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Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Master KH, the Master Morya, Master Rakosi, HP Blavatsky
Alice Ann Bailey
Alice Bailey
Theosophical views on this matter are such that we can attribute them in some extent to the substantial philosophical concept. The difference is that the theosophists not only consider the Space as secondary to the objects of the Universe, but also give it the main role, seeing it as the first principle. While for all the objects, "moving and existing" within the borders of this space, the Theosophists gave the position of the second plan. For them, the objects are secondary, and the Space is primary. We offer to your attention a series of quotes taken from the theosophical literature, particularly from books Blavatsky E. and A. Bailey. “There is one Boundless Immutable Principle; one Absolute Reality which, antecedes all manifested conditioned Being. It is beyond the range and reach of any human thought or expression. The manifested Universe is contained within this Absolute Reality and is a conditioned symbol of it. In the totality of this manifested Universe, three aspects are to be conceived. 1. The First Cosmic Logos, impersonal and unmanifested, the precursor of the Manifested. 2. The Second Cosmic Logos, Spirit-Matter, Life, the Spirit of the Universe. 3. The Third Cosmic Logos, Cosmic Ideation, the Universal World-Soul. From these basic creative principles, in successive gradations there issue in in ordered sequence the numberless Universes comprising countless Manifesting Stars and Solar Systems” (Alice Bailey's "A Treatise on Cosmic Fire", pp. 32-33). “Spaceis an entity and the entire "vault of heaven" (as it has been poetically called) is the phenomenal appearance of that entity” (A. Bailey "Esoteric Astrology", page 18). “The Ancient Wisdom teaches that “Space is an entity” (A. Bailey" Esoteric Astrology ", page 19). “What is that which was, is, and will be, whether there is a Universe or not; whether there be gods or none?' asks the esoteric Senzar Catechism. And the answer made is —SPACE” ("The Occult Catechism", taken from the Secret Doctrine by HP Blavatsky). Theosophists gave to the space a reality. In their interpretation, it is something concrete, real, and not "empty". In their understanding the space is not "nothing", it is - "something". Finally, we should mention one more look at the space - the religious. The uniqueness of this view lies in its imaginary abstraction from what it really dedicated. The theosophical literature leads us to this point of view on the space. Actually, the Theosophical course is just intended to unify and reconcile of all existing religions in the world. Therefore, we can assume that the theosophical literature paves the way for the reader, on the one hand, in the world of religion, and on the other - in the realm of science. Theosophy seeks to give a scientific explanation of religious beliefs, as well as to resolve the problems and dispute the questions of science with the help of esoteric concepts and information. If you start to study religious treatises, it turns out that mystically minded researchers of mysteries of Being and seekers of meaning in life always spoke about the Space. Of course, they were well aware of what they spoke, but preferred not to call directly that about they wrote by the Space, and gave for it all sorts of names. The Space - this is the Matter, the first aspect of God. And we have already spent a lot of time trying to tell the tale of this Unknown Something. However, we repeat and give the most famous of these names - Creator, God, Absolute, the Almighty, the World Mind, Allah, the One, "One of Whom About Naught May Be Said", One Reality, Infinite Principle, the Lord of the World, the Universe, Space, Brahman, Nothing, Eternity, Divine Unity, the Absolute Consciousness, the United Self-existing reality, the One Being, Alpha and Omega, Svabhâvat, Global Essence, the Divine Being, the Absolute Principle, Parabrahman, Reality not having a second, Comprehensive Space, Infinite One Being, Absolutely Everything, the Absolute Container of all things, the One Life, "In him we live and move and have our being", Rootless Root, Infinite and Eternal Cause, the Unconscious and the Unknowable, Mulaprakriti (Mula – the root, Prakriti – the Matter) "All in All", Pradhana, the One Eternal Element, All-ness, Causeless Cause, "Eternal Breath are unaware of itself," Apeiron, Arche. This list we could go on and on. Minding of the need to unite the scientific outlook with the religious, we also will attribute to this list such scientific concept as a vacuum. The striving of Initiates poets and writers ahead of time do not disclose to immature people all Secrets of Being and Not-Being - that's the reason for the presence in their literature the mystical cover, with which they hid from the uninitiated the very foundation of our