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(''c'') “ His breath gave life to the seven,” refers as much to the sun, who gives life to the Planets, as to the “ High One,” the ''Spiritual Sun'', who gives life to the whole Kosmos. The astronomical and astrological keys opening the gate leading to the mysteries of Theogony can be found only in the later glossaries, which accompany the Stanzas. | (''c'') “ His breath gave life to the seven,” refers as much to the sun, who gives life to the Planets, as to the “ High One,” the ''Spiritual Sun'', who gives life to the whole Kosmos. The astronomical and astrological keys opening the gate leading to the mysteries of Theogony can be found only in the later glossaries, which accompany the Stanzas. | ||
In the apocalyptic Slokas of the Archaic Records, the language is as symbolical, if less mythical, than in the Purânas. Without the help of the later ''commentaries'', compiled by generations of adepts, it would be impossible to understand the meaning correctly. In the ancient Cosmogonies, the visible and the invisible worlds are the double links of one and the same chain. As the invisible ''Logos'', with its seven hierarchies (represented or personified each by its chief angel or rector), form one power, the inner and the invisible ; so, in the world of Forms, the Sun and the seven chief Planets constitute the visible and active potency ; the latter “ Hierarchy ” being, so to speak, the visible and objective ''Logos ''of the invisible and (except in the lowest grades) ever-subjective angels. | In the apocalyptic Slokas of the Archaic Records, the language is as symbolical, if less mythical, than in the Purânas. Without the help of the later ''commentaries'', compiled by generations of adepts, it would be impossible to understand the meaning correctly. In the ancient Cosmogonies, the visible and the invisible worlds are the double links of one and the same chain. As the invisible ''Logos'', with its seven hierarchies (represented or personified each by its chief angel or rector), form one {{Style S-Small capitals|power}}, the inner and the invisible ; so, in the world of Forms, the Sun and the seven chief Planets constitute the visible and active potency ; the latter “ Hierarchy ” being, so to speak, the visible and objective ''Logos ''of the invisible and (except in the lowest grades) ever-subjective angels. | ||
Thus — to anticipate a little by way of illustration — every Race in its | Thus — to anticipate a little by way of illustration — every Race in its | ||
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The summation of the Stanzas in Book I. showed the genesis * of Gods and men taking rise in, and from, one and the same Point, which is the One Universal, Immutable, Eternal, and absolute {{Style S-Small capitals|Unity}}. In its primary manifested aspect we have seen it become : (1) in the sphere of objectivity and Physics, Primordial Substance and Force (centripetal and centrifugal, positive and negative, male and female, etc., etc.) ; (2) in the world of Metaphysics, the {{Style S-Small capitals|Spirit of the Universe}}, or Cosmic Ideation, called by some the {{Style S-Small capitals|Logos}}. | The summation of the Stanzas in Book I. showed the genesis * of Gods and men taking rise in, and from, one and the same Point, which is the One Universal, Immutable, Eternal, and absolute {{Style S-Small capitals|Unity}}. In its primary manifested aspect we have seen it become : (1) in the sphere of objectivity and Physics, Primordial Substance and Force (centripetal and centrifugal, positive and negative, male and female, etc., etc.) ; (2) in the world of Metaphysics, the {{Style S-Small capitals|Spirit of the Universe}}, or Cosmic Ideation, called by some the {{Style S-Small capitals|Logos}}. | ||
This {{Style S-Small capitals|Logos}} is the apex of the Pythagorean triangle. When the triangle is complete it becomes the Tetraktis, or the Triangle in the Square, and is the dual symbol of the four-lettered ''Tetragrammaton ''in the manifested Kosmos, and of its radical triple ray in the unmanifested, or its ''noumenon.'' | This {{Style S-Small capitals|Logos}} is the apex of the Pythagorean triangle. When the triangle is complete it becomes the Tetraktis, or the Triangle in the Square, and is the dual symbol of the four-lettered ''Tetragrammaton ''in the manifested Kosmos, and of its radical triple {{Style S-Small capitals|ray}} in the unmanifested, or its ''noumenon.'' | ||
Put more metaphysically, the classification given here of Cosmic Ultimates, is more one of convenience than of absolute philosophical accuracy. At the commencement of a great Manvantara, Parabrahm manifests as Mulaprakriti and then as the Logos. This Logos is equivalent to the “ Unconscious Universal Mind,” etc., of Western Pantheists. It constitutes the Basis of the subject-side of manifested Being, and is the source of all manifestations of individual consciousness. Mulaprakriti or Primordial Cosmic Substance, is the foundation of the object-side of things — the basis of all objective evolution and Cosmogenesis. Force, then, does not emerge with Primordial Substance from Parabrahmic Latency. It is ''the transformation into energy of the supra-conscious thought of the Logos'', infused, so to speak, into the objectivation of the latter out of potential latency in the One Reality. Hence spring the wondrous laws of matter : hence the “ primal impress ” so vainly discussed by Bishop Temple. Force thus is ''not synchronous with the first objectivation of Mulaprakriti. ''But as, apart from it, the latter is absolutely and necessarily inert — ''a mere abstraction'' — it is unnecessary to weave too fine a cobweb of subtleties as to the order of succession of | Put more metaphysically, the classification given here of Cosmic Ultimates, is more one of convenience than of absolute philosophical accuracy. At the commencement of a great Manvantara, Parabrahm manifests as Mulaprakriti and then as the Logos. This Logos is equivalent to the “ Unconscious Universal Mind,” etc., of Western Pantheists. It constitutes the Basis of the {{Style S-Small capitals|subject}}-side of manifested Being, and is the source of all manifestations of individual consciousness. Mulaprakriti or Primordial Cosmic Substance, is the foundation of the {{Style S-Small capitals|object}}-side of things — the basis of all objective evolution and Cosmogenesis. Force, then, does not emerge with Primordial Substance from Parabrahmic Latency. It is ''the transformation into energy of the supra-conscious thought of the Logos'', infused, so to speak, into the objectivation of the latter out of potential latency in the One Reality. Hence spring the wondrous laws of matter : hence the “ primal impress ” so vainly discussed by Bishop Temple. Force thus is ''not synchronous with the first objectivation of Mulaprakriti. ''But as, apart from it, the latter is absolutely and necessarily inert — ''a mere abstraction'' — it is unnecessary to weave too fine a cobweb of subtleties as to the order of succession of | ||
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<nowiki>*</nowiki> According to Dr. A. Wilder’s learned definition, Genesis, γένεσις, is not generation, but “ ''a coming out of the eternal ''into the Kosmos and Time ” : “ a coming from ''esse ''into ''exsistere'',” or “ from Be-ness into ‘ being ’ ” — as a Theosophist would say. | <nowiki>*</nowiki> According to Dr. A. Wilder’s learned definition, Genesis, γένεσις, is not generation, but “ ''a coming out of the eternal ''into the Kosmos and Time ” : “ a coming from ''esse ''into ''exsistere'',” or “ from {{Style S-Small capitals|Be-ness}} into ‘ being ’ ” — as a Theosophist would say. | ||
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