cosmology
Invisible World
A non-physical dimension of reality, interpenetrating the physical world, populated by forces, beings, and forms ordinarily imperceptible to physical senses and instruments, that can affect embodied life without being seen — Dion Fortune's 'mind-side of nature,' the astral plane of Western esotericism broadly construed. Distinct from astral_light (a specific transmitting medium or fluid operating within this realm, not the realm itself), pleroma (the divine fullness at the summit of a cosmic hierarchy, not a parallel plane coextensive with ordinary life), and animism (particular indwelling spirits bound to specific natural objects, not the general unseen dimension itself).
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The Secret Doctrine | Page 2 (part 2)
“"When Buddhi absorbs our E GOtism (destroys it) with all its Vikaras, Avalokiteshvara becomes manifested to us, and Nirvana, or Mukti, is reached," "Mukti" being the same as Nirvana, i.e.
, freedom from the trammels of "Maya" or illusion.…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 2 (part 8)
“This statement is rendered more credible by a consideration of the following facts: the tradition of the thousands of ancient parchments saved when the Alexandrian library was destroyed; the thousands of Sanskrit works which disappeared in…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 3 (part 5)
“But this view does not prevent him from believing in its existence so long as it lasts, to wit, for one Mahamanvantara; nor from applying Akasa, the radiation of Mulaprakriti,* to practical purposes, connected as the World-Soul is with all…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 3 (part 6)
“." For clearer understanding on the part of the general reader, it must be stated that Occult Science recognises Seven Cosmical Elements -- four entirely physical, and the fifth (Ether) semi-material, as it will become visible in the air to…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 3 (part 7)
“Herbert Spencer has of late so far modified his Agnosticism, as to assert that the nature of the "First Cause,"* which the Occultist more logically derives from the "Causeless Cause," the "Eternal," and the "Unknowable," may be essentially…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 3 (part 8)
“Moreover, the Secret Doctrine teaches: -- ( c ) The fundamental identity of all Souls with the Universal Over-Soul, the latter being itself an aspect of the Unknown Root; and the obligatory pilgrimage for every Soul -- a spark of the former…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 3 (part 9)
“As may be judged, however, from the most important, as the best known of the Rosicrucians' symbols, there is one which has never been hitherto understood even by modern mystics.
It is that of the "Pelican" tearing open its breast to feed i…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 4 (part 1)
“The Secret Doctrine by H.
P.
Blavatsky -- Vol.
1 [[Vol.
1, Page 25]] PART I .
COSMIC EVOLUTION.
--------------------- SEVEN STANZAS TRANSLATED WITH COMMENTARIES FROM THE SECRET BOOK OF DZYAN.
[[Vol.
1, Page 26]] Nor Aught nor Nought…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 4 (part 2)
“T HE ROOT REMAINS, THE LIGHT REMAINS, THE CURDS REMAIN, AND STILL O EAOHOO IS ONE.
6.
T HE ROOT OF LIFE WAS IN EVERY DROP OF THE OCEAN OF IMMORTALITY, AND THE OCEAN WAS RADIANT LIGHT, WHICH WAS FIRE, AND HEAT, AND MOTION.
D ARKNESS VANIS…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 4 (part 3)
“T HEY MAKE OF HIM THE MESSENGER OF THEIR WILL.
T HE D ZYU BECOMES F OHAT, THE SWIFT SON OF THE D IVINE SONS WHOSE SONS ARE THE L IPIKA, RUNS CIRCULAR ERRANDS.
F OHAT IS THE STEED AND THE THOUGHT IS THE RIDER.
H E PASSES LIKE LIGHTNING TH…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 4 (part 4)
“I T IS THEY WHO ARE THOU, ME, HIM, OH L ANOO.
T HEY, WHO WATCH OVER THEE, AND THY MOTHER EARTH.
[[Vol.
1, Page]] 34 THE SECRET DOCTRINE.
2.
T HE ONE RAY MULTIPLIES THE SMALLER RAYS.
L IFE PRECEDES FORM, AND LIFE SURVIVES THE LAST ATOM…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 5 (part 1)
“The Secret Doctrine by H.
P.
Blavatsky -- Vol.
1 [[Vol.
1, Page]] 35 STANZA I.
COMMENTARIES ON THE SEVEN STANZAS AND THEIR TERMS, ACCORDING TO THEIR NUMERATION, IN STANZAS AND SLOKAS.
STANZA I.
1.
" T HE E TERNAL P ARENT (Space), WR…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 5 (part 2)
“Even so of persons and things, which, dropping out of the to-be into the has-been, out of the future into the past -- present momentarily to our senses a cross-section, as it were, of their total selves, as they pass through time and space…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 5 (part 3)
“D ARKNESS ALONE FILLED THE BOUNDLESS ALL ( a ), FOR FATHER, MOTHER AND SON WERE ONCE MORE ONE, AND THE SON HAD NOT AWAKENED YET FOR THE NEW WHEEL* AND HIS PILGRIMAGE THEREON ( b ).
