Western European stream·Ancient Wisdom·CHAPTER XII.
CHAPTER XII.
Building a Kosmos.
It is not possible, at our present stage of evolu- tion, to do more than roughly indicate a few points in the vast outline of the kosmic scheme in which our globe plays its little part. By " a kosmos" is here meant a system which seems, from our stand- point, to be complete in itself, arising from a single Logos, and sustained by His Life. Such a system is our solar system, and the physical sun may be considered to be the lowest manifestation of the Logos when acting as the centre of His kosmos; every form is indeed one of His concrete manifesta- tions, but the sun is His lowest manifestation as the life-giving, invigorating, all-pervading, all-control- ling, regulative, co-ordinating, central power.
Says an occult commentary: Sftrya (the sun),
in its visible reflection, exhibits the first or lowest state of the seventh, the highest state of the universal Presence, the pure of the pure, the first manifested Breath of the ever un- manlfested Sat (Be-ness). All the central physical or objec- tive Suns are in their substance the lowest state of the first Principle of the Breath,*
are, in short, the lowest state of the " Physical Body" of the Logos.
All physical forces and energies are but transmu- tations of the life poured forth by the sun, the Lord
- Secret Doctrine ^ i. . p. 309.
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and Giver of life to his system. Hence in many ancient religions the sun has stood as the syrabol of the Supreme God — the symbol, in truth, the least: liable to misconstruction by the ignorant. Mr. Sinnett well says:
The solar system k indeed an area o£ Nature includingmoro than any but the very highest beings whom our humanity is capable of developing are in a position to investigate. The- oretically we may feel sure — as we look up into the heavens at night--that the whole solar system itself is but a drop in the ocean ot the kosraos, but that drop is in its turn an ocean from the point of view of the consciousness of such half- developed beings within it as ourselves, and we can only bope at present to acquire vague and shadowy conceptions of its origin and constitution. Shadowy, however, though these may be, they enable ua to assign the subordinate planetary series in which our own evolution is carried on, to its proper place in the system of which it is a part, or at all events to get a broad idea f the relative magnitude of the whole sys- tem, of our planetary chain, of the world in which we are at present functioning, and of the respective periods «E evolution in which as human beings we are interested.*
For in truth we cannot grasp our own position in- tellectually without some idea — however vague it may be — of our relation to the whole; and while some students are content to work within their own sphere of duty and to leave the wider reaches of life until they are called to function in them, others feel the need of a far-reaching scheme in which they have their place, and take an intellectual delight in soaring upwards to obtain a bird's-eye view of the whole lield of evolution. This need has been recog- ■ The System to -which -we belong, p. 4,
nized and met by the spiritual Guardians of human- ity in the magnificent delineation of the kosmos from the standpoint of the occultist traced by their pupil and messenger, H. P. Blavatsky, in the Secret Doctrine^ a work that will become ever more and more enlightening as students of the Ancient Wis- dom themselves explore and master the lower levels of our evolving world.
The appearance of the Logos, we are told, is the herald of the birth-hour of our kosmos.
When He is manifest, all is manifested after Him ; by His manifestation this All becomes manifest. *
With Himself He brings the fruits of a past kos- mos — ^the mighty spiritual Intelligences who are to be His co-workers and agents in the universe now to be built. Highest of these are "the Seven," often Themselves spoken of as Logoi, since each in His place is the centre of a distinct department in the kosmos, as the Logos is the centre of the whole. The commentary before quoted says:
The seven Beings in the Sun are the Seven Holy Ones. Self- bom from the inherent power in ^he matrix of Mother-sub- ntance. . . . The energy from which they sprang into con- scious existence in every Sun is what some people call Vishnu, which is the Breath of the Absoluteness. We call it the one manifested Life— itself a reflection of the Absolute.
This "one manifested Life" is the Logos, the manifested Grod.
From this primary division our Kosmos takes itr. /^venfold character, and all subsequent divisions in
^ Mundakopanishad^ IL ii. lo.
