Gazing into eternity Ere the foundations of the earth were laid. Thou wert. And when the subterranean flame Shall burst its prison and devour the frame, Thou shalt be still as thou wert before And know no change, when time shall be no more. O, endless thought, divine Eternity. _Rig Veda_ (COLEBROOKE). Seven Stanzas From The “Book Of Dzyan” Stanza I. 1. The Eternal Parent, wrapped in her Ever‐Invisible Robes, had slumbered once again for Seven Eternities. 2. Time was not, for it lay asleep in the Infinite Bosom of Duration. 3. Universal Mind was not, for there were no Ah‐hi to contain it. 4. The Seven Ways to Bliss were not. The Great Causes of Misery were not, for there was no one to produce and get ensnared by them. 5. Darkness alone filled the Boundless All, for Father, Mother and Son were once more one, and the Son had not yet awakened for the new Wheel and his Pilgrimage thereon. 6. The Seven Sublime Lords and the Seven Truths had ceased to be, and the Universe, the Son of Necessity, was immersed in Paranishpanna, to be outbreathed by that which is, and yet is not. Naught was. 7. The Causes of Existence had been done away with; the Visible that was, and the Invisible that is, rested in Eternal Non‐Being—the One Being. 8. Alone, the One Form of Existence stretched boundless, infinite, causeless, in Dreamless Sleep; and Life pulsated unconscious in Universal Space, throughout that All‐Presence, which is sensed by the Opened Eye of Dangma. 9. But where was Dangma when the Âlaya of the Universe was in Paramârtha, and the Great Wheel was Anupâdaka? Stanza II. 1. ... Where were the Builders, the Luminous Sons of Manvantaric Dawn?... In the Unknown Darkness in their Ah‐hi Paranishpanna. The Producers of Form from No‐Form—the Root of the World—the Devamâtri and Svabhâvat, rested in the Bliss of Non‐Being. 2. ... Where was Silence? Where the ears to sense it? No, there was neither Silence nor Sound; naught save Ceaseless Eternal Breath, which knows itself not. 3. The Hour had not yet struck; the Ray had not yet flashed into the Germ; the Mâtripadma had not yet swollen. 4. Her Heart had not yet opened for the One Ray to enter, thence to fall, as Three into Four, into the Lap of Mâyâ. 5. The Seven were not yet born from the Web of Light. Darkness alone was Father‐Mother, Svabhâvat; and Svabhâvat was in Darkness. 6. These Two are the Germ, and the Germ is One. The Universe was still concealed in the Divine Thought and the Divine Bosom. Stanza III. 1. ... The last Vibration of the Seventh Eternity thrills through Infinitude. The Mother swells, expanding from within without, like the Bud of the Lotus. 2. The Vibration sweeps along, touching with its swift Wing the whole Universe and the Germ that dwelleth in Darkness, the Darkness that breathes over the slumbering Waters of Life.