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
2. Learn what we, who descend from the Primordial Seven, we, who are born
from the Primordial Flame, have learnt from our Fathers....
3. From the Effulgency of Light—the Ray of the Ever‐Darkness—sprang in
Space the reäwakened Energies; the One from the Egg, the Six, and the
Five. Then the Three, the One, the Four, the One, the Five—the Twice
Seven, the Sum Total. And these are the Essences, the Flames, the
Elements, the Builders, the Numbers, the Arûpa, the Rûpa, and the Force or
Divine Man, the Sum Total. And from the Divine Man emanated the Forms, the
Sparks, the Sacred Animals, and the Messengers of the Sacred Fathers
within the Holy Four.
4. This was the Army of the Voice, the Divine Mother of the Seven. The
Sparks of the Seven are subject to, and the servants of, the First, the
Second, the Third, the Fourth, the Fifth, the Sixth, and the Seventh of
the Seven. These are called Spheres, Triangles, Cubes, Lines and
Modellers; for thus stands the Eternal Nidâna—the Oi‐Ha‐Hou.
5. The Oi‐Ha‐Hou, which is Darkness, the Boundless, or the No‐Number, Âdi‐
Nidâna Svabhâvat, the [circle]:
I. The Âdi‐Sanat, the Number, for he is One.
II. The Voice of the Word, Svabhâvat, the Numbers, for he is One and Nine.
III. The “Formless Square.”
And these Three, enclosed within the [circle], are the Sacred Four; and
the Ten are the Arûpa Universe. Then come the Sons, the Seven Fighters,
the One, the Eighth left out, and his Breath which is the Light‐Maker.
6. ... Then the Second Seven, who are the Lipika, produced by the Three.
The Rejected Son is One. The “Son‐Suns” are countless.
Stanza V.
1. The Primordial Seven, the First Seven Breaths of the Dragon of Wisdom,
produce in their turn from their Holy Circumgyrating Breaths the Fiery
Whirlwind.
2. They make of him the Messenger of their Will. The Dzyu becomes Fohat:
the swift Son of the Divine Sons, whose Sons are the Lipika, runs circular
errands. Fohat is the Steed, and the Thought is the Rider. He passes like
lightning through the fiery clouds; takes Three, and Five, and Seven
Strides through the Seven Regions above, and the Seven below. He lifts his
Voice, and calls the innumerable Sparks, and joins them together.
3. He is their guiding spirit and leader. When he commences work, he
separates the Sparks of the Lower Kingdom, that float and thrill with joy
in their radiant dwellings, and forms therewith the Germs of Wheels. He
places them in the Six Directions of Space, and One in the middle—the
Central Wheel.
4. Fohat traces spiral lines to unite the Sixth to the Seventh—the Crown.
An Army of the Sons of Light stands at each angle; the Lipika, in the
Middle Wheel. They say: “his is good.” The first Divine World is ready;
the First, the Second. Then the “Divine Arûpa” reflects itself in Chhâyâ
Loka, the First Garment of Anupâdaka.
5. Fohat takes five strides, and builds a winged wheel at each corner of
the square for the Four Holy Ones ... and their Armies.
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