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CONTENTS PAGE
INTRODUCTION . . . . .VII
THE AQUARIAN RAYS . . 3
THE BUDDHIC WAVE .... 6
THE FORTY-NINE FIRES . . . 11
SATAN . .... IS
THE SECRET ORANGE PLANET . . 18
THE LIFE VEHICLES . . . .21
THE ORIGIN AND MANIFESTATION OF MIND 24
MEMORY ..... 27
TIME AND ETERNITY . . 30
THE SECRET OF KARMA ... 36
THE OLD ORDER AND THE NEW . 42
POLARITY . ... 50
THRONES ... 55
THE BASIC PHYSICAL .... 62
THE SECRET IN PRANA ... 67
BAPTISM . . .71
MATERIAL RICHES .... 74
TO THE WOULD-BE-PUPIL OF THE MASTERS 76
THE EARTH CHAIN ... 79
RESURRECTION ... 82
THE NEW BIRTH . . . 87
THE FOUNDATION ATOMS ... 93
A MYSTERY OF RE-EMBODIMENT . 99
THE RAISING OF THE DEAD . . 101
THE PLACE OF HIS APPEARING . . 104

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THE AVATAR . . . . .107
THE NEW AGE .... 107
CHRISTIAN ROSENKRANZ . . . 108
THE TASK OF EMBODIED AND OF DISEMBODIED
MIND ... . 112
SOME ASPECTS OF POSTHUMOUS LIFE . 115
THE MESSAGE OF A BUDDHIC MASTER . 118
THE EGOLESS BEING . . . 122
SPIRIT GUIDES . . . . 125
PSYCHIC VISION . . 128
THE POSTHUMOUS VIEWPOINT . 130
THE EIGHTH SPHERE . 132
HEART CENTERS . 135
THE GREAT BREATH .... 138
THE MASTER HILARION . . . 141
ARMAGEDDON . ... 145
ELECTRICAL ENERGY . . 146
THE DAYS OF THE LORD . 150
JUDAS ..... 153
SWEDENBORG AND THE ANCIENT WISDOM 156
THE UNKNOWABLE SUPREME . . 177
AVITCHI . . . .180
LEVITATION . . . 183
ISHVARA . . . 186
IN CONCLUSION ... 189

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IN submitting this third volume of the series
begun with "Special Teachings from the
Arcane Science," the author is aware that the
times are not yet ready for much of its contents.
Still the rapidly widening outlook of multitudes
encourages the venture, and gives promise that,
ere the coming of a great event — one for which
in humble way this book is a preparation — certain
of its chapters will be accepted, and even assimi
lated, by those whose eyes are toward the New
Age now almost with us, and whose hearts are
preparing for that large and complete message of
which these pages contain only hints and fragments.
Should our explanations leave many matters
more or less dark, it is because we ourselves have
not yet come into the day, or else that the full light
of explanation must await the word of mouth from
the World Teacher himself.
From the title of the preceding volume, "The
Heart of Things," it might be inferred that in its
probings and soundings we thought to reach the
central mysteries; but, like the human heart, the
heart of things is seven-fold. So, despite our
previous attempt, and notwithstanding our present
effort, the deepest deep remains unknown.
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Far from subscribing to the theory that matter
is but the three-dimensional aspect of spirit, the
author holds that both spirit and matter, each in
some crude condition, existed as positive and
negative before time began, and, because naturally
the more active, spirit has progressed enormously,
though not necessarily to perfection, during
unnumbered aeons. On the other hand, matter,
that form of electrical energy with which, on
this lowly planet, man is most familiar, has
reached only the condition now obtaining in our
solar system and beyond it.
Furthermore, the author holds that matter shall
be refined to a state of permanency as such. No
doubt this matter will be quite unlike any sub
stance which man at present has knowledge of,
and perhaps its permanence will not be attained
until the Universe in toto has evolved to a definite
degree, or even to the utmost.
The resurrected body of Jesus was the first
recorded hint of the possibilities inherent in mat
ter; but, we contend, that body was only the
notable beginning of a condition both of mankind
and the World itself, — a condition depicted by the
Revelator who saw: "the Holy City, the New
Jerusalem, coming down from God out of Heaven."
To John, this condition was an earthly one wherein
"there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor
crying, neither shall there be any more pain, for
the former things are passed away."
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Would that it were our privilege to amplify the
few hints touching the possibilities of matter
which we have dropped like seeds on the pages of
this final volume of our series. Such an explana
tion would indeed be the culmination of the entire
teachings. As it is, we cherish the belief that to
some more worthy and capable pupil will be given
much that for sufficient reasons has been withheld
from us.
Yielding to the request of many readers of
"Arcane Science" and "The Heart of Things,"
we have in "The Deeper Mysteries" often affixed
the initials of certain Masters to the teachings
received from them.
Edward Clarence Farnsworth.

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the aquarian rays
IN an article in "The Nineteenth Century and
After" for September, 1917, Mr. A. P. Sinnett
says: "The superphysical powers of good and
evil are now engaged in the fiercest struggle for
supremacy that has been waged in the whole
history of the Solar System."
This important information, doubtless obtained
from those who know, is devoid of details; there
fore let us amplify the brief statement of our dis
tinguished author.
In previous teachings of this series, we have
shown our globe-chain to be the only one proper
to a physical evolution of which septenary man
will become the perfect product. To other worlds,
our own is known as the dark star. This because
of the unusual obstacles besetting the evolution
of a planet destined to be the substantial base of
the scheme comprising seven globe chains.
Though in large degree man rises because of his
own efforts, yet in a larger he progresses through
the lifting power of beings higher and higher in the
scale reaching to and even beyond the lofty zodia
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from that constellation to our physical earth both
a revelation of Truth higher than any before, and
an incentive to its assimilation throughout the
world. From the Zodiac to the Solar Logos the lines of
force are unimpeded; besides, the Sun is a perfect
receiver. But, between the Sun and our physical
globe, conditions at present are far different, and
for several reasons. To begin with, our physical
globe and its humanity are the most imperfect
receivers of the zodiacal forces to be found in the
globe chains of the septenary series. This fact is
as patent to the dark hosts as to those of light and
love. Were it not for the coming Avatar, whose heart
is more fit to receive the emanations of Aquarian
truth than that of any other being thus far evolved
on our planet, these emanations might, outside of
certain quarters, prove only of slight benefit. As
elsewhere explained, these emanations are in fact
a buddhic fire extremely discomforting to the dark
hosts who well know that should this fire find
lodging, even as sparks, in the hearts of the com
ponents of the incipient sixth sub-race, those
sparks will kindle and grow and, eventually, in the
next cycle of Aquarius, they will become that flame
which will make the sixth root race enduring
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demoralization of Earth's depraved hosts, to occur
at the great cycle which, ages hence, will usher in
the sixth root race. Because our opponents are
aware of their immediate danger, and a greater to
come, the battle is on; a matter of life or death to
the dark ones who strive, by means of infernal arts,
to deflect the unstayable Aquarian Rays, and turn
them into the deeps of space.
At the time of the old Atlantean struggle, the
enemies of the hosts of light made no effort to
deflect the zodiacal forces; but while, since then,
the White Lodge has progressed greatly in knowl
edge, experience, and wisdom, the Black Lodge
has gained almost equally in fiendish cunning.
As result, at the outbreak of the War in Heaven,
early in the first decade of the present century, the
Black Lodge for the first time began its present
methods. Moreover, this body soon was enabled to enlist
to its cause the brutalized kamic hosts of Mars,
and those chiefest of adepts in all infernal arts, the
kama-manasic hosts of Saturn; whereat there sped
to the rescue of Earth's imperilled humanity those
Lords of the Flame the wielders of the manasic
fire of Venus, and also the Manasa Putra, the
Sons of Wisdom who direct the supreme buddhic
fire of Mercury. Over this mightiest of strivings
the Jovian Hierarchy sat seemingly aloof, but
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determination are by no means confined to the
enemies of Right, and, as Mr. Sinnett in his article
affirms, the outcome is assured. To this let us
add that not again in this earth manvantara can
such a conflict occur.
Foiled in its attempts to turn the buddhic Rays,
the Dark Lodge achieved a minor success in that
it was able to inject into the hearts of those whom,
in this cycle of World Karma, retribution has left
vulnerable to such attack, that malignity which
was the mainspring of its efforts against the White.
By linking their own Karma to that of these dupes,
our opponents doomed them to overthrow. Thus
does the wise and good Law sometimes accomplish
its object through its sworn enemies. H.

THE BUDDHIC WAVE
TN the book "The Heart of Things," and in the
J- chapter "The Coming Avatar," was given, as
far as permissible, the esoteric reason for the descent
of an Avatar; so let us say briefly that a major
Avatar is the vehicle of the principal called Buddhi,
the knower of the essential nature of man's every
act both in the present life and in former births.
Because of the inner unity of all beings, these good
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incarnate being, Buddhi becomes the vehicle of
karmic Law.
In the presence of Buddhi, falsehood unmasks
and truth asserts itself. Thus the enmity of the
Pharisees toward the Master was open; nor could
it be concealed. Judas the hypocrite must reveal
himself as the betrayer of his Lord. The faithful
disciples must renounce worldly goods and follow
the Christ. The hosannas of Palm Sunday soon
sounded their true meaning in the cry: "Crucify
Him!" The saying of Jesus: " I came not to bring
peace, but a sword," contained nothing of
hostility, but rather the truth that, in the light of
his presence, secret enmity would become open
warfare. Into the conflicts which, during certain cycles
like the present one, occur between the white and
the dark hosts of the invisible world, weapons
corresponding with the crude ones of human war
fare never enter. Merely by their principle of
Buddhi, and its emanations, the white brother
hoods would disconcert the black. These in turn
seek some vulnerable part in the lower principles of
their opponents, and, because with the white per
fection is by no means universal, the battle often
fluctuates even as recently it did. Never since
Atlantean times when victory hung long in the
balance, but finally turned to the White Brother
hood, never since then have the black multitudes
been conquerors. Moreover, never before has
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such warfare been as general as recently it was,
and never as then were the white forces so able to
cope with their adversaries.
Ever a dispenser of karmic Justice, the Buddhic
Wave — ^that emanation from the heart of Being —
is largely a trinity of Atma, Buddhi and Manas;
in other words a trinity of spiritual will, pure love,
and high intelligence. High intelligence guides
the operation of pure love which spiritual will
causes to persist. As the revealer of actual con
ditions, the Buddhic Wave, now preceding the
descent of the great Avatar, threw to the surface,
as the war of nations, the fact that these nations
have long been at secret enmity.
In forward and retrograde passage through the
twelve signs, the Sun is chief agent of Buddhi
in its aspect as Karma to this world. Without
the Sun's passage through the signs. Karma would
be inoperative here; consequently all evolutionary
progress would have been stayed at the outset.
Always the Buddhic Wave descends directly
from the Sun to Earth, and, for that matter, to all
planets of our system; but for Earth that wave
differs in quality and degree according to the signs
and the position of the Sun therein as seen by us.
As the Sun approaches a sign, the Buddhic Wave
begins to take on the characteristics of that sign,
and to lose those of the sign in which it already is.
During the Sun's forward movement, these rapid
changes but little affect the lower principles of
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mankind as a whole; so the resulting Karma is to
the individual, and the family, and possibly the
community; but, in the retrograde two-thousand-
year passage from sign to sign, ample time is
allowed for world-wide influence.
Exoteric Astrology assumes that to the human
race the influences of the Moon and the planets
can at times be as malign as at other times they are
helpful; but some little explanation will show the
fallacy of this view.
The Buddhic Wave from the Sun to our Earth
is seven-fold, or, more strictly, ten-fold; also it is
wholly pure. Moreover, a wave of pure energy
reaches Earth from each of the planets in the
following order: Jupiter, Mercury, Venus, Saturn,
Mars, the secret violet planet, Neptune, Uranus,
and the outmost or undiscovered planet. Sooner
or later the wave from every planet unites with
that from the Sun, but, by the repulsion of the
sun wave, any impurity emanating from any
planet is thrown back upon its birthplace.
The planetary waves are by no means direct;
thus the wave from Jupiter, one of pure spiritual
will, is drawn to, and unites with the sun wave
quite near the Sun itself. The wave from Mer
cury, one of spiritual will and pure love, unites
with the sun wave a little below. The wave from
Venus is three-fold, high intelligence being the new
factor. Its junction with the sun wave occurs at
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is four-fold, purified lower Manas being the new
component. Its junction with the sun wave is
lower still. The wave from Mars is five-fold,
purified Kama being the new component. Its
junction is below that of Saturn. The wave from
the Violet planet is six-fold, the astral element of
purified personal will being the new component.
Its junction with the sun wave is the lowest yet.
The wave from Neptune is eight-fold; from
Uranus nine-fold, and from the outmost planet
ten-fold. As stated in "Special Teachings from the Arcane
Science," the eighth, ninth, and tenth planets are
not in that system of evolution of which our earth
is the base. Having as yet no planetary hier
archies, these slowly progressing planets are in the
direct care of the great eighth, ninth, and tenth
hierarchies of the Logos. The Buddhic Wave
from each of these planets to Earth is really the
over-plus of its sun wave; hence the importance
of Neptune and Uranus as factors in the molding
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THE FORTY-NINE FIRES
IN the teaching, "The Buddhic Wave," we
touched upon the warfare of the white and the
dark powers of the invisible world. Also we
stated that the weapons used were unlike those of
earthly conflict. To understand the nature and
effect of these weapons, we should discover the
essential nature of desire, that principle which, like
will and mind, is a component of an inseparable
trinity on our planetary chain, and also on every
other from that of Venus downward.
Always in this trinity the middle principle of
desire is a fiery one. Not so the other two; but,
as in contact with fire, metal is heated, so will
above and mind below become fiery. In that
reflection of this positive trinity which forms the
inverted or negative triad, Kama, or selfish desire,
is the fire with Lower Manas above, and the astral
personal will below; both fiery through contact.
The basic physical principle is a fiery one through
its union with Kama and the Astral. On each of
the seven planes of our planetary chain are seven
conditions of fire. These differing fires divide the
total seven into forty-nine sub-planes or fires. Of
the seven fires of the physical plane. Material
Science recognizes only the one destructive to
gross physical matter; still, as every physical being
lives and moves in certain of the seven, it follows
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that a fire to which that being is adapted is not by
him recognized as fire, but rather as an agreeable
and life-sustaining element.
In the early planetary rounds, our race and the
lower forms of life existed without inconvenience
in that world-fire which, because long since largely
outgrown by the changed and changing physical
organisms of every species, is now destructive to
them. Man still lives and has pleasure in certain
aspects of physical fire which, before wholly out
grown, will to his backward look seem harmful.
Moreover, perhaps to his physical body of the far
future they will have become deadly as fire can
well be.
Certain aspects of astral and kamic fire are below
normal man, but, at death, depraved men gravitate
to these olden fires once comparatively pure and
even agreeable to our entire humanity, though
long since polluted by the presence of the outcasts
of the race. To Swedenborg, these divisions of the
astral plane were hells, the habitation of devils.
The mind body of man has risen above certain
fires of the lower manasic levels, but the fires of the
Higher Manas are as yet unknown to the great
majority. As for the buddhic fires, the source of
all others, only a few advanced representatives of
mankind are in other than their lower sub-divisions.
During incarnation the human physical body
holds the other six principles in touch with certain
physical fires. During its posthumus cycle of
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vitality, the astral body holds the other five in
touch with certain astral fires. Next the kamic
principle, during its cycle, holds all higher principles
in touch with the kamic fires. Finally, the Higher
Manas holds the two highest principles in touch
with certain manasic fires.
Because the four lower principles of man are at
variance with the higher three, they would humble
those three to their own level. Correspondingly
the hosts of darkness would debase the hosts that
stand as a wall around humanity; so they breach
or undermine wherever possible. During the
ordeal the great Niramanakayas, the tried and
proven through ages of service, stand intact in
their six-fold robes of purified principles down to
and including the Astral.
Among these great ones are certain who in
historic times were vulnerable to attack; and even
more there are who, in the Atlantean struggle,
were badly worsted. Such being the case, what
must be the partial weakness of thousands of the
ordinary champions of Light? Concerning
weapons that have wrought discomfort and defeat
among the black and the white hosts, let it be said
that they are certain of the forty and nine fires.
Man's physical body can be tortured by ordinary
fire because, having passed out of its old fiery con
dition, that body has not yet evolved to a state of
immunity, of unawareness of the existence of
ordinary fire as such. Certain astral and kamic
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fires are harmful to the ordinary individual dis
embodied and on the astral and kamic planes.
These fires he avoids, even as on earth he avoided
physical fire: but, were he wholly purified in his
astral and kamic bodies, such fires would to him
be quite harmless. When purified in his manasic
bodies, he cannot suffer from the grosser manasic
fires. To the black brotherhood, the polluted and
harmful kamic fires are natural and agreeable
elements constituting effective weapons against
certain of the white brotherhood. The high and
pure fires of Manas and Buddhi are, in turn, tor
turous to the black since they are fallen beings
once to some extent partakers of these fires, even
as we now are through the higher triad of princi
ples. If to one evolving from a gross fire, it in
time become harmful ; so, to one fallen from a pure
fire, that element will eventually be equally so.
The wily black magician attempts not the
conquest of the wholly purified white. On the
contrary, he fears and flees from his buddhic fire.
Those of the white who as yet have not wholly
purified their astral and kamic bodies, are more or
less vulnerable to the gross astral and kamic fires
of the enemy; and always they shrink, and often
they flee from the intolerable burning. Selfish
pride, and lust of power and possession, are manasic
fires somewhat less gross. When insinuated by
the black into their victims, these seem pleasant
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and life-giving even as on earth, but, to the some
what purified white, they are malodorous and
stifling. In the warfare described, the weapon really
effective is the pure, buddhic fire; that which adds
to itself from the purified lower principles an
indescribable luster and a determining energy.
Having in superlative degree both that luster and
energy, the great Captain of the white company is
already wielding, as invincible weapon, that
zodiacal fire the resplendent truth of Aquarius. H.
SATAN
SATAN, that black and hideous being, is not a
product of our world, and to him neither
human shape nor physical body wSre ever given.
Coming to this earth from another, now in pralaya,
he arrived as chief and almost sole survivor of his
dark company; one since recruited from human
kind. As an astral entity, he at once began to
prey upon our earliest races. This from two
causes, one easily seen, to wit, pure malignity; the
other deeply occult, and requiring explanation.
Debased Kama and selfish, obdurate personal will
were his dominant principles, in fact his life as a
self-conscious entity. Such gross principles are of
course perishable, the higher triad — atrophied in
him — being necessary to real immortality.
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How to prolong his astral and kamic life was a
problem solved in a way worthy of Satan's devilish
cunning. He became a vampire feeding on what
in man corresponds with his own perverted princi
ples. Henceforth he strove to reduce the human
race to his own level. Imagine him desperately
active in a cycle of mature world Karma, and we
account for the horrors of the war now passed
through. In a large view, our common enemy
was unwittingly the instrument of Justice to every
nation involved, all of whom were more or less
guilty as history shows. The Pisces Avatar came
at the time of a judgment more circumscribed.
The fall of Jerusalem and the dispersion of the
Jewish people, though momentous to themselves,
were not then important events, however large
appearing in subsequent history.
Touching further upon the past and the present
of humanity's old adversary, let it be said that
while in former times his acts were inspired by fear
and hatred, those of to-day are born of despera
tion, since for him the descent of the Major Avatar
means greatly enfeebled powers during a thousand
years; after which the force generated by the
Avatar will subside gradually for another thousand
years Of one fact we are assured, Satan cannot
survive the rise of the sixth root race, because the
principle of Buddhi, therein resident, will act as
poison on his principles, unless he retire to some
restricted department of the sub-astral plane.
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Virtually this will be the chaining of Satan men
tioned in Revelation. Undoubtedly the inception
of the sixth sub-race is a menace to his activity.
The kamic principle of gross desire cannot
endure contact with the buddhic principle of pure
compassion: hence the coming of the Major Avatar
arouses the ire of the entire dark host. Least of
all this host, can the Prince of Darkness enter the
presence of the Prince of Light. So Satan incites
his company to aggression. Only with those of
the human species who most resemble him, has he
personal contact. War's unspeakable horrors in
every age originated in his attempt to increase
numerically the victims of his dreadful vampirism.
As for Satan's followers, each according to his
rank becomes an astral ghoul who imperils the
reincarnation of his victims. This for two reasons :
first, because these victims are drained of neces
sary vitality, and, second, because gradually they
lose human shape and intelligence, thus becoming
nondescripts, or, rather, reversions to, types now
extinct on our globe. Nevertheless the good Law
does not cut off such beings for, by a merciful pro
vision, they are to be transferred to a planet of as
yet low development, though of lofty destiny.
This planet is known to Astrologers as the higher
Venus, and as such to Initiates, because with
almost Divine Wisdom it rescues, and sets securely
on a low rung of the long ladder of life, those whom
other evolutions have failed to reclaim.
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Since the dawn of the twentieth century, the
world more and more has been in that wave of
spiritual energy which precedes the re-embodi
ment of the Aquarian Avatar. As the result of
this influx, the virtuous are increasingly incited
to virtue, while the wickedness of multitudes is
reaching that culmination which means their dis
appearance from our evolution. The beneficial
effects of this general weeding out will be realized
in succeeding centuries. On the other hand, the
buddhic wave is energizing great multitudes to
noble deeds of self-sacrifice. H.

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A /TANY critics of Occult Science imagine that,
-^'-'- whereas, by slow and laborious inquiry.
Physical Science has accumulated a mountain of
proveable fact, the other, because jumping at
conclusions, gives out as truth a jumble of absurd
theories which, if tested by the methods of Physical
Science, would be wholly discredited.
Speaking for Occult Science, we repeat what
often has been said to wit: painstaking research
was its invariable procedure ages before Physical
Science began initial, crude investigation. Organic
and inorganic Chemistry, those branches of
Material Science to which the modern world is
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greatly indebted, had origin in the experiments of
the old Alchemists who were themselves stimu
lated often to feverish activity by certain mis
understood half truths gleaned from the ancient
Arcanum of the Initiates. With this much as
preliminary, let us proceed to the exposition of
further occult truth.
That in its early rounds our Earth was a fiery
globe is an ancient teaching quite in accord with
the finding of modern Material Science: but, in
the further statement that in its culminating
round this Earth returns to the fiery state, the old
science abruptly parts company with the new.
From a previous teaching was gathered some
what concerning the forty-nine fires, seven of
which are proper to the physical plane. Aided by
this knowledge, we shall now unveil the truth
beneath the exoteric statement that in its latest
round our Earth is again a fiery globe.
Though now a dead world, the physical Moon
in its early rounds was fiery through contact with
the fire of the predominating astral principle of the
moon chain. During ages of evolution, this astral
principle was dividing gradually first into the pure
and enduring astral fire of what would become the
secret violet planet and, second, into the gross and
perishable astral fire which finally united with the
dying physical Moon. The purified astral fire of
the seventh lunar round greatly differed from the
original astral fire, and vastly more so from the
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astral residuum now in pralaya. No separation
of fires took place on the physical plane, since the
evolution of the moon chain was based on the
astral. In passing let it be said that, because more
ethereal than the purified astral of our planet, that
of the moon evolution is visible only from the
highest level of our astral world and, even there,
only masters and advanced chelas can see what
therefore is denominated the secret, violet planet.
As the evolution of our chain is based on the
physical, it follows that physical fire is much
nearer to our humanity than ever it was to the lunar
fathers. It follows further that the basic separa
tion of fires, to be consummated in our seventh
round, occurs on the physical plane. That part
of our physical globe which, since the early rounds,
has cooled and solidified, is largely residuum from
which, in the seventh round, all life-sustaining
power shall have departed. What then will be
the condition of seventh round humanity, and that
of the physical sub-planes proper thereto?
The teaching is that while five of the seven sub-
planes or fires of the physical globe cannot be
assimilated, the two upper divisions will be purified
into a resplendent globe, self-luminous by means
of the planetary fires from that of Buddhi down
ward. The physical bodies of seventh round
humanity will glow like the earth itself with living
fire which to our senses would not now be recog-
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nized as such. This fire is a union of the seven
pure spectrum colors, with the orange predomi
nating. Thus we interpret the Arcane Teaching which
furthermore states that our planetary fire will
culminate in a seven-fold glory outvieing the six
fold brilliancy of the violet planet, the future five
fold beauty of Mars, the future four-fold of Saturn,
the future three-fold of Venus, the future dual of
Mercury, and the future single atmic glory of
Jupiter. As for the after condition of our planetary chain,
we have used the history of the Moon Chain as
illustration. The time is coming when a secret
orange planet will be added to the number already
in the minor subdivisions of the Logos. H.

