Re: Theos-World SERIES 2 S D STUDIES -- HIDDEN HINTS
Jun 13, 2003 06:17 AM
by Morten Nymann Olesen
Hi Marko and all of you,
My views:
When Dallas use the word "we" he sometimes should
have used the word "I" in his below informations.
For instance - not all of us - socalled theosophical seekers - will agree
with Dallas on this quote (taken out of context - and) taken from the below
"Dallas-book":
"...it will take centuries before much more is given from
it...once the door permitted to be kept a little ajar, it will be
opened wider with every new century."
SD I xxxviii & Fn
Feel free to comment or do your best...
from
M. Sufilight with peace and love...and a smile
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SERIES 2 S D STUDIES -- HIDDEN HINTS
Dear Marko:
2nd Series
The study of The SECRET DOCTRINE is an ongoing work at
blavatsky.net
http://www.blavatsky.net
I see you already have the Bowen article and you are following
the outline of study suggested there.
Here are some of the preliminary studies on which we made notes.
If these are useful, please ask and more can be sent.
This is a Second Series
=========================
1
Dear Marko:
The study of The SECRET DOCTRINE is an ongoing work at
blavatsky.net
http://www.blavatsky.net
I see you already have the Bowen article and you are following
the outline of study suggested there.
Here are some of the preliminary studies on which we made notes.
If these are useful, please ask and more can be sent.
This is a First Series
=========================
1
Dear Marko:
The study of The SECRET DOCTRINE is an ongoing work at
blavatsky.net
http://www.blavatsky.net
I see you already have the Bowen article and you are following
the outline of study suggested there.
Here are some of the preliminary studies on which we made notes.
If these are useful, please ask and more can be sent.
This is a First Series
=========================
1
Dear Marko:
The study of The SECRET DOCTRINE is an ongoing work at
blavatsky.net
http://www.blavatsky.net
I see you already have the Bowen article and you are following
the outline of study suggested there.
Here are some of the preliminary studies on which we made notes.
If these are useful, please ask and more can be sent.
This is a First Series
=========================
1
Dear Marko:
The study of The SECRET DOCTRINE is an ongoing work at
blavatsky.net
http://www.blavatsky.net
I see you already have the Bowen article and you are following
the outline of study suggested there.
Here are some of the preliminary studies on which we made notes.
If these are useful, please ask and more can be sent.
This is a Second Series
=========================
2
SD-1 Hidden Hints in the Secret Doctrine Vol. 1
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Introductory
PURPOSE OF THE BOOK: THE SECRET DOCTRINE
"The synthesis of Science, Religion and Philosophy"
SD I Title Page
"There is no Religion Higher than Truth."
SD I Title Page
"This Work I dedicate to all True Theosophists, In every Country,
and of every Race, for They called it forth, and for Them it was
Recorded."
SD I Dedication
"...this work is written for the instruction of students of
Occultism..."
SD I 23
"These truths are in no sense put forward as a revelation ...what
is contained [here] is to be found scattered throughout thousands
of...scriptures of the great Asiatic and early European
religions...What is now attempted is to gather the oldest tenets
together and to make of them one harmonious whole...The Secret
Doctrine is the essence of all these...its logical coherence and
consistency entitles this new Genesis to rank...on a level with
the "working hypotheses" so freely accepted by modern
science...because it closely adheres to Nature, and follows the
laws of uniformity and analogy."
SD I Preface vii-viii
"The aim of this work [is]...
[ 1.] to show that nature is not "a fortuitous
concurrence of atoms," and
[ 2.] to assign to man his rightful place in the scheme
of the Universe;
[ 3.] to rescue from degradation the archaic truths
which are the basis of all religions; and
[ 4.] to uncover...the fundamental unity from which
they spring; finally,
[ 5.] to show that the occult side of nature has never
been approached by the Science of modern
civilization."
