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THE KEY OF KNOWLEDGE.
(the Creator) stands for Imagination, which comprises both the will and the creative energies, in metaphorical speech, the Word as representing the creative logoi. The latter constitute the Satarupa, of the Upanishad, the personification of a hundred* forms. When these two, i.e., the Prajapati and Satarupa, are taken as one, the metaphorical description of the Upanishad, that is, the embrace between husband and wife, best explains the situation. But if we separate the Word, or collectively the 'ideas,' the Satarupa of the Upanishad, from the creative Mind, which holds her in himself-according to St. John also the Word was with God and was God-the husband and wife no longer remain 'one,' or embracing each other. † So the Upanishad says that she, i.e., Satarupa, was separated from him. Now, inasmuch as the phenomenal world has been conceived to consist in the forms of knowledge, a general dissolution must be predicated, whenever Intelligence taking Satarupa in its embrace becomes merged in Will. Intelligence with his wife, Satarupa, then resembles an egg, which, as the Hindu Puranas and Manu's Shastra teach, lay in the ocean of Consciousness. This mundane egg, in due course of time, again divides itself into two, the upper and the lower halves, the dawn of a new world-morning takes place. Noah's Ark is another synbolism in point, Noah being the Male or the active Principle, and the Ark, the emblem of the female organ, the
* The word hundred here implies all the forms of understanding, i.C., types of constructive rhythm.
f Probably this is the idea intended by the Mythical statement in Genesis III. 20, according to which Eve, the mother of all living, was made from a rib taken out of Adam's body.
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