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| volume = 2
| part = 1
| stanza = 2
| stanza title = Nature Unaided Fails
| sloka = 8
| sloka title = The forms are destroyed by them
| previous = v.2 p.1 st.2 sl.7
| next = v.2 p.1 st.2 sl.9
| edition = ed.1
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<center>STANZA II. — ''Continued''.</center>
: 8. {{Style S-Small capitals|The flames came. The fires with the sparks ; the night fires and the day fires}} (''a''). {{Style S-Small capitals|They dried out the turbid dark waters. With their heat they quenched them. The Lhas}} (''Spirits'') {{Style S-Small capitals|of the high ; the Lhamayin}} (''those'') {{Style S-Small capitals|of below, came}} (''b''). {{Style S-Small capitals|They slew the forms, which were two- and four-faced. They fought the goat-men, and the dog-headed men, and the men with fishes’ bodies.}}
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(''a'') The “ Flames ” are a Hierarchy of Spirits parallel to, if not identical with, the “ burning ” fiery ''Saraph ''(Seraphim) mentioned by Isaiah (vi. 2 — 6), those who attend, according to Hebrew Theogony, “ the Throne of the Almighty.” Melha is the Lord of the “ Flames.” When he appears on Earth, he assumes the personality of a Buddha, says a popular legend. He is one of the most ancient and revered ''Lhas'', a Buddhist St. Michael.
(''b'') The word “ Below ” must not be taken to mean infernal regions, but simply a spiritual, or rather ethereal, Being of a lower grade, because nearer to the Earth, or one step higher than our terrestrial sphere ; while the Lhas are Spirits of the highest Spheres — whence the name of the capital of Tibet, ''Lha-ssa.''
Besides a statement of a purely physical nature and belonging to the
{{Page|64|the secret doctrine.}}
{{Style P-No indent|evolution of life on Earth, there may be another allegorical meaning attached to this Sloka, or indeed, as is taught, several. The {{Style S-Small capitals|flames}}, or “ Fires,” represent Spirit, or the male element, and “ Water,” matter, or the opposite element. And here again we find, in the action of the Spirit slaying the purely material form, a reference to the eternal struggle, on the physical and psychic planes, between Spirit and Matter, besides a scientific cosmic fact. For, as said in the next verse : —}}
| volume = 2
| part = 1
| stanza = 2
| stanza title = Nature Unaided Fails
| sloka = 8
| sloka title = The forms are destroyed by them
| previous = v.2 p.1 st.2 sl.7
| next = v.2 p.1 st.2 sl.9
| edition = ed.1
}}
{{Page continues|63|who are the “ flames ” ?}}
<center>STANZA II. — ''Continued''.</center>
: 8. {{Style S-Small capitals|The flames came. The fires with the sparks ; the night fires and the day fires}} (''a''). {{Style S-Small capitals|They dried out the turbid dark waters. With their heat they quenched them. The Lhas}} (''Spirits'') {{Style S-Small capitals|of the high ; the Lhamayin}} (''those'') {{Style S-Small capitals|of below, came}} (''b''). {{Style S-Small capitals|They slew the forms, which were two- and four-faced. They fought the goat-men, and the dog-headed men, and the men with fishes’ bodies.}}
{{Vertical space|}}
(''a'') The “ Flames ” are a Hierarchy of Spirits parallel to, if not identical with, the “ burning ” fiery ''Saraph ''(Seraphim) mentioned by Isaiah (vi. 2 — 6), those who attend, according to Hebrew Theogony, “ the Throne of the Almighty.” Melha is the Lord of the “ Flames.” When he appears on Earth, he assumes the personality of a Buddha, says a popular legend. He is one of the most ancient and revered ''Lhas'', a Buddhist St. Michael.
(''b'') The word “ Below ” must not be taken to mean infernal regions, but simply a spiritual, or rather ethereal, Being of a lower grade, because nearer to the Earth, or one step higher than our terrestrial sphere ; while the Lhas are Spirits of the highest Spheres — whence the name of the capital of Tibet, ''Lha-ssa.''
Besides a statement of a purely physical nature and belonging to the
{{Page|64|the secret doctrine.}}
{{Style P-No indent|evolution of life on Earth, there may be another allegorical meaning attached to this Sloka, or indeed, as is taught, several. The {{Style S-Small capitals|flames}}, or “ Fires,” represent Spirit, or the male element, and “ Water,” matter, or the opposite element. And here again we find, in the action of the Spirit slaying the purely material form, a reference to the eternal struggle, on the physical and psychic planes, between Spirit and Matter, besides a scientific cosmic fact. For, as said in the next verse : —}}