Theos-Talk Archives (May 2005 Message tt00617)

"The first differentiation - speaking metaphysically as to time - is Spirit, with which appears Matter and Mind. Akasa is produced from Matter and Spirit, Will is the force of Spirit in action and Life is a resultant of the action of Akasa, moved by Spirit, upon Matter.
But the Matter here spoken of is not that which is vulgarly known as such. It is the real Matter which is always invisible and has sometimes been called Primordial Matter. In the Brahmanical system it is denominated Mulaprakriti. The ancient teaching always held, as is now admitted by Science, that we see or perceive only the phenomena but not the essential nature, body or being of matter." Oceans of Theosophy P15

"Life or energy is what we may call Parabrahman; the substance side or vehicular side is mulaprakriti. Wipe out mulaprakriti, if it were possible, which it is not, and you would have pure consciousness, pure energy; and that again is not possible, because energy and matter are two sides of the same thing as are force and substance. Our body is fundamentally mulaprakriti, root-substance, fundamental essence, manifesting in form. So is everything else - a star, a bit of wood, a stone, a beast, a bit of thistledown floating in the air. Its essence is mulaprakriti; and out in the abysmal spaces is mulaprakriti, but also Parabrahman. P.91 Fountain source of occultism.


Can anyone give me their interpretation of meaning here?

Cass




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