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Seven foundational cosmogonic stanzas from the Book of Dzyan presenting pre-cosmic and cosmic genesis

Steiner

• GA 89, 1905-04-03Steiner references Verse I of the Stanzas from the Book of Dzyan as a footnote anchor in his own cosmogonic exposition, indicating that Blavatsky's stanzas functioned as a recognized framework within early Theosophical-anthroposophical teaching circles.
• GA 246, 1904-05-05Steiner notes that the formulation or terminology used in the Secret Doctrine is secondary to the spiritual truths the work conveys, cautioning against literalist attachment to its cosmogonic language.
• GA 110, 1909-04-21Steiner asserts that the secret doctrine presented by Blavatsky is not exclusively Indian but belongs to a universal tradition of esoteric teaching, situating the stanzas within a cross-cultural primordial wisdom rather than a single national stream.

Cross-tradition

• Vedantic cosmogonyThe Stanzas' depiction of pre-cosmic darkness, the unmanifest Absolute, and successive emanations shows cross-tradition congruence with Vedantic accounts of pralaya and manifestation from the unmanifest Brahman.
• Neoplatonic emanationismThe progression from undifferentiated unity through successive hypostases toward material manifestation in the stanzas shows cross-tradition congruence with Plotinus's schema of the One, Nous, and Soul.
• Kabbalistic cosmogonyThe stanzas' motif of primordial void and the first stirring of divine breath shows cross-tradition congruence with the Kabbalistic accounts of Ein Sof and the tzimtzum (contraction) preceding Sephirothic emanation.

SEVEN STANZAS FROM THE BOOK OF DZYAN ... 27

The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky, Vol 1, Stanzas of Dzyan

The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 1

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PART I.

COSMIC EVOLUTION.

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SEVEN STANZAS TRANSLATED WITH COMMENTARIES

FROM THE SECRET BOOK OF DZYAN.

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Nor Aught nor Nought existed; yon bright sky

Was not, nor heaven's broad roof outstretched above.

What covered all? what sheltered? what concealed?

Was it the water's fathomless abyss?

There was not death -- yet there was nought immortal,

There was no confine betwixt day and night;

The only One breathed breathless by itself,

Other than It there nothing since has been.

Darkness there was, and all at first was veiled

In gloom profound -- an ocean without light --

The germ that still lay covered in the husk

Burst forth, one nature, from the fervent heat.

. . . . . . . .

Who knows the secret? who proclaimed it here?

Whence, whence this manifold creation sprang?

The Gods themselves came later into being --

Who knows from whence this great creation sprang?

That, whence all this great creation came,

Whether Its will created or was mute,

The Most High Seer that is in highest heaven,

He knows it -- or perchance even He knows not."

"Gazing into eternity . . .

Ere the foundations of the earth were laid,

. . . . .

Thou wert. And when the subterranean flame

Shall burst its prison and devour the frame . . .

Thou shalt be still as Thou wert before

And knew no change, when time shall be no more.

Oh! endless thought, divine ETERNITY."

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COSMIC EVOLUTION.

*In Seven Stanzas translated from the Book of Dzyan. *

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STANZA I.

1**T**HE ETERNAL PARENT WRAPPED IN HER EVER INVISIBLE
ROBES HAD SLUMBERED ONCE AGAIN FOR SEVEN ETERNITIES.

2**T**IME WAS NOT, FOR IT LAY ASLEEP IN THE INFINITE
BOSOM OF DURATION.

3**U**NIVERSAL MIND WAS NOT, FOR THERE WERE NO
**A**H-HI TO CONTAIN IT.

4**T**HE SEVEN WAYS TO BLISS WERE NOT. **T**HE
GREAT CAUSES OF MISERY WERE NOT, FOR THERE WAS NO ONE TO PRODUCE AND GET ENSNARED BY THEM.

