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
This Kabalistic view is here quoted, to show its perfect identity in
spirit with the Eastern Doctrine. Explain, or complete the teaching of the
Seven Suns with the seven systems of Planes of Being, of which the “Suns”
are the central bodies, and you have the seven Angelic Planes, whose
“Host” collectively are the Gods thereof.(557) They are the Head Group
divided into four Classes, from the Incorporeal down to the Semi‐
corporeal. These Classes are directly connected—though in very different
ways as regards voluntary connection and functions—with our mankind. They
are three, synthesized by the fourth, the first and highest, which is
called the “Central Sun” in the Kabalistic doctrine just quoted. This is
the great difference between the Semitic and the Âryan Cosmogony—one
materializing, humanizes the mysteries of Nature; the other spiritualizes
Matter, and its physiology is always made subservient to metaphysics.
Thus, though the seventh “principle” reaches man through all the phases of
Being, pure as an indiscrete element and an impersonal unity, it passes
through—the _Kabalah_ teaches _from_—the Central Spiritual Sun and Group
the Second, the Polar Sun, which two radiate on man his Âtmâ. Group Three,
the Equatorial Sun, cements the Buddhi to Âtman and the higher attributes
of Manas; while Group Four, the Spirit of our visible Sun, endows him with
his Manas and its vehicle, the Kâma Rûpa, or body of passions and
desires—the two elements of Ahamkâra which evolve _individualized
consciousness_, the personal Ego. Finally, it is the Spirit of the Earth,
in its triple unity, that builds the Physical Body, attracting to it the
Spirits of Life and forming his Linga Sharîra.
But everything proceeds cyclically, the evolution of man like everything
else, and the order in which he is generated is described fully in the
Eastern Teachings, whereas it is only hinted at in the _Kabalah_. Says the
_Book of Dzyan_ with regard to Primeval Man when first projected by the
“Boneless,” the Incorporeal Creator:
_First, the Breath, then Buddhi, and the Shadow‐Son [the Body] were
__“__created.__”__ But where was the Pivot [the Middle Principle, Manas]?
Man is doomed. When alone, the Indiscrete [Undifferentiated Element] and
the Vâhan [Buddhi]—the Cause of the Causeless—break asunder from
manifested life._
“_Unless_,” explains the Commentary:
_Unless cemented and held together by the Middle Principle, the Vehicle of
the personal consciousness of Jîva._
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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