( a ) "Darkness is Father-Mother: light their son," says a…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 5 (part 4)
“1, Page]] 43 MOTIONS, THE "GREAT BREATH." sense, for it must give room to still further absolute perfection, according to a higher standard of excellence in the following period of activity -- just as a perfect flower must cease to be a per…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 5 (part 5)
“The impalpable atoms of gold scattered through the substance of a ton of auriferous quartz may be imperceptible to the naked eye of the miner, yet he knows that they are not only present there but that they alone give his quartz any appreci…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 5 (part 6)
“(See Weber, Max Muller, etc.) We labour under the impression that Colebrooke, "the highest authority" in such matters, had long ago settled the question by showing, that "the Hindus were in this instance the teachers, not the learners." [[V…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 6 (part 2)
“No Orientalist, so far, seems to have thoroughly comprehended the real sense of the verses in the Purana, that treat of "creation." Therein Brahma is the cause of the potencies that are to be generated subsequently for the work of "creation…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 6 (part 3)
“The Lotus thus typifies the life of man and also that of the Kosmos; for the Secret Doctrine teaches that the elements of both are the same, and that both are developing in the same direction.
The root of the Lotus sunk in the mud represen…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 7 (part 1)
“The Secret Doctrine by H.
P.
Blavatsky -- Vol.
1 [[Vol.
1, Page]] 62 THE SECRET DOCTRINE.
STANZA III.
COMMENTARY.
1.
T HE LAST VIBRATION OF THE SEVENTH ETERNITY THRILLS THROUGH INFINITUDE ( a ).
T HE MOTHER SWELLS, EXPANDING FROM W…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 7 (part 2)
“2.[[3.]] " D ARKNESS" RADIATES LIGHT, AND LIGHT DROPS ONE SOLITARY RAY INTO THE WATERS, INTO THE MOTHER DEEP.
T HE RAY SHOOTS THROUGH THE VIRGIN-EGG; THE RAY CAUSES THE ETERNAL EGG TO THRILL, AND DROP THE NON-ETERNAL ( periodical ) GERM, W…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 7 (part 3)
“unable either to measure the first abstraction yielded to you by the Deity, or to get hold of it, you still hope to subject to your measurements the mystery of the Secret Sciences which emanate from that Deity?
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And what would y…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 7 (part 4)
“The "fire," "heat," and "motion" here spoken of, are, of course, not the fire, heat, and motion of physical science, but the underlying abstractions, the noumena, or the soul, of the essence of these material manifestations -- the "things i…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 7 (part 5)
“because, firstly, he is that which the Greek philosophers called the Logos, the Verbum of the Thought Divine; and secondly, because in Esoteric philosophy this first manifestation, being the synthesis or the aggregate of Universal Wisdom, O…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 7 (part 6)
“"In the beginning, before Mother became Father-Mother, the fiery Dragon moved in the infinitudes alone" ( Book of Sarparajni.
) The Aitareya Brahmana calls the Earth Sarparajni, "the Serpent Queen," and "the Mother of all that moves." Befo…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 7 (part 7)
“( c ) The ancients represented it by a serpent, for "Fohat hisses as he glides hither and thither" (in zigzags).
The Kabala figures it with the Hebrew letter Teth , whose symbol is the serpent which played such a prominent part in the Myst…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 7 (part 9)
“He is Purusha (spirit), but he is also Prakriti (matter).
Therefore it is only after separating himself into two halves -- Brahma-vach (the female) and Brahma-Viraj (the male), that the Prajapati becomes the male Brahma.
------- STANZA II…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 8 (part 1)
“`The Secret Doctrine by H.
P.
Blavatsky -- Vol.
1 [[Vol.
1, Page]] 86 THE SECRET DOCTRINE.
STANZA IV.
COMMENTARY.
1.
L ISTEN, YE S ONS OF THE E ARTH, TO YOUR INSTRUCTORS -- THE S ONS OF THE F IRE ( a ).
L EARN THERE IS NEITHER FIRS…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 8 (part 2)
“Latent, during Pralaya, and active, during Manvantara, the "Primordial" proceed from "Father-Mother" (Spirit-Hyle, or Ilus ); whereas the other manifested Quaternary and the Seven proceed from the Mother alone.
It is the latter who is the…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 8 (part 3)
“"Ten is the Mother of the Soul, for Life and Light are therein united," says Hermes.
