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{{Style P-No indent|{{Style S-Small capitals|higher self}} or human Monad — and the animal Monad, both one and the same, although the former is endowed with ''divine ''intelligence, the latter with ''instinctual ''faculty alone. How is the difference to be explained, and the presence of that {{Style S-Small capitals|higher self}} in man accounted for ?}} | {{Style P-No indent|{{Style S-Small capitals|higher self}} or human Monad — and the animal Monad, both one and the same, although the former is endowed with ''divine ''intelligence, the latter with ''instinctual ''faculty alone. How is the difference to be explained, and the presence of that {{Style S-Small capitals|higher self}} in man accounted for ?}} | ||
“ ''The Sons of ''mahat ''are the quickeners of the human Plant. They are the Waters falling upon the arid soil of latent life | “ ''The Sons of ''{{Style S-Small capitals|mahat}} ''are the quickeners of the human Plant. They are the Waters falling upon the arid soil of latent life, and the Spark that vivifies the human animal. They are the Lords of Spiritual Life eternal.''” . . . . “ ''In the beginning ''(in the Second Race) ''some ''(of the Lords) ''only breathed of their essence into Manushya ''(men) ; ''and some took in man their abode.''” | ||
This shows that not all men became incarnations of the “ divine ''Rebels'',” but only a few among them. The remainder had their fifth principle simply quickened by the spark thrown into it, which accounts for the great difference between the intellectual capacities of men and races. Had not the “ sons of Mahat,” speaking allegorically, skipped the intermediate worlds, in their impulse toward intellectual freedom, the animal man would never have been able to reach upward from this earth, and attain through self-exertion his ultimate goal. The cyclic pilgrimage would have to be performed through all the planes of existence half unconsciously, if not entirely so, as in the case of the animals. It is owing to this rebellion of intellectual life against the morbid inactivity of pure spirit, that we are what we are — self-conscious, thinking men, with the capabilities and attributes of Gods in us, for good as much as for evil. Hence the rebels are our saviours. Let the philosopher ponder well over this, and more than one mystery will become clear to him. It is only by the attractive force of the contrasts that the two opposites — Spirit and Matter — can be cemented on Earth, and, smelted in the fire of self-conscious experience and suffering, find themselves wedded in Eternity. This will reveal the meaning of many hitherto incomprehensible allegories, foolishly called “ fables.” (''Vide infra'', “ ''The Secret of Satan.''”) | This shows that not all men became incarnations of the “ divine ''Rebels'',” but only a few among them. The remainder had their fifth principle simply quickened by the spark thrown into it, which accounts for the great difference between the intellectual capacities of men and races. Had not the “ sons of Mahat,” speaking allegorically, skipped the intermediate worlds, in their impulse toward intellectual freedom, the animal man would never have been able to reach upward from this earth, and attain through self-exertion his ultimate goal. The cyclic pilgrimage would have to be performed through all the planes of existence half unconsciously, if not entirely so, as in the case of the animals. It is owing to this rebellion of intellectual life against the morbid inactivity of pure spirit, that we are what we are — self-conscious, thinking men, with the capabilities and attributes of Gods in us, for good as much as for evil. Hence the {{Style S-Small capitals|rebels}} are our saviours. Let the philosopher ponder well over this, and more than one mystery will become clear to him. It is only by the attractive force of the contrasts that the two opposites — Spirit and Matter — can be cemented on Earth, and, smelted in the fire of self-conscious experience and suffering, find themselves wedded in Eternity. This will reveal the meaning of many hitherto incomprehensible allegories, foolishly called “ fables.” (''Vide infra'', “ ''The Secret of Satan.''”) | ||
It explains, to begin with, the statement made in Pymander : that the “ heavenly man,” the “ Son of the Father,” who partook of the nature and essence of the Seven Governors, or ''creators ''and ''Rulers ''of the material world, “ peeped through the ''Harmony ''and, breaking through the ''Seven Circles of Fire'', made manifest the downward-born nature.” * It explains every verse in that Hermetic narrative, as also the Greek allegory of Prometheus. Most important of all, it explains the many allegorical accounts about the “ Wars in Heaven,” including that of ''Revelation ''with respect to the Christian dogma of the ''fallen angels. ''It explains the “ rebellion ” of the oldest and highest Angels, and the meaning of their being cast down from Heaven into the depths of Hell, | It explains, to begin with, the statement made in Pymander : that the “ heavenly {{Style S-Small capitals|man}},” the “ Son of the Father,” who partook of the nature and essence of the Seven Governors, or ''creators ''and ''Rulers ''of the material world, “ peeped through the ''Harmony ''and, breaking through the ''Seven Circles of Fire'', made manifest the downward-born nature.” * It explains every verse in that Hermetic narrative, as also the Greek allegory of Prometheus. Most important of all, it explains the many allegorical accounts about the “ Wars in Heaven,” including that of ''Revelation ''with respect to the Christian dogma of the ''fallen angels. ''It explains the “ rebellion ” of the oldest and highest Angels, and the meaning of their being cast down from Heaven into the depths of Hell, | ||
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