Lucifer. A Theosophical Magazine. March 15th 1893

The Moon is the mother of the Earth yet in the sequence of evolution planets become Moons and besides if planets are made of their elder brother (the Sun) then the Moon becomes the wife of the Sun and on account of the relationship of planets and Sun it as the mother of the Earth produces by the Sun the Sun's younger brother. [...] Moreover in the Region of the Soul of the Rulers appointed to receive it I found the Soul of the prophet Elias in the /Eons of the Sphere and I took him and receiving his Soul also brought it to the Virgin of Light and she gave it to her Receivers who led it to the Sphere of the Rulers and carried it into the womb of Elizabeth. [...] So the Power of the Little IaO the Good which is in the Midst and the Soul of the prophet Elias are bound together in the body of John the Baptist. [...] For the zodiacal sign of the tribe of Dan was Scorpio as all know; and Scorpio is the sign of the female procreative priciple the matrix and even geographically the heirloom of the tribe of Dan was the place of Dan which included that of the springs or sources of Jordan whose waters flowed out of the bowels of the earth. [...] For John Oannes or Jonah or the Whale-Fish the emblem of the terretrial world of the Old Dispensation is transformed into the Dove over the waters the emblem of the Spiritual Womb of the World.