Note 558 — Chapter VI
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Thus is it that we find in all the philosophical theogonies, the Holy Ghost female. The numerous sects of the Gnostics had Sophia; the Jewish kabalists and Talmudists, Shekinah (the garment of the Highest), which descended between the two cherubim upon the Mercy Seat; and we find even Jesus made to say, in an old text, “My Mother, the Holy Ghost, took me.”
“The waters are called nara, because they were the production of Nara, the Spirit of God” (“Institutes of Manu.” i. 10).