Lunar Myth and Worship Through the Ages

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky · Secret Doctrine's First Proposition Series · 28 pages

Twenty-eight pages arranged as an abstract and train of thoughts followed by *two numbered mysteries*, with a frontispiece by Lady Yana Dhyana.

The framing claim is a division of labour between the two lights: the sun is the giver of life to the whole planetary system, and the moon the giver of life to our globe, with Diana, Hecate and Luna named as three forms of one essence. From that the study moves quickly to its polemical point — that the Hindus proudly call themselves descendants of solar and lunar dynasties while Christians affect to regard such beliefs as idolatry, though adhering to a religion the file says is entirely based on solar and lunar worship. The first mystery, the androgynous moon, is approached through the rule stated across this whole series, that one symbol carries several keys: the lowest key to the moon symbol is anthropomorphic and phallic, the highest purely theogonic and divine. Read on the lower key, the whole pantheon of lunar gods and goddesses is said to consist of sons and husbands of their own mothers. The second mystery, called the riddle of the two Ones, states the doctrine positively: the one divine essence, ever unmanifested, perpetually begets a second One, manifested and androgynous, which brings forth immaculately everything macrocosmic and microcosmic — while human procreation in the regions of matter is something else altogether. The historical section traces Deus Lunus, a male lunar deity, becoming overtly androgyne in the Lemurian race when the sexes separated, its dual power afterwards exploited by Atlantean sorcerers, and the same solar-lunar worship continuing in the present race and dividing nations into two antagonistic cults.

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