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everything created or having being on these worlds. Your accepted conceptions of
cosmogony -- whether from the theological or scientific standpoints -- do not enable
you to solve a single anthropological, or even ethnical problem and they stand in
your way whenever you attempt to solve the problem of the races on this planet.
When a man begins to talk about creation and the origin of man, he is butting
against the facts incessantly. Go on saying: "Our planet and man were created --
and you will be fighting against hard facts for ever, analyzing and losing time over
trifling details -- unable to ever grasp the whole. But once admit that our planet and
ourselves are no more creations than the iceberg now before me (in our K.H.'s
home) but that both planet and man are -- states for a given time; that their present
appearance -- geological and anthropological -- is transitory and but a condition
concomitant of that stage of evolution at which they have arrived in the descending
cycle -- and all will become plain. You will easily understand what is meant by the
"one and only" element or principle in the universe and that androgynous; the
seven-headed serpent Ananda of Vishnu, the Nag around Buddha -- the great dragon
eternity biting with its active head its passive tail, from the emanations of which
spring worlds, beings and things. You will comprehend the reason why the first
philosopher proclaimed ALL -- Maya -- but that one principle, which rests during
the maha-pralayas only -- the "nights of Brahm." . . .
Now think: the Nag awakes. He heaves a heavy breath and the latter is sent like an
electric shock all along the wire encircling Space. Go to your fortepiano and execute
upon the lower register of keys the seven notes of the lower octave -- up and down.
Begin pianissimo; crescendo from the first key and having struck fortissimoon the last
lower note go back diminuendogetting out of your last note a hardly perceptible
sound -- "morendo pianissimo" (as I luckily for my illustration find it printed in one
of the musick pieces in K.H.'s old portmanteau). The first and the last notes will
represent to you the first and last spheres in the cycle of evolution -- the highest! the
one you strike onceis our planet. Remember you have to reverse the order on the
fortepiano: begin with the seventh note, not with the first. The seven vowels chanted
by the Egyptian priests to the seven rays of the rising sun to which Memnon
responded, meant but that. The one Life-principlewhen in action runs in circuits even
as known in physical science. It runs the round in human body, where the head
represents, and is to the Microcosmos (the physical world of matter) what the
summit of the cycle is to the Macrocosmos (the world of universal spiritual Forces);
and so with the formation of worlds and the great descending and ascending "circle
of necessity." All is one Law. Man has his seven principles, the germs of which he
brings with him at his birth. So has a planet or a world. From first to last every
sphere has its world of effects, the passing through which will afford a place of final
rest to each of the human principles -- the seventh principle excepted. The world No.
A is born; and with it, clinging like barnacles to the bottom of a ship in motion --
evolute from its first breath of life, the living beings of its atmosphere, from the
germs hitherto inert, now awakening to life with the first motion of the sphere. With
sphere A, begins the mineral kingdom and runs the round of mineral evolution. By
the time it is completed sphere B comes into objectivity and draws to itself the
lifewhich has completed its round on sphere A, and has become a surplus.(The fount
of life being inexhaustible, for it is the true Arachnea doomed to spin out its web
eternally -- save the periods of pralaya). Then comes vegetable life on sphere A, and
the same process takes place. On its downward course "life" becomes with every
state coarser, more material; on its upward more shadowy. No -- there is, nor can
there be any responsibility until the time when matter and spirit are properly
equilibrized. Up to man"life" has no responsibility in whatever form; no more than
has the foetus who in his mother's womb passes through all the forms of life -- as a
mineral, a vegetable, an animal to become finally Man.
(5) Where does it get the animal soul, its fifth principle, from? Has the potentiality of this
resided from the first in the original magnetic impulse which constituted the mineral, or
at every transition from the last world on the ascending side to sphere I does it, so to
speak, pass through an ocean of spirit and assimilate some new principle?
(5) Thus you see his fifth principle is evolved from within himself, man having as you
well say "the potentiality" of all the seven principles as a germ, from the very
instant he appears in the first world of causes as a shadowy breath, which
coagulates with, and is hardened together with the parent sphere.
