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.
“A Lady: Supposing during the human life, the spiritual nature has been developed up to a very considerable extent, and then death comes. When that Manas returns to a fresh incarnation, will the progress that has been made in the past life settle the type of humanity that it will then take up, so that its past life will carry it on further?
Mme. Blavatsky: Certainly, if the Karma was good, it will go higher and higher, and all the experiences of the past life will come in this life, because, when you find children who are not at all like their parents – no musicians in the family – and you see little boy phenomenons, Hofmann (child prodigy piano player who played piano concerts at 10 years old, Josef Hofmann, 1876-1957), or some such things, this is a thing which comes from the previous life. It comes to him as easily as water to a duck.
Mr. _____: How does it happen that the mechanism he gets from his parents does not retard that? Because, if his parents are non-musical, then their mechanism, so far as regards music, must be stronger than his.
Mme. Blavatsky: It overpowers blind matter.
Mr. Kingsland: In many cases, I fancy it is retarded?
Mme. Blavatsky: Look at little, blind Tom, who is in America, a little black boy of four years, who is perfectly blind, and yet see the wonderful things that he does. (Thomas “Blind Tom”Wiggins, 1849-1908, born a blind slave in Georgia in the U.S., by the age of four he evinced a talent for playing the piano, for which he had no training, and was put on tour by his owner.)
A Lady: Would it be attracted, rather, towards the musical mechanism?
Mme. Blavatsky: Heredity is a Karmic effect, therefore, if an individuality has to incarnate in Karma in a person, then the frame will be given to him, which will give to him this musical mechanism.
A Lady: There will be a sort of affinity?
Mr. Old: And then has not an astral body the power of impressing its own image upon the gross matter supplied by the physical parents?
Mr. Kingsland: The other way about.
Mr. Old: The antitype which exists previous to the child’s birth.
Mme. Blavatsky: This astral is nothing at all with the Manas that incarnates. This belongs to the lower matter, and this is given by the father and mother, by the parents, and around this astral then forms the physical child. But this astral is nothing to do with that. It is nothing to do with the ego, which is one and continuous, unbroken.”
H. P. Blavatsky
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