Theos-Talk Archives (January 2002 Message tt00072)

<<<The use of the word "ray" in connection with this
metaphoe, which can be found in the SD, was first seen in Eliphas Levi. That wors is not used by any other pre-Blavatsky writer that I am aware of, except for Albert Pike, who quotes Levi. So the metaphor and the peculiar use of language both disclose the sources used.>>>

Steve, you may be right about the word "ray," I don't know. But the idea of divinity self-manifesting can be found in ancient Egypt where the god Tmu was said to be self-manifesting. The idea of a self-manifesting divinity is equivalent to the idea of a causeless-cause. Both are necessary assumptions that we humans have to make in any attempt to explain creation.

Jerry S.
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