Theos-Talk Archives (February 2005 Message tt00178)

Feb 8 2005

Friends:

Indeed it is a puzzle. But may be some explanation might be fund in these
lines from SECRET DOCTRINE Vol. 2: 487.....

"The first lesson taught in Esoteric philosophy is, that the incognizable
Cause does not put forth evolution, whether consciously or unconsciously,
but only exhibits periodically different aspects of itself to the perception
of finite Minds. 

Now the collective Mind — the Universal — composed of various and numberless
Hosts of Creative Powers, however infinite in manifested Time, is still
finite when contrasted with the unborn and undecaying Space in its supreme
essential aspect. 

That which is finite cannot be perfect. 

Therefore there are inferior Beings among those Hosts, but there never were
any devils or "disobedient Angels," for the simple reason that they are all
governed by Law. 

The Asuras who incarnated (call them by any other name), followed in this a
law as implacable as any other. They had manifested prior to the Pitris, and
as time (in Space) proceeds in Cycles, their turn had come — hence the
numerous allegories (Vide "Demon est Deus inversus," Part II., Vol. I.). The
name of Asura was first given by the Brahmans indiscriminately to those who
opposed their mummeries and sacrifices, as the great Asura called
"Asurendra" did. It is to those ages, probably, that the origin of the idea
of the demon, as opposer and adversary, has to be traced.
 
The Hebrew Elohim, called in the translations "God," and who create "light,"
are identical with the Aryan Asuras. They are also 

488

THE SECRET DOCTRINE. Vol. 2

referred to as the "Sons of Darkness" as a philosophical and logical
contrast to light immutable and eternal. 

The earliest Zoroastrians did not believe in Evil or Darkness being
co-eternal with Good or Light, and they give the same interpretation. 

Ahriman is the manifested shadow of AHURA-MAZDA (Asura-mazda), himself
issued from Zeruana Akerne "boundless (circle of) Time" or the Unknown
Cause. "Its glory," they say of the latter, "is too exalted, its light too
resplendent for either human intellect or mortal eye to grasp and see." 

Its primal emanation is eternal light, which, from having been previously
concealed in DARKNESS was called to manifest itself and thus was formed
Ormazd, the "King of Life." 

He is the "first-born" in BOUNDLESS TIME, but, like his own antitype
(pre-existing Spiritual idea), has lived within darkness from all eternity. 

The six Amshaspends (seven with himself, chief of all), the primitive
Spiritual Angels and Men are collectively his Logos. 

The Zoroastrian Amshaspends create the world in six days or periods also,
and rest on the Seventh; whereas that Seventh is the first period or "day,"
in esoteric philosophy, (Primary creation in the Aryan cosmogony). 

It is that intermediate Æon which is the Prologue to creation, and which
stands on the borderland between the uncreated eternal Causation and the
produced finite effects; a state of nascent activity and energy as the first
aspect of the ETERNAL IMMUTABLE QUIESCENCE. 

In Genesis, on which no metaphysical energy has been spent, but only an
extraordinary acuteness and ingenuity to veil the esoteric Truth, "Creation"
begins at the third stage of manifestation. "God" or the Elohim are the
"Seven Regents" of Pymander. They are identical with all the other Creators.


But even in Genesis that period is hinted at by the abruptness of the
picture, and the "darkness" that was on the face of the deep. The Alahim are
shown to "create" — that is to say, to build or to produce the two or
"double heaven" (not Heaven and Earth); which means, in so many words, that
they separated the upper manifested (angelic) heaven, or PLANE OF
CONSCIOUSNESS, from the lower or terrestrial plane; the (to us) eternal and
immutable Æons from those periods that are in space, time and duration;
Heaven from Earth, the UNKNOWN FROM THE KNOWN — to the profane. 

Such is the meaning of the sentence in Pymander, which says that: "THOUGHT,
the divine, which is LIGHT and LIFE (Zeruana Akerne) produced through its
WORD, or first aspect," the other, operating THOUGHT, which being the god of
Spirit and Fire, constructed seven Regents enclosing within their circle the
world of Senses, named "fatal destiny." 