SD I Preface viii
"The Secret Doctrine, in the Stanzas given here, occupies itself
chiefly, if not entirely, with our Solar system, and especially
with our planetary chain." SECRET DOCTRINE I 60
"The Wisdom-Religion is the inheritance of all the nations, the
world over..."
SD I xviii
"...no theosophical book acquires the least additional value from
pretended authority."
SD I xix
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THE ESOTERIC PHILOSOPHY: OCCULTISM
"Esoteric Philosophy is alone calculated to withstand...the
repeated attacks on all and everything that man holds most dear
and sacred, in his inner spiritual life...[it] reconciles all
religions...It proves the necessity of an absolute Divine
Principle in nature [and]...denies Deity no more than it does the
Sun...the records we mean to place before the reader embrace the
esoteric tenets of the whole world since the beginning of our
humanity..."
SD I xx
"...the Secret Doctrine of the Archaic ages is now permitted to
see the light, after long millenniums of the most profound
silence and secrecy..."
SD I xxii
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ARCHAIC ESOTERIC SCHOOLS
"The members of several esoteric schools...claim to have in their
possession the sum total of sacred and philosophical works in
MSS, and type...once found, save three copies left and stored
carefully away, such works were all destroyed and hidden during
the reign of the Emperor Akbar [1562-1603]."
SD I xxiii
"There was a "primeval revelation" [ granted to the fathers of
the human race ] and it still exists; nor will it ever be lost
to the world, but will reappear..."
SD I xxx
"The Secret Doctrine was the universally diffused religion of the
ancient and prehistoric world."
SD I xxxiv
"[ The Secret Doctrine]...is not a religion, nor is its
philosophy new...it is as old as thinking man. Its tenets have
been cautiously given out to, and taught by, more than one
European Initiate...[such as] Ragon"
SD I xxxvi
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THE SECRET DOCTRINE IN THIS CENTURY
"...in the 20th century...scholars will begin to recognize that
the Secret Doctrine has...[been] simply outlined...[it] contains
all that can be given out to the world in this century"
SD I xxxvii-viii
"...it will take centuries before much more is given from
it...once the door permitted to be kept a little ajar, it will be
opened wider with every new century."
SD I xxxviii & Fn
"[ A new 5,000 year cycle is dawning--1897/98 ]...Fragments have
survived geological and political cataclysms...{and} show that
the now Secret Wisdom was once the one fountain head, the
ever-flowing perennial source...unobscured by the hand of bigotry
and fanaticism."
SD I xliv-xlv
"In the present work, detailed Cosmogony and the evolution of the
four races that preceded our Fifth race Humanity are given work
from which the many volumes of the Kiu-ti...Siphra
Dzeniouta...Sepher Jezirah...Shu-king [and] the sacred volumes of
the Egyptian Thoth-Hermes, the Puranas in India, and the Chaldean
Book of Numbers and the Pentateuch itself [were derived]...taken
down in Senzar, the secret sacerdotal tongue, from the words of
the Divine Beings, who dictated it to the Sons of Light, in
Central Asia, at the very beginning of our (5th) race..."
SD I xliii
"...knowledge of the Occult and the powers it confers on man, are
not altogether fictions, but that they are as old as the world
itself." SD I xlv
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H P B'S "POSITION"
"I have here made only a nosegay of culled flowers, and have
brought nothing of my own but the string that ties them."
SD I xlvi
"Every reader will inevitably judge the statements made from the
stand-point of his own knowledge, experience and consciousness,
based on what he has already learnt."
SD I xlvi
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STATEMENTS FROM THE SECRET DOCTRINE
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A UNIVERSAL BASIS
"The first and Fundamental dogma of Occultism is Universal Unity
(or Homogeneity) under three aspects." SD I 58
"...Universe, the All...the abstract, ever incognizable Presence,
and its plane the Universal Soul..."
SD I p. 1
"The One Life, eternal, invisible, yet Omnipresent, without
beginning or end, yet periodical in its regular manifestations
...eternal ceaseless Motion...the "Great Breath"...in limitless,
ever-present Space..."