THE LIFE VEHICLES
A FAMILIAR occult teaching is that during
its entire life period, every globe chain in
our solar system experiences seven incarnations,
each a Manvantara, or man-perfecting epoch.
Our earth chain is now in the fourth of its seven.
Previous Earth Manvantaras perfected for their
humanities permanent robal coverings of but the
seventh or highest division of physical body sub
stance. The present Manvantara will perfect for
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its humanity a permanent physical robe of a
portion of the sixth division.
The fifth Manvantara is to perfect for its
humanity a physical vehicle of the sixth and
seventh divisions entire. Succeeding Manvan
taras will only refine for their humanities these
two divisions. The next lower division of physical
body substance is to be perfected on the eighth
planetary chain, the destined place of the eight-
principled animal evolution, and also the place of
regeneration and rise of all human failures rejected
during this Manvantara of our planetary chain.
Analysis of the quality of the life vehicles on any
planetary chain reveals to a nicety the status and
ultimate condition of their owners. Into the
exposition of this arcane teaching let us to some
extent enter.
In Vol. 1 of this series, "Special Teachings from
the Arcane Science," and in the chapter, "The
Planetary Process," it was found that the simple
one-principled atmic lives emanated to the Jupiter
chain were of seven degrees of fineness; also that
eventually the coarser and coarser atmic lives
dropped to their proper globe conditions in the
chain, and therefrom were carried by lower and
lower life-waves until Atma became the highest
principle on every lower globe chain. What was
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The wave of physical life which swept through
the physical globes of every chain down to this,
sowed no seeds of normal physical life before
reaching our world. The seeds deposited here
were of seven kinds; and in kind the fruits thereof
are unchangeable forever. The physical body of
man was the highest fruit; one not to be con
founded with the animal; hence while the eating
of animal flesh is of common occurrence, canni
balism to all but the most degraded savage is a
loathsome crime.
During the first human root race of every round
of our globe chain, the physical vesture of every
creature whatsoever is, in composition, nearly
identical with that of the first round; but, until
the middle of each round beginning with the
second, and especially until the middle of the
fourth round — that which corresponds with the
kama-manasic principle — every living creature adds
to its physical vesture grosser and grosser atoms
then to be discarded gradually until the previous
minimum is reached.
As the physical vehicle of man incorporates the
highest grade of its appropriate substance, where
as that of the animal kingdom incorporates the
grade below, so is it with the human astral and
every higher human body; and so is it with the
corresponding animal bodies. Between the normal
human kind, and the animal, there is an abnormal
kind whose tendency, while never upward, is in
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extreme cases toward the brute level. This variety
is that of derelicts and outcasts, the unelect of the
Pauline doctrine which its initiate author could
not unveil to the Piscean age. As revealed on our
planet, the Christos reaches not down to this class
who, by the Divine Wisdom and Mercy, are there
fore transferred to a planet wherein a more funda
mental exposition of the Christos will lay hold of
and lift them to their place in the Cosmic Scheme.
That the luna pitris, incarnating as human in
the early rounds of our globe, were of the Moon's
animal evolution is but an exoteric statement
veiling the ti-uth that these were failures represent
ing an intermediate principle analogous to the one
above mentioned; in fact they were impervious to
refining Truth as revealed to the moon humanity.
In this lower planet, after temporary failure, they
would rise to their peculiar destiny. This fact is
beneath the ancient and deeply occult doctrine of
that original sin which exoteric Jewish theology
laid upon Adam. H.
THE ORIGIN AND MANIFESTATION OF MIND
A /TATERIAL Science fails to explain the fact
-'¦'-'- that the functions which it labels ' ' instinct ' '
appear in the very young animal, whereas the
human infant is born mentally a helpless creature
that must await the slow unfolding of mind, that
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gift supposedly God-bequeathed only to the
human species.
The notion that mind is the possession of man
alone, originated in the dogma that the gift of
immortality, or even the possibility of attaining
it, is the peculiar birthright of the one genus
endowed with mind. It is repugnant to the idea
of Divine Justice, that any being capable of
thought, however circumscribed, should be doomed
to utter extinction through death of the physical;
so, in lieu of mind, mere "instinct" — whatever
that may be — was allowed to the brute kingdom.
Our philosophy teaches that Mind, as one
aspect of that all-pervading Trinity, — Will,
Desire, Thought, sleeps in the mineral, wakes in
the plant, becomes more or less active in the
animal, and fully alert in man, the crown and
culmination of Nature's efforts. During the long
and slow ascent from the lower kingdoms to
civilized beings, indwelling mind is ever striving
to individualize itself, and take the shape of the
physical body. In the humbler species the result
is a most rudimentary mind body; one dissipated
at death, or soon after; but as for the higher
animals, especially the domesticated horse, cow,
elephant, dog, and certain others; these, through
association with man, and because of their efforts
to understand his wishes and commands, have
developed mind bodies which, in certain instances,
will persist, and even re-incarnate in a way analo-
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gous to the mind bodies of their higher brethren
of the human race.
The wide adaptability of mind to its environ
ment is not conceded by those who, naming a cer
tain aspect of it "instinct," marvel that, for
instance, the young whale from the moment of
birth can both swim, and feed from the teat of the
mother; whereas the human infant would die
were not its mouth guided co the nipple. In the
human infant, hunger urges the principle of desire
to immediate expression, but because the mind of
the mother takes upon itself the duties proper to
that of the infant. Nature has for ages accom
modated itself to this fact. No doubt many more
ages would be necessary to bring the infant mind
to that precocity which, from necessity, is usual in
the lower species.
To those of circumscribed vision, the fact that
Nature is red in tooth and claw, seems an indict
ment of that Love which supposedly is sovereign
over all our world. Throughout the animal king
dom. Nature is striving to the end that an individ
ualized and permanent mind body may be the
property of its every entity. The sluggish minds
of the lower orders must be roused by means
necessarily harsh. Love of life, the fear of all that
threatens it, the desire for food, and the consequent
matching of cunning against cunning, are the only
possible means by which the lower orders can be
stimulated to think in the narrow circles to which
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they have thus far attained. So the cost of
immortality is tremendous; but the result will be
priceless. Long ago man passed through his fiery struggle
for immortality, but more or less of the evil ten
dencies then engendered yet cling to him. Because
of these evils, exoteric religions condemn certain
of the human race to everlasting punishment; but
these religions fail to see that the higher virtues
are chiefly the evolution of their once necessary
opposites. Thus, cunning like that of the fox
becomes the craft of the savage, which in turn
becomes the intelligence of the average civilized
man, and finally this widens into the wisdom of the
sage. Again, ferocity like that of the tigress
defending her young, evolves to the love of the
human mother for her child; and such love event
uates in that compassion for the entire human race
which distinguished both Buddha and the Galilean
Master. H. P. B.
MEMORY
MEMORY is that faculty of the mind by
which it retains knowledge of association
with persons, things, and events. While the
apparent office of memory is universally familiar,
it has an interior use which, though known to the
few, is undreamed of by the many. In this brief
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chapter let us throw upon that use a ray from the
Secret Science.
Because mind is an active principle, its expres
sion is always dynamic. If one holds in his mind's
eye an absent friend or loved one, forthwith the
effort causes a vibration in the mental substance
of the seven-fold world. Then, guided by the
higher mind of the transmitter, this vibration finds
the mind of the remembered. Should that vibra
tion contact those peculiar to the physical brain
mind of the receiver, in other words, his lower mind,
it results that the finer mental vibrations, proper
to the act of mental visualizing, are overpowered
and even obliterated by the coarser ones of the
material mind contacted. Should now the higher
mind of the receiver at the time be in rapport with
the corresponding mind of the sender, then a
drawing near of these two minds will result.
The human material body must of course wholly
conform to the laws of time and of space obtaining
on the material plane. Not so the mind bodies,
especially the higher of the two linked with the
material body. This higher is in its own definite
aspect of time and space; and, if freed from physi
cal hinderings, it would obey only the law of the
high mental plane. As it is, every human material
body has more or less of a separative effect on its
purely mental associate when the latter would
come into conjunction with another of its kind.
If a loved one has passed out of material con-
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ditions, then but a single physical obstacle to
conjunction of separated minds remains. Desire to
visit the grave, or else some scene where, as earthly
beings, friends or lovers have passed unforgettable
hours, is an urge originating in the law on which
we are touching. These places are potent aids to
the yet-incarnated higher mind that would visualize
most clearly the being now beyond the veil of the
physical, and thus bring about the near approach
of both higher minds, those which, in the course of
nature, are destined to complete union.
Because in the world, and environed by physical
conditions, we can picture heaven and its inhabi
tants only by giving to them certain physical
characteristics. By the same law, those who have
passed from earth can hold in memory the world
and its dwellers only by giving to them certain
characteristics of the heavenly places and their
peoples. As the discarnate higher mind rises to more and
more appropriate planes of being, memory of the
physical world and its contents — because increas
ingly influenced by environment — becomes more
and more unlike the original. The belief that, in
the last analysis, the physical world is mere delu
sion, no doubt originated with those who, in the
profound trance known as samadhi, looked at or
remembered it from the super-physical planes.
The law which influences memory in the dis
carnate upon the higher planes, and causes them
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to idealize the physical earth and its inhabitants,
is operative in an opposite way in those who, after
death, have sunken to the lower divisions of the
astral plane. Especially is that law active in
those unfortunates who have gravitated to that
lowest division of the astral known as the eighth
sphere. As Swedenborg discovered, these remember and
even see the sun itself as a black sphere. As for
the physical earth, the distorted memory of these
makes of it a vile abode of evil beings resembling
themselves. Those who yet in physical life remem
ber this class with hatred in their hearts, are in
danger of forming the very tie which of all possible
ones they would abhor; for let it be emphasized
that while love is the potent binder of hearts and
destinies, hate is equally efficient in its own field
of operations.

TIME AND ETERNITY
ETERNITY is the Past, the Present, and the
Future, united in the Divine Mind; whereas
that which encompasses these is the Divine Form.
To be comprehensible to finite mind. Eternity
and its Container manifest as innumerable spheres
moving around other spheres, themselves in
motion throughout the deeps of space. For every
being in ascending scale, this symbol holds until
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he enters Eternity there to unite with the all-
inclusive One.
Because a revolving sphere, this Earth is a
manifestation of time to its dwellers, and because
Time, moving in its orbit, carries with it the suc
cession of events, their re-incarnation so to speak,
the human root races and sub-races — progressing
through their cycles and minor cycles of timed
events, — are, at the beginning of these periods,
impelled to move over the Earth in great migra
tions which began with the polar races, and con
tinued throughout Lemurian, Atlantean, and his
toric times, and still continue, as witness the influx
of world peoples to that amalgamation which in
America, will result in a new sub-race.
To primitive man the earth was flat; the all-
important center around which swung the diminu
tive sun and moon, and the insignificant stars;
heavenly lamps all of them, and lighted only for
his convenience in day or night. In Atlantean
times the Secret Science taught the world's rotun
dity, and its minor place in the universal scheme;
but this knowledge was for the few, since the
spherical earth, and its axial and orbital revolu
tions, were clews to certain cyclic operations of
karmic Law.
Through major and minor karmic cycles, all
worlds and creatures approach Eternity, the Divine
Vision. Enlarged cycles of sight will be successive
until, at the last unveiling of minds and eyes, the
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far off in time and space becomes the Eternal
Now, and the Ever Present.
In both the individual and collective building
of the temple of Divine Truth, Karma urges to
perfect work, since it reveals to man's spiritual
understanding that what is builded for Time and
Eternity must in every detail be flawless. The
lower nature deems Karma a hard taskmaster, but
the nobler part of man at times sees Karma as
Divine Truth and Compassion; so the dictum of
the higher nature rules in a way which the lower
never realizes; therefore unconsciously this lower
pays its debt to the Law as we shall see.
Retiring from objective life, man the builder
reaches higher and higher levels of discrimination
in respect to Truth until, at the turning point of
his subjective arc, a ray of light from the universal
Atma informs his individual seventh principle;
whereat he sees time as a spiral in which he must
travel toward perfection. Then, though actuated
by only a fraction of the Divine Thoroughness, he
gladly descends to meet the requirements of
karmic Law. Soon a workman on the physical
plane, he will tear down and rebuild wherever
necessary. In the successive clothings incident to
rebirth, the lower nature, because taking to itself
a new body and an unremembering brain, may
rebel at Karma's decree; still the momentum
established at the turning of man's cycle, must be
maintained till time and place and condition have
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new inception at the beginning of the next cycle.
Within the objective arc of every human life
exist innumerable karmic time cycles which lift
one into joy, or plunge him into sorrow, but, in the
direst descent, there is no complusion for the
higher nature because — as in the greater cycle —
at the turning point of this small dark one the
Divine Adjudicator of karmic Law informs the
spiritual will of man which at once fulfills its office.
Thereupon the lower principles, unconscious that
they are willed so to do, proceed to self-punishment.
The succession of births into the physical world,
a succession uninterrupted for ages, may be likened
to a mighty river ever flowing because of its
innumerable tributaries. From the lake of Itasca
to the Gulf of Mexico the Mississippi sweeps over
a flat surface, but, for thirteen hundred miles in
direct line from the river's source to its mouth, the
curve of the globe is the arc of a circle, complete
were the river's course uninterrupted.
In respect to time, the human race moves in a
great spiral of which the historic ages are an arc,
though seemingly no curve is there. The plane
tary rounds — caused by the sun's revolution in its
vast orbit — and that simultaneous great circling
of time which really causes the world-pilgrimages
of the root races, haye their individual correspond
ent in the circling of man the unit through his time
orbit. Evidently time is relative, and is determined
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according to the needs of mankind, whether evolv
ing as root races, sub-races, or individuals. The
determiner of time is the atmic principle of man,
and the Atma of the globe by him inhabited.
From the viewpoint of these Atmas, time is only
opportunity perhaps profited by, but almost never
wholly so; therefore must man be born again into
time until every opportunity has been made the
most of.
At the close of Earth's seventh round, a separa
tion of its principles occurs: then the higher, to a
great extent purified, but not wholly so, retire to
their place as a transparent, luminous and secret
planet, while the old body of Earth swims in space
a planet in pralaya like the Moon above us. After
ages of involution comparable to that of the
human soul in Devachan, the secret planet reaches
the limit where its atmic principle, enlightened by
the Solar Atma, beholds Time as a spiral. There
fore the planet gravitates downward to unite with
its old body, and, for the world, time and oppor
tunity begin anew; not on the former level how
ever, because the lowest arc of the karmic time
spiral will indicate the place attained in this our
present manvantara.
Although Earth's annual revolution is explained
by Material Science, and to the satisfaction of its
votaries. Occult Science, that seeker for hidden
causes, finds that, at the turning of the orbit on
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impulse from the Atma of the Sun then in Capri-
cornus.
In passing let it be said that, as regent of the
Zodiac, the Sun determines and maintains for
every planet the time orbit necessary to its peculiar
development. Losing its planetary time orbit, the
dead moon received from the astral personal will
principle of the earth an imposed time orbit; one
not without purpose, but that is another matter.
In respect to axial revolution, the earth is impelled
and maintained by forces somewhat analogous to
those causing orbital motion. The inner impulses
affecting the earth are slight indeed, but sufificient
for the minute time cycles indicated by axial
revolution. As before said, our earth is time to its dwellers;
hence its yearly and daily turnings have fostered
in mankind the illusion of past, present, and
future. This illusion is far preferable to that
of the mindless polar first race who, in the light of
the never s nking polar sun, lived in one dimen
sional time, the present.
Year by year the earth arrives at those higher
and higher positions in the great time spiral which
usher in the sub-races, and the root races of a
planetary round. This fact wonderfully strength
ens the hope in the human breast which makes
to-morrow better than to-day, and the years to
come brighter than those behind. Therefore,
ignoring whatever of glamor legend has cast over
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the long ago, we picture the golden age of the race
in the world's large and brilliant future.
Viewed from differing angles the Atma of the
sun is Time, Karma, Truth, Spiritual Will, and
also Christos, in short the Manifested Word, to the
worlds in his keeping. In a secondary way the
earth's Atma is all these to its dwellers, and, in an
individual way, the corresponding Atma of man
is therefore ruler and finally perfector of his being.
In every instance Atma is the Auric Egg of Akasha
enveloping and permeating the lower principles. M.
THE SECRET OF KARMA
TF the preceding chapter makes plain the aspects
-*- under which Atma is active, both in the
Microcosm and the Macrocosm, we are now pre
pared for a deeper than surface view of karmic
Law as operative in individual and collective man,
as well as in the world itself. Sure that our dis
coveries will be of universal application, let us
begin with man.
Completing the subjective arc of his incarnation
orbit, man, now represented by the ego — ^Atma,
Buddhi, Manas — has reached, almost always
unconsciously, the atmic turning point. There
his individual Atma, informed by the solar Atma —
the Lords of Karma — constructs for the next incar
nation an ideal cycle; not of time as we understand
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it, but of happenings. In constructing this cycle,
Atma is Truth and Justice, since in the cycle
every happening is the truth of a former happening
in that the deeds once done to others, and so
really done to oneself, are to react for weal or woe
on the doer. In the ordering of this cycle, Atma
is Spiritual Will, and in the carrying out it is Karma.
Because of its conjunction with Buddhi and
Manas, Atma is the Christos in man, his individual
Word which recognizes in the astral personal will,
conjoined with Kama and Kama Manas, a reflec
tion of itself, a negative expression of the Word.
If the karmic cycle, constructed by Atma for the
new birth, were full and complete, then earthly
man would be fore-ordained, a mere automaton, a
creature of fate, wherefore the real purpose of
Karma would prove abortive. Evidently the
lower will must be allowed to insert in the karmic
cycle many happenings of its own choosing.
Mark well that the karmic cycle is not in time as
by us understood; it is but a succession of events
whose order cannot be transposed, although
between many of these events others may be
inserted by the untrammelled lower will. The
Spiritual Will would unite this lower with itself,
but its only method is the karmic procedure; that
ordained by Divine Wisdom. Throughout material
life, man's Spiritual Will presides over things
inevitable; in this it is Karma. Wheresoever
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hence, if a voluntary deed be noble and self-
sacrificing, the progress of personal will is thereby
revealed. At this juncture two questions are suggested.
First: is man's physical death always indicated in
the original cycle, and consequently fore-ordained?
Answer: It is indicated and fore-ordained only
when, in constructing the original imperative
series, the individual Atma — because enlightened
from on high — must needs insert a premature or
otherwise unnatural death. Second: what results
from this death? Answer: Then, whether short
or long, the cycle purposely ended leaves many
debts to be equalized in another birth. Gradually
the karmic cycle has been forced to include deeds
done in several births, but now wisely arranged to
the best results. If no such fatality is in the
original cycle, then, barring reckless disregard of
physical law, physical life usually continues until
the will to live is exhausted, a natural occurrence
at this world-stage of human evolution.
Our first questions answered, a second grows out
of them. Is the act of self-destruction in the
order of predestined events, or is it wholly voli
tional? We reply that it may be a karmic adjust
ment of a debt incurred long ago, and so included
in the original series, or it may be sourced some
where in the present life, or it may originate in a
sudden impulse of the personal will, thus, in the
last two instances, engendering Karma for a future
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birth. Only a master of wisdom who has largely
united his lower and higher will, and so gained
atmic sight, can determine in every instance.
Out of this explanation grows a third question.
Is not present retribution and reward often the
outcome of deeds done in the present life, and, if
so, how shall our exposition of karmic procedure
be enlarged to cover the facts?
In reply: Atma is unceasingly active. Were
its karmic activity confined to a carrying out of
the fore -ordained, then the free deeds of this present
life would not be recompensed therein; so to the
vast majority of men Divine Justice would be non
existent. In its aspect as Karma, Atma rightfully
dispenses justice, and incessantly and promptly
for evil deeds were it not for the individual Buddhi,
a principle wise with the wisdom of compassion.
From the viewpoint of Buddhi, such unfailingly
prompt recompense would control man through
compulsion, fear of the law; and is it not evident
that unfailingly prompt recompense of good
would make reward the chief incentive to virtue?
In regard to evil: from the viewpoint of the
individual Atma the individual Buddhi is too
lenient; so the harmonious outcome of these
differing views is compromise; not in respect to
the fore-ordained of higher poweirs, but in respect
to the time of reckoning for the evil, and the
reward of the good deeds of the present life.
In many instances Atma defers karmic action
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that Buddhi, in its aspect as conscience, may
admonish the evil doer, and possibly rescue him
from greater degradation. This adjustment of the
atmic and the buddhic methods is approved by
the higher Manas in its moments of purest insight.
To maintain equilibrium, both in man and the
world, the close connection of action and reaction
is often imperative; hence no intervention of
Buddhi occurs. In these cases the sequence of
action and reaction is obvious to the simplest
understanding, and is taken for granted by all.
In a way far larger than above described, the
holding back of Karma is possible. The individual
Atma has larger and larger correspondents in the
collective sub-race and root race Atmas, and that
of humanity entire. Karma, operative on man
kind in groups, originates in the solar Atma, and
acts through the group Atma. Buddhi, operative
on mankind in groups, originates in the solar
Buddhi, and acts chiefly through the group Buddhi
of the dedicated few who, renouncing the heavenly
rest, have vowed service to all mankind during
this planetary round and those to succeed.
Always the most saintly believers in the one life
theory look for earlly termination of their good
labors in this lower vineyard; whereas those who
have vowed unending service have registered
indelibly, on the Akasha of their individual Atma-
Buddhi, the noble truth that they have become
sponsors for humanity through the ages. Racial
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and world Karma are of slow accumulation; con
sequently only these continual workers can offer
adequate reason why mature Karma should be
dispensed as a rivulet, rather than as a roaring,
whelming flood.
Stripped of esoteric dress, the story of Sodom is
deeply occult. There the Lord represents mature
group Karma, while Lot is a dedicated soul;
though by himself unequal to the task of redeeming
his city. Karma is to be withheld provided a
minimum of ten dedicated ones will join with Lot.
These not appearing, the atmic standard of Justice
prevails, and destruction overtakes Sodom.
With the beginning of this century, a karmic
world-cycle of fore-ordained happenings was inau
gurated. Among the inevitables of that cycle is
the world war embodying the delayed Karma of
centuries. True, the Napoleonic wars somewhat
reduced the volume of overdue Karma, but the
lamentable fact is patent that the band of eternally
dedicated helpers of humanity is insufficient for the
task of bringing the average of the race to the
standard which warrants the further delaying of
much overdue world Karma.
One object of the Theosophical movement, in
fact its most vital object, is to arouse certain
advanced souls, the world over, to the needs of the
White Lodge. The Buddhic group has indeed
been increased through such knowledge of Karma
and rebirth as our co-worker H. P. B. brought to
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the western world; but, as offset, due to the schem
ing of our age long enemies, mutual jealousies and
consequent disruption inimical to the buddhic
grouping have appeared in quarters where least
they should be.
Fortunately for our cause — that of our god
children everywhere — the cycle of perfected hap
penings contains the Avatar, a being of free and
dedicated will, our visible head and mouthpiece
in the wide arena of human events. That through
his buddhic presence, and his present day message
to prepared peoples, the buddhic group shall be
vastly increased, there are internal evidences
obvious to those who can read. Unfortunately
such readers exist among the dark hosts now
aroused to frenzied opposition. Many of these
have vowed eternal hostility to the good; which
vow is registered not in the indestructible Akasha,
but in its opposite, the deteriorating astral and
kamic principles of their lower natures. M.

