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The Blazing Dragon Of Wisdom:
The Esoteric Tradition As Enshrined In The Vedas And Beyond
By
J.G. Miller
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PREFACE
A book which answers one’s deepest questions and stirs one’s aspirations in such a beautiful
and clearly explained way is indeed hard to find. What is herein expressed is an experience of
inestimable value to those who search for a meaning and purpose to life, and for those scholars
who endeavour to deepen their understanding of ancient sacred texts. The aim of The Blazing
Dragon of Wisdom is twofold; first, to trace the esoteric wisdom through the Vedas, primarily
by examination of certain verses in the ègveda where it fully belongs, but has been denied
through sheer neglect. From the Vedas Jeanine Miller moves on to the Kabbalah where she
finds the same esoteric thread, not only in cosmogony and the idea of Deity, but also in
Archetypal Man, Vedic Puruùa, and Kabbalistic Adam Kadmon, two expressions of one
supreme archetype to which the human mind gave birth, to culminate in the Perfect Man as
conceived by the Sufi philosopher Ibn Arabi. Secondly, Jeanine’s aim is to vindicate, through
detailed examination of Vedic ideas and verses and other ancient lore, H.P. Blavatsky’s The
Secret Doctrine in its several claims which only now turn out to be true and verifiable.
The author’s enquiry in this very ancient lore is an extraordinary mosaic of wisdom that
explores deep truths not normally undertaken in a scholarly task. For, as a mystic, she
recognizes the hidden activity of psyche in the redaction of sacred texts, so far ignored by
scholars, and she is not afraid to lay it bare. Another two main streams of perspective that differ
from the usual scholarly research emerge: one reveals how deeply the human mind can probe
the abyss of an all absorbing, transcendental and deeply-rooted gnosis, and make sense of it;
the other highlights the sheer exuberance felt at the discovery of those age old esoteric truths
which have come down to us in poetic hymns and from which nothing need be discarded, if
one understands them. The author’s approach is unique: it is both scholarly and mystical,
rational and poetic; its result may be given as a crystal clear truth to the uninitiated. The Vedas
are revealed as containing an ageless vision and message of supreme importance to our
disillusioned humanity. The same holds good for H.P. Blavatsky’s master work.
May this book reach out to those who search for a deeper vision of the world and of
themselves; may it give inspiration to those scholars who would undertake a further search to
uncover the truths of the spiritual rather than the platitudes of the literal.
R.M. Wildego, author of Mirrors of Reflection
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Table of Contents
CHAPTER 1..................................................................................................................6
INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................................................................... 6
AIMS AND THEMES.........................................................................................................................................6
LANGUAGE AND TECHNICAL TERMS IN THE èGVEDA......................................................................7
SEERSHIP BASIC TO THE èGVEDA, AND THE WORK OF J.GONDA..............................................11
PART II................................................................................................................................................................... 17
THE WISDOM TRADITION AND THE STANZAS OF DZYAN.............................................................17
THE ESOTERIC WISDOM.............................................................................................................................18
THE CLAIMS OF THE SECRET DOCTRINE.............................................................................................19
THE SOURCE OF THE BOOK OF DZYAN AND H.P.B.’S CONNECTION WITH TIBETAN
BUDDHISM......................................................................................................................................................20
THE SECRET TRADITION............................................................................................................................25
PART III ................................................................................................................................................................. 29
THE ANTIQUITY OF THE SECRET DOCTRINE AND ITS SECRET TRADITION.......................29
APPRECIATIONS OF LAMAS AND SCHOLARS.....................................................................................33
CONCLUSION....................................................................................................................................................... 34
FOOTNOTES ......................................................................................................................................................... 35
CHAPTER 2: THE MYSTICAL TRADITION.................................................................. 41
PART I THE ANCIENT GNOSIS AND ITS RECORDS ................................................................................ 41
THE STANZAS OF DZYâN, THE èGVEDA, THE EGYPTIAN GNOSIS, ETC....................................41
SPACE AS CONTAINER OF ALL SEEDS AND POLARITIES................................................................47
CYCLIC TIME AND DURATION.................................................................................................................52
PART II THE BUDDHIST CONNECTION AND THE VOID ..................................................................... 55
CHAPTER 2........................................................................................................................................................... 66
FOOTNOTES ......................................................................................................................................................... 66
CHAPTER 3: SPACE, THE COSMIC MATRIX; THE WATERS, âKâøA, ADITI, IN THE
VEDAS AND THE SECRET DOCTRINE ....................................................................... 71
WHAT SPACE REPRESENTS ........................................................................................................................... 71
SPACE AS "WATER" IN THE VEDAS............................................................................................................. 74
THE WATERS OF SPACE AS âKâøA............................................................................................................ 79
SPACE AS ADITI IN THE èGVEDA ................................................................................................................ 81
FROM ADITI TO THE CHRISTIAN MADONNA ...................................................................................... 85
