Theos-Talk Archives (November 2003 Message tt00215)

RADIATION and EMANATION
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RADIATION
Radiation(s) formless arupa, & bodies I 632-3



[ OTHER REFERENCES:

S D I 64, 130-1, 170fn, 295, 604 (& radiation);  

S D I 130	The 2 ONES on the plane of emanation. ABSOLUTE radiates
the 1st ONE
2nd ONE is emanated from 1st ONE.

S D II 572, 652;  

THEOSOPHICAL ARTICLES AND NOTES 63-4;  

ISIS I xvi, xxxii, 4, 17, 92, 242; 

ISIS II 34-5, 39;  

W Q J Articles II 452;  

H P B Articles III 234-5; 334-5,

Trans 15, 33, 52, 94-5, 128-9 (the ONE FREE FORCE), 143-44; 

Glos 113-4, 386;  

ECHOES FROM THE ORIENT	13,

AEONS of S. Magus:	TRANSACTIONS 147-9; T M 9 p. 40;
S D I 269-99, 293fn, 213-32.



[IDEA: a “thought” is radiated; a “letter” is emanated.

Light is emanated; Fame of Manas is emanated (lighting up of M)

Sound, resonance, measure, beat are emanated. “Gives to all but takes
from none.” 



“The departure of the soul atom from the bosom of divinity is a
radiation from the life of the great ALL, who expends his strength in
order that he may grow again and live by its return.” PATH I 33



Q. How do the terms "Radiation" and "Emanation" differ in the Secret
Doctrine? 

A. They express, to my mind, two entirely different ideas, and are the
best apologies for the original terms that could be found; but if the
ordinary meanings are attached to them the idea will be missed.
Radiation is, so to say, the unconscious and spontaneous shooting forth,
the action of a something from which this act takes place; but emanation
is something from which another thing issues in a constant efflux, and
emanates consciously. An orthodox Occultist goes so far as to say that
the smell of a flower emanates from it "consciously" -- absurd as it may
seem to the profane. Radiation can come from the Absolute; Emanation
cannot. One difference exists in the idea that Radiation is sure, sooner
or later, to be withdrawn again while Emanation runs into other
emanations and is thoroughly separated and differentiated. Of course at
the end of the cycle of time emanation will also be withdrawn into the
One Absolute; but meanwhile, during the entire cycle of changes
emanation will persist. One thing emanates from the other, and, in fact,
from one point of view, emanation is equivalent to Evolution; while
"radiation" represents to my mind -- in the precosmic period, of course
-- an instantaneous action like that of a piece of paper set on fire
under a burning glass, of which act the Sun knows nothing. Both terms,
of course, are used for want of better. 

Q. What is meant by prototypes existing in the Astral Light? (Vol. I.,
p. 63.) 

A. Astral Light is here used as a convenient phrase for a term very
little understood, viz: "the realm of Akasa, or primordial Light
manifested through the divine Ideation." The latter must be accepted in
this particular case as a generic term for the universal and divine mind
reflected in the waters of Space or Chaos, which is the Astral Light
proper, and a mirror reflecting and reversing a higher plane. In the
ABSOLUTE or Divine Thought everything exists and there has been no time
when it did not so exist; but Divine Ideation is limited by the
Universal Manvantaras. The realm of Akasa is the undifferentiated
noumenal and abstract Space which will be occupied by Chidakasam, the
field of primordial consciousness. It has several degrees, however, in
Occult philosophy; in fact, "seven fields." The first is the field of
latent consciousness which is coeval with the duration of the first and
second unmanifested Logoi. It is the "Light which shineth in darkness
and the darkness comprehended it not" of St. John's Gospel. When the
hour strikes for the Third Logos to appear, then from the latent
potentiality there radiates a lower field of differentiated
consciousness, which is Mahat, or the entire collectivity of those
Dhyan-Chohans of sentient life of which Fohat is the representative on
the objective plane and the Manasa-putras on the subjective. The Astral
Light is that which mirrors the three higher planes of consciousness,
and is above the lower, or terrestrial plane; therefore it does not
extend beyond the fourth plane, where, one may say, the Akasa begins. 
There is one great difference between the Astral Light and the Akasa
which must be remembered. The latter is eternal, the former is periodic.
The Astral Light changes not only with the Mahamanvantaras but also with
every sub-period and planetary cycle or Round. 

