Chapter 984

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It is complained by the author of the version and translator of “Prometheus Bound” that in this tracing of Io’s wanderings, “no consistency with our own known geography is attainable” (p. 379). There may be good reason for it. First of all it is the journey and wandering from place to place of the Race from which the “tenth,” or Kalki Avatâra, so called, is to issue. This he calls the “kingly race born in Argos” (888). But Argos has no reference here to Argos in Greece. It comes from arg or arka—the female generative power symbolized in the Moon—the navi-formed Argha of the Mysteries, meaning the Queen of Heaven. Eustathius shows that, in the dialect of the Arg-ians, Io signified the Moon; while Esotericism explains it as the divine Androgyne, or the mystic Ten (10); in Hebrew 10 is the perfect number, or Jehovah. Arghya in Sanskrit is the libation cup, the navi-form or boat-shaped vessel in which flowers and fruit are offered to the Deities. Arghyanâth is a title of the Mahâ Chohan, meaning the “Lord of Libations”; and Arghyavarsha, the “Land of Libations,” is the mystery name of that region which extends from Kailâsa mountain nearly to the Shamo Desert—from within which the Kalki Avatâra is expected. The Airyâna-Varsedya of the Zoroastrians, as a locality, is identical with it. It is now said to have been situated between the Sea of Aral, Baltistan, and Little Tibet; but in olden times its area was far larger, as it was the birth-place of physical humanity, of which Io is the mother and symbol.