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    "title": "SEVEN STANZAS FROM THE BOOK OF DZYAN ... 27",
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    "text": "## SEVEN STANZAS FROM THE BOOK OF DZYAN ... 27\n\n\nThe Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky, Vol 1, Stanzas of Dzyan\n\n###### The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 1\n\n####### [[Vol. 1, Page 25]]\n\n##### PART I.\n\n#### COSMIC EVOLUTION.\n\n---------------------\n\n###### SEVEN STANZAS TRANSLATED WITH COMMENTARIES\nFROM THE\nSECRET BOOK OF DZYAN.\n\n####### [[Vol. 1, Page 26]]\n\nNor Aught nor Nought existed; yon bright sky\n\nWas not, nor heaven's broad roof outstretched above.\n\nWhat covered all? what sheltered? what concealed?\n\nWas it the water's fathomless abyss?\n\nThere was not death -- yet there was nought immortal,\n\nThere was no confine betwixt day and night;\n\nThe only One breathed breathless by itself,\n\nOther than It there nothing since has been.\n\nDarkness there was, and all at first was veiled\n\nIn gloom profound -- an ocean without light --\n\nThe germ that still lay covered in the husk\n\nBurst forth, one nature, from the fervent heat.\n\n. . . . . . . .\n\nWho knows the secret? who proclaimed it here?\n\nWhence, whence this manifold creation sprang?\n\nThe Gods themselves came later into being --\n\nWho knows from whence this great creation sprang?\n\nThat, whence all this great creation came,\n\nWhether Its will created or was mute,\n\nThe Most High Seer that is in highest heaven,\n\nHe knows it -- or perchance even He knows not.\"\n\n\"Gazing into eternity . . .\n\nEre the foundations of the earth were laid,\n\n. . . . .\n\nThou wert. And when the subterranean flame\n\nShall burst its prison and devour the frame . . .\n\nThou shalt be still as Thou wert before\n\nAnd knew no change, when time shall be no more.\n\nOh! endless thought, divine **E**TERNITY.\"\n\n####### [[Vol. 1, Page]] 27 THE SECRET DOCTRINE.\n\n##### COSMIC EVOLUTION.\n\n*In Seven Stanzas translated from the Book of Dzyan. *\n\n---------------------\n\n###### STANZA I.\n\n1. **T**HE ETERNAL PARENT WRAPPED IN HER EVER INVISIBLE\nROBES HAD SLUMBERED ONCE AGAIN FOR SEVEN ETERNITIES.\n\n2. **T**IME WAS NOT, FOR IT LAY ASLEEP IN THE INFINITE\nBOSOM OF DURATION.\n\n3. **U**NIVERSAL MIND WAS NOT, FOR THERE WERE NO\n**A**H-HI TO CONTAIN IT.\n\n4. **T**HE SEVEN WAYS TO BLISS WERE NOT. **T**HE\nGREAT CAUSES OF MISERY WERE NOT, FOR THERE WAS NO ONE TO PRODUCE\nAND GET ENSNARED BY THEM.