The Progeny of the Gods:

 

The Progeny of the Gods:

“Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.”

“So far likewise as Jupiter receives the whole of Saturn, he gives subsistence to a triple essence, the impartible, the partible, and that which subsists between these; but according to the Rhea which he contains in himself, he scatters as from a fountain, intellectual, psychical, and corporeal life.”

The Demiurge is qabalistically presented as the Adam Qadmon, although below the abyss his function is active and from above, he becomes receptive to the influence from the Saturnian Triad, which makes up Kether, Chokmah and Binah. The latter then represents the impartible and the former the partible aspects of his nature. Here I will look at how these three essences govern one’s development under the Demiurge. It is said that the Demiurge scatters from himself three forms of existence, the first is the intellectual and attributed to the sephiroth, Tiphareth, Geburah, and Chesed, the psychical are below these and correspond to Netzach, Hod and Yesod, whereas the corporeal is attributed to Malkuth. This is purely due to one’s relationship with these, which becomes clearer when considering the nature of reality and the way that it influences the ego’s development. We may think of Netzach, Hod and Yesod as relating to the world of feelings, Chesed, Geburah and Tiphareth is the intellect and leads us to who we truly are. Through this understanding of self and one’s place in the world, a person is no longer led predominantly by his impressions but starts to follow the higher faculties of his being, consciously transforming himself according to his intent. Hence in the qabalah these three triads are known as the Supernal, Ethical and Astral Triads, with Malkuth hanging pendant at the bottom of the tree.

“Farther still, the soul of the world gives life to altermotive natures; for to these it becomes the fountain and principle of motion, as Plato says in the Phaedrus and Laws. But the demiurgus simply imparts to all things life divine, intellectual, psychical, and that which is divisible about bodies. No one however should think that the Gods in their generations of secondary natures are diminished; or that they sustain a division of their proper essence in giving subsistence to things subordinate; or that they expose their progeny to the view, externally to themselves, in the same manner as the causes of mortal offspring. Nor in short, must we suppose that they generate with motion or mutation, but that abiding in themselves, they produce by their very essence posterior natures, comprehend on all sides their progeny, and supernally perfect the productions and energies of their offspring.”

The Demiurge’s role in this essay is attributed to Life, Intellect, Consciousness, and the Material aspects of things and people in the world around us. The intellective order, it should be noted, is where the potential for true creativity is derived from, it is seeing past our limitations that leads to inspiration from this order, and called the intellective as it can be contemplated but never truly expressed in the lower order of reality. This inspiration can only occur once there has been harmony established with the gods, and the nature of Being unfolds, before which a person is merely affected by his impressions without control. The soul of the world could thus be likened to the collective consciousness of humanity, and it is this collective consciousness, that is the progeny of the gods, by which every person’s ego is shaped according to the life into which they were born. The Demiurge rules over the gods, however, the gods’ relationship to the world is affected in a like manner as humans, who are affected by our relationship to the gods. As the world changes the gods must also evolve and adapt as they give birth to heroes throughout history, or as they give birth, indeed, to heroes and villains, who by way of their relationship to the world transform the nature of this first progeny of the gods. Mankind becomes witness to apocalyptic natural events, from which entire civilizations crumble, thus too, shaping this collective soul and the powers that govern it. There is no good and evil, so to speak, there is only nature, and it is by harmonizing one’s soul and becoming more sensitive to the inflections of this progeny, that we may accomplish the Great Work. The quote establishes, that the children of the gods are these heroes, who were able to accurately unite with the soul of the world, and thus venerable as gods themselves, for these half gods have made a sufficient contribution to the soul of man and their own souls, from which they have been immortalized and exemplified as gods among men.

“Love is the law, love under will.”