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- Lucifer, vol. 2, no. 12, August 1888, pp. 471-472
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Title for references: Phelon M.M. - A Fragment
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A Fragment
From a manuscript, so old no man knows when it was written, commencing where it treats of “The Beginning,” we read the following: –
Silence is Power. Power is the Real. Silence, then, must be the Real. That which lives, moves, and gives being, of itself the Real, lies always in the Silence. When all manifestation has ceased, Silence is. Consequently, the Real must be, even if there is no manifestation.
Examine personal sense. There could be no manifestation from that source, for two reasons; first, there was no personal sense before manifestation, and second, there was no manifestation. There was darkness. There was dissolution, or unbinding of all law. Everything was set free. There was nothing but existence, into which all things had merged. The Real, the Silence had absorbed all things into itself. In this, which is now the Universe, was only Unity – the Unity of Brahma – God withdrawn.
Through cycles of æons It, in-drawn, has meditated, conscious of nought but the action of its own thought – the thought which is Itself. It perceives not Itself because It is That Self, intent on the connected current or sequence of that in which It is concerned, and not in the thought itself, or Himself. There is no time. There is no space There is nothing but the Oneness.
That which lies in sequence is accomplished. The desire to perceive the consequences of the onflowing thought manifests. It is the first step in manifestation. In considering the conditions of Supreme Intelligence, remember all states and forms are the same to Unity. Light and darkness, life and death, motion and inaction, are not known as differences within the grasp of Infinite Thought.
The Creative Thought, acting from the desire for manifestation, clears, and steadies itself within the circumference that is boundless. Within is the centre. Thought reaches from the centre to the circumference. As man’s thought clears itself; as his mentality steadies, after long-continued strain, and the thing which was hidden or doubtful seems lighted by the clearness of his perception, so the Creative Thought of Infinite Power, acting in the same manner, produces light as the very-first outward sign of manifestation. As a man awaking from sleep becomes settled in mentality, so the light of Creative Thought from
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That, reservoir of all thought,[2] breaks upon the darkness, multiplying the memories of that which was by the deductions of that which may be the resultant or outcome of the long sleep or withdrawal of Brahmâ.
The line of Creative Thought moves on. Forms of beauty, shapes of harmony, and the untold millions of sequences fill that which has hitherto been the Silence. But it is still the Silence. That which we apprehend through personal sense, is apprehended only by Unity as the onflowing of the current of Creative Thought. No sound as we know it ever breaks upon Its consciousness. No emotion of sight, as we perceive it, is ever cognised by It. Between It and us, as one broad ground of approach is simply motion – motion which is life. The Creative Thought projected by its own potency sets in motion all the ingathered forces of Unity.
The rolling millions upon millions of stars; the conditions of all the Universe, are simply Its robings – manifestations – the coverings of Brahma, or God manifested. One pole is the Infinite and Eternal One, the other is the manifestation, or shadowing forth of the Perfect Man, named by all the wise, as the Christ of the Ages.
The Logos thinks.[3] Potency vibrates; all existence surrounding the central line of thought, the line of experience and knowledge, also vibrates. Through these vibrations, this thought, in its grosser form called Ether,[4] can be recognised, understood and studied. From it spring all the phenomena that man considers the result of law.
Law, then, is the Creative Thought. From its dictum there is no escape, and so the manifested move on in the sequence, which is awakened thought in involved and involving cycles, until that thought shall have perfected itself.
When the sequence shall have reached its bounds then the law ceases to act. All things bound under the law are again dissolved and set loose. It is the ripening and the garnering of the perfected results moving back again into the Silence which is darkness and inertia.
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth, and without Him, was nothing made that was made. It was the beginning of an Infinite cycle, extending through immensity, and ending in the countless. As the evening and the morning were the first day, so Brahm and Brahma are Unity and Law.
Footnotes
- ↑ Read before Ramayana Theosophical Society, Chicago, Ill., June 24th, 1888, by Mrs. M. M. Phelon, f.t.s.
- ↑ In Indian philosophy this absolute Deity is always referred to as “That” (Tad) and “It.” It is “the reservoir of all thought” because it is absolute thought; which having no relation to the finite and the conditioned, cannot be premised as something individual or separate from the universal mind, and minds. It is the causeless cause of every manifesting intellection, the eternal Source of all. – [Ed.]
- ↑ Because the Logos is manifested; but the ever-concealed Deity does not, since It is absolute thought, and cannot be spoken of as we would of an individual personal Thinker. But then the Logos in the East is the synthesis, the collective aggregate of all the Gods or Powers in the manifested universe. – [Ed.]
- ↑ And in its highest it is Akasa. – [Ed.]