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nature (or God), as the basis or law of the exertions practically of creative design;" and that it also underlies the Biblical structures, being found in the measurements given for Solomon's temple, the ark of the Covenant, Noah's ark, etc., etc.,—in all the symbolical myths, in short, of the Bible.
And what are the figures, the measure in which the sacred Cubit is derived from the esoteric Quadrature, which the Initiates know to have been contained in the Tetraktis of Pythagoras? Why it is the universal primordial symbol. The figures found in the Ansated Gross of Egypt, (as I maintain) in the Indian Swastika, "the sacred sign" which embellishes the thousand heads of Sesha, the Serpent-cycle of eternity, on which rests Vishnu, the deity in Infinitude; and which also may be pointed out in the threefold (treta) fire of Pururavas, the first fire in the present Manvantara, out of the forty-nine (7×7) mystic fires. It may be absent from many of the Hindu books, but the Vishnu and other Puranas teem with this symbol and figure under every possible form, which I mean to prove in the "Secret Doctrine." The author of the "Source of Measures" does not, of course, himself know as yet the whole scope of what he has discovered. He applies his key, so far, only to the esoteric language and the symbology in the Bible, and the Books of Moses especially. The great error of the able author, in my opinion, is, that he applies the key discovered by him chifly to post-Atlantean and quasi-historical phallic elements in the world religions; feeling, intuitioually, a nobler, or higher, a more transcendental meaning in all this—only in the Bible,—and a mere sexual worship in all other religions. This phallic element, however, in the older pagan worship related, in truth, to the physiological evolution of the human races, something that could not be discovered in the Bible, as it is absent from it, (the Pentateuch being the latest of all the old Scriptures.) Nevertheless, what the learned author has discovered and proved mathematically, is wonderful enough, and sufficient to make our claim good: namely, that the figures ◯ △ ▭ and 3, 4 = 7, are at the very basis, and are the soul of cosmogony and the evolution of mankind.
