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. Kingsland: Does not one ego bring back more Manases from the Devachanic state than another?
Mme. Blavatsky: Not at all. One ego will have a better Karmic development than another, but it does not bring back at all. Once it is past its period of illusion in Devachan – when it is in Devachan or anything, it becomes the omniscient ego.
Mr. Kingsland: But that portion which we have always understood to be assimilating, is not that brought back again?
Mme. Blavatsky: It is, but in Devachan it is not itself. It is very difficult to explain; it reflects the human personality, because if it did not do that, it could not have the bliss that it has, because Devachan, after all, is an illusion, the Fool’s Paradise.
Mr. Kingsland: But then that portion of Manas surely develops with every individual.
Mme. Blavatsky: It does, because the personality differs, but the Manas per se is the incarnating ego.
Mr. _____: Manifestation depends upon the perfection or the imperfection of the instrument.
A Lady: It would really be, then, from the parents you have a certain development or non-development of mechanism, and it is according to that the Manas is able to manifest itself in ordinary life, and that is where heredity will come in.
Mme Blavatsky: The Manas is always the same. It is the stem, the eternal stem around which cling the personalities, so to say, those that come and go, and so on.
It is called the Sutratma, the sliver thread on which are strung those pearls as personalities – you know the expression – in its own inherent nature, or essence, it is omniscient, for it is part if the Divine Mind.
But once that it has been brought to incarnate on earth, it takes up all the materiality and all the finite attributes, so to say, and the qualities of the personalities it incarnates in, and moreover, these personalities are subject to the {im?} perfections of the material form.”
H. P. Blavatsky
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