Vach Is Not Mere Speech: The Feminine Logos

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky · Confusing Words Series · 7 pages

To call Vach simply "speech", the file argues, is deficient in clearness. Vach is the mystic personification of speech and the female Logos, one with Brahma, who created her out of one half of his own body when he divided it in two; she is also one with Viraj, the female Viraj, who was created in her by Brahma. Two senses are kept apart: in one, Vach is the speech by which knowledge was taught to man; in the other she is the mystic secret speech which descends upon and enters into the primeval Rishis, as the tongues of fire are said to have done.

The relation the file keeps returning to is the doubled one — that Vach is at once the daughter and the mother of the Logos, exactly as Isis is the daughter and the mother of Osiris, who is Horus. The genealogy and gender of the Logos and its Light are worked out from there, with the noumenal and phenomenal treated as poles apart in the same way that the metaphysical and physical worlds are. One comparison is drawn between a literal and an allegorical reading of the same figure: Lot is guilty of physical incest with his daughters, while Prajapati accomplishes the same thing allegorically. The identification that closes it places Aditi-Vach, the feminine Logos, as the same as the Sephirah of the Kabbalah, the Great Sea.

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