5**D**ARKNESS ALONE FILLED THE BOUNDLESS ALL, FOR
FATHER, MOTHER AND SON WERE ONCE MORE ONE, AND THE SON HAD NOT AWAKENED YET FOR THE NEW WHEEL, AND HIS PILGRIMAGE THEREON.

6**T**HE SEVEN SUBLIME LORDS AND THE SEVEN TRUTHS
HAD CEASED TO BE, AND THE **U**NIVERSE, THE SON OF **N**ECESSITY, WAS IMMERSED IN **P**ARANISHPANNA, TO BE OUTBREATHED BY THAT WHICH IS AND YET IS NOT. **N**AUGHT WAS.

7**T**HE CAUSES OF EXISTENCE HAD BEEN DONE AWAY
WITH; THE VISIBLE THAT WAS, AND THE INVISIBLE THAT IS, RESTED IN ETERNAL NON-BEING -- THE ONE BEING.

8**A**LONE THE ONE FORM OF EXISTENCE STRETCHED
BOUNDLESS, INFINITE, CAUSELESS, IN DREAMLESS SLEEP; AND LIFE PULSATED UNCONSCIOUS IN UNIVERSAL SPACE, THROUGHOUT THAT ALL-PRESENCE WHICH IS SENSED BY THE OPENED EYE OF THE **D**ANGMA.

9**B**UT WHERE WAS THE **D**ANGMA
WHEN THE **A**LAYA OF THE UNIVERSE WAS IN **P**ARAMARTHA AND THE GREAT WHEEL WAS **A**NUPADAKA?

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STANZA II.

1. . . **W**HERE WERE THE BUILDERS, THE LUMINOUS
SONS OF **M**ANVANTARIC DAWN? . . . **I**N THE UNKNOWN DARKNESS IN THEIR **A**H-HI **P**ARANISHPANNA. THE PRODUCERS OF FORM FROM NO-FORM -- THE ROOT OF THE WORLD -- THE **D**EVAMATRI AND **S**VABHAVAT, RESTED IN THE BLISS OF NON-BEING.

2. . . **W**HERE WAS SILENCE? **W**HERE
THE EARS TO SENSE IT? **N**O, THERE WAS NEITHER SILENCE NOR SOUND; NAUGHT SAVE CEASELESS ETERNAL BREATH, WHICH KNOWS ITSELF NOT.

3**T**HE HOUR HAD NOT YET STRUCK; THE RAY HAD NOT
YET FLASHED INTO THE **G**ERM; THE **M**ATRIPADMA HAD NOT YET SWOLLEN.

4**H**ER HEART HAD NOT YET OPENED FOR THE ONE RAY
TO ENTER, THENCE TO FALL, AS THREE INTO FOUR, INTO THE LAP OF **M**AYA.

5**T**HE SEVEN SONS WERE NOT YET BORN FROM THE
WEB OF LIGHT. **D**ARKNESS ALONE WAS FATHER-MOTHER, **S**VABHAVAT; AND **S**VABHAVAT WAS IN DARKNESS.

6**T**HESE TWO ARE THE **G**ERM, AND
THE **G**ERM IS ONE. **T**HE **U**NIVERSE WAS STILL CONCEALED IN THE **D**IVINE THOUGHT AND THE **D**IVINE BOSOM. . . . -------

STANZA III.

1. . . **T**HE LAST VIBRATION OF THE SEVENTH ETERNITY
THRILLS THROUGH INFINITUDE. **T**HE MOTHER SWELLS, EXPANDING FROM WITHIN WITHOUT, LIKE THE BUD OF THE LOTUS.

2**T**HE VIBRATION SWEEPS ALONG, TOUCHING WITH
ITS SWIFT WING THE WHOLE UNIVERSE AND THE GERM THAT DWELLETH IN DARKNESS: **T**HE DARKNESS THAT BREATHES OVER THE SLUMBERING WATERS OF LIFE. . .

