Category: Cosmogenesis

"6.  THE ROOT OF LIFE WAS IN EVERY DROP OF THE OCEAN OF IMMORTALITY (AMRITA) AND THE OCEAN WAS RADIANT LIGHT, WHICH WAS FIRE AND HEAT AND MOTION. DARKNESS VANISHED AND WAS NO MORE. IT DISAPPEARED IN ITS OWN ESSENCE, THE BODY OF FIRE AND WATER, OF FATHER AND MOTHER.   The "fire", "heat", and [...]

"3.   DARKNESS" RADIATES LIGHT, AND LIGHT DROPS ONE SOLITARY RAY INTO THE WATERS, INTO THE MOTHER DEEP, THE RAY SHOOTS THROUGH THE VIRGIN EGG; THE RAY CAUSES THE ETERNAL EGG TO THRILL, AND DROP THE NON-ETERNAL (PERIODICAL) GERM, WHICH CONDENSES INTO THE WORLD EGG.   The solitary ray dropping into the mother deep may be [...]

1.   THE LAST VIBRATION OF THE SEVENTH ETERNITY THRILLS THROUGH INFINITUDE. THE MOTHER SWELLS, EXPANDING FROM WITHIN WITHOUT LIKE THE BUD OF THE LOTUS.   The seemingly paradoxical use of the sentence "Seventh Eternity", thus dividing the indivisible, is sanctified in esoteric philosophy. The latter divides boundless duration into unconditionally eternal and universal Time and [...]

5. THE SEVEN (SONS) WERE NOT YET BORN FROM THE WEB OF LIGHT, DARKNESS ALONE WAS FATHER-MOTHER, SVABHAVAT, AND SVABHAVAT WAS IN DARKNESS.   The Secret Doctrine, in the stanzas given here, occupies itself chiefly, if not entirely, with our Solar System, and especially with our planetary chain. The "Seven Sons", therefore, are the creators [...]

"3.   THE HOUR HAD NOT YET STRUCK; THE RAY HAD NOT YET FLASHED INTO THE GERM; THE MATRI-PADMA (MOTHER LOTUS) HAD NOT YET SWOLLEN.   The ray of the "Ever Darkness" becomes, as it is emitted, a ray of effulgent light or life, and flashes into the "Germ" - the point in the Mundane Egg, [...]

"The stage described in stanza II is nearly identical with that mentioned in the first stanza.)   1. ...WHERE WERE THE BUILDERS, THE LUMINOUS SONS OF MANVANTARIC DAWN? ...IN THE UNKNOWN DARKNESS, IN THEIR AH-HI (CHOHANIC, DHYANI BUDDHIC) PARINISHPANNA. THE PRODUCERS OF FORM (RUPA) FROM NO-FORM (ARUPA), THE ROOT OF THE WORLD - THE DEVAMATRI [...]

"9.  BUT WHERE WAS THE DANGMA WHEN THE ALAYA OF THE UNIVERSE (SOUL AS THE BASIS OF ALL, ANIMA MUNDI) WAS IN PARAMARTHA (ABSOLUTE BEING AND CONSCIOUSNESS WHICH ARE ABSOLUTE NON-BEING AND UNCONSCIOUSNESS) AND THE GREAT WHEEL WAS ANUPADAKA? Alaya is literally the "Soul of the World" or Anima Mundi, and according to esoteric teaching [...]

"7.  THE CAUSES OF EXISTENCE HAD BEEN DONE AWAY WITH; THE VISIBLE THAT WAS, AND THE INVISIBLE THAT IS, RESTED IN ETERNAL NON-BEING, THE ONE BEING. "The Causes of Existence" mean not only the physical causes known to science, but the metaphysical causes, the chief of which is the desire to exist, an outcome of [...]

"5.  DARKNESS ALONE FILLED THE BOUNDLESS ALL, FOR FATHER, MOTHER AND SON WERE ONCE MORE ONE, AND THE SON HAD NOT AWAKENED YET FOR THE NEW WHEEL (WORLD OR GLOBE), AND HIS PILGRIMAGE THEREON. "Darkness is Father-Mother: light their son", says an old Eastern proverb. Darkness, then, is the eternal matrix in which the sources [...]

"3. ...UNIVERSAL MIND WAS NOT, FOR THERE WERE NO AH-HI (CELESTIAL BEINGS) TO CONTAIN (HENCE TO MANIFEST) IT. Mind is a name given to the sum of the states of Consciousness grouped under Thought, Will, and Feeling.   During deep sleep, ideation ceases on the physical plane, and memory is in abeyance; thus for the [...]