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 14.  Is the suggestion correct that, even during the depths of Pralaya, life remains active around the North Pole – the Land of the Gods?

 
Mme. Blavatsky:  If you mean the Planetary Pralaya, then I say, “yes”, esoteric science teaches us so; but not in every Pralaya. I mean that while one globe is in obscuration it remains, but when there is the whole chain certainly it does not; because they are all dissipated then.

 
Mr. Yates:  Does esoteric philosophy imply that, as the Greeks believed, Mount Meru is inhabited at this moment?

 
Mme. Blavatsky:  We see in the esoteric philosophy there is a Meru. What the Indians mean by the Meru is one thing, and what the Greeks mean is another. They call it the thigh, and they said that Bacchus was born in India, because he was born out of the thigh of his Father Jupiter; he is the Motherless, and that is Miros, which means the thigh in Greek; therefore, being born on Mount Meru, he was an Indian.

 
Mr. Yates:  I know nothing of the Indian at all, so I think I must be right. They suppose a region existed in the North Pole inhabited by a blameless people.

 
Mme. Blavatsky:  Blameless people! Why, is it the gods. You read it in The Secret Doctrine, and you will find it all. You read it in the second volume. In the second volume I have got all that – the Eternal Land, the one Finite {infinite} that never goes down.

 
Mr. Yates:  Is it meant to be actually, physically located in the North Pole?

 
Mme. Blavatsky:  We won’t talk about it; it will take us into too high metaphysics.”

 
H. P. Blavatsky