\n\n5. **D**ARKNESS ALONE FILLED THE BOUNDLESS ALL, FOR\nFATHER, MOTHER AND SON WERE ONCE MORE ONE, AND THE SON HAD NOT\nAWAKENED YET FOR THE NEW WHEEL, AND HIS PILGRIMAGE THEREON.\n\n6. **T**HE SEVEN SUBLIME LORDS AND THE SEVEN TRUTHS\nHAD CEASED TO BE, AND THE **U**NIVERSE, THE SON OF\n**N**ECESSITY, WAS IMMERSED IN **P**ARANISHPANNA,\nTO BE OUTBREATHED BY THAT WHICH IS AND YET IS NOT. **N**AUGHT\nWAS.\n\n7. **T**HE CAUSES OF EXISTENCE HAD BEEN DONE AWAY\nWITH; THE VISIBLE THAT WAS, AND THE INVISIBLE THAT IS, RESTED\nIN ETERNAL NON-BEING -- THE ONE BEING.\n\n8. **A**LONE THE ONE FORM OF EXISTENCE STRETCHED\nBOUNDLESS, INFINITE, CAUSELESS, IN DREAMLESS SLEEP; AND LIFE PULSATED\nUNCONSCIOUS IN UNIVERSAL SPACE, THROUGHOUT THAT ALL-PRESENCE WHICH\nIS SENSED BY THE OPENED EYE OF THE **D**ANGMA.\n\n9. **B**UT WHERE WAS THE **D**ANGMA\nWHEN THE **A**LAYA OF THE UNIVERSE WAS IN **P**ARAMARTHA\nAND THE GREAT WHEEL WAS **A**NUPADAKA?\n\n####### [[Vol. 1, Page]] 28 THE SECRET DOCTRINE.\n\n###### STANZA II.\n\n1. . . . **W**HERE WERE THE BUILDERS, THE LUMINOUS\nSONS OF **M**ANVANTARIC DAWN? . . . **I**N\nTHE UNKNOWN DARKNESS IN THEIR **A**H-HI **P**ARANISHPANNA.\nTHE PRODUCERS OF FORM FROM NO-FORM -- THE ROOT OF THE WORLD --\nTHE **D**EVAMATRI AND **S**VABHAVAT,\nRESTED IN THE BLISS OF NON-BEING.\n\n2. . . . **W**HERE WAS SILENCE? **W**HERE\nTHE EARS TO SENSE IT? **N**O, THERE WAS NEITHER SILENCE\nNOR SOUND; NAUGHT SAVE CEASELESS ETERNAL BREATH, WHICH KNOWS ITSELF\nNOT.\n\n3. **T**HE HOUR HAD NOT YET STRUCK; THE RAY HAD NOT\nYET FLASHED INTO THE **G**ERM; THE **M**ATRIPADMA\nHAD NOT YET SWOLLEN.\n\n4. **H**ER HEART HAD NOT YET OPENED FOR THE ONE RAY\nTO ENTER, THENCE TO FALL, AS THREE INTO FOUR, INTO THE LAP OF\n**M**AYA.\n\n5. **T**HE SEVEN SONS WERE NOT YET BORN FROM THE\nWEB OF LIGHT. **D**ARKNESS ALONE WAS FATHER-MOTHER,\n**S**VABHAVAT; AND **S**VABHAVAT WAS\nIN DARKNESS.\n\n6. **T**HESE TWO ARE THE **G**ERM, AND\nTHE **G**ERM IS ONE. **T**HE **U**NIVERSE\nWAS STILL CONCEALED IN THE **D**IVINE THOUGHT AND\nTHE **D**IVINE BOSOM. . . .\n\n-------\n\n###### STANZA III.\n\n1. . . . **T**HE LAST VIBRATION OF THE SEVENTH ETERNITY\nTHRILLS THROUGH INFINITUDE. **T**HE MOTHER SWELLS,\nEXPANDING FROM WITHIN WITHOUT, LIKE THE BUD OF THE LOTUS.\n\n2. **T**HE VIBRATION SWEEPS ALONG, TOUCHING WITH\nITS SWIFT WING THE WHOLE UNIVERSE AND THE GERM THAT DWELLETH IN\nDARKNESS: **T**HE DARKNESS THAT BREATHES OVER THE\nSLUMBERING WATERS OF LIFE. . .\n\n3. **D**ARKNESS RADIATES LIGHT, AND LIGHT DROPS ONE\nSOLITARY RAY INTO THE MOTHER-DEEP. **T**HE RAY SHOOTS\nTHROUGH THE VIRGIN EGG, THE RAY CAUSES THE ETERNAL EGG TO THRILL,\nAND DROP THE NON-ETERNAL GERM, WHICH CONDENSES INTO THE WORLD-EGG.