3**D**ARKNESS RADIATES LIGHT, AND LIGHT DROPS ONE
SOLITARY RAY INTO THE MOTHER-DEEP. **T**HE RAY SHOOTS THROUGH THE VIRGIN EGG, THE RAY CAUSES THE ETERNAL EGG TO THRILL, AND DROP THE NON-ETERNAL GERM, WHICH CONDENSES INTO THE WORLD-EGG.

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4**T**HEN THE THREE FALL INTO THE FOUR. **T**HE
RADIANT ESSENCE BECOMES SEVEN INSIDE, SEVEN OUTSIDE. **T**HE LUMINOUS EGG, WHICH IN ITSELF IS THREE, CURDLES AND SPREADS IN MILK-WHITE CURDS THROUGHOUT THE DEPTHS OF MOTHER, THE ROOT THAT GROWS IN THE DEPTHS OF THE OCEAN OF LIFE.

5**T**HE ROOT REMAINS, THE LIGHT REMAINS, THE CURDS
REMAIN, AND STILL **O**EAOHOO IS ONE.

6**T**HE ROOT OF LIFE WAS IN EVERY DROP OF THE
OCEAN OF IMMORTALITY, AND THE OCEAN WAS RADIANT LIGHT, WHICH WAS FIRE, AND HEAT, AND MOTION. **D**ARKNESS VANISHED AND WAS NO MORE; IT DISAPPEARED IN ITS OWN ESSENCE, THE BODY OF FIRE AND WATER, OR FATHER AND MOTHER.

7**B**EHOLD, OH **L**ANOO! **T**HE
RADIANT CHILD OF THE TWO, THE UNPARALLELED REFULGENT GLORY: **B**RIGHT **S**PACE **S**ON OF **D**ARK **S**PACE, WHICH EMERGES FROM THE DEPTHS OF THE GREAT DARK WATERS. **I**T IS **O**EAOHOO THE YOUNGER, THE * * * **H**E SHINES FORTH AS THE SON; HE IS THE BLAZING **D**IVINE **D**RAGON OF **W**ISDOM; THE **O**NE IS **F**OUR, AND **F**OUR TAKES TO ITSELF **T**HREE,** AND THE **U**NION PRODUCES THE **S**APTA, IN WHOM ARE THE SEVEN WHICH BECOME THE **T**RIDASA (OR THE HOSTS AND THE MULTITUDES). **B**EHOLD HIM LIFTING THE VEIL AND UNFURLING IT FROM EAST TO WEST. **H**E SHUTS OUT THE ABOVE, AND LEAVES THE BELOW TO BE SEEN AS THE GREAT ILLUSION. **H**E MARKS THE PLACES FOR THE SHINING ONES, AND TURNS THE UPPER INTO A SHORELESS SEA OF FIRE, AND THE ONE MANIFESTED INTO THE GREAT WATERS.

8**W**HERE WAS THE GERM AND WHERE WAS NOW DARKNESS?
**W**HERE IS THE SPIRIT OF THE FLAME THAT BURNS IN THY LAMP, OH **L**ANOO? **T**HE GERM IS THAT, AND THAT IS LIGHT, THE WHITE BRILLIANT SON OF THE DARK HIDDEN FATHER.

9**L**IGHT IS COLD FLAME, AND FLAME IS FIRE, AND
FIRE PRODUCES HEAT, WHICH YIELDS WATER: THE WATER OF LIFE IN THE GREAT MOTHER.

10**F**ATHER-**M**OTHER SPIN A WEB
WHOSE UPPER END IS FASTENED TO SPIRIT -- THE LIGHT OF THE ONE DARKNESS -- AND THE LOWER ONE TO ITS SHADOWY END, MATTER; AND THIS WEB IS THE UNIVERSE SPUN OUT OF THE TWO SUBSTANCES MADE IN ONE, WHICH IS **S**VABHAVAT.

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** In the English translation from the Sanskrit the numbers are given in that language, Eka, Chatur, etc., etc. It was thought best to give them in English.

