Category: Cosmogenesis

"5.    AT THE FOURTH (ROUND, OR REVOLUTION OF LIFE AND BEING AROUND "THE SEVEN SMALLER WHEELS"), THE SONS ARE TOLD TO CREATE THEIR IMAGES.   ONE THIRD REFUSES, TWO (THIRDS) OBEY.   THE CURSE IS PRONOUNCED:  THEY WILL BE BORN IN THE FOURTH (RACE), SUFFER AND CAUSE SUFFERING.   THIS IS THE FIRST WAR. [...]

"4.    HE BUILDS THEM IN THE LIKENESS OF OLDER WHEELS (WORLDS), PLACING THEM ON THE IMPERISHABLE CENTERS.   HOW DOES FOHAT BUILD THEM? HE COLLECTS THE FIRST DUST. HE MAKES BALLS OF FIRE, RUNS THROUGH THEM AND ROUND THEM, INFUSING LIFE THEREINTO;   THEN SETS THEM INTO MOTION, SOME ONE, SOME THE OTHER WAY. [...]

"3.    OF THE SEVEN (ELEMENTS) - FIRST ONE MANIFESTED, SIX CONCEALED; TWO MANIFESTED, FIVE CONCEALED; THREE MANIFESTED, FOUR CONCEALED; FOUR PRODUCED, THREE HIDDEN; FOUR AND ONE TSAN (FRACTION) REVEALED, TWO AND ONE HALF CONCEALED; SIX TO BE MANIFESTED, ONE LAID ASIDE.   LASTLY, SEVEN SMALL WHEELS REVOLVING, ONE GIVING BIRTH TO THE OTHER.   [...]

"2.    THE SWIFT AND RADIANT ONE PRODUCES THE SEVEN LAYA CENTERS, AGAINST WHICH NONE WILL PREVAIL TO THE GREAT DAY "BE WITH US" - AND SEATS THE UNIVERSE ON THE ETERNAL FOUNDATIONS, SURROUNDING HSIEN-T'IEN WITH THE ELEMENTARY GERMS.   The seven Laya centers are the seven Zero points, using the term Zero in the [...]

"(The subsequent stages in the formation of a "World" are indicated in stanza VI, which brings the evolution of such a world down to its fourth great period, corresponding to the period in which we are now living.)   1.    BY THE POWER OF THE MOTHER OF MERCY AND KNOWLEDGE, KUAN-YIN, THE "TRIPLE" OF [...]

"6.    THE LIPIKA CIRCUMSCRIBE THE TRIANGLE, THE FIRST ONE (THE VERTICAL LINE OR THE FIGURE 1), THE CUBE, THE SECOND ONE, AND THE PENTACLE WITHIN THE EGG (CIRCLE).   IT IS THE RING CALLED "PASS NOT" FOR THOSE WHO DESCEND AND ASCEND (AS ALSO FOR THOSE) WHO, DURING THE KALPA, ARE PROGRESSING TOWARD THE [...]

"5.    FOHAT TAKES FIVE STRIDES (HAVING ALREADY TAKEN THE FIRST THREE) AND BUILDS A WINGED WHEEL AT EACH CORNER OF THE SQUARE FOR THE FOUR HOLY ONES...AND THEIR ARMIES (HOSTS).   The "strides" refer to both the Cosmic and the Human principles - the latter of which consist, in the exoteric division, of three [...]

"4.    FOHAT TRACES SPIRAL LINES TO UNITE THE SIX TO THE SEVENTH - THE CROWN; AN ARMY OF THE SONS OF LIGHT STANDS AT EACH ANGLE (AND) THE LIPIKA - IN THE MIDDLE WHEEL.   THE (THE LIPIKA) SAY, "THIS IS GOOD."   THE FIRST DIVINE WORLD IS READY, THE FIRST (IS NOW) THE [...]

"3.    HE IS THEIR GUIDING SPIRIT AND LEADER.   WHEN HE COMMENCES WORK, HE SEPARATES THE SPARKS OF THE LOWER KINGDOM (MINERAL ATOMS) THAT FLOAT AND THRILL WITH JOY IN THEIR RADIANT DWELLINGS (GASEOUS CLOUDS), AND FORMS THEREWITH THE GERMS OF WHEELS.   HE PLACES THEM IN THE SIX DIRECTIONS OF SPACE AND ONE [...]

"2.    (CONT)...When the "Divine Sons" breaks forth, then Fohat becomes the propelling force, the active Power which causes the ONE to become the Two and THREE - on the Cosmic plane of manifestation.   The triple One differentiates into the many, and then Fohat is transformed into that force which brings together the elemental [...]