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Thus, there is a regular circulation of the vital fluid throughout our system, of which the Sun is the heart — the same as the circulation of the blood in the human body — during the manvantaric solar period, or life ; the Sun contracting as rhythmically at every return of it, as the human heart does. Only, instead of performing the round in a second or so, it takes the solar blood ten of its years, and a whole year to pass through its ''auricles ''and ''ventricles ''before it washes the ''lungs ''and passes thence to the great veins and arteries of the system. | Thus, there is a regular circulation of the vital fluid throughout our system, of which the Sun is the heart — the same as the circulation of the blood in the human body — during the manvantaric solar period, or life ; the Sun contracting as rhythmically at every return of it, as the human heart does. Only, instead of performing the round in a second or so, it takes the solar blood ten of its years, and a whole year to pass through its ''auricles ''and ''ventricles ''before it washes the ''lungs ''and passes thence to the great veins and arteries of the system. | ||
This, Science will not deny, since Astronomy knows of the fixed cycle of eleven years when the number of solar spots increases, * ''which is due to the contraction ''of the Solar heart. The universe (our world in this case) breathes, just as man and every living creature, plant, and even mineral does upon the earth ; and as our globe itself breathes every twenty-four hours. The dark region is ''not ''due “ to the absorption exerted by the vapours issuing from the bosom of the sun and interposed between the observer and the photosphere,” as Father Secchi would have it ''( ''“ ''Le Soleil ”'' ''II.'', 184), nor are the spots formed “ by the matter (heated gaseous matter) which the irruption projects upon the solar disc ” (''ibid''). It is similar to the regular and healthy pulsation of the heart, as the life fluid passes through its hollow muscles. Could the human heart be made luminous, and the living and throbbing organ be made visible, so as to have it reflected upon a screen, such as | This, Science will not deny, since Astronomy knows of the fixed cycle of eleven years when the number of solar spots increases, * ''which is due to the contraction ''of the Solar {{Style S-Small capitals|heart}}. The universe (our world in this case) breathes, just as man and every living creature, plant, and even mineral does upon the earth ; and as our globe itself breathes every twenty-four hours. The dark region is ''not ''due “ to the absorption exerted by the vapours issuing from the bosom of the sun and interposed between the observer and the photosphere,” as Father Secchi would have it ''( ''“ ''Le Soleil ”'' ''II.'', 184), nor are the spots formed “ by the matter (heated gaseous matter) which the irruption projects upon the solar disc ” (''ibid''). It is similar to the regular and healthy pulsation of the heart, as the life fluid passes through its hollow muscles. Could the human heart be made luminous, and the living and throbbing organ be made visible, so as to have it reflected upon a screen, such as | ||
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It is said in a work on Geology that it is the ''dream of Science ''that “ all the recognized chemical elements will one day be found ''but modifications of a single material element.''” (“ ''World-Life'',” ''p. ''48.) | It is said in a work on Geology that it is the ''dream of Science ''that “ all the recognized chemical elements will one day be found ''but modifications of a single material element.''” (“ ''World-Life'',” ''p. ''48.) | ||
Occult philosophy has taught this since the existence of human speech and languages, adding only, on the principle of the immutable law of analogy — “ as it is above, so it is below ” — that other axiom, that there is neither Spirit nor matter, in reality, but only numberless aspects of the One ever-hidden is (or ''Sat''). The homogeneous primordial Element is ''simple ''and ''single only on the terrestrial plane ''of consciousness and sensation, since matter, after all, is nothing else than the sequence of our own states of consciousness, and Spirit an idea of psychic intuition. Even on the next higher plane, that ''single element ''which is defined on our earth by current science, as the ultimate undecomposable constituent of some kind of matter, would be pronounced in the world of a higher spiritual perception as something very complex indeed. Our purest water would be found to yield, instead of its two declared ''simple ''elements of oxygen and hydrogen, many other constituents, undreamt of by our terrestrial modern chemistry. As in the realm of matter, so in the realm of Spirit, the shadow of that which is cognized on the plane of objectivity exists on that of pure subjectivity. The speck of the perfectly homogeneous substance, the sarcode of the Hæckelian ''monera'', is now viewed as the ''archebiosis ''of terrestrial existence (Mr. Huxley’s “ protoplasm ”) * ; and ''Bathybius Hæckelii ''has to be traced to its ''pre''-terrestrial archebiosis. This is first perceived by the astronomers at its third stage of evolution, and in the “ secondary creation,” so-called. But the students of Esoteric philosophy understand too well the secret meaning of the stanza : “ Brahmâ has essentially the ''aspect of ''prakriti, both evolved and unevolved . . . . Spirit, O twice-born, (Initiate) is the leading ''aspect ''of Brahmâ. The next is a two-fold aspect — of Prakriti and Purusha, both evolved and unevolved ; and ''time ''is the last ! ''Anu ''is one of the names of Brahmâ (as distinct from Brahma neuter), and it means “ atom ” : Aníyâmsam aníyasám, “ the most atomic of the atomic,” the “ immutable and imperishable (achyuta) Purushottama.” | Occult philosophy has taught this since the existence of human speech and languages, adding only, on the principle of the immutable law of analogy — “ as it is above, so it is below ” — that other axiom, that there is neither Spirit nor matter, in reality, but only numberless aspects of the One ever-hidden {{Style S-Small capitals|is}} (or ''Sat''). The homogeneous primordial Element is ''simple ''and ''single only on the terrestrial plane ''of consciousness and sensation, since matter, after all, is nothing else than the sequence of our own states of consciousness, and Spirit an idea of psychic intuition. Even on the next higher plane, that ''single element ''which is defined on our earth by current science, as the ultimate undecomposable constituent of some kind of matter, would be pronounced in the world of a higher spiritual perception as something very complex indeed. Our purest water would be found to yield, instead of its two declared ''simple ''elements of oxygen and hydrogen, many other constituents, undreamt of by our terrestrial modern chemistry. As in the realm of matter, so in the realm of Spirit, the shadow of that which is cognized on the plane of objectivity exists on that of pure subjectivity. The speck of the perfectly homogeneous substance, the sarcode of the Hæckelian ''monera'', is now viewed as the ''archebiosis ''of terrestrial existence (Mr. Huxley’s “ protoplasm ”) * ; and ''Bathybius Hæckelii ''has to be traced to its ''pre''-terrestrial archebiosis. This is first perceived by the astronomers at its third stage of evolution, and in the “ secondary creation,” so-called. But the students of Esoteric philosophy understand too well the secret meaning of the stanza : “ Brahmâ has essentially the ''aspect of ''prakriti, both evolved and unevolved . . . . Spirit, O twice-born, (Initiate) is the leading ''aspect ''of Brahmâ. The next is a two-fold aspect — of Prakriti and Purusha, both evolved and unevolved ; and ''time ''is the last ! ''Anu ''is one of the names of Brahmâ (as distinct from Brahma neuter), and it means “ atom ” : Aníyâmsam aníyasám, “ the most atomic of the atomic,” the “ immutable and imperishable (achyuta) Purushottama.” | ||
Surely, then, the elements now known to us — be their number whatever it may — as they are understood and defined at present, are not, | Surely, then, the elements now known to us — be their number whatever it may — as they are understood and defined at present, are not, | ||