Theos-Talk Archives (July 2007 Message tt00001)

  Yeah, I got than name "Protogonos" in a dream, and had to look it up
to see what it meant!

          - jake j.


--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "danielhcaldwell"
<danielhcaldwell@...> wrote:
>
> In H.P. Blavatsky's THE THEOSOPHICAL GLOSSARY, one finds
> Protogonos defined as:
> 
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> (Gr.). The "first-born"; used of all the manifested gods and of the 
> Sun in our system. 
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> 
> In the online index to THE SECRET DOCTRINE, one finds the
> following entries on "Protogonos (oi)" (Gk) firstborn 
> 
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> called dis by Damascius I 70, 343 &n 
> firstborn form & idea II 25 
> firstborn gods II 43, 490n, 703n 
> firstborn light I 70, 343 
> manifested Logos II 592 
> not yet mirrored in chaos II 704 &n 
> produced fr spirit & chaos I 70 
> "unknown Light" reflected in II 703n
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> http://www.theosophy-nw.org/theosnw/ctg/pr.htm
> 
> See also:
> 
> http://www.theoi.com/Cat_Protogenoi.html
> 
> See also ISIS UNVEILED, Volume 2, page 213 :
> 
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> When the time for an active period had come, then was produced a 
> natural expansion of this Divine essence from within outwardly, 
> obedient to eternal and immutable law; and from this eternal and 
> infinite light (which to us is darkness) was emitted a spiritual 
> substance.* This was the First Sephiroth, containing in herself the 
> other nine  Sephiroth, or intelligences. In their totality and unity 
> they represent the archetypal man, Adam Kadmon, the [[protogonos]], 
> who in his individuality or unity is yet dual, or bisexual, the Greek 
> Didumos, for he is the prototype of all humanity. 
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> Quoted from:
> http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/isis/iu2-05.htm
> 
> Daniel
> Blavatsky Study Center
> http://hpb.cc
>