The Seal of the Mystical Lamb, where the 7 eyes represent the Elohim
The Elohim, Exousiai or Powers, are the angels of the third chorus of the second hierarchy. They are the true entities behind the “God” of Genesis. Elohim is a plural word which expresses the totality of action of 7 specific Eloahs, the 7 Spirits of the Planets. Elohim possess a central consciousness in the Sun, they act as a unity, and yet they are sevenfold. Each of the seven Elohim is like a member of a single higher-order spiritual being called Elohim. Their spiritual home is the Sun, and from there they send their impulses to all the planets in the cosmos.
They are also called Spirits of Form because from their spiritual activity, in opposition to the corresponding fallen spirits, derives the form of the objects of the material world and their manifestation. Because of this ability to shape what their spiritual gaze rests on, they are also known as the “Seven Eyes of God”. In the metamorphosis of the Earth-Mars, the human I was born from the sacrifice of their spiritual substance. They are entities mostly connected to the destiny of humanity on Earth.
The word “Elohim” is a masculine plural noun used as a singular, while its singular is the feminine “Eloah”. In turn Elohim is used as the plural of “El”, i.e. God, considered as masculine singular. Consequently Elohim comes from the union of a feminine singular and a masculine plural name, indicating that the assembly of Elohim was bringing together gods and goddesses, being these the Seven Spirits of the Planets: Saturn, Jupiter, Mars and the Sun represent the gods; Venus and Moon the goddesses; Mercury the androgynous. This is evident from the separation of the sexes of Adam and Eve on, substituting Elohim with the word “God” as normally used:
Then Elohim said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” So Elohim created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. – Genesis 1:26-27
Consequently, both Adam and Eve are image of the Elohim, both having a divine spark which represents the offspring of the I coming from the Elohim. It is worth noting the use of “our image and our likeness”, as the Elohim represent an assembly of seven gods operating in unison: this multiple entity and yet one is called “Sobornic Entity”. If a god alone can be indicated as masculine (El), a sobornic entity is indicated as feminine (Elohim), since this is also the state of the Future Venus in which the I’s, united in the new Adam Kadmon in the Future Jupiter, will become able to cooperate and share tsks such as organs and tissues in an organism.
Their individual occult constitution, at the beginning of their evolution, is:
Man-Spirit
Vital Spirit
Spiritual Self
I
Since the I is their lowest spiritual limb, they are able to make of it their vehicle, as it is for us today the physical body. For this reason in the metamorphosis of the Earth-Mars, they were able to sacrifice it: from the sacrifice of their spiritual substance the human I was born. For this reason they are entities particularly connected to the destiny of humanity on Earth.
The Elohim were the men of the Ancient Saturn, and some of them remained behind and became Asura. Since the Elohim generated man by sacrificing the substance of their I, we can properly affirm that man is an Elohim in the making. However, since this is true, from the point of view of the Elohim, man will also be an Eloah left behind when he was expelled from the Heaven in which he was placed. By accepting the Luciferic impulse in the Lemurian Age mankind disobeyed the Law administered by Jehovah, but this was necessary for man’s future evolution as a free being. In fact, a new Law had to arise, under Christ, Love, and under the redeemed Lucifer, Freedom.
We can say that there were also human souls who immediately rectified their way, thus becoming the spiritual guides of men: they were the 12 Masters of Wisdom and Harmony of Feelings or 12 Bodhisattvas. The 12 Masters of Wisdom radiated upon the apostles and John-Lazzaro was one of the Masters of Wisdom, later incarnated as Christian Rosenkreutz. Now, men who will not follow Christ will become Men-beasts, counter-Angels. These will be able to be redeemed but only up to the 6 Metamorphosis 6 Condition of Life 6 Condition of Form, the so-called event of 666.
In John 5: 6 we read that:
Then I saw a Lamb who appeared to have been slain, standing in the center of the throne, encircled by the four living creatures and the elders. The lamb had seven horns and seven eyes, which represent the sevenfold Spirit of God sent out into all the earth.