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11**I**T EXPANDS WHEN THE BREATH OF FIRE IS UPON
IT; IT CONTRACTS WHEN THE BREATH OF THE MOTHER TOUCHES IT. **T**HEN THE SONS DISSOCIATE AND SCATTER, TO RETURN INTO THEIR MOTHER'S BOSOM AT THE END OF THE GREAT DAY, AND RE-BECOME ONE WITH HER; WHEN IT IS COOLING IT BECOMES RADIANT, AND THE SONS EXPAND AND CONTRACT THROUGH THEIR OWN SELVES AND HEARTS; THEY EMBRACE INFINITUDE.

12**T**HEN **S**VABHAVAT SENDS **F**OHAT
TO HARDEN THE ATOMS. **E**ACH IS A PART OF THE WEB. **R**EFLECTING THE "**S**ELF-**E**XISTENT **L**ORD" LIKE A MIRROR, EACH BECOMES IN TURN A WORLD. -------

STANZA IV.

1. . . **L**ISTEN, YE **S**ONS OF
THE **E**ARTH, TO YOUR INSTRUCTORS -- THE **S**ONS OF THE **F**IRE. **L**EARN, THERE IS NEITHER FIRST NOR LAST, FOR ALL IS ONE: NUMBER ISSUED FROM NO NUMBER.

2**L**EARN WHAT WE WHO DESCEND FROM THE **P**RIMORDIAL
**S**EVEN, WE WHO ARE BORN FROM THE **P**RIMORDIAL **F**LAME, HAVE LEARNT FROM OUR FATHERS. . . .

3**F**ROM THE EFFULGENCY OF LIGHT -- THE RAY OF
THE EVER-DARKNESS -- SPRUNG IN SPACE THE RE-AWAKENED ENERGIES; THE ONE FROM THE EGG, THE SIX, AND THE FIVE. **T**HEN THE THREE, THE ONE, THE FOUR, THE ONE, THE FIVE -- THE TWICE SEVEN THE SUM TOTAL. **A**ND THESE ARE THE ESSENCES, THE FLAMES, THE ELEMENTS, THE BUILDERS, THE NUMBERS, THE ARUPA, THE RUPA, AND THE FORCE OF **D**IVINE **M**AN -- THE SUM TOTAL. AND FROM THE DIVINE MAN EMANATED THE FORMS, THE SPARKS, THE SACRED ANIMALS, AND THE MESSENGERS OF THE SACRED FATHERS WITHIN THE HOLY FOUR.

4**T**HIS WAS THE ARMY OF THE VOICE -- THE DIVINE
MOTHER OF THE SEVEN. **T**HE SPARKS OF THE SEVEN ARE SUBJECT TO, AND THE SERVANTS OF, THE FIRST, THE SECOND, THE THIRD, THE FOURTH, THE FIFTH, THE SIXTH, AND THE SEVENTH OF THE SEVEN. **T**HESE "SPARKS" ARE CALLED SPHERES, TRIANGLES, CUBES, LINES, AND MODELLERS; FOR THUS STANDS THE **E**TERNAL **N**IDANA -- THE **O**EAOHOO, WHICH IS:

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5"**D**ARKNESS" THE BOUNDLESS, OR THE
NO-NUMBER, **A**DI-**N**IDANA **S**VABHAVAT: -- I. **T**HE **A**DI-**S**ANAT, THE NUMBER, FOR HE IS ONE. II. **T**HE VOICE OF THE **L**ORD **S**VABHAVAT, THE NUMBERS, FOR HE IS ONE AND NINE. III. **T**HE "FORMLESS SQUARE." **A**ND THESE THREE ENCLOSED WITHIN THE ARE THE SACRED FOUR; AND THE TEN ARE THE ARUPA UNIVERSE. **T**HEN COME THE "SONS," THE SEVEN FIGHTERS, THE ONE, THE EIGHTH LEFT OUT, AND HIS BREATH WHICH IS THE LIGHT-MAKER.

