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
The Great Day “Be With Us,” then, is an expression, the only merit of
which lies in its literal translation. Its significance is not so easily
revealed to a public, unacquainted with the mystic tenets of Occultism, or
rather of Esoteric Wisdom or “Budhism.” It is an expression peculiar to
the latter, and as hazy for the profane as that of the Egyptians, who
called the same the Day “Come To Us,” which is identical with the
former—though the word “be,” in this sense, might be still better replaced
with either of the two terms “remain” or “rest with us,” as it refers to
that long period of Rest which is called Paranirvâna. “Le Jour de ‘Viens à
nous’! C’est le jour où Osiris a dit au Soleil: Viens! Je le vois
rencontrant le Soleil dans l’Amenti.”(243) The Sun here stands for the
Logos (or Christos, or Horus), as the central Essence synthetically, and
as a diffused essence of radiated Entities, different in substance, but
not in essence. As expressed by the _Bhagavadgîtâ_ lecturer, “it must not
be supposed that the Logos is but a single centre of energy which is
manifested by Parabrahman. There are innumerable others. Their number is
almost infinite, in the bosom of Parabrahman.” Hence the expressions, “The
Day of Come to Us” and “The Day of Be With Us,” etc. Just as the Square is
the Symbol of the Four sacred Forces or Powers—Tetraktys—so the Circle
shows the boundary within the Infinity that no man, even in spirit, or
Deva or Dhyân Chohan can cross. The Spirits of those who “descend and
ascend,” during the course of cyclic evolution, shall cross the “iron‐
bound world,” only on the day of their approach to the threshold of
Paranirvâna. If they reach it, they will rest in the bosom of Parabrahman,
or the “Unknown Darkness,” which shall then become for all of them Light,
during the whole period of Mahâpralaya, the “Great Night,” namely,
311,040,000,000,000 years of absorption in Brahman. The Day of “Be With
Us” is this period of Rest, or Paranirvâna. It corresponds to the Day of
the Last Judgment of the Christians, which has been sorely materialized in
their religion.(244)
As in the exoteric interpretation of the Egyptian rites, the soul of every
defunct person—from the Hierophant down to the sacred bull Apis—became an
Osiris, was Osirified (the Secret Doctrine, however, teaching that the
real Osirification was the lot of every Monad only after 3,000 cycles of
Existences); so in the present case. The Monad, born of the nature and the
very Essence of the “Seven” (its highest Principle becoming immediately
enshrined in the Seventh Cosmic Element), has to perform its septenary
gyration throughout the Cycle of Being and Forms, from the highest to the
lowest; and then again from man to God. At the threshold of Paranirvâna,
it reässumes its primeval Essence and becomes the Absolute once more.
Stanza VI.
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