existence. Let us try to combine as much as possible the views of scientists and poets. This should benefit both, and others - bonding, thus, the foundation of the human world view. The Space described by Euclid and Newton – it’s the Matter, the Primal Essence, the Infinite Constant Principle, the Absolute Reality. We can really compare this Unmanifested Cosmic Mind with an empty box without walls. Although in reality this "emptiness" is not empty. This is the foundation of the universe, its origin, the matrix. This void we can see as a fundamental principle, "fabric", on which the manifested Universe is painted like a pattern. About this Space Blavatsky and Bailey told, calling it the "entity". This Space is really absolute – i.e. constant, fixed and eternal. And it is "empty" in the state of unmanifestation. Are there anywhere borders of the Space? Whether it comes in contact with something similar or different from it? If are applicable to it all our human notions of borders? To these questions we have no answers. In relation to Space it’s pointless to use pronouns that characterize sexual identity, as the division into two sexes - a phenomenon unique to the plant, animal and human organisms. Therefore, the space - it's not "he" or "she." The closest thing to it the pronoun "it", but this is a convention. To the space in general we should not use the concepts related to sex differences. This can be done only to the Spirit and Matter, and then symbolically. In the state of manifestation the Spirit flowing in the “Souls” fills the Cosmic Substance (Matter). Modern scientists have largely rejected the idealistic approach to the questions of the structure of the Universe. They reject the Creator, God as the main leading and the creative principle of the Universe. However, in science everywhere you can find the concept "Nature" Incomprehensible, inexplicable, omnipotent, and semantically it is very reminiscent the religious terms "God" and "Creator". And when the scientist says: "Laws of Nature", it sounds like the "Word of God" in the mouth of a true believer. Everywhere you can find manifestations of creative activity of God (Creative Space). Each chemical element, each elementary particle - is the result of Its incessant "work." By observing the physical, chemical, biological and astronomical phenomena of the world, we touch the Divine.
06. THE SPIRIT – IS ETHER, ENERGY, INFORMATION. THE SOUL - IS AN ELEMENTARY PARTICLE Let us once again look at the scheme of manifestation of this Universe. The Matter – is the First Cosmic Logos, that ball of unimaginable sizes that appeared in the Space; that Cosmic Egg, symbolized in the esoteric by the circle without a point. Within this world all cosmic processes and phenomena and will happen hereinafter, the Life will develop. The Second Cosmic Logos - this is an indication that the Spirit was born in the Matter, and now they are two. And lastly, the Third Cosmic Logos – this is the Matter, giving birth to the Souls inside itself with the help of the Spirit. The Souls are Yin and Yang. Logos - it's just a name for a particular state of Space. Let's talk about the Second and Third Space Logos. The moment came when in the First Cosmic Logos in the "empty" space, in the Matter, the Spirit arose, rather, many Spirits. The Spirit did not come freely, but in the Souls. This is a pass of the First Logos in the status of the Second, and the Third, this happens at the same time. Every Spirit that arose in Matter became the basis for the emergence of the Soul. And there was an association of Spirit and Matter in the Souls. "Father" and "Mother" "have born” "the Children". Matter, Spirit and Soul - Mother, Father and Baby - together form "the very same" Holy Trinity, the object of religious worship.
It is an esoteric view on the process of emergence of the manifested Universe. And the scientific understanding of this process is following. Once unimaginably long time ago (in human notions) the Space changed. In this simple and familiar word - "change" - hidden all secret sense of how the Matter internally transformed to become outwardly visible, manifested. And it is this altered state of Matter in the occultism we call the Spirit. The Matter gave birth to the Spirit (Energy) – i.e. some particular state began to emerge in it, the essence of which is beyond our understanding. The Spirit formed the "Centers of Creation", "Building Units of the Universe", "Touch Points by the Creator himself inside", "Power Centers". These are different names for the same. Democritus thinking about the world supposed their existence and called these power centers by the Atoms - indivisible particles. And he was right about their indivisibility. Buddha also mentioned that all things are composed of some "Dharma". Apparently, by this he meant all the same centers of power. Thus, well-known to us "Elementary Particles", "chakras", "atoms" and "Dharma" - are synonyms.