\n\n####### [[Vol. 1, Page]] 29 THE SECRET DOCTRINE.\n\n4. **T**HEN THE THREE FALL INTO THE FOUR. **T**HE\nRADIANT ESSENCE BECOMES SEVEN INSIDE, SEVEN OUTSIDE. **T**HE\nLUMINOUS EGG, WHICH IN ITSELF IS THREE, CURDLES AND SPREADS IN\nMILK-WHITE CURDS THROUGHOUT THE DEPTHS OF MOTHER, THE ROOT THAT\nGROWS IN THE DEPTHS OF THE OCEAN OF LIFE.\n\n5. **T**HE ROOT REMAINS, THE LIGHT REMAINS, THE CURDS\nREMAIN, AND STILL **O**EAOHOO IS ONE.\n\n6. **T**HE ROOT OF LIFE WAS IN EVERY DROP OF THE\nOCEAN OF IMMORTALITY, AND THE OCEAN WAS RADIANT LIGHT, WHICH WAS\nFIRE, AND HEAT, AND MOTION. **D**ARKNESS VANISHED\nAND WAS NO MORE; IT DISAPPEARED IN ITS OWN ESSENCE, THE BODY OF\nFIRE AND WATER, OR FATHER AND MOTHER.\n\n7. **B**EHOLD, OH **L**ANOO! **T**HE\nRADIANT CHILD OF THE TWO, THE UNPARALLELED REFULGENT GLORY: **B**RIGHT\n**S**PACE **S**ON OF **D**ARK\n**S**PACE, WHICH EMERGES FROM THE DEPTHS OF THE GREAT\nDARK WATERS. **I**T IS **O**EAOHOO THE\nYOUNGER, THE * * * **H**E SHINES FORTH AS THE SON;\nHE IS THE BLAZING **D**IVINE **D**RAGON\nOF **W**ISDOM; THE **O**NE IS **F**OUR,\nAND **F**OUR TAKES TO ITSELF **T**HREE,**\nAND THE **U**NION PRODUCES THE **S**APTA,\nIN WHOM ARE THE SEVEN WHICH BECOME THE **T**RIDASA\n(OR THE HOSTS AND THE MULTITUDES). **B**EHOLD HIM\nLIFTING THE VEIL AND UNFURLING IT FROM EAST TO WEST. **H**E\nSHUTS OUT THE ABOVE, AND LEAVES THE BELOW TO BE SEEN AS THE GREAT\nILLUSION. **H**E MARKS THE PLACES FOR THE SHINING\nONES, AND TURNS THE UPPER INTO A SHORELESS SEA OF FIRE, AND THE\nONE MANIFESTED INTO THE GREAT WATERS.\n\n8. **W**HERE WAS THE GERM AND WHERE WAS NOW DARKNESS?\n**W**HERE IS THE SPIRIT OF THE FLAME THAT BURNS IN\nTHY LAMP, OH **L**ANOO? **T**HE GERM\nIS THAT, AND THAT IS LIGHT, THE WHITE BRILLIANT SON OF THE DARK\nHIDDEN FATHER.\n\n9. **L**IGHT IS COLD FLAME, AND FLAME IS FIRE, AND\nFIRE PRODUCES HEAT, WHICH YIELDS WATER: THE WATER OF LIFE IN THE\nGREAT MOTHER.\n\n10. **F**ATHER-**M**OTHER SPIN A WEB\nWHOSE UPPER END IS FASTENED TO SPIRIT -- THE LIGHT OF THE ONE\nDARKNESS -- AND THE LOWER ONE TO ITS SHADOWY END, MATTER; AND\nTHIS WEB IS THE UNIVERSE SPUN OUT OF THE TWO SUBSTANCES MADE IN\nONE, WHICH IS **S**VABHAVAT.\n\n####### [[Footnote(s)]] -------------------------------------------------\n\n** In the English translation from the Sanskrit the numbers are\ngiven in that language, *Eka, Chatur, *etc., etc. It was\nthought best to give them in English.\n\n####### [[Vol. 1, Page]] 30 THE SECRET DOCTRINE.