The Secret Doctrine, Volume II. Anthropogenesis

Chapter 96

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Adam-Jehovah, Brahmâ and Mars are, in one sense, identical; they are all symbols for primitive or initial generative powers for the purposes of human procreation. Adam is red, and so also are Brahmâ-Virâj and Mars—God and Planet. Water is the “blood” of the Earth; therefore, all these names are connected with Earth and Water. “It takes earth and water to create a human soul,” says Moses. Mars is identical with Kârttikeya, God of War (in one sense)—which God is born of the Sweat of Shiva, Shiva-gharmaja and the Earth. In the Mahâbhârata he is shown as born without the intervention of a woman. And he is also called Lohita, the Red, like Adam, and the other “first men.” Hence, the author of The Source of Measures is quite right in thinking that Mars (and all the other Gods of like attributes), “being the god of war and of bloodshed, was but a secondary idea flowing out of the primary one of shedding of blood in conception for the first time.” Hence Jehovah became later a fighting God, “Lord of Hosts,” and one who commands war. He is the aggressive Zodh—or Cain, by permutation, who slew his (female) brother, whose “blood crieth from the ground,” the Earth having opened her mouth to receive the blood. (Genesis iii.)

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