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The Four Crucial Phases of the Cycle of Being - 4
From Sunset to Midnight
Evidently it is impossible to say anything objective and concrete about this quarter of the
cycle of being, because whatever "is" has a predominantly subjective character. In relation
to human beings as we know them today, this section of the total cycle of being refers to
the postmortem state, which is a state of increasingly subjective being, yet which also must
have some kind of objectivity because the principle of Multiplicity is still relatively strong,
though waning. I shall deal with the postmortem state and the concept of reincarnation in
Part Three, chapter II.
From a planetary and cosmic perspective, this quarter begins with the Pleroma, the
Communion of the more or less large minority of human beings who have reached the
state of Illumined Man. The latter is expected at the Gate of Silence — the brief instant of
the cycle of being in which the principles of Unity and Multiplicity are in perfect
equilibrium — through which these perfected, spirit-radiating individuals pass. This state
of illumination polarizes the cycle's other moment of perfect equilibrium between Unity
and Multiplicity — the Gate of Sound through which the creative Word was uttered by the
Creator-God in whom all the creative Hierarchies operating between the symbolic
Midnight and Sunrise were unified.
The image of the Pleroma that forms in my mind is similar to, if not identical with,
what the founder of the modern theosophical movement, H. P. Blavatsky, sought to
convey by the term "White Lodge." 24 But sadly, this appellation has been abused and
materialized. A Pleroma is essentially a Communion of individualized yet unanimous
beings of "Light." The qualificative "white" applies because such a Communion totally
reflects the originating "solar" vibration of the creative Word that was in the beginning, yet
which remains pulsating throughout the entire cycle it opened. During the long process of
multicultural development, "Lodges" (secret brotherhoods) are formed, each of which can
be symbolized by a particular color of the spectrum of light (Blue Lodge, Green Lodge,
and so on). The Pleroma is "white" because it is the harmony of all colors and all cultures
— of all "Rays," as occultists are fond of saying.
Pleroma beings are still "individuals" in the sense that each is the actualization in
concrete form and specific modes of activity of one of the myriad "Letters" of the creative
Word (the Logos). They are their fulfilled individual dharmas. But a Pleroma being is fully
conscious that an individual dharma constitutes but one note in the immense chord of the
planetary Commonsoul. The chord as a whole resonates through each individual who,
using his or her past identity as a modality for action among persons who are but human,
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The term Lodge undoubtedly was inspired by the tradition of Freemasonry, which was so important
during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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