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A.—THAT.
(6) Q.—Into what has it been and will be again and again resolved
A.—Into THAT.
(7) Q.—Is THAT then both the instrumental and material cause of the Universe
A.—What else is it or can it be than THAT
As the Universe, the Macrocosm and the Microcosm, [The Solar System or the Earth, as the
case may be.] are ten, why should we divide Man into seven “principles” This is the reason
why the perfect number ten is divided into two: in their completeness, i.e., super-spiritually
and physically, the forces are TEN: to-wit, three on the subjective and inconceivable, and
seven on the objective plane. Bear in mind that I am now giving you the description of the
two opposite poles: (a) the primordial Triangle, which, as soon as it has reflected itself in the
“Heavenly Man,” the highest of the lower seven—disappears, returning into “Silence and
Darkness”; and (b) the astral paradigmatic man, whose Monad (Ãtmâ) is also represented by
a triangle, as it has to become a ternary in conscious Devachanic interludes. The purely
terrestrial man being reflected in the universe of Matter, so to say, upside down, the upper
Triangle, wherein the creative ideation and the subjective potentiality of the formative faculty
resides, is shifted in the man of clay below the seven.
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