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their descending order reproduce this seven-keyed scale. Under each of the seven secondary Logoi come the descending hierarchies o£ Intelligences that form the governing body of His kingdom: among These we hear of the Lipika, who are the Recorders of the karma of that kingdom and of all entities therein ; of the Maharajas or Devarajas, who superintend the working out of karmic law ; and of the vast hosts of the Builders, who shape and fash- ion all forms after the Idea^ that dwell in the treasure-house of the Logos, in the Universal Mind, and that pass from Him to the Seven, each of whom plans out His own realm under that supreme direc- tion and all-inspiring life, giving to it, at the same time, His own individual coloring. H, P. Blavatsky calls these Seven Realms that make up the solar system the seven Laya centres; she says: The sevea Laya centres are the seven Zero points, using the term Zero ia tbe same sense that chemists do, to indicate a point at which, is Esotericism, the scale of reckoning of dif- ferentiation begins. From the Centres — bej'oad which Esoteric philosophy allows us to perceive the dim metaphysical outlines of the "Seven Sons" of Life, and Light the seven Logoi of the Hermetic and all other philosophies— begins the differentiation of the elements which enter into the constitution of our Solar This realm isaplanetary evolution of astupendous character, the field in which are lived out the stages of a life of which a physical planet, such as Venus, is but a transient embodiment. We may speak of the Evolver and Ruler of this realm as a planetary 'Secret Doctrine, i., p. i6a. THE SEVEN GLOBES. 31$ Logos, SO as to avoid confusion. He draws from the matter of the solar system, outpoured from the central Logos Himself, the crude materials He re- quires, and elaborates them by His own life-energies, each planetary Logos thus specializing the matter of His realm from a common stock. "* The atomic state in each of the seven planes of His kingdom being identical with the matter of a sub-plane of the whole solar system, continuity is thus established through- out the whole. As H. P. Blavatsky remarks, atoms change "their combining equivalents on every planet,'* the atoms themselves being identical, but their combinations differing. She goes on: Not alone the elements of our planet, bot even tboM of all its jdsters in the solar system, differ as widely from each other in their combinations, as from the cosmic elements beyond otsr solar limits. • • • Each atom has seven planes of being, or existence, we are taught, f — ^the sub-planes, as we have been calling them, of each great plane. On the three lower planes of His evolving realm the planetary Logos establishes seven globes or worlds^ which for convenience sake, following the received nomenclature, we will call globes A, B^ C^ D, B. F» 6. These are the Seteft soiall wheels ferolvisg* one gsriog birth to the c^m^^ ^oken of in Stanza vL of the Baoi of Dzyan: He biildstiieiii in die Ukeoeasof old^ wheeK phKt^g thMi ctt the II iipsfijiiabie ceottes* m OuKgUt L^ OD ''The Pbysscal Pkne/ B the evelfrfMi eC natter. \Secrei Doctrhu^ i^ pp. 166 jouSl 174. 3i6 tHE Ancient wtsDoM. Imperishable, since each wheel not only gives birth to its successor, but is also itself reincarnated at the same centre, as we shall see. These globes may be figured as disposed in three pairs on the arc of an ellipse, with the middle globe at the midmost and lowest point; for the most part globes A and G — the first and seventh — are on the arupa levels of the mental plane ; globes B and F — the second and sixth — are on the rupa levels; globes C and E — the third and fifth — are on the astral plane ; globe D — the fourth — is on the physical plane. These globes are spoken of by H. P. Blavatsky as " graduated on the four lower planes of the world of formation," * i,e.^ the physical and astral planes, and the two subdivisions of the mental (rupa and arfipa). They may be figured: f arUpa V -^ ) ( ^ ) archetypal H\pa V ® y C ^ y creative or intellectual 0© astral I C 1 f £ ) formative physical ( 1^ J physical * Secret Doctrine^ i., p. 176. f See p. 221 of the Secret Doctrine ; the note is important, that the archetypal world is not the world as it existed in the THE PLANETAi<V CHAIN. 317 This is the t)rpical arrangement, but it is modified at certain stages of evolution. These seven globes form a planetary ring or chain, and — if for a mo- ment we regard the planetary chain as a whole, as, so to say, an entity, a planetary life or individual — that chain passes through seven distinct stages in its evolution; the seven globes as a whole form its planetary body, and this planetary body disinte- grates and is re-formed seven times during the plan- etary life. The planetary chain has seven incarna- tions, and the results obtained in one are handed on to the next. Every such chain of worlds is the progeny and creation of another lower and dead chain — its reincarnation, so to say.* These seven incarnations f make up " the planetary evolution," the realm of a planetary Logos. As there are seven planetary Logoi, it will be seen that seven of these planetary evolutions, each distinct from the others, make up the solar system. J In an occult commentary this coming forth of the seven Logoi from the one, and of the seven successive chains of seven globes each, is described: From one light seven lights ; from each of the seven, seven times seven. § Taking up the incarnations of the chain, the man mind of the planetary Logos, but the first model which was made. * Secret Doctrine ^ i.. p 176. I* Technically called "manvantaras." }Mr. Sinnett calls these ** seven schemes of evolution.