\n\n11. **I**T EXPANDS WHEN THE BREATH OF FIRE IS UPON\nIT; IT CONTRACTS WHEN THE BREATH OF THE MOTHER TOUCHES IT. **T**HEN\nTHE SONS DISSOCIATE AND SCATTER, TO RETURN INTO THEIR MOTHER'S\nBOSOM AT THE END OF THE GREAT DAY, AND RE-BECOME ONE WITH HER;\nWHEN IT IS COOLING IT BECOMES RADIANT, AND THE SONS EXPAND AND\nCONTRACT THROUGH THEIR OWN SELVES AND HEARTS; THEY EMBRACE INFINITUDE.\n\n12. **T**HEN **S**VABHAVAT SENDS **F**OHAT\nTO HARDEN THE ATOMS. **E**ACH IS A PART OF THE WEB.\n**R**EFLECTING THE \"**S**ELF-**E**XISTENT\n**L**ORD\" LIKE A MIRROR, EACH BECOMES IN TURN\nA WORLD.\n\n-------\n\n###### STANZA IV.\n\n1. . . . **L**ISTEN, YE **S**ONS OF\nTHE **E**ARTH, TO YOUR INSTRUCTORS -- THE **S**ONS\nOF THE **F**IRE. **L**EARN, THERE IS\nNEITHER FIRST NOR LAST, FOR ALL IS ONE: NUMBER ISSUED FROM NO\nNUMBER.\n\n2. **L**EARN WHAT WE WHO DESCEND FROM THE **P**RIMORDIAL\n**S**EVEN, WE WHO ARE BORN FROM THE **P**RIMORDIAL\n**F**LAME, HAVE LEARNT FROM OUR FATHERS. . . .\n\n3. **F**ROM THE EFFULGENCY OF LIGHT -- THE RAY OF\nTHE EVER-DARKNESS -- SPRUNG IN SPACE THE RE-AWAKENED ENERGIES;\nTHE ONE FROM THE EGG, THE SIX, AND THE FIVE. **T**HEN\nTHE THREE, THE ONE, THE FOUR, THE ONE, THE FIVE -- THE TWICE SEVEN\nTHE SUM TOTAL. **A**ND THESE ARE THE ESSENCES, THE\nFLAMES, THE ELEMENTS, THE BUILDERS, THE NUMBERS, THE ARUPA, THE\nRUPA, AND THE FORCE OF **D**IVINE **M**AN\n-- THE SUM TOTAL. AND FROM THE DIVINE MAN EMANATED THE FORMS,\nTHE SPARKS, THE SACRED ANIMALS, AND THE MESSENGERS OF THE SACRED\nFATHERS WITHIN THE HOLY FOUR.\n\n4. **T**HIS WAS THE ARMY OF THE VOICE -- THE DIVINE\nMOTHER OF THE SEVEN. **T**HE SPARKS OF THE SEVEN\nARE SUBJECT TO, AND THE SERVANTS OF, THE FIRST, THE SECOND, THE\nTHIRD, THE FOURTH, THE FIFTH, THE SIXTH, AND THE SEVENTH OF THE\nSEVEN. **T**HESE \"SPARKS\" ARE CALLED SPHERES,\nTRIANGLES, CUBES, LINES, AND MODELLERS; FOR THUS STANDS THE **E**TERNAL\n**N**IDANA -- THE **O**EAOHOO, WHICH\nIS:\n\n####### [[Vol. 1, Page]] 31 THE SECRET DOCTRINE.\n\n5. \"**D**ARKNESS\" THE BOUNDLESS, OR THE\nNO-NUMBER, **A**DI-**N**IDANA **S**VABHAVAT:\n--\n\nI. **T**HE **A**DI-**S**ANAT,\nTHE NUMBER, FOR HE IS ONE.\n\nII. **T**HE VOICE OF THE **L**ORD **S**VABHAVAT,\nTHE NUMBERS, FOR HE IS ONE AND NINE.\n\nIII. **T**HE \"FORMLESS SQUARE.\"\n\n**A**ND THESE THREE ENCLOSED WITHIN THE\nARE THE SACRED FOUR; AND THE TEN ARE THE ARUPA UNIVERSE. **T**HEN\nCOME THE \"SONS,\" THE SEVEN FIGHTERS, THE ONE, THE EIGHTH\nLEFT OUT, AND HIS BREATH WHICH IS THE LIGHT-MAKER.