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THE TRINITY IN UNITY. 637
as well as invisible Nature—and Purusha, Spirit, are eternally one;
and they are Nirupadhi, without adventitious qualities or attributes,
only during Pralaya, and when beyond any of the planes of consciousness
of existence. The Atom, as known to modern science, is inseparable
from Purusha, which is Spirit, but is now called "energ>'" in
Science. The Protyle Atom has not been comminuted or subtilized:
it has simply passed into that plane, which is no plane, but the eternal
state of everything beyond the planes of illusion. Both Purusha and
Pradhana are immutable and unconsumable, or Aparinamin and Avyaya,
in eternity; and both may be referred to during the Mayavic
periods as Vyaya and Parinamin, or that which can expand, pass away
and disappear, and which is "modifiable." In this sense Purusha,
must, of course, be held distinct in our conceptions from Parabrahmau.
Nevertheless that, which is called "energj-" or "force" in
Science, and
which has been explained as a dual force jy Metcalfe, is never, in fact^
and cannot be, energy alone; for it is the Substance of the World, its
Soul, the All-permeant, Sarvaga, in conjunction with Kala, Time.
The three are the trinity in one, during Manvantara, the all-potential
Unity, which acts as three distinct things on Maya, the plane of
illusion.
In the Orphic philosophy of ancient Greece they were called
Phanes, Chaos, and Chronos—the triad of the Occult Philosophers of
that period.
But see how closely Mr. Crookes brushes the "Unknowable," and
what potentialities there are for the acceptance of Occult truths in his
discoveries.
He continues, speaking of the evolution of Atoms
Let us pause at the end of the first complete vibration and examine the result.
We have already found the elements of water, ammonia, carbonic acid, the atmosphere,
plant and animal life, phosphorus for the brain, salt for the seas, clay for
the solid earth . . . phosphates and silicates sufficient for a world and inhabitants
not so very different from what we enjoy at the present day.
True the humati
inhabitants would have to live in a state of more than Arcadian simplicit}-, and the
absence of calcic phosphate would be awkward as far as the bone is concerned.*
. . . At the lower end of our curve ... we see a great hiatus. . . . Thi.s
oasis, and the blanks which precede and follow it, may be referred with much
probability to the particular way in which our earth developed into a member of
our solar system. If this be so, it may be that on our earth only these blanksoccur,
and not generally throughout the universe.
This justifies several assertions in the Occult works.
• It is just the existence of such worlds on other planes of consciousness that is asserted by the
Occultist. The Secret Science teaches that the primitive race was boneless, and that there areworlds
in\'isible to us, peopled as our own, besides the populations of Dhyan Chohans.