Stanza VII
1. Behold the beginnings of sentient formless life. First the Divine, the one from the Mother-Spirit; then the Spiritual; the three from the one, the four from the one, and the five from which the three, the five, and the seven. These are the three-fold, the four-fold downward; the “mind-born” sons of the first Lord; the shining seven. It is they who are thou, me, him, oh Lanoo. They, who watch over thee, and thy mother earth.
2. The one ray multiplies the smaller rays. Life precedes form, and lfe survives the last atom of form. Through the countless rays proceeds the life-ray, the one, like a thread through many jewels.
3. When the one becomes two, the threefold appears, and the three are one; and it is our thread, oh Lanoo, the heart of the man-plant called Saptaparna.
“Mr. Old: I think it is high reasoning, which our language scarcely portrays at all.
Mme. Blavatsky: Herbert Spencer has tried it, and made a mess of it, because he takes the Unknowable for a kind of transcendental first cause, which appears a little less than anthropomorphic. It is simply invisible, and he does not give it a personality. I don’t think that he is at all a Vedantic philosopher.
Mr. Old: I believe that the pure idea can be conceived, but I do not think it can be expressed.
Mme. Blavatsky: Everyone must feel it, certainly. Let me tell you, and perhaps it will help you. The Unknowable, as absoluteness, is eternal, immutable; had neither beginning, nor will it have an end.
The Unknowable, as a manifestation, is periodical. The one is immutable, outside of space and time; the other is finite, because it is periodical – that is why the Parabrahmic period or the Manvantaric period is separated or divided into days of Brahma and nights of Brahma.
The days are the periods of activity, in which this periodical manifestation, or the Unknowable manifested, puts in an appearance; and the night of Brahma is a period when everything merges in this one non-entity.
Now, when the age of Brahma has finished the hundred years – which are not our human hundred years, but which it takes about 17 or 18 figures to express, milliards and milliards, I think about 17 milliards {15 figures} – (a Maha-Kalpa or the “Great Age” – 100 years of Brahma – making a total of 311, 040, 000, 000,000 of years) – then it is a period which will take as many years as it took years of activity. Do you understand this division?
The Unknowable is always the absolute unknowable, the abstract unknowable, or what Harrison calls the negative quantity – which, for our perceptions, it may be.
Mr. Old: Then you might say that the unknown is, in reality, that which is to be known.
Mme. Blavatsky: The unknown cannot be; because the unknown has always some potentiality of the unknowable in it, whereas the unknowable cannot have such a potentiality.
Mr. Old: But I, like yourself, distinguish here between the words “unknown” and “unknowable”. I should call Herbert Spencer’s first cause “unknown”.
Mme. Blavatsky: Harrison is perfectly right. But, don’t you call it Unknowable, because that is what we call Parabrahm.
Mr. Kingsland: It is the difference between Brahma and Parabrahm.”
H. P. Blavatsky
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