SD I p. 2
"Occultism sums up the "one Existence" thus: "Deity is an
arcane, living (or moving) Fire, and the eternal witness to this
unseen Presence are Light, Heat, Moisture..."
SD I 2
"...there is but One Universal Element, which is infinite,
unborn, and undying, and that all the rest...are but so many
various differentiated aspects and transformations
(correlations)...of that One...then the first and chief
difficulty will disappear and Occult Cosmology may be mastered."
SD I 75
"The esoteric doctrine teaches...like even the Kabala, that the
one infinite and unknown Essence exists from all eternity, and in
regular and harmonious successions is either passive or active."
[ Isis II 264 ]
SD I 3
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FOHAT
"...Fohat...is the "bridge" by which the "Ideas" existing in the
"Divine thought" are impressed on Cosmic substance as the "laws
of nature." Fohat is thus the dynamic energy of Cosmic Ideation;
or, regarded from the other side, it is the
intelligent medium, the guiding power of all manifestation, made
manifest through the Dhyan Chohans, the Architects of the visible
World...Fohat in its various manifestations is the mysterious
link between Mind and Matter, the animating principle
electrifying every atom into life."
SD I 16
"...the "Son," cosmically Fohat, for it is Cosmic Electricity.
"Fohat hardens and scatters the seven brothers."...the
primordial Electric Entity...electrifies into life, and separates
primordial stuff or pregenetic matter into atoms, themselves the
source of all life and consciousness."
SD I 76
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THREE "FUNDAMENTAL PROPOSITIONS"
[ Three Fundamentals - no apology is required for asking the
reader to make himself familiar with them first...these basic
ideas are few in number, and on their clear apprehension depends
the understanding of all that follows...] SD I 14 -
19
1. FIRST FUNDAMENTAL: "BE-NESS" -- DEITY
1. the Absolute...both Absolute Being and Non-Being.
2. First manifestation...unmanifested Logos, the precursor
of the "manifested"...the "First Cause"...the "Unconscious"
3. Spirit-matter, Life; the "Spirit of the Universe,"
Purusha and Prakriti, or the second Logos.
4. Cosmic Ideation, Mahat or Intelligence, the Universal
World-soul; the Cosmic Noumenon of Matter, the basis of the
intelligent operations in and of Nature, also called Maha-Buddhi.
The One Reality; its dual aspects in the conditioned Universe."
SD I 16
2. SECOND FUNDAMENTAL: LAW -- "BECOMING"
"The Eternity of the Universe in toto as a boundless plane;
periodically, "the playground of numberless Universes incessantly
manifesting and disappearing," called the "manifesting stars,"
and the "sparks of Eternity."...The absolute universality of that
law of periodicity, of flux and reflux, ebb and flow...an
alternation.so perfectly universal and without exception, that it
is easy to comprehend that in it we see one of the absolutely
fundamental laws of the universe." SD I 16-17
3. THIRD FUNDAMENTAL: "BEINGS" -- MINDS
"The fundamental identity of all Souls with the Universal Over
Soul, the latter being itself an aspect of the Unknown root; and
the obligatory pilgrimage for every Soul--a spark of the
former--through the Cycle of Incarnation (or "Necessity")...The
pivotal doctrine of the Esoteric philosophy admits no privileges
or special gifts in man, save those won by his own Ego through
personal effort and merit throughout a long series of
metempsychoses and reincarnations." SD I 17
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SPACE -- THE ONE INFINITE WE SHARE IS ALL AROUND US
.
"...the One All is like Space...Space is neither a "limitless
void," nor a "conditioned fullness"..
. SD I 8
"Space is called in the esoteric symbolism "the Seven-Skinned
Eternal Mother-Father."
SD I 9
"...there can neither be two Infinities nor two Absolutes in a
Universe supposed to be Boundless..."
