Category: Primordial Substance and Divine Thought

"The one prevailing, most distinct idea - found in all ancient teaching, with reference to Cosmic Evolution and the first "creation" of our Globe with all its products, organic and inorganic (strange word for an Occultist to use) - is that the whole Kosmos has sprung from the DIVINE THOUGHT.   This thought impregnates matter, [...]

"This "primordial Substance" is called by some Chaos; Plato and the Pythagoreans named it the Soul of the World after it had been impregnated by the Spirit of that which broods over the Primeval Waters, or Chaos.   It is being reflected in it, say the Kabbalists, that the brooding Principle created the phantasmagoria of [...]

"There is more wisdom concealed under the exoteric fables of Puranas and Bible than in all the exoteric facts and science in the literature of the world, and more OCCULT true Science, than there is of exact knowledge in all the academies.   Or, in plainer and stronger language, there is as much esoteric wisdom [...]

"From the standpoint of the highest metaphysics, the whole Universe, gods included, is an illusion; but the illusion of him who is in himself an illusion differs on every plane of consciousness;   and we have no more right to dogmatize about the possible nature of the perceptive faculties of the Ego on, say, the [...]

"Manvantaric impulse commences with the reawakening of Cosmic Ideation (the "Universal Mind") concurrently with, and parallel to the primary emergence of cosmic Substance - the latter being the Manvantaric vehicle of the former - from its undifferentiated Pralayic state.   Then, absolute wisdom mirrors itself in its Ideation; which, by a transcendental process, superior to [...]

"The philosophers themselves had to be initiated into perceptive mysteries, before they could grasp the correct idea of the ancients in relation to this most metaphysical subject.   Otherwise - outside such initiation - for every thinker there will be a "thus far shalt thou go and no farther", mapped out by his intellectual capacity, [...]