** § Seeret Doctrine^ i., p. 147 - 3l8 THE ANCIENT WISDOM. vantaras, we learn that these also are subdivisible into seven stages ; a wave of life from the planetary Logos is sent round the chain, and seven of these great life- waves, each one technically spoken of as "a round," complete a single manvantara. Each globe has thus seven periods of activity during a manvantara, each in turn becoming the field of evolving life. Looking at a single globe we find that during th« period of its activity seven root-races of a humanity evolve on it, together vnth six other non-human kingdoms interdependent on each other. As these seven kingdoms contain forms at all stages of evolu- tion, as all have higher reaches stretching before them, the evolving forms of one globe pass to an- other to carry on their growth when the period of activity of the former globe comes to an end, and go on from globe to globe to the end of that round; they further pursue their course round after round to the close of the seven rounds or manvantaras; they once again climb onward through manvantara after manvantara till the end of the reincarnations of their planetary chain is reached, when the results of that planetary evolution are gathered up by the planetary Logos. Needless to say that scarcely any- thing of this evolution is known to us; only the salient points in the stupendous whole have been indicated by the Teachers. Even when we come to the planetary evolution in which our own world is a stage, we know nothing of the processes through which its seven globes ACTIVITY AND SLEEP. 319 evolved during its first two manvantaras; and of its third manvantara we only know that the globe which is now our moon was globe D of that planetary chain. This fact, however, may help us to realize more clearly what is meant by these successive rein- carnations of a planetary chain. The seven globes which formed the lunar chain passed in due course through their sevenfold evolution; seven times the life- wave, the Breath of the planetary Logos, swept round the chain, quickening in turn each globe into life. It is as though that Logos in guiding His kingdom turned His attention first to globe A, and thereon brought into successive existence the in- numerable forms that in their totality make up a world; when evolution had been carried to a certain point. He turned His attention to globe B, and globe A slowly sank into a peaceful sleep. Thus the life-wave was earned from globe to globe, until one round of the circle was completed by globe G finishing its evolution; then there succeeded a period of rest,* during which the external evolution- ary activity ceased. At the close of this period, ex- ternal evolution recommenced, starting on its second round and beginning as before on globe A. The process is repeated six times, but when the sev- enth, the last round, is reached, there is a change. Globe A, having accomplished its seventh life- period, gradually disintegrates, and the imperisha- ble laya centre state supervenes; from that, at the dawn of the succeeding manvantara a new globe A * Technically called a pralaya. ',20 TIIK ANUIliNT WISDOM. is evolved — like a new body — in which the " princi- ples" of the preceding planet A take up their abode. This phrase is only intended to convey the idea of a relation between globe A of the first manvantara and globe A of the second; the nature of that con- nection remains hidden. Of the connection between globe D of the lunar manvantara — our moon — and globe D of the terrene manvantara — our earth — we kaow a little more, and Mr. Sinnett has given a convenient summary of the slender knowledge we possess in The System to ■which -we belong. He says; The Dew earth nebula was developed round a centre bear- ing pretty much the same relation to the dying planet that tha centres of the earth and moon bear to one another at present. But in the nebulous condition this aggregation of matter occu- pied an enormously greater volume than the solid matter <A the earth now occupies. It Etretched out in all directions so u to include the old planet in its fiery embrace. The temper- atttre of a new nebula appears to be considerably higher Uian any temperatures we are acquainted with, and by this means the old planet was superficially heated afresh in such a man- ner that all atmosphere, water, and volatili7.able matter upon it was brought into tha gaseous cenditiou and so became amenable to the new centre of attraction set up at the centre of the new nebula. In this way the air and seas of the old planet were drawn over into the constitution of the new one. and thus it JB that the moon in its present state is an arid, glaring mass, dry and cloudless, no longer habitable, and no longer required for the habitation of any physical beings. When the present manvantara is nearly over, during the seventh round, its disintegration will he completed and the matter which it still holds together will resolve into meteoric dust,* *0p. (it., p, 19. LUNAR AND SOLAR PITRIS. 32 1 In the third volume of the Secret Doctrine^ in which are printed some of the oral teachings given by H. P. Blavatsky to her more advanced pupils, it is stated: At the beginning of the evolution of our globe, the moon WAS mnch nearer to the earth, and larger than it is now. It has retreated from ns, and shrank much in size. (The moon gave all her principles to the earth.) ... A new moon will appear during the seventh round, and our moon will finally disintegrate and disappear.* Evolution during the lunar manvantara produced seven classes of beings, technically called Fathers, or Pitris, since it was they who generated the beings of the terrene manvantara. These are the Lunar Pitris of the Secret Doctrine. More developed than these were two other classes — variously called Solar Pitris, Men, Lower Dhyanis — ^too far advanced to enter on the terrene evolution in its early stages, but requiring the aid of later physical conditions for their future growth. The higher of these two classes consisted of individualized animal-like beings, creatures with embryonic souls, /.^., they had developed the causal body; the second were approaching its formation. Ltmar Pitris, the first class, were at the beginning of that approach, showing mentality, while the second and third had only developed the kamic principle. These seven classes of Lunar Pitris were the product the lunar chain handed on for further development to the ter- rene, the fourth reincarnation of the planetary *0p> «V.,p. 562.