Q. Then do the prototypes exist on a plane higher than that of the
Astral Light? 

A. The prototypes or ideas of things exist first on the plane of Divine
eternal Consciousness and thence become reflected and reversed in the
Astral Light, which also reflects on its lower individual plane the life
of our Earth, recording it on its "tablets." Therefore, is the Astral
Light called illusion. It is from this that we, in our turn, get our
prototypes. Consequently unless the Clairvoyant or SEER can get beyond
this plane of illusion, he can never see the Truth, but will be drowned
in an ocean of self-deception and hallucinations. 

Q. And what is the Akasa proper? 

A. The Akasa is the eternal divine consciousness which cannot
differentiate, have qualities, or act; action belongs to that which is
reflected or mirrored from it. The unconditioned and infinite can have
no relation with the finite and conditioned. The Astral Light is the
Middle Heaven of the Gnostics, in which is Sophia Achamoth, the mother
of the seven builders or Spirits of the Earth, which are not necessarily
good, and among which the Gnostics placed Jehovah, whom they called
Ildabaoth. (Sophia Achamoth must not be confounded with the divine
Sophia.) We may compare the Akasa and the Astral Light, with regard to
these prototypes, to the germ in the acorn. The latter, besides
containing in itself the astral form of the future oak, conceals the
germ from which grows a tree containing millions of forms. These forms
are contained in the acorn potentially, yet the development of each
particular acorn depends upon extraneous circumstances, physical force,
etc. 
TRANSACTIONS 93-96



ATMA, ATMAN, HIGHER SELF in man

Higher Self, Ego. See also Atma, Self
absolute consciousness of I 266 
alone is divine I 445 
buddhi & self-consciousness II 231n 
divorcing, fr senses I 329-30 
Farvarshi or II 480 &n 
higher creators (pitris) II 95 
informing principle or monad II 102-3 
karana-sarira & II 79 
must gravitate towards monad II 110 
non-separateness of, fr the One I 276 
Plato on ego as II 88 
reigns after 3-1/2 races II 110 
speech & mind consult, (Anugita) I 94-6 
spiritual ego II 230 
spiritual fire is man's II 109

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Causality, Causation I 405

Aeons & II 488 
avyakta or state of II 46 
cycles of I 638 
dhyan-chohanic essence is II 120 
intelligent II 738 
karma law of ethical II 302n 
latent during sandhyas II 239 
One Unknowable I 139 
physical, of forms II 736 
plane of material II 157 
science & ultimate I 465
Cause(s). See also First Cause, Nidanas
Absolute, of Egyptians, Spencer I 675 
aspects of incognizable II 487 
Brahma, of creative potencies I 55 
Causeless I 9-10n, 14-15 &n, 55, 89, 258, 280, 425, 569; II 589 
concatenation of, & effects I 171, 594 
effects of conscious I 145 
effects of suppressing bad I 644 
elementals & primary, secondary I 146 
of existence I 44-5, 55-6 
exoteric, esoteric, endexoteric II 74 
final, incomprehensible I 569 
Fohat, of cosmic electricity I 554 
infinite & eternal I 14 
instinctual I 169 
Karana as eternal I 41, 46, 93n, 280 
karma & I 634, 644 
of light, heat, etc I 514, 554 
Mahabuddhi as the formless I 420 
Mahat, of all things I 256 
man's, awaken powers in sidereal world I 124 
One, & Primal I 618 
potency of every produced I 450 
Space & Unknown First I 9n, 342 
upadana or material I 55, 370n 
verae, vs mayavic I 489 &n 
Vishnu as the Ideal I 349

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Karana (Skt) cause II 46. See also Cause, Upadana

"alone" during pralaya I 41 
eternal, of ceaseless motion I 93n 
ideal spirit of Cause I 46 
shrine of incognizable, in heart I 280

Karana Sarira (Skt) causal body
ego image of Logos in II 592-3n 
human ego, & sutratman II 79