\n\n6. **T**HEN THE SECOND SEVEN, WHO ARE THE **L**IPIKA,\nPRODUCED BY THE THREE. **T**HE REJECTED SON IS ONE.\n**T**HE \"**S**ON-SUNS\" ARE\nCOUNTLESS.\n\n-------\n\n###### STANZA V.\n\n1. **T**HE **P**RIMORDIAL **S**EVEN,\nTHE **F**IRST **S**EVEN **B**REATHS\nOF THE **D**RAGON OF **W**ISDOM, PRODUCE\nIN THEIR TURN FROM THEIR **H**OLY **C**IRCUMGYRATING\n**B**REATHS THE **F**IERY **W**HIRLWIND.\n\n2. **T**HEY MAKE OF HIM THE MESSENGER OF THEIR WILL.\n**T**HE **D**ZYU BECOMES **F**OHAT,\nTHE SWIFT SON OF THE **D**IVINE SONS WHOSE SONS ARE\nTHE **L**IPIKA, RUNS CIRCULAR ERRANDS. **F**OHAT\nIS THE STEED AND THE THOUGHT IS THE RIDER. **H**E\nPASSES LIKE LIGHTNING THROUGH THE FIERY CLOUDS; TAKES THREE, AND\nFIVE, AND SEVEN STRIDES THROUGH THE SEVEN REGIONS ABOVE, AND THE\nSEVEN BELOW. **H**E LIFTS HIS VOICE, AND CALLS THE\nINNUMERABLE SPARKS, AND JOINS THEM.\n\n3. **H**E IS THEIR GUIDING SPIRIT AND LEADER. **W**HEN\nHE COMMENCES WORK, HE SEPARATES THE SPARKS OF THE **L**OWER\n**K**INGDOM THAT FLOAT AND THRILL WITH JOY IN THEIR\nRADIANT DWELLINGS, AND FORMS THEREWITH THE GERMS OF WHEELS. **H**E\nPLACES THEM IN THE SIX DIRECTIONS OF SPACE, AND ONE IN THE MIDDLE\n-- THE CENTRAL WHEEL.\n\n4. **F**OHAT TRACES SPIRAL LINES TO UNITE THE SIXTH\nTO THE SEVENTH -- THE CROWN; AN ARMY OF THE **S**ONS\nOF **L**IGHT STANDS AT EACH ANGLE, AND THE **L**IPIKA\nIN THE MIDDLE WHEEL, **T**HEY SAY: **T**HIS\nIS GOOD, THE\n\n####### [[Vol. 1, Page]] 32 THE SECRET DOCTRINE.\n\nFIRST **D**IVINE WORLD IS READY, THE FIRST IS NOW\nTHE SECOND. **T**HEN THE \"**D**IVINE\n**A**RUPA\" REFLECTS ITSELF IN **C**HHAYA\n**L**OKA, THE FIRST GARMENT OF THE **A**NUPADAKA.\n\n5. **F**OHAT TAKES FIVE STRIDES AND BUILDS A WINGED\nWHEEL AT EACH CORNER OF THE SQUARE, FOR THE FOUR HOLY ONES AND\nTHEIR ARMIES.\n\n6. **T**HE **L**IPIKA CIRCUMSCRIBE THE\nTRIANGLE, THE FIRST ONE, THE CUBE, THE SECOND ONE, AND THE PENTACLE\nWITHIN THE EGG. **I**T IS THE RING CALLED \"**P**ASS\n**N**OT\" FOR THOSE WHO DESCEND AND ASCEND. **A**LSO\nFOR THOSE WHO DURING THE **K**ALPA ARE PROGRESSING\nTOWARDS THE GREAT DAY \"**B**E WITH US.\"\n**T**HUS WERE FORMED THE **R**UPA AND\nTHE **A**RUPA: FROM ONE LIGHT SEVEN LIGHTS; FROM\nEACH OF THE SEVEN, SEVEN TIMES SEVEN LIGHTS. **T**HE\nWHEELS WATCH THE RING. . . . .\n\n-------\n\n###### STANZA VI.