THE OLD ORDER AND THE NEW
IN "Arcane Science," page 93, also in "The
Heart of Things," in the chapter "Jehovah,"
it was explained that the "God of Nations" was
united to the Jews through the ray proper to the
astral principle of personal will, in fact their violet
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racial ray, and that of Jehovah himself as the
summit of the astral, lunar evolution.
Though in many ways no better than others,
the Isrealites were fortunate in that the ray tie
between Abraham their father and Jehovah, then
regent of this planet, had resulted in a posterity
peculiarly favored, because in a peculiar way the
children of Jehovah. That this favoring was not
mere partiality we may be sure.
That the Hebrew prophets and inspired singers
have much vitiated their message with the prej
udices and arbitrary ideas of justice inseparable
from their time and their evolution in their racial
ray, the Old Testament everywhere shows, as
witness the following taken at random: "I the
Lord am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the
fathers upon the children." "God is jealous, and
the Lord revenge th; the Lord revenge th and is
furious." Often a more temperate tone is heard
in such sayings as "The Lord of hosts shall be
exalted in judgment." "For a small moment have
I forsaken thee, but with great mercy will I gather
thee." "The Lord is slow to anger and great in
power." In the light just thrown upon the procedure of
Karma, it is evident that the Hebrew writers con
founded atmic judgment with wrath and revenge.
In the milder passages above quoted, Mercy —
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tion of atmic justice, but against supposed anger,
that mere human frailty.
To form adequate estimate of Jehovah, whom
his prophets have invested with contradictory
human emotions, we must consider that He repre
sents personal will purified and merged in Divine
Will. This union results in a two-foldness foreign
to single Divine Will. Jehovah is Karma, not
from the atmic, but in fact from the astral-atmic
stand. In the prophets we see no purely imper
sonal administration of Law, but everywhere a
personal note of authority. The difficulty of
interpreting the mandates of such a God and in
such a time inevitably led the Hebrew mouth
pieces of Jehovah to exaggeration of his personal
Will aspect.
That His name might be known upon the earth,
and His law promulgated, Jehovah — the earth's
sole regent — set apart or chose, through Abraham,
about two-twelfths of the people of the violet ray,
in fact those saved from the Atlantean doom
anciently meted to the practicers of infernal arts.
In the appointed time these chosen people were
fortunate in opportunity when earth's rightful
sovereign appeared among them to perfect his
astral and kamic principles, also a certain sub
stratum of the physical, preparatory to assuming
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As received from those celestial teachers the
Higher Kumaras, this instruction declares that
while this earth chain is now in its fourth manvan
tara, the moon chain has finished its fourth.
During the first two moon manvantaras, the great
sixth or light blue hierarchy of the Solar Logos
guided the destinies of the simple moon humanity.
During the third moon manvantara, Jehovah the
moon sovereign was perfected and assumed author
ity. During the first three earth manvantaras, the
great seventh or orange hierarchy of the Solar
Logos ruled our planet, but, at the beginning of
the present manvantara, the lunar sovereign began
his regentship which terminated at the cruci
fixion on Calvary.
Because for a great purpose the Jewish race ray
was kept pure through isolation of its children, it
followed that the Jews looked askance at the
children of the Orange, the Red, and the Green,
those heathen worshippers of false gods epitomiz
ing their own human limitations; and it also fol
lowed that when the greatest of the prophets
appeared as representative of a ray not Jewish,
and therefore as exponent of another system, he
was rejected, and finally killed. In this there is
much to mitigate the otherwise intolerable karmic
debt of the Jews now almost paid; wherefore the
cycle of necessity, newly inaugurated, holds for
them a high place among the nations.
We are now prepared to deal with the central
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mystery touching the real status of that great one
Jesus the Christ, who, in an earlier instruction of
this series, was called the Master of the Yellow
Ray, and again the Master of all rays.
Every planetary ruler takes name and authority
from the dominating ray of his planet. For this
earth that ray is the basic Orange. As H. P. B.
once said, "there is no hard and fast scale, no fixed
order of the human and the planetary principles."
Thus for the moon chain, and its sovereign, the
perfected Astral was supreme over the other five
principles. For the Martian chain, and its sover
eign, perfected Kama is supreme over the other
four. For Saturn, and its sovereign, purified
Kama-Manas is supreme over the other three.
Through the carrying out of this law, will eventually
result the equalizing of all human and all planetary
principles, from so-called highest to so-called lowest.
Such equalization long since obtained in the Solar
Hierarchies. For this world and its ruler, all principles or rays
are tinted by the dominating Orange. For Mars
and its ruler, the dominating Red performs like
office. For Saturn and its ruler, it is the Green,
and so on. Evidently Truth has a planetary
aspect impossible to surmount until the solar view
is arrived at; so, however much the buddhic ray
and view may appeal to our planetary ruler, the
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greater ; hence the perfecting of the Orange physical
vesture will ever engage his chief efforts.
In the esoteric classification of the human,
planetary, and universal Tatwas or forces, or rays,
Adi Tatwa is given as the highest. We will now
mention a human and planetary Tatwa which
from our planetary viewpoint is supreme; one
whose positive pole is in the great seventh or
Orange Hierarchy of the Solar Logos. In man
this Tatwa originates those refinable divisions of
physical body matter from which the great Master
of physical life perfected, as his chief possession,
that physical vehicle in which he ascended on high,
or, more correctly, departed to his sacred and
secret place.
Concerning that place, a most arcane truth can
now be revealed. Every Tatwa is divisible into
seven, and while exoterically Prithivi is the lowest
of the seven Tatwas, its highest division contains
a secret Tatwa which,' for this earth, is the supreme
one. Since every Tatwa creates both the human and
the planetary plane corresponding with it, and
since every division of a Tatwa creates both the
human and the planetary sub-plane corresponding
with it, evidently the sub-plane proper to the
secret Tatwa is the appropriate abode of the
Master of physical life. Moreover he, of all the
human race, has a body fit for that sub-plane.
At death every other representative of mankind
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leaves behind his entire seven-fold physical body,
and passes to some division of the astral plane.
Evidently the Master of the Orange stands
between the physical life and the posthumous life
of his lesser brethren, and so reaches both up and
down. Though near to his own in heaven, he is
equally so to those on earth. This most precious
and comforting truth could not be made clear
without some knowledge of the seven-foldness
both of man and the planet ; hence for the world at
large this knowledge awaited the fullness of time
now drawing near.
Hoping to come after death into the visible
presence of his Lord, the devout believer will find
in this arcane teaching food for thought, and good
reason for modifying his expectation. Neverthe
less, let him remember the saying of the initiate
Apostle, "For since by man came death, by man
came also the resurrection of the dead." Through
repeated purifications, the Adamic body of this
devout one shall become the purified and eternal
body of the resurrection; in other words it shall
become the body commonly possessed at the close
of a certain great cycle fair in the future of this
progressive world.
Said the risen Christ to the company of the
faithful, "Lo, I am with you even unto the end of
the age," and have we not made clear the truth
within his dark saying? Concerning the body in
which the Lord proved himself to Thomas, there
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is a mystery which may be touched upon. Evi
dently the permanent physical of the risen Lord
would not show the stigmata; neither would it
perform such a physical act as the eating described
by Luke. Plainly, for the time being that per
manent body was by some means clothed with
coarser particles.
In ordinary materialization it is possible, under
circumstances unusually favorable, to build upon
the astral model a semi-solid but transient facsimile
of the original ; one which persists only through the
will of the entity plus the will of another, or,
better, plus the combined wills of several, or, best,
in conjunction with the wills of all present. As
for the scriptural instances of Jesus' bodily appear
ing, the astral model was not the body clothed
upon but, instead, the permanent physical already
described. That after his resurrection the Master appeared
first to the faithful, was in accord with the law to
large extent governing that occurrence; a law
which should obtain at the supreme event for
which the world is preparing. To facilitate this
event, a company of believers in its early taking
place should exist as force centers in different
sections of the globe, and especially in this western
land. To be effective, these groups should under
stand the real nature of the Avatar; at least they
should be wholly above ignorant fanaticism, and
that literal interpretation which associates the
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Second Advent with the ending of things terrestrial.
Concerning the body of the Avatar, its charac
teristics are derived from the masculine Manas
and the feminine Buddhi. The risen Jesus
appeared first to Mary Magdalene because she, of
all his followers, best represented the purified
feminine principle of Kama in conjunction with
Buddhi. Since, in the risen body of our Lord,
this purified dual principle somewhat dominated
the duad of purified Kama-Manas in conjunction
with higher Manas, the event was in accord with
the inner laws of being, and could not have been
otherwise. Here is a clew to the great materialization due
at the end of this culminating age. Even as in
the old historic time, so again may it be. If so, the
Master shall first appear not to the chief leaders
of spiritual progress, the men and women of spot
less life, the keepers of the law from their youth up,
but to the feminine Kama-Buddhi purified in some
humble and obscure disciple far from the highways
of the world. H.
POLARITY
/^N pages 201-2 of "The Heart of Things," it is
^^ in substance stated that the concentrated
Spiritual Will or Atma of the Jovian beings allows
them to penetrate knowingly only to the densest
division of the manasic plane of the Venusian
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evolution. Again on page 222 it is said that upon
this earth, a planet of seven principles, human
spiritual will is necessarily circumscribed both in
knowledge and power until the lower principles of
man, personal will especially, have been harmon
ized with it. In seeming contradiction to these
statements the contents of those preceding chapters :
"Time and Eternity" and "The Secret of Karma"
reveal the operations of Spiritual Will on all planes
of the world, and in every human principle.
Supplementing the statements on pages 201-2
of "The Heart of Things" let us say that while
the Jovian humanity contacts and aids the spiritual
will of every planet, and its every, being in the
septenary series, and even in the tenary scheme,
the Mercurians contact and aid the buddhic prin
ciple in every lower planet, and its every devolving
life. The Venusians contact and aid the manasic
principle in every lower planet, and its progeny.
The Saturnian humanity performs its peculiar
office to the lower Manas of all in every humbler
planet. The Martian humanity aids the kamic principle
in every lower planet, and its every life. Also
the lunar Hierarchy is an aid to every manifesta
tion of the personal will principle in all planets
below. As for our Earth ; already many among us
recognize the brotherly tide binding man to the
lower species; those which yet shall pass to their
respective planets, there to form that connecting
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link because of which our humanity can aid the
basic physical evolution of Uranus, Neptune, and
the planet beyond. Because of this universal
contact and mutual aid, spiritual will becomes
increasingly active on every plane throughout the
solar system.
Owing to the contact of Atma and Buddhi on
Mercury, the duad there is wholly unified. So
also is the trinity of Atma, Buddhi, Manas, on
Venus. This trinity is conjoined in every other
planet in the descending series, but always in a
less and less perfect manner.
In the four-fold Saturn evolution we discover
the first pair of opposites existing among the
principles which in the lower planets are increased
to seven, and even to ten. Because of the nearly
unified Saturnian trinity of Atma, Buddhi, Manas,
and especially because of the affinity of Manas for
lower Manas, its negative pole, the humanity of
the green planet has developed intellectually; not
however to the pure intelligence of the Venusian
beings; but, as compensation, to a mental grasp
of many matters quite outside the purview of their
lofty brethren.
In the five-fold Martian evolution we discover
two pair of opposites to wit, higher and lower
Manas, and Buddhi-Kama. Because of these
polar opposites, the Martians have developed
intellectually, but even more so in respect to the
transforming of desire, their basic principle. While
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not approaching the pure love proper to the
Mercurians, these have as compensation that
compassion which comes only through triumph
over the passional nature.
The finished six-fold Moon evolution gave to
the lunar fathers three pairs of opposites to wit,
higher and lower Manas, Buddhi-Kama, and
spiritual and personal will. Because of the
affinity of spiritual will for personal will, the basic
principle of the lunar scheme, evolution in that
scheme was wonderfully quickened, and so brought
to consummation ages ago. The personal will of
the perfected lunar Hierarchy is by no means the
equal of Spiritual Will, but, as compensation, it
reaches down and is capable in the very abysm of
matter. Hence the lunar Jehovah is said to have
created the world over which he in fact presided
as regent until the rightful ruler came into his own.
The humanity of this world has for principles
three pairs of opposites like those of the lunar
scheme, and, besides, a negative physical principle
peculiar to this planet; a principle having its
positive pole in the seventh Hierarchy of the
Logos, those beings who well-high transcend
human conception. Fortunately that Logos has
given to us a way-shower, one who exemplified by
his resurrection the possibilities latent in the
human physical.
The dominant principle of any planet is negative
to the solar source of that principle, but positive
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to its correspondent in every lower planet. Hence
man's physical principle is positive to its corre
spondent in each of the three outer planets. A
more material principle, peculiar to Neptune, is
negative to its solar source, but positive to its
correspondent on Uranus and the outmost planet.
Again, a yet more material principle proper to
Uranus is negative to its solar source, but positive
only to its correspondent on the outmost planet.
Finally, a material principle, the densest trans-
mutable in the tenary system, is evolving on the
outmost planet. While negative to the tenth
solar Hierarchy, that principle is positive to its
corresponding principle on the outmost planet of
a solar system one degree below our own. See
chapter: "The Chain of Suns," page 189 of "The
Heart of Things."
In the stupendous descent from the spiritual
and positive pole of the universe to its material
and negative opposite, man's position is indeed a
humble one, but, as compensation, his environ
ment demands the expansion of faculties whose
like is useless and so unknown in many abodes of
loftier being. The human physical body neces
sarily is more complex than any other yet evolved
in any other world ruled by our solar Logos.
Moreover, the human physical brain will yet
compass that amazing variety which thus far the
manifested assumes only on this planet, and which
necessarily is outside the purview of many beings
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seemingly more gifted than man. Nor could it be
otherwise in a universe expanded from the spiritual
point to a material circle bounding more than ever
the telescope can reveal.
The manifested universe tends towards per
manence in all its parts; and while it is undeniable
that the circumference of the Kosmic Circle shall
be drawn toward the central point, it is not crue
that in toto that circumference shall disappear in
the unknowable. One can conceive of a time
when durability shall be stamped on the trans
formed negative pole of creation. But even in
those remote aeons to be, a new negative pole may
exist in what now is the unexplored abysm of space. M.
THRONES
OHOULD the average person think of God's
*^ Throne, at once his mind soars to the firma-
mental regions, perhaps to a distant star or con
stellation, or, more likely, to a secret and universal
Center invisible because of human limitations.
Somewhere in those heights, popular imagina
tion has throned Jehovah King of kings and, upon
his right hand, the Son manifest to Earth as the
child of Mary, but to the heavens as the Only
Begotten before all worlds. In that somewhat
inferior place the left hand of the Father, sits the
Holy Spirit the mysterious other in that all-
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governing group the Triune God, the Three in One.
Many passages of scripture lend themselves to
this view, thus: "For unto us a child is born, unto
us a son is given; and the government shall be
upon his shoulder; and his name shall be called
Wonderful, Counsellor, the Mighty God, the ever
lasting Father, the Prince of Peace." Here the
Son and the Father are interchangeable, or, more
precisely, the essential unity of the Messiah and
Jehovah is announced. With this unity our view
accords; in fact the Secret Science teaches the
inner oneness of all beings.
Saith the Psalmist: "The Lord said unto me,
thou art my son: this day have I begotten thee."
In Hebrews, Paul the Initiate says of Jesus the
Christ: "Who being the brightness of his glory
and the express image of his person, sat down on
the right hand of Majesty on high." From this
last the literalist gathers that but one throne exists,
that of Jehovah: but, finding an inner interpreta
tion, the occultist knows that, while many spiritual
thrones exist in many degrees of glory, interiorly
they are unified.
Concerning these thrones let us condense a
teaching from the Secret Science. There are two
orders of spiritual thrones, the solar and the plane
tary. The planetary thrones are seven, that of
Jupiter being in position the loftiest. This is the
throne of Spiritual Will, and from it the Spiritual
Will principle of every other planet has inner
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impulse. That its influence may best reach down
ward, this throne is in the lowest of the seven
divisions of the Jovian Atma. Next in position is
the throne of Mercury, the throne of Buddhi. It
has place in the lowest of the seven divisions of
Buddhi the dominating principle of the planet.
The influence of this throne is over the buddhic
principle of every lower planet.
Next in position is the throne of Venus, that of
Manas the dominant planetary principle. This
throne has place in the lowest save one of the
seven planetary divisions of Manas. That one is
residuum for a future manvantara. The influence
of the Venusian throne is over the Manas of every
lower planet. The throne of Saturn is in the lowest
division save two of its Kama-Manas. The
excluded two divisions are to be residuum. The
influence of the Saturnian throne is over the Kama-
Manas of all lower planets. The throne of Mars
is in the middle or fourth division of its dominant
Kama. The excluded three divisions are to be
residuum. The influence of the Martian throne
is over the Kama of all lower planets.
The lunar throne, that of Jehovah, is in the
secret lunar Sphere, and in that division of the
Astral which, in its ancient septenary, was fifth in
the ascending series. The lower four of the old
seven are now in pralaya with the Moon's physical
shell. Theoretically the influence of this throne
is over the Astral of our lower planet but, during
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the regentship of Jehovah, it undertook in this
world a far broader scope. The throne of Earth,
that of the great Master of physical life, is in the
highest division save one of the seven-fold physical.
In after ages its influence will extend to the eighth
planet. Concerning the three planets included in
the tenary scheme, their thrones are not yet
established. The solar thrones are ten in number; the lowest
in order being that of the violet Astral Hierarchy
of Personal Will whose polar opposite — as explained
on page 11, Arcane Science — is the Jupiter throne
of Spiritual Will. This solar throne is in the fifth,
ascending the septenary division of the solar
Astral. It influences directly both the Jupiter
Spiritual Will, and the Personal Will of the Lunar
Sphere. Next in the order of solar thrones is that
of the red Kamic Hierarchy whose polar opposite
is the Mercurian throne of Buddhi. This solar
throne is in the fourth, ascending the septenary
division of the solar Kama. It influences directly
both the Mercurian Buddhi, and the Martian
Kama. Next in the order of solar thrones is that of the
green Kama-Manasic Hierarchy whose polar
opposite is the Venusian throne of Manas. This
solar throne is in the third, ascending the septenary
division of the solar Kama Manas. It influences
directly both the Manas of Venus, and the Kama-
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thrones is that of the indigo Manasic Hierarchy
whose polar opposite is the Saturnian throne of
Kama-Manas. This solar throne is in the second,
ascending the septenary division of the solar
Manas. It influences directly both the Kama-
Manas of Saturn, and the Manas of Venus. Next
in the order of solar thrones is that of the yellow
Buddhic Hierarchy whose polar opposite is the
Martian throne of Kama. This solar throne is in
the basic division of the septenary of solar Buddhi.
It influences directly both the Kama of Mars, and
the Buddhi of Mercury. Next in the order of
solar thrones is that of the light blue Atmic Hier
archy whose polar opposite is the throne of Jehovah
in the secret Lunar Sphere. This solar throne is
in the basic division of the seven-fold solar Atma.
It influences directly both the astral of the secret
Lunar Sphere, and the Jovian Atma.
Next in the order of solar thrones is that of the
orange, refined physical Hierarchy whose polar
opposite is the throne of Messiah, that of this
Earth. This solar throne is high in the seventh
sub-division of the seventh, ascending the sep
tenary of the solar Physical. It influences directly
the physical of this planet. It is the throne of
Majesty indicated by Paul as already quoted. It
is the throne of the Father to whom Jesus ever
looked for strength and guidance, and without
Whom he could do nothing. The Initiate Apostle
declares the Son to be the express image of the
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Father, and evidently his seat "at the right hand"
is a throne of great prominence.
Next in the order of solar thrones is that of the
higher orange, eighth Physical Hierarchy. It has
middle place in the seventh sub-division of the
seventh, ascending the septenary of the solar
Physical. It influences directly the physical of
the planet Neptune. Next in the order of solar
thrones is that of the highest orange, ninth Physical
Hierarchy. It is placed lower in the seventh sub
division of the seventh, ascending the septenary of
the solar Physical. It influences directly the
physical of the planet Uranus. Next in the order
of solar thrones is that of the beyond orange, tenth
Physical Hierarchy. It has basic place in the
seventh sub-division of the seventh, ascending the
septenary of the solar Physical. It influences
directly the physical of the tenth planet.
Ignoring precedent we have placed the three
great culminating solar Hierarchies and thrones
above the Atma of the septenary division. Our
reason is a deeply occult one to be explained in the
next chapter.
We saw that the six planets, from Jupiter to the
Lunar Sphere inclusive, each receives the direct
influence of but two solar thrones. Also we saw
that the Earth, and the three planets of the tenary
scheme, each receives the direct influence of but
one solar throne. From this it should not be
supposed that any planet is deprived of indirect
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influences from certain solar thrones; neither
should it be inferred that direct solar influence is
due to partiality. Direct and indirect thronal
influences are in harmony with certain laws of
cosmic affinity which are basic indeed, and will
not be touched upon at this stage of our teachings.
These thronal influences operate through the
solar rays which, let it be said, are only the vehicles
of thronal influence.
The orange physical ray proper to the seventh
hierarchy, carries physical light, and indirect physi
cal thronal influence, to the other planets in the
septenary series, but direct thronal influence to
this planet only. This orange hierarchial ray
should not be confounded with the orange of the
spectrum, for in fact it is the synthesis of the
seven hierarchial colors. In this arc of our planet
ary round, and because of our deep immersion in
matter, this hierarchial orange is invisible. The
grosser white alone appeals to physical vision.
In the Secret Science the true color peculiar to
the physical sun corresponds with gold, and pro
ceeds from the photosphere shorn of that gross
and intense physical fire which results in the white.
The hierarchial orange mentioned was a charac
teristic color of self-luminous Earth in her first
round, and will be that of her self-luminous seventh
round. Also, that orange was the color peculiar
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planetary round, and is the color of the undying
seventh root race to be.
As vehicle of the six other solar rays, the hier
archial orange carries the hierarchial astral ray,
and its indirect thronal influence, to this Earth,
and its direct thronal influence to the violet planet.
This scheme the student should apply to the other
planets of the septenary series. The rays from the
eighth, ninth, and tenth hierarchies, carry to their
respective planets the indirect thronal influence of
all other solar hierarchies. H.
THE BASIC PHYSICAL
WHEN certain teachers of the Ancient Wis
dom gave to the outer world the esoteric
classification and scale of the human and the
planetary principles, they gave their order and
importance as obtaining at this stage of the uni
versal scheme of development; an order and
importance beginning with Atma, and ending
with the basic physical.
From these teachings, then much veiled, it was
inferred that ultimately the six lower principles
would be drawn into the primal Atma; the result
being infinite variety in Unity. This inference
overlooked or ignored the fact that infinite variety
demands degrees of density below the incon
ceivably tenuous Atma.
H. P. B. more than once denied the fixed superi-
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or ity of any principle over another, and her con
tention was logical since no final and true Unity
can consist of unequals. Somehow the naturally
lowest must develop qualitites lifting it to the
level of worth occupied by the highest. That the
Kosmic scheme renders this possible, it now
behooves us to make plain.
The number 10, representing our planetary
series, is the true Kosmic number, the one con
cealed in the zodiacal 12, and in every twelve-fold
scheme of evolution. For its infinite variety in
Unity, the perfected universal scheme demands
ten degrees of density from Atma down to a cer
tain division of the physical, for which reason
among others, 10 is the perfect number. To bring
about this Unity, it is given to every solar system
to perfect some one of the ten principles, or, more
precisely, some fraction thereof. Solar systems
exist in each of which the basic principle is far
more ethereal than our planetary Manas; and in
the consummation of those systems all below
Manas will be residuum. These systems, together
with the host of those somewhat lower — all of
course unknown to ordinary vision — occupy the
interstellar spaces, and with their vast circum
ferences narrow the gulf separating star from star.
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In an earlier volume of this series it was inti
mated, as a blind, that the evolution proper to our
solar system is that of the personal will principle;
nevertheless our arrangement of the solar Hier
archies made the violet basic, whereas the orange
physical four were placed above Atma. This
arrangement was a clue to the truth whose unveil
ing was at that time deemed unwise, since it would
reveal prematurely certain matters touching the
Avatar. Let it now be said that, in the real order of
principles and Hierarchies for any solar system,
the dominant Hierarchy — the one representing the
principle differentiating that system from another
— is given first prominence. Inasmuch as our
solar system is to develop the principle which in
the exoteric order lies below the violet, we have
emphasized the importance of the orange Hier
archies by placing them above that of Atma.
Since the secret of the orange principle and the
orange Hierarchies is now divulged, let it be said
that Personal Will is developing as the dominant
principle in a solar system only a few links above
our own in the mighty chain of suns whose lower
end, just below us, terminates in a system that
emphasizes the physical more than does our
evolution. Even in that lowest link of the chain of systems,
a certain physical residuum will remain to be
refined if possible in greater systems yet unborn.
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During physical life, we often tread under foot a
residuum destined to remain as such to the close
of the Kosmic Maha Manvantara. Since in the
Kosmic scale this world is near the limit of the
assimilable physical, we can understand that
limit; whereas beings at the upper end can under
stand the fact of a spiritual limit transcending the
highest division of our solar Atma.
In the sublime ascent to the Kosmic Logos, and
even in the solar system whose evolution is based
as we have said upon the Astral, death, because
always largely a matter of the physical, is probably
unknown despite the fact that that Astral is
normally far denser than any Astral known to our
system of planets. In any event, death, as experi
enced on this planet, is unknown in solar systems
only a little higher in the series.
No wonder that death and passing weigh heavily
upon the human heart doomed to bear a burden
unfelt within the charmed circles of countless suns
at first thought more favored than that under
which man was born a thing seemingly of perish
able flesh doomed to dissolution in its every part.
No wonder he clings to physical life as a surety
worth more than every theory of what the future
holds in store.
To offset this dull view of human destiny, how
often has backward and drooping faith been
refreshed by the dews of heavenly intuition! How
often have seers of the high and pure vision pic-
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tured for us the wide millennial earth of harmless
living and deathless life, no figment of heated
imagination, but sober fact believeable in the light
of such knowledge of physical being as in this
open cycle we are permitted to impart!
Inasmuch as the physical holds within certain
of its seven divisions the positive principle of our
solar system, and of this world chain in particular,
man must be drawn from posthumous life into
re-birth to prepare both himself and the physical
earth for the future just mentioned. To remain
in the subjective arc of his cycle longer than to
assimilate the experience of the objective arc,
means time lost, and position delayed in the pro
gressing race, and sub-race.
In successive life cycles, all earnest souls will
shorten their subjective arcs until the minimum
necessary to recuperation is reached. On the
other hand, a master in his six-fold vesture will for
a long period remain on the astral plane, provided
he there can the better labor for the world's wel
fare. But even he must clothe himself in the
basic physical at the beginning of those astronomi
cal cycles which most favor his progress toward
'acquisition of that body of which the great Master
of physical life furnished the pattern.
H. P. B.

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THE SECRET IN PRANA
L'OR the enlightenment of students of the
-^ Ancient Wisdom, H. P. B. arranged the
seven human principles to correspond with the
sun and six of the planets. In that scheme, Prana
the life principle is not to be confounded with
that Prana of exoteric occultism with which we
dealt in the chapter "Prana", page 67, "Special
Teachings." The Prana meant by H. P. B. cor
responded with the Sun, that giver of life physi
cally and spiritually, and its color was said to be
orange. The Linga Sharira or astral model body
corresponded with the Moon; color violet. The
kamic principle or body corresponded with Mars;
color red. The kama-manasic body corresponded
with Saturn; color green. The manasic body cor
responded with Venus ; color indigo. The buddhic
body corresponded with Mercury; color yellow.
The Auric Egg, enveloping and with its emanations
penetrating all below, corresponded with Jupiter;
color light blue.
The physical body was not in this category; in
fact H. P. B. declared it to be no principle, but a
mere shell discarded at death, and so it is, if con
sidered in its almost universal aspect. Elsewhere
she announced what to the discerning student was
really a clue to the secret hidden in Prana, to wit,
that it is not a human principle, but in fact a
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universal one capable of manifesting as Jiva the
One Life. A little reflection shows that the One
Life, wherein we live and move and have our being,
does not submit to modification. Evidently if
Jiva be colorless as she declared, and Prana be
orange, then Prana takes color from the finer atoms
of the physical, even as water takes color from the
glass containing it. Since the human principles
should be seven, we have in the orange a hidden
principle; the physical orange of our preceding
teaching. At death the physical body is cast out of the
Auric Egg, but the foundation atoms, those pre
siding over the physical organs and parts, in fact
the master workmen of that body, pass into pralaya
and are retained as extremely minute particles
within the Auric Egg. At the same time the Linga
Sharira or model body dividing, the coarser par
ticles associate themselves with the dead physical,
and decay with it.
Next, when the Linga Sharira proper is dis
carded, the coarser parts of the kamic body asso
ciate themselves with it, while the foundation
atoms of the Linga Sharira experience Pralaya
within the Auric Egg. The kamic body next
discarded, the coarser particles of the kama-
manasic body stay with it, but the basic atoms of
the kamic body remain in pralaya within the
Auric Egg. The kama-manasic body afterward
discarded, its basic atoms experience pralaya
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within the Auric Egg. Little or nothing of the
manasic body adheres to the dead kama-manasic
body. The resurrection of the outer body of the great
Master of physical life was accomplished through
expansion of its permanent foundation atoms
which, though suffering from the shock of the
painful death of the coarser physical particles,
were not paralyzed as in every other instance.
Why then have the saints and martyrs of all
the ages failed to resurrect their foundation
physical atoms? For several reasons, some of
which will now be explained. H. P. B. once said
that the mere materialist impresses upon his
astral brain the belief that physical death ends
all, and, as result, in posthumous life that brain is
obsessed with a notion that it ought to be dead,
that it is dead. The outcome is a semi-conscious
astral condition lasting for an indefinite period.
The belief is alrtiost universal that the physical
body dies in all its parts, and so it seems to do, but
largely because of that very belief which Jesus
sought to refute through his numerous appearances
after the resurrection. Men like St. Simeon
Stylites have hated and tortured their flesh; thus
at death paralyzing its foundation atoms for many
centuries, and so delaying the progress so desper
ately desired. This despite the fact that the life
of Jesus offers no warrant for such stupidity. The
Son of man came eating and drinking with publi-
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cans and sinners, but always with that restraint
which safeguards the wise. Maltreatment of the
flesh is sourced in gross misunderstanding of the
purpose of the sacrifice on Calvary.
Another reason why none have risen as did
Jesus: The physical is the most obstinate of the
seven principles; while the three next in ascent are
decreasingly so. Because the most tractable of
the seven, the upper three have fully attained
immortality. To perfect the orange principle is
the most difficult task ever allotted to the human
race. Certain masters have to some extent per
fected a thin and transient physical not to be
compared with the outer robe of the risen Christ.
Touching the Christ physical, there is a mystery.
Despite its attainment, may it not be subject to a
certain diminution of power so that its full
immortality requires a fresh descent into matter?
Another reason why Jesus became the first fruit
of physical immortality: As master of the orange
ray, he received much from his Father in Heaven;
not Jehovah, but the great head of the Orange
Solar Hierarchy. Concerning what he received,
that is a mystery not to be understood until one is
on the threshold of attainment.
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BAPTISM
TN respect to the efficacy of baptism, widely dif-
-»- fering views have long obtained. In both
the Roman and the Greek Catholic Communion,
baptism is a sacrament essential to salvation,
whereas, to certain other confessedly Christian
denominations, it is only a symbol, and of itself
non-effective. Between these extremes there is
an intermediate but little-known view which we
would present in a brief way, since thorough
explanation would require our delving deep into
matters revealable only during initiation into a
certain Lodge degree.
As now understood and practiced, baptism does
not ante-date the days of John the Proclaimer of
the Messianic Age. Jesus himself was baptised by
John, thus showing ordinary baptism to be the
first and necessary part of a double process. Of
the second and more vital process John said:
"he shall baptise you with the Holy Ghost and
with fire." So much as preliminary; and now let
us hint at certain forces which, because of baptism,
become operative on the hidden side of things.
As used by John, water corresponded with the
purified principle of personal will proper to the
violet planet, the whereabouts of which remains a
secret in the custody of the Initiates until the time
wlien that astral sphere shall be visible to at least
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the worthier portion of the human race. Con
cerning the orbit of the invisible planet, let a hint
suffice. Its aura to some considerable extent
penetrates that of our own seven-fold globe.
When the regent-ship of Jehovah ended, and
Earth's rightful ruler came into his own, the violet
planet ceased not its aid to this world, but were it
not for certain requirements complied with, that
aid henceforth would be far less direct and dis
coverable. That aid was to man's personal will
during the difficult task of its purification.
Baptism is an occult ceremony affecting the
human personal will; in fact it is a direct appeal to
the Luna Chohans for the special aid that, because
of certain laws which are indeed basis, these great
beings must render. In infant baptism the appeal
is made by the child's sponsors; and in adult
baptism it is made by the individual himself. In
either case, this appeal is from the Ego; conse
quently the outer personality is ignorant of the
matter. Even as John announced, Jesus, the Christ,
came to baptise with fire; again an occult ceremony,
but operative on the human spiritual will, since it
is an appeal to the sublime Jovian Hierarchy, the
highest in the planetary worlds. Because the
Master had not as yet received that greater bap
tism which only he could give to others, he dele
gated to his disciples the preliminary water bap
tism of his converts. This fiery baptism, which
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never before was bestowed on ciny of our race,
began in the Garden, and was finished on Calvary.
Evidently the Baptism of Fire received by cer
tain of the Christian martyrs, and which, in her
excessive zeal for the salvation of heretics. Mother
Church forced upon them, is not the one proclaimed
by John. When the personal will of the Master
Jesus became wholly harmonized with its spiritual
other, and consequently his principle of earthly
desire was brought to at-one-ment with that polar
opposite his buddhic principle of Divine Love, he
became the great High Priest empowered to bestow
on all worthy ones the fiery baptism; not as a seal
of their perfection, but rather as the surety that
eventually they would attain the similitude of the
Christ body; one deathless, though laid in the
tomb. As elsewhere we have said, since he was
way-shower to the human race, the attainment of
that body by Jesus was the sacred, secret, and
central object of his life on earth, for, to para
phrase Paul's teaching: As in the Adamic body all
die, so in the Christ body shall all be made alive.
For mankind the means necessary to attainment
are many. Thus far we have touched upon two,
the Eucharist, and Baptism. For the first of these
see "Arcane Science," p. 75.
Of John, the Master uttered the enigmatic
words: "Among men that are born of women there
has not arisen a greater than John the Baptist;
notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of
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heaven is greater than he." Evidently an explana
tion of the words: "the kingdom of heaven"
would throw much light on this dark saying. We
teach that this "kingdom" is to be established on
the earth, and in the New Jerusalem which the
Revelator saw coming down from God out of
Heaven prepared as a bride adorned for her
husband. Entrance into the city whose length and breadth
and heighth are equal, in fact the cubical city, is
for the elect only, the twelve times twelve thou
sand; in other words the square, or, to speak
plainer, those who will fill the length and breadth
of the city. Baptism by water and afterward by
fire, are necessary preliminaries to citizenship. As
John had not then received the fiery baptism, he
was less than the least among the one hundred
forty and four thousand visioned by the Revelator. H.
MATERIAL RICHES
THEN said Jesus unto his disciples. Verily
I say unto you, that a rich man shall
hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven."
Matt. 19:23.
When a dying man surrenders his material
riches, rarely is the act prompted by generosity.
Almost always the man is succumbing to the
inevitable; especially if his riches were accum-
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mulated through life-long endeavor. Passing out,
such a man soon finds himself well and strong, and
quite capable of enjoying his wealth were it but
of a spiritual rather than of a material kind.
If now this man's interest centered in money-
getting, he realizes that still his money bags are
somehow a part of himself. Watching over them,
he grieves at each unwise loss, and perhaps he is
filled with impotent anger at the squanderings of
his idle and careless relatives. Evidently such a
man is very near the earth. For an indefinite
period he is self-barred from the kingdom of
heaven. Even if this man had devised large sums
to various charities, he nevertheless is held to a
comparatively low level until assured that his
wishes are wisely carried out.
On the other hand, if during his earthly life the
man had given generously to worthy ends, he then
saw the outcome, and in posthumous life was at
once able to enter into his reward. Such a sequel
was in the mind of Jesus when he said to the young
man of great possessions: "Go and sell that thou
hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have
treasures in heaven."
If riches honorably acquired, but left intact to
be distributed after the death of their possessor,
often prove a weight in his posthumus life, what
must be the heaviness of ill-gotten gain?
Certain pirates and buccaneers of the Spanish
Main are yet standing guard over their buried
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treasure; and, as a result of centuries of vigil, they
have acquired the power of turning away almost
every seeker even when on the verge of discovery.
If one could see the frenzy of demoniac rage with
which the near approach of treasure-hunters fills
these miserable creatures, he would realize what
hellish conditions are. Not until a good angel
causes some one to unearth the spoil of raping
and murder, can these earth-bound beings approach
anything like agreeable conditions.

