Theos-Talk Archives (August 1998 Message tt00118)

Dallas wrote:

> 1.    The manifested Universe we sense in various ways emanates from the
> ABSOLUTE indescribable "background" which forms the timeless and
> dimensionless basis for all our limitations in time and space.

"Background" is an interesting term.

On the first (un-numbered) page of PROEM ("The Secret Doctrine", 1888) we
find:

"On the first page is an immaculate white disk within a dull black ground."

Further down it states:

"Only the face of the Disk being white and the ground all around black,
shows clearly that its plane is the only knowledge, dim and hazy though it
still is, that is attainable by man."

What is "immaculate white disk"? Space?  It (only) *represents* "Kosmos in
Eternity".  It is "within" a "dull black ground".  Why dull?  It seems a
curious term. Is dull black ground symbol of Be-ness?

What of "disk" and "Disk" (spot the difference)?  It is not circle or sphere
or ring, for example.  What of the "face" of the "Disk"?  Is it literally:
"being", "white" (as distinct from Be-ness, black)?

Before PROEM (un-numbered page) is a 'blank' page.  No words/text are on it;
no-thing. But what's "within"?

Comments/clarifications most welcome.

Kindest regards,
Paul (Bazzer)