philosophumena"; a 3rd-century text describing ancient philosophies and religious beliefs, book 5, chapter 7; Miller's edition, page 98.
† Ibid. original: "Ibid."; abbreviation for ibidem, meaning "in the same place" as the previous citation, page 108.