B-TH - physical forms

NOTE: Both terms (‘sons’ and ‘daughters’) are derived from the same root, baw-naw, “a primitive root; to build (literally and figuratively)” – Strong’s Concordance – representing the masculine-feminine antithetical unity involved in Creation ‘at the beginning’. ADM goes on to ‘live’ another 800 years – that is, ADM lives via the accumulation of a great number of forms (multitudes), according to the symbolical meaning of ‘800 years’.

From Genesis 1 to 10, we are given the development of the romantic mind and consciousness of the Adamic unit (male and female), which is all about ‘sons’.

In Genesis 11 we learn that the primordial unity is broken and divided (‘Tower of Babel’), and of the generation now of both ‘sons and daughters’. After begatting ‘Arphaxad’, SHM gives rise to ’sons and daughters’.

In Genesis 5, we did learn for the first time of ‘daughters’ (BTH), the feminine of ‘sons’ (BN), forming an antithetical unity between the spiritual powers or entities and the emanated or corporeal forms.

The root בן, from which comes the word בת, irregular feminine of the masculine בן a son, signifies in general, an emanation, a formulation, any edification whatsoever. The paternal sign ב, hieroglyphic symbol of creative action, united to that of produced being ו, leaves no doubt in this respect. Thus the plural word בנות, which in a restricted sense would mean simply, daughters, taken in a figurative sense designates corporations, assemblages, corporeal forms, corporeaties, etc.^⁠ (Hebraic Tongue Restored, Fabré d’Olivet)