Theos-Talk Archives (November 2001 Message tt00138)

Dear Peter:

You have placed before us to study

Let me place some comments therein.

Thanks,

Dallas

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SECRET DOCTRINE I 69-71

Re: MANVANTARA DAWNS


STANZA III. -- Continued.



6. THE ROOT OF LIFE WAS IN EVERY DROP OF THE OCEAN OF
IMMORTALITY (Amrita)*


DTB	The "Root of Life" seems to imply the ROOT MATTER
(Mulaprakriti, Maha-Buddhi, and the distributive as well as the
individualized Karma that is associated with every Monad that
emanates from the UNIVERSAL MONAD so that the Universe may
"awake" (as Consciousness -- both UNIVERSAL and INDIVIDUAL) in
the appropriate substantial "forms" so as you continue their
pilgrimage towards the Goal called "Supreme Perfection." [ S D
I 61 (top) -- Svabhavat as the "Root of all things"; S D I
171 -- THE "RETURN OF THE HUMAN monad to its source--absolute
Deity.; S D I 45 -- Being and Non-Being; S D I pp 68-9 --
the "Non-Separateness of all that lives"; ]


DTB	"Every drop" seems to imply every Monad in Space ( See S D
I 289 (bottom) ) : "There is not one finger's breadth (ANGULA)
of void Space in the whole Boundless (Universe)..."



AND THE OCEAN WAS RADIANT LIGHT, WHICH WAS FIRE AND HEAT AND
MOTION.



DTB	-- According to the findings of the Hubble Telescope as it
peers ever farther into SPACE -- and finds the entire surface at
an enormous distance to be paved with stars, galaxies, -- we are
seen to be living INSIDE an enormous STAR that is filled with
light, vibration, life, integrity, intelligence (if ours is any
indication of those potentialities in actuality) [ see S D I
P. 289 (top) "The initial existence..."]

"Fire, Heat and Motion" are all vibrations in substance and
matter -- they indicate the pulsing of the Life force under Law.
[ S D I 216; I 145-6; I 514-7; S D II p 373, 375 ]



DARKNESS VANISHED AND WAS NO MORE. IT DISAPPEARED IN ITS OWN
ESSENCE, THE
BODY OF FIRE AND WATER, OF FATHER AND MOTHER (a).


DTB	Could we say that the "Darkness Vanished" implies that the
ABSOLUTENESS "retires" into its ever-silence and Darkness?"
see S D I 40-1; I 53; I p. 290 (bottom) ; S D I 327
(bottom) ; S D I p. 94-5; I 350; ] The change of plane and
condition from Non-manifestation to Manifestation is described
here. [ Svabhavat: S D I 635 ]

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(a) The ESSENCE OF DARKNESS BEING ABSOLUTE LIGHT, Darkness is
taken as the appropriate allegorical representation of the
condition of the Universe during Pralaya, or the term of absolute
rest, or non-being, as it appears to our finite minds.


DTB	[ see S D I 319-20; 371-4; 428-9; ]



The "fire," "heat," and "motion" here spoken of, are, of course,
not the fire, heat, and motion of physical science, but the
underlying abstractions, the noumena, or the soul, of the essence
of these material manifestations -- the "things in themselves,"
which, as modern science confesses, entirely elude the
instruments of the laboratory, and which even the mind cannot
grasp, although it can equally little avoid the conclusion that
these underlying essences of things must exist.

DTB	[ see "Vortical Movement" S D I 258; CAUSE - 501; In
Primordial Matter - Mulaprakriti:
S D I 117-8; Original Vibration in Matter: S D I 118fn;
455; 507-8fn; 554; 633; Power of: I 563;
Eternal, of matter: I 587, 118fn, 507-8fn; ]

Fire and Water, or Father* and Mother, may be taken here to mean
the divine Ray and Chaos. "Chaos, from this union with Spirit
obtaining sense, shone with pleasure, and thus was produced the
Protogonos (the first-born light)," says a fragment of Hermas.
Damascius calls it Dis in "Theogony" -- "The disposer
of all things." (See Cory's "Ancient Fragments," p. 314.)


DTB	Father/Mother	-- MONAD and monads -- "Germ" S D II 131
[the 2 poles opposed in the Egg -- Monad in all things and
matter; [ S D I 40-1, 99, 70, WORLD-SOUL i 140; ]


According to the Rosicrucian tenets, as handled and explained by
the profane for once correctly, if only partially, so "Light and
Darkness are identical in themselves, being only divisible in the
human mind";

and according to Robert Fludd, "Darkness adopted illumination in
order to make itself visible" (On Rosenkranz).

According to the tenets of Eastern Occultism, DARKNESS is the one
true actuality, the basis and the root of light, without which
the latter could never manifest itself, nor even exist. Light is
matter, and DARKNESS pure Spirit. Darkness, in its radical,
metaphysical basis, is subjective and absolute light; while the
latter in all its seeming effulgence and glory, is merely a mass
of shadows, as it can never be eternal, and is simply an
illusion, or Maya.

Even in the mind-baffling and science-harassing Genesis, light is
created out of darkness "and darkness was upon the face of the
deep" (ch. i. v. 2.) -- and not vice versa. "In him (in darkness)
was life; and the life was the light of men" (John i. 4). A day
may come when the eyes of men will be opened; and then they may
comprehend better than they do now, that verse in the Gospel of
John that says "And the light shineth in darkness; and the
darkness comprehendeth it not."

They will see then that the word "darkness" does not apply to
man's spiritual eyesight, but indeed to "Darkness," the absolute,
that comprehendeth not (cannot cognize) transient light, however
transcendent to human eyes.

Demon est Deus inversus. The devil is now called Darkness by the
Church, whereas, in the Bible he is called the "Son of God" (see
Job), the bright star of the early morning, Lucifer (see Isaiah).

There is a whole philosophy of dogmatic craft in the reason why
the first Archangel, who sprang from the depths of Chaos, was
called Lux (Lucifer), the "Luminous Son of the Morning," or
manvantaric Dawn. He was transformed by the Church into Lucifer
or Satan, because he is higher and older than Jehovah, and had to
be sacrificed to the new dogma. (See Book II.)

(Secret Doctrine vol 1, pp 69-71)



DTB	In my esteem one ought to research every one of these terms
using the INDEX to the SECRET DOCTRINE -- then only will the
student acquire a panorama of the philosophy. The few quotation
references given above are just a beginning.

It is the individual work of many students spent in verifying
these ancient statements that will cunt in the mind of each pupil
and inquirer.

Best wishes,

Dallas

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