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Now to summarize the facts stated in this article, the contents of the first chapter of the history of this universe are as follows:—

(1).	The Self-existent, eternal Brahmam.
(2).	Pranava (Aum).
(3).	The androgyne Brâhma, or the bisexual Sephira-Adam Kadmon.
(4).	The Sacred Tetragram—the four mâtras of Pranava—the four avasthâs—the four states of Brahma—the Scared Thárakam.
(5).	The five Brahmas—the five Buddhas—representing in their totality the Jeevâtma.
(6).	The astral light—the holy virgin—the six forces in nature.
(7).	The thirty-six Tatwams born of Avidya.
(8).	The universe in thought—the Swapna Avastha—the miscrocosm looked at from a subjective point of view.
(9).	The nine Prajapatis—the assistants of the Demiurgus.*[1]
(10).	The shape of the material universe in the mind of the Demiurgus—the Dodecahedron.
(11).	The fourteen lôkams.
(12).	The five elements.

The history of creation and of this world from its beginning up to the present time is composed of Seven chapters. The Seventh chapter is not yet completed.

Triplicane, Madras, 14th September, 1881.

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1. * The nine Kabalistic Sephiroths emanated from Sephira, the 10th, and the head Sephiroth are identical. Three trinities or triads with their emanative principle from the Pythagorean mystic Decad, the sum of all which represents the whole Kosmos:—ED. Theos.