Abrahm, Isaac, and Judah Are the Hindu Brahma, Ikshvaku, and Yadu

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky · Blavatsky Speaks Series · 18 pages

The claim in the title is made without hedging: that the patriarchs of Genesis are the gods and kings of the Indian pantheon under other names, and that the Old Testament was milked out of the most ingenious brains of the Hebrew Kabbalists, partly in Egypt and partly in Babylonia. Abrahm is read as no-Brahman and identified with Brahma, the Chaldean father of ancient nations, on the ground that Abram and Brahma carry the same numerical value.

The method behind that is set out as a general principle, and it is the most useful thing in the study: every god and hero in the ancient pantheons has three biographies running in parallel — historical, astronomical and mythical — with localities made to correspond to astronomical and psychic events as well. History, on this reading, was taken captive by ancient Mystery and became the great Sphinx of our own times. Around the central argument sit the Parabrahman and Mulaprakriti of the Vedantins set against the Ain-Soph and Shekhinah of the Kabbalists, the Aum that became the Greek Aion and the Roman Aevum, the case of Aeschylus condemned for profaning the Mysteries, and a section on the Rota of Enoch — now the Taro — which a papal bull denounced as an invention of Hell.

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