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EMANATION


Emanation(s) S D II 80
Akkadians & Aryans taught II 54 
Atzilatic or world of II 111 
auric, poisoning effect of I 538 
Chaldeans on II 61 
Christian theology rejects II 41 
first seven, or Sons of Fire I 438 
gods are their own I 222 
Jehovah, of Ialdabaoth II 389 
Logos as first I 215 
man as, both man & woman I 216n, 450 
manu, fr Logos II 311 
manvantaric I 18 
monads pre-existent in world of II 111 
nature as, of consciousness I 277n 
primordial, & latent forces II 78 
pure, primeval, unconscious II 80 
Semites taught creation, not II 54 
seventh, of matter I 291 
unknowable source cause of II 43 
Valentinian system of II 569n

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EMANATION THE DOCTRINE OF. In its metaphysical meaning, it is opposed to
Evolution, yet one with it. Science teaches that evolution is
physiologically a mode of generation in which the germ that develops the
foetus pre-exists already in the parent, the development and final form
and characteristics of that germ being accomplished in nature; and that
in cosmology the process takes place blindly through the correlation of
the elements, and their various compounds. Occultism answers that this
is only the apparent mode, the real process being Emanation, guided by
intelligent Forces under an immutable LAW. Therefore, while the
Occultists and Theosophists believe thoroughly in the doctrine of
Evolution as given out by Kapila and Manu, they are Emanationists rather
than Evolutionists. The doctrine of Emanation was at one time universal.
It was taught by the Alexandrian as well as by the Indian philosophers,
by the Egyptian, the Chaldean and Hellenic Hierophants, and also by the
Hebrews (in their Kabbala, and even in Genesis). For it is only owing to
deliberate mistranslation that the Hebrew word asdt has been translated
“angels” from the Septuagint, when it means Emanations, Ćons, precisely
as with the Gnostics. Indeed, in Deuteronomy (xxxiii., 2) the word asdt
or ashdt is translated as” fiery law”, whilst the correct rendering of
the passage should be “from his right hand went [ not a fiery law, but a
fire according to law “; viz., that the fire of one flame is imparted
to, and caught up by another like as in a trail of inflammable
substance. This is precisely emanation. As shown in Isis Unveiled : “In
Evolution, as it is now beginning to he understood, there is supposed to
be in all matter an impulse to take on a higher form—a supposition
clearly expressed by Manu and other Hindu philosophers of the highest
antiquity. The philosopher’s tree illustrates it in the case of the zinc
solution. The controversy between the followers of this school and the
Emanationists may he briefly stated thus The Evolutionist stops all
inquiry at the borders of ‘ the Unknowable “; the Emanationist believes
that nothing can be evolved—or, as the word means, unwombed or
born—except it has first been involved, thus indicating that life is
from a spiritual potency above the whole.”
Glos 113-14


ZERVANA AKARNA, OR ZRVANA AKARNA (Pahl.). As translated from the
Vendîdâd (Fargard xix), lit., “Boundless”, or “Limitless Time”,or
“Duration in a Circle”. Mystically, the Beginningless and the Endless
One Principle in Nature ; the Sat of the Vedânta and esoterically, the
Universal Abstract Space synonymous with the Unknowable Deity. It is the
Ain-Soph of the Zoroastrians, out of which radiates Ahura Mazda, the
eternal Light or Logos, from which, in its turn, emanates everything
that has being, existence and form.
Glos 386

Also:

S D II 572 Illustrates how cosmic principles emanate from oneanother

Key 62	emanations cause periodical appearances
83-4	or – radiation ?
85	of Universe
95	Man an emanation of Nous
101-2	BUDDHI a direct emanation of ATMA
110-1	Egos primeval emanations of UNIVERSAL EGO
116	immortality and emanation of SAT
217	humanity an emanation of DIVINITY
	
S D II 24 (bottom) Parabrahm emanates all in new Manvantara


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IDEA -- IDEATION -- THOUGHT -- CONSCIOUSNESS

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IDEATION: Faculty or capacity of mind, whereby it considers ideas.

IDEAS:	Representation or perception of ideas, mental images, feelings,
opinions and thoughts.
Archetypes or ideals – true existence, all existing thought to
be considered as imperfect.
Design, plan, project.
Pictures from memory.
 
