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
In other words, the two higher “principles” _can have no individuality on
Earth_, cannot be _man_, unless there is (_a_) the Mind, the Manas‐Ego, to
cognize itself, and (_b_) the terrestrial false Personality, or the Body
of egotistical desires and personal Will, to cement the whole, as if round
a Pivot—which it is, truly—to the physical form of man. It is the _fifth_
and the _fourth_ “principles”(558)—Manas and Kâma Rûpa—that contain the
dual Personality; the real immortal Ego, if it assimilates itself to the
two higher, and the false and transitory Personality, the Mâyâvi or Astral
Body, so‐called, or the Animal‐human Soul—the two having to be closely
blended for purposes of a _full_ terrestrial existence. Incarnate the
Spiritual Monad of a Newton, grafted on that of the greatest saint on
Earth, in a physical body the most perfect you can think of—_i.e._, in a
two or even a three‐principled Body composed of its Sthûla Sharîra, Prâna
(Life‐principle) and Linga Sharîra—and, if it lacks its middle and fifth
“principles,” you will have created _an idiot_—at best a beautiful, soul‐
less, empty and unconscious appearance. “_Cogito—ergo sum_” can find no
room in the brain of such a creature, not on this plane, at any rate.
There are students, however, who have long ago understood the
philosophical meaning underlying the allegory—so tortured and disfigured
by the Roman Church—of the “Fallen Angels.”
The kingdom of spirits and spiritual action, which flows from and
is the product of spirit volition, is outside and contrasted with
and in contradiction to the kingdom of [divine] souls and divine
action.(559)
As said in the text of Commentary xiv:
_Like produces like and no more at the genesis of Being, and evolution
with its limited conditioned laws comes later. The Self Existent_(_560_)_
are called __“__Creations,__”__ for they appear in the Spirit‐Ray,
manifested through the potency inherent in its Unborn Nature, which is
beyond Time and [limited or conditioned] Space. Terrene products, animate
and inanimate, including mankind, are falsely called creation and
creatures; they are the development [evolution] of the Discrete Elements._
Again:
_The Heavenly Rûpa [Dhyân Chohan] creates [man] in his own form; it is a
spiritual ideation consequent on the first differentiation and awakening
of the universal [manifested] Substance; that form is the ideal Shadow of
Itself: and this is the Man of the First Race._
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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