The Word and the verses at the head of this text, contain the verbal exposition of the symbol on the cover, which is, in one aspect, the radiating of the Great All. He who knows this is fortunate and will learn to pronounce the syllable AUM! FOOTNOTES: [1] Khandogya Upanishad, 1st Khanda. See Vol. 1, _Sacred Books of the East_. Müller. [2] Hymn of Praise to Brahm. [3] St. John. C. I, v. 1. [4] See _Bagavad-Gita_. [5] _Mundaka Upanishad_, II, Kh. 2. (Müller’s Tr.) [6] See _Theosophist_, Vol. III, p. 177. [7] See _Esoteric Buddhism_ for the sevenfold classification adopted by many Theosophists. [8] _Zanoni_, Book IV, Chapter 2. [9] _Patanjali’s Yoga Aphorisms_, 30 & 31, Part I. [10] The following from the _Kaushitaki Upanishad_, (see Max Muller’s translation, and also that published in the Bibliotheka Indica, with Sankaracharya’s commentary—Cowell’s tran.) may be of interest to students. “Agatasatru to him: Bàlàki, where did this person here sleep? Where was he? Whence did he come back? Bàlàki did not know. And Agatasatru said to him: ‘Where this person here slept, where he was, whence he thus came back, is this: The arteries of the heart called Hita extend from the heart of the person towards the surrounding body. Small as a hair divided a thousand times, they stand, full of a thin fluid of various colors, white, black, yellow, red. In these the person is when sleeping, he sees no dream (Sushupti). Then he becomes one with that prâna (breath) alone.’” (Elsewhere the number of these arteries is said to be 101.) “And as a razor might be fitted in a razor case, or as fire in the fire place, even thus this conscious self enters into the self of the body, to the very hair and nails; he is the master of all, and eats with and enjoys with them. So long as Indra did not understand that self, the Asuras (lower principles in man) conquered him. When he understood it, he conquered the Asuras, and obtained the pre-eminence among all gods. And thus also he who knows this obtains pre-eminence, sovereignty, supremacy.” And in the _Khandogya Upanishad_, VI Prap. 8, Kh. 1: “When the man sleeps here, my dear son, he becomes united with the True—in Sushupti sleep—he is gone to his own self. Therefore they say, he sleeps (Swapita), because he is gone (apita) to his own (sva).” And in _Prasna Up_ II, 1, “There are 101 arteries from the heart; one of them penetrates the crown of the head; moving upwards by it man reaches the immortal; the others serve for departing in different directions.” [ED.] [11] This opens up an intensely interesting and highly important subject, which cannot be here treated of, but which will be in future papers. Meanwhile, Theosophists can exercise their intuition in respect to it. |ED. [12] _Guru_, a spiritual teacher. [13] Vide _Light on the Path_, Rule 1, note, part 1.