The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 1 of 4: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and PhilosophyBlavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna)
Religion
The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 1 of 4: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy
Blavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna)
Theosophy
Fohat is closely related to the “One Life.” From the Unknown One, the
Infinite Totality, the Manifested One, or the periodical, Manvantaric
Deity, emanates; and this is the Universal Mind, which, separated from its
Fountain‐Source, is the Demiurge or the Creative Logos of the Western
Kabalists, and the Four‐faced Brahmâ of the Hindû religion. In its
totality, viewed, in the Esoteric doctrine, from the standpoint of
manifested Divine Thought, it represents the Hosts of the higher Creative
Dhyân Chohans. Simultaneously with the evolution of the Universal Mind,
the Concealed Wisdom of Adi‐Buddha—the One Supreme and Eternal—manifests
itself as Avalokiteshvara (or Manifested Îshvara), which is the Osiris of
the Egyptians, the Ahura‐Mazda of the Zoroastrians, the Heavenly Man of
the Hermetic philosophers, the Logos of the Platonists, and the Âtman of
the Vedântins.(199) By the action of the Manifested Wisdom, or
Mahat—represented by these innumerable centres of spiritual energy in the
Kosmos—the Reflection of the Universal Mind, which is Cosmic Ideation and
the Intellectual Force accompanying such Ideation, becomes objectively the
Fohat of the Buddhist esoteric philosopher. Fohat, running along the seven
principles of Âkâsha, acts upon manifested Substance, or the One Element,
as declared above, and, by differentiating it into various centres of
energy, sets in motion the law of Cosmic Evolution, which, in obedience to
the Ideation of the Universal Mind, brings into existence all the various
states of being in the manifested Solar System.
The Solar System, brought into existence by these agencies, consists of
Seven Principles, like everything else within these centres. Such is the
teaching of the Trans‐Himâlayan Esotericism. Every philosophy, however,
has its own way of dividing these principles.
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