"For number one is born of the Spirit and the number ten from matter (chaos, feminine); the unity has made the ten, the ten the unity" ( Book of the Keys…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 8 (part 4)
“He designed and hewed therewith the throne of glory and the wheels, and the seraphim and the holy animals and the ministering angels, and of the three He founded his dwelling, as it is said, He makes his angels spirits and his servants fier…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 8 (part 5)
“But inasmuch, O beautiful one, as you came personally to speak to me (in the way you did, i.e.
proudly), therefore, O, Sarasvati!
you shall never speak after (hard) exhalation." "The goddess Speech" (Sarasvati, a later form or aspect of V…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 8 (part 6)
“The larger lumps coalesce and receive new spawn -- in fiery dots, triangles and cubes, which ripen, and at the appointed time some of the lumps detach themselves and assume spheroidal form, a process which they effect only when not interfer…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 8 (part 7)
“Adam Kadmon or Tetragrammaton is the Logos in the Kabala; therefore this triad answers in the latter to the highest triangle of Kether, Chochmah and Binah, the last a female potency and at the same time the male Jehovah, as partaking of the…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 8 (part 8)
“Having evolved from Cosmic Space, and before the final formation of the primaries and the annulation of the planetary nebula, the Sun, we are taught, drew into the depths of its mass all the Cosmic vitality he could, threatening to engulf h…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 8 (part 9)
“Upon the walls of our most private apartments, where we think the eye of intrusion is altogether shut out, and our retirement can never be profaned, there exist the vestiges of all our acts, silhouettes of whatever we have done."** Drs.
Je…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 9 (part 1)
“The Secret Doctrine by H.
P.
Blavatsky -- Vol.
1 [[Vol.
1, Page]] 106 THE SECRET DOCTRINE.
STANZA V.
1.
T HE P RIMORDIAL S EVEN, THE FIRST SEVEN B REATHS OF THE D RAGON OF W ISDOM, PRODUCE IN THEIR TURN FROM THEIR HOLY CIRCUMGYRATING…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 9 (part 2)
“They are, so to speak, the eternal prototypes of the Buddhas who appear on this earth, each of whom has his particular divine prototype.
So, for instance, Amitabha is the Dhyani-Buddha of Gautama Sakyamuni, manifesting through him whenever…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 9 (part 5)
“Our learned brother and correspondent judges apparently the Hindu religious systems by their Shastras and Puranas, probably the latter, and in their modern translation moreover, which is disfigured out of all recognition, by the Orientalist…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 9 (part 6)
“It was also taught by his pupil Ecphantus, and by Heraclides, a pupil of Plato.
The immobility of the Sun and the orbital rotation of the earth were shown by Aristarchus of Samos as early as 281 B.C .
to be suppositions accordant with fac…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 9 (part 8)
“There are two esoteric schools -- or rather one school, divided into two parts -- one for the inner Lanoos, the other for the outer or semi-lay chelas beyond the Himalayas; the first teaching a septenary, the other a six-fold division of hu…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 9 (part 9)
“(2.) M ONISM, or the Single Substance Doctrine, is the more subtle form of negative psychology, which one of its advocates, Professor Bain, ably terms "guarded [[Footnote continued on next page]] [[Vol.
1, Page]] 125 THE REAL MEANING OF TH…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 9 (part 10)
“From Meru, the abode of gods, to Eden, the distance is very small, and from the Hindu Serpents to the Ophite Cherubim, the third out of the seven of which was the Dragon, the separation is still smaller, for both watched the entrance to the…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 9 (part 11)
“They circumscribe the manifested world of matter within the R ING "Pass-Not." This world is the symbol (objective) of the O NE divided into the many, on the planes of Illusion, of Adi (the "First") or of Eka (the "One"); and this One is the…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 9 (part 12)
“In this "Infinity" of the full Initiate there is neither height, breadth nor thickness, but all is fathomless profundity, reaching down from the physical to the "para-para-metaphysical." In using the word "down," essential depth -- "nowhere…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 10 (part 4)
“Were a truly learned Occultist-alchemist to write the "Life and Adventures of an Atom" he would secure thereby the eternal scorn of the modern chemist, perchance also his subsequent [[Footnote(s)]] ------------------------------------------…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 10 (part 5)
“The reader must bear in mind that, according to our teaching which regards this phenomenal Universe as a great Illusion , the nearer a body is to the U NKNOWN S UBSTANCE, the more it approaches reality , as being removed the farther [[Vol.…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 10 (part 6)
“In fact, to us the matter of the lower plane there vanishes from our perception into nothing -- or rather it passes on to the higher plane, and the state of matter corresponding to such a point of transition must certainly possess special a…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 11 (part 1)
“The Secret Doctrine by H.
P.
Blavatsky -- Vol.
1 [[Vol.
1, Page]] 152 THE SECRET DOCTRINE.
[[This page continued from previous section ]] A FEW EARLY THEOSOPHICAL MISCONCEPTIONS CONCERNING PLANETS, ROUNDS, AND MAN.
Among the eleven St…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 11 (part 2)
“When a planetary chain is in its last Round, its Globe 1 or A, before finally dying out , sends all its energy and "principles" into a neutral centre of latent force, a "laya centre," and thereby informs a new nucleus of undifferentiated su…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 11 (part 3)
“From the foregoing table it will be seen that the third principle in the Buddhist classification is not separately mentioned in the Vedantic division, as it is merely the vehicle of Prana.
It will also be seen that the Fourth principle is…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 11 (part 4)
“" M AN," which came later, was an attempt to present the archaic doctrine from a more ideal standpoint, to translate some visions in and from the Astral Light, to render some teachings partly gathered from a Master's thoughts, but unfortuna…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 11 (part 6)
“.' You can never impress it too profoundly on the minds of those to whom you impart some of the esoteric teachings.