Spirit or LIFE is indivisible. And when we speak of the seventh principle it is [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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everything created or having being on these worlds. Your accepted conceptions of
cosmogony -- whether from the theological or scientific standpoints -- do not enable
you to solve a single anthropological, or even ethnical problem and they stand in
your way whenever you attempt to solve the problem of the races on this planet.
When a man begins to talk about creation and the origin of man, he is butting
against the facts incessantly. Go on saying: "Our planet and man were created --
and you will be fighting against hard facts for ever, analyzing and losing time over
trifling details -- unable to ever grasp the whole. But once admit that our planet and
ourselves are no more creations than the iceberg now before me (in our K.H.'s
home) but that both planet and man are -- states for a given time; that their present
appearance -- geological and anthropological -- is transitory and but a condition
concomitant of that stage of evolution at which they have arrived in the descending
cycle -- and all will become plain. You will easily understand what is meant by the
"one and only" element or principle in the universe and that androgynous; the
seven-headed serpent Ananda of Vishnu, the Nag around Buddha -- the great dragon
eternity biting with its active head its passive tail, from the emanations of which
spring worlds, beings and things. You will comprehend the reason why the first
philosopher proclaimed ALL -- Maya -- but that one principle, which rests during
the maha-pralayas only -- the "nights of Brahm." . . .
Now think: the Nag awakes. He heaves a heavy breath and the latter is sent like an
electric shock all along the wire encircling Space. Go to your fortepiano and execute
upon the lower register of keys the seven notes of the lower octave -- up and down.
Begin pianissimo; crescendo from the first key and having struck fortissimoon the last
lower note go back diminuendogetting out of your last note a hardly perceptible
sound -- "morendo pianissimo" (as I luckily for my illustration find it printed in one
of the musick pieces in K.H.'s old portmanteau). The first and the last notes will
represent to you the first and last spheres in the cycle of evolution -- the highest! the
one you strike onceis our planet. Remember you have to reverse the order on the
fortepiano: begin with the seventh note, not with the first. The seven vowels chanted
by the Egyptian priests to the seven rays of the rising sun to which Memnon
responded, meant but that. The one Life-principlewhen in action runs in circuits even
as known in physical science. It runs the round in human body, where the head
represents, and is to the Microcosmos (the physical world of matter) what the
summit of the cycle is to the Macrocosmos (the world of universal spiritual Forces);
and so with the formation of worlds and the great descending and ascending "circle
of necessity." All is one Law. Man has his seven principles, the germs of which he
brings with him at his birth. So has a planet or a world. From first to last every
sphere has its world of effects, the passing through which will afford a place of final
rest to each of the human principles -- the seventh principle excepted. The world No.
A is born; and with it, clinging like barnacles to the bottom of a ship in motion --
evolute from its first breath of life, the living beings of its atmosphere, from the
germs hitherto inert, now awakening to life with the first motion of the sphere. With
sphere A, begins the mineral kingdom and runs the round of mineral evolution. By
the time it is completed sphere B comes into objectivity and draws to itself the
lifewhich has completed its round on sphere A, and has become a surplus.(The fount
of life being inexhaustible, for it is the true Arachnea doomed to spin out its web
eternally -- save the periods of pralaya). Then comes vegetable life on sphere A, and
the same process takes place. On its downward course "life" becomes with every
state coarser, more material; on its upward more shadowy. No -- there is, nor can
there be any responsibility until the time when matter and spirit are properly
equilibrized. Up to man"life" has no responsibility in whatever form; no more than
has the foetus who in his mother's womb passes through all the forms of life -- as a
mineral, a vegetable, an animal to become finally Man.
(5) Where does it get the animal soul, its fifth principle, from? Has the potentiality of this
resided from the first in the original magnetic impulse which constituted the mineral, or
at every transition from the last world on the ascending side to sphere I does it, so to
speak, pass through an ocean of spirit and assimilate some new principle?
(5) Thus you see his fifth principle is evolved from within himself, man having as you
well say "the potentiality" of all the seven principles as a germ, from the very
instant he appears in the first world of causes as a shadowy breath, which
coagulates with, and is hardened together with the parent sphere.
Spirit or LIFE is indivisible. And when we speak of the seventh principle it is [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]