As is clearly indicated in this verse, the set of Seven Elohim forms the occult constitution of the Mystical Lamb, i.e. the Revelation of Christ in the spiritual world. The symbol mentioned in Revelation is the seven-pointed star or heptalpha, born from the union of the pentalpha of the microcosm (man) and the exalpha of the macrocosm (Christ). Christ, at the moment when he is incarnated in the body of Jesus of Nazareth at the baptism in the Jordan river, receives the spiritual impulses of all the seven Elohim at the same time, so that his actions take place only in harmony with the planetary motions.
By reaching apotelesma, Jesus Christ is able to compensate for the objective karma of human beings, i.e. all those actions that they perform unconsciously in order to survive on Earth (for example, killing animals or plants to eat). Concerning apotelesma, it is the moment when the Spiritual Sun enters the body of Jesus of Nazareth, and his every gesture is in accordance with the stars. It is during the descent of the Son from Eternity that the Hierarchies recognize him as the center of evolution and therefore agree with his earthly action. The plenary work of the Seven Elohim, “the Fullness of the Elohim” is thus realized twice: during the Creation described in Genesis and during the Redemption, which consists in the ministry of Christ on Earth. Just as the Elohim create the first Adam in Creation, so Christ is the second Adam who redeems the now decayed Creation.
The Elohim Jehovah and Christ
The Elohim are the Spirits of Form: they passed their human stage in Ancient Saturn when man was a mineral of heat. The Spirits of Form are concerned with making creation take shape, to form the physical structure then filled with the heavy elements. There are seven principal Spirits of Form; each of them represents the Planetary Spirit of the Seven Planets of our cosmos, acting, however, from the Sun which is their home.
As creators they come into action only in the fourth metamorphosis of the Earth, thus initiating the seven days of the Creation of man and Earth described in Genesis. They make their sacrifice for man in the middle of the Lemurian Era: they sacrifice their lowest body, the I, to generate the myriad of man’s I, the divine sparks. There, the seven Spirits of the Form of the planets of our cosmos, come together to form a composite entity whose occult constitution are themselves taken individually as spirits of the planets:
Saturn: Man-Spirit
Jupiter: Vital Spirit
Mars: Spiritual Self
Sun: I, the Christ
Venus: astral body
Mercury: etheric body
Moon: physical body, Jehovah
Particularly important are the two Elohim of the Moon and the Sun, respectively Jehovah and Christ in his solar appearance. The Eloah Jehovah, through the elements, shaped the Adam’s body. The latter, together with Eve, Mother Earth, originated the lineage of Abel and Seth. The six remaining Elohim gave birth to Cain through the matter of Eve. Thus came the first division in humanity: the solar lineage of Cain and the lunar lineage of Abel.
Cain cultivates the arid land to grow vegetables: this is why he is connected to the solar cult of baptism by fire. Abel instead raises animals and is connected to the lunar cult of baptism with water. The lineage of Cain is composed of people dedicated to the creation of the new on the physical plane, materializing the spirit in appropriate forms. The lineage of Abel, on the contrary, is dedicated to the glorification of the spirit. The plant sacrifice of Cain is rejected by Jehovah because he is a lunar god, and therefore accepts only the animal sacrifice of Abel.
In order to redeem the evil done by Adam and Eve through the Fall from the Earthly Paradise and later with the first assassination at the hands of Cain, Jehovah (which corresponds in a certain sense to the physical body of the Elohim) sacrificed himself to take up residence on the Moon and thus lead the Jewish people out of Egypt, inspiring the Old Testament that characterizes the Earth-Mars.
However the wisdom contained in this first half of the Bible is only the lunar reflection of the wisdom of the Elohim consciousness: the solar Christ. As Jehovah characterizes the Earth-Mars, Christ intervenes directly only in the second half of the earthly metamorphosis, the Earth-Mercury: he is the I of the Elohim, who sacrifices himself to redeem the Earth and the human being from death by early crystallization.
