Transactions of the Blavatsky Lodge of the Theosophical Society - Discussions on the Stanzas of the First Volume of the Secret Doctrine #260706

A. Only as a figure of speech; in strict philosophy it is sexless; but the female aspect is the first it assumes in human conceptions, its subsequent materialisation in any philosophy depending on the degree of the spirituality of the race or nation that produced the system. For instance: in the Kabbala of the Talmudists IT is called ain-soph, the endless, the boundless, the infinite (the attribute being always negative),which absolute Principle is yet referred to as He! From it, this negative, Boundless Circle of Infinite Light, emanates the first Sephira, the Crown, which the Talmudists call Torah, the law, explaining that she is the wife of ain-soph. This is anthropomorphising the Spiritual with a vengeance.