Electra: The Noumenon of Cosmic Electricity

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Sophocles, Euripides, Richard Claverhouse Jebb (T), Edward Philip Coleridge (T) · Hellenic and Hellenistic Papers Series · 84 pages

An eighty-four page compilation setting the two surviving Electra plays — Sophocles in Richard Claverhouse Jebb's translation and Euripides in Edward Philip Coleridge's — inside a doctrinal frame drawn from Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, with an abstract and train of thoughts at the front. It is the longest set document in the section.

The frame is announced on the title page: Electra is Fohat, the noumenon of intra-cosmic electricity, Fohat being the energising and guiding intelligence in the universal electric or vital fluid. The abstract builds that identification by way of the mythology. Astronomically the Atlantides have become the seven Pleiades, connected with sound and other mystic principles in nature; they married gods and became the mothers of famous heroes and the founders of nations and cities; and Electra, one of the seven, is read as the universal force that is the essence and origin of life and life itself. Cosmic electricity is then described as an androgynous energy resulting from Absolute Wisdom mirroring itself in its own ideation and impressing ideas upon matter — Electra as the spirit of electricity moving in circular motion, collecting primordial dust into balls, binding and separating, and present as much in a dead body as a living one and in inorganic as in organic matter. The general principle drawn is that Force and Matter, Spirit and Matter, Deity and Nature, though they appear as opposite poles in their manifestations, are dual aspects of one ultimate state. The two plays then follow in full, so that the reader can weigh the reading against the texts rather than take it on the compiler's word.

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