SD I 7
"...not even the highest Dhyani-Chohans have ever
penetrated the mysteries beyond the boundaries that separate the
milliards of Solar systems from the "Central Sun," as it is
called."[ see SD I 142 ]
SD I 13
"The One Eternal Element...is Space, dimensionless in every
sense; co-existent with which are--endless duration, primordial
(hence indestructible) Matter, and motion--absolute "perpetual
motion" which is the "breath" of the "One" Element."
SD I 55
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MOTION: LIFE - LAW - PROGRESS
[NO "CHANCE" IN NATURE]
"...universal motion, the thrill of the creative Breath in
Nature."
SD I 2
"Intra-Cosmic motion is eternal and ceaseless; cosmic motion
(the visible, or that which is subject to perception) is finite
and periodical. As an eternal abstraction it is the
ever-present...Kosmos--the Noumenon--has nought to do with the
causal relations of the phenomenal World."
SD I 3
"This process has been going on from all eternity, and our
present universe is but one of an infinite series, which had no
beginning and will have no end." [ Isis II 265 ]
SD I 4
"...atoms actuated by a ceaseless motion...the idea of
affinity--an occult teaching."
SD I 2
"The ray of the "Ever Darkness" becomes, as it is emitted, a ray
of effulgent light or life, and flashes into the "Germ"--the
point in the Mundane Egg...matter in its abstract sense...a germ
exists in the center of every atom, and these collectively form
"the Germ"...the collectivity of these forms the noumenon of
eternal and indestructible matter." SD I 57
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UNIVERSAL MIND: INTELLIGENCE -- MANKIND -- PROGRESS
"...the universal mystery, the doctrine of the identity of man's
essence with god-essence..."
SD I 78
"...the term "Divine Thought," like that of "Universal
Mind,"...would mean absolute Wisdom..."
SD I 1fn
"...entities called Primordial Man, Dhyani-Buddhas, or
Dhyan-Chohans, the "Rishi-Prajapati" of the Hindus, the
Elohim...the Planetary Spirits of all nations..."
SD I 10
"The "Builders," the "Sons of Manvantaric Dawn," are the real
creators of the Universe...they are the architects [of our
Planetary System, and ]...are also called the "Watchers" of the
Seven Spheres, which exoterically are the seven earths or spheres
(planets) of our chain..."
SD I 53
"...Absolute Consciousness"...behind phenomena...is only
termed unconsciousness in the absence of any element of
personality...Only the liberated Spirit is able to faintly
realize the nature of the source whence it sprung and wither it
must eventually return...as the highest Dhyan-Chohan...can but
bow in ignorance before the awful mystery of Absolute Being...the
Finite cannot conceive the Infinite, nor can it apply to it its
own standards of mental experiences...the Occultist would say
that it applies perfectly to the awakened Mahat, the Universal
Mind already projected into the phenomenal world as the first
aspect of the changeless Absolute..."Spirit and Matter...are but
the two primeval aspects of the One and Secondless..."
SD I 51
"The idea that things can cease to exist and still be, is a
fundamental one in Eastern psychology."
SD I 54
"...the "Son," cosmically Fohat, for it is Cosmic Electricity.
"Fohat hardens and scatters the seven brothers."...the primordial
Electric Entity...electrifies into life, and separates primordial
stuff or pregenetic matter into atoms, themselves the source of
all life and consciousness."
SD I 76
"The "Divine Thought" does not imply the idea of a Divine
thinker. The Universe, not only past, present, and future--which
is a human and finite idea expressed by finite thought--but in
its totality, the Sat...the absolute being, with the Past and
Future crystallized in an eternal Present, is that Thought itself
reflected in a secondary or manifest cause."
SD I 61
]
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MIND - INTELLIGENCE - CONSCIOUSNESS
"Esoteric philosophy teaches that everything lives and is
conscious..."
SD I 49
"Mind is a name given to the sum of the states of Consciousness
grouped under thought, Will, and Feeling..."Universal Mind"
remains as a permanent possibility of mental action..."
SD I 38
"Dreamless sleep is one of the seven states of consciousness..."
