stanza 6, sloka 4

Stanza VI

4. He builds them in the likeness of older wheels, placing them on the Imperishable Centres.

How does Fohat build them? He collects the fiery dust. He makes balls of fire, runs through them, and round them, infusing life thereinto, then sets them into motion; some one way, some the other way. They are cold, he makes them hot. They are dry, he makes them moist. They shine, he fans and cools them. Thus acts Fohat from one twilight to the other, during Seven Eternities.”

 

“Mr. B. Keightley:  Question 2.  On page 150, it is stated that “each atom has seven planes of being or existence.” Are we right in supposing that each corresponds with one of the seven globes of a planetary chain?

 
Mme. Blavatsky:  No sir, most assuredly not. These seven globes are on four planes only, as you know.

 
Mr. B. Keightley:  Question 3. In connection with this, how is it that in the diagram on page 153, the seven globes are represented as existing on only four planes?

 
Mme. Blavatsky:   There you are, because the triangle, the quaternary or square are the symbols of {the} microcosm, or man. The globes are seven, but out of seven there are three pairs, or what the Gnostics call Syzgies, the couples, male and female – positive and negative, respectively.

 
Our globe lies solitary on the fourth, or seventh, or first plane – just as you like to give the numbers; combines in itself the material by dual nature. The form of the globe of our planetary chain corresponds exactly to the esoteric diagrams of the principles, as every esotericist here knows – of the human principles, I mean.

 
Atman stands for the triangle, remember, and the physical man for, firstly, the globe; secondly, the quaternary; and, finally, the pentagon, the five-pointed star.

 
You must try to find out the eternal riddle of the Sphinx, without being blinded for it like Oedipus. Do you see what I mean by it, why it is so, why the seven are on the four planes?

 
Mr. Kingsland:  Simply because they correspond to the quaternary in that respect.

 
Mme. Blavatsky:  First there is our Earth, then comes the second plane, and there, too, they are couples; then come two again, and then two again – six in all.

 
Mr. Yates:  Are these the material, astral, sidereal planes of the diagrams?

 
Mme. Blavatsky:  Yes; call them what names you like, I know it is. Ours is the lowest plane; then comes the more ethereal, and more ethereal, and still more ethereal, until no human conception can conceive of the three planes.

 
And therefore we leave them alone, because it is perfectly ridiculous with our finite intellects to try to understand and unriddle the infinite. It is quite enough to take what the seers can see.”

 
H. P. Blavatsky