Jehovah as Eloah of the Moon presided over the formation of the physical body of Jesus of Nazareth, guiding the continuation of the lineage of the Jewish people throughout the time going from Genesis to the baptism in the Jordan. Because of this there is a transition from the tetragrammaton YHWH = Jehovah to the pentagrammaton YHSWH = Yehoshua, that is Jesus: while it was the Seven Elohim who moulded the First Adam, it was only Jehovah who moulded the Second Adam, that is, the body of Jesus who would host the Christ. He did it as the god of generation, as the Moon is associated with the reproductive organs. Jehovah gave directions to the Jewish people to reach Jesus of Nazareth through the two generations of Jewish people listed in the Gospel of Luke and Matthew. Thus we pass from Jehovah to Jesus and from Jesus to Christ. From the Moon’s Eloah of the Moon, the blood brotherhood for physical generation, one passes to the Sun’s Eloah, the inspirer of spiritual brotherhood for spiritual regeneration. Therefore, from karma one passes to freedom, from punishment to forgiveness: time marked by the law of retaliation of the Old Testament gives way to the Good News of the New Testament.
Christ incarnates in the Physical World in a physical human body, that of Jesus of Nazareth, once and only once in cosmic evolution, during the middle of the fourth cultural epoch, the Greek-Roman era. His first coming into the Physical World inspired the second part of the Bible, the New Testament. His mission then culminates in the Mystery of Golgotha, where, by sacrificing his life, he joins the Earth and he becomes the Spirit of the Earth. After the resurrection, Christ is present in his second coming into the Etheric World. By combining His solar spirit with the lunar body of Jesus of Nazareth, he heals the wound created by the expulsion of Adam and Eve, with the subsequent division into the two solar-cainite and lunar-abelite bloodlines, giving man the possibility of interpenetrating solar forces into the solid element and making Earth the future Sun.
The Seven Spirits of Jacob Boehme
The great German mystic Jacob Boehme calls them Seven Qualities or Source Spirits, while in Revelation they are known as Seven Creative Spirits. In the Aurora, Boehme describes them as:
Saturn: The Power of Death and Will. Gives dry quality and melancholic temperament;
Jupiter: Gentle source of Life, gives sweet quality and blood temperament;
Mars: Destructive source of Life, gives bitter quality and angry temperament;
Sun + Moon: Day and Night, Good and Evil, Bright Fire and Dark Fire. The Moon gives moist quality and phlegmatic temperament;
Venus: Love or Light. It gives love for life and spiritual rebirth. From this spring flows the water of Eternal Life;
Mercury: the Sound, it gives spiritual affinity, enlightenment and expression;
Earth: the Body, brings together all the forces that must be reborn in man and on Earth. It gives substance to being and form, it forms the body of man and Nature.
The Trinity and the Seven Source Spirits within Creation.
These Seven Spirits of the Source are under the rule of the Trinity so that:
Father: He rules Saturn, Jupiter and Mars in his Dark World, before the emergence of the Light. They are the powers from which Creation springs. It can be compared to the wax of a candle. It is the hard World of the Old Testament, where the Father rules through the lunar Eloah Jehovah through the Law of the Retaliation.
Son: He governs the Sun and the Moon, the Luminaries who watch over this World, in which are active either the principle of good and light, Christ, either the principle of evil and darkness, Satan. It is the Fiery World, comparable to the burning fire of a candle.
Holy Spirit: governs Venus, Mercury and Earth, giving the potentiality of rebirth inherent in body, soul and spirit. It is the World of Light, comparable to the light emanating from a lighted candle.
The Seven Spirits before the Throne of God
John, in his Revelation, describes them four times as the Seven Spirits standing before the Throne of God. The Seven Spirits were sent on Earth to fulfill Creation.
In Revelation 1:4
John, to the seven churches in the province of Asia: Grace and peace to you from him who is, and who was, and who is to come, and from the seven spirits before his throne.
In Revelation 3:1
To the angel of the church in Sardis write: These are the words of him who holds the seven spirits of God and the seven stars. I know your deeds; you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead.
In Revelation 4:5
From the throne came flashes of lightning, rumblings and peals of thunder. In front of the throne, seven lamps were blazing. These are the seven spirits of God.
In Revelation 5:6
Then I saw a Lamb, looking as if it had been slain, standing at the center of the throne, encircled by the four living creatures and the elders. The Lamb had seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth.
