Theos-Talk Archives (May 2001 Message tt00149)

SUBJECT: Boris de Zirkoff has completely done away with the word "sacr'"
WHY?

To possibly throw some light on Tony's question concerning "WHY?", I give
BELOW from the original edition of the SECRET DOCTRINE the following four
relevant quotations.

I have a good number of questions myself on this subject that I would like
to ask Tony, Eldon and other students of the SD. I will ask them in my
next email.

Part of Tony's orginal statement is at the very END of this email.

Daniel

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QUOTATION A:

“. . . With the races of our Fifth Race it became in symbology the sacr',
and in Hebrew n'cabvah, of the first-formed races;* then it changed into
the Egyptian . . . .” SD, I, 5

Footnote marked * reads: 

“See that suggestive work, ‘The Source of Measures,’ where the authorexplains
the real meaning of the word ‘sacr',’ from which ‘sacred,’ ‘sacrament,’
are derived, which have now become synonyms of ‘holiness,’ though purely
phallic!”

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QUOTATION B:

“In the unpublished MSS. on the Art Speech, already mentioned, giving a
key to the formation of the ancient (symbolical) languages a logical raison
d'etre is brought forward for this double worship. It is written by a wonderfully
well-informed and acute scholar and Mystic. . . . Thus, he says: -- . .
. 

‘. . . These parturient and natural periods are found to have been subjects
of symbolism all over the world. They were thus used by the Hindus, and
are found to be most plainly set forth by the ancient Americans, in the
Richardson and Gest tablets, in the Palenque Cross; and manifestly lay at
the base of the formation of the calendar forms of the Mayas of Yucatan,
the Hindus, the Assyrians, and the ancient Babylonians, as well as the Egyptians
and old Hebrews. The natural symbols . . . would be either the phallus or
the phallus and yoni, . . . or male and female. Indeed, the words translated
by the generalizing terms male and female, in the 27th verse of the 1st
chapter of Genesis are . . . sacr and n'cabrah, or literally, phallus and
yoni,**** while the representation of the phallic emblems would barely indicate
the genital members of the human body, when their functions and the development
of the seed-vesicles emanating from them was considered; then would come
into indication a mode of measures of lunar time, and, through lunar, of
solar time.’ . . .” SD, I, 388-390

Footnote marked **** reads: 

“**** ‘Male and female, created he them.’”


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QUOTATION C:

“. . . Adam is the collective name for man and woman: ‘male and female
(Zachar va Nakobeh) created he them . . . and called their name Adam.’ ”
SD, II, 127


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QUOTATION D:

“Adam, as the supposed great "Progenitor of the human race," is, as Adam
Kadmon, made in the image of God -- a priapic image, therefore. The Hebrew
words sacr and n'cabvah are, literally translated, lingham (phallus) and
yoni, notwithstanding their translation in the Bible (Genesis i. v. 27.)
"male and female." As said there "God creates 'Man in his own image'. .
. . . in the image of God created he him, male and female created he them,"
the androgyne Adam-Kadmon. Now this Kabalistic name is not that of a living
man, nor even of a human or divine Being, but of the two sexes or organs
of procreation, called in Hebrew with that usual sincerity of language pre-eminently
Biblical, sacr and n'cabvah*; these two being, therefore, the image under
which the "Lord God" appeared usually to his chosen people. That this is
so, is now undeniably proven by almost all the symbologists and Hebrew scholars
as well as by the Kabala. Therefore Adam is in one sense Jehovah. . . .”
SD, II, 467

Footnote marked * reads: 

“Jehovah says to Moses ‘the Summation of my name is Sacr, the carrier of
the germ’ -- phallus. ‘It is the vehicle of the annunciation, and the sacr
has passed down through ages to the sacr-factum of the Roman priest, and
the sacr-fice, and sacrament of the English speaking race.’ (Source of Measures,
p. 236) Thence marriage is a sacrament in the Greek and Roman Churches.”

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Tony Maddock wrote in part to Eldon Tucker:
.......................
>
>In the original edition, on page 5, after the 6th symbol, a circle with
>a
>vertical line, the text reads:
>
>"the circle, or sexless life modified or separated -- a double glyph or
>symbol. With the races of our Fifth Race it became in symbology the sacr',
>and in Hebrew n'cabvah, of the first-formed races;*"
>
>In the de Zirkoff edition it becomes (capitals added to try and make the
>alterations clearer):
>
>"the circle, or sexless life modified or separated -- a double glyph or
>symbol. With the [SUB]races of our Fifth Race it became in symbology the
>HEBREW ZAKHAR and NEGEBAH of the first-formed races;*"
>
>The footnote in the original reads:
>
>* See that suggestive work, "The Source of Measures," where the author
>explains the real meaning of the word "sacr'," from which "sacred,"
>"sacrament," are derived, which have now become synonyms of "holiness,"
>though purely phallic!
>
>The footnote in the de Zirkoff edition reads:
>
>* See that suggestive work, "The Source of Measures," (1875, PP 326-237)
>where the author explains the real meaning of the word "ZAKHAR," from which
>[HE DERIVES] "sacred," AND "sacrament," which have now become synonyms
of
>"holiness," though purely phallic!8
>
>Boris de Zirkoff has completely done away with the word "sacr'" WHY?
>
>In a note at the end Boris elaborates and writes in part "...but when the
>ordinary Hebrew word ZAKHAR is taken into consideration the interpretation
>becomes somewhat strained..." Boris de Zirkoff is the one who introduces
>and uses the word ZAKHAR, not H.P.B., nor Ralston Skinner. Neither of
them
>mention it. So what is he going on about? He has become his own strain.
>
................

Daniel H. Caldwell
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