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11. TRIMURTHY
In the beginning was God
First there is Ain. (neti = not that) Ain is, Nothingness, The Existence, the Great Emptiness, The Absolute, The Originless Origin of all manifestation. It is not knowable, it is indescribable, everything we say about it, and it is not. It is denoted by Darkness. He resides in darkness. Underneath his feet is darkness so that none can know Him. In every cosmogony, behind and higher than the creative Deity there is a superior Deity, a planner, an architect, of whom the Creator is but the executive agent. There is the UNKNOWABLE and the unknown, the Source and Cause of all these Emanations.
This nothingness gave birth to Ain Soph. Ain means 'not' and soph means "end". Ain Soph is the the end of 'Not", The end of nothingness, Limitless, Infinite Space-time dimensions, Eternity. Ain Soph is the primal darkness of the absolute unity above anything else. Ain Soph is the one in which everything has its origin, its existence, and to which everything returns.
Next we have the Ain Soph Aur. Aur means light. The Ain Soph Aur is the Limitless Light. Now the Ain Soph Aur retracts itself within itself to a light point. The Bindu. This is the beginning of things. Here we have substantiality out of nothing. This brings forth Kether (the Crown), the first Sephira at the top of Tree of Life. This is the Hiranya Grarpha - the Cosmic Womb.
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Brahma, the creator; the impersonal universe-pervading spirit personified under this name; the lord or ruler over a Brahman, at the end of whose "life" that system is resolved into its final elements and reabsorbed by Parabrahmam. A word of which the root, brih, means "expansion." It stands for the spiritual energy-consciousness side of our solar universe, i.e., our solar system, and the Egg of Brahma is that solar system.
Whenever the Eternal awakes from its slumber and desires to manifest itself, the uncreated, self existent reality, Swayambhuva. This Swayambhu divides itself into male and female the universal Father and Mother, the Anu-Anata (male-female) of the Chaldeans, God the Father and the God the Holy Spirit. From the union of the two a third, the creative Principle -- the SON or the manifested Logos -- is generated as the product of the Divine Mind. In Chaldea the Son was Bel. In Christianity, it is Christ. These were fundamental to early Jewish Christians, which Thomas carried with him to India, and they formed the basis of Post Vedic Hinduism. There is similar correlation with the Tibetan's teachings, which also developed around the same period.
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