stanza 4, sloka 5

Stanza IV

5. “Darkness” The Boundless, or the No-Number, Adi-Nidana Svabhavat: –

I. The Adi-Sanat, the number, for He is One.

II. The voice of the Lord Svabhavat, the numbers, for he is one and nine.

III. The “Formless Square.”

And these three enclosed with the O are the Sacred Four; and the ten are the Arupa Universe. Then come the “sons”, the seven fighters, the one, the eighth left out, and His breath which is the light-maker.

 
“Mr. B. Keightley:  How do you see the image of the Moon and the star?

 
Mme. Blavatsky:  There is one thing occultism teaches and it is this, that there is not a single body in that part of the universe which is or which may be perceived by astronomy under the strongest telescope that is not a reflection. There is not a single planet which they see, really, as a planet. It is simply a reflection, neither is the Sun seen. It is simply the reflection and the screen, a veil thrown over it; and so it is the same with the planets.

 
They may go and speculate till Doom’s Day and say they see canals and they see mountains and rivers and all kinds of things, but all this is optical illusion, nothing else; nothing but reflections, because the real ones are not seen.

 
Mr. Kingsland:  But to have a reflection you must have something which is reflected from it and that must in every case be matter.

 
Mme. Blavatsky:  Most assuredly. Everything is matter.

 
Mr. Kingsland:  Then is the tail of the comet matter in that sense?

 
Mme. Blavatsky:  No, because the tail of the comet is rather a reflection thrown off. There is the enormous size of it, and this is more of optical illusion than anything else.

 
Mr. Kingsland:  Is it not self-luminous?

 
Mme. Blavatsky:  It is not.”

 
H. P. Blavatsky