TO THE WOULD-BE PUPIL OF THE MASTERS
NEARLY every earnest student of the Secret
Science hopes that some time, somehow, he
shall be brought into direct touch with the Masters
of the White Lodge, or, rather, with that Master
to whom he is drawn by love and reverence.
Now while the wish is a prophecy, there may
be, and often are, certain obstacles that defer
fulfilment of his desire even for one or more incar
nations. Of various hindrances, some are unmen-
tioned in open instructions; so of these we would
speak, especially to those who imagine that
occasionally partiality is a factor in the choice of
the candidate for Lodge affilliation.
It is well-known that for special work on a large
scale, the Lodge at times uses men by no means
perfect morally; but it is not known, save to the
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few, that Masters do in rare instances receive to
themselves, and fit for special duties, candidates
who in some ways have not yet attained the
standard of many who in vain seek entrance to
the halls of initiation. To avoid misunderstand
ing, let us add that no Master receives such a
pupil unless that pupil's past and present indicate
that certain faults are being overcome, or soon
will be in the process of cleansing.
Some lines of Lodge work demand such unusual
aptitude that the Master presiding over that work
must perforce select among many would-be pupils
not the most virtuous, but rather the only capable
one. This explanation is for those who doubt the
wisdom of the Lodge in singling out one who,
from their limited viewpoint, seems unworthy of .
preferment. Service faithfully performed is the golden key
admitting to the presence of the Masters of the
White Lodge; but service begun only in the present
life is not enough. The servant must have been
a probationer during two former lives. The first
life was the shaper of resolve, and the second was
its test. The third life sets the seal of success on
service which is to continue during the future ages
of the world.
Were the aspirant accepted during the first life
of service, he might fail in the second or test life,
and, since reaction is the equal of action, event
ually he might fall into the company of the black
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brotherhood, and become one of its most vindi
cative members. This sometimes happened until
the law governing affilliation with the Lodge was
made more stringent. As it is, failure is possible
to some who in the second life withstood its test,
and in the third life have received the first or
probationary Lodge degree, and even have passed
to the second or test degree; but no initiate of the
third degree has ever proved false to his vows and
duties. On the other hand, some who in the second life
failed in a measure, have in the third life redeemed
themselves sufficiently to warrant acceptance by a
Master, but never in this third life are these
allowed to progress beyond the second or test
.degree. The above statement should both warn
and encourage those determined ones for whom
the golden portals have not opened, and to whom
no inspiring voice has sounded a welcome to the
halls of initiation.
It is evident of those who crave preferment for
its mere prestige, and the awe, respect, admira
tion, or else the envy induced in their companions,
it is evident, we repeat, that these vain self-seekers
are creating a well-nigh impassable barrier which
for more than one earth-life will stay them from
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THE EARTH CHAIN
ly /Taster M. once said to a certain pupil:
±\±_ "Since first appearing here, you have
seemed to live many lives, but truly you have
lived only one. In each re-birth you looked upon
that one from a certain angle. Some day you will
know your total of lives as bright deeds made
permanent, and dark ones erased by karmic
action. You will see these many lives not as an
extended chain, nor as a great circle of links, but
as countless irridescent spheres all interpenetrating,
and enclosed in one large and radiant sphere
which is your self and your one life."
Our seven-fold planet is the abode wherein is
lived the one life of each human being. Every
seeming life of the seeming many, whose total is
this one real life, is in a circle extending from the
atmic plane of the planet to the physical and
return. This circle, without a resting point, is
divisible into twelve arcs; six in the descent from
the turning point of the atmic plane to the turning
point of the physical, and six from that line to the
atmic line of descent to the renewed physical.
Evidently the septenary globe, or globe chain
so-called, is to man a habitation in which he
glimpses Truth from seven viewpoints. Innum
erable other viewpoints of Truth exist, but not for
man until he outgrows the limitations of this
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planet, or, like certain advanced representatives
of the race, he gains in part, the viewpoint of other
planets in the septenary series. To no human
mind is the solar viewpoint of Truth communi
cable except at certain astronomical cycles. Then
the great Avatars, the world teachers, the enlight-
eners of the race, receive their messages, and are
sent forth.
Since every globe-chain must develop a certain
dominant principle, that principle is for that globe-
chain the one to which all others are subordinate.
For the Martian globe-chain that principle is
Kama; for the lunar chain that principle was the
Astral, while for our chain it is the orange physical.
The perfecting of the orange physical being the
supreme task and desideratum both for man and
his world, why did the revealers of the Ancient
Wisdom seemingly depreciate the physical, and
even exclude it from the septenary series? The
answer is not difficult, as we shall show.
When as a simple mindless creature of but one
discernible principle, man began his evolution in
the first planetary round, that principle or body
was the orange unmixed with grosser elements.
Later he received from the lunar pitris other
principles, among which was the untaught desire
principle of Kama, and the just discernable mind
principle of Kama Manas. In conjunction with
the original orange, these brought about what the
Ancient Wisdom denominates the first fall, that
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which in after times was duplicated by Adam, the
generic name of the first root race of this fourth
round. Descending into a lower than their native
orange division of matter, the first race thus were
eaters of the tree of good and evil; therefore they
experienced death as the second race.
During ages many and long, the orange in man
became increasingly mixed with gross material
elements. At the middle of the fourth round, that
lowest arc of human progress, man's spiritual
forces began their upward pull on the lower quater
nary. Therefore his slow rise toward the purity
of the original orange plus that experience which
is the fulness of human wisdom. The history of
the race proves that the lower quaternary lacks
buoyancy necessary to its rise into the pure regions
of the spirit; hence the necessity of emphasizing
the office of the higher triad.
The revealers of the Ancient Wisdom deemed
it unsafe to depart from this emphasis during that
era of materialism and material philosophy, the
last quarter of the nineteenth century. However,
that Truth might have its witness, in place of
the orange physical they inserted in the septenary
series of human and planetary principles the great
Kosmic principle of Jiva, giving thereto the name
Prana, one proper to a substance but little removed
from terrestrial matter.
Perhaps the inaugurators of the Theosophical
Movement overrated the preception of their
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students, or, what is more likely, the hiding of the
orange beneath the guise of Prana was a touch of
skill worthy of those who in their teaching habitu
ally employ such methods.
H. P. B.
RESURRECTION
THE doctrine of the resurrection of the flesh is
an ancient one. In the Zoroastrian faith,
after the final discomfiture of Ahriman, Ormuzd
will re-assemble the scattered material atoms of
every human body in the great all-inclusive resur
rection still believed in by the faithful Parsees.
The Jews borrowed from the Persians certain
beliefs concerning the resurrection. The Old
Testament contains some references to the Jewish
conception, thus Job: "though after my skin,
worms destroy this body, yet in the flesh shall I
see God." Both the Talmud and the Targums
contain abundant evidence of faith in a fleshly
resurrection. Retaining many dogmas of its parent Judaism,
primitive Christianity held literally to a bodily
resurrection, as witness the church Fathers in its
exposition and defence. Thus Justin Martyr, Ter
tuUian, Chrysostom, Augustine, and even the
Greek philosopher Athenagoras. To quote from
Augustine: "every man's body however dispersed
here, shall be restored perfect in the resurrection.
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Every body shall be complete in quantity and
quality."
Into his composite doctrine, taken from several
sources, Mohammed incorporated the Persio-
Jewish doctrine of the resurrection. The theolo
gians of the middle ages, and especially the
Scholastics, speculated minutely on every imagin
able detail of a gross physical resurrection. They
defended their most absurd deductions with the
argument that to Infinite Being all is possible.
True the Manicheans of the first centuries, like
the earlier Sadducees, had denied a bodily resur
rection, but always such doubters and deniers
were in the minority as afterward in the middle
ages when, in matters of religion, faith and reason
had little in common.
Notwithstanding the arguments of common
sense, and the drastic criticism of modern Science,
and also the fairly definite teachings of Paul who,
as an Initiate of the Mysteries, surely knew the
inner truth, and yet who, because an Initiate,
could not wholly reveal that truth, the doctrine of
corporeal resurrection has always been endorsed
by the Papal, the Greek, and certain of the Protest
ant churches. Moreover, consistent theologians
of these churches yet cling to this dogma as a
mystery transcending human understanding. In
fact they have at no time repudiated these words
of Augustine: "the resurrection of the flesh was
once regarded as incredible, but now we see the
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whole world believing that Christ's earthly body
was borne into heaven."
Unquestioning acceptance of the doctrine of
physical resurrection, or its rejection in toto, is an
extreme which, down the Christian centuries,
should have been avoided for a rational inter
mediate view, that of the thoughtful minority who
hold that in the risen body of the Lord a profound
change must have taken place, because he entered
freely through closed doors. Moreover, a body of
ponderable physical substance, however purified,
could little adapt itself to realms wholly spiritual.
The permanent body described in preceding
chapters, and there denominated "the orange
physical," has no weight determinable by physical
balances, however delicately they are constructed
and poised. Therefore to move naturally on the
dense and gravitative physical earth, such a body
would take to itself weighable particles, the throw
ing off of which would result in its ascension.
Not necessarily having in mind the Jewish
tradition of the indestructible bone Luz around
which, in the fulness of time, the old flesh would
gather, Paul the Initiate hides, under the symbol
of a grain of wheat sowed, what we understand to
be the truth concerning the Resurrection. That
his symbol has been interpreted to signify that
every human body contains a minute but inde
structible nucleus or seed of flesh or bone which in
the grave awaits germination, is not strange in the
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absence of knowledge concerning the seven-fold
constitution of man.
As made known on page 122, "Special Teach
ings," and also in the chapter "The Secret of
Prana," Occult Science teaches that during post
humous life, the permanent foundation atoms of
the physical body exist in pralaya — seeming
death — within that highest of man's bodies the
auric envelope. At the culmination of man's
progress, or possibly somewhat earlier, these atoms,
having been wholly purified, are to expand into a
body resembling that of the risen Master of
physical life.
To Paul the Resurrection was the supreme
event in the world, and naturally the central
theme of his message to the Gentiles. Certainly
the Resurrection was the unique event in human
history and, as St. Augustine declared, a thing
once regarded as unbelieveable. Tradition it is
true had given to both Enoch and Elijah a paradise
whence in the physical body they would descend
to earth in the last great day, but this was mere
popular belief, nothing more.
In his brief epistle, Jude touches on a matter
taken from an apocalyptial book: "The Ascension
of Moses." This matter, bearing on our teaching
as to the nature of the body of the resurrection,
deals with the contention of Michael and the
devil for the body of Moses. To one acquainted
with Eastern methods of imparting truth, Michael
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there symbolizes a resurrection like that after
wards consummated by the Master. On the other
hand, Satan symbolizes the death of the entire
physical as a heritage which, according to the
ancient Eastern Wisdom, was received from
the first or deathless Adamic race when, having
fallen from the pure orange physical into gross
matter, they became the mortal second race.
If — as we have argued and expounded — the
orange physical is to be the universal possession of
the purified human race, and if — as generally con
ceded — that consummation had glorious begin
ning in the risen body of the Master, it is but
reasonable to suppose that, prior to his day, some
faint likeness of that glory was attained by the
great forerunners of regenerate mankind.
Of all representatives of the race whereinto the
Master incarnated at the beginning of the great
cycle of Pisces, Moses was most capable of winning
the immortal physical vesture as an indisputable
possession. To one familiar with Eastern methods
of teaching, it is evident that the dispute of those
opposites Michael and Satan, signifies that Moses
at best had attained only to an imperfect and
perishable vehicle formed from the higher division
of the physical.
In arguing for the Master a permanent physical
vehicle, we relegate him to no remote and undis-
coverable center of the astronomic universe, but
locate him here in close touch with his younger
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brethren of the human family. Unsensed by the
gross faculties of the lower nature, but known and
proven to the higher man, he awaits our growing
toward his own seven-fold perfection of body, soul,
and spirit; that millennial condition of mankind
on the renovated globe which is symbolized as the
new Jerusalem, the Holy City that lieth four
square, its corners resting in fact on Earth's
cardinal points; the city of equal length and
breadth and heighth; the cube whose interpreta
tion is the world itself.
H. P. B.

THE NEW BIRTH
IN the third chapter of St. John are found the
memorable words of Jesus to Nicodemus con
cerning the new birth. The light which our
previous chapters throw upon the orange principle,
discovers a new meaning in the teaching which so
perplexed the Master of Isreal, though he was
learned in the doctrines of Moses and the inspired
utterances of the prophets. Our contention is
that the great Way-Shower came not only to per
fect in himself the body of the resurrection, but
also to enlighten others as to the slow but sure
methods necessary to its attainment.
Jesus' saying: "Except a man be born again he
cannot see the kingdom of God," embodies a two-
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fold proposition, to wit, that he can be born again,
and that consequently he can see the kingdom of
God. Let us now build a brief teaching upon the
new birth and the Kingdom.
The resurrection of the Master was a new birth ;
one inaugurating an era of possibilities which,
however long in the perfecting, did actually begin
on Easter Morn. His teaching that man must be
born of water and of the spirit is not contrary to
our view for, as Jesus said, what is born of mere
flesh is flesh. Powerless of itself, the flesh must
be raised and purified to the requisite degree by the
Spirit and by water.
To the word water the Church has given only a
literal interpretation; but, in the arcane symbology,
water represents the lower astral element of per
sonal will; while, in this instance, spirit signifies
that divine Astral Light the Spiritual Will. Water
is the medium in which fluids of differing specific
gravity can be made to mingle; so, at bottom, the
baptismal water symbolizes the union in man of
both his personal and spiritual will. In brief, the
body that is to be is ever perfecting through the
combined powers of the entire man.
"The Kingdom of God" of which Jesus spake to
Nicodemus, what is it? We must take exception
to the almost universal reply that Heaven alone is
that Kingdom. Heaven is really the place of rest
and recuperation; but the true abode of man is on
the renovated earth mentioned by Isaiah. It is
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in the new Jerusalem of the Revelator. It is in the
orange physical world whose components are to
correspond with the orange physical of man.
As for the resurrected body of the Lord, its
coarser physical particles were thrown off. So, as
we have said elsewhere, from the perfected sub
stratum of the earth, the dying shell shall be dis
carded to swing in space as a dead world, or else
to be drawn from its orbital path to become a mere
satellite of some planet and its evolving races.
In verses 14 and 15 of the chapter here dealt
with, Jesus says: "And as Moses lifted up the
serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of
man be lifted up: That whosoever believeth on
him should not die, but have eternal life." Evi
dently the Master is speaking of his crucifixion,
and its effect upon his following, but, like all in
spired teachers, he, the greatest among them,
hid meaning within meaning. Thus that lifting
up signified the acquisition of a body whereto his
followers should look as their divine pattern.
This body, to shape and cohere in the faithful,
and for the furtherance of which the sacrament of
the Lord's supper was in part instituted, was
ardently desired of Paul, and this desire was
breathed into all his epistles as not for himself
alone, but for the faithful whom he admonishes
thus: "My little children of whom I travail in
birth again until Christ be formed in you." Voicing
his personal aspiration, he also says: "If by any
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means I might attain unto the resurrection of the
dead." Again, speaking for all believers: "Who
shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned
like unto his glorious body?"
Paul the optimist perhaps underestimated the
difficulties for himself, and especially for his fol
lowers, of early attainment to what Jesus in his
answer to Nicodemus called eternal life. To the
Initiate Apostle that life was the fulness of being
due to the possession of the Christ body. The
incomplete condition of the faithful without that
body, Paul has symbolized in the much misunder
stood verse from 1st Thessalonians, chapter 4,
"But I would not have you to be ignorant. Breth
ren, concerning them which are asleep." We hold
that only the physical is indicated as sleeping,
since as yet it had acquired no vital force where
with it could rise from the grave. Paul however
gives assurance that this end shall be attained:
"For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again,
even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God
bring with him."
In view of the words of Jesus to the Sadducees:
"God is not the God of the dead, but of the living;"
it is unbelieveable that the divinely commissioned
Apostle would subscribe to a theory so at variance
with the unswerving spirit of the Master's teaching
as is that of the sleep of the dead. Neither could
he, the Initiate of the Greater Mysteries, have
shared in that popular belief of the Jews which
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relegated the souls of the disembodied to the dark
regions of the underworld.
The Gospels give manifold sayings of Jesus
which contain other than surface meanings. Let
us quote some of many inwardly relating to the
body of the new birth. "I am come that they
might have life, and that they might have it more
abundantly." "As the Father that raiseth up the
dead quickeneth them, even so the Son quickeneth
whom he will." "For as the Father hath life in
himself, so hath he given the Son to have life in
himself." Certain sayings inwardly recognize the mystic
efficacy of the Lord's supper in furthering the body
of the new birth. Thus: "I am the bread of life;"
"Whoso eateth of my flesh hath eternal life."
"This is the bread which came down from heaven
that a man may eat thereof and not die." "He
that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood
dwelleth in me and I in him." Lest a gross inter
pretation should be given to this last, Jesus said:
"It is the spirit that quickeneth, the flesh profiteth
nothing. "
We contend that to Peter, and to Paul especially,
and even to the church of the first three centuries,
the chief event in the life of Jesus the Christ, and
in fact the very crowning of his work, was rather
his resurrection than his death; and that Paul in
this foresaw for the Christian world its greatest
boon. Did he not say: "If Christ be not raised
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your faith is vain: ye are yet in your sins." Our
view is of course remote from that of Augustine
and Calvin and his kind, and is by no means in
harmony with certain dogmas gradually raised on
the death of the Master.
In answering the question as to the Lord's death
the Apostle says: "That through death he might
destroy the power of death, that is the devil, and
deliver those who through fear of death were all
their lifetime subject to bondage." This bondage
was the inherited race fear of Sheol, that dreary
abode soon to rob them of physical life and its
fulness, and to imprison them, as it did father Adam,
as mere joyless shades no better than those peopling
the Greek and Roman Hades which, in its lowest
division, touched the gulf of Tartarus that abode of
unquenchable misery.
Now however, the resurrection of Christ proved
to the faithful the possibility of a body fit to inhabit
brighter spheres, and in fact the brightest. The
exact constitution of that body was not known,
and little inquired into. Enough that rescue was
possible through this body of deliverance and of
the new birth.
Because of the prevailing belief in the soul's
descent to Sheol, a belief inherited from Judaism,
itself a borrower, speculation was rife in the early
Church concerning the whereabouts of Jesus dur
ing the time between his death and his resurrection.
According to Peter, he went and preached to the
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spirits in prison; those who were sometime dis
obedient in the days of Noah.
In "The Heart of Things," and in the chapter
"The Resurrection," it was said that the founda
tion atoms of the physical body of the great Master
of physical life suffered on the cross a profound
shock, but not actual pralaya, that which is com
monly understood as death. What before had
been universal experience, urdess we accept as true
the traditional ascent of Elijah, was not for the
Master, for within three days the foundation
physical atoms recovered tone, and repaired and
revitalized the broken body. Hence we conclude
that notwithstanding his descent to the under
world, the chain binding his soul to his physical
body was unbroken.
Concerning the foundation atoms and their
office in the new birth both of men and things, a
teaching more ample and particularized than any
preceding one, is next in order. H.

THE FOUNDATION ATOMS
IN the chapter "The Physical Body" page 121
of "Arcane Science," it was explained that
man's physical body is a temple of many rooms in
each of which are countless little workmen, tran
sient atomic lives under one master workman;
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while over all is one supreme architect the "Hiram "
of that body. Also it was said that every organ
and part is built up and maintained by these
transient lives; whereas the master workmen and
the architect are permanent through all life cycles;
their period of activity in each physical life of the
individual being commensurate with the life term
of his physical body. Moreover it was said that
the operation of the foundation atoms in man is
clue to the activity of the foundation atoms in
worlds, and in all lesser organisms.
Let us begin the exposition of our subject by
examining into conditions proper to one of the
lowest rungs of the evolutionary ladder; in other
words, into conditions proper to the insect family.
There the group-soul is the source and center of
life for its myriad output. This group-soul has in
charge the fertilized eggs, whether in the body of
the mother, or whether expelled to develop else
where. Not being a physical substance, the group-
soul is in the fourth spacial dimension; hence,
however widely separated, its progeny are never
outside its care. Far below the level of self-
consciousness, the units of the lower orders of life
are at death blotted out, and the infinitessimal
experience of each is added to the collective experi
ence of the group-soul which thus progresses
towards self-consciousness.
That the units of even the lowest orders con
form physically to a model, is due primarily to the
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image in the mind of the group-soul. This arche
typal model in its little way corresponds with the
archetypal model of creation existing in the Divine
Mind. In the "Heart of Things," and in the
chapter "Images," was explained the office of
images in the reproduction of the human creature
whose foundation atoms reproduce the composite
image resulting from the effect of both the paternal
and the maternal image on the model furnished by
the reincarnating entity.
Since in the lower species the unit is blotted out
by death, such permanent physical atoms as alone
insure the rebirth of individualized physical life,
cannot there exist. However, because the short
life and the vast progeny of the lower species
oblige the atoms proper to each class to toil unre
mittingly, it results that they are able to follow the
group-soul model, and also to meet the require
ments of the idealizing group-soul in its efforts to
lift its output in the evolutionary scale.
Originally the group-soul of the lowest order of
life on this planet was vast and nebulous, but
eventually internal differences brought about its
division. This, repeated many times during the
geological ages, has in certain instances greatly
narrowed the output of each evolving group-soul,
and brought about the differentiation of species.
In the first round of our Earth's first and lowest
manvantara, that which would become physical
man was but a unit proper to a group-soul whose
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output numbered many thousands, and possibly
millions, of lives each blotted out by death.
When, in the Earth's present or fourth manvan
tara, and in the first round thereof, the luna pitris
descended to occupy the physical bodies of our
humanity, original conditions were far higher than
in the first world period ; in fact an individualized
physical body belonged to every unit of the race.
Then it was that the foundation physical atoms in
man began their office as such, thus insuring his
rebirth as an individual being, despite the fact of
what we misname death.
Domestication of the higher animals has brought
about for some the final division of the animal
group-soul, and so insured their individual rebirth
through the foundation physical atoms hence
forth associated with each. To the domestic
animals this is a compensation offsetting the
cruelty suffered from man their natural protector.
When our shaping solar system turned on its
axis, a vast and nebulous bulk, the seven-fold
mass was but one primitive group-soul. As
sponsors for all life beneath their exalted rank, the
Solar Hierarchies first separated the Sun, and it
became an individual existence whose permanent
foundation atoms, those proper to the several
planes, were established in the solar centers and
sub-centers. From the residue was next built the
original four planets which, because afterward
dividing, became increased to ten. Thus did the
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original group-soul become eleven whose founda
tion atoms insured reincarnation to each after its
eons of pralaya.
In passing let it be said that the many divisions
whereby each fragment of the group-soul proper to
any of Nature's orders becomes a personal posses
sion, originates in what are to become the founda
tion atoms of the individual being. The division
of the primal human, whereby the entity became
male and female, was an event allegorized in the
story of Eve created from Adam's rib. In this
instance two dominant atoms, in fact two archi
tects, had been evolved. Division of the group-
soul of any species always results from a corre
sponding event. A colony of bees well illustrates
the operation of the group-soul. The hive is the
progeny of the queen, the center of life until a new
queen is developed. Then comes division that
two group centers may fulfill their office.
The invisible astral planet holds in its envelop
ing sheath the foundation atoms of the physical
Moon. These atoms are vehicles of the skandas,
the karmic seeds which, in eons to come, will
germinate moon-ward, drawing with them the
violet planet. Then the cold shell of the Moon,
not dead but in pralaya, is to be vitalized into a
new birth. Fulfilling their office, the Solar Hier
archies will then sow the seeds of a new evolution
higher than that of the last moon manvantara.
Considering next the possibility of our globe as
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the purified abode of a purified race of beings, we
will touch briefly upon the means to that prophesied
outcome which, with Isaiah, was the holy mountain
of the Lord, while with John it was the new Jeru
salem that would certainly supplant the old, thus
making this footstool the abode of deathlessness
and peace. Nor was this outcome unknown to the
formulators of the Ancient Wisdom. In their
cosmogony it had definite place, not as a miracle
to be, but as the work of methodical law ; in fact it
would result from a separative process analogous
to those everywhere discoverable in the prodigious
descent from suns to things.
Purification of the foundation atoms proper to
the Earth's physical, astral, kamic, and kama-
manasic principles, has not kept pace with the
slow purification of the corresponding atoms in
man which, even from this planet's beginning,
were on a far higher level. Therefore the looked
for Millennium is not, as the ignorant suppose, to
be an early and direct act of God, but rather is it a
far-off bringing about through an orderly evolu
tionary process.
For the physical foundation atoms of this globe,
always on the plane of the orange, even as are
those of man and the higher animals, that purifica
tion means their separation from the lower and
fluctuating physical atoms. Then will the more
evolved orange atoms gather around the permanent
ones located at the seven or, precisely, at the forty-
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nine centers, and at many more minor centers of
what is to become the new Earth; in fact that
earth withdrawn from its gross material shell, even
as the violet planet withdrew from the Moon shell.
The more evolved orange atoms then will have
acquired a degree of stability far exceeding that of
the ordinary physical atoms as now existing. Still
these orange atoms must fall far short of per
manency. As for the foundation atoms, since they
are to carry the karmic seeds of another planetary
birth, their term of separation from the earth-shell
will, after the lapse of ages, come to an end.
Because the foundation orange atoms in man,
and even the secondary orange, ever have been
and ever shall be far more evolved than the corre
sponding globe atoms, we prophesy of him that in
th^t millennial season his immortality and freedom
from rebirth shall be assured.
H. P. B.

