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40 THE SECRET DOCTRINE.
No, the three are one.
That which ever is is one, that which ever was is one,
that which is ever being and becoming is also 07ie : and this is Space.
Explain, O Lanoo \disciple\— The One is an unbroke7i Circle \_Ring']
with no circumference, for it is nowhere and everywhere ; the O^ie is the
bou7idless Plane of the Circle, manifesting a Diameter only during the
manvantafdc periods ; the One is the indivisible Point found nowhere,
perceived everywhere during those periods ; it is the Vertical aiid the Horizontal,
the Father and the Mother, the szmimit and base of the Father, the
two extremities of the Mother, reaching in reality nowhere, for the One is
the Ring as also the Rings that are within that Ring. Light hi Darkness
and Darkness in Light: the ''Breath which is eternal!' It proceeds fvm
without inwardly, when it is everywhere, andfrom within outwardly, when
it is nowhere— (i.e., Mdyd,^ one of the Centres). \ It expands and coitracts
\exhalatio7i and hihalatio7i\. When it expa7ids, the Mother diffuses a7id
scatters ; when it C07itracts, the Mother draws back and i7igathers. This
produces the periods ofEvolution a7id Dissolutio7i, Ma7iva7itara a7id Pralaya.
The Germ, is invisible a7idfiery ; the Root \the Plane of the Circle'] is cool
but duri7ig Evolution a7id Ma7ivanta7'a her garme7tt is cold a7id 7'adiant.
Hot Breath is the Father who devours the proge7iy of the ma7iy-faced Ele77ie7it
[^heterogeneous'], a7id leaves the single-faced ones \l107noge71eous]. Cool
Breath is the Mother, who co7iceives, for77is, bri7igs fo7'th, a7id receives the7n
back into her bosom, to ref 07^771
them at the Dawn [of the Day of B7'aht7id, or
Ma7iva7itara].
For clearer understanding on the part of the general reader, it must
be stated that Occult Science recognizes seve7i Cosmic Elements—four
entirely physical, and the fifth (Ether) semi-material, which will become
visible in the Air towards the end of our Fourth Round, to reign
supreme over the others during the whole of the Fifth. The remaining
two are as yet absolutely beyond the range of human perception.
They
* Esoteric Philosophy, regarding every finite thing as Maya (or the illusion of ignorance), must
necessarily view in the same light every intra-cosmic planet and body, seeing that it is something
organized, hence finite. The sentence, therefore, "it proceeds from without inwardly, etc.", in its
first clause, refers to the dawn of the Mahamanvantara, or the great reevolution after one of the
complete periodical dissolutions of every compound form in Nature, from planet to molecule, into its
ultimate essence or element ; and in its second clause, to the partial or local Manvantara, which may
be a solar or even a planetary one.
i- By Centre, a centre of energy or a cosmic focus is meant ; the so-called " creation," or
formation, of a planet, is accomplished by that force which is designated by Occultists Life and by
Science Energy, then the process takes place from within outwardly, every atom being said to contain
in itself the creative energy of the divine Breath. And, whereas after an Absolute Pralaya, when the
preexisting material consists but of One Element, and Breath "is ever3rwhere," the latter acts from
without inwardly : after a Minor Pralaya, when everj'thing having remained in statu quo—in a refrigerated
state, so to say, like the moon—then at the first flutter of Manvantara, the planet or
planets begin their resurrection to life from within outwardly.