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<nowiki>*</nowiki> Nature taken in its abstract sense, ''cannot ''be “ unconscious,” as it is the emanation from, and thus an aspect (on the manifested plane) of the absolute consciousness. Where is that daring man who would presume to deny to vegetation and even to minerals ''a consciousness of their own. ''All he can say is, that this consciousness is beyond his comprehension. | <nowiki>*</nowiki> Nature taken in its abstract sense, ''cannot ''be “ unconscious,” as it is the emanation from, and thus an aspect (on the manifested plane) of the {{Style S-Small capitals|absolute}} consciousness. Where is that daring man who would presume to deny to vegetation and even to minerals ''a consciousness of their own. ''All he can say is, that this consciousness is beyond his comprehension. | ||
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{{Style P-No indent|pulated by semi-intelligent beings (Elementals) guided by High Planetary Spirits, (Dhyan Chohans), whose collective aggregate forms the manifested ''verbum ''of the unmanifested logos, and constitutes at one and the same time the mind of the Universe and its immutable {{Style S-Small capitals|law}}.}} | {{Style P-No indent|pulated by semi-intelligent beings (Elementals) guided by High Planetary Spirits, (Dhyan Chohans), whose collective aggregate forms the manifested ''verbum ''of the unmanifested {{Style S-Small capitals|logos}}, and constitutes at one and the same time the {{Style S-Small capitals|mind}} of the Universe and its immutable {{Style S-Small capitals|law}}.}} | ||
Three distinct representations of the Universe in its three distinct aspects are impressed upon our thought by the esoteric philosophy : the {{Style S-Small capitals|pre-existing}} (evolved from) the {{Style S-Small capitals|ever-existing}} ; and the {{Style S-Small capitals|phenomenal}} — the world of illusion, the reflection, and shadow thereof. During the great mystery and drama of life known as the Manvantara, real Kosmos is like the object placed behind the white screen upon which are thrown the Chinese shadows, called forth by the magic lantern. The actual figures and things remain invisible, while the wires of evolution are pulled by the unseen hands ; and men and things are thus but the reflections, ''on ''the white field, of the realities ''behind ''the snares of ''Mahamaya'', or the great Illusion. This was taught in every philosophy, in every religion, ''ante ''as well as ''post ''diluvian, in India and Chaldea, by the Chinese as by the Grecian Sages. In the former countries these three Universes were allegorized, in exoteric teachings, by the three trinities emanating from the Central eternal germ and forming with it a Supreme Unity : the ''initial'', the ''manifested'', and the ''Creative ''Triad, or the three in One. The last is but the symbol, in its concrete expression, of the first ''ideal ''two. Hence Esoteric philosophy passes over the necessarianism of this purely metaphysical conception, and calls the first one, only, the Ever Existing. This is the view of every one of the six great schools of Indian philosophy — the ''six principles of that unit body of ''{{Style S-Small capitals|Wisdom}} ''of which the ''“ ''gnosis'',” the ''hidden ''knowledge, is the seventh. | Three distinct representations of the Universe in its three distinct aspects are impressed upon our thought by the esoteric philosophy : the {{Style S-Small capitals|pre-existing}} (evolved from) the {{Style S-Small capitals|ever-existing}} ; and the {{Style S-Small capitals|phenomenal}} — the world of illusion, the reflection, and shadow thereof. During the great mystery and drama of life known as the Manvantara, real Kosmos is like the object placed behind the white screen upon which are thrown the Chinese shadows, called forth by the magic lantern. The actual figures and things remain invisible, while the wires of evolution are pulled by the unseen hands ; and men and things are thus but the reflections, ''on ''the white field, of the realities ''behind ''the snares of ''Mahamaya'', or the great Illusion. This was taught in every philosophy, in every religion, ''ante ''as well as ''post ''diluvian, in India and Chaldea, by the Chinese as by the Grecian Sages. In the former countries these three Universes were allegorized, in exoteric teachings, by the three trinities emanating from the Central eternal germ and forming with it a Supreme Unity : the ''initial'', the ''manifested'', and the ''Creative ''Triad, or the three in One. The last is but the symbol, in its concrete expression, of the first ''ideal ''two. Hence Esoteric philosophy passes over the necessarianism of this purely metaphysical conception, and calls the first one, only, the Ever Existing. This is the view of every one of the six great schools of Indian philosophy — the ''six principles of that unit body of ''{{Style S-Small capitals|Wisdom}} ''of which the ''“ ''gnosis'',” the ''hidden ''knowledge, is the seventh. | ||