“(The first stanza describes the state of the ONE ALL during Pralaya, before the flutter of reawakening manifestation.)
1. THE ETERNAL PARENT (SPACE), WRAPPED IN HER EVER INVISIBLE ROBES, HAD SLUMBERED ONCE AGAIN FOR SEVEN ETERNITIES.
The “Parent Space” is the eternal, ever present cause of all – the incomprehensible DEITY, whose “invisible robes” are the mystic root of all matter, and of the Universe. By the Seven “Eternities”, aeons or periods are meant.
2. TIME WAS NOT, FOR IT LAY ASLEEP IN THE INFINITE BOSOM OF DURATION.
Time is only an illusion produced by the succession of our states of consciousness as we travel through eternal duration, and it does not exist where no consciousness exists in which the illusion can be produced; but “lies asleep”.
Nothing on earth has real duration, for nothing remains without change – or the same – for the billionth part of a second; and the sensation we have of the actuality of the division of “time” known as the present, comes from the blurring of that momentary glimpse, or succession of glimpses, of things that our senses give us, as those things pass from the region of ideals which we call the future, to the region of memories that we name the past.
The real person or thing does not consist solely of what is seen at any particular moment, but is composed of the sum of all its various and changing conditions from its appearance in the material form to its disappearnce from the earth.”
H. P. Blavatsky
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