Tetragrammaton Is the Key to Occult Theogony

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky · Secret Doctrine's First Proposition Series · 33 pages

Thirty-three pages with a full abstract and train of thoughts. *It is written as a reply*: four statements said to come from the Kabbalah had been brought forward against the septenary doctrine, and the file sets out to show that all four are wrong.

The position argued is that the Tetragrammaton — the four letters of the divine name — is a mask concealing its polar connection with the supernal and the infernal worlds, and that it is Microprosopus, the Lesser Face, the infernal reflection of Macroprosopus, the Limitless Face. The distinction the file most wants a reader to keep is between names: AHIH and IHVH are treated as glyphs of existence and symbols of terrestrial-androgynous life, and are not to be confounded with EHEIEH, which is identified with the Parabrahman of the Vedantist, the That of the Chhandogya Upanishad, the Absolute of Hegel, the One Life of the Buddhist and the Ain-Soph — the first two being transient reflections of the last, and therefore illusions of separateness. A courteous aside on method is worth noting, since it governs the tone of the reply: ignorance is called the curse of God, but knowledge barely understood is likened to a headstrong horse that throws its rider, with the observation that admitting ignorance is the first step to enlightenment. The Tetragrammaton is then described as a phantom veiled with four breaths, at once dual, triple, quaternary and septenary; when the human quaternary, purified of earthly pollution, begins vibrating in unison with the cosmic one, the Pythagorean Tetractys is said to be formed in a living man, and man is described as a cube unfolding as a cross. The closing section places the Lesser Countenance in the fourth kabbalistic world, explains Father-Mother as bisexual material belonging to the creative world out of which the Son or universe is formed, and treats that Son, Microprosopus, as a blind to conceal the septenary constitution of man from the profane — the name IHVH being readable, when read symbolically, in two ways or in twelve.

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