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>From the SECRET DOCTRINE 

Idea(s). See also Ideation

Absolute Thought & II 490 
active, passive thought & II 492 
all that was, is, & will be exists as I 282 
divine evolution of I 280 
First Cause as eternal I 214 
manifests by kriyasakti I 293; II 173 
moves the aether (Plato) I 365 
older Horus, in demiurgic mind I 348 
Plato's innate, (von Hartmann) I 281 
Plutarch defines I 622 
Propator is abstract I 214 
the Word, speech, & names I 93-4 
Younger Horus is, in matter I 348

Ideal

forms & archetypal ideas I 281n 
matter built on, forms I 281 
noblest, caricatured later I 326 
as opposed to real discussed I 55-6, 614 
plan held within Parabrahman I 281 
Vishnu as the, Cause I 349

Idealism

in Eastern philosophy I 556n 
objective, of esoteric philosophy I 631 
occultism vs materialism & I 479 
Vedantic, Kantian I 603n
Idealist(s)
pseudo-, & II 451, 651 

Ideality, plane of II 335

Ideation(s). See also Divine Thought, Mahat, Thought, Universal Mind
akasa is cosmic I 326 
astral, reflects terrestrial things II 596 
ceases during pralaya I 328-9; II 598 
ceases in deep sleep I 38 
cosmic, & substance one I 337n 
cosmic, or Logos I 329 &n; II 24 
cosmic, reflection of Universal Mind I 110 
cross & cosmic II 561 
dhyani-chohans reflect I 280 
divine wisdom in its II 299n 
elohim & first divine I 375 
Fohat energy of cosmic I 16 
lipikas amanuenses of eternal I 104 
logoi perceive, & build I 380 
lotus symb, passing into form I 380 
man created by spiritual II 241-2 
mysterious circuit of II 636 
precosmic, or Great Breath I 15 
reflected thru matter II 299n 
spiritual, & first race II 242 
spiritual, of divine monad I 266 
universal, gives plan to Architect I 279-80 
variation (evolution) originates w II 299n 
Vedantic view of universe II 596, 597n

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Manas (Skt) mind. See also Intellect, Mahat, Mind, Principles

abuse of II 411-13 
aroma of, jiva I 238 
atma-buddhi-, become one I 220; II 57 &n 
atma-buddhi blind without II 123n 
body follows whims of I 245 
-buddhi or chitti explained I 288n 
chief soul is mind or II 496 
Christos union of buddhi & II 230-1 &n 
conscious principle of monad II 110 
corresponds to globe six I 153 &n 
cosmic ideation working thru I 329n 


after death I 334 
desire primal germ of II 578-9 
dhyani-chohans develop, in man II 232-3n 
dhyanis gave, to third race II 47n 
diagram I 153; II 593, 596 
dual, buddhi- & kama- I 334; II 614 
dual, lunar & solar II 495, 639n 
effort of, to be free of senses II 587 
eleventh breath II 548 
fallen angel becomes our II 513 
fifth round development of I 162; II 301 
fifth state of matter II 737 
first on plane of personality II 58n 
Gultweig [Gullveig] (Norse) or II 520 
higher, absorbed in devachan I 220 
higher, is human ego II 79 
Hindu, Egyptian, (Massey) II 632 
human soul, mind I 153 &n; II 596 
impersonal, above senses I 96 
Indra personifies II 614 
language impossible without II 199n 
Laws of Manu on I 334-5 
link betw spirit & matter II 98, 164 
Lords of Wisdom quickened II 411 
Mahat transformed into I 75 
manasaputras endowed man w II 608 
middle principle, pivot II 241 
missing in first race II 164 
Prachetases solar portion of II 496 
primeval man lacked II 80 
proceeds fr akasa I 13n 
seat of intellect II 378 
Seb (Egypt) or II 632n 
serpent stands for II 98 
solar angels are of II 88 
third race, succumbs to kama II 254n 
twofold II 175, 639n 
union of buddhi & II 247 
upadhi of buddhi I 101 
vehicle of personal consciousness II 241 
wedded to kama, Zeus as II 419-20 
without, there can be no man II 241-2