.
." Again, here are more extracts from another letter written by the same authority.
This time it is in answer to some o…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 12 (part 1)
“The Secret Doctrine by H.
P.
Blavatsky -- Vol.
1 [[Vol.
1, Page]] 170 THE SECRET DOCTRINE.
[[This page continued from previous section ]] ADDITIONAL FACTS AND EXPLANATIONS CONCERNING THE GLOBES AND THE MONADS.
Two statements made in "…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 12 (part 2)
“Thus the Monads of Class 2 reach the incipient human stage only in the Second Round, and so on up to the middle of the Fourth Round.
But at this point -- and on this Fourth Round in which the human stage will be fully developed -- the "Doo…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 12 (part 3)
“To return to "Esoteric Buddhism." It is there stated with regard to the enormous period intervening between the mineral epoch on Globe A, and the man-epoch,* that: "The full development of the [[Footnote(s)]] -------------------------------…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 12 (part 4)
“Now the Monadic, or rather Cosmic, Essence (if such a term be permitted) in the mineral, vegetable, and animal, though the same throughout the series of cycles from the lowest elemental up to the Deva Kingdom, yet differs in the scale of pr…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 12 (part 5)
“1, Page]] 181 A TRIPLE EVOLUTION IN NATURE.
endow the "senseless" shells, created and informed by the Pitris, with "mind" in the latter part of the Third Root-Race.
In the same way the "Monads" or Egos of the men of the seventh Round of o…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 12 (part 6)
“" The Dhyanis ( Pitris ) are those who have evolved their BHUTA ( doubles ) from themselves , which RUPA ( form ) has become the vehicle of monads ( seventh and sixth principles ) that had completed their cycle of transmigration in the thre…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 12 (part 7)
“But though the apes descend from man, it is certainly not the fact that the human Monad, which has once reached the level of humanity, ever incarnates again in the form of an animal.
[[Vol.
1, Page]] 186 THE SECRET DOCTRINE.
having reach…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 13 (part 1)
“The Secret Doctrine by H.
P.
Blavatsky -- Vol.
1 [[Vol.
1, Page]] 191 THE PRELIMINARY CREATION OF MAN.
[[This page continued from previous section ]] STANZA VI.
-- Continued.
5.
A T THE FOURTH ( Round , or revolution of life and bei…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 13 (part 2)
“And the Dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the devil and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world." The Kabalistic version of the same story is given in the Codex Nazareus, the scripture of the Nazarenes, the real mystic Christians…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 13 (part 3)
“It is already the outline of the two "Supremes" -- God and Satan.
But in the Stanzas no such idea exists.
Most of the Western Christian Kabalists -- pre-eminently Eliphas Levi -- in their desire to reconcile the Occult Sciences with Churc…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 13 (part 4)
“Thus " S ATAN," once he ceases to be viewed in the superstitious, dogmatic, unphilosophical spirit of the Churches, grows into the grandiose image of one who made of terrestrial a divine MAN; who gave him, throughout the long cycle of Maha-…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 13 (part 5)
“This is what she described in one of her experiments; with a particle of a meteorite placed on her forehead, in an envelope, the lady, not being aware of what it contained, said: "What a difference between that which we recognise as matter…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 13 (part 7)
“Three further higher grades have to be conquered by the Arhan who would reach the apex of the ladder of Arhatship.
There are those who have reached it even in this fifth race of ours, but the faculties necessary for the attainment of these…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 14 (part 1)
“The Secret Doctrine by H.
P.
Blavatsky -- Vol.
1 [[Vol.
1, Page]] 213 THE CREATIVE POWERS.
STANZA VII.
1.
B EHOLD THE BEGINNING OF SENTIENT FORMLESS LIFE ( a ).
F IRST, THE DIVINE ( vehicle ) ( b ), THE ONE FROM THE MOTHER-SPIRIT (…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 14 (part 2)
“The later Kabalists however, especially the Christian mystics, have played sad havoc with this magnificent symbol.* For the " ten limbs" of the Heavenly Man are the ten Sephiroth; but the first Heavenly Man is the unmanifested Spirit of the…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 14 (part 3)
“These, Tsanagi-Tsanami , descended into the Universe by the celestial Bridge (the milky way), and " Tsanagi , perceiving far below a chaotic mass of cloud and water, thrust his jewelled spear into the depths, and dry land appeared." Then th…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 14 (part 4)
“I am merged in Sekten." This last sentence gives the corroboration of, and repeats the doctrine of, esoteric Buddhism, for it alludes directly to the fifth principle (Manas), or the most spiritual part of its essence rather, which merges in…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 14 (part 5)
“( a ) This sloka expresses the conception -- a purely Vedantic one, as already explained elsewhere -- of a life-thread, Sutratma , running through successive generations.
How, then, can this be explained?
