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(''a'') The esoteric meaning of the first sentence of the Sloka is, that those who have been called Lipikas, the Recorders of the Karmic ledger, make an impassible barrier between the personal {{Style S-Small capitals|Ego}} and the impersonal {{Style S-Small capitals|Self}}, the Noumenon and Parent-Source of the former. Hence the allegory. They circumscribe the manifested world of matter within the {{Style S-Small capitals|Ring}} “ Pass-Not.” This world is the symbol (objective) of the One divided into the many, on the planes of Illusion, of Adi (the “ First ”) or of Eka (the “ One ”) ; and this One is the collective aggregate, or totality, of the principal Creators or Architects of this visible universe. In Hebrew Occultism their name is both Achath, feminine, “ One,” and Achod, “ One ” again, but masculine. The monotheists have taken (and are still taking) advantage of the profound esotericism of the Kabala to apply the name by which the One Supreme Essence is known to its manifestation, the Sephiroth-Elohim, and call it Jehovah. But this is | (''a'') The esoteric meaning of the first sentence of the Sloka is, that those who have been called Lipikas, the Recorders of the Karmic ledger, make an impassible barrier between the personal {{Style S-Small capitals|Ego}} and the impersonal {{Style S-Small capitals|Self}}, the Noumenon and Parent-Source of the former. Hence the allegory. They circumscribe the manifested world of matter within the {{Style S-Small capitals|Ring}} “ Pass-Not.” This world is the symbol (objective) of the One divided into the many, on the planes of Illusion, of Adi (the “ First ”) or of Eka (the “ One ”) ; and this One is the collective aggregate, or totality, of the principal Creators or Architects of this visible universe. In Hebrew Occultism their name is both Achath, feminine, “ One,” and Achod, “ One ” again, but masculine. The monotheists have taken (and are still taking) advantage of the profound esotericism of the Kabala to apply the name by which the One Supreme Essence is known to {{Style S-Small capitals|its}} manifestation, the Sephiroth-Elohim, and call it Jehovah. But this is | ||
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Astronomically, the “ Ring {{Style S-Small capitals|Pass-Not}} ” that the Lipika trace around the Triangle, the First One, the Cube, the Second One, and the Pentacle to circumscribe these figures, is thus shown to contain the symbol of 31415 again, or the coefficient constantly used in mathematical tables (the value of π, pi), the geometrical figures standing here for numerical figures. According to the general philosophical teachings, this ring is beyond the region of what are called nebulæ in astronomy. But this is as erroneous a conception as that of the topography and the descriptions, given in Purânic and other exoteric Scriptures, about the 1008 worlds of the Devaloka worlds and firmaments. There are worlds, of course, in the esoteric as well as in the profane scientific teachings, at such incalculable distances that the light of the nearest of them which has just reached our modern Chaldees, had left its luminary long before the day on which the words “ Let there be Light ” were pronounced ; but these are no worlds on the Devaloka plane, but in our Kosmos. | Astronomically, the “ Ring {{Style S-Small capitals|Pass-Not}} ” that the Lipika trace around the Triangle, the First One, the Cube, the Second One, and the Pentacle to circumscribe these figures, is thus shown to contain the symbol of 31415 again, or the coefficient constantly used in mathematical tables (the value of π, pi), the geometrical figures standing here for numerical figures. According to the general philosophical teachings, this ring is beyond the region of what are called nebulæ in astronomy. But this is as erroneous a conception as that of the topography and the descriptions, given in Purânic and other exoteric Scriptures, about the 1008 worlds of the Devaloka worlds and firmaments. There are worlds, of course, in the esoteric as well as in the profane scientific teachings, at such incalculable distances that the light of the nearest of them which has just reached our modern Chaldees, had left its luminary long before the day on which the words “ Let there be Light ” were pronounced ; but these are no worlds on the Devaloka plane, but in our Kosmos. | ||
The chemist goes to the ''laya ''or zero point of the plane of matter with which he deals, and then stops short. The physicist or the astronomer counts by billions of miles beyond the nebulæ, and then they also stop short ; the semi-initiated Occultist will represent this laya-point to himself as existing on some plane which, if not physical, is still conceivable to the human intellect. But the full Initiate ''knows ''that the ring “ Pass-Not ” is neither a locality nor can it be measured by distance, but that it exists in the absoluteness of infinity. In this “ Infinity ” of the full Initiate there is neither height, breadth nor thickness, but all is fathomless profundity, reaching down from the physical to the “ para-para-metaphysical.” In using the word “ down,” essential depth — “ nowhere and everywhere ” — is meant, not depth of physical matter. | The chemist goes to the ''laya ''or zero point of the plane of matter with which he deals, and then stops short. The physicist or the astronomer counts by billions of miles beyond the nebulæ, and then they also stop short ; the semi-initiated Occultist will represent this laya-point to himself as existing on some plane which, if not physical, is still conceivable to the human intellect. But the full Initiate ''knows'' that the ring “ Pass-Not ” is neither a locality nor can it be measured by distance, but that it exists in the absoluteness of infinity. In this “ Infinity ” of the full Initiate there is neither height, breadth nor thickness, but all is fathomless profundity, reaching down from the physical to the “ para-para-metaphysical.” In using the word “ down,” essential depth — “ nowhere and everywhere ” — is meant, not depth of physical matter. | ||
If one searches carefully through the exoteric and grossly anthropomorphic allegories of popular religions, even in these the doctrine embodied in the circle of “ Pass-Not ” thus guarded by the Lipika, may be dimly perceived. Thus one finds it even in the teachings of | If one searches carefully through the exoteric and grossly anthropomorphic allegories of popular religions, even in these the doctrine embodied in the circle of “ Pass-Not ” thus guarded by the Lipika, may be dimly perceived. Thus one finds it even in the teachings of | ||