The Sevenfold Mystical Lamb
As is clearly indicated in this last verse, the Seven Elohim together form the occult constitution of the Mystical Lamb, that is the Revelation of Christ in the spiritual world. The symbol mentioned in Revelation is the seven-pointed star or heptalpha, born from the union of the pentalpha of the microcosm (man) and the exalpha of the macrocosm (Christ). Christ, at the moment when he incarnates in the body of Jesus of Nazareth at the baptism in the Jordan, receives the spiritual impulses of all the seven Elohim at the same time, so much so that his actions take place only in harmony with the planetary motions and indeed, the planetary motions respond to his actions.
The set of the Seven Elohim, or eyes of God, forms the seal of the Mystical Lamb.
By reaching the apotelesma, Jesus Christ is able to compensate for the objective karma of human beings, i.e. all those actions that they perform unconsciously in order to survive on Earth (for example, killing animals or plants to eat). Concerning apotelesma, it is the moment when the Spiritual Sun enters the body of Jesus of Nazareth, and his every gesture is in accordance with the stars. It is during the descent of the Son from Eternity that the Hierarchies recognize him as the center of evolution and therefore agree with his earthly action. The plenary work of the Seven Elohim, “the Fullness of the Elohim” is thus realized twice: during the Creation described in Genesis and during the Redemption, which consists in the ministry of Christ on Earth. Just as the Elohim create the first Adam in Creation, so Christ is the second Adam who redeems the now decayed Creation.
The Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit
Their attributes in the Bible are interpreted in light of the verse in the Book of Isaiah on the Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit. In Isaiah 11:2 we find these attributes:
The Spirit of the Lord will rest on him— the Spirit of wisdom and of understanding, the Spirit of counsel and of might, the Spirit of the knowledge and fear of the Lord—
Traditionally these seven gifts are placed on the menorah, the seven-armed candelabra.
Wisdom
Understanding
Counsel
Might
Knowledge
Piety
Fear of God
It represents both the seven days of Creation and the Seven Elohim who worked in Creation itself.
These seven planetary spirits manifest themselves only after the emanation of the Holy Spirit, as it is only in its manifestation that the reflection of all the three parts of the Trinity exist. Thus we have that the Father works in the metamorphosis of the Ancient Saturn, the Son in that of the Ancient Sun and finally the Holy Spirit in the Ancient Moon. For this reason, the Spirits of the Form enter into action only in the fourth metamorphosis of the Earth, thus initiating the seven days of the Creation of man and Earth described in Genesis.
The Seven Virtues and the Seven Deadly Sins
The seven gifts of the Holy Spirit are in turn attributable to the Seven Capital Virtues (the sum of the Three Theological Virtues and the Four Cardinal Virtues), opposed to the Seven Deadly Sins or Capital Vices, according to the planetary sequence:
The Seven Creator Spirits are the Elohim, the spirits who preside over the seven sacred planets of our solar system. Each of them carries a vice that must be converted into virtue within our astral body.
The planetary impulses are incorporated into our astral body, where they become prey to the luciferic spirits up to the point of creating astral crystallizations; thus there is an astral ego for every deadly sin. Such egos tend to preserve themselves at the expense of the integrity of the spiritual person, instilling the compulsion to repeat themselves so that they can be perpetrated, influencing other people as well. By force of repetition they corrupt the etheric body and thus the physical.
However, when the I, once it has assumed the principle of Christ, takes control of the astral egos, it is capable of converting their luciferic impulse, thus passing from the vice of the extreme to the virtue that lies in the right medium. Before returning the etheric and physical body to healing, the ego must illuminate the astral body with the light of the consciousness.
The Seven Days of Creation
These seven spirits, although having a specific affinity with only one of the Persons of the Trinity at a time, manifest themselves only after the emanation of the Holy Spirit. The Father works in the metamorphosis of the Ancient Saturn, the Son in that of the Ancient Sun and finally the Holy Spirit in the Ancient Moon. For this reason, the Spirits of Form enter into action only in the fourth metamorphosis of the Earth, thus initiating the seven days of the Creation of man and Earth described in Genesis.