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chain. As Monads — with the mental principle pres- ent in the first, the kamic principle developed in the second and third classes, this germinal in the fourth, only approaching the germ stage in the still less developed fifth, and imperceptible in the sixth and seventh — these entities entered the earth-chain, to ensoul the elemental essence and the forms shaped by the Builders.* The nomenclature adopted by me is that of the. Secret Doctrine. In the valuable paper by Mrs. Sin- nett and Mr. Scott-Elliot on the Lunar Pitris, H. P. B. 'a "Lower Dhyanis, " that incarnate in the third and fourth rounds, are taken as the first and second classes of Lunar Pitris ; their third class is therefore H.P. B.'s first class, tlieir fourth class her second, and so on. There is no difference in the statement of facts, only in nomenclature, but this difference of nomenclature may mislead the student if it be not explained. As I am using H. P. B.'s nomenclature, my fellow-students of the London Lodge and the readers of their " Transaction" will need to remem- ber that my first is their third, and so on sequen- tially. The " Builders" is a name including innumerable' Intelligences, hierarchies of beings of graduated consciousness and power, who on each plane carry out the actual building of forms. The higher direct *H. P. Blavatsky. in the Secret Doctrine, does not includo those whom Mrs. Sinnett calls first- aud secoad-clasa Pitris in the "monads from the lunar chain" ; she takes them apart as "men," as "DhySn Chohans." Compare i., pp. [97, 207.811. DESCENDING AND ASCENDING. 323 and control, while the lower fashion the materials after the models provided. And now appears the use of the successive globes of the planetary chain. Globe A is the archetypal world, on which are built the models of the forms that are to be elaborated during the round; from the mind of the planetary Logos the highest Builders take the archetypal Ideas, and guide the Builders on the arupa levels as they fashion the archetypal forms for the round. On globe B these forms are reproduced in varied shapes in mental matter by a lower rank of Builders, and are evolved slowly along different lines, until they are ready to receive an infiltration of denser matter ; then the Builders in astral matter take up the task, and on globe C fashion astral forms, with details more worked out ; when the forms have been evolved as far as the astral conditions permit, the Builders of globe D take up the task of form-shaping on the physical plane, and the lowest kinds of matter are thus fashioned into appropriate types, and the forms reach their densest and most complete condition. From this middle point onwards the nature of the evolution somewhat changes ; hitherto the greatest attention had been directed to the building of the form; on the ascending arc the chief attention is directed to using the form as a vehicle of the evolv- ing life and on the second half of the evolution on globe D, and on globes E and P the consciousness expresses itself first on the physical and then on the astral and lower mental planes through the equiva- lents of the forms elaborated on the descending arc.
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On the descending arc the Monad impresses itself as best it may fn the evolving forms, and these impres- sions appear vaguely as impressions, intuitions, and so on; on the ascending arc the Monad expresses itself through the forms as their inner ruler, globe G the perfection of the round is reached, the Monad inhabiting and using as its vehicles the archetypal forms of globe A. During all these stages the Lunar Pitris have acted as the souls of the forms, brooding over them, later inhabiting them. It is on the first-class Pitria that the heaviest burden of the work falls during the first three rounds. The second- and third-class Pitris flow into the forms worked up by the first; the first prepare these forms by ensouling them for a time and then pass on, leaving them for the ten- ancy of the second and third classes. By the end of the first round the