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| sloka title = The higher creators reject in their pride the forms evolved by the “ Sons of | | sloka title = The higher creators reject in their pride the forms evolved by the “ Sons of Yoga.” | ||
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(''c'') The ''Zohar ''speaks of “ Black Fire,” which is ''Absolute ''Light-Wisdom. To those who, prompted by old theological prejudice, may say : “ But the ''Asuras ''are the rebel Devas, the ''opponents of the Gods — ''hence devils, and the spirits of Evil,” it is answered : Esoteric philosophy admits neither good nor evil ''per se'', as existing independently in nature. The cause for both is found, as regards the Kosmos, in the necessity of contraries or contrasts, and with respect to man, in his human nature, his ignorance and passions. There is no ''devil ''or the utterly depraved, as there are no Angels absolutely perfect, though there may be spirits of Light and of Darkness ; thus Lucifer — the spirit of Intellectual Enlightenment and Freedom of Thought — is metaphorically the guiding beacon, which helps man to find his way through the rocks and sand-banks of Life, for Lucifer is the Logos in his highest, and the “ Adversary ” in his lowest aspect — both of which are reflected in our ''Ego. ''Lactantius, speaking of the Nature of Christ, makes the Logos, the ''Word'', ''the first-born brother of Satan'', the “ ''first of all creatures.''” (''Inst. div''. Book II., c. viii., “ Qabbalah,” 116.) | (''c'') The ''Zohar ''speaks of “ Black Fire,” which is ''Absolute ''Light-Wisdom. To those who, prompted by old theological prejudice, may say : “ But the ''Asuras ''are the rebel Devas, the ''opponents of the Gods — ''hence devils, and the spirits of Evil,” it is answered : Esoteric philosophy admits neither good nor evil ''per se'', as existing independently in nature. The cause for both is found, as regards the Kosmos, in the necessity of contraries or contrasts, and with respect to man, in his human nature, his ignorance and passions. There is no ''devil ''or the utterly depraved, as there are no Angels absolutely perfect, though there may be spirits of Light and of Darkness ; thus {{Style S-Small capitals|Lucifer}} — the spirit of Intellectual Enlightenment and Freedom of Thought — is metaphorically the guiding beacon, which helps man to find his way through the rocks and sand-banks of Life, for Lucifer is the {{Style S-Small capitals|Logos}} in his highest, and the “ Adversary ” in his lowest aspect — both of which are reflected in our ''Ego. ''Lactantius, speaking of the Nature of Christ, makes the {{Style S-Small capitals|Logos}}, the ''Word'', ''the first-born brother of Satan'', the “ ''first of all creatures.''” (''Inst. div''. Book II., c. viii., “ Qabbalah,” 116.) | ||
The ''Vishnu Purâna ''describes these primeval creatures (the ''Arvaksrota'') with ''crooked ''digestive canals : They were “ endowed with inward manifestations, but mutually in ignorance about ''their kind and nature.''” The twenty-eight kinds of ''Badha'', or imperfections, do not apply, as Wilson thought, to the animals now known and specified by him, * for these did not exist in those geological periods. This is quite plain in the said work, in which the first created (on this globe) are the “ five-fold immovable creation,” minerals and vegetables ; then come those fabulous animals, ''Tiryaksrota'', (the monsters of the abyss slain by the “ Lords,” see Stanzas II. and III.) ; then the ''Urdhwasrotas'', the happy celestial beings, which feed on ambrosia ; then lastly, the ''Arvaksrotas'', human beings — Brahmâ’s | The ''Vishnu Purâna ''describes these primeval creatures (the ''Arvaksrota'') with ''crooked ''digestive canals : They were “ endowed with inward manifestations, but mutually in ignorance about ''their kind and nature.''” The twenty-eight kinds of ''Badha'', or imperfections, do not apply, as Wilson thought, to the animals now known and specified by him, * for these did not exist in those geological periods. This is quite plain in the said work, in which the first created (on this globe) are the “ five-fold immovable creation,” minerals and vegetables ; then come those fabulous animals, ''Tiryaksrota'', (the monsters of the abyss slain by the “ Lords,” see Stanzas II. and III.) ; then the ''Urdhwasrotas'', the happy celestial beings, which feed on ambrosia ; then lastly, the ''Arvaksrotas'', human beings — Brahmâ’s | ||
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{{Page|168|the secret doctrine.}} | {{Page|168|the secret doctrine.}} | ||
{{Style P-No indent|after which they will be ready in the next for the full reception of the “ Sons of Wisdom.” While those which “ were not ready ” at all, the latest Monads, which had hardly evolved from their last transitional and lower animal forms at the close of the Third Round, remained the “ narrow-brained ” of the Stanza. This explains the otherwise unaccountable degrees of intellectuality among the various races of men — the savage Bushman and the European — even now. Those tribes of savages, whose reasoning powers are very little above the level of the animals, are not the unjustly disinherited, or the ''unfavoured'', as some may think — nothing of the kind. They are simply those ''latest arrivals ''among the human Monads, which ''were not ready : ''which have to evolve during the present Round, as on the three remaining globes (hence on four different planes of being) so as to arrive at the level of the average class when they reach the Fifth Round. One remark may prove useful, as food for thought to the student in this connection. The monads of the lowest specimens of humanity (the “ narrow-brained ” * savage South-Sea Islander, the African, the Australian) ''had no Karma to work out when first born as men'', ''as their more favoured brethren in intelligence had. ''The former are spinning out Karma only now ; the latter are burdened with past, present, and future Karma. In this respect the poor savage is more fortunate than the greatest genius of ''civilised countries.''}} | {{Style P-No indent|after which they will be ready in the next for the full reception of the “ Sons of Wisdom.” While those which “ were not ready ” at all, the latest Monads, which had hardly evolved from their last transitional and lower animal forms at the close of the Third Round, remained the “ narrow-brained ” of the Stanza. This explains the otherwise unaccountable degrees of intellectuality among the various races of men — the savage Bushman and the European — even now. Those tribes of savages, whose reasoning powers are very little above the level of the animals, are not the unjustly disinherited, or the ''unfavoured'', as some may think — nothing of the kind. They are simply those ''latest arrivals ''among the human Monads, which ''were not ready : ''which have to evolve during the present Round, as on the three remaining globes (hence on four different planes of being) so as to arrive at the level of the average class when they reach the Fifth Round. One remark may prove useful, as food for thought to the student in this connection. The {{Style S-Small capitals|monads}} of the lowest specimens of humanity (the “ narrow-brained ” * savage South-Sea Islander, the African, the Australian) ''had no Karma to work out when first born as men'', ''as their more favoured brethren in intelligence had. ''The former are spinning out Karma only now ; the latter are burdened with past, present, and future Karma. In this respect the poor savage is more fortunate than the greatest genius of ''civilised countries.''}} | ||
Let us pause before giving any more such strange teachings. Let us try and find out how far any ancient Scriptures, and even Science, permit the possibility of, or even distinctly corroborate, such wild notions as are found in our Anthropogenesis. | Let us pause before giving any more such strange teachings. Let us try and find out how far any ancient Scriptures, and even Science, permit the possibility of, or even distinctly corroborate, such wild notions as are found in our Anthropogenesis. | ||