6**T**HEN THE SECOND SEVEN, WHO ARE THE **L**IPIKA,
PRODUCED BY THE THREE. **T**HE REJECTED SON IS ONE. **T**HE "**S**ON-SUNS" ARE COUNTLESS. -------

STANZA V.

1**T**HE **P**RIMORDIAL **S**EVEN,
THE **F**IRST **S**EVEN **B**REATHS OF THE **D**RAGON OF **W**ISDOM, PRODUCE IN THEIR TURN FROM THEIR **H**OLY **C**IRCUMGYRATING **B**REATHS THE **F**IERY **W**HIRLWIND.

2**T**HEY MAKE OF HIM THE MESSENGER OF THEIR WILL.
**T**HE **D**ZYU BECOMES **F**OHAT, THE SWIFT SON OF THE **D**IVINE SONS WHOSE SONS ARE THE **L**IPIKA, RUNS CIRCULAR ERRANDS. **F**OHAT IS THE STEED AND THE THOUGHT IS THE RIDER. **H**E PASSES LIKE LIGHTNING THROUGH THE FIERY CLOUDS; TAKES THREE, AND FIVE, AND SEVEN STRIDES THROUGH THE SEVEN REGIONS ABOVE, AND THE SEVEN BELOW. **H**E LIFTS HIS VOICE, AND CALLS THE INNUMERABLE SPARKS, AND JOINS THEM.

3**H**E IS THEIR GUIDING SPIRIT AND LEADER. **W**HEN
HE COMMENCES WORK, HE SEPARATES THE SPARKS OF THE **L**OWER **K**INGDOM THAT FLOAT AND THRILL WITH JOY IN THEIR RADIANT DWELLINGS, AND FORMS THEREWITH THE GERMS OF WHEELS. **H**E PLACES THEM IN THE SIX DIRECTIONS OF SPACE, AND ONE IN THE MIDDLE -- THE CENTRAL WHEEL.

4**F**OHAT TRACES SPIRAL LINES TO UNITE THE SIXTH
TO THE SEVENTH -- THE CROWN; AN ARMY OF THE **S**ONS OF **L**IGHT STANDS AT EACH ANGLE, AND THE **L**IPIKA IN THE MIDDLE WHEEL, **T**HEY SAY: **T**HIS IS GOOD, THE

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FIRST DIVINE WORLD IS READY, THE FIRST IS NOW THE SECOND. THEN THE "DIVINE ARUPA" REFLECTS ITSELF IN CHHAYA LOKA, THE FIRST GARMENT OF THE ANUPADAKA.

5**F**OHAT TAKES FIVE STRIDES AND BUILDS A WINGED
WHEEL AT EACH CORNER OF THE SQUARE, FOR THE FOUR HOLY ONES AND THEIR ARMIES.

6**T**HE **L**IPIKA CIRCUMSCRIBE THE
TRIANGLE, THE FIRST ONE, THE CUBE, THE SECOND ONE, AND THE PENTACLE WITHIN THE EGG. **I**T IS THE RING CALLED "**P**ASS **N**OT" FOR THOSE WHO DESCEND AND ASCEND. **A**LSO FOR THOSE WHO DURING THE **K**ALPA ARE PROGRESSING TOWARDS THE GREAT DAY "**B**E WITH US." **T**HUS WERE FORMED THE **R**UPA AND THE **A**RUPA: FROM ONE LIGHT SEVEN LIGHTS; FROM EACH OF THE SEVEN, SEVEN TIMES SEVEN LIGHTS. **T**HE WHEELS WATCH THE RING. . . . . -------

STANZA VI.

