Hobbits? Funny but boring people. I'm waiting for the Sith to arrive. And better yet, hot little Vulcans.
Whatever; people try all kinds of things to justify a belief in magic, usually boils down to conclusion first, then digging for anything that they can think of, twist, or invent to justify it. Meanwhile; reason suggests using evidence to point to a conclusion. Evidence from the Bible is simple hearsay. People wrote the books in it and who knows how those people thought, what led them to their thoughts, etc.? At the same time, science deals with evidence and facts that are testable and reproduceable. So who knows whether Moses had time, space, and matter in mind? Maybe the dude just wrote out a dream. Maybe he was just a nutcase. Too many maybes, questions, and not enough evidence.
Any science not sufficiently magical isn't worth the effort.
It is difficult to find a definite point of beginning for the elucidation, the story being closely knit of interrelated elements. But the door opens as well at verse one of the first chapter as anywhere else.
And here at once we are faced with a most incompetent translation. "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." It can not be said that this is utterly wrong; it is better to say that it doesn’t render the true and the full meaning. Learned scholars might know what the text means to say under such verbiage, as a sort of shorthand expression. But it has amounted to a crime to permit this terse and inadequate statement to go out in the world of unschooled devotees to shape their basic conception of life. No one perhaps can prescribe the exact words for a fully expressive translation. But something far closer to the inherent intent of the language would be a reading like the following:
"Out of (their) primordial Being the Elohim engendered spirit and matter." To paraphrase it a little more elaborately, it might be put:
"From out the depths of Infinite Being the Elohim formed the upper and the lower ranges of life." The upper and lower worlds, or heaven and earth, in ancient typology definitely connoted spirit and matter, for the upper are spiritual and the lower are material. The straight idea is:
From the head source of Being the creative powers created life in its two aspects of spirit and matter.
The first verse of
Genesis, then, states this initial event, the passing of life from uni-polarity to bi-polarity.
Life must first bifurcate into subject and object. The statement must be taken, however, as purely philosophical, with abstract significance only; it does not refer to
The bifurcation of the One into positive and negative force to become the parent of all life is typified in the scriptures by several figures, the main one being the "cleft of the rock." The profound sense of this simple figure has been utterly missed by the theologians, learned or unlearned, for fifteen centuries. It was not discerned because the alphabet of the sacred language of sym
AB KUHN
LET THERE BE LIGHT ON GENISIS
Through these life comes to manifestation. A triangle is the first perfect figure because it is the first figure in which the line starting from source, going outward and bending in the direction of another dimension, comes back to unite with itself at point of departure. With great precision this matches the
Platonic statement or analysis of the natural trinity of life. For they say that life becomes triadic or manifests triadically because it can do only three things: (1), it abides (on its own plane, unmoved); (2), it proceeds or energizes, affecting things beneath itself; and, (3), it converts back to its origin, or returns. And life force, deploying outward and passing through the triadic mode of activity, splits into the basic seven rays or modifications of its own nature. This is an indispensable fundamentum of the occult teaching of old. It is a
great truth. And its validity is attested by no less an authority than Nature herself. Once religion is set up again on its original pedestal of impregnable natural fact, it may serve the mind of man with all its primal beneficence.
