According to the Cabalists, the ELOHIM, or the creator-gods, were the progeny of the union of life and matter. It was the Elohim in turn, moving in Space, who brought forth the mundane universe over which they ruled. - By mundane is meant not the physical worlds but the metaphysical system, of which the physical creation is the lowest or seventh part. This first manifestation or agitation was equivalent to the conception of the universe in all its parts—like the planting of a seed from which was to grow the worlds. It is the first motion in the Absolute. - The comparison to other religious systems checks and justifies the speculations of the Jewish mystics. In the Northern Tibetan system the meditations of Adi Buddha, universal consciousness, produces the seven Dhyani Buddhas or the seven modes of consciousness by which the world is formed. In the teachings of the Persians the Supreme Nature, Ahura Mazda, manifested the Amesha-Spentas who become the Formators of the lower worlds. In Egyptian Hermetic teachings the Elohim are the Governors, the Cosmocratores. In the ancient Egyptian system they were the Ammonian Artificers, the servants of Ptah who fashions the Egg of the Universe upon a potter's wheel. The ELOHIM are also the seven Cabin of Samothrace; the sacred seven, the unwritten vowels which together make up the name of the manifested divinity, the seven colors of the spectrum, the seven days of creation, the seven seals of Revelation. The eternally recurring Septenary, by which art, music, and physics are bound together, are the ELOHIM, the seven Breaths that move upon the Deep.
Manly P. Hall, How To Understand Your Bible
