Thoth, Numerically, Is the Equivalent of Hermes and Moses

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky · Blavatsky Speaks Series · 17 pages

Seventeen pages of comparative etymology and number-symbolism, and the closest companion in the library to the study of Abrahm, Isaac and Judah in the first batch of this section. The organising claim is stated at the head — that there is but one Law, one Principle, one Agent, one Truth, one Word — and the title gives the specific case: that Thoth is numerically the equivalent of Hermes and of Moses.

The material assembled around it is unusually concrete. With Moses, Elohim and Jehovah are treated as numerical indices of geometrical relations, standing for a diameter value and a circumference value respectively. Aditi, the primordial Water of Space, is identified as the original of Sephirah and crown of the Sephiroth. The philological section is the most striking: Mount Sumeru is called the father of the Greek Parnassos and Tomaros, the Hindu Kailasa the father of the Greek Koilon, and even the German Himmel is traced to the Himalaya. From the same source, she argues, came most of the biblical personages — Abram among them, read as a Chaldean Brahman who became A-brahm, no-Brahman, and emigrated westward to be called the father of many nations.

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