A MYSTERY OF RE-EMBODIMENT
IN "The Heart of Things," in the Chapter "The
Specific Influence of the Sexes in Reproduc
tion," and again in the Chapter "Images," certain
mysteries of the generative process were explained.
This explanation ended thus: "We have for the
present spoken our last word concerning that great
secret of Nature, the reproduction of kind." In
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this third volume of the series we shall here give
out a few additional facts.
In the chapters mentioned it was in substance
said that the one chief atom and the six associate
atoms peculiar to each of the four lower human
principles, exist in pralaya in the auric egg while
posthumous man moves to more and more interior
planes. As the nucleus of a principal, these four
chief atoms awaken each to creative activity only
when, in its descent to re-embodiment, the ego
reaches the plane proper to that atom.
The new teaching is as follows : In their unalter
able arrangement, the seven chief permanent atoms
proper to the seven principles of man are a mina-
ture seven-fold globe chain. From the astral to
the atmic, these atoms are more and more tenuous,
and of larger and larger circumference; besides
they interpenetrate like the globes of our seven
fold world. The vibration which the male imparts
to the spermatozoon (itself one of a group dis
tinguishable from six other groups) and the vibra
tion which the female imparts to the ovum, attract
the re-incarnating entity as a whole, but largely
they attract the lower quarternary by means of
its four chief permanent atoms. However, com
pulsion ensues only through the triple vibration
caused by the entrance of the spermatozoon into
the ovum.
Having drawn the quarternary to the ovum,
this triple material vibration bends that quarter-
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nary to the requirements of pre-natal life. There
fore it condenses to an infinitesimal sphere which,
entering the ovum, unites with the spermatozoon
the basic material of its future human body. As
for those three chief atoms the nucleus of the
higher triad, conforming only in a degree to the
double vibration, they envelope the growing foetus
with a protecting influence.
After the sixth month of foetal growth, the first
faint influence of these chief triad atoms is dis
coverable by one who has developed keen psychic
sense. Henceforth, during the first six years of
childhood, that influence increases and, at about
the seventh year, the chief permanent atoms of the
triad, having come more and more under the
influence of the material organism, condense into
the heart center, and therefrom influence the
higher brain centers, even as the Spiritual Sun
influences that triad of planets Jupiter, Mercury,
and Venus. H.

THE RAISING OF THE DEAD
COMPULSION ensues only through the triple
vibration caused by the entrance of the
spermatozoon into the ovum." The quotation
from the previous chapter may well be the basis
of another teaching, as follows: The male and
the female vibrations proceed from the positive
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and the negative components of the Creative Word,
and require and compel the presence of that third
component the entity awaiting re-embodiment.
From this coming together results the union, in
one being, of the father vibration, the mother
vibration, and the son vibration.
Evidently every child in the womb is a new
manifestation of the triple Word; one largely
material however, until the incorporation of the
permanent triad atoms at about the seventh year.
Thereafter, the growing child more and more
manifests this Word in both its material and its
spiritual aspects; the process being completed in
three cycles of seven years each; in other words,
when the adult reaches the age of twenty-eight
years. From man's many re-embodiments results the
evolution of the triple Word as by him expressed.
Originally a simple trinity, the Word is becoming
one of exceeding complexity. All re-embodiment,
whether of worlds or beings, signifies progress
toward the complex Word that everywhere
approaches the infinitely complex Word which we
name God; The Creator; The First Cause.
When Jesus the Christ would draw Lazarus
from the dead, he uttered mentally not only the
father and the mother vibrations which had drawn
Lazarus to the womb, but also the vibration proper
to Lazarus himself. Therefore the coming forth
from the grave was a new birth of the triple Word
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for, as a posthumus being on the borders of the
Unseen, Lazarus, obedient to that call, renounced
the period of rest to which the so-called dead are
entitled. Only a Master who had developed in
himself the universal Father and Mother vibra
tions, could perform this crowning deed of adept-
ship. The Grecian myth concerning Orpheus' attempt
to draw Eurydice from the under world with the
music of his lyre (vibration) is profoundly esoteric,
and, freed from blinds, it tells the failure of a
Master who did not maintain the intense con
centration necessary to success. As John the
Baptist, Elijah acknowledged himself inferior to
the great Master of physical life. Nevertheless,
when a prophet under the old dispensation, he
raised the widow's son by means of the triple
Word. Lacking the power of Jesus the Christ,
Elijah must needs reinforce his mental utterance
with physical contact; therefore he stretched him
self upon the child when uttering mentally the
Father vibration, and again when uttering the
Mother vibration, and yet again when uttering the
vibration proper to the child when he entered the
womb. Then, as with Lazarus, renunciation of
the post-mortem state resulted, and also a new
birth. By the raised widow's son, and by the son of the
Shunamite woman, (2 Kings, 4:34) and also by
Lazarus, is foreshown the condition of the human
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race when mankind shall no more be born of
woman in that Eternal City — the New Jerusalem
— come down from God, out of Heaven, upon the
peaceful and purified Earth.
As for other stories of the raising of the dead,
whether in the Bible or elsewhere, most of these
"dead" were really in profound trance, that
counterfeit of death. In conclusion: after the
third day the dead, retiring upward or rather
inward, have passed the boundaries which render
impossible their return to the old body. H.
THE PLACE OF HIS APPEARING
THERE is an occult teaching to the effect that
the atoms which for ages have built the
bodies of the different species, from man down
ward, have become wholly specialized. As result,
an atom efiticient in the human body would be
inefficient elsewhere. This is increasingly true of
the atoms proper to the highest species below the
human. Specialization of the atoms associated with man
has come to this: those which build the bodies of
the various races; the white, the black, the red,
the yellow, and the brown, are gathered into
groups each of which is wholly capable only in its
division of the human family. While the anatom
ical structure of the human creature is almost
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identical throughout the globe, there are many
delicate differences deeper than the cuticle; dif
ferences which these atoms, intelligent on their
own plane, are wonderfully sensitive to. Hence
their affinity for this race, or that, or the other.
Moreover, there are grouped atoms more evolved
than these, and whose predilection is for nations,
and almost for individuals.
The above truths in mind, let us consider further
a matter with which certain of our teachings have
dealt; the where and when of the approaching
Avatar. By some it is believed and taught that
the East, in fact India, will first behold him. In
arguing that every world-teacher has been an
Oriental, these ignore the fact that, with the
Western world unknown, and Africa a dark conti
nent, and Europe benighted in all save its southern
parts, the great spiritual enlighteners of the world
perforce have been of Eastern birth.
Now all is changed. As the destined home of
the forming sub-race, America must receive the
swarming millions who, because of the great war,
are looking hither from the shores of exhausted and
impoverished Europe. It is to the resulting
amalgamation of races and race interests that the
Avatar should naturally come. However, let us
consider certain factors perhaps unfavorable to his
appearing in America.
Some believers in the Avatar would defer his
coming to a time when a fair majority, or at least
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a respectable minority of Earth's peoples, have
evolved to something like that high physical con
dition which will enable them to behold him as
he is. Truly there will be such an Avatar in
Satya Yuga; nevertheless we contend for the Kali
Avatar, but, in this age of iron and spiritual dark
ness, men must be aided to see, yet how unless the
Avatar take to his finer physical body certain
coarser atoms?
This view allowed, the question arises concern
ing both the whereabouts of fit atoms, and the race
to which they rightly belong. Coming to all
peoples, the Avatar should properly conform to
no race type; his physical body should represent
a composite model. So much for theory. As a
matter of fact, preponderance of fit atoms proper
to any one race would perforce ally him physically
to that race, and perhaps fix his advent with them,
even if outside the Americas.
Because the present disturbed equilibrium of the
world has everywhere profoundly affected the
atomic groups of the lower planes, we argue that
the fit time for the Aquarian Avatar is not in the
midst of it all. The Pisces Avatar came at a time
of temporary world peace, a lull in the strife of
nations. Nevertheless, it is best to be at all times
ready. "Watch therefore; for ye know not what
hour your Lord doth come." "Therefore be ye
also ready; for in such an hour as ye think not the
Son of man cometh." tt
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THE AVATAR
The ancient truth sufificeth for a season;
Meanwhile, in Truth's behalf, I wait an ampler view.
Prizing the olden, 'tis the better way of reason
That freely I exchange it for the larger new.
So, whether Christ descend in power and glory
To summon Earth before his final judgment seat,
Or, in the land of hallowed memories and hoary.
He deign to tread once more with humble human feet,
I rest in the supreme event contented,
Nor set my faulty scheme against his perfect plan.
Unto his purpose hath my willing soul consented
Ere dawns the Sun of Promise, and the Hope of man.
Perchance beneath Himalaya's summit splendor
Of glittering ice-peaks, and far-sparkling domes of snow.
He turns the wheel of faith, or else the Truth-Defender
Expounds where broadening Ganges laves the valleys low.
What if he choose the loud and teeming city?
Or, like to John, emerge from out the quiet wild?
Whichever, still his voice is peace and love and pity.
And recognition beams upon his lowliest child.
If so decreed, the West shall first revere hira,
Fair-haired and Saxon even as the Northmen be;
If best, the sweet, persuasive, human shall endear him,
A swarthy Buddha to our wide humanity
Who strengthens mightily by his endeavor.
As man's strong brother wholly given to his part.
The bond by color, race, and creed, quite sundered never;
The brother bond within the universal heart.

THE NEW AGE
It draweth nigh, that glorious consummation.
Which prophets told, and seeing men foresaw.
When nation nevermore contends with nation.
But, peaceful, turns from all the olden war.
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Ah! not till then descends the Once- Rejected;
He hath no message for a wrangling race.
Prepare the highways of the King expected;
Make straight his path in every troubled place.
So doing, ye shall further that appearing
Too long withheld, from wistful eyes too long.
If slothful, ye delay the sight heart-cheering,
And die untuned to Earth's Hosanna song.
Upon the Holy Mount your feet are pressing;
Its curve beneath them is the rounded world
Whose allied peoples shall have earned a blessing
When in their midst defiant flags are furled.
Then on encrimsoned fields the harvests growing
Shall hide the carnage of the years before;
And of good deeds the wide and plenteous sowing
Shall yield its fruitage into Victory's store.
Then shall the humble creatures be uplifted
Who raven now by carnal man obsessed.
Then shall the wheat from out the chaff be sifted
In judgment due, where all must meet the test.
Soon may it come, that glorious consummation
Which filled with hope the prophet's deathless page!
When Love has welded nation unto nation.
Then dawns on Earth the better Golden Age.

CHRISTIAN ROSENKREUZ
THAT our Earth is a living creature, a member
of a family of giants inhabiting the sky, has
been touched upon in "Arcane Science," Page 186,
and in "The Heart of Things," Page 69. Concern
ing the Earth Entity, much is known that for
sufficient reasons is withheld from all but initiates
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of high degree. Were certain secrets generally
accessible, their use might bring catastrophe to
whole areas of the Earth's surface, and death to
the dwellers there. As it is, enough of these
secrets have become known to the hordes of dark
ness to keep the hosts of light on the alert.
Having proved himself wholly trustworthy.
Christian Rosenkreuz was empowered to initiate
certain others into the mysteries relating to the
Earth Entity. His order, in imitation of which
many spurious ones have since arisen, had for
central purpose the bringing about of better and
better terrestrial conditions through the influence
which these initiated ones could bring to bear
upon the Earth Entity. The Rosecrucian Order,
in conjunction with its ancient Eastern original,
would establish throughout the known world
branches at those many force centers concerning
which Rosenkreuz had been fully informed.
Rosenkreuz claimed instruction direct from the
great head of the order, Jesus the Christ, who, on
the Cross of Calvary, received that final initiation
which made him the ruler of this World, and the
mightiest influence in it to bend the Earth Entity
to his bidding, which influence would be greatly
augmented at his second coming, and finally made
complete during a certain astronomical cycle; one
indicated by John the Revelator. Already during
his life, Jesus had controlled the winds and waves,
and afterwards, at his death, the shuddering
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E^th Being had revealed its -displeasure by the
phenomena mentioned in !^atthew 2l; 51-53.
l^enkreuz taught his initiates that, like man,
tfeigTEarth is a trinity of body, soul, a^iid.spm^^'fi.PP-d
that should man keep pure his own bodjiy tem*ple,
the Earth would respond, with fe>er"r,nd fairer
conditions; but should man defile that temple, the
Earth would respond with drought, and famine,
and pestilence. Should men unsheath the sword
of war, the soul of the Earth would raise within
her, and flood, and earthquake, and volcanic out
burst would result. Evidently the Rosecrucian
Order had much in common with that founded by
Melchizedek, the object of which was the bringing
about of permanent world peace.
Rosenkreuz taught his high initiates that each
component of the Earth trinity is itself a trinity,
even as is each component of the trinity called
man. In an age of Christ worship, he announced
the divinity of Jesus the Christ, but not his deity.
While limiting the authority of the Master to this
planet, Rosenkreuz held that ultimately his
influence would extend to the limits of the solar
system. No wonder that, in an age of persecution,
an order holding such hetrodox views was a secret
one. Concerning the New Jerusalem seen of John,
Rosenkreuz taught many things; for instance,
that it symbolized the purified Earth, the future
abode of the perfected and therefore deathless
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human race, ^ch member, of which would possess
the Christ b&dy; and that this purification would
result from seven causes: first, the purification of,.
man; second," the maturirig^ of the Earth Entity,
now in the youth of its fourth incarnation; third,
the influ.,uce' ii the ^eat Sun Entity upon it;
fourth, the lesser influence of the planetary entities;
fifth, the zodiacal influence; sixth, the stellar
influence upon the Earth as it accompanies the
Sun in his stupendous orbit around a magnetic
center which Rosenkreuz believed to be the
Pleaidic seven; and, seventh, the influence of that
remote Star Group.
Rosenkreuz made the human influence upon the
Earth Entity the most potent of the seven, and
this influence he symbolized as the "philosopher's
stone" able to transmute the baser metals into
gold. Every Rosecrucian knew that this change
should begin with man himself, and that the
baser components of the physical earth could be
refined and made indestructable only as a whole.
Hence to the initiated, the alchemist's crucible was
known as a mere blind to protect the central
mystery of Rosecrucianism from the world at large.
We have revealed somewhat of the deepest
teachings of Rosenkreuz, because to-day multi
tudes are fit to profit by them. Never in its
entire life has the Earth undergone such a cleans
ing as now it is experiencing. Those who at the
end of the next decade look back to the year 1914,
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will realize that then began the greatest advance
ever known in the history of this planet.

THE TASKS OF EMBODIED AND OF DISEMBODIED
MIND
TIME and space are the flexible containers of
deeds and events and, in the final analysis,
exist only that these may be harmonized through
karmic Law. This truth is apparent to the
observer capable of comparing certain views of
time and space peculiar to both embodied and dis
embodied mind. To such an observer it is plain
that these views constitute the chief distinction
between mind when functioning on the physical
plane, and when functioning elsewhere.
It is taught that the idea of time and space
now obtaining on the earth's physical plane, is one
which has crystallized apace with the slow solidify
ing of that plane. Nevertheless, there is an idea
of time and space proper to our globe chain as a
whole; an idea to which we must attain without
losing sight of certain other ideas of these, all of
them true from their respective viewpoints.
There is an idea of time and space proper to the
astral lunar scheme, or, more precisely, to the
scheme of the secret violet planet. Moreover,
every planetary chain of the solar system has an
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idea of time and space to which it progresses, or
else to which it has arrived. This being so, how
are the majority of these various ideas to be made
comprehensible to our humanity? That our seven
fold globe chain contains the means to this neces
sary end, let us proceed to show.
First let it be said that physical plane time and
space, as understood at this stage of our progres
sive world, is for us a necessary idea since evolu
tions, whose outcome is more densely physical than
our own is to be, exist in the three outer planets,
and, ere the final unification of all views, we must
have taught the peoples of those planets, and, in
turn, we must have learned from them the views
peculiar to their abodes.
Passing from physical plane time and space to
astral plane time and space, man, as a disembodied
mind, fails to comprehend their real nature; hence,
instead of Lunar truth, he encounters astral
delusion. Through many posthumous lives he
must slowly conquer this delusion, even as has
nearly every white Master, or else — as an accepted
chela of the White Lodge — he may in a certain
initiation receive information which will greatly
accelerate his progress toward Lunar truth. Pass
ing to the kamic plane of our earth chain, the
disembodied mind next encounters delusion in
respect to Martian time and space. These in turn
must be pierced to their hidden truth, a slow
process unless one is enlightened during the cere-
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mony of an initiation somewhat higher than the
other. Thus the disembodied mind ascends through the
planes and their delusions in respect to time and
space, until it reaches its limit of progress some
where on the buddhic level. Ere the ego of man
can attain to perfection, it must through its lower
personalities conquer the truth of time and space
on every plane up to that of the higher Manas.
Meanwhile its own special task is to reach the
truths of time and space existing on the higher
manasic, the buddhic, and the atmic planes of our
globe chain. The ten conceptions of time and
space above mentioned, will bring man into full
understanding of conditions on every planet of
our solar system.
The crowning work of the human mind, when
unhampered by the gross physical body proper to
the present stage of world progress, will be to
conquer the solar conception of time and space.
The accomplishing of this means full union with the
solar Logos. As indicated in what was said touch
ing the outer planets, the task of unifying dis
similar ideas of time and space is not peculiar to
our world. Every planetary humanity has its
special duty in this direction.
Inasmuch as the humanity of the violet planet
knows nothing of the time and space obtaining
below the astral level, and the humanities of suc
cessively higher planets are more and more circum-
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scribed in their outlook, it is evident that the
special duty of our own perfected humanity will
be to initiate not only the lowest planets, but even
these six, into the truths of time and space proper
to our physical plane. Also it is evident that
every planetary humanity in the series must aid in
the scheme of universal enlightenment. M.

SOME ASPECTS OF POSTHUMOUS LIFE
BECAUSE there is an aspect of Time proper to
each planetary and each solar plane, evi
dently to the dwellers on each there should be a
rational order of events. Since for posthumous
man this seldom is true, let us now discover some
thing of the cause.
Students and investigators of the occult are
aware that for our globe chain the physical is the
plane of happenings, while the planes beyond are
those of assimilation largely. Evidently almost
all posthumous happenings have their equivalents
in the earth life just preceding.
The mind of perfected man may be compared to
a flawless sphere, in circling which one would
encounter neither depressions nor protuberances.
When functioning upon any inner plane, such a
mind, and only such, offers no obstacles to the
order of events proper to that plane; and, as result,
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this mind would be in harmony with the idea of
time proper to that plane.
Our statement gives rise to a query which it
were well to answer before proceeding: What of
the fact that, when functioning on the physical
plane, the most ordinary mind is aware of the
current of events? The answer is that the physical
plane is that of karmic action, and, because the
methodical procedure of Karma so requires, the
rational order of terrestrial events is imposed upon
all physical life. This results through the atmic
principle, the Spiritual Will, that unseen ruler of
man and all below him.
Because in all but rare instances, the mind of
man is comparable to a most irregular sphere, one
of numerous depressions and protuberances, it
follows that in the flow of posthumous happenings
over that mind, some sink almost unnoticed, while
others collide with obstacles which impede their
progress, with the result that the event is repeated
perhaps many times, thus greatly disturbing the
sequence of events, and therefore the idea of time
proper to the plane. Nevertheless, there is a
compensation in this recurrence, since because of
it, often a needed lesson can be impressed on the
lower principles during the next incarnation.
On the posthumous planes, certain events are
often joined because of their inner similarity; thus
a deed of youth may be coupled with one of middle
or later life. In this union, posthumous man is
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permitted a hint touching buddhic time, and the
events therein. On the buddhic plane, all deeds
interiorly alike are seen to be one. When, on the
lower posthumous planes, disagreeable and even
painful events are thus united, the hint neverthe
less exists. In larger way, interiorly related events
proper to several incarnations often are joined
during an earthly life. The resulting hint is for
the benefit of the ego that, in some more advanced
incarnation, will impress this hint upon the lower
personality. The earthly blending of certain experiences
proper to several incarnations reveals that, beneath
seeming conformity, the order of events on the
physical plane is subordinate to any special require
ment of karmic law.
From the above teaching it appears that, on the
ascending planes of our planet, one exists where
the climber reaches adequate understanding of its
order of events, and the nature of the time in which
they occur. The place is that of the higher Manas,
from whose lofty vantage the illuminated mind
looks around and beneath with a depth of under
standing unknown to certain beings who, on their
planets, have never functioned, and never will,
below the manasic level.
Once the higher manasic plane is gained, there
is for its conqueror no more delusion, whether he
be out of the physical body, or in it. This manasic
plane is that of the profoundly analytical mind
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which yet must reach the buddhic level ere it can
comprehend the possibilities of all-binding and
all-unifying Love. Attaining this level, one gains
the Nirvana henceforth his own, whether for a
season he fraternized with his fellow men, or
whether on the super-physical plane he remain
to labor for the world's good.
That a certain Master of the White Lodge has
recently attained this level is known to his disciples.
Having been associated with the races and sub-
races of the fourth planetary round, this manasic
Master has learned in succession to control the
forces of the lower manasic, the higher manasic,
and even the buddhic planes. Having unified all
his powers through love, he will in the next decade,
and in all future decades, exert an uplifting power
on the entire human family, who in turn will raise
the vibration of the world itself. H. P. B.

