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
In the same way, the Monads, or Egos, of the men of the Seventh Round of
our Earth, after our own Globes A, B, C, D, etc., parting with their life‐
energy, will have informed, and thereby called to life, other laya‐
centres, destined to live and act on a still higher plane of being—in the
same way will the Terrene Ancestors create those who will become their
superiors.
It now becomes plain, that there exists in Nature a triple evolutionary
scheme for the formation of the three _periodical_ Upâdhis; or rather
three separate schemes of evolution, which in our system are inextricably
interwoven and interblended at every point. These are the Monadic (or
Spiritual), the Intellectual, and the Physical Evolutions. These three are
the finite aspects, or the reflections on the field of Cosmic Illusion, of
Âtmâ, the seventh, the One Reality.
1. The Monadic, as the name implies, is concerned with the growth and
development into still higher phases of activity of the Monads, in
conjunction with:
2. The Intellectual, represented by the Mânasa‐Dhyânis (the Solar Devas,
or the Agnishvatta Pitris), the “givers of intelligence and consciousness”
to man, and:
3. The Physical, represented by the Chhâyâs of the Lunar Pitris, round
which Nature has concreted the present physical body. This body serves as
the vehicle for the “growth,” to use a misleading word, and the
transformations—through Manas, and owing to the accumulation of
experiences—of the Finite into the Infinite, of the Transient into the
Eternal and Absolute.
Each of these three systems has its own laws, and is ruled and guided by
different sets of the highest Dhyânis or Logoi. Each is represented in the
constitution of Man, the Microcosm of the great Macrocosm; and it is the
union of these three streams in him, which makes him the complex being he
now is.
Nature, the physical evolutionary Power, could never evolve Intelligence
unaided; she can only create “senseless forms,” as will be seen in our
Anthropogenesis. The Lunar Monads cannot progress, for they have not yet
had sufficient touch with the forms created by “Nature,” to allow of their
accumulating experiences through its means. It is the Mânasa‐Dhyânis who
fill up the gap, and they represent the evolutionary power of Intelligence
and Mind, the link between Spirit and Matter—in this Round.
Also it must be borne in mind that the Monads which enter upon the
evolutionary cycle upon Globe A, in the first Round, are in very different
stages of development. Hence the matter becomes somewhat complicated. Let
us recapitulate.
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