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Let students, therefore, be very careful to spiritualize the Papers and avoid materializing them; let them always try to find the highest meaning possible, confident that in proportion as they approach the material and visible in their speculations on the Papers, so far as they from the right understanding of them. This is especially the case with these first Papers and Diagrams, for as in all true arts, so in Occultism, we must first learn the theory before we are taught the practice.
 
Let students, therefore, be very careful to spiritualize the Papers and avoid materializing them; let them always try to find the highest meaning possible, confident that in proportion as they approach the material and visible in their speculations on the Papers, so far as they from the right understanding of them. This is especially the case with these first Papers and Diagrams, for as in all true arts, so in Occultism, we must first learn the theory before we are taught the practice.
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<center>{{Style S-Small capitals|Concerning Secrecy}}</center>
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{{Style P-Title level|3|{{Style S-Small capitals|Concerning Secrecy.}} }}
    
Students ask: Why such secrecy about the details of a doctrine the body of which has been publicly revealed, as in ''Esoteric Buddhism ''and the ''Secret Doctrine''?
 
Students ask: Why such secrecy about the details of a doctrine the body of which has been publicly revealed, as in ''Esoteric Buddhism ''and the ''Secret Doctrine''?
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{{Style P-Title level|3|{{Style S-Small capitals|About "Principles" and "Aspects"}} }}
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{{Style P-Title level|3|{{Style S-Small capitals|About "Principles" and "Aspects".}} }}
    
Speaking metaphysically and philosophically, on strict Esoteric lines, man as a complete unit is composed of Four basic Principles and their Three Aspects on this earth. In the semi-esoteric teachings, these Four and Three have been called Seven Principles, to facilitate the comprehension of the masses.
 
Speaking metaphysically and philosophically, on strict Esoteric lines, man as a complete unit is composed of Four basic Principles and their Three Aspects on this earth. In the semi-esoteric teachings, these Four and Three have been called Seven Principles, to facilitate the comprehension of the masses.
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{{Page|501|the secret doctrine.}}
 
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{| class="wikitable sortable"style="margin: 2em auto;"
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|+ {{Style P-Title level|3|ESOTERIC AND TÂNTRA TABLES OF THE TATTVAS}}
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| colspan="5"  | <center>''Esoteric Principles, Tattvas or Forces, and their Correspondences with the Human Body, States of Matter and Colour.''</center>
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| colspan="4"  | <center>''Tântra Tattvas and their Correspondences, with the Human Body, States of matter and Colour''</center>
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| <center>{{Style S-Small capitals|tattvas.}}</center>
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| <center>{{Style S-Small capitals|principles}}</center>
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| <center>{{Style S-Small capitals|states of matter.}}</center>
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| <center>{{Style S-Small capitals|parts of body.}}</center>
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| <center>{{Style S-Small capitals|colour}}</center>
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| <center>{{Style S-Small capitals|tattvas.}}</center>
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| <center>{{Style S-Small capitals|states of matter.}}</center>
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| <center>{{Style S-Small capitals|parts of body.}}</center>
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| <center>{{Style S-Small capitals|colour.}}</center>
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|- valign=top
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| (''a'') Adi
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| Auric Egg
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| Primordial, Spiritual Substance; Âkâsha; Substratum of the Spirit of Ether
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| Envelopes the whole body and penetrates it. Reciprocal emanation, endosmotic and exosmotic
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| Synthesis of all Colours. Blue
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| (''a'') Ignored
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| Ignored
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| Ignored
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| Ignored
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| (''b'') Anupâdaka
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| Buddhi
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| Spiritual Essence, or Spirit; "Primordial Waters of the Deep"
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| Third Eye or Pineal Gland
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| Yellow
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| (''b'') Ignored
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| Ignored
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| Ignored
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| Ignored
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|- valign=top
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| (''c'') Alaya or Âkâsha
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| Manas Ego
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| Ether of Space or Âkâsha in its third differentiation. Critical state of Vapour
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| Head
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| Indigo
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| (''c'') Âkâsha
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| Ether
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| Head
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| Black or Colourless
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|- valign=top
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| (''d'') Vâyu
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| Kâma Manas
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| Critical State of Matter
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| Throat or Navel
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| Green
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| (''d'') Vâyu
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| Gas
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| Navel
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| Blue
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|- valign=top
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| (''e'') Tejas
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| Kâma (Rûpa)
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| Essence of gross Matter; corresponds to ''Ice''
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| Shoulders and Arms to Thighs
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| Red
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| (''e'') Tejas
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| Heat (?)
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| Shoulders
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| Red
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| (''f'') Âpas
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| Linga Sharira
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| Gross Ether or ''Liquid'' Air
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| Thighs to Knees
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| Violet
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| (''f'') Apas
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| Liquid
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| Knees
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| White
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| (''g'') Prithivi
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| Living Body in Prâna or animal life
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| Solid and Critical State
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| Knees to feet
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| Orange-Red&nbsp;*
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| (''g'') Prithivi
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| Solid
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| Feet
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| Yellow&nbsp;†
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<nowiki>*</nowiki> One may see at a glance how reversed are the colours of the Tattvas, reflected in the Astral Light, when we find the Indigo called black; the green blue; the violet, white; and the orange yellow.
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† The colours, I repeat, do not here follow the prismatic scale – red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet – because this scale is a false reflection, a true Mâyâ; whereas our esoteric scale is that of the spiritual spheres, the seven planes of the Macrocosm.
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{{Style P-Title level|3|{{Style S-Small capitals|On Exoteric "Blinds" and "The Death of the Soul"}} }}
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{{Style P-Title level|3|{{Style S-Small capitals|On Exoteric "Blinds" and "The Death of the Soul".}} }}
    
As a corollary to this, and before going into still more abstruse teachings, I must redeem the promise already given. I have to illustrate by tenets you already know, the awful doctrine of personal annihilation. Banish from your minds all that you have hitherto read in such works as ''Esoteric Buddhism'', and thought you understood, of such hypotheses as the eighth sphere and the moon, and that man shares a common ancestor with the ape. Even the details occasionally given out by myself in the ''Theosophist ''and ''Lucifer ''were nothing like the whole truth, but only broad general ideas, hardly touched upon in their details. Certain passages, however, give out hints, especially my foot-notes on articles translated from liphas Lévi’s ''Letters on Magic.''&nbsp;*
 
As a corollary to this, and before going into still more abstruse teachings, I must redeem the promise already given. I have to illustrate by tenets you already know, the awful doctrine of personal annihilation. Banish from your minds all that you have hitherto read in such works as ''Esoteric Buddhism'', and thought you understood, of such hypotheses as the eighth sphere and the moon, and that man shares a common ancestor with the ape. Even the details occasionally given out by myself in the ''Theosophist ''and ''Lucifer ''were nothing like the whole truth, but only broad general ideas, hardly touched upon in their details. Certain passages, however, give out hints, especially my foot-notes on articles translated from liphas Lévi’s ''Letters on Magic.''&nbsp;*
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