Father (symbol)

In the Esoteric Philosophy the first "something" that can be conceived of is not regarded as masculine, as it is the case in the Judeo-Christian tradition and others:

Though it is impossible to define Parabrahm, yet once that we speak of that first something which can be conceived, it has to be treated of as a feminine principle. In all cosmogonies the first differentiation was considered feminine. It is Mulaprakriti which conceals or veils Parabrahm . . . it is the goddess and goddesses who come first.

The first "Father" is the unmanifested Logos, for this reason said to be "dark," "hidden," or "concealed." This Logos proceed from the "mother":

[From the] Mother Goddess . . . proceeds the Logos, the Son and Father God at the same time, both unmanifested, one the Potentiality, the other the Potency. But the former must not be confounded with the manifested Logos, also called the “Son” in all cosmogonies.

Issuing from, or rather residing in, this Mother Goddess, [is] the unmanifested Logos, he who is both her Son and Husband at once, called the "concealed Father." From these proceeds the first-manifested Logos, or Spirit, and the Son.

Fire is the invisible deity, “the Father,” and the manifesting light is God “the Son,” and also the Sun. Fire—in the occult sense—is aether, and aether is born of motion, and motion is the eternal dark, invisible Fire.