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BY the word of Elohim were the seven Elohim
manifest:
2. Even the seven Spirits of God, in
the order of their precedence:
3. The Spirit of Wisdom, the Spirit
of Understanding, the Spirit of Counsel, the Spirit of Power, the Spirit of
Knowledge, the Spirit of Righteousness, and the Spirit of Divine Awfulness.
4. All these are coequal and
coeternal.
5. Each has the nature of the whole
in itself: and each is a perfect entity.
6. And the brightness of their
manifestation shineth forth from the midst of each, as
wheel within wheel, encircling the White Throne of the Invisible Trinity in
Unity.
7. These are the Divine fires which
burn before the presence of God: which proceed from the Spirit, and are one with
the Spirit.
8. He is divided, yet not diminished:
He is All, and He is One.
9. For the Spirit of God is a flame
of fire which the Word of God divideth into many: yet
the original flame is not decreased, nor the power thereof nor the brightness
thereof lessened.
10. Thou mayest
light many lamps from the flame of one; yet thou dost in nothing diminish that
first flame.
11. Now the Spirit of God is
expressed by the Word of God, which is Adonai.
12. For without the Word the Will
could have had no utterance.
13. Thus the Divine Will divided the
Spirit of God, and the seven fires went forth from the bosom of God, and became
seven spiritual entities.
14. They went forth into the Divine
Substance, which is the substance of all that is.
15. Now the Divine Substance is the
great deep: that is the first protoplasma.
16. She encircles and embraces all
things, and of Her are dimension, and form, and
appearance.
17. Her veil is the astral fluid; She is the soul of individuals and the receptacle of the
Divine nucleus.
18. Now the Divine Substance is not
matter, but She is matter in its potential essence.
19. She is the manifestation of
personality, enclosing the Divine nucleus.
20. There are some entities which
remain for ever invisible and intangible, being constituted only of two
elements, that is of spirit and of soul.
21. These are fluidic beings,
changing their external forms according to the will of the Spirit which they
have received.
22. They are persons, because the plasmic substance which envelops the spirit of each, hinders the intimate union of that spirit with other
spirit.
23. Spirit alone is diffuse, and the
naked flame is liable to fuse with other flames.
24. But the flame which is enclosed
in substance has become an indiffusible personality.
25. Other entities there are which
are visible and tangible to material sense.
26. For the Divine Substance which
encloses the spirit of each, coagulates exteriorly and becomes matter in the
outermost.
27. So that the entity is composed of
spirit, soul, and corporeal appearance.
28. The outermost has become
coagulate; its inner content is fluid substance; its innermost is spirit.
29. The innermost is intangible
light, which is the first generation; manifest by the Will of God through the
Word of God.
30. The fluid medium is the
firmament, which the Will of God divided from out of the great deep.
31. And the outermost is the dry
earth, which is matter; which the Will of God causeth
to appear by the gathering together of the waters, that
is of the first protoplasma.
32. As of
the greater, so also of the lesser.
33. This is the great secret; it is
the mystery of generation.
34. Now of these two kinds of
entities, invisible and visible, there are innumerable varieties and orders,
having different functions, consistence, form, and tinctures, and dimension.
35. There are thrones, and dominions,
and principalities, and powers.
36. There are
Christs, and prophets, and saints, and congregations of the elect. (1)
37. And concerning these the Spirit shall give you discernment hereafter.
(145:1) Referring to this Illumination,
Edward Maitland, in an article on “The New
Gospel of Interpretation,” in The Unknown World, 1894,
p. 11, says; “Proceeding from the Father-Mother [Elohim] through the Son [Adonai]
(...) and from static and passive become dynamic and active, Deity is called
Holy Ghost, and differentiates like light into seven rays, which are the seven
creative Elohim or Spirits of God, who are the efficient potencies in creation.”
S.H.H.
(147:1) “Election is by no arbitrary appointment. The
elect are all who make love their rule, conscience their guide, and a pure ideal
their aim. Thus are they seekers after the perfection which is God.”
(Lecture by E.M. on “The Nature and History of the Ego”).
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