1**B**Y THE POWER OF THE **M**OTHER
OF **M**ERCY AND **K**NOWLEDGE -- **K**WAN-**Y**IN -- THE "TRIPLE" OF **K**WAN-SHAI-**Y**IN, RESIDING IN **K**WAN-YIN-**T**IEN, **F**OHAT, THE **B**REATH OF THEIR **P**ROGENY, THE **S**ON OF THE **S**ONS, HAVING CALLED FORTH, FROM THE LOWER ABYSS, THE ILLUSIVE FORM OF **S**IEN-**T**CHANG AND THE **S**EVEN **E**LEMENTS:*

2**T**HE **S**WIFT AND **R**ADIANT
**O**NE PRODUCES THE **S**EVEN **L**AYA **C**ENTRES, AGAINST WHICH NONE WILL PREVAIL TO THE GREAT DAY "**B**E-WITH-**U**S," AND SEATS THE **U**NIVERSE ON THESE **E**TERNAL **F**OUNDATIONS SURROUNDING **T**SIEN-**T**CHAN WITH THE **E**LEMENTARY **G**ERMS.

3**O**F THE **S**EVEN -- FIRST ONE
MANIFESTED, SIX CONCEALED, TWO MANIFESTED, FIVE CONCEALED; THREE MANIFESTED, FOUR CONCEALED; FOUR PRODUCED, THREE HIDDEN; FOUR AND ONE TSAN REVEALED, TWO AND ONE HALF CONCEALED; SIX TO BE MANIFESTED, ONE LAID ASIDE. **L**ASTLY, SEVEN SMALL WHEELS REVOLVING; ONE GIVING BIRTH TO THE OTHER.

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• Verse 1 of Stanza VI. is of a far later date than the other Stanzas, though still very ancient. The old text of this verse, having names entirely unknown to the Orientalists would give no clue to the student.

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4**H**E BUILDS THEM IN THE LIKENESS OF OLDER WHEELS,
PLACING THEM ON THE **I**MPERISHABLE **C**ENTRES. **H**OW DOES **F**OHAT BUILD THEM? HE COLLECTS THE FIERY DUST. **H**E MAKES BALLS OF FIRE, RUNS THROUGH THEM, AND ROUND THEM, INFUSING LIFE THEREINTO THEN' SETS THEM INTO MOTION; SOME ONE WAY, SOME THE OTHER WAY. **T**HEY ARE COLD, HE MAKES THEM HOT. **T**HEY ARE DRY, HE MAKES THEM MOIST. **T**HEY SHINE, HE FANS AND COOLS THEM. **T**HUS ACTS **F**OHAT FROM ONE TWILIGHT TO THE OTHER, DURING **S**EVEN **E**TERNITIES.

5**A**T THE FOURTH, THE SONS ARE TOLD TO CREATE
THEIR IMAGES. **O**NE THIRD REFUSES -- TWO OBEY. **T**HE CURSE IS PRONOUNCED; THEY WILL BE BORN ON THE FOURTH, SUFFER AND CAUSE SUFFERING; THIS IS THE FIRST WAR.

6**T**HE OLDER WHEELS ROTATED DOWNWARDS AND UPWARDS.
. . . **T**HE MOTHER'S SPAWN FILLED THE WHOLE. **T**HERE WERE BATTLES FOUGHT BETWEEN THE **C**REATORS AND THE **D**ESTROYERS, AND BATTLES FOUGHT FOR SPACE; THE SEED APPEARING AND RE-APPEARING CONTINUOUSLY.

7**M**AKE THY CALCULATIONS, **L**ANOO,
IF THOU WOULDEST LEARN THE CORRECT AGE OF THY SMALL WHEEL. **I**TS FOURTH SPOKE IS OUR MOTHER. **R**EACH THE FOURTH "FRUIT" OF THE FOURTH PATH OF KNOWLEDGE THAT LEADS TO **N**IRVANA, AND THOU SHALT COMPREHEND, FOR THOU SHALT SEE . . . . . -------

STANZA VII.

