The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 2 of 4: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy — John Shaqi
The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 2 of 4: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and PhilosophyBlavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna)
Religion
The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 2 of 4: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy
Blavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna)
Theosophy
Put more metaphysically, the classification given here of Cosmic
Ultimates, is more one of convenience than of absolute philosophical
accuracy. At the commencement of a great Manvantara, Parabrahman manifests
as Mûlaprakriti and then as the Logos. This Logos is equivalent to the
“Unconscious Universal Mind,” etc., of Western Pantheists. It constitutes
the Basis of the _subject_‐side of manifested Being, and is the source of
all manifestations of individual consciousness. Mûlaprakriti or Primordial
Cosmic Substance, is the foundation of the _object_‐side of things—the
basis of all objective evolution and cosmo‐genesis. Force, then, does not
emerge with Primordial Substance from Parabrahmanic latency. It is the
_transformation into energy of the supra‐conscious thought of the Logos_,
infused, so to speak, into the objectivation of the latter out of
potential latency in the One Reality. Hence spring the wondrous laws of
Matter; hence the “primal impress” so vainly discussed by Bishop Temple.
Force thus is _not synchronous_ with the first objectivation of
Mûlaprakriti. Nevertheless as, apart from it, the latter is absolutely and
necessarily inert—_a mere abstraction_—it is unnecessary to weave too fine
a cobweb of subtleties as to the order of succession of the Cosmic
Ultimates. Force _succeeds_ Mûlaprakriti; but, _minus_ Force, Mûlaprakriti
is for all practical intents and purposes non‐existent.(34)
The Heavenly Man or Tetragrammaton, who is the Protogonos, Tikkoun, the
Firstborn from the passive Deity and the first manifestation of that
Deity’s Shadow, is the Universal Form and Idea, which engenders the
Manifested Logos, Adam Kadmon, or the four‐lettered symbol, in the
Kabalah, of the Universe itself, also called the Second Logos. The Second
springs from the First and develops the Third Triangle;(35) from the last
of which (the lower host of Angels) _Men_ are generated. It is with this
third aspect that we shall deal at present.
The reader must bear in mind that there is a great difference between the
Logos and the Demiurgos, for one is _Spirit_ and the other is _Soul_; or
as Dr. Wilder has it:
Dianoia and Logos are synonymous, Nous being superior and closely
in affinity with Τὸ Ἀγαθὸν, one being the superior apprehending,
the other the comprehending—one noëtic and the other phrenic.
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