A new approach to the Vedas : an essay in translation and exegesis

A NEW APPROACH TO THE VEDAS

38253: and on the other, the conception of this Christ, this Brahmi as the only begotten is affirmed—“ he could never have had but one Son for he is none other than his understanding. Had he a thousand sons they must needs be all the same Son,” Eckhart, I, 131, that holds for the Prajapatis and Buddhas of countless aeons, for Prajapati, Tammuz, MHerakles, Horus, Christ, or “Idea of Muhammad” in any one aeon. Far too much stress has been laid upon the humanity of Jesus: it were better to remember his perfection.°* What he took on was not “man,” but human nature: the nature not of viv butof homo, no more masculine than feminine. “ Thou art woman, thou art man . . . the seasons and the seas,”’ Svetasvatara Up., IV, 3-4 (cf. Aztareya Aranyaka, Il, 3, 8, 5): ‘‘ This champion or lion is no man or woman, but he is both,’ Béhme, Signatura Rerum, XI, 43. Far too much stress has been laid upon his birth in Galilee : in reality ‘‘ there is no time where this birth befalls,” ‘this birth remains in the Father eternally . . . who utters in one single Word the whole of what he knows, the whole of what he can afford, in one single instant, and that instant is eternal.’’ Eckhart, I, 81 and 132: “Tt knew, indeed, Itself, viz., that, ‘I am Brahman’ ; thereby it became the All,” Byhadaranyaka Up., I, 4, To. Conceive Him then not as a man but as Universal Man, Person, Fire, or Light: or for easier comparison, as the Lamb of God, for it may be easier to see that sacrificial lamb and sacrificial horse or bull are equivalent iluminations of the understanding. Agnus Dei, Agni Deva.

As for mithuna, “ progenitive pair,’’ and maithuna, ‘“‘begetting’: generation can only be spoken of with reference to the interaction of conjoint principles, these being here, as also in Christian theology, the Knower and the Known, the Act and the Potentiality of Understanding: ‘‘ the Holy Ghost was gotten in the Word with this same Intellect,’’ Eckhart, I, 381 and 407, “ that by which the Father begets is the divine nature . . . as