SD I 47
"...Mundane Intelligence...Nous, the principle that...is
absolutely separated and was free from matter and acts on design,
was called Motion, the One Life, or Jivatma..."
SD I 50
"To know itself or oneself, necessitates consciousness and
perception (both limited faculties in relation to any subject
except Parabrahm [the Absolute], to be cognized...The Boundless
can have no relation to the bounded and conditioned...Concrete
consciousness cannot be predicated of abstract
Consciousness...Consciousness implies limitations and
qualifications; something to be conscious of, and someone to be
conscious of it. But Absolute Consciousness contains the
cognizer, the thing cognized and the cognition, all three in
itself and all three one." SD I 56
"To forget is synonymous with not to remember...We call absolute
consciousness "unconsciousness," because it seems to us that it
must necessarily be so, just as we call the Absolute, "Darkness,"
because to our finite understanding it appears quite
impenetrable, yet we recognize that our perception...does not do
them justice..."
SD I 56
"The Mahat (Understanding, Universal Mind, Thought, etc...)
before it manifests as Brahmaa or Siva, appears as Vishnu
[Krishna]...Mahat has several aspects...[and] is called the Lord,
in the Primary Creation, and is, in this sense, Universal
Cognition or Thought Divine; but...when Mahat develops into the
feeling of Self-Consciousness--I--then it assumes the name of
Ego-ism...translated into our esoteric phraseology, means when
Mahat is transferred into the human Manas...and becomes Ahamship"
SD I 75
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-- explained numerically SD I 78 ]
MANIFESTATION AS A PERIODICAL PROCESS
"The idea of Eternal Non-Being, which is the One Being...is the
noumenon of all the noumena which we know must underlie
phenomena, and give them whatever shadow of reality they possess,
but which we have hot the senses or the intellect to cognize at
present."
SD I 45
"Spirit is the first differentiation from That, the causeless
cause of both Spirit and Matter."
SD I 35
"...Akasa, Father-Mother, the Spirit and soul of Ether, or the
plane on the surface of the circle."
SD I 18
"In the Kabala it is...Father-Mother-Son..."Atma-Buddhi-Manas"
(Spirit, Soul, Intelligence), the triad branching off and
dividing into seven cosmical and seven human principles..."
SD I 18
"The Secret Doctrine...postulates a "One Form of Existence" as
the basis and source of all things...the place whence emerges the
origination, and into which is the resolution of all things."
SD I 46
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EVOLUTION - PROGRESS OF INDIVIDUALIZED
IMMORTALS
[ FROM THE "LIFE-ATOM" TO THE "GALAXY" ]
"The Secret Doctrine teaches the progressive development of
everything, worlds as well as atoms; and this stupendous
development has neither conceivable beginning nor imaginable end.
Our "Universe" is only one of an infinite number of Universes,
all of them "Sons of Necessity," because links in the great
Cosmic chain..."
SD I 43
"...the upward progress of the Ego is a series of progressive
awakenings, each advance bringing with it the idea that now, at
last, we have reached "reality;" but only when we shall have
reached the absolute Consciousness, and blended our own with it,
shall we be free from the delusions produced by Maya [illusion]."
SD I 40
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A SEVENFOLD UNIVERSE
"...any septenary division at once gives a clue to
tremendous occult powers, the abuse of which would cause
incalculable evil to humanity."
SD I xxxv
"[ "keys"]...The said key must be turned seven times before the
whole system is divulged...Happy he, who understands the whole!"
SD I xxxviii
"Wise is he who holds to the golden mid-point, who believes in
the eternal justice of things."
SD I xli
"...Occult Science recognizes Seven Cosmical Elements--four
entirely physical, and the fifth (Ether) semi-material, as it
will become visible in the air towards the end of our Fourth
Round..."
SD I 12
"The 7 Stanzas given...represent the 7 terms of this abstract
formula [which can be applied...to all evolution...]
.the 7 "creations" [Puranas]..."