FOOTNOTES ....................................................................................................................................................... 108
CHAPTER 4: ‘THE BLAZING DRAGON OF WISDOM’: MAHAT, THE UNIVERSAL
MIND, or ANIMA MUNDI......................................................................................... 111
PART I .................................................................................................................................................................. 111
INTRODUCTION: UNIVERSAL INTELLIGENCE.................................................................................111
MAHAT IN THE èGVEDA AS èTA, AS ORDERLY AND DIVISIVE ACTION.......................113
MAHAT-MANAS-AHAMKARA.................................................................................................................115
MAHAT IN THE èGVEDA AS VARUöA...............................................................................................116
VARUöA AND INDRA................................................................................................................................119
FOOTNOTES..................................................................................................................................................122
PART II ............................................................................................................................................................... 123
THE SEVEN CREATIVE POWERS OF MAHAT; THE SEVEN EMBRYOS, ..................................... 123
THE SEVEN èúIS, THE SEVEN RIVERS ............................................................................................... 123
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................................123
NUMBER SEVEN..........................................................................................................................................124
THE SEVEN EMBRYOS...............................................................................................................................126
THE SEVEN RSIS IN THE VEDAS.......................................................................................................129
THE SEVEN RSIS AND THE GREAT BEAR............................................................................................130
THE SEVEN RSIS AND THE GNOSIS.......................................................................................................133
TAPAS AS THE KEY TO UNDERSTANDING THE èúIS.....................................................................134
AGNI AND THE èúIS...................................................................................................................................136
THE SEVEN RIVERS....................................................................................................................................137
THE WATERS, THEIR MEANING.............................................................................................................141
FOOTNOTES..................................................................................................................................................143
PART III AGNI AND FOHAT ....................................................................................................................... 145
THE ACTION OF FIRE AS EXPRESSIVE OF THE UNIVERSAL MIND..........................................145
THE NATURE AND SIGNIFICANCE OF AGNI......................................................................................146
AGNI AND MANIFESTATION...................................................................................................................148
AGNI AS MENTAL POWER.......................................................................................................................149
AGNI’S THREEFOLD AND SEVENFOLD DIMENSIONS.................................................................151
AGNI, TAPAS AND PRâöA.......................................................................................................................154
NâRADA ON THE PRâöAS.......................................................................................................................158
AGNI’S SOLAR ASPECT.............................................................................................................................161
APâM NAPâT, SON OF THE WATERS, SON OF THE FIRE-MISTS..................................................163
CONCLUSION...............................................................................................................................................166
FOOTNOTES..................................................................................................................................................167
CHAPTER 5 ............................................................................................................. 173
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LOGOS AS SOUND, or THE CREATIVE WORD: VâC, AKúARA, BRAHMAN.............. 173
THE ROLE OF LOGOS IN THE VEDAS ........................................................................................................ 173
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................................173
MEANING OF THE WORD LOGOS..........................................................................................................175
VâC, THE èGVEDIC LOGOS: AKúARA. THE ETERNAL WORD: BRAHMAN, THE EVOCATIVE
WORD..............................................................................................................................................................176
VâC’S COSMIC ROLE IN THE VEDAS...................................................................................................176
APPORTIONING OF SPACE THROUGH VâC.......................................................................................179
THE MYSTICAL MEANING OF VâC.......................................................................................................181
SOUND AND LIGHT....................................................................................................................................182
THE MANTRA...............................................................................................................................................186
SOUND AND FIRE......................................................................................................................................187
THE ECLIPSE OF VâC................................................................................................................................190
THE AVESTAN GNOSIS OF SOUND........................................................................................................191
CONCLUSION...............................................................................................................................................193
FOOTNOTES..................................................................................................................................................194
CHAPTER 6.............................................................................................................. 197
