Theos-Talk Archives (August 2003 Message tt00064)

Dear Jim

It is interesting to think how HPB might have drawn the symbol. Did she draw
the disc/circle, followed by the central point? Then a line to the right,
followed by a line to the left (radiating out from the centre). It isn't a
straight line going through the centre of the disc, but rather 2 lines
emanating from the centre.) Then 2 horizontal lines above and 3 below,
getting smaller the further away they are from the centre. Page 1 (& 4 &
5) of the PROEM, original edition of "The Secret Doctrine", describes the
disk (disc) with a central point. The 7 lines: manifestation, evolution,
the principles, rounds, races, and so on....

It is said that the emblem on the upper cover of "The Secret Doctrine" will
be understood when the secret doctrine is understood, and vice versa.
"Thinking" about the symbol, may bring the enquirer closer to its meaning,
and to the understanding of it. It is more about "thinking" than outer
searching?

HPB in her copy of "The Voice of the Silence" inscribes it: "H P.B. to H P.
Blavatsky with no (underlined) kind regards." From the inner H P.B to the
outer H P. Blavatsky.

It will be interesting to see what others think of the symbol.

Thanks for sending the link --- most interesting.

Tony

The PROEM begins:
"AN Archaic Manuscript -- a collection of palm leaves made impermeable to
water, fire, and air, by some specific unknown process -- is before the
writer's eye. On the first page is an immaculate white disk within a dull
black ground. On the following page, the same disk, but with a central
point. The first, the student knows to represent Kosmos in Eternity, before
the re-awakening of still slumbering Energy, the emanation of the Word in
later systems. The point in the hitherto immaculate Disk, Space and Eternity
in Pralaya, denotes the dawn of differentiation. It is the Point in the
Mundane Egg (see Part II., "The Mundane Egg"), the germ within the latter
which will become the Universe, the ALL, the boundless, periodical Kosmos,
this germ being latent and active, periodically and by turns. The one circle
is divine Unity, from which all proceeds, whither all returns. Its
circumference -- a forcibly limited symbol, in view of the limitation of the
human mind -- indicates the abstract, ever incognisable PRESENCE, and its
plane, the Universal Soul, although the two are one."




-----Original Message-----
From: jim [mailto:jim@31millstone.freeserve.co.uk]
Sent: 16 August 2003 10:45 pm
To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Theos-World Signed 1888 edition of The Secret Doctrine +
mystery symbol


Hello,
I am writing concerning a book which is up for auction on ebay at the
moment - an 1888 edition of "The Secret Doctrine" which bears a handwritten
dedication to Bertram Keightly by Madame Blavatsky. She includes a symbolic
alias which I'd be really interested to know more about. Does anyone know
the meaning of this symbol? After countless hours in the library and on the
net I haven't been able to track it down. Any help would be much
appreciated. I've included a link below.
Thanks,
Jim Peacock
Edinburgh

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=12571&item=35444569
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