archetypal forms of the mineral world have been brought down, to be elaborated through the succeeding rounds, till they reach their densest state in the middle of the fourth round. " Fire" is the " element'" of this first round. In the second round the first-class Pitris continue their human evolution, only touching the lower stages as the human fcetus still touches them to-day, while the second class, at the close of the round, have reached the incipient human stage. The great work of the round is bringing down the archetypal forms of vegetable life, which will reach their per- fection in the fifth round, "Air" is the second round " element" ARRIVAL OF SOLAR PITRIS. 325 In the third round the first-class Pitri becomes definitely human in form; though the body is jelly- like and gigantic, it is yet, on globe D, compact enough to begin to stand upright; he is ape-like and is covered with hairy bristles. The third-class Pitris reach the incipient human stage. Second- class solar Pitris make their first appearance on globe D in this round, and take the lead in human evolution. The archetypal forms of animals are brought down to be elaborated into perfection by the end of the sixth round, and " water" is the char- acteristic "element." The fourth round, the middle one of the seven that make up the terrene manvantara, is distin- guished by bringing to globe A the archetypal forms of humanity, this round being as distinctively hu- man as its predecessors were respectively animal, vegetable, and mineral. Not till the seventh round will these forms be all fully realized by humanity, but the possibilities of the human form are mani- fested in archetypes in the fourth. " Earth" is the " element" of this round, the densest, the most ma- terial. The first-class solar Pitris may be said to hover round globe D more or less in this round dur- ing its early stageft.of activity, but they do not defi- nitely incarnate until after the third great outpour- ing of life from the planetary Logos in the middle of the third race, and then only slowly, the number increasing as the race progresses, and multitudes incarnating in the early fourth race. The evolution of humanity on our earth, globe D»
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ofEera in a strongly marked form the contioual sevenfold diversity already often alluded to. Seven races of men had already shown themselves in the third round, and in the fourth these fundamental divisions became very clear on globe C, where seven races, each with sub-races, evolved. On globe D humanity begins with a First Race — usually called a Root- Race— at seven different points, "seven of them, each on his lot." * These seven types side by side, not successive — make up the first root-race, and each again has its own seven sub-races. From the first root-race — jelly-like amorphous creatures — evolves the second root-race with forms of more definite consistency, and from it the third, ape-like creatures that become clumsy gigantic men. In the middle of the evolution of this third root-race, called the Lemurian, there come to earth — from another planetary chain, that of Venus, much farther ad- vanced in its evolution — members of its highly evolved humanity, glorious Beings, often spoken of as Sons of the Fire, from Their radiant appearance, a lofty order among the Sons of Mind. | They take up Their abode on earth, as the Divine Teachers of the young humanity, some of them acting as chan- nels for the third out -pouring and projecting into animal man the spark of monadic life which forms the causal body. Thus the first, second, and third s of Lunar Pitris become individualized — the * Book oj Dxyan. 