HPB-SD(ed.1) v.1 p.1 ch.Summing up: Difference between revisions

All the ''Christian ''Kabalists understood well the Eastern root idea : The active Power, the “ Perpetual motion of the great Breath ” only awakens Kosmos at the dawn of every new Period, setting it into motion by means of the two contrary Forces, * and thus causing it to become objective on the plane of Illusion. In other words, that dual motion transfers Kosmos from the plane of the Eternal Ideal into that of finite manifestation, or from the ''Noumenal ''to the ''phenomenal ''plane. Everything that ''is'', ''was'', and ''will be'', eternally is, even the countless forms, which are finite and perishable only in their objective, not in their ''ideal ''Form. They existed as Ideas, in the Eternity, † and, when they pass away, will exist as reflections. Neither the form of man, nor that of any animal, plant or stone has ever been ''created'', and it is only on this plane of ours that it commenced “ becoming,” ''i.e.'', objectivising into its present materiality, or expanding ''from within outwards'', from the most sublimated and supersensuous essence into its grossest appearance. Therefore ''our ''human forms have existed in the Eternity as astral or ethereal prototypes ; according to which models, the Spiritual Beings (or Gods) whose duty it was to bring them into objective being and terrestrial Life, evolved the protoplasmic forms of the future ''Egos ''from ''their own essence. ''After which, when this human ''Upadhi'', or basic mould was ready, the natural terrestrial Forces began to work on those supersensuous moulds ''which contained'', ''besides their own'', ''the elements of all the past vegetable and future animal forms of this globe in them. ''Therefore, man’s ''outward ''shell passed through every vegetable and animal body before it assumed the human shape. As this will be fully