Of the two lower Syzygies, or Lower Quaternary of the Aeons, we have no details from the Fathers.  We may, however, see some reason for the exoteric names—­Voice and Name, Reason and Reflection—­from the following considerations: 

(1) We should bear in mind what has already been said about the Logos, Speech and Divine Names. (2) In the Septenary the Quaternary represents the Manifested and the Triad the Concealed Side of the Fire. (3) The fundamental characteristics of the manifested universe with the Hindus and Buddhists are Name (Nama) and Form (Rupa). (4) Simon says that the Great Power was not called Father until Thought (in manifestation becoming Voice) named ([Greek:  onomasai]) him Father. (5) Reason and Reflection are evidently the two lowest aspects, principles, or characteristics, of the divine Mind of man.  These are included in the lower mind, or Internal Organ (Antah-karana), by the Vedantin philosophers of India and called Buddhi and Manas, being respectively the mental faculties used in the certainty of judgment and the doubt of enquiry.

This Quaternary, among a host of other things, typifies the four lower planes, elements, principles, aspects, etc., of the Universe, with their Hierarchies of Angels, Archangels, Rulers, etc., each synthesized by a Lord who is supreme in his own domain.  Seeing, however, that the outermost physical plane is so vast that it transcends the power of conception of even the greatest intellect, it is useless for us to speculate on the interplay of cosmic forces and the mysterious interaction of Spheres of Being that transcend all normal human consciousness.  It is only on the lowest and outermost plane that the lower Quaternary symbolizes the four Cardinal Points.  The Michael (Sun), Gabriel (Moon), Uriel (Venus), and Raphael (Mercury) of the Kabalah, the four Beasts, the Wheels of Ezekiel, were living, divine, and intelligent Entities pertaining to the inner nature of man and the universe for the Initiated.

It is to be presumed that the Simonians had distinct teachings on this point, as is evidenced by the title of their lost work, The Book of the Four Angles and Points of the World.  The Four Angles were probably connected with the four ducts or Streams of the “River going forth from Eden to water the Garden.”  These Streams have their analogy on all planes, and cosmically are of the same nature as the Akasha-Ganga—­the Ganges in the Akashic Ocean of Space—­and the rest of the Rivers in the Pauranic writings of the Hindus.

But before going further it will be as well to have a Diagram or Scheme of the Simonian Aeonology, for presumably the School of Simon had such a Scheme, as we know the Ophites had from the work of Origen, Contra Celsum.

[Illustration:  DIAGRAM OF THE SIMONIAN AEONOLOGY.][121]