SæRYA, THE LIFE GIVING ILLUMINATOR.............................................................. 197
INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................................................ 197
PART I .................................................................................................................................................................. 200
GOLDEN SAVITè THE STIMULATOR....................................................................................................201
PæúAN THE GOOD SHEPHERD................................................................................................................201
SæRYA THE ILLUMINATOR.....................................................................................................................201
SVAR THE SOLAR SPLENDOUR; ITS SIGNIFICANCE AND WESTERN EXEGESIS....................203
THE CONQUEST OF SVAR: ITS MYSTICAL MEANING.....................................................................206
VIVASVAT, MARTANDA AND SELF-SACRIFICE...............................................................................209
THE "MYSTERIES", their VEDIC EQUIVALENT; THE âKHYâNA AND PâRIPLAVA..............210
THE âKHYâNAS AND PâRIPLAVA.......................................................................................................213
VIøVAKARMAN ACCORDING TO THE SECRET DOCTRINE...........................................................214
FOOTNOTES..................................................................................................................................................217
PART II................................................................................................................................................................. 219
THE SEVEN SOLAR RAYS.......................................................................................................................... 219
THE GANDHARVA......................................................................................................................................223
YOGA..............................................................................................................................................................225
FOOTNOTES..................................................................................................................................................227
CHAPTER 7 .............................................................................................................. 229
THE SHINING ONES AND THE LIVINGNESS AND ORGANISATION OF SPACE ............................. 229
INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................................................ 229
CELESTIAL BEINGS AND PHYSICAL ATOMS.....................................................................................229
PART I THE ANCIENT PANTHEONS: THEIR VARIATIONS THROUGH THE MILLENNIA...231
EMANATION OF THE GODS AND THEIR MEANS OF RULERSHIP .................................................... 233
COSMIC ORDER AND DESTINY................................................................................................................... 236
DARKNESS AND THE SKY GODS ................................................................................................................ 238
THE GODS, OMNISCIENCE AND WISDOM................................................................................................ 240
THE MOON AND ITS MEANINGS ................................................................................................................. 244
THE MOON IN THE èGVEDA AND THE SOMA RIDDLE.............................................................. 246
THE PANTHEONS AS MIRRORS OF HUMANITY .................................................................................... 250
PART II................................................................................................................................................................. 250
THE RGVEDIC PANTHEON.......................................................................................................................250
SEERSHIP AND HUMAN ENCOUNTER WITH THE DEVAS..............................................................251
VAYU, THE COSMIC AND PRIMAL MOVER........................................................................................252
THE ORGANISING OF SPACE, THE DEVAS’ ACTIVITY...................................................................253
THE RIDDLE OF THE THREE EARTHS AND THE THREE HEAVENS............................................255
COSMIC HARMONY, DEVA SOLIDARITY AND OPPOSITION........................................................257
PART III ............................................................................................................................................................... 259
FROM GODS TO ANGELS.........................................................................................................................259
THE ESOTERIC DOCTRINE.......................................................................................................................261
FOOTNOTES ....................................................................................................................................................... 262
CHAPTER 8 .............................................................................................................. 267
PURUúA, ARCHETYPE OF CELESTIAL MAN. MAN AS THE PRIMORDIAL SACRIFICE
IN THE VEDAS AND THE TREE OF LIFE IN THE KABBALAH .................................. 267
PART I ARCHETYPAL MAN IN THE VEDAS............................................................................................ 267
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................................267
SACRIFICE; ITS VARIOUS REPRESENTATIONS.................................................................................268
PURUúA, COSMIC MAN, AND THE PURUúA SæKTA AND WESTERN EXEGESIS...................273
ESOTERIC EXEGESIS..................................................................................................................................284
SIMILARITIES, CORRESPONDENCES AND PARALLELISMS.........................................................288
THE LAST TWO STANZAS........................................................................................................................290
THE SPREAD OF THE IDEA OF COSMIC MAN...................................................................................294
FROM THE IMPERSONAL TO THE PERSONAL................................................................................296
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PURUúA-PRAKèTI.......................................................................................................................................297
FOOTNOTES..................................................................................................................................................300
