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592 THE SECRET DOCTRINE.
second, and that they were due to contraction and the rushing of the
blood.
We read in a work on Geology that it is the dream of Science that
All the recognized chemical elements will one day be found but modifications of
a single material element.*
Occult Philosophy has taught this since the existence of human
speech and language, adding, however, on the principle of the immutable
k.w of analogy, "as it is above, so it is below," another of its
axioms, that there is neither Spirit nor Matter, in reality, but only
numberless aspects of the One ever-hidden Is, or Sat. The homogeneous
primordial Element is simple and single, only on the terrestrial
plane of consciousness and sensation, since Matter, after all, is nothing
more than the sequence of our own states of consciousness, and Spirit
an idea of psychic intuition. Even on the next higher plane, that
single element which is
defined on our Earth by current Science, as
the ultimate undecomposable constituent of some kind of Matter,
would be pronounced in the world of a higher spiritual perception
to be something very complex indeed. Our purest water would be
found to yield, instead of its two declared simple elements of oxygen
and hydrogen, many other constituents, undreamed of by our modern
terrestrial Chemistry. As in the realm of Matter, so in the realm of
Spirit, the shadow of that which is cognized on the plane of objectivity
The speck of the perfectly homo-
exists on that of pure subjectivity.
geneous Substance, the sarcode of the Haeckelian Moneron, is now
viewed as the archebiosis of terrestrial
existence (Mr. Huxley's protoplasm)!
;
and Bathybius Hseckelii has to be traced to its pre-terrestrial
archebiosis. This is first perceived by the Astronomers at its third
stage of evolution, and in the "secondary creation," so-called. But
the students of Esoteric Philosophy understand well the secret meaning
of the Stanza:
.... Spirit, O Twice-born [Initiate], is the leading aspect of Brahma.
Brahma . . . has essentially the aspect of Prakriti, both evolved and unevolved
The next is a two-fold aspect [of Prakriti and Purusha] .... both evolved
and unevolved; and Time is the last! J
Anu is one of the names of Brahma, as distinct from Brahman,
• World-Life, p. 48-
+ Unfortunately, as these pages are being written, the "archebiosis of terrestrial existence" hai
turned, under a somewhat stricter chemical analysis, into a simple precipitate of sulphate of lim,:—
hence, from the scientific standpoint, not even an organic substance! Sic transit gloria mundi!
X Viihnu Purdna, Wilson, I. 16, Fitzedward Hall's rendering.