Theos-Talk Archives (August 1998 Message tt00124)

Paul wrote:
>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."

THEN:
"On the following page, the same disk, but with a central point."

Is the following page "on" the same leaf, hence literally the same disk,
within the leaf (the dull black ground)?  But with a central point.

The text commences, "AN Archaic Manuscript - a collection of palm leaves. .
. ."  Here it seems as if only one palm leaf is referred to - what about the
other leaves.  Do they relate to other Kosmos?  Or to other
Manvantaras/Pralayas....? like leaves on a "tree?"
>
>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."

This seems to be a long way from "an immaculate white disk,"and man can only
reach the FACE of the Disk, and yet it is still the same disk.

an immaculate white disk within
a central point, is this only on the face of the disk, does it spring out of
the disk? Does it relate to the dull black ground?

Tony


>
>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)
>