Theos-Talk Archives (August 2003 Message tt00083)

Dear Tony, Dallas, Daniel and others,
Many thanks for your help and informative e-mails, it's much appreciated.
Clearly I have a lot of study to do before I come even close to
understanding this symbol! I'm not so much a student of theosophy but
rather a keen collector of antiquarian books, with a particular fascination
for early science texts and the occult. I'd love to get my hands on this
signed book but fear it's already beyond my means.
Yours,
Jim

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tony" <alpha@dircon.co.uk>
To: <theos-talk@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2003 1:00 PM
Subject: RE: Theos-World Signed 1888 edition of The Secret Doctrine +
mystery symbol


> 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."
>
>
>
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> -----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
>
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http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=12571&item=3544456908
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