PART II. ARCHETYPAL MAN IN THE KABBALAH ................................................................................. 304
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................................304
THE KABBALAH..........................................................................................................................................307
THE SEFIROT OR EMANATIONS.............................................................................................................309
ADAM KADMON AND PURUúA: A COMPARISON.............................................................................313
ADAM KADMON AND LIGHT, AND THE FEMININE ASPECT........................................................316
THE FEMININE ASPECT IN THE KABBALAH......................................................................................318
FROM ARCHETYPAL MAN TO PERFECT MAN...................................................................................319
FOOTNOTES..................................................................................................................................................323
PART III. THE CREATION OF HUMANITY AND ITS HISTORY ACCORDING TO THE SECRET
TRADITION ......................................................................................................................................................... 327
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................................327
VARIOUS CREATIONS OF WORLDS AND MEN.................................................................................329
CREATION OR FASHIONING OF MAN..................................................................................................332
THE HUMAN CONSTITUTION IN VEDIC TEXTS, AND THE PROCESS OF DYING....................337
AFTER DEATH STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS...................................................................................340
THE MYTH OF THE FALL OF THE ANGELS.........................................................................................343
CONCLUSION...............................................................................................................................................346
FOOTNOTES..................................................................................................................................................347
CHAPTER 9 ............................................................................................................ 349
THE BASIC ONENESS OF THE RELIGIOUS MESSAGE .............................................. 349
INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................................................ 349
FUNDAMENTAL THEMES.........................................................................................................................351
THE PROBLEM OF EXCLUSIVITY ............................................................................................................... 352
THE CHRISTIAN PRESENTATION VERSUS THE MYSTICAL PRECEPTS OF CHRIST...............353
THE ISLAMIC PRESENTATION AND ITS EXCLUSIVITY..................................................................355
THE CONCERNS OF THE SPIRIT.................................................................................................................. 357
HUSTON SMITH’S IRRECONCILABLE PROBLEMS............................................................................358
DIVINE INTERFERENCE IN HUMAN AFFAIRS......................................................................................... 363
THE PROBLEM OF BIBLICAL LITERAL VERACITY..........................................................................363
KARMA AND ITS COROLLARY, REBIRTH; AND DIVINE WILL....................................................368
KARMA’S COROLLARY: REINCARNATION........................................................................................370
DIVINE WILL AND THE PROBLEM OF EVIL........................................................................................373
ZOROASTRIANISM AND DUALISM: GOOD AND EVIL....................................................................375
HUMAN FREE WILL....................................................................................................................................376
BUDDHISM AND BAHAISM......................................................................................................................378
THE HUMAN PLIGHT AND THE HUMAN HOPE..................................................................................380
CONCLUSION..................................................................................................................................................... 382
FOOTNOTES..................................................................................................................................................384
CHAPTER 10 ............................................................................................................ 391
THE ESOTERIC APPROACH AND CONTRIBUTION TO UNDERSTANDING SACRED
TEXTS: A PANORAMIC SURVEY ........................................................................... 391
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................................391
THE ESOTERIC TRADITION.....................................................................................................................392
PSYCHE SPOKE FIRST, THEN THE RATIONAL MIND.......................................................................393
THE TWO METHODS: THE EXOTERIC AND THE ESOTERIC.....................................................394
WESTERN EXEGESIS AND SACRED TEXTS.......................................................................................398
KNOWLEDGE AND TRUTH AS MAGIC: A CLARIFICATION...........................................................399
THE DIVINE SCIENCE AND F. EDGERTON..........................................................................................400
SOME MORE STUMBLING BLOCKS.......................................................................................................406
GUPTAVIDYâ IN THE VEDAS; A SUMMARY......................................................................................412
THE QUESTION OF INITIATION..............................................................................................................414
H.P.B.’S PIONEERING CONTRIBUTION...............................................................................................417
H.P.B.' S ELUCIDATION OF VEDIC PROBLEMS.................................................................................418
THE PROBLEM 0F INTERMEDIARIES AND THE ONE GOD.............................................................420
H.P.B.’S MESSAGE OF HOPE....................................................................................................................424
FOOTNOTES..................................................................................................................................................425

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