Category: Cosmogenesis

"7.    THIS IS THY PRESENT WHEEL, SAID THE FLAME TO THE SPARK. THOU ART MYSELF, MY IMAGE AND MY SHADOW.   I HAVE CLOTHED MYSELF IN THEE, AND THOU ART MY VAHAN (VEHICLE) TO THE DAY "BE WITH US", WHEN THOU SHALT REBECOME MYSELF AND OTHERS, THYSELF AND ME.   THEN THE BUILDERS, HAVING [...]

"6.    FROM THE FIRST-BORN (PRIMITIVE, OR THE FIRST MAN) THE THREAD BETWEEN THE SILENT WATCHER AND HIS SHADOW BECOMES MORE STRONG AND RADIANT WITH EVERY CHANGE (REINCARNATION).   THE MORNING SUNLIGHT HAS CHANGED INTO NOONDAY GLORY...   The "Watcher" and his "Shadows" - the latter numbering as many as there are reincarnations for the [...]

"5...(continued) Science teaches us that the living as well as the dead organisms of both man and animal are swarming with bacteria of a hundred various kinds.   But Science never yet went so far as to assert with the occult doctrine that our bodies, as well as those of animals, plants, and stones, are [...]

"5...(continued) Every new Round develops one of the Compound Elements. Thus the First Round, we are taught, developed but one Element, and a nature and humanity in what may be called one aspect of Nature.   The Second Round brought forth and developed two Elements - Fire and Air - and its humanity adapted to [...]

"5.    THE SPARK HANGS FROM THE FLAME BY THE FINEST THREAD OF FOHAT. IT JOURNEYS THROUGH THE SEVEN WORLDS OF MAYA.   IT STOPS IN THE FIRST (KINGDOM), AND IS A METAL AND A STONE; IT PASSES INTO THE SECOND (KINGDOM, AND BEHOLD - A PLANT; THE PLANT WHIRLS THROUGH SEVEN FORMS AND BECOMES [...]

"4.    IT IS THE ROOT THAT NEVER DIES, THE THREE-TONGUED FLAME OF THE FOUR WICKS...THE WICKS ARE THE SPARKS, THAT DRAW FROM THE THREE-TONGUED FLAME (THEIR UPPER TRIAD) SHOT OUT BY THE SEVEN, THEIR FLAME;   THE BEAMS AND SPARKS OF ONE MOON REFLECTED IN THE RUNNING WAVES OF ALL THE RIVERS OF THE [...]

"3.    WHEN ONE BECOMES THE TWO - THE "THREEFOLD" APPEARS.   THE THREE ARE (LINKED INTO) ONE; AND IT IS OUR THREAD, O LANOO, THE HEART OF THE MAN-PLANT, CALLED SAPTAPARNA.   In order to form a clear conception of what is meant by the One becoming two, and then being transformed into the [...]

"2.    THE ONE RAY MULTIPLIES THE SMALLER RAYS.   LIFE PRECEDES FORM, AND LIFE SURVIVES THE LAST ATOM (OF FORM, STHULASARIRA, EXTERNAL BODY).   THROUGH THE COUNTLESS RAYS THE LIFE-RAY, THE ONE, LIKE A THREAD THROUGH MANY BEADS (PEARLS).   This sloka expresses the conception - a purely Vedantic one - of a life-thread, [...]

"(Stanza VII continues the history, tracing the descent of life down to the appearance of Man, and thus closes the first Book of The Secret Doctrine.)   1.    BEHOLD THE BEGINNING OF SENTIENT FORMLESS LIFE.   FIRST, THE DIVINE (VEHICLE), THE ONE FROM THE MOTHER-SPIRIT (ATMAN); THEN THE SPIRITUAL (ATMA-BUDDHI, SPIRIT-SOUL);   (AGAIN) THE [...]

"6.   THE OLDER WHEELS ROTATED DOWNWARD AND UPWARD...THE MOTHER'S SPAWN FILLED THE WHOLE (KOSMOS). (Kosmos, in our stanzas means our own Solar System, not the Infinite Universe.)   THERE WERE BATTLES FOUGHT BETWEEN THE CREATORS AND THE DESTROYERS, AND BATTLES FOUGHT FOR SPACE; THE SEED APPEARING AND REAPPEARING CONTINUOUSLY.   The phrase "older Wheels" refers [...]