13. Sacrel Doctrine, ii. \ MSnasaputra. This vast hierarchy of self- genceu em braces many orders. \ THEN COMETH THE END. $2^ vast bulk of humanity. The two classes of solar Pitris, already individualized — the first ere leaving the lunar chain and the second later — form two low orders of the Sons of Mind; the second incarnate in the third race at its middle point, and the first come in later, for the most part in the fourth race, the Atlantean. The fifth, or Aryan race, now leading human evolution, was evolved from the fifth sub- race of the Atlantean, the most promising families being segregated in Central Asia, and the new race- type evolved, under the direct superintendence of a Great Being, technically called a Manu. Emerging from Central Asia the first sub-race settled in India, south of the Himalayas, and in their four orders of teachers, warriors, merchants, and workmen,* be- came the dominant race in the vast Indian peninsula, conquering the fourth-race and third-race nations who then inhabited it. At the end of the seventh race of the seventh round, i.^., at the close of our terrene manvantara, our chain will hand on to its successor the fruits of its life ; these fruits will be perfected divine men, Buddhas, Manus, Chohans, Masters, ready to take up the work of guiding evolution under the direction of the planetary Logos^ with hosts of less evolved entities of every grade of consciousness, who still need physical experience for the perfecting of their divine possibilities. The fifth, sixth, and seventh manvantaras of our chain are still in the womb of the future after this fourth one has closed, and then * Br&hmanas. Kshattryas, Vaishyas, and ShMras. i26 THE ANCIENT WISDOM. the planetary Logos will gather up into Himself all the fruits of evolution, and with his children enter on a period of rest and bliss. Of that high state we cannot speak; how at this stage of our evolution could we dream of its unimaginable glory; only we dimly know that our glad spirits shall " enter into the joy of the Lord," and, resting in Him, shall see stretching before them boundless ranges of sublime life and love, heights and depths of power and joy, limitless as the One Existence, inexhaustible as the One that is. Peace to all Beings. INDEX. Abstract IDEAS ixi, 917 Accidents • 343, 265 Adi'Buddha IS AfiEections the root of moral evolution 316 Ag^i 66 Ain Soph 17 Ameshaspenda 90, S2, x8i Amitabha 14, 15 Amnn-Ra, hymn to 18 Ancient of the Ancients. 17 Angels 17, 28, 114, 115 Animal kingdom 49* 68, 190-193, 281 Antenatal life 205 Archangels ^ 21. 28, 1x4 Archetypes 3x6, 323, 324, 325 ArmaitI 22 Aryan race 6, xi, 327 Astral body.... 68-70, 72-8X, 87, 89, 96, 97, X04, X22, X23, i6x, 176, X9X, 202» 203. 222-224, 252. 253, 260. 266, 28X, 287. 301, 333 *• energy 247. 252-254, 256 ** plane, the. 57-»8o, X17, x86, 223, 247, 303 ** vision 59 Atlantis • 5t 7 Atoms 42. 43. 44t 57t X09, xio, X87, 315 A^armazd (Ahnra-Mazda, Harmazd). 19, 30, 21, 22. 31. 184 Aura, health 50, 51 Auric egg X29, 168, 169 Avalokiteshavra X5
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Barriers bxtwern iovls 117 Basis of religions, common 2,4 Body, leaving the 36, 228. 229 Brahm& • 13. 15, xii Brahman ,••. 11, 12, 13, 14, 42, 164, 276 BrAhmanical religion 11,14.15.27 Brahma- VidyA x Breath, the divine 9> 30. 313. 319 Brotherhood of Man 170-174 •* of Teachers... 3, 29, 37. 39. 7'. 89. 91, 119, 152. 156, x68, 194. 2XO, 272, 283. 294-296, 326 Buddhas 327 Buddha, the 15 Buddhi , 165 Buddhic body 167, 169, 176, 225, 290 " plane 36, 117, 165-168, X71, 175, 287 " sUte 36. 166 Buddhism 14. 15 Buddhist, 4, xxx, X12, xx4, X37, x68, X79, x8o, 302, 305, 306, 307 Buddhist and Gnostic thought 26 •• " Greek " 25 Builders, the 48, 3x4, 322, 323 Buildinga kosmos 3x1-328 Causal body.... X3X, x32, X33, 139, X46, 176, X93, X96. 201,
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Chakras , 74* 76. 78 Chenresi • *..••• 15 Child-life 206. 207 China 5 Chinese Buddhism 15 '* religion 9 Christian, 4. 18, 27, 32. xox, XX3. XX4. xx5. I37. 160. X57. xS4. 375 Chwang-tze 9, xx Clairvoyance 54 Colors 73. 76, 78, X02, XX2, 114, 223 Common basis of religions 2, 4 Concealed mystery, the 8 Conscience 2x5 Continuity of forms ••••• z82» 200 " of life Z82-184, 200 Conversions 262, 263 Crimes, inevitable 261 Death 56, 85, 86, 87, 89, 158, 199, 252 Dense physical body 49-56, 85, 205, 219-221, 266, 267 Desire-energies 247, 252-254 Desires 2x1-215, 247, 251-254, 263, 268, 269 Devachan 58, 137-X62, 268 " stay in 138. 139, 199 Devas « 66, X14, X37 Dhruvam, the , 87 Disciple 72, X19, 156. 