By resorting to a simile, to a fa…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 14 (part 6)
“It comes to this: Mankind in its first prototypal, shadowy form, is the offspring of the Elohim of Life (or Pitris); in its qualitative and physical aspect it is the direct progeny of the "Ancestors," the lowest Dhyanis, or Spirits of the E…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 14 (part 8)
“These "Father and Son" were interchangeable in their functions and worked harmoniously together in their effects upon terrestrial nature and humanity; hence they were regarded as ONE, though TWO in personified Entities.
They were both male…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 14 (part 9)
“In order to form a clear conception of what is meant by the One becoming two, and then being transformed into the "three-fold," the student has to make himself thoroughly acquainted with what we call "Rounds." If he refers to "Esoteric Budd…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 14 (part 10)
“** The so-called "Spirits" that may occasionally possess themselves of the bodies of mediums are not the Monads or Higher Principles of disembodied personalities.
Such a "Spirit" can only be either an Elementary, or -- a Nirmanakaya.
[[Vo…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 14 (part 11)
“But there is still as little cause to regard them as devils, and this is precisely what the Roman Catholics maintain against all reason and logic.
( b ) The concluding sentence of this sloka shows how archaic is the belief and the doctrine…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 15 (part 1)
“The Secret Doctrine by H.
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1 [[Vol.
1, Page]] 238 THE SECRET DOCTRINE.
STANZA VII.
-- Continued.
(5) T HE SPARK HANGS FROM THE FLAME BY THE FINEST THREAD OF F OHAT.
I T JOURNEYS THROUGH THE S EVEN W ORLDS OF M AY…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 15 (part 3)
“[But Nephesh , the "breath of [[first column continued on next page]] [[second column]] Say the Theosophists: -- E SOTERIC P NEUMATICS.
1.
Ditto, for it is Atma-Buddhi- Manas.
2.
Ditto.* 3.
Spiritual Soul.
4.
Mediator between Spirit…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 15 (part 4)
“i., p.
302, is, first of all, shot down by the law of Evolution into the lowest form of matter -- the mineral.
After a sevenfold gyration encased in the stone (or that which will become mineral and stone in the Fourth Round), it creeps ou…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 15 (part 5)
“A LL IS L IFE, and every atom of even mineral dust is a L IFE, though beyond our comprehension and perception, because it is outside the range of the [[Footnote(s)]] ------------------------------------------------- * Read in Isis, vol.
ii…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 15 (part 7)
“There is a curious work by Blanchard, on the Origin of Life, wherein he shows some strange contradictions and confusions in the theories of his colleagues, and which we recommend to the reader's attention.
* Eliphas Levi shows it very trul…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 15 (part 8)
“No Hindu has ever mistaken Prakriti -- the Astral Light being only above the lowest plane of Prakriti, the material Kosmos -- for the "immortal Spirit." Prakriti is ever called Maya , illusion, and is doomed to disappear with the rest, the…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 15 (part 9)
“198, of the same Vishnu Purana it is written, "in this manner were the seven forms of nature (Prakriti) reckoned from Mahat to Earth" (?).
Between Mahat or Maha-Buddhi and "Water, etc.," the difference is very considerable.
** According t…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 15 (part 10)
“" From the second Round , Earth - - hitherto a foetus in the matrix of Space -- began its real existence: it had developed individual sentient life , its second principle.
The second corresponds to the sixth ( principle ) ; the second is l…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 15 (part 11)
“And though it is not yet fully determined whether poisons can be generated by the animal system of living beings without the participation and interference of microbes, it is ascertained that the animal does produce venomous substances in i…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 16 (part 3)
“(5.) Everything in the Universe, throughout all its kingdoms, is CONSCIOUS: i.e., endowed with a consciousness of its own kind and on its own plane of perception.
We men must remember that because we do not perceive any signs -- which we c…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 16 (part 4)
“It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate Essence, that mainly rests the belief or unbelief in the existence around us of other conscious beings besides the Spirits of the Dead.
[[Vol…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 16 (part 5)
“As Hermes says, "Knowledge differs much from sense; for sense is of things that surmount it, but Knowledge (gyi) is the end of sense" -- i.e., of the illusion of our physical brain and its intellect; thus emphasizing the contrast between th…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 16 (part 6)
“The 'Ideal Forms' are the archetypal or formative ideas of the Neo-Platonists; the eternal and subjective concepts of things subsisting in the divine mind prior to 'becoming'" (p.
134).
[[Vol.
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from whi…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 16 (part 7)
“There were produced out of the Ideos, the elements of Fire, Water, Air and Earth, whose birth, however, did not take place in a material mode, or by simple separation," but by spiritual and dynamical, not even complex, combinations -- e.g.,…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 16 (part 8)
“"Glory to the unchangeable, holy, eternal Supreme Vishnu, of one universal nature, the mighty over all; to him who is Hiranyagarbha, Hari, and Sankara (Brahma, Vishnu, and Siva), the creator, the preserver, and the destroyer of the world; t…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 16 (part 9)
“It cannot be called so by men in their WAKING STATE; therefore they have named it in their ignorance ' God-Spirit.
' (xix.) " It exists everywhere and forms the first U PADHI ( foundation ) on which our World ( solar system ) is built.
Ou…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 16 (part 10)
“B.] -- according to his organic capacities.