Manasa-Dhyanis (Skt). See also Agnishvattas, Manasaputra(s),
Pitris (Solar)
brought mind to man I 181-2; II 89-90

Manasaputra(s) (Skt) (Mankind endowed with Mind)

anupadaka, dhyani-buddhas or I 571 
connected w Ahura Mazda II 608 
dhyanis were II 167 
informed mindless man I 180-1; II 608 
mind-born men I 543 
seven rishis or II 625 
"Sons of God" II 374 
Vishnu a, to Krishna II 48 
would not people Earth II 375

Thought(s). See also Divine Thought, Ideations, Mind

Descartes on I 629 
divine I 1 &n, 3, 16, 39, 44, 61, 64, 74, 325-41, 348; II 158, 488-9,
536-7, 649n 
divine, becomes kosmos I 43 
divine, or boundless darkness I 327 
divine, or Logos I 58 
exists eternally I 570 
Fohat & I 108, 137n; II 649n 
freedom of, in Upanishads I 270 
ideas vs absolute II 490 
impressed on astral I 93, 104; II 199n 
infinite gradations of I 627 
karma & I 644 
kriyasakti power of I 293; II 173 
language & II 199n 
nerve molecules & I 134n 
passions stimulated by II 244 
without phosphorus no II 244 
product of molecular change I 124 &n 
reflection of universal mind I 38, 280, 617 
seven modes of II 335, 569n 
subjective side of nervous motion I 124-5n 
unrelated to intellection I 1n 
Voltaire on what produces II 88-9

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KAMA-MANAS [Lower Manas]

manas &, completes man II 79 
manas, & root-races II 254n 
manas drawn down by I 244-5; II 254n, 614 
Prometheus left, unchanged II 412-13 
wedded to manas (Zeus) II 419-20


Intellect (Human). See Manas, Mind (Human)
of Atlanteans I 192n 
brain size &, (Davis) II 522-3 
can deal only w emanations II 41 
development of, in fourth round I 188-9 
dhyanis gave, to man II 47n 
divine, veiled in man II 74 
gauging human II 301 
great two-edged weapon II 163 
gulf betw, of man & ape II 677n 
power of, & saktis I 292-3 
soul made room for physical I 225

Intellectual(ity)
"breaths" or angels II 318n 
capacities different II 103 
developed in fourth race II 167 
egotism of, vs spiritual insight II 158 
evolution goes w physical II 411 
faculties develop later II 728 
faculties influence evolution II 728 
part of triple evolution I 181-91 
replaced spiritual in fifth race II 300 
rudras, kumaras developed II 585 
over spiritual in civilization II 319

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Buddhi (Skt). See also Maha-Buddhi [Higher Manas]
aggregate of dhyani-buddhas I 472 
anandamaya sheath I 570 
atma, manas & II 57n 
atman & (relation of) I 119, 179, 193, 471-2, 567; II 58n, 580, 605n 
bodhi, buddha, bodha I xix 
breath first II 241 
corresponds to ruach I 242; II 633n 
cosmic monad I 177 
dhyani-chohanic essence I 265 
diagram I 153, 242; II 593, 596, 632 
discrete & indiscrete, eternal I 453 
Diti the, of akasa II 613-14 
divine soul I 17, 101n, 119, 120, 216, 567; II 318n 
equatorial sun cements, to atma II 241 
human soul & II 81 
intuition of, vs senses I 279, 329n 
latent consciousness II 275n 
made conscious by manas II 318n 
Mahat & I 256, 334, 373; II 614 
-manas breaks fr atman I 193 
manas vehicle of I 101, 242-5, 334 
not the human ego II 79 
Prometheus & II 419 
Putah (Egyptian) II 632 
relation of, to atman I 119, 179, 193, 265, 471-2, 567; II 58n, 580,
605n 
sattva & I 68-9n 
second principle I 291 
sixth state of matter II 737 
spiritual soul I 119, 153n 
Sun is, of akasa I 527n 
tree symbol of, (Anugita) II 637 
union of, w manas II 230, 231n, 247, 495 
universal ideation (cosmic) II 596 
vahan (vehicle) II 241

