The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-01-17

Thou hast made him but for little
time less than the Elohim.
Now this word Elohim is the same
word that is found in the first verse
Elohim created the heavens and the
earth" But who are the Elohim? The
word is a plural noun, indicating that
there is more than one. Some trini-
tartan theologians have attempted
from this passage, to establish the
doctrine of the Trinity, and have
therefore asserted that this doctrine
is found in the Old Testament. But
the word will not admit of this in
|terpretation, since there are seven of
the Elohim instead of three. The sep
tenary idea is here brought out
There were seven creative days, there
are seven planes of Nature accord
/ ing to Oriental philosophy, seven col
ors of the spectrum, seven tones IN
music, etc. Both numbers, and T.
are sacred numbers of the Bible, and
we might say of Nature also. The
seven Elohim, then, are the seven Gre
alive deities or principles. They are
purely spiritual or idealistic princi.
pies or spirits, the pure offspring of
Deity. They are the seven divine
potencies, or dynamic forces, or spir.
its of God by which creation was pro-
duced God did not produce the Cos
mos directly, but, so to speak, broke
Himself up, or differentiated Himself
into the seven Elohim, by a process
corresponding to that which white
light becomes when distributed into
seven rays in its emergence from the
prism. These seven spirits are
thought to comprise all divine poten-
cies, and only through them does
Deity operate. 1t was these spirits
that, moving upon the face of the
waters said, Let there be light, and
there was light" and also, Let us
make man in our own image and like
ness and who accordingly made man
in their likeness and image, male and
female.
New, while there are seven colors
of the rainbow, there are but three
fundamental colors, the red the yell
low and the blue; and while there are
seven notes in the musical staff, there
are required but three to make com
plete harmony; so while there are
seven creative spirits, they may be
reduced to three, which Christians
recognise as the Trinity. Again,
while there are seven colors, they
may be synthesized into the one white
light; and while there are seven tones
in music they may be reduced to the
unit Music; so the seven Elohim may
! be synthesized into the One Creative
. Deity. Who is this Creative Deity
= 1t is Jehovah of the Old Testament
and Christ of the New. In his pro
i logue to his gospel John says of tn
j. Logos, or Christ, AN things wer
IS made by him, and without him wa
" not anything made that was made.
Ii The Logos, then, answers to the El,
him, the One to the seven; the On
lie the synthesis of the seven, and tn
r seven the analysis of the One. Tn
is Logos is the creative God, but funC
tions through the Elohim
Is In Revelations 5:12 these greatly
n spirits of God are called riches an
II wisdom and power and strength an
IS honor and glory and blessing, and
Il is said that the Lamb or Christ, i
worthy to have all these principles a
lie tributed to Him.
e Now if man is but for a little tim
20 less than the Elohim-the whole sev
y en- in one-logically he is but for
- little time less than the Logos, or tn
" Divine Son of God. These ElohiI
III are the perfected man that passe
." through a previous creative cycle, an
who, as Jesus said of Himself wer
III made perfect through the things h
." suffered. Man is now in the making
- or in the process of embodiment int
~ that degree of spirituality that wi
constitute him an Elohim, a Christ
Creative Deity, when all power or IL
IF, minion over the works of Gods hanC
Id will be his as promised at the time
re. his creation, have dominion over a
tn the works of my hands" In cours
ed of time, then, man is to become OF
with the Christ, as he is one with II
it Father as Jesus in His intercessol
as prayer asked that He might becom
If. According to this teaching then,
he KING David divinity iS inharant