157, 223, 226, 294-308 Discipleship, qualifications for 226, 296-30X Divine Ruler of the Golden Gate 6 Divine Wisdom, the x, 4 Dreams • 55* 76. 77 c)9» 22z, 222. 228 Effect of belief in Karma 273, 274 ** of environment 200, 201 Egypt 18 Elemental essence 48, 59, 60, 73, 113, X14 " kingdoms 48, xi4, 184-186 Elementals, artificial 60-65,1x5 '* building 275 ** desire 69, 72, 73 '* natural 65-^, 75, 95, 283, 284 Elements 45f 46* ^7» 114, 324, 325 Etheric double 49-56. 68, 85, 87, 187, 205, 22x, 266. 267 Evolution and reincarnation. X79, x8c ** in Devachan 145 ** monadic 184-193, 280. 281 why possible 40f 44* i^Si 340, 241 Factors in reincarnation 202-205
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<• «• 33^ iKDfiX. Fairies 67 Family likeness 235 Fetters, casting away 305-308 Fifth race 6, n "Form" and "formless" levels of m&nasic plane. ... no, iii,
139153. 307
"Formless" levels....... ,.128, 133, 137, 154-157. 158, 184, 218 Fourth race 5 Freeing soul from body 36, 228, 229 Freewill and necessity 262 Friends in heaven, our 143, 144 Fundamental truths of religion 5 Genius 108. 232. 233 God manifested as unity 5t 7t 8, 12, 17. 22, 41. 313 duality 5. 7i 8. 15. I7i 20, 21, 22. 41 " trinity... 5, 8, zx, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18. 22. 41 Gods of the elements 66 Greek and Buddhist thought 25 " Gnostic •• 26 •• Hindu " 25 Hamilton, Sir Wiiuam, as child 233, 234 Heavens xoo-102, 284, 285 Hebrew • X7t x8, 20, 32^ 166 Hells 83, 84, 92-97 Heredity 183, 235, 266, 267 Hindu.... 4, 12, 13, 15. 25, 30, 66, 83, 87, in, 112. 114, 137. 164, 166, x68, 275, 285, 302, 305, 306, 307, 327 " and Greek thought 25 Holy Spirit 27, iix Horus 18 Hostility of elemental world « . • • 65, 66 Illusion in Dbvachan 139-X44 Illusory "I"s X32. 133, 160 Individuality i6x, 192, 193, 308 Ittdra 66 INDEX. 333 Infant prodigies 233, 234 InitifttdB •••••••• •••••••••••••..I 3* ^» 7* 7o* 7it 1 19* '5^ Initiations • 304-307 Instinct . • • 192 KAMA 69, 81, 82, 175 S^Amadevas 69 K&maloka 58, 83-106. 137, 146, 148 divisions of . 91-103 stay in 83. 89, 199 EAma-Manas X2i» 175, 176 EAmarflpa 69 Karma 15, 128, 243-274. 275, 277. 286. 306. 315 ** collective 248. 264. 265 ** ending of 268-273 ** individual 248. 251. 264. 267. 270 ** Lords of 204. 205, 259. 265. 267 ** three kinds of 248, 259-263 Karmic causes, three kinds of 247. 249-255 Kosmos, building a 3x1-328 ** definitiond 3x1 KoYiian 6 Kshiti 66 Law inviolablb 243-246 Levitation 66 Liberation, longing for • 269, 292-294. 300 Life-waves 38. 44. 48. 59, 318 Linking of vehicles 226. 227 Lipika, the 266. 314 Logo! ••• • i9t22, 164. 184. 313, 317 Logos.... XX. I5f 16, 20. 23, 27. 3B. 40, 41. 43, 44i 48. 53. 128. 157, 163. 168, 170, X75, 181, 200, 2x8, 275-277, 287,
288311, 314, 315
" first 14. X7, 19. 22. 27. 41 " planetary 315. 3x7, 318, 3x9, 323. 325. 327, 328 '* second xl. si. 32. 27, 41 •• third 15. 22. 27, 4r* "i. 165
334INDEX.
Lotus 13, 15 Lower Dhy&nis ..•• 321, 322, 325, 327 *• Quaternary 81 Lunar Pitris 321, 322* 324-326 Maharajas <># 266,314 Mahommedans •.... X14, 137, 229 M&nasaputra 193, 326, 327 Mandjusr! • ••••. 15, xii Man's ascent 291-310 Masters .... 3, 37. 39. 7^. 73. 89, xo6, n6, 119. 152, 156, 157^ 168,
183210. 2x6, 223. 263, 272, 283, 294-296. 300-306,
309310, 327
MAy& 42. 276 M&y&vir^pa X15 Mediums 55. 66, 91, 98, loo. xoi. 102 Memory X23, 128, 145, 190, 208, 212. 225, 236-240, 254 Mental atmosphere 63-65 " attributes, the six 297-30X ** bodies 122-X27, X30, 137, 139, 153, 154, x6o, 176, 196, X97. 202, 203, 223-225, 251, 260-266 ** energies 247, 250-252. 256 ** images 209, 211, 217, 227, 250-252 '• plane, 107-136, xx7, 158, 175, 217, 223, 247. 286, 287, 323 Mesmeric energy , 51 Mineral kingdom 49. 68, 187, x88, 280, 281 Mithra 22 Monad, the.... 48, 49, 52, 59.68, 114, 164, 168, 175, x8i, 184- X96, 280-282, 290, 308. 324 Monads 322 Monadic evolution X84-193, 280, 281 Mongolian ^ . > c • 6. 7 Moon • 319-32X Motive 248, 256-258. s88 Nature-spirits 65-69 Necessity and freewill 262 Neo-platonic schools. 33. 35, 36 INDEX. 335 Nepaulese Buddhism , « ... 15 Nirv&na z6, 170, 308. 