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THE REV. J. J. B. COLES, ON THEOSOPHY. 



worship, Him declare I unto you." " He Himself giveth to all 

 life and breath and all things." And (referring back to the 

 quotation at the head of this paper and its immediate context) — 



. . . " And things that ' are not,' that He might bring to 

 nought the things ' that are ' — that no flesh should glory before 

 God." 



The Logos of Theosophy. 



Let us now see what is the teaching of Theosophy as to the 

 Logos of this world — of this solar system. 



in The Secret Doctrine by H. P. B., 2nd Ed., 1888, vol. ii, 

 p. 215, we read : — 



" So little have the first Christians (who despoiled the Jews of 

 their Bible) understood the first four chapters of Genesis in their 

 esoteric meaning, that they never perceived that not only was no sin 

 intended in their disobedience, but that actually the Serpent was the 

 Lord God Himself, who as the Ophis, the Logos, or the bearer of 

 divine creative wisdom, taught mankind to become creators in their 

 turn. They never realised that the Cross was an evolution from 

 the Tree and Serpent, and thus became the salvation of mankind. 

 By this it would become the very first fundamental Symbol of 

 Creative Cause, applying to geometry, to numbers, to astronomy, to 

 measure, aud to animal reproduction." 



In A Study in Consciousness, by Mrs. Besant, pp. 8-9, we 

 read : — 



" Every Logos of a universe repeats this universal Self- 

 Consciousness : in His activity. He is the creative Mind, Kriya — 

 corresponding to the universal Sat — the Brahma of the Hindu, the 

 Holy Spirit of the Christian, the Chochma of the Kabbahst. In 

 His Wisdom, He is the preserving, ordering, Eeason, Jnana — 

 corresponding to the universal Chit — the Vishnu of the Hindu, the 

 Son of the Christian, the Binah of the Kabbalist. In His Bliss, 

 He is the Dissolver of forms, the Will, Ichchha — corresponding to 

 the universal Ananda — the Shiva of the Hindu, the Father of the 

 Christian, the Zepher of the Kabbalist. Thus appear in every 

 universe the three Logoi, the three Beings who create, preserve, and 

 destroy their universe, each showing forth predominantly in His 

 function in the universe, one ruling aspect, to which the other two 

 are subordinate, though of course ever-present. Hence every 

 manifested God is spoken of as a Trinity. The joining of these three 

 Aspects, or phases of manifestation, at their outer points of contact 

 with the circle, gives the basic Triangle of contact with Matter, 

 which, with the three Triangles made with the lines traced by the 

 Point, thus yields the divine Tetractys, sometimes called the Kosmic 

 Quaternary, the three divine Aspects in contact with matter, ready 