THE MESSAGE OF A BUDDHIC MASTER
A NY great teacher coming to the world, will
¦^^ conform his message to the idea of life
proper to the plane which he represents. Thus the
message of a manasic teacher would be prolific of
details much appealing to the inquiring mind.
His dominant tendency would appear in treating
those abstruse matters which require of his immedi-
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ate followers far more than ordinary penetration.
Through these followers he might eventually reach
the ordinary mind. To this type of teachers
Socrates belonged, and so even Plato, that inter
mediate but for whom the elder sage would have
survived only as a mere name.
Jesus the Christ gave to the world no cosmogony,
but Swedenborg is always constructing and explain
ing; and yet Jesus said : " I and the Father are one."
Thus he declared that knowledge of the Divine
Mind which proved his superiority to those who,
in their cosmogonies, would reveal somewhat of its
workings. None but a buddhic master of first
rank would utter, from more than theory, the
quoted words in the way Jesus did. Theosophists
usually hold that the "Father" of Jesus was the
Ego. While correct, they fall short of that full
explanation which requires an even greater Father,
to wit, the Solar Logos, or, more precisely, a cer
tain hierarchy thereof.
In his message, a buddhic Master seldom
descends to particulars. Nevertheless, as above
instanced, his epitome of any large subject reveals
profound knowledge of its components. To one
of buddhic vision, the furtherance of that compre
hensive unity which it is the great office of Love
to bring about, is the supreme end; one to compel
his every effort. Hence, in gathering his immediate
followers, Jesus chose those best fitted to promul
gate a gospel of Love. As for the choosing of
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Judas, that is a matter of far-reaching import.
Enough that the choice was his whose spiritual
vision reached beyond the confines and destiny of
this planet.
Concerning Saul of Tarsus, it is said that in
Atlantean times he was linked to some extent
with the dark hosts. Gradually disentangling
himself from them, he afterward became well-nigh
free; but, in the karmic cycle of Pisces, Saul the
zealot reaped the fruit of certain karmic seeds of
his own sowing. Therefore, under the obsession
of his old leader, he became a fanatic breathing out
threatenings and slaughter against the incipient
church. Miraculously released from this thrall-
dom, Paul rose to be the great Apostle faithful
unto death. From his rise we learn the unwisdom
of condemning for all time even the one known to
the Christian church as that basest of mankind the
betrayer of his Lord.
Because a buddhic Master, Jesus appealed to the
heart, rather than to the intellect; hence they who
heard him gladly were those of whom an old and
wise soul once said that the Lord must love the
common people since he has made so many of
them. Condescending to their comprehension,
Jesus did not hesitate to illustrate his teaching
with many current ideas which later scientific
investigation has shown to be crude, or even false.
A great manasic teacher might have formulated
an abstruse philosophy, or perhaps have antici-
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pated many discoveries of physical science; or he
might have dilated on the then unknown wonders
of the astronomic universe, thus gaining the
adherence of the eminently intellectual few;
whereas, adopting a simpler method, Jesus would
bind the world with the bonds of Love. So, for
like reason, while taking for granted the theory of
rebirth universally held by Hindu peoples — a
theory which Jesus never contradicted — Gautama,
in his buddhic doctrine of the noble Eight-Fold
Path leading to Nirvanic bliss and union with the
Divine, is as free from the abstruse as is the Sermon
on the Mount; but, like that immortal discourse,
the Buddha's doctrine contains the gist of pro
found philosophy.
The message given out by H. P. B. and which
embodied the philosophy of Universal Brother
hood, emanated from certain manasic and buddhic
Masters. Supplementing and more fully inter
preting this message, much teaching has since
appeared, and more is to follow. Inasmuch as the
approaching Avatar is essentially buddhic, one
coming to his own, the incipient sixth sub-race, the
unparticularized buddhic method will undoubtedly
be in order; but, until men generally are weary of
disrupting warfare, how can the Master begin the
remolding and solidifying necessary to the stability
of a unified world?
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THE EGOLESS BEING
HUMAN intelligence is by no means keen
enough to reach Truth at a single effort.
Its approach is only by narrow degrees. Attaining
a degree, one often deems his desire accomplished,
but further investigation proves the inadequacy
of his truth ; so, if of progressive mind, he is impelled
to a wider and deeper seeking. Eventually he
realizes that his latest truth is only relative; in
fact a milestone on the journey to ultimate
reality. The Eastern method of imparting occult
truth adapts itself to the natural processes of the
mind. As a light-bringer from the East, H. P. B.
adhered to the manner of instruction sanctioned
by her Masters. Hence many of her expositions
have since been more or less unveiled, or even
re-stated. In respect to a certain doctrine, one
long carefully guarded, but finally taught as a
veiled truth to a small group, and by them com
municated to others; that doctrine yet exists as
originally given out. We refer to the doctrine
which deals with the condition of the human ego,
and the fate of man's lower quarternary, when the
two have been wholly sundered. This doctrine
contains certain statements which do not dovetail
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show somewhat of truth hidden beneath the
exterior. If the student has assimilated certain teachings
of Volumes I and II of our series (the teachings in
respect to seven-fold man) he is familiar with their
departure from the more exoteric doctrine in vogue.
We regard man as a compound being, a seven-fold
group-soul built, not from the base upward, but
from the top downward, in a gradual evolution
from Jupiter to the Earth where he acquired his
seventh and basic soul or vehicle, the physical
peculiar to this planet. On the other hand, the
usual teaching makes man a triad of real and
imperishable higher principles which reflect them
selves downward as an illusionary triad function
ing in an illusionary envelope.
We maintain that while the lower quarternary
is negative to the upper triad, and dependent
thereon for spiritual uplifting, it is as real as the
planets with which it corresponds. In fact it is a
permanent entity capable of widening the outlook
of the upper triad, and therefore joined to it by a
community of interests. If we declare for the
usual Theosophical conception of the lower and the
higher man, we are forced to admit that the sev
erance of the cord or bridge binding the two, means
the death of the lower and illusionary. Should the
oil be drawn from a lamp, the saturated wick burns
for a while. So, in analogous way, the lower man
often persists through several incarnations, each
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baser than the former, until he disappears because
no longer a self-conscious being. So much for the
old instruction in respect to the quarternary.
Considering the separated ego, we discover a
flaw in the teaching as to the procedure now open
to its choice. Should the ego retire forever to its
own proper level, this procedure would mean the
complete stay of its evolution. If adopting the
theory that the ego can put forth a new personality,
another difficulty confronts us. All our great
Teachers agree that an incarnated being is the
sum of tendencies and aptitudes acquired in many
past lives, and in him many karmic seeds should
come to harvest. Allowing, as we must, that the
quarternary has for ages been associated with the
ego, it is evident that a newly-formed quarternary
would be an anomaly, a being without inherited
tendencies and aptitudes; also without karmic
seeds many of which would be undesirable, while
others would be the reverse. It is difficult to
imagine just what that nondescript being would
seem to his parents and friends and the world at
large. Evidently the teaching is a substitute and
nothing more.
If, during its ages of union with the ego, the
quarternary has produced nothing that can be
assimilated by the other, then the severance of
upper and lower will become total; but such an
unfruitful quarternary it is difficult to imagine.
The inner teaching is that whatever the ego has
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acquired from its associate, constitutes an imperish
able tie. The base quarternary may sink even to
the loss of self -consciousness, but, in a future
manventara, or perhaps in an outer planet, it yet
will rise to a receptive condition. Then the wait
ing ego will reform the old tie, and with almost
certain prospect of successful outcome, inasmuch
as bitter experience will have implanted in the
quarternary an abhorrence of all that wrought its
downfall. It is taught that some of the great egos
of our race have redeemed their associates from a
debased condition induced in a former world
period. SPIRIT GUIDES
TO the average Spiritualist, a "spirit guide" is
that peculiarly gifted being whose high
office is to establish communication between the
living and the so-called "dead," that the people
who walk in the darkness of this material
world may see a great light of truth. Now, as a
matter of fact, a "spirit guide" is usually a being
who in the earth condition practised mediumship,
and whose conscienceness then shifted constantly
from normal to abnormal; one who in this respect
has not changed.
Since the medium has a certain vogue while in
the flesh, why not when out of it? From what we
have learned of post mortem conditions, it seems
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that passing out has not greatly changed the
human being either in his mental make up, or
in his personal peculiarities; but, as for the
medium, we find that the special knowledge
obtained in his new organism and environment,
enables him, in communication, to be the operator,
whereas once he was the receiver.
Despite this, should a more positive spirit take
part in the communication, he, according to his
nature, will dominate the "guide" for truth, or for
falsehood. For this reason and others, mediumship in the
past was not countenanced by the great and wise
ones in the lofty regions of the spiritual world.
Were it not for that Scientific Materialism of the
last century which these lofty beings deem one of
the greatest dangers that ever threatened the human
race, spirit return would not now be favored, or
even excused, by those who have seen too many
disciples of Materialism born actually blind into
the realms beyond the grave.
It is most difficult for any "guide" to clothe his
astral brain satisfactorily with the subtle matter
from the medium's brain. Unless this clothing is
well done, lapse of memory, confusion of names
and messages, and other errors, may appear in the
midst of correct statements, or else mere telepathy
may take the place of communications. These
results tend to bewilder the impartial investigator,
and disgust the skeptical, while furnishing material
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for the ridicule or the mirth of the thoughtless and
the ignorant.
Among aboriginal tribes, both the witch doctor
and the medicine man are held in high honor.
These are always mediumistic, and naturally in
affinity with a low order of earth-bound spirits.
Passing to the Happy Hunting-ground, the
Indian Medicine Man becomes a guide, and a
person of consequence among his fellows, but,
knowing the superiority of the white race, he is
drawn through vanity- to the white medium. As
an aid to his peculiar work, he often instructs
others in the mystery of "control."
As a boy, the ordinary male Indian begins the
severe training necessary to make him a "brave,"
an honor to his tribe, but the girl is destined to
the drudgery of work which among civilized peoples
belongs to the male. Because of his enlarging views,
the Indian "guide" would lift those females of his
tribe who now are with him, into duties worthier
than they knew on earth; so, because, from his
viewpoint, the office of guide is a most honorable
one, he instructs the brightest among the young
women around him, in the secrets of his profession,
with the result that quite a band of Indian girl
"guides" have attached themselves to mediums
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PSYCHIC VISION
AND the graves were opened; and many
bodies of the saints which slept, arose,
"And came out of the graves after his resur
rection, and went into the holy city, and appeared
unto many." Matt. 27: 52-53.
Taken literally, these verses seem at first thought
to uphold the doctrine of the sleep of the dead
until the Resurrection morning ; but second thought
prompts the query: "If the dead so sleep, why this
interruption? Is not the doctrine contradicted
by it?" Evidently the statement in Matthew is
exoteric, as is Paul's doctrine of the sleep of the
dead, and, like that doctrine, the statement was
suited to a time when little or nothing in respect
to post-mortem conditions was known save to the
initiated few.
¦ However much one may condemn certain results
of spiritual mediumship, the impartial investigator
must eventually admit that modern Spiritualism
confirms the ancient secret teaching that the
physical and the super-physical worlds are in
conjunction. Many sensitive organisms require no great dis
turbance to throw them out of poise, and even into
rapport with the sub-planes of the psychic world.
We contend that, in the event which we are con
sidering, this happened because of certain phenom
ena attendant upon the crucifixion of the Master.
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The dead from the "Graves," whose God "is not
the God of the dead, but of the living," were the
active inhabitants of those planes of being which
ordinarily are hidden from human sight.
One effect of the victory of Right, in the World
War now behind us, is a steady and rapid rise in the
rate of vibration peculiar to each plane of our
composite world. This rise originates in man as
a composite being, and by him is communicated to
the spirit of the Earth. As result, the veils
separating the seen from the unseen are growing
thinner, so that, within the next decade or two,
many of the living "Dead" will be seen of thou
sands who never claimed clairvoyance. This
truth in distorted form appears in Pastor Russell's
teaching, for which he claims Scriptural warrant,
that soon after 1914 the dead will begin to rise
from their graves to people the purified earth for a
thousand years.
In the interest of common sense we must modify
still more Pastor Russell's doctrine of the Resur
rection of the Dead. It is but reasonable to argue
that the gradually-rising vibration of the Earth,
and of the human organism, will cause the super
sensible world to emerge gradually from its veil.
Hence, only the few, perhaps the very few, are
to have perfect vision; whereas the average indi
vidual will see as through a glass darkly, and the
materialist and the carnally minded may not see
at all. Again, it is probable that, as in most
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ancient times, the other world is to appear and
disappear in accord with the varying bodily or
mental states of the observer.
After a certain rate of vibration is attained, no
closer conjunction of the two worlds can occur for
a long period of time. This because of certain
imperfections that persist obstinately both in the
physical globe, and in the physical body of man.
Evidently the New Jerusalem to be established
upon the Earth, is yet of the remote future.
THE POSTHUMOUS VIEWPOINT
THE observer on any posthumous plane of our
seven-fold world, sees that plane merging
into the one above, or the one below, provided that
he be located on the upper, or else the lower
boundary of his plane.
This fact makes understandable and valid the
report from the other side of life that, immediately
after discarding the physical body, one often sees
that body, and all surrounding persons and things,
as clearly as when he was in the flesh; in fact so
clearly that he wonders why he can no longer
communicate with his friends either by word or
action. If such an one be not wholly earth-
bound, his view of persons and things terrestrial
undergoes a change corresponding with his rise to
higher planes.
Because such a being would at no time realize
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his altered perception of all behind, he would
argue that still he sees the world as when he left it ;
whereas, he sees only the more and more interior
and ideal; in other words, the more and more real
and abiding.
The viewpoint of the discarnate should be familiar
to those who receive communications from the life
beyond. They should know understandingly that
their loved ones have outgrown our circumscribed
ideas of the sorrows and miseries of the world, and
now, from the vantage point of higher planes,
behold Divine Justice appointing the experiences
which are essential to the upbuilding of the com
munity, the nation, and the world.
That the ordinary discarnate being seldom can
predict the exact time or nature of any future
earthly happening is evident for at least two
reasons: Every plane of the seven has its standard
of time which is determined chiefly by the rate of
vibration peculiar to that plane. Therefore, the
almost inconceivably rapid vibrations of the higher
planes there cause the centuries to pass almost as
do the years with us. Of all the discarnate
multitudes, only those who has learned to adjust
time differences, can determine the date of an
earthly event. Furthermore, into all earthly
events, save those pre-determined by the Over
ruling Powers, there enters an inscrutable element
of human free-will, and that free-will usually
modifies or accentuates the outcome. .^
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THE EIGHTH SPHERE
OF Avitchi, the Eighth Sphere, commonly
known as Hell, many things must remain
hidden in the secret arcanum of the Initiates; but,
during the years of a general Judgment like that
which the World is now in the midst of, some few
particulars may be given out as a warning, if
nothing more.
Avitchi is both a locality and a condition.
During terrestrial life, one may be in the condition
through conjunction with Avitchi, but only the
discarnate few gravitate to the locality. To locate
the Eighth Sphere, one should first know that our
seven-fold world, or globe chain, is a septenary of
concentric spheres; the highest and purest being
of largest girth, and so ethereal that it penetrates
every lower sphere.
Down to the physical, these spheres are of
increasing densities. Evidently the sixth sphere
penetrates all below, as so in their order do the
others, the physical excepted. While the physical
earth is the smallest and densest of the seven, a
shrunken astral sphere, much smaller than the
physical, is hidden far beneath the crust of the
world. In the descent from the apex of the Atmic globe,
the lowest arc of man's true orbit never reaches
the Eighth Sphere, the outward shapes of whose
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denizen have so far conformed to their evil minds
that no human mother could give them birth.
Were our evolution an eight-fold one, that sphere
would participate in the scheme of progression.
Being outside the scheme, it necessarily is the fit
and only abode of actual failures.
Because the heart-center of the highest sphere
of the septenary is located at the point which
marks the center of Avitchi, it is evident that
Divine Love reaches down to the most deplorable
conditions. This two-fold condition of heart-
centers is duplicated by the heart of man, and that
of the universe.
Imprisoned beneath the Earth's crust, the souls
in Avitchi (that place of dense and impure astral
matter) are not conscious of those material fires
which often seek outlet at the surface; but the
sulphurous fumes from that vast burning pene
trate the Eighth Sphere, thus making it a place of
bad odors. In many ways, Swedenborg's con
ception of the hells does not differ from ours, but,
concerning their duration, we take issue with his
teachings. If the hells are eternal, why, according
to Peter, did Christ preach to the spirits there
imprisoned? In a former teaching we spoke of the non-elect
of the Pauline doctrine. Evidently these event
ually would gravitate to the Eighth Planet where
a more fundamental manifestation of the Christos
would reach down and redeem them. When, after
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his crucifixion, Christ descended to the Eighth
Sphere, it was because there alone he could accom
plish — though but for a brief period — that more
fundamental manifestation. Whom then he aided,
and to what degree, is a mystery revealed only to
high Initiates.
In respect to the non-elect, let us add a teaching
never before made public. After a very large
per cent of the above-mentioned failures have
gravitated to the Eighth Planet, certain incor-
rigibles will remain with our planet even when,
like the moon, it swings a mere corpse in the sky.
This because no manifestation of the Christos
possible at this stage of cosmic evolution can
reach them.
The dead moon has an Avitchi, and a cer
tain evil luna magnetism is centered therein.
Sufferers from acute mania, and the victims of
alcohol and drugs, often are in the baleful currents
from the Avitchis of both the moon and the earth.
Now what is the fate of the few, fortunately the
very few, doomed to remain in the Avitchi of our
globe chain? With total loss of self-consciousness,
they will pass to a solar system more material in
its scheme, or else they must await the death and
rebirth of our own ten-fold system of sun and
planets. This would mean to them the loss of
what, in the Secret Science, is termed seven eterni
ties. But, as compensation, they would, because
of certain experiences, be among the foremost in
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the evolution of an immeasurably remote world
period. H.

HEART CENTERS
TN respect to Heart Centers, what little can be
-^ grasped is understandable only when certain
facts are acknowledged. To begin with ; no purely
spiritual philosophy can endure the test of logic,
for such a monism fails to account for the seeming
presence of the impure and the imperfect in man,
the world, and the universe.
From our view point the universe is a duad, a
positive half, and a negative half. The positive
half is the unknown Spiritual Supreme, while the
negative half is the total of manifest creation, to
wit: solar systems and their progeny from highest
to lowest. This negative half is naturally lethargic
and unprogressive, whereas the positive half is
inconceivably active. For the full and final per
fection of the whole, each requires the other,
because of itself the positive would be increasingly
one-sided, or top-heavy, so to speak, while of itself
the negative would tend back to that primal chaos
from which it was lifted by the positive.
That mutual benefit may result, the Supreme
Spiritual establishes itself at the very heart center
of worlds and creatures ; in fact, at the infinitesimal
center of every atom in manifest creation. It is
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taught that the Supreme Spiritual is devoid of
attributes, but a clearer teaching is that the
utmost enlargement of human conception of will,
wisdom, and love, conveys only a dim idea of their
correspondence with the Supreme Spiritual. Even
then we are confronted with the possibility of
many unknown attributes proper to the Supreme
Spiritual. Whether few or many, these attributes are
summarized by the word Life, a word whose super
ficial meaning is understood by all human beings.
Concerning this Life, or Energy, pulsating in every
material and immaterial atom, its manifestation
would seem to be governed by the law of periodicy,
of ebb and flow.
From this we are not to suppose the negative
half of the universe to have no life of its own.
The synthesis of what is named will, wisdom, and
love, constitutes an inherent negative life ; one also
conforming to the law of ebb and flow. The ' ' dead ' '
human body, andthe " corpse " of themoon, each has
lost only that which utilized its ebbing negative
life. As for positive Life, it will inform the atoms
of both — whether assembled or dispersed — until
the universal night.
Positive Life is known as the Great Breath.
This life blood of Cosmos flows from the hidden
Heart Center of Being to every organ and part of
what Swedenborg called ' ' The Grand Man. " This
flow is continuous during the great Day of Mani-
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festation; then, at the very outskirts of creation,
the life blood turns toward its source and, one by
one, the outlying Suns and Systems lose their basic
Life. Among the last to succumb are the Zodiacal
Hierarchies, and for them there is an order of
passing. The last to sink into prelaya will be the
first to waken at the dawn of the New Era, whereas
the first to sink will be the last to waken.
What then shall we conclude? Is the darkened
universe to be deprived of all life? By no means!
When the physical body of man succumbs, the nega
tive life therein falls into recuperative sleep, and so
in turn the negative lives of those inner vestures
which posthumous man discards. But in the
Maha Prelaya, though not till then, the permanent
in man, and its negative life, lapse into unconscious
ness, and his lower vestures are dissipated. So
with the worlds ! The impermanent disintegrates ;
but the permanent merely sleeps. Hence the mid
night hour of every Maha Prelaya witnesses a
higher correspondent of the primal chaos into
which Positive Life, the Word, at midnight once
breathed Its quickening Breath.
Lethargy is an inherent characteristic of nega
tive life, therefore, the negative aspect of the
universe has in itself no incentive toward organi
zation. From this fact the office of the Supreme
Spiritual is obvious. Now why is Positive Life
outbreathed and then withdrawn? Evidently for
one of two reasons, and possibly for both. Posi-
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tive Life may obey some imperative limitation, or
else negative life cannot endure the strain of
unremitting activity.
To one holding that the Supreme Spiritual
accommodates itself to the limitations of its other
half, and so to the law of influx and efflux, the
query is suggested: Will this condition obtain
eternally? Our answer is, that when the other
can endure the strain of incessant activity, then
the union of positive and negative will be com
plete, the great cycle of Necessity accomplished,
the Heart Center and the Circumference of the
universe equalized, and God will be All in All. M.
THE GREAT BREATH
THE Great Breath, that basic Life whose com
plete cycle constitutes a day and a night of
Parabrahman— a period of 622,080,000,000,000 of
our years — by its out-breathing and in-breathing
measures the eons from the birth of one universe
to that of another. The words out-breathing and
in-breathing symbolize a process which may be
superficially described thus:
Imagine a point of all-surpassing brilliancy
amidst seemingly empty space, and appearing not
far from the center of what now are the zodiacal
constellations. Imagine that point expanding to
an orb larger than the sun seems to be, and after
ward filling the entire circle of the Zodiac. Ever
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enlarging its circumference, through ages and ages,
that Life Globe eventually attains to a limit
which fixes the dimensions of the Universe for one
great evolutionary epoch. To human sense the
Absolute Light of that transcendent globe would
be absolute darkness, and even to the loftiest
zodiacal intelligences, for instance, those of Taurus
with its Pleiadic suns, that Light would be seen
as through a veil.
Everywhere outside the circumference of the
universal Life Globe, lethargic world stuff — more
and more dormant according to its distance from
that Globe — would fill an abysm limited or unlim
ited; but who can determine? The rim of the
Cosmic Globe will indicate the advance into the
domain of darkness which Positive Light, associated
with negative light, has made in that day of
Parabrahman, which, like all preceding days,
began at midnight and will end at the next mid
day. At that time the circumference of the
universal globe will begin to contract, and so con
tinue during 311,040,000,000,000 years. Then
only the infinitesimal point will remain. Even
this will diminish, and so disappear for a moment
of universal time. There is warrant for the belief
that the present universe has reached its maximum,
and is now in process of contraction, but ages
upon ages must elapse ere the circumscribing
process reaches the outskirts of our solar system,
then in its culminating rebirth.
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In the chapter " Heart Centers," it was suggested
that Positive Light might obey some demand
sourced within itself. Our opinion is that, like
negative light. Positive Light periodically requires
a subjective condition into which it retires during
each Cosmic Night, there to receive unknown and
probably unknowable benefits, while at the same
time relieving negative life of the stress and strain
of the Great Day.
The astrologers of most ancient times knew that,
in a far off Maha Manvantara, the Universal Life
Globe at its utmost had expanded only to the
circumference of the zodiacal circle, whose inlaying
constellations since then have but little changed
their configurations despite many rebirths. Then,
as now, the zodiacal intelligences were governed
from the Heart Center of the Universal Globe.
However, as the universe grew, the rulership of the
newer star-clusters and single suns — our own
among them — was delegated to those hierarchies;
hence for the star-clusters and suns indicated they
are the Lords of Karma. Therefore originated the
hoary saying that all wisdom and knowledge is
sourced in the Zodiac.
By some of the ancient Wise, it was held that a
secondary and even a tertiary rulership of worlds
and systems of worlds had been delegated ' to
certain constellated intelligences beyond the
Zodiac. Hence the astrological systems of these
enlightened star -readers considered many influences
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originating in certain outlying regions. We regret
that much knowledge necessary to correct astro
logical castings, disappeared from the outer world
at about the beginning of the Christian Era. M.

THE MASTER HILARION
OF the Masters of Wisdom, the great world
knew nothing until the beginning of' the
last quarter of the nineteenth century. For the
next twenty-five years, information was meagre
indeed; but the beginning of the present century,
that which ushered in the new age, brought con
ditions favorable to increasing publicity so that,
concerning those lofty beings, we have to-day
much information which, earlier, would have been
premature. What we shall present in regard to
the Master Hilarion, contains nothing not already
known to his direct disciples, and little not pre
viously given to the larger company of his less
intimate following.
Master H., who is a specialist in the laws of
vibration, and in the mysteries of sex, is numbered
among the primary seven, whereas, certain other
Masters are among the secondary seven, and still
others among the tertiary seven. H. is known as
the Master — for this world — of the Red Ray
occultly connected with the planet Mars; for
which reason he is in conjunction with certain
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Martian conditions. H. does not leave the earth
chain, but, because the outer circle of our seven
fold globe impinges on the outer circle of the
Martian globe at the nearest arc of its orbit, he
can at stated intervals avail himself of that fact,
and so in a way become a Martian. He then can
identify himself with a people originally very
impetuous and belligerent who, in the long ago,
put war behind them, and are now living in great
communities where law and order need no authority
for their enforcement.
The color peculiar to Master H. is the purified
red; in other words, the rose, or, rather, the lilac
pink. The red places H. among the three who are
negative to the positive three in the primary group
of Masters. His polar opposite is the Master of
the Yellow Ray. As the original red indicated,
H. has evolved from a rather low position; but this
fact gives him greater grasp of ordinary human
conditions than is possible to the almost wholly
spiritual Master of the Yellow.
H. might be called the Egyptian Master, for in
ancient times he was the head of an order known
as the "Star of the Pyramid." However, before
the days of Columbus, his interest was centered, as
still it is, chiefly in North America, and, to speak
definitely, with that portion thereof which now is
known as the United States. In the Red Indian,
Hilarion discovered certain characteristics which
in very remote times were his own; so, to help as
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far as possible the primitive peoples of this land,
he took the humble body and the limited brain
peculiar to his lesser brethren by whom he was
known and afterwards remembered as Hiawatha,
whose great work among the warring tribes was
the welding of the Six Nations to which he taught
the simpler industries of Peace.
It was for a purpose which Longfellow did not
understand, nor need to understand, that he
treated the legend of Hiawatha in a poem wherein
he broke from the influence of European culture,
and became a real American poet, the producer of
a wholly original work embodying elements insuring
its longevity, and even immortality.
Mr. W. T. Stead occasionally was in touch with
Master H. whom he and his associates knew as
"a highly evolved intelligence on whom we did
not often intrude our mundane affairs." True,
the Master did not warn Mr. Stead against passage
on the Titanic. Rather, he spoke in a riddle,
because what is ordained must be, and obstruc
tion only make more difficult the accomplishment
of those high and just purposes which are known
to the hierarchies of advanced beings that guide
the destinies of the world.
As early as 1901, Hilarion warned his disciples
in these words, "Children of the new dispensation,
be ye ready; the war of the ages is upon us!"
The great original Armageddon even then was
being fought in the skies, and its battle front was not
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merely one thousand and six hundred furlongs in
length as was the front of the earthly Armageddon
spoken of in Rev. xiv: 20. Rather, the conflict
between the hosts of Light and those of Darkness
which ended in the discomforture of the latter, and
the bringing down of the battle to the material
plane, was over a line far longer than one thousand
and six hundred times one thousand and six hun
dred furlongs.
From the beginning of the new century until
now. Master H. has been chief among many who
are preparing conditions suited to a verification of
the accessibility of the spiritual realms, a verification
that should convince all but the obstinate material
ist of whom it can be said that having eyes he
shall not see, and having ears he shall not hear.
Furthermore, Master H. — whom certain ones
know to be the John the Baptist of the new Dis
pensation — is preparing the world, and this country
specially, for an appearance of one of the Great
Teachers; a spiritual being clothed upon, as was
Jesus when in the midst of the faithful disciples
after the Resurrection : a being whom no one will
dare lay hands upon, and against whom no evil
mouths will venture to cry out "Crucify him!
Crucify him!" If one understand that, in a
materialized body, or rather one having the ele
ments of permanency, the atoms will be in a state
of flux, he sees that not until the rage and hate
engendered by the world war has subsided, can
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any great number of human organisms be depended
upon to furnish the Avatar with wholly pure atoms
whenever needed.
Hence the day of consummation may be delayed
beyond the eight years which yet remain until the
time indicated by Master H.