1**B**EHOLD THE BEGINNING OF SENTIENT FORMLESS
LIFE. **F**IRST THE **D**IVINE, THE ONE FROM THE **M**OTHER-**S**PIRIT; THEN THE **S**PIRITUAL; THE THREE FROM THE ONE, THE FOUR FROM THE ONE, AND THE FIVE FROM WHICH THE THREE, THE FIVE, AND THE SEVEN. **T**HESE ARE THE THREE-FOLD, THE FOUR-FOLD DOWNWARD; THE "MIND-BORN" SONS OF THE FIRST **L**ORD; THE SHINING SEVEN. **I**T IS THEY WHO ARE THOU, ME, HIM, OH **L**ANOO. **T**HEY, WHO WATCH OVER THEE, AND THY MOTHER EARTH.

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2**T**HE ONE RAY MULTIPLIES THE SMALLER RAYS. **L**IFE
PRECEDES FORM, AND LIFE SURVIVES THE LAST ATOM OF FORM. **T**HROUGH THE COUNTLESS RAYS PROCEEDS THE LIFE-RAY, THE ONE, LIKE A THREAD THROUGH MANY JEWELS.

3**W**HEN THE ONE BECOMES TWO, THE THREEFOLD APPEARS,
AND THE THREE ARE ONE; AND IT IS OUR THREAD, OH **L**ANOO, THE HEART OF THE MAN-PLANT CALLED **S**APTASARMA.

4**I**T IS THE ROOT THAT NEVER DIES; THE THREE-TONGUED
FLAME OF THE FOUR WICKS. **T**HE WICKS ARE THE SPARKS, THAT DRAW FROM THE THREE-TONGUED FLAME SHOT OUT BY THE SEVEN -- THEIR FLAME -- THE BEAMS AND SPARKS OF ONE MOON REFLECTED IN THE RUNNING WAVES OF ALL THE RIVERS OF EARTH.

5**T**HE SPARK HANGS FROM THE FLAME BY THE FINEST
THREAD OF **F**OHAT. **I**T JOURNEYS THROUGH THE **S**EVEN **W**ORLDS OF **M**AYA. **I**T STOPS IN THE FIRST, AND IS A METAL AND A STONE; IT PASSES INTO THE SECOND AND BEHOLD -- A PLANT; THE PLANT WHIRLS THROUGH SEVEN CHANGES AND BECOMES A SACRED ANIMAL. **F**ROM THE COMBINED ATTRIBUTES OF THESE, **M**ANU, THE THINKER IS FORMED. **W**HO FORMS HIM? **T**HE SEVEN LIVES, AND THE ONE LIFE. **W**HO COMPLETES HIM? **T**HE FIVE-FOLD **L**HA. **A**ND WHO PERFECTS THE LAST BODY? **F**ISH, SIN, AND SOMA. . . . .

6**F**ROM THE FIRST-BORN THE THREAD BETWEEN THE
**S**ILENT **W**ATCHER AND HIS **S**HADOW BECOMES MORE STRONG AND RADIANT WITH EVERY CHANGE. **T**HE MORNING SUN-LIGHT HAS CHANGED INTO NOON-DAY GLORY. . . . .

7**T**HIS IS THY PRESENT WHEEL, SAID THE **F**LAME
TO THE **S**PARK. **T**HOU ART MYSELF, MY IMAGE, AND MY SHADOW. **I** HAVE CLOTHED MYSELF IN THEE, AND THOU ART MY **V**AHAN TO THE DAY, "**B**E WITH US," WHEN THOU SHALT RE-BECOME MYSELF AND OTHERS, THYSELF AND ME. **T**HEN THE BUILDERS, HAVING DONNED THEIR FIRST CLOTHING, DESCEND ON RADIANT EARTH AND REIGN OVER MEN -- WHO ARE THEMSELVES. . . . Thus ends this portion of the archaic narrative, dark, confused, almost incomprehensible. An attempt will now be made to throw light into this darkness, to make sense out of this apparent NON-SENSE. Next Section Contents

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