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The “ Parent Space ” is the eternal, ever present cause of all — the incomprehensible deity, whose “ invisible robes ” are the mystic root of all matter, and of the Universe. Space is the ''one eternal thing ''that we can most easily imagine, immovable in its abstraction and uninfluenced by either the presence or absence in it of an objective Universe. It is without dimension, in every sense, and self-existent. Spirit is the first differentiation from That, the causeless cause of both Spirit and Matter. It is, as taught in the esoteric catechism, neither limitless void, nor conditioned fulness, but both. It was and ever will be. (See Proem pp. 2 ''et seq.'')

Thus, the “ Robes ” stand for the noumenon of undifferentiated Cosmic Matter. It is not matter as we know it, but the spiritual essence of matter, and is co-eternal and even one with Space in its abstract sense. Root-nature is also the source of the subtile invisible properties in visible matter. It is the Soul, so to say, of the one infinite Spirit. The Hindus call it Mulaprakriti, and say that it is the primordial substance, which is the basis of the Upadhi or vehicle of every phenomenon, whether physical, mental or psychic. It is the source from which Akâsa radiates.

(''a'') By the Seven “ Eternities,” æons or periods are meant. The word “ Eternity,” as understood in Christian theology, has no meaning to the Asiatic ear, except in its application to the one existence ; nor is