ARMAGEDDON {A Prophecy)
"And I saw heaven open, and behold a white horse; and he
that set upon him was called Faithful and True, and in
righteousness he doth judge and make war." Rev. 19: 11.
O Judge and Warrior! Faithful! True!
O many-crowned, thine eyes aflame !
Thou of the name that no man knew.
Though in all human years the sarae!
Thou of the vesture deeply dyed
Amidst the wrathful wine-press red !
Upon thy spotless war-horse ride
The King and Lord of thousands led.
From out thy mouth a sharpened sword.
The sceptred iron in thy hand.
Thy look is lightning flashed abroad
To blast thera who against thee stand.
The beast, and one his iraage base.
Condemned of God, disowned of man,
Cain-like shall nowhere find a place
Safe from the Law's relentless bann.
And those that bear the fateful brand.
And think to share a tyrant's rule.
In cunning net themselves had planned.
Shall perish even as the fool.
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Whereat an angel in the sun
Shall sound a summons loud and far:
"The vengeance of our God is done;
Feed every foul upon his war.
" Captains and Kings shall be your meat.
And mighty men of lofty place.
And of the reranant ye shall eat
Whose lives were menace to their race."

ELECTRICAL ENERGY
SEARCHING for the ultimate particle of matter,
the physicist penetrates the atom, and finds
a nucleus, and the electrons revolving around it.
Since both nucleus and electrons are electrical, it
appears that matter is really a manifestation of
electrical energy. The nucleus itself is the mys
tery whose solution seems beyond the grasp of
Material Science.
In nucleus and electrons the occultist finds
marvelous verification of the Hermitic maxim
"As above, so below." When the Logos ruling
our solar system had condensed the original nebula
to a sun, and that sun had hurled from its plastic
bulk the planets which revolve in their appointed
orbits, the Logos in countless degrees duplicated
the process down even to the infinitesimal; the
nucleus and the electrons.
Evidently the nucleus in humble way is a sun,
a magnetic center holding to an orbit every electron
that so accomplishes an evolution which, in the
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aggregate of nuclai and electrons, will raise the
vibration of the earth mass to the limit attainable
by a physical planet such as ours. In respect to
the force which both sun and electrons thus mani
fest, the fact is that that which on the material
plane appears as this energy, is counter par ted on
each higher plane, and everywhere and always is
a trinity of forces. That form of electrical energy
which has become the many-handed servant of
man, an energy familiar yet intangible, is only a
cruder manifestation of power.
This electron energy contains a negative power
of destruction which, if wholly operative, could
almost hurl the earth from its orbit into the
spacial deeps. Times have been when that nega
tive, coupled with its more subtle correspondent
in man, has deluged continents, or else has
destroyed them through outbursts of subterranean
fire. Moreover, what has happened may recur, if
terrestrial conditions arouse the negative of a
world-enveloping and permeating force.
Turning from this form of electrical energy, we
discover another, proper to certain higher spheres
of our seven-fold world : the sphere of crude desire ;
and that of pure love. This energy binds the
higher to the lower sphere that through their union
Compassion may be evolved. This energy also
exists in man, and there unites Buddhi to Kama
that the Christ likeness may eventuate.
Another form of electrical energy is proper to
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certain other spheres of our seven-fold world: the
sphere of material mind ; and that of spiritual mind.
In man this energy not only unites the higher
manas to the lower manas that the two may be
equalized, but it is the antaskarana, the middle
principle, binding the triad to the quarternary.
Another form of electrical energy is proper to
certain other spheres of our earth septenary: the
sphere of personal will; and that of spiritual will.
This energy binds the two for the purpose of
unification. In man this energy unites Atma to
the astral principle that the godlike being may
result. Concerning the seven world spheres, and the
seven human principles, they are evolved mani
festations of that electrical energy which, inherent
in the formless world stuff, required the positive
vibration of the Creative Word to awaken them
from the lethargy of seeming death. As for the
intermediates that weld and equalize the above-
mentioned pairs of opposites, both in the world
and in man, they were bequeathed by the Solar
Hierarchies who thus gave of themselves that,
through these, the world might be unified with the
Spiritual Sun, and man with those sublime beings
who rule the Solar System.
Gravitation is the highest manifestation of elec
trical energy yet known. It emanates from the
Kosmic Logos; that of the invisible Central
Sphere. Like all electrical energy of lesser vibra-
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tion, it has a positive influence; one discovered by
Newton, and a negative influence operative in
certain regions of the Universe. The Galaxy, that
great storehouse of material, is the appropriate
birthplace of suns. There, upon certain of these,
the negative influence is active, for the remote
regions of space must be peopled with living light.
But when the clock of Time strikes the mid-day
hour of evolving Creation, involution begins with
the positive energy of Gravitation become univer
sally operative; and when, at twilight, the Father-
Mother Sphere shall have drawn to itself every
wandering star-child, they there shall rest and
renew themselves through the^Maha-pralaya, the
seven eternities, the Kosmic Night, even until the
new morning appears larger and more radiant
with promise than any of old.
In these brief statements concerning electrical
energy, we have not defined it, and now, in con
clusion, the explanation will be but a surface one.
Electrical energy is a manifestation — adapted to
each plane of our seven-fold world, and to each
principle of septenary man — of Will, Wisdom, and
Love, the Trinity in Unity, , the Word of Power.
If at times the negative aspect of the Word of
Power is operative in the world, this is so only for
the purpose of karmic adjustment. Wrath is a
word of earthly origin ; one that grew out of human
shortcomings, therefore, it in no way indicates any
attribute of God. tt
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THE DAYS OF THE LORD
ONE day is with the Lord as a thousand
years. II Peter 3:8. In the light of the
Arcane Wisdom, we perceive many interpreta
tions of these quoted words of Peter. For instance,
a Day of the Lord is the period of the sun's passage
from one sign to the next in the equinoctial proces
sion. Our Earth has experienced an immense
number of these days. Each of them may be
called a new age, at the beginning of which the
progressing Earth Spirit takes on a higher condi
tion; one that should result in the betterment of
the human race, provided it be in a receptive con
dition which, however, is not always the case.
Whoever has mastered the intricate law of
cycles, can determine very nearly the life period of
our Earth. A man's death may be a lingering
one, but, at the last, life ceases suddenly; and so it
is to be with the Earth after the end of its final
round which terminates with the close of the
seventh Great Day of the Lord. In "The Revela
tion of John," a Day of the Lord, is fixed at 2160
ordinary years, and not at 1260 days or years, for
this period is only a blind.
While 2160 years — ^whose condensed number is
nine — are not precisely one-twelfth of the great
equinoctial cycle, John chose these years because
divisible without a remainder by nearly every
number appearing in Revelation. These numbers
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are 2, 3, 3}4, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 24, 144, 360,
and 1600. The exceptions are 3}4, 7, and 1600.
Now while 1260 can be divided by 3}4 and 7,
1260 years are only seven- twelfths of the approxi
mate years of the great cycle.
To one who delves deep into the symbolism of
Revelation, it is evident that the thousand millenial
years mentioned in Chapter xx:4, are contained
in that Day of the Lord the cycle from Aquarius
to Capricornus; but much special knowledge is
necessary to determine the period of travail ere the
birth of the thousand years which, after all, are not
necessarily what are commonly understood to be
a thousand years.
Even as the Earth, man has his Days of the
Lord. Each of these may be said to begin at his
conception, and to continue until the conception
preceding his next birth. Now, whereas, the
physical body of man disintegrates during his day,
the body of the earth endures seemingly unaffected
throughout its day. This to ordinary observa
tion; but to the great planetary rulers, our earth,
and all other earths, each seems to lose something
of vitality toward the end of its day — which for
this world approximates 2160 years — and to renew
its energy almost suddenly at the opening of its
New Day, which for us began early in 192^.
As for man; that he may gain rounded perfec
tion during his Days of the Lord, he often must
traverse the twelve Zodiacal signs beginning with
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Aries and, again and again in twenty-four normal
births, averaging 1080 years apart, complete the
cycle which should be a spiral. Having circled
the Zodiac six times, he may then — if always pro
gressive — ^become one of the 144,000 mentioned by
the Revelator; those whose great Day of the Lord
is indicated approximately by the figures 155,520.
By renouncing its Devachan, an advanced soul may
much shorten this period. Often an unprogressive
life, or a premature death, is followed by birth into
the same sign, because the experience of a sign
must to a certain extent be assimilated before it
, can be abandoned for the next.
Despite his births under all signs, every man is
by nature affiliated with a certain sign, wherefore,
the outcome for mankind will be twelve classes of
super-men embodying twelve kinds of excellences,
or, to be exact, if Virgo, Libra, and Scorpio are
deemed to be one sign, then this culminating world
shall have produced ten classes of beings expressing
ten perfections.
Finally, to be in full harmony with the quoted
words of Peter, we should say that all the Days of
Man upon the Earth, and indeed all the Days of
the Earth itself, are but a Day of the Lord, "The
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JUDAS
T N the preceding teaching, we said that despite
-*¦ his birth under all signs, every man is affiliated
with a certain sign which in all conditions has ever
been his own. When one is born in the month
ruled by his original sign, his life during that
incarnation exhibits in a pronounced degree the
excellences and defects, the virtues and vices,
acquired during many past lives. In other words,
his hidden traits are then brought to the surface.
Especially is this true of him if a unit in a
group of twelve persons representing the twelve
signs. Calling his disciples, Jesus, as a Master of Wis
dom, chose them with regard to the twelve signs,
all of which should be represented in that complete
company. Judas was a Capricornian born in the
month ruled by his original sign, and in an age
when the processional sign Pisces was casting its
earliest influence over the world. For these rea
sons a two-fold urge was upon the true character
of Judas whom Jesus chose to represent the nation
in its degenerate days. Inasmuch as the eleven
were not yet perfected through trial and suffering,
it followed that their every moment of weakness
and doubt re-acted upon the most negative of the
twelve, and so a three-fold urge hurried Judas on
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Jesus the Christ corresponded with the sun, and,
like Judas, his antithesis, he was born into the
month sign of Capricorn, but not yet into its
processional sign, concerning which event of some
two thousand years hence, a certain teaching
declares that when the great wheel in slow turning
meets the sun in Capricorn, then, in the twelfth
month of the appointed year, the sheep shall be
separated from the goats.
The Israelitish people had experienced certain
minor judgments or warnings under Aries their
national sign, and, ere the Ram yielded to the on
coming Pisces, they were to be dispersed among
the nations. The judgment of Judas was a type
of the larger judgment about to occur; but that
latter would not be an eternal one, for, with the
waning of Pisces, and the near advent of Aquarius,
their national guilt would be expiated, and they
would return to their own. As for the judgment
of Judas, that is another matter; enough that it is
not eternal. True he succumbed to a three-fold
urge, but one component thereof was extraneous,
and, at the bar of rigid justice, that influence
demands consideration. Again, the judgment upon
both Judas and his nation, corresponds with the
judgment upon individuals and nations in the
latter years of Aquarius when Capricorn begins to
supersede the elder sign.
Whenever the probationary members of the
White Lodge are grouped in twelves to correspond
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with the higher aspects of the zodiacal signs,
progress is much enhanced, but usually the weak
est among them is unable to bear the test resulting
from the rapid rise in the group vibration; so he
withdraws and, as reaction equals action, he
naturally identifies himself with another group the
polar opposite of his own. On the other hand, in a
group of twelve members of the Black Lodge,
which group must correspond with the lower
aspects of the zodiacal signs, often there is one who,
realizing the rapid descent of his companions into
evils of every kind, takes warning and withdraws
to seek through repentance and right living, a place
in the polar opposite of the groVip abandoned.
Such a one in a former life was Saul of Tarsus,
afterward affiliated with the higher members of
the White.
In respect to the Black Lodge, the story of
Joseph and his brethren has an inner meaning not
generally known. Stripped of exoteric embellish
ments, that story may be briefly interpreted thus:
The twelve constituted a group of men, brothers
of the shadow, each born under his own sign ; hence
the group emphasized the negative forces of the
entire Zodiac. Joseph, the youngest, separated
from the others and entered the right hand path,
and afterward through his efforts the eleven were
reclaimed. So was it with Saul when as Paul he
would reclaim the Gentiles, among whom many
of his old group were then re-born. „
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SWEDENBORG AND THE ANCIENT WISDOM
BREAKING from the conception of God held
almost universally by the Christian church,
a conception which makes Him a Trinity of Per
sons, Swedenborg says: "The Father, Son, and
Holy Spirit, are the three essentials of one God
that make One, even as the soul, body, and opera
tion in man." Swedenborg thus formulates his
idea of the Divine Oneness: "Jehovah, the Creator
of the universe, descended and assumed the human
that he might redeem and save men. He de
scended as the Divine Truth which is the Word,
and yet He did not separate the Divine Good.
The human by which He sent Himself into the
world, is what is called the Son of God. ' '
In support of the statement that Jehovah thus
became man, Swedenborg quotes extensively from
the Prophets; thus: "Behold a virgin shall conceive
and bear a Son, who shall be called God with us."
"Unto us a child is born; unto us a Son is given;
and the government shall be upon His shoulder,
and His name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor,
the mighty God, the everlasting Father, the Prince
of Peace."
According to Swedenborg: "There are two
things which make God's essence, the Divine
Love and the Divine Wisdom, or, what is the
same, the Divine Good and the Divine Truth."
Elsewhere, Swedenborg called the Divine Will the
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receptical and mover of the Divine Good. Sup
porting his view that Jehovah God descended as
Divine Truth, or the Word, or the Christ,
Swedenborg quotes from John: "In the beginning
was the Word, and the Word was with God, and
the Word was God. And the Word became flesh
and dwelt among us."
Swedenborg also identifies the Word with the
New Church, and its body of doctrine. Passing
through the heavens even into the world, the
Word became accommodated both to angels and
men, and so we have the earthly church of the
New Jerusalem; in fact Divine Truth, the Com
forter, the Holy Spirit sent by the Lord as he had
promised. The Word that is God "descended as
Divine Truth that redemption might be accom
plished; in other words, that the hells might be
subjugated, the heavens arranged in order, and
the church established."
Swedenborg held that both interiorly and
exteriorly, man was created in the image of God;
also that the angelic heavens are in God's sight as
one man, having the human form, and correspond
ing with every organ and part of physical man;
moreover, in conformity with the Divine Order,
established by God at creation, Jehovah neces
sarily assumed the human form upon this earth.
Swedenborg claimed that every earth of our
solar system, and even the moon, holds a humanity
in the human form. He believed he had been
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brought into rapport with the angelic societies
belonging to each whereof he says: "All spirits
and angels are from the human race, and they are
near their respective earths."
Swedenborg assures his readers that from such
angels, he had learned much concerning the peoples
of the many worlds made known to him, some
of which lay beyond the limits of our solar sys
tem, and others even in remote regions of the
sky. In the farthest he still discovered the human
form varying not greatly from the type suited to
our planet.
Having as he believed discovered a physical
humanity on every earth, near or far, Swedenborg
makes the astonishing statement that many
sciences cultivated on our globe, are unknown to
men elsewhere; for instance: astronomy, geography,
mechanics, physics, medicine, optics, and, what
seems wholly incredible, the arts of writing and
printing. In respect to these two, Swedenborg
explains that only on our earth, where corporeal
and terrestrial things are over-much loved, the
divine things of heaven cannot flow in and be
received; hence the necessity of writing and print
ing every kind of knowledge conducive to human
welfare. Assent to this statement prepares one for the
following reasons why the Lord was born on our
earth, and not on another; the chief reason is:
"because of the Word, in that it might be written
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on our earth, and afterwards published broadcast,
and then preserved to all posterity, and so make
manifest to all in another life that God was made
man." The second reason is that "because of
man's materiality, the Lord could not otherwise be
manifest to him."
Though the Lord incarnated on our earth alone,
Swedenborg makes plain that other worlds were
by no means left in spiritual darkness. Concern
ing the worship common to the inhabitants of
other earths, he says: "Those not idolators, all
acknowledge the Lord to be the only God; for they
adore the Divine not as invisible but as visible, for
the following reason, as well as others, because
when the Divine appears to them, he appears in
human form, even as when he appeared to Abra
ham. Hence all who adore the Divine under a
human form, are accepted of the Lord."
Having drawn from a mass of verbiage some of
the chief ideas distinguishing Swedenborg's con
ception of the Word, and what is directly related
thereto, let us now discover first, those similarities
which would connect his conception with that
of the Ancient Wisdom Religion, and, second,
those differences which after all separate the two
views of certain matters common to both philoso
phies. The Jehovah of the Jews exhibited the charac
teristics of a partial, jealous, and revengeful tribal
god, but the Jehovah of Swedenborg is conceived
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of in a far nobler way. On the other hand, Jesus
probably never used the name Jehovah; one not
uncommon with his forerunners the prophets.
His God was the Father invoked in the Lord's
Prayer. The God of the Wisdom Religion is a
Unity manifest as a trinity of attributes. So also
the Jehovah of Swedenborg.
The Buddhi-Manas of the Wisdom Religion is
equivalent to the Divine Love and the Divine
Wisdom of Swedenborg's system, while Atma, or
Spiritual Will, the great Father principle of the
older system, is the vehicle of Buddhi, as with
Swedenborg the Divine Will is the vehicle of
the Divine Good.
According to Swedenborg, when Jehovah, the
creator of the universe, descended to assume the
human, He came as the Divine Truth which is
the Word. This human is called the Son of God,
the Christ. The doctrine of the Christ is not
peculiar to the Christian church. In the Wisdom
Religion, the word Ishvara held a meaning in some
ways similar to that afterwards attached to the
word Christ.
In respect to the Word made flesh, let us con
sider the most esoteric teaching thus far imparted
by the White Lodge. While not the Supreme, the
Christos is yet the means by which Divine Will,
Love, and Wisdom, those attributes of the Supreme,
make themselves apprehensible to beings succes
sively lower in the scale of creation. The Christos
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may be compared to the sun's reflection in a calm
lake. In respect to the manifestation of the
Christos perceived by the most exalted beings, the
comparison is very inadequate; but when the
Divine Glory reaches our lowly earth, or, as
Swedenborg says: "when passing through the
heavens to this world, the Word is accommodated
to angels and men," reflections of reflections have
become dimmer and dimmer. This result is neces
sary to man's comprehension of the Divine, since
whatsoever transcends his feeble powers is of
non -effect.
Because of all men the most fit, Jesus received
the Divine Likeness proper to this world; one
nevertheless too glorious for men to perceive
except through his eyes; that is, through his teach
ings. Because in its original manifestation, the
Word is God to the most exalted beings, so to
each lower rank the manifestation of the Word
is also God. Were it otherwise, men could never
know Him as he is; but because of the method
adopted by Divine Wisdom, men through the Word
may progress to higher and higher concepts of Him.
Thus the idea of God proper to this day is in
advance of that revealed through Moses.
Concerning the second coming of the Word,
Jesus gave a definite promise which we contend
has not yet been fulfilled. Swedenborg taught
that the Church of the New Jerusalem is that
second coming; an incorporeal descent of the Word.
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A result of his teaching, one of which the Swedish
seer never dreamed, is that to no little extent, cer
tain later teachers were encouraged to make similar
claims for their own doctrines. On the other hand,
the orthodox Christian looks for a visible descent
of the Lord as final Judge, and separator of the
sheep from the goats.
Concerning the Word, which according to
Swedenborg, signifies Divine Truth, or Divine
Wisdom, he thought its incarnation in Judea an
event unique in the world's history; whereas, the
Wisdom Religion requires periodical descents of
the Word in what have been, and what again shall
be, minor and major Avatars. Those first men
tioned are comparable to the moon during its
quarterings, while the major Avatars are like
the moon at its full.
Swedenborg's belief that both, internally and
externally, man was created in the image of God,
is in accord with the esoteric statement of the
Wisdom Religion ; but its unveiled teaching declares
that as primeval man became more and more im
mersed in matter, his external form steadily
changed from that of the Word, or Christos,
which may be conceived of as a luminous sphere.
To this sphere, man's higher bodies even now bear
more or less resemblance. As for the Grand Man,
of Swedenborg, or the Adam Kadmon of the
Kaballa, if possibly he resemble the human physi
cal shape, it is because he has not yet evolved to
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the all-inclusive Kosmic Sphere; a form beyond
human conception since its center is everywhere.
That our solar system is a sphere, or nearly
that, is indicated by the orbit of Neptune,
and that of at least one planet beyond. The
Wisdom Religion holds every creature, man, world,
and sun, to be a manifestation of the Word; hence
these all tend toward their ideal forms.
In its aspect as audible sound, the Word, as
understood by the Wisdom Religion, is not a body
of spoken doctrines, but rather that which can
compress into a few syllables the idea of the
creation, preservation, and final dissolution of
worlds, even as, according to Swedenborg, the
angels can give in a few words the contents of an
entire book. The outer syllables of the Word are
only its shell; but, as one rises in the scale of be
ing, he attains to more and more interior corre
spondences of the outer until, finally, the uttered
or mentally expressed syllables make known to
him the Archetypal Idea, and its unfolding as
existant in the Divine Mind.
Swedenborg's statement that every earth of our
solar system, and even the moon, holds a humanity
in the human form, can be molded into har
mony with our very esoteric instructions touch
ing this matter. These reveal that this earth, as
the basis of the seven-fold solar scheme, is the only
abode of physical man, and that in planets suc
cessively higher, the true human form, because
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more and more removed from terrestrial matter,
has been less and less deviated from. As for the
moon, the visible orb is but the discarded shell of
an invisible planet where abide certain highly-
evolved beings.
The statement that "All spirits and angels are
from the human race, and these are near their
respective earths," quite agrees with our teachings;
but disagreement begins when Swedenborg declares
that from such angels he had learned much con
cerning the peoples of many worlds, some of which
lay beyond the limits of the solar system. Because
our philosophy shows that at the confines of the
solar system is a "Ring pass not," we class the
above statement with that of Mahomet who sup
posed himself to have been caught up to the
seventh heaven, there to meet face to face with the
Supreme Being.
Most decidedly do we dispute the statement
that other worlds, though having physical humani
ties, are ignorant not only of the arts enumerated
by Swedenborg, but even of writing and printing.
According to him, the first of these is used in the
celestial and the spiritual heavens, but in a
spiritual style which consists of mere letters, each
of which involves some meaning. We would not
contend for such arts in other worlds, had Sweden
borg not found them to be missing on the physical
planes of those worlds. On the super-physical
planes of the higher planets where, as we teach,
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their humanities abide even as do men on our
solid earth, the means of universal enlightenment
differ from any obtaining here, and in a way
almost unbelievable by terrestrial beings.
Evidently the finding on other physical earths,
of spiritual conditions unknown upon this physical
planet since the days of fable, was vital to Sweden
borg's theological system, because that finding
furnished plausible reason why Jehovah God as the
Word should incarnate here, and only here. As
for the other reason: "because the Word might be
written on this earth, and afterward published
broadcast, and then preserved to all posterity,
and so made manifest to all in another life," tous
this reason seems far-fetched and even puerile.
That the Wisdom Religion agrees with Sweden
borg's belief that other worlds are by no means
left in spiritual darkness, the doctrine of the
Christos amply proves. Moreover, that, for
special purposes, certain great beings, corresponding
with our Avatars, should from time to time appear
on those earths, and in the forms proper to their
dwellers, is in conformity with the Hermitic
maxim: "As above, so below."
The writings of Swedenborg contain no hint of
reincarnation as taught by the exponents of the
Ancient Wisdom. Of man's origin he says: "The
soul, from the father, is the man, and the body,
from the mother, is not the man, but is from him.
The body is but the covering of the soul, and is
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composed of things of the natural world, while the
soul is of things in the spiritual world. After
death, every man puts off the natural, and retains
the spiritual, together with a kind of border from
the purest things of nature around him." This
border or limbus is no doubt identified with the
subtle matter which investigators have discovered
exuding from the bodies of mediums when in a
trance condition, and probably it is very like the
"etheric double" mentioned in theosophical
writings. In lieu of reincarnation, advanced Sweden-
borgians argue that the original amoeba, from
which originated the amoeboid corpuscles in man's
blood, had a tiny soul, or a spiritual essence,
capable of infinite subdivision. We contend that
this theory accounts wholly for only the repro
duction of physical resemblences.
The Ancient Wisdom declared that what exists
has always existed, and its life is inherent. The
world of to-day, and the manifold existences upon
it, are the outcome of physical, mental, and spiritual
evolution. Concerning creation Swedenborg says:
"All things are created by the Lord, through the
sun of the spiritual world, and not through the
sun of the natural world, since the latter is far
below the former, with the spiritual world above it,
and the natural world below it. Moreover, the
sun of the natural world has no life of its own, but
only that which it draws from the spiritual sun;
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that first proceeding of Divine Love, and Divine
Wisdom, from which two all things are."
To show how utterly Swedenborg rejects the
idea of inherent life in the things of the natural
world, we quote the following: "It is commonly
believed that man is not merely the receptacle of life,
but is also Life; whereas, he is not Life, but only
a finite receptacle of life from God." In respect
to space and time, the following from Swedenborg
might almost have been taken from the Ancient
Wisdom: "The creation of the universe was not
wrought from space to space, nor from time to
time, for to the Creator these are non-existant,
but it was wrought from eternity and from infinity."
Again, in agreement with the Ancient Wisdom,
Swedenborg says : ' ' There is no difference between
the maximum and the minimum of either time or
space." His meaning is that what to man are
great and small in size, and long and short in time,
are seen by God to be equal. Much that Sweden
borg discovered concerning time and space in the
angelic heavens, accords with the old teachings.
In further agreement with them, Swedenborg holds
Love to be a spiritual substance, and Wisdom to
be its form, and that by these, as the Spiritual
Sun, all things in both the spiritual and the natural
world are created. He argues convincingly that
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What is known to the students of the Ancient
Wisdom as the "Great Breath," has its parallel in
the atmospheres in three degrees which, according
to Swedenborg, originate by perpetual influx from
the spiritual sun. His statement that the scenery
of the spiritual world proceeds from the affections
of its inhabitants, and changes as their affections
change, wholly coincides with ancient teachings.
Swedenborg always conceives of God as an anthro
pomorphic being; moreover, he asserts that after
death, man is in a spiritual body which duplicates
every organ of the physical body, but, whereas
in the natural world the reproductive organs
perpetuate the species, in the heavenly world they
beget angelic love and wisdom in their possessors,
while in the hells they beget hate and insanity.
The Ancient Wisdom teaches that the reproductive
organs pertain only to the physical body, and in
posthumous life their creative potency is trans
ferred to the mind and supplements it. This
union of what is known as the upper and the lower
triads, enables the discarnate man to create his
environment from the plastic substance of the
super-physical planes.
While yet in earth life, Jesus transferred the power
of the lower triad to his brain centres. Hence, he
became a creator who moulded material substance
at will; as witness the miracle of the loaves and
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In a certain matter vital to his doctrine, Sweden
borg differs wholly from the ancient teaching, for
he argues that should man embody a portion of
the Divine, God's love for him would be self-love.
The spermatozoon from the father, and the ovum
in the womb of the mother, are the nucleus of the
human child that, for a season, must draw nourish
ment from the body of the mother. Now who
would say that the love of the parents for their
offspring as a physical being, is in any way self-
love? Why, then, if man embody a spark of the
Divine Essence, should God's love for him be self-
love? We grant that if spiritual man be in fact
the thought of God, — as Mary Baker Eddy
taught — then God's love for his child would be
that self-love which Swedenborg deems contrary
to the Divine Nature.
If, from Swedenborg's position, it be contended
that man contains nothing of the Divine, since he
is not eternal save through influx, and, further
more, that he is unable to create, the Ancient
Wisdom rejoins that even his physical components
are deathless. The fleshly form disintegrates, but
its atoms persist, and are ever usable in other
bodies. As for the act of creation, nothing can
be added to a universe whose total is God.
Creation results from the moulding of old materials
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Darwin published a theory of evolution, and
Swedenborg, a doctrine of discreet degrees. Three
of these are create and finite, and pertain to the
natural world and its creatures, while, above these,
three are uncreate and infinite, and are proper to
the heavenly world and its angels. Man originated
from the spiritual principle in these high degrees,
and the animal and the vegetable kingdoms from
that in the lowest of the three. After death, every
human being eventually gravitates to the altitude
of his discreet degree, there to remain fixed forever.
The Ancient Wisdom enumerates and describes
seven continuous degrees or principles; four proper
to the lower planes, and three to the higher planes
of our septenary world. The seventh degree or
principle, intermingles with the sixth, the sixth
intermingles with the fifth, and so on to the basic
degree. In this procedure, these degrees resemble
Swedenborg's discreet degrees.
Unlike the six discreet degrees, the seven con
tinuous degrees separate into almost innumerable
subdivisions. Increasing possibilities of use reside
in the lower and lower, and therefore more and
more complex degrees, and in this they are like
the six of Swedenborg. An ancient teaching is,
that while every human being, and every evolving
creature, eventually finds his permanent sub
division; within that section innumerable oppor
tunities await him. The total of wisdom to result
from this procedure, will duplicate the contents of
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the Divine Mind. To the above, let us add the
following: Swedenborg asserts that before the
Lord's assumption of the Human, the natural or
basic degree of the heavenly world existed not like
the celestial and the spiritual degrees, but only
in possibility. On the other hand, the Ancient
teaching is, that the three highest degrees or, in
other words, Atma-Buddhi-Manas, ever existed
as a perfect trinity.
Swedenborg states, as a truth never before made
known to the world, that angels and men have an
inmost and supreme region of the soul into which
the Divine Sphere of the Lord first flows, and which
is His most immediate dwelling-place in them. A
quite similar but more comprehensive idea is
revealed in these words from the Bhagavad Gita:
"There dwelleth in the heart of every creature,
Ishwara the Master."
It is generally assumed that Swedenborg's
writings contain no hint of that physical, mental,
and spiritual evolution, which the Ancient Wisdom
enlarges upon. We contend that such a hint is in
the following: "In both the animal and the
vegetable kingdoms there is an image of creation,
and an image of man, also an image of Infinite
and Eternal." No doubt such images would
operate as urges towards realization of what they
represent. Swedenborg assures his readers that a dis
tinguishing sphere of affections and thoughts
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emanates from andfsurrounds every being, both
in heaven and in hell, and the correspondent of that
sphere envelops every world, creature, and thing.
The divine original of these spheres is the Spiritual
Sun, that emanation wherein the Lord Himself,
dwells bodily. The Ancient Teaching much
resembles the above, since it declares that a seven
fold aura, whose prototype is the Spiritual Sun,
envelops with its graded ethers of seven colors,
every world and every atom, and every form of
life between these extremes.
According to Swedenborg, man has an individual
book of life: to wit, his brain and his whole body.
From the Ancient Teaching it is learned that upon
the radiant aura which envelops a man, his every
thought, word, and action are recorded, to be
reproduced at the proper time.
Swedenborg claims that from the angels he
learned that after death an evil man cannot be
reformed by instruction, because his natural plane
of knowledge and affections has been permanently
closed, and so he remains forever in his ruling love;
in fact it were easier to change a night bird into a
dove, than to change a subject of hell into an angel
of heaven. This dogma, as uncompromising as
any ever formulated by the most rigid theologian
of the Christian church, drew from Emerson the
exclamation: "To what a perversion had Gothic
theology arrived that Swedenborg admitted no
conversion of evil spirits." On the other hand,
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through its doctrine of rebirth, the Ancient Teach
ing promises to such a man a new opportunity in
the natural world, that instruction, reformation,
and progress may ensue.
Swedenborg's theory that posthumous man's free
will is unyielding, and his ruling love persistent,
evidently makes the hells eternal; whereas, an
ancient teaching can be paraphrased thus: The
material worlds, those emanations from the physical
sun, shall yet return to its bosom. Likewise, the
souls of all men shall be gathered to their source
in that heart of creation, the spiritual sun.
Swedenborg explains that one purpose of the
Incarnation was the subjugation of the hells, a
task accomplishable through the Lord's assump
tion of the Human, that antithesis of His spiritual
Being. Because of this assumption and conquest,
the hells eventually sank to their proper place,
never more to infringe upon the lowest degree of
the heavenly world. In respect to the hells, the
Ancient Wisdom teaches that when incarnating
as an Avatar, every great soul can and does
ameliorate hellish conditions; hence, evil is being
gradually transformed to good in a becoming,
universal as that which Hegel sought to demon
strate. A cardinal doctrine of Swedenborg's system is
that of Conjugal Love. From the union of Love
and Wisdom in God, proceed love in woman, and
wisdom in man, and the marriage of love and
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wisdom on earth results in conjugal love. This
marriage corresponds with that of Christ and his
church. Conjugal love begun in the world, is
continued with the angels, all of whom are from
the human race. Emerson's criticism of this
doctrine: "Heaven is not the pairing of two, but
the communion of all souls," accords with the
ancient teaching that the mutual love of husband
and wife, and parent and child, are but the neces
sary beginnings of a love destined to include all
beings. Swedenborg tells of three judgments, the first
in the time of Noah, the second when Christ was
on earth, and the third which he himself witnessed
in the spiritual world in 1757, and which he identi
fied with the Last Judgment foretold by John,
the Revelator. Of this third he said: "There
will be no more general judgments, because the
way to the final state is now laid down forever,
and the outward man can no longer differ from the
inner when he passes to the spiritual world."
The Ancient Wisdom describes certain prehistoric
and historic judgments consummated through the
cyclic operation of Karmic Law, but it foretells
others yet to be brought about through that Law.
Swedenborg's saying that every society in
heaven has its opposite in hell, and that every
kind of good has its antithesis, is parallelled by the
Ancient Teaching that for every positive in the
universe, a negative somewhere exists. Finally,
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since further pursuit of the matter might weary
the reader, as a scientist, Swedenborg conceived
of an elementary vortical particle much like that
known to the teachers of the Ancient Wisdom, and
whose description almost applies to the structure
of the Atom as now understood.
Examination of the entire body of Swedenborg's
doctrine would discover constantly both those
similarities which identify his system with that
of the Wisdom Religion, and those differences
which separate the two. Concerning similarities
and differences, our explanation is as follows:
Though not a minor avatar, Swedenborg had
developed almost to the condition of one; so he
had not rounded into the perfect seer who always
interprets correctly whatever he sees and hears on
the higher planes. In him, certain ideas concern
ing Jesus were too deeply ingrained; besides, his
attitude toward the "Papists," both in this world
and the next, reflected his unconscious participa
tion to some extent in the narrow sectarian preju
dices of his time. As for his estimate of his
mission, it appears in the following: "The mani
festation of the Lord through me, and my intro
duction by the Lord into the spiritual world as to
sight, hearing and speech, is superior to all
miracles, for it is not stated in history that such
intercourse has been granted to any other man."
Swedenborg's departure from the traditional
was in many ways a radical one, as witness the
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following: "Adam was not the first of mankind,
but by him and his wife is represented the first
church, and by the Garden of Eden, its wisdom,
and by the Tree of Life, its looking to the Lord
who was to come, and by the Tree of Knowledge
of good and evil, its looking to self alone."
Again, while the discovery of things spiritual is
affected through the conjunction of man and
higher powers, certain heavenly conjunctions — -
outwardly astronomical — are necessary to the
seer's understanding of such great matters as
Swedenborg attempted. Although he taught of
the consummation of the age, and the end of the
Church then existing, and the establishing of the
New Church which would succeed the Adamic, the
Noahic, the Israelitish, and the Christian churches,
and would endure for ages of ages, it was not the
Swedish seer's privilege to appear in a cycle neces
sary to full comprehension of Truth; hence his
half-truths which now almost reveal, and then
quite conceal. Truth as it is.
As Emerson said : ' ' Swedenborg's theological bias
fatally narrowed his interpretation of nature.' As
one result of this, the correspondences constantly
used by him were very much overworked in his
efforts to connect, directly or indirectly with the
dogmas of the New Church, what he believed to be
the interior meaning or spiritual sense of the
books of the Old and the New Testament. Never-
' theless, in reviving the ancient doctrine of cor-
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respondences, so long absent from the world,
Swedenborg, to no little extent, prepared mankind
for those deeper and wider ones which, during the
last forty years, and especially since the beginning
of the twentieth century, the Ancient Wisdom has
brought to the outside world.

