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(Aṇu) Anu (with dotted “n”) means an atom, minute part. In ''The Secret Doctrine'' it refers to the “Primordial Atom” (Vol. I, p. 148). In Vol. II, Helena P. BLAVATSKY refers to the Chaldean Cosmogony where Anu is “the concealed deity, the One, whose name . . . shows it to be of Sanskrit origin” (''SD'' I:357).
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A Chaldean God, king of angels and spirits, and lord of the city of Erech. It is the highest of a trinity, the other two being Bel and Hea. Helena P. BLAVATSKY states that Anu is the equivalent of the unmanifested deity AIN SOPH, while Bel is the Spirit of God or Sephira, and Hea the Universal Soul or wisdom of the three combined (SD I:357).
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The term anu has been used to refer to the “ultimate physical atom” in later theosophical writings. ''See'' OCCULT CHEMISTRY.
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The differentiation, in Sanskrit, between ''aṇu'' and ''anu'' is disregarded in Theosophical literature, but should be noted here; the latter aṇu, is a prefix attached to verbs or nouns, and meaning “after, under, according, to, etc.” — or as a separate preposition meaning “after, near to, toward, etc.”
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Latest revision as of 07:22, 5 February 2013

A Chaldean God, king of angels and spirits, and lord of the city of Erech. It is the highest of a trinity, the other two being Bel and Hea. Helena P. BLAVATSKY states that Anu is the equivalent of the unmanifested deity AIN SOPH, while Bel is the Spirit of God or Sephira, and Hea the Universal Soul or wisdom of the three combined (SD I:357).



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