Trinity and Elohim: from the seven possible combinations of the Three Logos of the Trinity (a = Father, b = Son, c = Holy Spirit), the Seven Creative Spirits are born (a, b, c, ab, ac, bc, abc).
Important are the two Elohim of the Moon and the Sun, respectively Jehovah and Christ in his solar aspect. The Eloah Jehovah, through the elements, shaped Adam’s body. The latter, together with Eve, Mother Earth, originated the lineage of Abel and Seth. The six remaining Elohim gave birth to Cain through the matter of Eve. Thus came the first division in humanity: the solar lineage of Cain and the lunar lineage of Abel. To redeem the evil done by Adam and Eve through the Fall from the Earthly Paradise and then with the first assassination at the hands of Cain, Jehovah (which corresponds in a certain sense to the physical body of the Elohim) sacrificed himself to take up residence on the Moon and thus lead the Jewish people out of Egypt, inspiring the Old Testament that characterizes the Earth-Mars.
The wisdom contained in this first half of the Bible comes from the lunar reflection of the wisdom of the Elohim consciousness: the solar Christ. As Jehovah characterizes the Earth-Mars, Christ intervenes directly only in the second half of the earthly metamorphosis, the Earth-Mercury: he is the I of the Elohim, who sacrifices himself to redeem the Earth and the human being from death by early crystallization.
Sacred Heart of Jacob Boehme
Jehovah as Eloah of the Moon presided over the formation of the physical body of Jesus of Nazareth, guiding the continuation of the lineage of the Jewish people throughout the time from Genesis to baptism in the Jordan. Because of this there is the passage from the tetragrammaton YHWH = Jehovah to the pentagrammaton YHSWH = Yehoshua, that is Jesus: while it was the Seven Elohim who moulded the First Adam, it was only Jehovah who moulded the Second Adam, that is, the body of Jesus who would host the Christ. He did so as the god of generation, as the Moon is associated with the reproductive organs. Jehovah gave directions to the Jewish people to reach Jesus of Nazareth through the two generations of Jewish people listed in the Gospel of Luke and Matthew. Thus we pass from Jehovah to Jesus and from Jesus to Christ. From the Moon’s Eloah of the Moon, the blood brotherhood by physical generation, one passes to the Sun’s Eloah, the inspirer of spiritual brotherhood by spiritual regeneration. Thus from karma one passes to freedom, from punishment to forgiveness: time marked by the retaliation law of the Old Testament gives way to the Good News of the New Testament.
Christ is incarnated in the Physical World in a physical human body, that of Jesus of Nazareth, once and only once in cosmic evolution during the middle of the fourth cultural epoch, the Greek-Roman one. His first coming into the Physical World inspired the second part of the Bible, the New Testament. His mission then culminates in the Mystery of Golgotha, where by sacrificing his life he joins the Earth and becomes the Spirit of the Earth. After the resurrection, Christ is present in his second coming into the Etheric World.
The Name of God
God’s name in Atziluth is Tetragrammaton YHVH. YHVH is Jehovah, the Spirit of the Moon, the Moon Eloah, which forms the I spread in the macrocosm of the Jewish people. However, it will be necessary to make further clarifications.
The ancient Jewish Kabbalah placed YHVH at the center of the Zodiac, in place of what we call the Son. This was due to the fact that the ancient Jewish people could not perceive Christ directly, nor pronounce the true name of YHVH, only the High Priest of the Temple could do so, naked in the Sancta Sanctorum, once a year at Yom Kippur, on the Day of Atonement. Jehovah, being a Spirit of Form, is in the Kabbalah the “Lord of the Universe” who governs the form of the four Elements, as well as the generation, precisely under the influence of the Moon, that from Abraham will come to the last prophet, John the Baptist. Jehovah dominates the entire Old Testament through the Brotherhood of the Blood and the retaliation Law. Jehovah worked in order to bring to completion the birth of Jesus of Nazareth, after which his task became secondary and indeed his lunar influence is now stiffening.
