Theos-Talk Archives (May 1998 Message tt00411)

W. Dallas TenBroeck <dalval@nwc.net> quotes
>'... the never manifested MONAD which lives in solitude and
>darkness, when the hour strikes it radiates from itself ONE, the
>first number.
>
>This number, descending, produces TWO, the second number. and TWO
>in its turn, produces THREE, forming a Triangle, the first
>complete geometrical figure in the world of form.

But two-dimensional, without substance.
>
>It is the ideal or abstract triangle which becomes the POINT in
>the Mundane Egg, which, after gestation, and in the third remove,
>will start from the Egg to form the (second) Triangle.

Where substance, and creation as we perceive it begins.
>
>This is "Brahma-Vach-Viraj"  [ Cause - Word - Will ] in the
>Hindu philosophy and "Kether-Chochmah-Binah" in the "Zohar."

Not the Zohar specifically, but Kabbalah generally. ONE = Crown,
TWO = Wisdom, THREE = Understanding.
>
>The First Manifested Logos if the "Potentia," the 'unrevealed
>Cause;'
>
>The Second, is the still latent 'Thought,'
>
>The Third, is the Demiurgos, the active Will, evolving from its
>universal Self the active effect, which in turn, becomes the
>"Cause" on a still lower plane."

>[ see SD I 130 ]                                        HPB --
>Transactions, p 83.

These three do not equate with the Kabbalist theosophy, as 'Thought' is
not itself 'Wisdom' and 'Understanding' is passive, not active in relation
to 'Wisdom' but active in relation to FOUR, "Chesed" - equivalent to
'Mercy' 'Justice' and 'Love'.  Each Kabbalistic downward spiral into
manifestion is the effect of that which precedes it, and the cause of that
which follows it.

See my "Keys to Kabbalah" which may be downloaded *free* from
the website below.
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