\n\n1. **B**Y THE POWER OF THE **M**OTHER\nOF **M**ERCY AND **K**NOWLEDGE -- **K**WAN-**Y**IN\n-- THE \"TRIPLE\" OF **K**WAN-SHAI-**Y**IN,\nRESIDING IN **K**WAN-YIN-**T**IEN, **F**OHAT,\nTHE **B**REATH OF THEIR **P**ROGENY,\nTHE **S**ON OF THE **S**ONS, HAVING\nCALLED FORTH, FROM THE LOWER ABYSS, THE ILLUSIVE FORM OF **S**IEN-**T**CHANG\nAND THE **S**EVEN **E**LEMENTS:*\n\n2. **T**HE **S**WIFT AND **R**ADIANT\n**O**NE PRODUCES THE **S**EVEN **L**AYA\n**C**ENTRES, AGAINST WHICH NONE WILL PREVAIL TO THE\nGREAT DAY \"**B**E-WITH-**U**S,\"\nAND SEATS THE **U**NIVERSE ON THESE **E**TERNAL\n**F**OUNDATIONS SURROUNDING **T**SIEN-**T**CHAN\nWITH THE **E**LEMENTARY **G**ERMS.\n\n3. **O**F THE **S**EVEN -- FIRST ONE\nMANIFESTED, SIX CONCEALED, TWO MANIFESTED, FIVE CONCEALED; THREE\nMANIFESTED, FOUR CONCEALED; FOUR PRODUCED, THREE HIDDEN; FOUR\nAND ONE TSAN REVEALED, TWO AND ONE HALF CONCEALED; SIX TO BE MANIFESTED,\nONE LAID ASIDE. **L**ASTLY, SEVEN SMALL WHEELS REVOLVING;\nONE GIVING BIRTH TO THE OTHER.\n\n####### [[Footnote(s)]] -------------------------------------------------\n\n* Verse 1 of Stanza VI. is of a far later date than the other\nStanzas, though still very ancient. The old text of this verse,\nhaving names entirely unknown to the Orientalists would give no\nclue to the student.\n\n####### [[Vol. 1, Page]] 33 THE SECRET DOCTRINE.\n\n4. **H**E BUILDS THEM IN THE LIKENESS OF OLDER WHEELS,\nPLACING THEM ON THE **I**MPERISHABLE **C**ENTRES.\n\n**H**OW DOES **F**OHAT BUILD THEM? HE\nCOLLECTS THE FIERY DUST. **H**E MAKES BALLS OF FIRE,\nRUNS THROUGH THEM, AND ROUND THEM, INFUSING LIFE THEREINTO THEN'\nSETS THEM INTO MOTION; SOME ONE WAY, SOME THE OTHER WAY. **T**HEY\nARE COLD, HE MAKES THEM HOT. **T**HEY ARE DRY, HE\nMAKES THEM MOIST. **T**HEY SHINE, HE FANS AND COOLS\nTHEM. **T**HUS ACTS **F**OHAT FROM ONE\nTWILIGHT TO THE OTHER, DURING **S**EVEN **E**TERNITIES.\n\n5. **A**T THE FOURTH, THE SONS ARE TOLD TO CREATE\nTHEIR IMAGES. **O**NE THIRD REFUSES -- TWO OBEY.\n\n**T**HE CURSE IS PRONOUNCED; THEY WILL BE BORN ON\nTHE FOURTH, SUFFER AND CAUSE SUFFERING; THIS IS THE FIRST WAR.\n\n6. **T**HE OLDER WHEELS ROTATED DOWNWARDS AND UPWARDS.\n. . . **T**HE MOTHER'S SPAWN FILLED THE WHOLE. **T**HERE\nWERE BATTLES FOUGHT BETWEEN THE **C**REATORS AND\nTHE **D**ESTROYERS, AND BATTLES FOUGHT FOR SPACE;\nTHE SEED APPEARING AND RE-APPEARING CONTINUOUSLY.\n\n7. **M**AKE THY CALCULATIONS, **L**ANOO,\nIF THOU WOULDEST LEARN THE CORRECT AGE OF THY SMALL WHEEL. **I**TS\nFOURTH SPOKE IS OUR MOTHER. **R**EACH THE FOURTH\n\"FRUIT\" OF THE FOURTH PATH OF KNOWLEDGE THAT LEADS TO\n**N**IRVANA, AND THOU SHALT COMPREHEND, FOR THOU\nSHALT SEE . . . . .\n\n-------\n\n###### STANZA VII.\n\n1. **B**EHOLD THE BEGINNING OF SENTIENT FORMLESS\nLIFE.