As the Moon reflects the light of the Sun, Jehovah emanates spiritual impulses reflected by the Spirit of the Sun, the solar Eloah, the Christ, who is the representative of the Son. The contrast between Jehovah and Christ becomes all the more evident in the New Testament when man is now ready to accept the Sun’s impulse directly through Christ incarnated in Jesus of Nazareth. The Son-Christ comes to fulfill the law initially given by Jehovah in the Old Testament and, in doing so, he completely overcomes it in the New Testament: one passes to the Brotherhood of the Spirit and to the Law of Love.
The contrast becomes all the more evident in the New Testament when man is now ready to accept directly the impulse of the Sun through Christ incarnated in Jesus of Nazareth. According to the Kabbalah, YHVH originally created the Zodiac according to a variation of the pronunciation of his own name, so that each Sign is in fact a single pronunciation of the unique, unpronounceable, name of God. Today in place of YHVH we can place the Son as Word. The permutations of YHVH are in truth the permutations of the Logos enunciated in the Gospel of John, to which the Logos is generally referred to as the Word:
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. – John 1:1-3
In an anthroposophical sense, therefore, we place Christ at the centre of the Zodiac, the Spirit of the Sun, the solar Eloah that frees man’s individual consciousness in the Mystery of Golgotha, a mystery that also refers to the passage between Tetragrammaton YHVH and Pentagrammaton YHSVH (see Chapter 17). In this sense, Christ also becomes the “Lord of the Elements”.
Sacred Heart of Jacob Boehme
The heart is reversed to show inside the Tetraktys composed of the letters of the Tetragrammaton YHWH Jehovah, which culminate in the Pentagrammaton, the name YHSWH Yeheshuah or Jesus.
In the Tetraktys is contained the evolution of the cosmos:
Yod: Fire of Ancient Saturn.
Yod He: Air of the Ancient Sun
Yod He Waw: Old Moon Water
Yod He Waw He: Land of Mars
Yod He Shin Waw He: Spirit of Mercury
The heart is then surrounded by the flaming Jesus Immanu-El, the angelic name given in the prophecy of Isaiah, he is the Archangel Immanuel, the head of the archangels when they were the humanity of the Ancient Sun. The heart finally shines with the light of Christus, the Solar Spirit.
The Seven Planetary Archetypes of Anthroposophy and the Seven Rays of Theosophy
Since the existence of the Seven Elohim derives from the relations between the Persons of the Trinity itself, these spiritual beings also express themselves as archetypes of evolution that we can call Seven Planetary Archetypes. Each of them corresponds to one of the seven days of Cosmic Week, also called Seven Metamorphoses of the Earth. After the seventh stage is added an eighth, the Future Vulcan, which corresponds to the last stage of evolution of the Earth, when it will be transformed into the new Sun.
Thus described, these planetary archetypes are fully corresponding to the Seven Rays of Theosophy, although superficially, due to the different chromatic and planetary attributions, it would not seem so.
First Ray Will – Power: corresponds to the creation first by the will of the Father, through the warmth of the Ancient Saturn;
Second Ray Love – Wisdom: corresponds to the love of the Son, through the air of the Ancient Sun;
Third Ray Active Intelligence – Adaptability: corresponds to the intelligence of the Holy Spirit, through the water of the Ancient Moon;
Fourth Ray Harmony through Conflict – Beauty: corresponds to the first phase of the metamorphosis of the Earth-Mars, where the law of Jehovah of the Old Testament was in force;
Fifth Ray of Concrete Knowledge – Science: corresponds to the second phase of the metamorphosis of the Earth-Mercury, where the Golden Rule of Christ of the New Testament was applied;
Sixth Ray Devotion – Idealism: corresponds to the imaginative consciousness of the Holy Spirit, through the water of the Future Jupiter;
Seventh Ray Ceremonial Order – Magic: corresponds to the inspired consciousness of the Son, through the air of the Future Venus;
In theosophy there is no eighth ray; while anthroposophy considers the archetype of the Future Vulcan as a condensed repetition of all previous evolution on a higher octave, with the attainment of the intuitive consciousness of the Father in the warmth of Vulcan.
