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: The Monad, in incarnating, projects its shadow Chhaya.
Mme. Blavatsky: No, no, not at all.
Mr. Old: Does not it overshadow? It is said to overshadow the child.
Mme. Blavatsky: It overshadows the child that has its astral self in it, and its body. Then it begins overshadowing when the child is born, the Monad Buddhi, this immortal principle, gets into the child and overshadows it as soon as the child begins to be conscious – as conscious as a kitten, for instance, it is there already, but the Manas is called a different thing. The Manas is mind, that is why the child will never become intellectual before five or six years. It depends upon how precocious he is.
Read in the second volume of The Secret Doctrine and see how the Lunar Pitris project their Chhayas, and having projected their Chhayas, this is the vehicle of the Monad.
Mr. Old: That is just what I understood, and it carries it towards the child – the as yet unintelligent child.
Mme. Blavatsky: I tell you again that till the Third Race,it does not link itself entirely.
Mr. Kingsland: It has nothing to do with the development of the germ, either physically or astrally, but it is attracted afterwards at a certain period to the already partly developed germ.
Mr. Old: How much of the individuality, then, shapes the organism?
Mr. Kingsland: That is the point I don’t think has been quite elucidated yet. Where does the individuality of the reincarnating Monad come in?
Mme. Blavatsky: The individuality is the reincarnating ego, the Manas. Manas is a thing, it is Sutratma. The personality and individuality are quite different. You make the same thing out of personality and individuality.
Mr. Kingsland: Where does the musical quality come in? How does that belong to it?
Mme. Blavatsky: It belongs to it because every personality that passes gives a certain colour, and gives more and more and more to the incarnating ego; and then it remains, this talent for music, and it brings it back. Very well; all that remains on the individuality, on the ego being reincarnated, is brought back on earth, and therefore it is an inherent soul quality.”
H. P. Blavatsky
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