The latter refers to Karma; the "seven circles" are the seven planets and
planes, as also the seven invisible Spirits, in the angelic spheres, whose
visible symbols are the seven planets, * the 

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* Another proof, if any were needed, that the ancient Initiates knew of more
than seven planets is to be found in the Vishnu Purana, Book II., ch. xii.,
where, describing —continued on following page—

489
 
THE ONE PASSIVE DEITY. 

seven Rishis of the great Bear and other glyphs. As said of the Adityas by
Roth: "they are neither sun, nor moon, nor stars, nor dawn, but the eternal
sustainers of this luminous life which exists as it were behind all these
phenomena." 

It is they — the "Seven Hosts" — who, having "considered in their Father
(divine Thought) the plan of the operator," as says Pyrnander, desired to
operate (or build the world with its creatures) likewise; for, having been
born "within the sphere of operation" — the manifesting Universe — suchis
the Manvantaric LAW. 

And now comes the second portion of the passage, or rather of two passages
merged into one to conceal the full meaning. 

Those who were born within the sphere of operation were "the brothers who
loved him well." The latter — the "him" — were the primordial angels: the
Asuras, the Ahriman, the Elohim — or "Sons of God," of whom Satan was one—
all those spiritual beings who were called the "Angels of Darkness," because
THAT DARKNESS IS ABSOLUTE LIGHT, a fact now neglected if not entirely
forgotten in theology. 

Nevertheless, the spirituality of those much abused "Sons of Light" which is
Darkness, must be evidently as great in comparison with that of the Angels
next in order, as the ethereality of the latter would be, when contrasted
with the density of the human body. 

The former are the "First-born"; therefore so near to the confines of PURE
QUIESCENT SPIRIT as to be merely the "PRIVATIONS" — in the Aristotelian
sense — the ferouers or the ideal types of those who followed. 

They could not create material, corporeal things; and, therefore, were said
in process of time to have refused to create, as commanded by "God" —
otherwise, TO HAVE REBELLED. 

Perchance, this is justified on that principle of the Scientific theory
which teaches us about light and sound and the effect of two waves of equal
length meeting. "If the two sounds be of the same intensity, their
coincidence produces a sound four times the intensity of either, while their
interference produces absolute silence." 

Explaining some of the "heresies" of his day, Justin Martyr shows the
identity of all the world religions at their starting points. 

The first beginning opens invariably with the UNKNOWN AND PASSIVE DEITY,
FROM WHICH EMANATES A CERTAIN ACTIVE POWER OR VIRTUE, the Mystery that is
sometimes called WISDOM, sometimes the SON, very often God, Angel, Lord, and
LOGOS. * 

The latter is sometimes applied to the very first emanation, but in several
systems it proceeds from the first androgyne or double ray produced at the
beginning by the unseen. Philo depicts this wisdom as male and female. But
though its first manifestation had a beginning, for it proceeded from Oulom
* (Aion, time), the highest of the Æons when emitted from the Father, it
had remained with him before all creations, for it is part of him. † 

Therefore, Philo Judæus calls Adam Kadmon "mind" (the Ennoia of Bythos in
the Gnostic system). 

"The mind, let it be named Adam. S D II 487 -490

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Possibly the answer may be found here? I have looked at this many times.

Something breaks the quiescence of "Pure spirit."  

What and Why ? Is it Karma from an even earlier Manvantara? Is it the
Universal MIND ? 


Best wishes,

Dallas

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-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Kusek [mailto:mark@withoutwalls.com] 
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 9:39 PM
To: Theosophy Study List
Subject: Re: theos-l digest: February 07, 2005

Bang! Boom!

Jerry drops another 10 ton bomb.

Did you catch it?

>Subject: RE: Creation 
>From: "Gerald Schueler" <gschueler@earthlink.net>
>
><< Aripga is the ignorance of Parabrahman >>
>

The "ignorance of Parabrahman"

Think long and hard about what this means.

Work it out.

It is a lode-stone.

Thanks again, J.

Emphatically,

-- M

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