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
Therefore, when the hour strikes for Purusha to mount on Prakriti’s
shoulders for the formation of the Perfect Man—rudimentary man of the
first Two and a Half Races being only the _first_, gradually evolving into
the _most perfect, of mammals_—the Celestial Ancestors (Entities from
preceding Worlds, called in India the Shishta) step in on this our plane,
and incarnate in the physical or animal man, as the Pitris had stepped in
before them for the formation of the latter. Thus the two processes for
the two “creations”—the animal and the divine man—differ greatly. The
Pitris shoot out from their ethereal bodies still more ethereal and
shadowy similitudes of themselves, or what we should now call “doubles,”
or “astral forms,” in their own likeness.(395) This furnishes the Monad
with its first dwelling, and blind matter with a model around and upon
which to build henceforth. But _Man is still incomplete_. From Svâyambhuva
Manu,(396) from whom descended the seven primitive Manus, or Prajâpatis,
each of whom gave birth to a primitive Race of men, down to the _Codex
Nazaræus_, in which Karabtanos, or Fetahil, blind concupiscent Matter,
begets on his Mother, Spiritus, seven Figures, each of which stands as the
progenitor of one of the primeval seven Races—this doctrine has left its
impress on every archaic scripture.
“Who forms Manu [the Man] and who forms his body? The Life and the Lives.
Sin(397) and the Moon.” Here Manu stands for the spiritual, heavenly Man,
the real and non‐dying Ego in us, which is the direct emanation of the
“One Life,” or the Absolute Deity. As to our outward physical bodies, the
house of the tabernacle of the Soul, the Doctrine teaches a strange
lesson; so strange that unless thoroughly explained, and as thoroughly
comprehended, it is only the exact science of the future that is destined
to fully vindicate the theory.
It has been stated before now that Occultism does not accept anything
inorganic in the Kosmos. The expression employed by Science, “inorganic
substance,” means simply that the latent life, slumbering in the molecules
of so‐called “inert matter,” is incognizable. ALL IS LIFE, and every atom
of even mineral dust is a LIFE, though beyond our comprehension and
perception, because it is outside the range of the laws known to those who
reject Occultism. “The very atoms,” says Tyndall, “seem instinct with a
desire for life.” Whence, then, we would ask, comes the tendency “to run
into organic form”? Is it in any way explicable except according to the
teachings of Occult Science?
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