509 NirvAnic consciousness • • i69» 170, 309 ** plane • 117, x68, 169, 170, 17$ Occultists, whitb and black. , 71 One Existence, the 5, xi, 14, 19, 23, 28, 42, 328 One Life, the 5» 8, 81, 176, 313 One Reality, the 5, 7 One. the 8, 9. iz, 14, 24, 25. 40, 164. 217, 218, 328 Orphic system 23 Osiris-Ani 19 Osiris-Isis x8 PadmapAni X5 Parsls. modem 22 Path« probationary, the 296-303 ** the 291-310 Pavana 66 Personality 160, i6x. 190. 192, 213, 221 Physical body. .. . 49-56, 68, 85, 87, 130, 161, 176, 191, 202, 203, 204. 2x9-222, 226, 227, 260. 266, 267 •• energies 247, 254, 255 Pitris, lunar 321, 322, 324-326 " solar 32X. 322, 325, 327 Plane, astral 58-82, X17, 186. 223, 247, 302 buddhic 36, 117, X65-X68, X71, X75, 287 definition of 47 mental.... X07-136, 1x7, X5S, X75, 2x7, 223. 247, 286, 287, 323 nirv&nic c 117, 168, X69, x7o, X75 physical , , 40-56, 247, 25X, 258, 287. 323 Planes of universe , , . , 42, 43, 248. 255, 256, 258 Planetary chain 3x5-3x8, 319, 323, 326, 327 PrAna 50. 8x, 85, 87, X75, 176. 222 Prayers, protective 6x, xo6 Predestination , 230 Pre-existence of the soul , • 28 4« <• <• Plretakrfui t$ FrinciplM ti, 17S-17S Ptjrcbics Tif 7t Pttrificfttion by TitMratioDS 51, 75, 77 Pythagorean school ss, 33-35 QUALinCATIONi FOa DUCIFUSHIF 996-30X Ra 18 Real and unreal 269, 367 Reality of doYachanic life 139-144 '• the One 5, 7 Regions of Devachan 149-157 " ofKAmaloka 84,85 Reincarnation.... 5, 11, 14, 15, 17, 19,22, 24, 28, 72, 128, 148, 158-160, 162, i79-^t» 1*6, 243, 268, 271, 273. 303* 304. 306 ** proofs of 229-240 Root-races 318, 325, 326, 327 Round, a 318. 327 Sackifics, dbfinition of 275, 276 " lawof 275-390 ** lessonsin 283-286 ^ Logos, ofthe 375-977 practice of .... • 288-290 suffering and 278-280 8&nkhyan and Gnostic systems 27 Savage, mental state of 209 Self, the — 5, 12, 13, 36, 71. 107, 129, 132, 153, 141, 163, 164,
166168, 172, 176, i8x, 250, 290, 309
Shell X04-106 Shells, oonoentrio , 87, 88, 91 Shiva xa, 13, 15 Bleep 55. 7a, 7S. 76. 77. 78 Solar body, the 167 " pitris ••••••• ... 33X1 322, 325, 327 BonsofMind • •••••••• I93> X94« sxo, 326 «« INDEX. 337 Sous of the Fire 326 Soul.... 12, 13, 14. 17, 19, 23, 28, 83. 96, 99, loo, X45, 148. 153-156. 158. 165, 175, 176, 194, i96-202» 210, 219, 228-231, 249, 260, 266, 268, 291, 301, 304 Souls, earthbound <. . 98 Spiritual Intelligences.... 5, 9, 35, 48, 114, 170, 194, 204, 266, 313, 314. 322. 323 Stages of consciousness, intellectual 216-218 " •* ** sensational 208-212 • of struggle 312-2x6 of unity 218 Students in k&maloka 103 Subdivisions of matter 45-47i 58, X09, x xo Suicide (sudden death) 89-91 Sun, life-currents from the 50 " the 3XX, 3x2 Tao » 6, 7. 8, 9. XQ Teachers.... 3, 37, 39, 7x, 72, 89. 106, xx6, X19, X52, 156. 157, x68, 183, 2x0, 2x6, 223, 263, 272, 283, 294-296, 300-306,309, 3x0, 326, 327 Tendencies « 263 Theosophical Society X73 Theosophy !• 4. 37. 82 Thinker, growth of the 19&-202, 208 -213 the ....X07. 108, IT2, 115, 117, X18-12X, X24, X27, X28-136. 137. 14X, 144. X46-148, 153, 160-162, 165, 167, X96, X97, 202, 203, 206. 208,209, 210, 215-223, 225, 239, 240 Thought-forms 60-65. 99» 1 12-1 14, 250-252 Three worlds, the. • . • X58, x6o, 26f , 286, 292 Toltec empire .«••• 7 Triad 23 Trimftrti X3. X4, X64 Trinity, man a 5, 9. X64. 175, X93 •• the manifested God a.,.. 5, 8, xx, 13, 14, 15, 17. 18.
2223. 27, 184
ii'6 INDEX. Triviality, tesnitsof 97, 9$ Turanian 5,7 Twins, the pair of 90* 91. 22 ** likeness and unlikeness between 235 Universal mind ,.. zii VAcH 27 Varuna 22. 66 Vegetable kingdom 49. 68, 188-190. 280, 281 Vegetables, sensitive 68 Vehicles of consciousness 218-229 Vibrations,... 51, 52, 53. 60. 74, 75. 77. 79. ^o5« 108. no, H2, 118, I2G, 121, 122, 125-127. 133. 134, 181, 219- 222, 227, 248. 250 Virtues, classification cf 35 Vishnu 13, 15 Vivisectors 95. 96 Voh^man 22 Whits and black occultists 71 Will 312-216, 262 Wraith, the 56 YAtanA. the 87 Young, Dr., as child 233 Zoroaster (Zarathustra) 21 Zoroastrianism 19, 21, 22 Zoroastrians • • • • , • . • . 1x4, 137, 184. 275 • ^H VvM9<; ^^^1 'R^ B^^tanford University Library . ^tn Stanford, California In order that others may use this book, please return it as soon as possible, but not later than the date due. '