SD I 21 SD I 21
"...the septenary hierarchy of conscious Divine Powers, who are
the active manifestations of the One Supreme Energy. SD I 22
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RECIPROCAL INFLUENCES BETWEEN
PLANETS AND MANKIND
"...one has first of all to admit the postulate of a universally
diffused, omnipresent, eternal Deity in Nature; secondly, to
have fathomed the mystery of electricity in its true essence;
and thirdly, to credit man with being a septenary symbol, on the
terrestrial plane, of the One Great Unit (the Logos), which is
Itself the Seven-vowelled sign, the Breath crystallized into the
Word. He who believes in this, has also to believe in the
multiple combination of the seven planets of Occultism and of the
Kabala, with the twelve zodiacal signs; to attribute...to each
planet and to each constellation an influence which..."is proper
to it, beneficent or maleficent, and this, after the planetary
Spirit which rules it, who, in his turn is capable of influencing
men and things which are found in harmony with him and with which
he has any affinity." SD I 79
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MATTER AND SUBSTANCE -- MANIFESTATION
"...while Mulaprakriti [root substance] the noumenon, is
self-existing and without any origin--is...parentless
(Anupadaka)--Prakriti, its phenomenon [tangible matter], is
periodical and no better than a phantasm of the former, so
Mahat[Universal Mind], with the Occultists, the first-born of
Gnana (or gnosis) knowledge, wisdom or the Logos--is a phantasm
reflected from the Absolute [quality-less] Parabrahm..."
SD I 62
"...the "last vibration of the Seventh Eternity"...without
reference to size or limitation or area means the development of
limitless subjectivity into as limitless objectivity...a change
of condition...the temporary reflection, the shadow of the
eternal ideal prototype in Divine thought...(as the Hermetic
"Pymander")..."
SD I 63
"...the "Son," cosmically Fohat, for it is Cosmic Electricity.
"Fohat hardens and scatters the seven brothers."...the primordial
Electric Entity...electrifies into life, and separates primordial
stuff or pregenetic matter into atoms, themselves the source of
all life and consciousness."
SD I 76
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SUMMARY of the FUNDAMENTALS
[ First Fundamental ]
1. the Absolute...both Absolute Being and Non-Being.
2. First manifestation...unmanifested Logos, the
precursor of the "manifested"...the "First Cause"...the
"Unconscious"
3. Spirit-matter, Life; the "Spirit of the
Universe," Purusha and Prakriti, or the second Logos.
4. Cosmic Ideation, Mahat or Intelligence, the
Universal World-soul; the Cosmic Noumenon of Matter, the basis
of the intelligent operations in and of Nature, also called
Maha-Buddhi.
The One Reality; its dual aspects in the conditioned Universe."
SD I 16
[ Second Fundamental ]
The Unity of the Universe in toto as a boundless plane;
periodically, "the playground of numberless Universes incessantly
manifesting and disappearing," called the "manifesting stars,"
and the "sparks of Eternity."
[ Third Fundamental ]
"The fundamental identity of all Souls with the Universal Over
Soul, the latter being itself an aspect of the Unknown root; and
the obligatory pilgrimage for every Soul--a spark of the
former--through the Cycle of Incarnation (or "Necessity")...The
pivotal doctrine of the Esoteric philosophy admits no privileges
or special gifts in man, save those won by his own Ego through
personal effort and merit throughout a long series of
metempsychoses and reincarnations."
SD I 17
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SYMBOLOGY -- NUMBERS -- UNIVERSAL GEOMETRY
Universal Symbology is introduced as a development of primordial
ideas: Circle, Line, Triangle, Cross"
SD I pp. 4-5
"...Quaternary (Father, Mother, Son, as a Unity, and...as a
living manifestation)...is purely astronomical, mathematical, and
pre-eminently metaphysical...Horus, Or Osiris, etc...is born
through, not from an immaculate source, personified by the
"Mother"...the abstract Deity being sexless, and not even a Being
but Be-ness, or Life itself..."
