45. The First, Second and Third Sonship of God
I. The first Sonship of God, the first reflection of the Primordial Existence, which in thought, name and desire proclaims nothing but the Godhead itself; thus it is nothing other than the sole proclaimer of the Only One. Here there is still no question of any differentiation or individualization. What we can perceive in any point of this self-illuminating infinity is only the One God.
World consciousness: The consciousness of the universe has this universe as knowledge.
II. Second Sonship of God, the second reflection of the Primordial Being, which permeates everything with the will to exist and lets the Primordial Spirit shine out of the isolated entities. This will to exist is a unified one. It is the Primordial Spirit, which is not merely, but wills itself. When it wills itself as thought, for instance, it wills itself as a single thought. Thought does proclaim itself; but it proclaims itself as thought, as a member of God.
(It is as if the hand were to say of itself: I am the thought, hand, but I am still only a member of the organism.
The All alone manifests itself in manifold ways. The diversity of beings has become conscious of the All as divine Unity.
Third Sonship of God, the third reflection of the Primordial Being, which permeates everything with individual will and keeps the Primordial Spirit hidden in this isolation. The will to exist is manifold. It is the Primordial Spirit who is not alone and wills not only for Himself, but wills every being. Thus the will of the original spirit becomes perceptible in the individual being, that is, the individual being perceives the will as its own will.
The groaning of the creature.
Evolution as redemption through the unified spirit hovering over the diversity of will.
The spirit, that is the third son. The manifold entities have consciousness of the manifold.
I. In descending order, there is first Jiva, Mahat and Fohat. The All-consciousness proclaims itself through all three elements.
Basic judgment: (All is All) Through the proclamation, the manifold arises.
II. In further descent, the manifold proclaims the divine unity in manifold ways.
(I am All)
III. In the further descent, each manifold thing proclaims itself.
(I am I)
In the further descent, the proclamation becomes objective being.
(Nature is I)
Sensations and mental images are I.
Here we encounter our human self in experience.
Psyche Manas Prana
In the ascending development of the soul, the original punctual I becomes manifold.
(Intuitions are I). Verbal Sa-Vitarka Wordless Intuition Nir-Vitarka
We are going through III
As we ascend further, we close our individual consciousness; this individual consciousness (as subject), does not thereby let the special consciousness prevail, but through its passivity, the all-consciousness. It receives the intuitions directly as itself. They now gradually show their own life in the ascending development, no longer as thoughts, but as beings.
We go through II
In the further ascent, the unity of their being is revealed in the diversity of intuitions.
We approach I.
Cite:
GA 46/46-03-45/p003-p008 · edition English