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A FEW OCCULT APHORISMS. 309
EXTRACTS FROM AN EASTERN PRIVATE COMMENTARY, HITHERTO
SECRET.*
xvii. The Initial Existence, in the first Twilight of the Mahdfnanvantara
[after the Mahdpralaya thatfollows every Age of Brahma\, is a CON-
SCIOUS Spiritual Quality. In the Manifested Worlds [Solar Systems'],
it is, in its Objective Subjectivity, like the film front a Divine Breath to the
gaze of the entranced seer.
It spreads as it issues from Laya\ throtcghout
Infinity as a colourless spiritual fluid. It is on the Seve7ith Pla7ie, and in
its
Seventh State, in our Planetary World.%
xviii. It is Substance to OUR spiritual sight. It cannot be called so by
men in their Waking State; therefore they have named it in their ignorance
" God-Spirit."
xix. // exists everywhere and forms the first Upddhi [Foundation']^ on
which our World [Solar System^ is built. Outside the latter, it is to be
found in its pristine purity only between [the Solar Systems or'] the Stars
of the Universe, the Worlds already formed or formi7ig; those in Laya
resting meanwhile in its bosom,. As its substa^ice is of a differ-ent kind
from that known on Earth, the inhabitants of the latter,
seeiyig Through
IT, believe in their illusion and ignorance that it is empty space. There is
7iot 07ie finger's breadth [a7igula] of void Space in the whole Boundless
[Universe]. . .
XX. Matter or Substa7ice is septe7iary within our World, as it is so
beyo7id it. Moreova\ each of its states or principles is g7'aduatcd i7ito seven
degrees of density. Surya [the Sun], m its visible reflection, exhibits the
first or lowest state of the seventh, the highest state of the U7iiv€rsal
Presence, the pure of the pure, the first manifested Breath of the Ever-
Unma7iifested Sat [Be-ness]. All the central physical or objective Siins
are i7i
their substa7ice the lowest state of the first pri7iciple of the B7'eath.
Nor are any of these a7iy more tha7i the Reflectio7is of their Pri77iaries, which
are concealed from the gaze of all but the Dhyd7i Chohans, whose corporeal
substance belongs to the fifth divisio7i of the seve7ith p7'inciple of the Mother-
Substance, a7td is,
therefore, four degrees higher than the solar reflected substa7ice.
As there are seven Dhdtu [principal siibstances iji the human
body], so there are seven Forces i7i Man a7id i7i all Nature.
xxi. The real substance of the Concealed [Sun] is a nucleus of Mother-
• This teaching does not refer to Prakriti-Purusha beyond the boundaries of our small universe,
t The ultimate quiescent state; the Nir\'anic condition of the Seventh Principle.
X The teaching is all given from our plane of consciousness.