CHAOS
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is taken from
H P Blavatsky’s Theosophical Glossary.
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Chaos
From H P Blavatsky’s Theosophical Glossary published in 1892
Chaos (Gr.) The Abyss, the “Great Deep”. It was personified in Egypt by
the Goddess Neith, anterior to all gods. As Deveria says, “the only God,
without form and sex, who gave birth to itself, and without fecundation, is
adored under the form of a Virgin Mother”. She is the vulture-headed Goddess
found in the oldest period of Abydos, who belongs, accordingly to Mariette Bey,
to the first Dynasty, which would make her, even on the confession of the
time-dwarfing Orientalists, about 7,000 years old. As Mr. Bonwick tells us in
his excellent work on Egyptian belief—“Ne?th, Nut, Nepte, Nuk (her names as
variously read !) is a philosophical conception worthy of the nineteenth
century after the Christian era, rather than the thirty-ninth before it or
earlier than that”. And he adds: “ Neith or Nout is neither more nor less than
the Great Mother, a yet the Immaculate Virgin, or female God from whom all
things proceeded”.
Neith is the “Father-mother” of the Stanzas of the Secret Doctrine, the
Swabhavat of the Northern Buddhists, the immaculate Mother indeed, the
prototype of the latest “Virgin” of all; for, as Sharpe says, “the Feast of
Candlemas—in honour of the goddess Neith— is yet marked in our Almanacs as
Candlemas day, or the Purification of the Virgin Mary”; and Beauregard tells us
of “the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin, who can henceforth, as well as the
Egyptian Minerva, the mysterious Neith, boast of having come from herself, and
of having given birth to God”. He who would deny the working of cycles and the
recurrence of events, let him read what Ne?th was years ago, in the conception
of the Egyptian Initiates, trying to popularize a philosophy too abstract for
the masses; and then remember the subjects of dispute at the Council of Ephesus
in 431, when Mary was declared Mother of God; and her Immaculate Conception
forced on the World as by command of God, by Pope and Council in 1858. Ne?th is
Swabhdvat and also the Vedic Aditi and the Purânic Akâsa, for “she is not only
the celestial vault, or ether, but is made to appear in a tree, from which she
gives the fruit of the Tree of Life (like another Eve) or pours upon her
worshippers some of the divine water of life”. Hence she gained the favourite
appellation of “Lady of the Sycamore”, an epithet applied to another Virgin
(Bonwick).
The resemblance becomes still more marked when Ne?th is found on old
pictures represented as a Mother embracing the ram-headed god, the “Lamb”. An ancient
stele declares her to be “Neut, the luminous, who has engendered the gods”—the
Sun included, for Aditi is the mother of the Marttanda, the Sun—an Aditya. She
is Naus, the celestial ship ; hence we find her on the prow of the Egyptian
vessels, like Dido on the prow of the ships of the Phśnician mariners, and
forth with we have the Virgin Mary, from Mar, the “Sea”, called the “Virgin of
the Sea”, and the “Lady Patroness” of all Roman Catholic seamen. The Rev. Sayce
is quoted by Bonwick, explaining her as a principle in the Babylonian Bahu
(Chaos, or confusion) i.e., “merely the Chaos of Genesis . . . and perhaps also
Môt, the primitive substance that was the mother of all the gods”.
Nebuchadnezzar seems to have been in the mind of the learned professor, since
he left the following witness in cuneiform language, “I built a temple to the
Great Goddess, my Mother”. We may close with the words of Mr. Bonwick with
which we thoroughly agree “She (Neith) is the Zerouâna of the Avesta, ‘time
without limits’. She is the Nerfe of the Etruscans, half a woman and half a
fish” (whence the connection of the Virgin Mary with the fish and pisces) ; of
whom it is said: “From holy good Nerfe the navigation is happy. She is the
Bythos of the Gnostics, the One of the Neoplatonists, the All of German
metaphysicians, the Anaita of Assyria.”
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