( e ) It is the guiding Force in the Cosmic and terrestrial elements.
It resides in the Fire provoked out of its latent into active being; for the whole of the seven subdivisions of the * * * pr…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 16 (part 11)
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All these Genii preside over mundane affairs,** they shake and overthrow the constitution of States and of individuals; they imprint their likeness on our Souls, they are present in our nerves, our marrow, our veins, our arteries,…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 16 (part 12)
“"In dimension it is infinite; it is not made up of parts; and colour, taste, smell, and tangibility do not appertain to it.
So far forth it corresponds exactly to time, space, Isvara, ("The Lord," but rather creative potency and soul -- an…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 19 (part 2)
“Without doubt, this one-sided mode of dealing with the problem is due largely to the pernicious Western practice of subordinating consciousness, or regarding it as a "by-product" of molecular motion.
[[Vol.
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The Secret Doctrine | Page 19 (part 3)
“Therefore, such being the case, all those who sought to give a name to the incognizable Principle have simply degraded it.
Even to speak of Cosmic Ideation -- save in its phenomenal aspect -- is like trying to bottle up primordial Chaos, o…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 19 (part 4)
“We shall speak further on of the intelligent "principle," or rather of the invisible immaterial properties, in the visible and material elements, that "sprung from the primordial Chaos." For, "What is the primordial Chaos but AEther?" it is…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 19 (part 5)
“Thus they translate verse 16: "He also, having made the subtile parts of those six (the Great Self and the five organs of sense) of unmeasured brightness, to enter into the elements of Self ( Atmamatrasu ) created all beings." When, accordi…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 19 (part 7)
“) But now the Elements are degraded into and limited to atoms of which nothing is known, so far, and which are only "children of necessity" as Ether is too -- as we said in " I SIS." "The poor primordial elements have long been exiled, and…”
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§ IV.
CHAOS -- THEOS -- KOSMOS.
T HESE three are the containment of Space; or, as a learned Kabalist has defined it, "Space, the all containin…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 20 (part 3)
“exoteric, of course, yet in its main idea as identical as possible with the Egyptian cosmogony, which shows in its opening sentences Athtor,* or Mother Night (which represents illimitable darkness), as the primeval element which covered the…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 22 (part 5)
“It is Phtah, however, "he who opens," the opener of life and Death,** who proceeds from the egg of the world to begin his dual work.
( Book of Numbers.
) According to the Greeks, the phantom form of the Chemis ( Chemi , ancient Egypt) whi…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 23 (part 2)
“No computation of either the Four Ages, or the Manvantaras, has ever been unriddled by our very learned Orientalists, who have therefore cut the Gordian Knot by proclaiming the whole "a figment of the Brahmanical brain." So be it, and may t…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 25 (part 5)
“Lunar magnetism generates life, preserves and destroys it, psychically as well as physically.
And if, astronomically, she is one of the seven planets of the ancient world, in theogony she is one of the regents thereof; with Christians now…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 25 (part 6)
“Maia, in its forced derivation, has come to mean with the Greeks, "mother," from the root ma (nurse), and even gave its name to the month of May, which was sacred to all those goddesses before it became consecrated to Mary.* Its primitive m…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 27 (part 4)
“Esoteric explanation may, however, bring some order into this confusion, in which Jehovah becomes Saturn, and Michael and his army, Satan and the rebellious angels, owing to the indiscreet endeavours of the too faithful zealots to see in ev…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 28 (part 3)
“It exists in a latent condition in the bosom of Parabrahmam at the time of Pralaya.
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." (During Manvantara) "it has a consciousness and an individuality of its own .
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such cen…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 28 (part 6)
“Isis is also mystic Nature and also Earth; and her cow's horns identify her with Vach.
The latter, after having been recognised in her highest form as para , becomes at the lower or material end of creation -- Vaikhari.
Hence she is mysti…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 28 (part 7)
“As the " Rig Vidhana " together with the " Brahmanda Purana " and all such works, whether describing the magic efficacy of the Rig-Vedic Mantras or the future Kalpas, are declared by Dr.
Weber and others to be modern compilations "belongin…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 29 (part 6)
“And this is metempsychosis ( See " Mineral Monad " in " Five Years of Theosophy ," p.
276).
This fifth stage of evolution, called exoterically "Creation," may be viewed in both the Primary and Secondary periods, one as the Spiritual and C…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 29 (part 7)
“But, in the esoteric teaching, they are the progenitors of the true spiritual SELF in the physical man -- the higher Prajapati, while the Pitris, or lower Prajapati, are no more than the fathers of the model, or type of his physical form, m…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 30 (part 1)
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THE FOUR ELEMENTS.
M ETAPHYSICALLY and esoterically there is but One E LEMENT in nature, and at the root of it…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 30 (part 2)
“Whether Egyptian or Pelasgian, Aryan or Semitic, the genius loci , the local god, embraced in its unity all nature; but not especially the four elements any more than one of their creations, such as trees, rivers, mounts or stars.
