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HPB-SD(ed.1) v.1 p.1 st.3 sl.10 (view source)
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| volume = 1
| part = 1
| stanza = 3
| stanza title = The Awakening of Kosmos
| sloka = 10
| previous = v.1 p.1 st.3 sl.9
| next = v.1 p.1 st.3 sl.11
| edition = ed.1
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{{Page continues|83|the web of being.}}
<center>STANZA III. — ''Continued.''</center>
:10. {{Style S-Small capitals|Father-Mother spin a web whose upper end is fastened to Spirit}} (''Purusha''), {{Style S-Small capitals|the light of the one Darkness, and the lower one to Matter}} (''Prakriti'') {{Style S-Small capitals|its}} (''the Spirit’s'') {{Style S-Small capitals|shadowy end ; and this web is the Universe spun out of the two substances made in one, which is Swâbhâvat}} (''a'').
{{Vertical space|}}
(''a'') In the Mandukya (Mundaka) Upanishad it is written, “ As a spider throws out and retracts its web, as herbs spring up in the ground . . . so is the Universe derived from the undecaying one ” (I. 1. 7). Brahmâ, as “ the germ of unknown Darkness,” is the material from which all evolves and develops “ as the web from the spider, as foam from the water,” etc. This is only graphic and true, if Brahmâ the “ Creator ” is, as a term, derived from the root ''brih'', to increase or expand. Brahmâ “ expands ” and becomes the Universe woven out of his own substance.
The same idea has been beautifully expressed by Goethe, who says :
{{Style P-Poem|poem=“ Thus at the roaring loom of Time I ply,
And weave for God the garment thou see’st Him by.”|signature=}}
| volume = 1
| part = 1
| stanza = 3
| stanza title = The Awakening of Kosmos
| sloka = 10
| previous = v.1 p.1 st.3 sl.9
| next = v.1 p.1 st.3 sl.11
| edition = ed.1
}}
{{Page continues|83|the web of being.}}
<center>STANZA III. — ''Continued.''</center>
:10. {{Style S-Small capitals|Father-Mother spin a web whose upper end is fastened to Spirit}} (''Purusha''), {{Style S-Small capitals|the light of the one Darkness, and the lower one to Matter}} (''Prakriti'') {{Style S-Small capitals|its}} (''the Spirit’s'') {{Style S-Small capitals|shadowy end ; and this web is the Universe spun out of the two substances made in one, which is Swâbhâvat}} (''a'').
{{Vertical space|}}
(''a'') In the Mandukya (Mundaka) Upanishad it is written, “ As a spider throws out and retracts its web, as herbs spring up in the ground . . . so is the Universe derived from the undecaying one ” (I. 1. 7). Brahmâ, as “ the germ of unknown Darkness,” is the material from which all evolves and develops “ as the web from the spider, as foam from the water,” etc. This is only graphic and true, if Brahmâ the “ Creator ” is, as a term, derived from the root ''brih'', to increase or expand. Brahmâ “ expands ” and becomes the Universe woven out of his own substance.
The same idea has been beautifully expressed by Goethe, who says :
{{Style P-Poem|poem=“ Thus at the roaring loom of Time I ply,
And weave for God the garment thou see’st Him by.”|signature=}}