\n\n**F**IRST THE **D**IVINE, THE ONE FROM\nTHE **M**OTHER-**S**PIRIT; THEN THE\n**S**PIRITUAL; THE THREE FROM THE ONE, THE FOUR FROM\nTHE ONE, AND THE FIVE FROM WHICH THE THREE, THE FIVE, AND THE\nSEVEN. **T**HESE ARE THE THREE-FOLD, THE FOUR-FOLD\nDOWNWARD; THE \"MIND-BORN\" SONS OF THE FIRST **L**ORD;\nTHE SHINING SEVEN.\n\n**I**T IS THEY WHO ARE THOU, ME, HIM, OH **L**ANOO.\n**T**HEY, WHO WATCH OVER THEE, AND THY MOTHER EARTH.\n\n####### [[Vol. 1, Page]] 34 THE SECRET DOCTRINE.\n\n2. **T**HE ONE RAY MULTIPLIES THE SMALLER RAYS. **L**IFE\nPRECEDES FORM, AND LIFE SURVIVES THE LAST ATOM OF FORM. **T**HROUGH\nTHE COUNTLESS RAYS PROCEEDS THE LIFE-RAY, THE ONE, LIKE A THREAD\nTHROUGH MANY JEWELS.\n\n3. **W**HEN THE ONE BECOMES TWO, THE THREEFOLD APPEARS,\nAND THE THREE ARE ONE; AND IT IS OUR THREAD, OH **L**ANOO,\nTHE HEART OF THE MAN-PLANT CALLED **S**APTASARMA.\n\n4. **I**T IS THE ROOT THAT NEVER DIES; THE THREE-TONGUED\nFLAME OF THE FOUR WICKS. **T**HE WICKS ARE THE SPARKS,\nTHAT DRAW FROM THE THREE-TONGUED FLAME SHOT OUT BY THE SEVEN --\nTHEIR FLAME -- THE BEAMS AND SPARKS OF ONE MOON REFLECTED IN THE\nRUNNING WAVES OF ALL THE RIVERS OF EARTH.\n\n5. **T**HE SPARK HANGS FROM THE FLAME BY THE FINEST\nTHREAD OF **F**OHAT. **I**T JOURNEYS\nTHROUGH THE **S**EVEN **W**ORLDS OF\n**M**AYA. **I**T STOPS IN THE FIRST,\nAND IS A METAL AND A STONE; IT PASSES INTO THE SECOND AND BEHOLD\n-- A PLANT; THE PLANT WHIRLS THROUGH SEVEN CHANGES AND BECOMES\nA SACRED ANIMAL. **F**ROM THE COMBINED ATTRIBUTES\nOF THESE, **M**ANU, THE THINKER IS FORMED. **W**HO\nFORMS HIM? **T**HE SEVEN LIVES, AND THE ONE LIFE.\n**W**HO COMPLETES HIM? **T**HE FIVE-FOLD\n**L**HA. **A**ND WHO PERFECTS THE LAST\nBODY? **F**ISH, SIN, AND SOMA. . . . .\n\n6. **F**ROM THE FIRST-BORN THE THREAD BETWEEN THE\n**S**ILENT **W**ATCHER AND HIS **S**HADOW\nBECOMES MORE STRONG AND RADIANT WITH EVERY CHANGE. **T**HE\nMORNING SUN-LIGHT HAS CHANGED INTO NOON-DAY GLORY. . . . .\n\n7. **T**HIS IS THY PRESENT WHEEL, SAID THE **F**LAME\nTO THE **S**PARK. **T**HOU ART MYSELF,\nMY IMAGE, AND MY SHADOW. **I** HAVE CLOTHED MYSELF\nIN THEE, AND THOU ART MY **V**AHAN TO THE DAY, \"**B**E\nWITH US,\" WHEN THOU SHALT RE-BECOME MYSELF AND OTHERS, THYSELF\nAND ME. **T**HEN THE BUILDERS, HAVING DONNED THEIR\nFIRST CLOTHING, DESCEND ON RADIANT EARTH AND REIGN OVER MEN --\nWHO ARE THEMSELVES. . . .\n\nThus ends this portion of the archaic narrative, dark, confused,\nalmost incomprehensible. An attempt will now be made to throw\nlight into this darkness, to make sense out of this apparent NON-SENSE.\n\nNext Section\n\nContents",
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