The geni…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 30 (part 5)
“That, however, which God and the Christian Saints are justified in doing, becomes a crime, if successful, in simple mortals.
Sorcery and incantations are regarded as fables now; yet from the day of the Institutes of Justinian down to the l…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 32 (part 2)
“Notwithstanding the efforts made to the contrary, an unprejudiced mind will discover [[Footnote(s)]] ------------------------------------------------- * Their intellection, of course, being of quite a different nature to any we can conceive…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 35 (part 2)
“Newton is credited with having given the death-blow to the Elemental Vortices of Descartes (the idea of Anaxagoras, resurrected, by-the-bye), though the last modern "vortical atoms" of Sir W.
Thomson do not, in truth, differ much from the…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 37 (part 1)
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THE MASKS OF SCIENCE.
PHYSICS OR METAPHYSICS?
I F there is anything on earth like progress…”
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“V., pp.
329-34.
[[Vol.
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sensitive paper in a dark place, and at the end of 24 hours it will have left an impression of itself on the sensitive paper, the whites coming out as blacks.
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There see…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 37 (part 4)
“How can Science presume to know anything certain of it?
How can it maintain its position and its hypotheses against those of the Occultists, who see in gravity only sympathy and antipathy, or attraction and repulsion, caused by physical po…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 37 (part 7)
“It opens limitless horizons to substance informed by the divine breath of its soul in every possible state of tenuity, states still undreamt of by the most spiritually disposed chemists and physicists.
The above views were enunciated by an…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 38 (part 2)
“On our globe this Substance is the second principle of the septenary Element -- Earth; in the atmosphere, it is that of air , which is the cosmic gross body; in the Sun it becomes the Solar body and that of the Seven rays; in sidereal space…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 39 (part 1)
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VIII.
LIFE, FORCE, OR GRAVITY.
T HE imponderable fluids have had their day; "mechanical Forces" are less talked about; Science has put on a n…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 39 (part 2)
“Hunt writes: -- "But regarding Life -- Vital Force -- as a power far more exalted than either light, heat, or electricity, and indeed capable of exerting a controlling power over them all " (this is absolutely occult).
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"we are…”
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“Earth, Water, Fire, Air, Space (or Akasa , AEther), Mind, Understanding and Egoism (or the perception of all the former on the illusive plane).
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This is a lower form of my nature.
Know (that there is) another (form of my) nature, and…”
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THE SOLAR THEORY.
A SHORT ANALYSIS OF THE COMPOUND AND SINGLE ELEMENTS OF SCIENCE A…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 41 (part 6)
“Under these conditions, is it unreasonable to suppose that, if this flow were kept up, and the body thus robbed of its element, it would in time disappear entirely?
All bodies are formed primitively from this highly tenuous ether, animal,…”
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XIII.
SCIENTIFIC AND ESOTERIC EVIDENCE FOR, AND OBJECTIONS TO, THE MODERN NEBULAR THEORY.
O F late Esoteric Cosmogony has been frequently oppo…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 44 (part 5)
“The idea of both was that, at the origin of things, all that matter which now enters into the composition of the planetary bodies was spread over all the space comprised in the solar system -- and even beyond.
It was a nebula of extremely…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 45 (part 2)
“10): -- "I speak only of a veritable material agent , refined, it may be, to the world at large, but actual and substantial : an agent having quality of weight and of volume, an agent susceptible of chemical combination, and thereby of chan…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 45 (part 3)
“Hence, when " other worlds" are mentioned -- whether better or worse, more spiritual or still more material, though both invisible -- the Occultist does not locate these spheres either outside or inside our Earth, as the theologians and the…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 45 (part 4)
“Cannot men and animals, plants and rocks, be supposed to be endowed with quite a different set of senses from those we possess?
Cannot their organisms be born, developed, and exist, under other laws of being than those that rule our little…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 46 (part 1)
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[[This page continued from previous section ]] § XV.
GODS, MONADS, AND ATOMS.
S OME years ago we remarked* that "the Esoteric Doctrine may wel…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 46 (part 11)
“They say that what is called collectively Monads by Leibnitz -- roughly viewed, and leaving every subdivision out of calculation, for the present** -- may be separated into three distinct Hosts, which, counted from the highest planes, are,…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 52 (part 1)
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STANZA I.* BEGINNINGS OF SENTIENT LIFE.
------- §§ (1) T HE L HA, or Spirit of the Earth.
(2) Invocation of the Earth to the Sun.
(3) What the…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 57 (part 10)
“The whole issue of the quarrel between the profane and the esoteric sciences depends upon the belief in, and demonstration of, the existence of an astral body within the physical, the former independent of the latter.
Paul d'Assier, the Po…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 57 (part 13)
“That man was not the last member in the mammalian family, but the first in this Round, is something that science will be forced to acknowledge one day.
A similar view also has already been mooted in France on very high authority.
That man…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 63 (part 4)
“He is called respectively, Dattoi, Dattali, Dattotti, Dattotri, Dattobhri, Dambhobhi and Dambholi -- which seven variants have each a secret sense, and refer in the esoteric comments to various ethnological classifications, and also to phys…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 63 (part 13)
“The cycles that intervened since then, have already carried us onward, on the opposite ascending arc, some steps toward our dematerialization, as the spiritualists would say.
