The Secret Doctrine vol. 1, Stanza III.7
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7. Behold, O Lanoo!* the radiant Child of the two, the unparalleled refulgent Glory, Bright Space, Son of Dark Space, who emerges from the depths of the great Dark Waters. It is Oeaohoo, the Younger, the * * * (whom thou knowest now as Guān-shì-yīn.—Commentary) (a). He shines forth as the Sun; he is the blazing Divine Dragon of Wisdom. The One (Eka) is Four (Catur), and Four (Catur) takes to itself Three (Tri), and the Union produces the Seven (Sapta), in whom are the seven which become the Trice-Ten (Tridaśa),78 the Hosts and the Multitudes (b). Behold him lifting the Veil and unfurling it from East to West. He shuts out the above and leaves the below to be seen as the Great Illusion. He marks the places for the shining ones (stars), and turns the upper (space) into a shoreless Sea of Fire, and the One manifested (element) into the Great Waters (c).
(a) "Bright Space, son of dark Space," corresponds to the Ray dropped at the first thrill of the new "Dawn" into the great Cosmic depths, from which it re-emerges differentiated as Oeaohoo the younger, (the "new life"), to become, to the end of the life-cycle, the germ of all things. He is "the Incorporeal man who contains in himself the divine Idea,"—the generator of Light and Life, to use an expression of Philo Judæus. He is called the "Blazing Dragon of Wisdom,"
Footnotes
* Lanoo is a student, a chela who studies practical Esotericism. † "Tri-dasa," or three times ten (30), alludes to the Vedic deities, in round numbers, or more accurately 33—a sacred number. They are the 12 Adityas, the 8 Vasus, the 11 Rudras, and 2 Aswins—the twin sons of the Sun and the Sky. This is the root-number of the Hindu Pantheon, which enumerates 33 crores or over three hundred millions of gods and goddesses.