We could come up and find still a lot of other symbolic expressions for these amazing formations that arose once in the space and exist since. However, any of them would be powerless to give at least some information about the deep essence of that unknown "something". In science, chemical elements are the “atoms”. We recall that translation of the "Atom" is "indivisible". When scientists began to open up and explore the chemical elements, they were the same indivisible elementary units, about the existence of which the ancient Greek philosophers spoke. And so they have appropriated the name of "Atoms". In our series of books the concept of "Atom" is equal to the concept of "elementary particle", and the chemical element is the "chemical element", or just - "element". It is difficult to talk about any structure of elementary particles. We talk about the structure of something, if it incorporates smaller structural units. A particle – is a holistic structure. It's not even the structure, but simply an area of the space, "the material point". "Point of contact" of the Creator-Space with itself. The Spirit - is the foundation and filling of the Souls. It is their source. The main synonym for esoteric concept "Spirit" is another esoteric term - "Ether" which, according to the ideas of philosophical and theosophical thinkers fills the entire Universe. The notion of the "Spirit" is also consistent with such occult terms as "Father", "Brahma" (this, along with Vishnu and Shiva, one of the hypostases of the Hindu Triune God), "Heaven", Fohat, Purusha, Breathof Heaven, Breath of Life, Nefesh, "Light". The transition of the Space from the state of the First Logos to the state of the Second and Third Logos - this is the moment when the particles started to create ether and destroy it. It can be assumed that the Spirit is precisely thereby "Einstein space" (that fills the real space), which, as Einstein believed, can be bent. The Space itself (Matter, the First Logos) is not curved - it is static. But the Spirit emitted and absorbed by the elementary particles is able to "flow", what it does. The Ether emitted and absorbed by the particles - this is the Spirit flowing in the Space. A hint of what in the Space “Something” (the Spirit) is flowing we can find in the esoteric literature in the form of references to the "Prana" - a very thin, ultra-light, radiant substance that is able to pass from body to body, occupying the entire Universe. Another name for the Spirit is “Qi”, anyway - "Chi". Let's talk a bit more about what the Spirit is Light. From a scientific point of view, "the Light" - is visible photons that are moving from the emitting or reflecting them body and getting to our visual analyzers, cause a visual sensation that we call the light. However, the real cause of visual perception is the ether emitted by particles that gets to the visual analyzer. Thus, Ether (Spirit) - this is the "light" in the broad sense of the word. Exactly about this "light" (i.e. the Ether, Spirit) the First Book of Moses (Genesis 1:3 says): "And God said, Let there be light. And there was light". We can name elementary particles symbolically as the "building blocks" that are forming "the Temple of the Manifested Universe". Hence, it becomes clear why to describe the stages of human knowledge and the development it has been used the Masonic symbolism. "Mason" from French is a "bricklayer". Elementary particles - these are the same "stones" from which Freemasons strive to establish the "Temple" - the body of the manifested Universe. In a narrow sense, the Masons – are people embarking on the path of initiation, i.e. in the path of Christ, Buddha and other great Teachers. In a wider sense, Freemasonry is a symbol of the totality of existing in the Universe the living organized systems. Each one of us – is a builder and stonemason. Any representative of any Kingdom of Nature - is a Mason. Minerals, plants, animals – all are Masons, as strange as it may sound. Scientists still are busy looking for candidates for the role of "basic elements" which make up all that is in the universe. We are convinced that the only suitable candidates for this role are elementary particles. The totality of Souls, existing in the Universe, along with Ether (Spirit), created and destroyed in them, forms the Soul of the World - Anima Mundi. At the end of every Christian prayer we use the following expression: "In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit." This we can attribute to a number of inaccurate phrases. And all because, the concept of "Father" in this case symbolizes the Mother, the Matter, the Original Substance, the First Aspect of God. The concept of the "Son" is a Soul. But the "Holy Spirit" - it is precisely the "Spirit", the Second Aspect, the Light. The Matter in this prayer afterward is not mentioned. This is not surprising, given for what period of human history had the formation of Christianity. The concept of "matter" is synonymous with the concept of "Mother" - that is, feminine. In the harsh patriarchy the feminine principle entirely subordinate and enslaves, hereof the neglect of it by the fathers of the Christian church. Therefore more right to say: "In the Name of the Mother, the Son, and the Holy Spirit," where the Holy Spirit - the Father. Or you can like this: "In the Name of the Mother, the Father and the Son." But why is in the name of the Son, and not of the Daughter? Even better: "In the name of the Mother, the Father, and of their Child." What are the Spirit and Soul? With which can we compare them?
We can compare the Spirit with ripples on the surface of the pond. Although, of course, the Spirit does not a ripple. It is ephemeral, immaterial and illusory. A Ripple distorts the shape of the water surface, but the water all the same remains the water. The same applies to the Spirit. It distorts the state of the Space, but the Space does not stop to be itself. The particles - are also a "ripple", but of a different kind than the Ether. And yet, in spite of the illusory nature of Spirit and Soul, for us, creatures built by them, they are more than real. We call the fundamental particles and chemical elements of science "stuff". However, the real materiality has only the Space itself. Particles are as ephemeral as the ether. That is why the world of what we call "substance" and “matter” – is the world of Spirit and the Souls formed by it are in esoteric literature the world of Maya, illusion. Think about: We and the world around us like the Universe - it's just a disturbance in the space. And the Space itself - this is the only thing that creates us, by what (or whom) "we live and move and have our being". And the true and profound nature of this Space has been yet closed to the human understanding.
