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(''b'') [[File:Sd-circle.jpg|x25px]] This means that the “ Boundless Circle ” (Zero) becomes a figure or number, only when one of the nine figures precedes it, and thus manifests its value and potency, the Word or Logos in union with voice and Spirit * (the expression and source of Consciousness) standing for the nine figures and thus forming, with the Cypher, the Decade which contains in itself all the Universe. The triad forms within the circle the Tetraktis or Sacred Four, the Square within the Circle being the most potent of all the magical figures.

(''c'') The “ One Rejected ” is the Sun of our system. The exoteric version may be found in the oldest Sanskrit Scriptures. In the Rig Veda, Aditi, “ The Boundless ” or infinite Space, translated by Mr. Max Müller, “ the visible infinite, visible by the naked eye (! !) ; the endless expanse beyond the Earth, beyond the clouds, beyond the sky,” is the equivalent of “ Mother-Space ” coeval with “ Darkness.” She is very properly called “ The Mother of the Gods,” Deva-Matri, as it is from her Cosmic matrix that all the heavenly bodies of our system were born — Sun and Planets. Thus she is described, allegorically, in this wise : “ Eight Sons were born from the body of Aditi ; she approached the gods with seven, but cast away the eighth, Mârttânda,” our sun. The seven sons called the Aditya are, cosmically or astronomically, the seven planets ; and the Sun being excluded from their number shows plainly that the Hindus may have known, and in fact knew of a seventh planet, without calling it Uranus. † But esoterically and theologically,

{{Style P-No indent|planetary world), and he is one of the three chief deities. He is called indifferently the Son of ''Dyaus ''and of ''Aditi'', because no distinction is made with reference to, or scope allowed for, the esoteric meaning. Thus he is depicted as drawn by seven horses, and by one horse with seven heads ; the former referring to his seven planets, the latter to their one common origin from the One Cosmic Element. This “ One Element ” is called figuratively “ Fire.” The Vedas (Aitareya-Brâhmana of Haug also ; p. i) teach “ that the fire verily is all the deities.” (Narada in Anugîtâ).}}

The meaning of the allegory is plain, for we have both the Dzyan Commentary and modern science to explain it, though the two differ in more than one particular. The Occult Doctrine rejects the hypothesis born out of the Nebular Theory, that the (seven) great planets have evolved from the Sun’s central mass, not of this our visible Sun, at any rate. The first condensation of Cosmic matter of course took place about a central nucleus, its parent Sun ; but our sun, it is taught, merely detached itself earlier than all the others, as the rotating mass contracted, and is their elder, bigger brother therefore, not their father. The eight Adityas, “ the gods,” are all formed from the eternal substance (Cometary matter * — the Mother) or the “ World-Stuff ” which is both the fifth and the sixth cosmic Principle, the Upadhi or basis of the Universal Soul, just as in man, the Microcosm, Manas † is the Upadhi of Buddhi. ‡

The “ Breath ” of all the “ seven ” is said to be Bhâskara (lightmaking), because they (the planets) were all comets and suns in their origin. They evolve into Manvantaric life from primæval Chaos (now the noumenon of irresolvable nebulæ) by aggregation and accumulation of the primary differentiations of the eternal matter, according to the beautiful expression in the Commentary, “ Thus the Sons of Light clothed themselves in the fabric of Darkness.” They are called allegorically “ the Heavenly Snails,” on account of their (to us) formless intelligences inhabiting unseen their starry and planetary homes, and, so to speak, carrying them as the snails do along with themselves in their revolution. The doctrine of a common origin for all the heavenly bodies and planets, was, as we see, inculcated by the Archaic astronomers, before Kepler, Newton, Leibnitz, Kant, Herschel and Laplace. Heat (the Breath), attraction and repulsion — the three great factors of Motion — are the conditions under which all the members of all this primitive family are born, developed, and die, to be reborn after a “ Night of Brahmâ,” during which eternal matter relapses periodically into its primary undifferentiated state. The most attenuated gases can give no idea of its nature to the modern physicist. Centres of Forces at first, the invisible sparks of primordial atoms differentiate into molecules, and become Suns — passing gradually into objectivity — gaseous, radiant, cosmic, the one “ Whirlwind ” (or motion) finally giving the impulse to the form, and the initial motion, regulated and sustained by the never-resting Breaths — the Dhyan Chohans.