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 life 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: Question 3. In reference to the whole of paragraph (e), and to some points which were raised last Thursday, it would be as well to devote a little more time to the subject of reincarnation. And then there are several clauses which I think it would be well to read separately. Unfortunately, the paragraph is omitted.
Mr. Kingsland: “The fourth order are substantial entities, etc.” (Reads paragraph e.) {The Secret Doctrine I:218}
Mr. Old: (a) For example, we have been accustomed to think of the “Imperishable Jivas”, or “Monads”, as the Atma-Buddhi-Manas (exoterically), and that this “Monad” incarnates at some period or other in the newly-born child – not, however, fully incarnating until seven years after birth.
Mme. Blavatsky: I told you that “Imperishable Monads” are not at all what you think. It is that which I have told you already, that the “Imperishable Jivas” are the incarnating individualities, not personalities; and they are not the Monads.
The Monads take immediate possession of the astral images, the Chhaya of the Lunar Pitris; the Jivas or Manasaputra, only at the end of the Third Race.
With the child it is just as it is with the First Race. The Monads, Atma-Buddhis, are said to have fully incarnated only when full consciousness is developed in the child mankind – that is to say, the Third Race – and so it is with the child unit, or man.
Take always analogy, then you will find invariably the key to the occult explanation. As it is with the First Race to the Third Race, so it is with the child, because the child is microcosmos of the macrocosm, and it repeats, stage by stage, everything.
The whole evolution of the universe is found in the evolution of the fetus and of the child. That is a well-known fact, which the Occultists ought to know, more or less.
Mr. Old: Then you say that the Monad does not incarnate.
Mme. Blavatsky: The Monad incarnates the Monad, so to say, of a shadow. It is not united, because Chhaya – or this image, the astral form – is not conscious of the presence of the Monad, because there is no Manasic element to appreciate or to be conscious of that Monad in it. Therefore, it is just as though he did not have it. So it is with the child.
Mr. Old: It is merely the vehicle of the individual life.
Mme. Blavatsky: Nothing else. But when the Manas comes, or the mind, then there is the union of all the principles, and all the principles appear all about between seven and eight years when the child becomes conscious.”
H. P. Blavatsky
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