You can’t assume that the particles and the Ether were once created by God (the Mother), and after this "he" (“she”) left them "at rest" and they are in themselves, and the Creator is itself. No. These centers have emerged and continue to exist, thanks to unceasing "creativity" of the First Logos. Will stop this creative act – will stop their existence. Every millimeter of the space, regardless of created by it in itself elementary particles and ether, has a mind, consciousness. The whole universe is reasonable, and not just us humans. But let us return once more to the "dispute of the models of space" – Euclidean-Newton space and Einstein space. Einstein was right in something relatively to the basic structure of the Universe. The "something" that exists in Space (the Spirit) is in a mobile state, and can flex. But as the Space does not flex, the shortest distance between two points is a segment, the line. Therefore, we should not doubt the Euclidean geometry – the science studying of methods and laws of measurements of space and matter. But the measurement of the segments with the help of curves we should regard as erroneous. Science through any technical means, in the laboratory, will never be able to directly see the nature of the Ether and elementary particles. Only indirectly, by studying the interaction of the particles with each other. But the very human mind, the human "I" can come close to solving this greatest of mysteries - to the knowledge of the essence of the Creator, creating us in itself and of itself. When you look at the surrounding bodies, constantly keep in mind that there is nothing but elementary particles (Souls) of varying quality and the Ether (the Spirit), penetrating particles, created by them and disappearing into them. “There is no spoon…”
07. THE SOUL – IS THE THIRD HYPOSTASIS. THE MECHANISM OF MANIFESTATION (CREATION) In the end it's time to talk about the third aspect of the Creator (Thinking Substance) – about the Soul. In our view, in the occult and religious texts and scriptures the most attention is directed to this hypostasis of God and the most information is devoted to it. About the second aspect of the Spirit also it is said a lot, but about the Soul a little more. Scientists also say a lot about it, though they do not realize that they are talking exactly about that. So what is the Soul? As many times we have repeated this is the special formation in the body of Space, the perturbation in it. This is a sphere in the center of which there is the emergence of the Spirit, and in the periphery – its destruction. That's such amazing "Something" this Soul, or rather, the Souls, which in the vast, incredibly huge number the Nature creates in itself and from itself. But what is the kind of perturbation, what is the true essence of what we call the Soul, we don’t know. When occult books talk about the Third Aspect, first, they call the Center of Force itself that has the ability to create and destroy the Spirit. And second, they give the different names for the Spirit itself, appearing and disappearing in each particle. So when we talk about the Third Hypostasis – the Soul, at the same time mention and the Second – the Spirit. And this is quite true, as the Second Person of God – is the cause of the Third. The primary component of the Soul – is the Spirit that saturates it and adds hardness. Therefore, we first list the synonyms for the Soul as a whole. And then again we will repeat those concepts that characterize the Spirit in the Soul. As the Souls of the Universe make Seven basic types at each level of each Plane, very often they have a particular name or definition, combined with the number Seven. Soul, Third Hypostasis (Third Aspect), the Son of the Light (used for the naming of the Spirit and Soul), Jiva, Dhyan Chohan, Sephiroth, Lipika, Pitris (Lunar and Solar,) Brothers (Seven Brothers), Rishi (Seven Rishis of the Great Bear), Sisters (The Seven Sisters of the Pleiades), Principles (Seven Principles), Kumara, Deva, Sura, Asura, Dayitas, Aditya, Danava, Gandharva, Angels of the Throne, Supremacies, Hierarchies, Beginnings, Cherubims, Seraphims, Demons, Army of the Voice, Legion, Rupa, Arupa, Oeaohoo Junior, Not-Eternal Germ, Fire (Light) of Brahma, the Sons of the Sun, the Seven Creative Armies, Seven Builders, Seven Supreme Lords, Seven Truths, The Seven Great Causes of Misery, Seven Days of Creation (Seven Periods or Cycles), Seven Breaths of Dragon of Wisdom, Seven Seeds, Seven Worlds of Maya, the Seven Hierarchies, Shimmering Seven, Mind-born Sons, The Seven Lives, Beaming Sons of Dawn of Manvantara, Messenger of Gods, sparks, flames, Ah-hi, Force Centers, force, Energy, elementary particles, Elements, Elements, Atoms, Monads, Chakras, Bindu, Firing Vortices, Dharma, Laya Centers, Wheels, Serpents, Dragons, Shadow of God, Reflection