SD I 59
"...Jehovah, or Jod-he-vau-he is androgyne, or both male and
female. Above, the Son is the whole Kosmos; below, he is
Mankind."
SD I 60
"The "Mundane Egg" is...one of the most universally adopted
symbols, highly suggestive as it is, equally in the spiritual
physiological, and cosmological sense. Therefore, it is found in
every world-theogony...associated with the serpent symbol...an
emblem of eternity, infinitude, regeneration, and rejuvenation,
as well as of wisdom..."
SD I 65
"In the "Book of Dzyan," as in the Kabala, there are two kinds of
numerals to be studied--the figures, often simple blinds, and the
Sacred Numbers, the values of which are known to the Occultists
through Initiation. The former is but a conventional glyph, the
latter is the basic symbol of all...one is purely physical, the
other purely metaphysical, the two standing in relation to each
other as matter stands to spirit--the extreme poles of the One
Substance."
SD I 66
* = 1
* * = 2
* * * = 3
* * * * = 4 Sum Total
= 10
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LIGHT AND DARKNESS
"The "Light" is the same Omnipresent Spiritual Ray, which has
entered and now fecundated the divine Egg, and calls cosmic
matter to begin its long series of differentiations. The curds
are the first...and probably refer to that cosmic matter which is
supposed to be the origin of the "Milky Way"--the matter we
know."
SD I 69
"Darkness adopted illumination in order to make itself
visible...[in] Eastern Occultism, Darkness is the one true
actuality, the basis and 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..."
SD I 70
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THE SACRED WORD -- SOUND -- MANIFESTATION
"Oeaohoo is rendered "Father-Mother of the Gods"...or the six in
one, or the septenary root from which all proceeds. All depends
upon the accent given to these seven vowels, which may be
pronounced as one, three, or even seven syllables...without a
thorough mastery of its triple pronunciation it remains for ever
ineffectual."
SD I 68
"...Oeaohoo the younger, (the new life"), to become, to the end
of the life-cycle, the germ of all things. He is "the
Incorporeal man who contains in himself the divine Idea."
SD I 71
"He who bathes in the light of Oeaohoo will never be deceived by
the veil of Maya."
SD I 72
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TIME AND DURATION
"Time is only an illusion produced by the succession of our
states of consciousness as we travel through eternal duration,
and it does not exist where no consciousness exists in which the
illusion can be produced, but "lies asleep."
SD I 37
"The Past time is the Present time, as also the Future, which,
though it has not come into existence, still is"...
Time...but the panoramic succession of our states of
consciousness..."
SD I 43-44
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REALITY - PERMANENCY
"Nothing is permanent except the one hidden absolute existence
which contains in itself the noumena of all realities...but all
things are relatively real, for the cognizer is also a
reflection, and the things cognized are therefore as real to him
as himself."
SD I 39
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DEATH AND REGENERATION
"[Brahmins]...no philosopher among them will view "death" in any
other sense than as a temporary disappearance from the manifested
plane of existence, or as a periodical rest."
SD I 8
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MAN'S IMMORTAL SPIRIT - ITS ORIGINS
"...human consciousness" is but a Ray of the Divine. Our Manas,
or Ego, proceeds from, and is the Son (figuratively) of Mahat.
Vaivaswata Manu (the Manu of our fifth race and Humanity in
general) is the chief personified representative of the thinking
Humanity of the fifth Root-race; and therefore he is represented
as the eldest Son of the Sun and an Agnishwatta Ancestor
...Thought in its action on human brains is endless. Thus Manu
is, and contains the potentiality of all the thinking forms which
will be developed on earth from this particular source. In the
esoteric teaching he is the beginning of this earth, and from him
and his daughter Ila humanity is born; he is a unity which
contains all the pluralities and their modifications. Every
manvantara has its own Manu, and from this Manu the various Manus
or rather all the Manasa of the Kalpas will proceed...he may be
compared to the white light which contains all the other rays,
giving birth to them by passing through the prism of
differentiation and evolution." Transactions, p. 99
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Best wishes,
Dallas
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