Theos-Talk Archives (January 2002 Message tt00053)

Brigitte:

Yes, I am sure you know that the metaphor of a point
within a circle, which appears in both Isis and the
SD, comes straight from the Lurianic Kabbalah. The
use of the word "ray" in connection with this
metaphoe, which can be found in the SD, was first seen
in Eliphas Levi. That wors is not used by any other
pre-Blavatsky writer that I am aware of, except for
Albert Pike, who quotes Levi. So the metaphor and the
peculiar use of language both disclose the sources
used.

I did not get this from Deveney, either. I read about
it in Waite, Pike, and Scholem's nooks/

Steve

--- bri_mue <bri_mue@yahoo.com> wrote:
> To Leon and Jerry.
> 
> Here is another Quote from Blavatsky (no Daniel I
> didn't get it from 
> Devene, Mathiesen, or Santucci, it is from the SD )
> the bears strong 
> resemblance to Randolph (or a Lurianic kabbalistic
> view) than to 
> Buddhism or anything like "Boddhism" in the east.
> 
> The Monad emerges from its state of spiritual and
> intellectual 
> unconsciousness; and-gets directly into the plane of
> Mentality. But 
> there is no place in the whole universe with a wider
> margin, or a 
> wider field of action in its almost endless
> gradations of perceptive 
> and apperceptive qualities, than this plane, which
> has in its turn 
> an appropriate smaller plane for every "form", from
> the "mineral" 
> monad up to the time when that monad blossoms forth
> by evolution into 
> the Divine Monad. But all the time it is still one
> and the same 
> Monad, differing only in its incarnations,
> throughout its ever 
> succeeding cycles of partial or total obscuration
> into the depths of 
> materiality. (SD I: p.175) 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Brigitte
> 
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> 
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> 
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