cosmology
Vibration
The Hermetic doctrine that nothing rests — matter, energy, mind, and spirit are a single continuum differing only in rate of vibration, from the grossest matter to the least material spirit. Distinct from cosmic_sympathy (affinity resonating BETWEEN separate things) in being a claim about what constitutes any one thing in the first place, and from magical_equilibrium (Lévi's operational balancing technique, which presupposes some vibration doctrine rather than stating this general principle).
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The Kybalion (Three Initiates) | Chapter I (part 2)
“They did not believe in "casting pearls before swine," but rather held to the teaching "milk for babes"; "meat for strong men," both of which maxims are familiar to readers of the Christian scriptures, but both of which had been used by the…”
The Kybalion (Three Initiates) | Chapter II (part 1)
“CHAPTER II THE SEVEN HERMETIC PRINCIPLES "The Principles of Truth are Seven; he who knows these, understandingly, possesses the Magic Key before whose touch all the Doors of the Temple fly open."--The Kybalion.
The Seven Hermetic Principle…”
The Kybalion (Three Initiates) | Chapter II (part 2)
“The ancient Hermetists considered this Principle as one of the most important mental instruments by which man was able to pry aside the obstacles which hid from view the Unknown.
Its use even tore aside the Veil of Isis to the extent that…”
The Kybalion (Three Initiates) | Chapter III (part 1)
“CHAPTER III MENTAL TRANSMUTATION "Mind (as well as metals and elements) may be transmuted, from state to state; degree to degree; condition to condition; pole to pole; vibration to vibration.
True Hermetic Transmutation is a Mental Art."--…”
The Kybalion (Three Initiates) | Chapter IV (part 3)
“It must be Infinite in Space--it must be Everywhere, for there is no place outside of THE ALL--it cannot be otherwise than continuous in Space, without break, cessation, separation, or interruption, for there is nothing to break, separate,…”
The Kybalion (Three Initiates) | Chapter VI (part 2)
“We recognize this even in our ordinary view, for we speak of the world as "a fleeting show" that comes and goes, is born and dies--for the element of impermanence and change, finiteness and unsubstantiality, must ever be connected with the…”
The Kybalion (Three Initiates) | Chapter VI (part 3)
“To know it otherwise, but actual experience, we must be THE ALL itself.
It is true that the higher we rise in the scale--the nearer to "the mind of the Father" we reach--the more apparent becomes the illusory nature of finite things, but n…”
The Kybalion (Three Initiates) | Chapter VI (part 5)
“With this difference, always, between the various hypotheses--that under the old views Mental Power was ignored as a Natural Force, while under Mentalism it becomes the Greatest Natural Force.
And this one difference revolutionizes Life, t…”
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The Secret Doctrine | Page 3 (part 1)
“The Secret Doctrine by H.
P.
Blavatsky -- Vol.
1 [[Vol.
1, Page 1]] PROEM ------- PAGES FROM A PRE-HISTORIC PERIOD.
A N Archaic Manuscript -- a collection of palm leaves made impermeable to water, fire, and air, by some specific unknow…”
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.
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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 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 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 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 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 7 (part 10)
“T HEN THE SONS ( the Elements with their respective Powers , or Intelligences ) DISSOCIATE AND SCATTER, TO RETURN INTO THEIR MOTHER'S BOSOM AT THE END OF THE "GREAT DAY" AND REBECOME ONE WITH HER ( a ).
W HEN IT ( the Web ) IS COOLING, IT…”
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 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 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 11 (part 6)
“.' You can never impress it too profoundly on the minds of those to whom you impart some of the esoteric teachings.
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." 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 17 (part 3)
“the races, human and animal, are as fully treated here as the writer is able to treat them.
The proofs brought forward in corroboration of the old teachings are scattered widely throughout the old scriptures of ancient civilizations.
The…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 20 (part 4)
“The Holy is the seventh of all," etc.
(p.
415).