of God, Mirror of God, Wicks, Clots in the Ocean of Milk, Caviar, which is spawned by the Fire Fish of Life (Fish Grains of Life), Numbers, Sons of the Earth and the Sons of Fire (Yin and Yang, Matter and Spirit, Cain and Abel, Shiva and Brahma, Creators and Destroyers). We included here also the names for the Spirit in the Soul. But we will list them again separately. Seven Spirits before the Throne of God, a whirlwind of fire, Snake, biting its own tail, the Dragons of Wisdom, Lucifer, Kundalini (Fire Serpent) Fohat, Antahkarana, Bridge connecting the Spirit with the Soul, Ray of Light, Seven Ways to Bliss, Wheel, Circle, Breath of Dragon of Wisdom, Sutrama, Thread of Life, The Thread between the Silent Witness and his Shadow, Flame, The Stream of Consciousness. The Fabric, which is spun by the Mother and Father, the World Egg, Gold Egg, Hiranyagarbha, Sien-Tchan, Maya, Illusion, Space of Light, Svabhâvat, Hierarchies of Forms, the Universe – the Son of Necessity – these are concepts and definitions that describe the Universe as a whole. This is only a modest portion of all titles that we can found in the esoteric and the scientific literature. You can train yourself to find these synonyms. “The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things so ever [the Father] doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.” (The New Testament, the Gospel of John, Ch. 5:19).
08. COMMENTS TO THE BOOK OF DZYAN (STANZAS DZYAN WAS TAKEN FROM VOLUME 1 OF "THE SECRET DOCTRINE" OF HP BLAVATSKY) 1) "Universal Mind was not, for there were no Ah-hi to contain it." (Stanza 1.3). Universal Mind – is the Cosmic Consciousness, the Second Aspect of God, Ah-hi (senzar.) – these are the Souls, Serpents, Dragons of Wisdom, the elementary particles that contain Mind, filled with it. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2) “The Seven Ways to Bliss were not The Great Causes of Misery were not, for there was no one to produce and get ensnared by them.” (Stanza 1.4). The ultimate goal of the existence of our universe is the union of information and identification of all with all. All six Planes and all six main types of Souls should be merged together. Thus the Mahatma – The Great Soul – is born. And the more of these creatures will be eventually in the Universe, the closer the world would be to the ultimate goal of existence. Bliss, Nirvana – this is the final outcome of this world. And each type of Soul is conventionally referred as the Way to Bliss. The Spirit flows through the Soul, it is the Way. On the other hand, all the time that the universe is moving towards the ultimate goal, accompanied by the inevitable Suffering of imperfect beings that born in it and die quickly because of their imperfections. That is why these same Seven basic types of Souls have another name – "The great causes of Misery". Experiencing pain, everything in this world is moving towards the perfection. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3) “... for Father, Mother, and Son were once more one, and the Son had not yet awakened for the new Wheel and his Pilgrimage thereon” (Stanza 1.5). During Mahapralaya there is no the Father (Spirit of Ether) and the Son (Soul). All of this is potentially hidden in the depths of the Matter (the Original Substance). The Wheel – this is another name for the Soul, the Wheel – it’s the Ether rotating in a circle. The New Wheel – it’s a symbol of the new Mahamanvantara, manifested through the totality of produced Souls. “Pilgrimage” of the Son on the Wheel – this is an indication of the period of the next manvantaric existence of our Universe. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4) “The Seven Sublime Lords and the Seven Truths had ceased to be, and the Universe, the Son of Necessity, was immersed in Paranishpanna, to be outbreathed by that which is, and yet is not.” (Stanza 1.6). The Seven Sublime Lords as well as the Seven Truths – it's the same thing as the Seven Spirits before the Throne of God, or the Seven Sons – seven basic types of elementary particles (Souls). During Mahapralaya they do not exist. There is no Universe in the form in which we are accustomed to contemplate it now. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5) “...Where were the Builders, the Luminous Sons of Manvantaric Dawn? ... In the Unknown Darkness in their Ah-hi Paranishpanna. The Producers of Form from No-Form – the Root of the World – the Devamâtri and Svabhâvat, rested in the Bliss of Non-Being.” (Stanza 2.1). You probably already guessed that the Builders and the Luminous Sons of Manvantaric Dawn – are the Souls, Building Elements of the Universe. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6) "3. The Hour had not yet struck; the Ray had not yet flashed into the Germ; the Mâtripadma had not yet swollen. Date: 2016-01-14; view: 766 |
