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THE SECRET DOCTRINE.
The Star under which a human Entity is born, says the Occult
Teaching, will remain for ever its star, throughout the whole cycle of
its incarnations in one Manvantara. But this is not his astrological star.
The latter is concerned and connected with the Personality; the former
with the hidividuality. The Angel of that Star, or the Dhyani-Buddha
connected with it, will be either the guiding, or simply the presiding,
Angel, so to say, in every new rebirth of the Monad, which is part of
his own essejice, though his vehicle, man, may remain for ever ignorant
of this fact. The Adepts have each their Dhyani-Buddha, their elder
"Twin-Soul," and they know it, calling it "Father-Soul," and "Father-
Fire." It is only at the last and supreme Initiation, however, when
placed face to face with the bright "Image" that they learn to recognize
it. How much did Bulwer Lytton know of this mystic fact, when
describing, in one of his highest inspirational moods, Zanoni face to
face with his Augoeides
The Logos, or both the unmanifested and the manifested Word, is
called by the Hindus, Ishvara, the Lord, though the Occultists give it
another name. Ishvara, say the Vedantins, is the highest consciousness
in Nature. "This highest consciousness," answer the Occultists,
"is only a synthetic unit in the World of the manifested Logos—or on
the plane of illusion; for it is the sum total of Dhyan Chohanic consciousness."
"O wise man, remove the conception that Not-Spirit is
Spirit''—S2iys Shankaracharya. AtmS is Not-Spirit in its final Parabrahmic
state; Ishvara, or Logos, is Spirit; or, as Occultism explains,
it is a compound unity of manifested living Spirits, the parent-source
and nursery of all the mundane and terrestrial Monads, plus their
divine Reflection, which emanate from, and return into, the Logos,
each in the culmination of its time. There are seven chief Groups of
such Dhyan Chohans, which groups will be found and recognized in
every religion, for they are the primeval Seven Rays. Humanity,
Occultism teaches us, is divided into seven distinct Groups, with their
sub-divisions, mental, spiritual, and physical. Hence there are seven
chief planets, the spheres of the indwelling seven Spirits, under each
of which is born one of the human Groups which is guided and
There are only seven planets specially connected
influenced thereby.
with Earth, and twelve houses, but the passible combinations of their
aspects are countless. As each planet can stand to each of the others
in twelve different aspects, their combinations must be almost infinite;
as infinite, in fact, as the spiritual, psychic, mental, and physical