The Earth, ourselves, and all things have softened since then --…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 69 (part 3)
“It is evident that, taken in their dead letter, the Puranas read as an absurd tissue of fairy tales and no better.
But if one reads chapters I.
, II .
and III .
from Book II.
(Vol.
II.) of Vishnu Purana and accepts verbatim its geogra…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 71 (part 11)
“29.) It is certain that, whether "chimera" or reality, the priests of the whole world had it from one and the same source: the universal tradition [[Footnote(s)]] ------------------------------------------------- [[Footnote continued from p…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 74 (part 3)
“Let every lord of the Dazzling Face (an adept of the White Magic) cause the Viwan of every lord of the Dark Face to come into his hands (or possession), lest any (of the Sorcerers) should by its means escape from the waters, avoid the rod o…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 79 (part 3)
“They maintain, furthermore, along with the Roman Catholic Church, that in the Biblical and Christian theology there does not exist a "higher celestial personality, after the Trinity, than that of the Archangel or the Seraphim, Michael ." Ac…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 79 (part 5)
“The minds of those who live at that time shall be awakened, and become as pellucid as crystal.
"The men who are thus changed by virtue of that peculiar time (the sixth race) shall be as the seeds of other human beings, and shall give birth…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 83 (part 2)
“This kind of easy death, or euthanasia, has an esoteric meaning.
It symbolises the death of any adept who has reached the power and degree, as also the purification, which enable him to die only in the physical body and still live and lead…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 84 (part 8)
“and being invariably fixed to the beginning of the lunar asterism Magha, the precession would be noted by stating the degree .
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of any moveable lunar mansion cut by that line or circle as an index" ("Historical View of the Hindu Astro…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 86 (part 8)
“It is the emblem of the activity of Fohat, of the continual revolution of the "wheels," and of the Four Elements, the "Sacred Four," in their mystical, and not alone in their cosmical meaning; further, its four arms, bent at right angles, a…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 88 (part 2)
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to the seven primeval groups of mankind, as Visvakarman represents divine humanity collectively.* The same doctrine is found reflected in the other old religions.
It may, and must have c…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 88 (part 6)
“It does not seem difficult to perceive what is meant by the Maruts obtaining " four times seven " emancipations in every "manvantara," and by those persons who, being reborn in that character (of the Maruts in their esoteric meaning), "fill…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 90 (part 2)
“He assures us that it upsets any possibility of the present apes having been the progenitors of mankind.
But does it not also negative the bare possibility of the man and anthropoid having had a common -- though, so far, an absolutely theo…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 90 (part 5)
“Hence, the future plan, if not a DESIGN, must be there.
Moreover, that seed has to be traced, and its nature ascertained.
Have the Darwinists been successful in this?
Or will the Moneron be cast in our teeth?
But this atom of the Watery…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 91 (part 3)
“And in such case the Bible is right, along with other national "revelations." Hence the scientific scorn, so freely lavished by the author of "A Modern [[Footnote(s)]] ------------------------------------------------- * Theosophists will re…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 92 (part 5)
“Doubtless this line of argument, when wielded by Darwin and Haeckel against their European adversaries, proved of great weight.
Anthropologists, who ventured to dispute the derivation of man from an animal ancestry, were sorely puzzled how…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 92 (part 7)
“*** It thus stands to reason that science would never dream of a pre -tertiary man, and that de Quatrefages' secondary man makes every Academician and " F.R.S ." faint with horror because, TO PRESERVE THE APE-THEORY, SCIENCE MUST MAKE MAN P…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 93 (part 4)
“Yet this Darwinian theory, correct as it is in minor particulars, agrees no more with Occultism than with Mr.
Wallace, who, in his "Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection," shows pretty conclusively that something more than "natu…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 94 (part 5)
“The "portrait" of the "Reindeer feeding," from the Thayngin grotto in Switzerland, and those of the man running, with two horse's heads sketched close to him -- a work of the Reindeer period, i.e., at least 50,000 years ago -- are pronounce…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 94 (part 6)
“Frederick Collingwood, F.R.S ., F.G.S ., 1864.
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scientific hypothesis coupled to the recently adopted belief that there exists no "Vital principle" whatever, but only vital phenomena, which can al…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 95 (part 2)
“It is, again, our old friend, the good-tempered elephant, that would be the fossil antediluvian ancestor, and the mammoth of the Pliocene age who would be in the menagerie ; the megalonyx and the gigantic megatherium would be found instead…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 95 (part 3)
“" The root to which these two families lead back IS UNKNOWN" (Schmidt).
No.
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represents the realm explored by Western Evolutionists, the area in which climatic influences, "natural selection," and all the other physical causes of organ…”
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“IF we look at the universe around us we cannot fail to realise that there must be some overruling plan co-ordinating its infinite complexity.
If we take into our hands and examine minutely any living thing, however simple, equally must we…”