Maha-Buddhi [Universal Buddhi]
Adi-Buddhic monad manifests as I 572 
cosmic ideation, Mahat or I 16 
difference betw, & water I 257n 
Mahat or I 335, 572 
manas in man springs fr I 334 
Universal Soul I 420 
Vaishnavas' idea of I 451 
vehicle of spirit I 420

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Intuition I 508, 619-20, 627, 629; II 369
divine, needed for deep truth II 516 
equilibrates skepticism I 480 
fourth dimension & I 251 
laborious sense knowledge vs I 279 
laya point & I 557 
materialism freezes II 520 
of orientalists II 565n, 606 
pantheistic II 545 
science & I 279, 670 
soars above thought I 1n 
of some scientists I 118 
spiritual I 329n, 644 
spiritual, & the sexes II 415 
spiritual, not clairvoyance I 46n

Conscience I xix
buddhi &, in Pistis Sophia II 605n 
chitti, inner voice or I 288n

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Conscious
everything in universe I 49, 274 
spiritual beings I 233n 
unconscious &, not charachara I 454

Consciousness. See also Self-consciousness
absolute I 2, 15, 40, 50-1, 56, 266, 277n; II 702n 
absolute, of higher self I 266 
adapts to nature (Bourges) II 654 
animal I 234; II 120, 702n 
atma alone primeval I 570 
awakening, of plants & animals I 455 
chasm between brain &, (Tyndall) II 673 
cosmic ideation & I 329n 
deep sleep a state of II 701 
deva-, & monad I 619 
devachanic II 57n 
disintegrated by Mahat I 373 
in dreamless sleep I 266 
of first beings not human I 277 
of the globes II 702n 
Haeckel traces, to molecules II 650 
highest manifest, synthetic I 573 
hinders man fr foreseeing death II 525 
human & cosmic, diagram I 200 
illusion & I 329-30 
immortality & II 525 
implies limitations I 56 
individualized, or personal ego II 241 
key to knowing other worlds II 701 
Logos source of individual II 24 
manifests thru matter I 328-9 
man's, linked to senses II 701 
merging individual w universal I 51 
not a brain function I 233, 296, 327n 
of the "one manifested" I 216n 
pervades everything I 49, 274; II 702n 
prajna or II 641 
primary element I 373 
psychology rejects universal II 490n 
relation of, to third eye II 306 
senseless up to third round I 246-7 
seven chords of universal I 167 
seven states of I 47, 199-200; II 29n, 597n, 641 
on seventh globe every round I 232 
sleep & I 266; II 701 
still small voice & spiritual I 280 
time an illusion of I 37, 44 
unconditioned I 14 
universe aggregate of various states of II 598-9

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Intelligence. See also Consciousness, Wisdom
absolute, & heat I 85 
all beings must acquire human I 277 
buddhi & universal I 256 
chaos impregnated by I 64 
corporeality &, unrelated I 608n 
cosmic, active II 596, 597n 
esoteric meaning of, (Anugita) II 567 
Fohat is guiding I 493 
Mahat or, in Puranas I 330 
mundane, or nous I 50 
one indivisible, in universe I 277 
subconscious, pervades matter II 649 
time & universal I 62 
waters of wisdom flow into I 239


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DESIRE and MIND

Kama (Skt) desire II 161. See also Desire, Kosa
Aja or the unborn II 176, 578 
animal soul II 671 
cosmic aspect of II 175-6 
first god of Vedas II 579 
god in oldest Purana, not Indra II 174n 
intensity of, varies in animals II 255 
kumaras sprang fr II 579 
later became sexual II 176 
Makara-ketu or II 578 



KAMA-MANAS

manas &, completes man II 79 
manas, & root-races II 254n 
manas drawn down by I 244-5; II 254n, 614 
Prometheus left, unchanged II 412-13 
wedded to manas (Zeus) II 419-20


Instinct(ual) I 640
animal I 234, 291 
animal, & homunculi II 349 
of animal monad II 103 
of lemmings discussed II 782 
monad & I 175 
primordial blastema had blind II 120 
sexless creative, of early man II 275

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