THE UNKNOWABLE SUPREME
SWEDENBORG'S idea of the Spiritual Sun
suggests certain inquiries and surmises with
which we shall well-nigh end this third and final
volume of the series begun with "Special Teachings
from the Arcane Science."
In a previous chapter it was said that the great
day of creation opened with a surpassingly brilliant
point of spiritual light which, appearing at the centre,
afterward widened to the circumference of the uni
verse. Those who know, do not positively affirm
that this point manifested at the middle of what
now is the Zodiacal circle, and that it was, in
fact, the centre of the Spiritual Sun, if that which
focuses itself in every atom can be said to have
what generally is understood as a centre. Whether
or not other universes lie beyond the range of
telescopic vision, is a matter about which the
Masters of Wisdom are reticent, for what was said
in the chapter: "The Great Breath," concerning
the universe and the Universal Life Globe, does
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not necessarily make these all-inclusive, nor does
it, as a certainty, cover those remotest regions
discoverable through modern astronomical methods ;
so, as already said, we now shall confine ourselves
to inquiry and surmise.
Should other universes exist, comparable with
that of which the Milky Way is the framework,
did each or any proceed from a Spiritual Sun of its
own, and in a manner analogous to that of our
universe? and will the evolution of each or any
be succeeded by involution? by a drawing back
comparable with what our universe is now in
process of?
As for the "coal sacks," those abyssmal deeps
of impenetrable blackness, bounded by the star-
clusters of the Galaxy, may they not each hide an
entire universe ; one seemingly dead, but really in
the midst of a profound pralaya destined to
endure for untold ages? Again, what of those
farthest faintest nebulae that well-nigh defy the
most powerful lens? nebulae probably bulking large
as our universe, or larger still, but apparently small
as the most diminutive star-group, because sepa
rated from human eyes by what Herschel estimated
at not less than two million light years.
Furthermore, what of other nebulae hiding
where their discovery awaits the perfecting of
every astronomical means? And what of the swift-
journeying stars unquestionably there also; stars
that will seem fixed through myriads of centuries?
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Does each of these incipient universes look to its
own Supreme, and thus verify Whitman's dictum
that there can be any number of Supremes?
Assuming a satisfactory answer to these questions,
we are led to a still deeper inquiry. Inasmuch as
the ancient sages may not have known the kosmos
entire, is the Parabrahman of the Vedantins all-
inclusive? or can there be other all-inclusives, so
to speak? and is each above, or at the very inmost
of its division of the shoreless, etheric ocean to
which, in the beginning of time — that compre
hensible aspect of eternity — the Creative Word set
seeming bounds?
That numbers as such are the multiplications of
units, is self-evident, but, in respect to things,
numbers usually require investigation, and the
thinker is therefore urged to trace them down to
their very base. Even the ordinary mind shows
an inherent desire to reduce multiplicity to unity.
This desire manifests in various ways, for instance,
with the Hindus, it narrows the human family back
to the twins Yama and Yami, or to Manu the
divine man whose mind-born children were the
progenitors of the race that, with the Jewish
chronologists, began with a pair originally one in
Adam. Again, this desire makes every creature
of the animal kingdom a descendant of the two
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Constructing their pantheons, the ancient
peoples of the north, as well as of the south,
capped the living pyramid with one supreme ruler.
Here He was the All-Father, towering above the
fiery Woden and his kin, and there the Persian
Ormozd, or else the Egyptian Ammon Ra, that
dark and hidden being adored of lesser gods.
Elsewhere in prehistoric times He was a never-
Hellenized Zeus, who spurned the soil of an
Olympus such as the Greeks had invented ; or else
He was a Jupiter more spiritual than the Latins
ever knew. So, for the wholly celestial pantheon
here conjectured, we shall posit a Supreme of
Supremes, the container of all Parabrahmins, in
fact, a being more remote and indefinable than the
God of Spinoza, or the "Unknowable" of the
Spencerian philosophy. AVITCHI
1\ /TANY learned theologians have been puzzled
-^'-^ by the attitude of Jesus toward demoniac
possession, for, in casting out evil spirits, he
always addressed them as real beings. This
attitude of the Master is usually deemed a con
cession to the ignorance and superstition of those
days; whereas, acquaintance with certain occult
teachings would convince the inquirer that Jesus
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The eighth sphere, the subject of a former
chapter, was once of larger girth than the solid
material globe, but, for several reasons, it has
experienced periodical shrinkings, and another is
almost due. With the descent of a major Avatar,
the distinction between the irreclaimables and the
improvables becomes more pronounced than ever
before, and so the sphere of the wholly depraved
shrinks away from other spheres of the globe
chain, some of which are actually expanded through
the spiritual force generated by the Avatar.
The devils cast out by Jesus and his disciples,
were certain hopeless creatures who, having lost
their human shape, were debarred from entering
material life through legitimate channels, but who,
to gratify their debased desires for physical sen
sation, forced an entrance through the human
aura whenever possible. This they did either
singly or in groups, as witness the seven devils
that obsessed Mary Magdalene.
When Jesus had cured the man possessed by a
legion of devils, these creatures immediately
realized their unfitness for the human form, and
so asked entrance into the bodies of the swine.
This the Master permitted, because the wise would
understand that the forms of these devils had
become wholly animal, and possibly swine-like.
A little known result of Jesus' life, ministry, and
supreme sacrifice, was the curtailment of the power
of such devils through the contraction of Avitchi
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to a diameter much less than that of the material
globe. The words of the devils to Jesus as
recorded in Matt. 8, 29, "Art thou come to tor
ment us before the time?" had reference to their
future imprisonment beneath the crust of the
earth. As the result of their confinement, the
world for centuries has been free from a form of
obsession which the New Testament writers evi
dently believed in.
The majority of those actually in Avitchi have
lost much of human shape, and more of human
reason. As for the Black Lodge, its members are
all candidates for Avitchi, to whose border line
multitudes of the fellowship have gravitated; but,
like cunning animals, they avoid the trap. How
ever, they are gradually deteriorating, and even
tually will be drawn into the eighth sphere.
Swedenborg almost always proves a real seer,
providing we find the right key to the teaching
examined; but that key perhaps he in no way
would acknowledge: for example, we acquiesce
in his statement that one object of the Lord's
assumption of the human was the reduction of the
hells, but our explanation is wholly foreign to
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LEVITATION
I ^HE following supplements the chapter on
-*- Levitation found in "Special Teachings."
When ready for re-embodiment, the human ego is
drawn from the apex of the subjective arc of its
cycle to successively lower conditions by desire for
them. This desire eventually brings the ego to the
material plane, and binds it to a physical body
whose every atom is surcharged with desire for
physical life. Moreover, that body is held to the
solid globe by the desire, or, in other words, the
attraction, of the earth's every physical atom.
During one's sleep, the grasp of the physical
body upon its higher principles or bodies is more
or less weakened; therefore, the buoyancy of these
causes them to rise free until the renewed attraction
of the awakened physical atoms draws these bodies
back to their tenement.
Theoretically, it is possible to reverse the desire
of the physical body atoms for their more ethereal
associates. In those rare instances where this is
accomplished, the energy employed is the wholly
purified principle of spiritual desire peculiar to the
buddhic body. The experiences of certain Catholic
saints include seemingly verified instances of
levitation during moments of religious ecstasy
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One of the guarded secrets of the Initiates con
cerns the fact that the ethereal components of the
triad in all beings, from man upward, are endowed
with the potential power of dominating the more
and more ponderable components of the quarter
nary in every kingdom of nature. The utmost
degree of this power is possessed by the Solar
Hierarchies alone. A lesser degree can be employed
by the planetary rulers, while full initiates of the
White Lodge are' capable in a more limited way.
Initiates seldom use this power upon man, because
it tends to inhibit his free will, and so to retard his
progress as an independent and responsible being.
That the Jewish Initiate understood in large
measure the possibilities of this spiritual power, is
shown by his memorable saying: "If ye have
faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto
this mountain. Remove hence to yonder place,
and it shall remove." In the word "faith,"
Jesus, after the custom of the Initiates, concealed
the inner truth while seeming to reveal it. Since
none of Jesus' disciples has yet penetrated his
secret, none has achieved what the Master promised
as the literal result of right procedure.
In the old Grecian story, the giants piled Pelon
on Ossa in a vain attempt to scale the heavenly
Olympus, and overcome the gods assembled there.
Beneath this fable is concealed the occult truth
that by the exercise of the polar opposite of "faith,"
mountains are removable. Were it not for the
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dedicated ones who draw their circle of protection
around the human race, such catastrophes would
occur to-day, even as they occurred in ancient
Atlantis when the Brotherhood of the Shadow put
forth a concerted effort to level the living stones
of the "Guardian Wall." In Rev. 6, 14, we read:
"And every mountain and island were removed
out of their places." This occurrence at the
' opening of the sixth seal, was brought about
through "faith," because, in the time of a general
judgment, permission so to employ this force is
granted by the solar Logos to the planetary Ruler.
Concerning the stories of the levitation of the
physical bodies of entranced mediums, we would
say first, that if these stories be true, then, during
that entrancement, the atoms of those bodies were
largely deprived of their desire for the earth's
material atoms: secondly, that whoever caused
the levitation were discarnate beings freed from
desire for physical life: thirdly, that, under the
most favorable conditions, the combined buddhic
energy of the discarnate group might prove ade
quate to their purpose.
The moving of furniture, and the manipulation
of various articles in the seance room, are not
instances of the levitation here described; these
phenomena are produced by more or less mechan
ical means; in fact by rods of semi-astral matter,
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then made rigid by the combined will and desire
of the discarnate entities present.
The vast majority of the feats of levitation
witnessed by travelers in the East, are mere con
jurer's tricks, and if the small minority be genuine,
the operators are necessarily holy men who have
renounced all worldly interests. Inventors have
dreamed of a mechanical device capable of neutral
izing the gravitative pull of the earth; but, if our
few hints concerning levitation be in any measure
correct, such a mechanism, if efficient, will to
some extent be a super-physical one, that is, it
must act in conjunction with the human mind.
H. P. B.

ISHVARA
ISHVARA in man is that central mystery, the
original atom, the magnetic nucleus, around
which the atoms first of the triad, and afterward
of the quarternary, were assembled through a
process requiring ages for its completion. As
revealed in an earlier teaching of this series, the
process began upon the highest planet, and con
tinued on successive lower ones, and was finished
in our humble world.
This pilgrimage of the evolving human was due
to Ishvara that not only attracted to itself man's
components, but urged him on from planet to
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planet, until his appropriate sphere was gained.
Another reason why man chose this abode is the
deeply occult one that the Ishvara of the earth
entity vibrates in sympathy with his own.
To inner sight, man's Ishvara is a point of light,
comparable to no material object save the diamond
of somewhat blueish tint. Moreover, the "dia
mond soul" of man duplicates in a minute way
that "Cosmic Seed" whose appearance announced
the dawn of the present great Kalpa. Again, this
Ishvara is a tone; in fact so minute a sub-division
of a certain note, that, while every member of the
race has his individual tone or key-note, these sub
divisions collectively constitute humanity's key
note; one identical with that of the earth entity,
whose key-note is one of the seven forming the
Pythagorean scale of the planetary spheres. The
"Cosmic Seed" — ancient ere time began — is the
archetypal Ishvara, the original nucleus and dia
mond point of a universe growing through succes
sive great Kalpas. Now, at the heart of the spirit
ual Sun, this Ishvara radiates in vastly intensified
degree the glory of its human antitype.
Students should disabuse themselves of the
notion that man, as at present constituted, has
lived either on Mercury or Mars or Venus. Were
he transferred to another planet, and could he
adapt himself to its physical conditions, a deep-
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Ishvara of the planetary spirit there would not
harmonize with his inmost being.
In ages to come, when man has finished his
evolution here, he will find his Ishvara grown to
octave vibration with that of the solar being; so,
inevitably, he will exchange this world for the orb
from which he issued as a merely potential creature.
Because necessary to each other, the Ishvara
of the earth entity and that of the human race as
a whole, have progressed together harmoniously
for millions of years; but when entire nations
incline their hearts to evil, the earth entity mani
fests uneasiness by seismic disturbances, and other
convulsions of nature.
[ij|;'Andrew Jackson Davis located the Summer-
land of departed spirits in the regions of the
Galaxy, while the orthodox heaven is supposedly
somewhere among the stars to which abode Enoch
was translated, and Elijah was carried, and Jesus
was lifted up. On the other hand, the deeper
students of our philosophy understand that no
human being can break from the magnetic circle
of the Ishvara of the earth entity, until the day
"Be with Us."
As for that circle, it impinges on the circum
ference of the circle of Mars. At this boundary,
the repulsion of the Martian Ishvara, together with
the attraction of that of the earth entity, tends to
force every imperfect posthumous soul back to the
material plane. Because free from that attraction,
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evolved beings in the Nirvana of our planetary
chain can, at will, remain for ages upon the
buddhic plane.
H. P. B.

IN CONCLUSION
L^ IN ALLY, a few words concerning inter-etheric
-*- forces, and their employment by the coming
Avatar. The axil revolution begun by the nebula, and
continued by our seven-fold sun, and its progeny
the seven-fold planets, was communicated to the
very atoms which, in construction, almost dupli
cate the solar system. The physical atomic
energy confined in a cubic foot of matter sur
passes any material force thus far made available.
Were the scientist endowed with more than
terrestrial vision, he would discover that the pro
cedure of the physical aspect of the electrons is
repeated on higher and higher planes of the seven
fold atom. Keely, of Motor fame, found that to
deflect to mechanical purposes the physical com
ponents of the atom, his delicate Vibrator should
be re-enforced by that most delicate of instruments
the physical brain; but he died without making
his finding useful, or even complete.
However ingenious and sensitive, no strictly
mechanical device can free the inter-etheric energy
of the electrons; nevertheless, under certain con-
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ditions, the means of liberation is latent, or
partially operative, in every man. One require
ment of his success is, that the atoms must be
incorporated within his physical body, and there
imbued with his qualities. The liberation and use
of the super-physical of these atoms, make man a
power either for good or evil in the world.
As a seven-fold being like unto others, but far
more developed and capable, Jesus, in his healing,
emanated from his body and brain, to be incorpo
rated in other organisms, the imbued buddhic
energy of certain atoms. As great intellectual
leaders, Plato and Aristotle, in similar manner,
emanated a manasic energy whose moulding
influence endures to-day.
The ancient teachings emanate both a buddhic
and a manasic energy, but, because of. the tenacious
influence which the wholly exoteric dogmas of the
Church Fathers were exercising upon the European
peoples, it was deemed best to withhold the esoteric
teachings from the West, until the way for their
reception had, to some extent, been prepared by
Jacob Boehme and Emanuel Swedenborg, and
afterward continued by Coleridge and Carlyle in
England, and, in America, by Channing, Emerson,
and other representatives of the New England
Transcendental School. On the other hand, the
Brothers of the Shadow have always been active
through such tools as Alexander, Caesar, Napoleon,
and Wilhelm II, all of whom put forth an obsessing
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kamic force inimical to that brotherhood of man
which the Master inaugurated. As for the coming
Avatar, it is said that from his electrical body, the
fore-runner of others to be, the buddhic energy
will radiate in a way before unknown among men;
therefore, more marvelous works than those of
old will testify to his sovereign power and authority.
When, as an atom of spiritual will, each unit of
the human family was separated from the body of
some member of a certain Solar Hierarchy, that
atom was imbued with a quality which ¦ would
develop during its entire cycle to its sun-source.
Moreover, that nucleus of composite man received
in like manner, and one by one, the pregnant gifts
of all other Solar Hierarchies. Nor did man's
divine progenitors cease their benefactions with
this primal giving. Even now they watch over
him, and for his spiritual healing they radiate to
his inner self the liberated energy of their incorpo
rated atoms.
The above teaching discovers the inner meaning
of the Master's promise: "He that believeth on
me, the works that I do shall he do also, and
greater than these shall he do, because I go unto
my Father." As explained in an earlier chapter,
the Father to whom Jesus as the planetary ruler
would go, was a certain hierarchy of the Solar
Logos. After this union of Father and Son,
augmented means of material and spiritual healing
from that source would benefit the human race.
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Any son of man who identifies himself with the
Solar Logos, though as the least of its fellowship,
is an appropriate channel through which the divine
influence reaches and aids his human brothers,
whether in the world, or the intermediate state.
One object of the Avatars which appear at
suitable astronomical periods, is the enlargement
and multiplication of those channels which, in
some respects, are more effective if formed from the
earth upward, rather than from the Logos down
ward. Evidently the earth cannot wholly assimilate
the gifts of heaven, unless by mutual effort it be
brought into harmony with its source. Equilib
rium once established between the two worlds,
mankind enters into the fulness of that high
correspondent of Edenic times, the better Golden
Age of which the holy men of old have often
dreamed, and whose beacon of promise the sages
of many lands have discerned afar, and concerning
whose glory every prophet of the larger truth has
authoritatively spoken. Peace to all beings! H.

To the students who were promised the earlier
appearance of this final book of the series begun
with "Special Teachings," some explanation is
due. "The Heart of Things" was published in
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1914, but since the chapters of Vol. Ill were
received at intervals, and because of other delays,
seven years separate the publication of Vol. II
and Vol. IIL
Now it appears that outward circumstances were
not responsible for this delay, for the Master
intended that seven years should separate the
issuance of the two books. If another seven years
bring about the enleaguing of nations, and so
presage enduring peace through actual or else pro
spective disarmament of the world powers, the
time will be ripe for the revealing of those deepest
mysteries of the Kingdom which the coming uni
versal Teacher will communicate orally to certain
individuals and groups of his followers, who, in
turn, will dissemminate them among the prepared
peoples of the earth.
E. C. F.