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 Occultists are, therefore, at one with the Advaita Vedântin
philosophers as to the above tenet. They show, on philosophical grounds,
the impossibility of accepting the idea of the absolute ALL creating or
even evolving the Golden Egg, into which it is said to enter in order to
transform itself into Brahmâ, the Creator, who later expands himself into
the Gods and all the visible Universe. They say that absolute Unity cannot
pass to Infinity, for Infinity presupposes the limitless extension of
_something_, and the duration of that something; and the One All—like
Space, which is its only mental and physical representation on this earth,
or our plane of existence—is neither an object of, nor a subject to,
perception. If one could suppose the eternal infinite All, the omnipresent
Unity, instead of being in Eternity, becoming through periodical
manifestation a manifold Universe or a multiple Personality, that Unity
would cease to be one. Locke’s idea, that “pure space is capable of
neither resistance nor motion,” is incorrect. Space is neither a
“limitless void,” nor a “conditioned fulness,” but both. Being—on the
plane of absolute abstraction—the ever‐incognizable Deity, which is void
only to finite minds,(39) and on that of mâyâvic perception, the Plenum,
the absolute Container of all that is, whether manifested or unmanifested,
it is, therefore, that ABSOLUTE ALL. There is no difference between the
Christian Apostle’s “in Him we live and move and have our being,” and the
Hindû Rishi’s “the Universe lives in, proceeds from, and will return to,
Brahmâ”: for Brahman (neuter), the unmanifested, is that Universe _in
abscondito_, and Brahmâ, the manifested, is the Logos, made male‐
female(40) in the symbolical orthodox dogmas, the God of the Apostle‐
Initiate and of the Rishi being both the Unseen and the Visible Space.
Space is called, in esoteric symbolism, the “Seven‐Skinned Eternal Mother‐
Father.” From its undifferentiated to its differentiated surface it is
composed of seven layers.
“_What is that which was, is, and will be, whether there is a Universe or
not; whether there be gods or none?_” asks the esoteric Senzar Catechism.
And the answer made is—“_Space_.”
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