Theos-Talk Archives (August 2005 Message tt00208)

H.P. Blavatsky wrote:

"Vach seems, in many an aspect, to approach the Chinese Kwan-yin, but 
there is no regular worship of Vach under this name in India, as
there is of Kwan-Yin in China. No exoteric religious system has ever
adopted a female Creator, and thus woman was regarded and treated, 
from the first dawn of popular religions, as inferior to man. It is 
only in China and Egypt that Kwan-Yin and Isis were placed on a par 
with the male gods. Esotericism ignores both sexes. Its highest Deity 
is sexless as it is formless, neither Father nor Mother; and its
first manifested beings, celestial and terrestrial alike, become only 
gradually androgynous and finally separate into distinct sexes."
SD, I, 135fn.