This, besides showing a strange identity with the cosmogony of the Puranas ( e.g ., Vishnu Purana 1st Book), corroborates with regard to number seven, all our teachings as briefly given in…”
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 30 (part 1)
“The Secret Doctrine by H.
P.
Blavatsky -- Vol.
1 [[Vol.
1, Page]] 460 [[This page continued from previous section ]] § XIV.
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 37 (part 1)
“The Secret Doctrine by H.
P.
Blavatsky -- Vol.
1 [[Vol.
1, Page]] 506 THE SECRET DOCTRINE.
[[This page continued from previous section ]] VI.
THE MASKS OF SCIENCE.
PHYSICS OR METAPHYSICS?
I F there is anything on earth like progress…”
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 5)
“The totality of the Seven Rays spread through the Solar system constitute, so to say, the physical Upadhi (basis) of the Ether of Science; in which Upadhi, light, heat, electricity, etc., etc., -- the forces of orthodox science -- correlate…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 39 (part 4)
“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…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 40 (part 6)
“, twice as fast; and thirdly, a motion at right angles to these two (suppose downwards), which, in its simplest form, would be with unvarying velocity.
If we project this figure in space we find on examination that the points of the curves…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 41 (part 3)
“It had been stated that the inventor of the "Self-Motor" was what is called, in the jargon of the Kabalists, a " natural - born magician." That he was and would remain unconscious of the full range of his powers, and would work out merely t…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 41 (part 4)
“Air ships are riding at anchor, as it were, waiting for the force which is to make aerial navigation something more than a dream.
As easily as men communicate with their offices from their homes by means of the telephone, so will the inhab…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 41 (part 5)
“1, Page]] 563 A PREMATURE DISCOVERY.
If the question is asked why Mr.
Keely was not allowed to pass a certain limit, the answer is easy; because that which he has unconsciously discovered, is the terrible sidereal Force, known to, and nam…”
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,…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 43 (part 3)
“But see how closely Mr.
Crookes brushes by the "Unknowable," and what "potentialities" there are for the acceptance of Occult truths in his discoveries.
He continues, speaking of the evolution of atoms: -- ".
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Let us pause at the…”
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 56 (part 3)
“2, Page]] 113 THE SECRET WORK OF CHIRAM.
active emanations from the three higher principles in man, namely, "Spirit, Soul, and Mind," or Atma, Buddhi, and Manas.
It is the spiritual and also the material human basis.
Rudimentary man, hav…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 63 (part 7)
“This idea and representative notion is that of the all-powerful champion -- child-like in his 'Virgin innocence' -- so powerful that this god-filled innocence (the Seraphim 'Know most,' the Cherubim 'love most') can shatter the world (artic…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 79 (part 9)
“produced seven men in accordance with the seven natures of the Seven Spirits" "having in them, potentially, the two sexes." Metaphysically, the Father and the Son are the "Universal Mind" and the "periodical Universe"; the "Angel" and the "…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 85 (part 1)
“The Secret Doctrine by H.
P.
Blavatsky -- Vol.
2 [[Vol.
2, Page]] 563 THE SEVEN THUNDERS.
§ XXIII.
THE UPANISHADS IN GNOSTIC LITERATURE.
We are reminded in King's "Gnostics" that the Greek language has but one word for vowel and voic…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 87 (part 5)
“For: -- "The quaternary of the intellectual world (the world of Mahat ) is T'Agathon, Nous, Psyche, Hyle; while that of the sensible world (of matter), which is properly what Pythagoras meant by the word Kosmos -- is Fire, Air, Water, and E…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 88 (part 12)
“For, verse 1,152 of the "Greater Holy Assembly" (Kabala) says -- "We have learned that there were ten (companions) who entered into the Sod, ('mysterious assembly or mystery'), and that seven only came forth"*** ( i.e.
, 10 for the unmanif…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 91 (part 8)
“296.) This he develops in his mirific lecture on the " Perigenesis of the Plastidule, or the wave-motions of living particles." It is an improvement on Darwin's theory of "Pangenesis," and a further approach, a cautious move towards "magic.…”
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