The Secret Doctrine Volume 3.pdf

Yoga practice, Ãkâsha Tattva is placed in the head (or physical brain) of man; Tejas
Tattva in the shoulders; Vâyu Tattva in the navel (the seat of all the phallic Gods,
“creators” of the universe and man); Ãpas Tattva in the knees’ and Prithivî Tattva in
the feet. Hence the two higher Tattvas and their correspondences are ignored and
excluded; and, as these are the chief factors in Râja Yoga, no spiritual or intellectual
phenomena of a high nature can take place. The best results obtainable will be
physical phenomena and no more. As the “Five Breaths,” or rather the five states of
the human breath, in Hatha Yoga correspond to the above terrestrial planes and
colours, what spiritual results can be obtained On the contrary they are the very
reverse of the plane of Spirit, or the higher macrocosmic plane, reflected (Page 500)
as they are upside down, in the Astral Light. This is proven in the Tântra work,
Shivâgama, itself. Let us compare.
First of all, remember that the Septenary of visible and also invisible Nature is said in
Occultism to consist of the three (and four) Fires, which grow into the forty-nine
Fires. This shows that as the Macrocosm is divided into seven great planes of
various differentiations of Substance—from the spiritual or subjective, to the fully
objective or material, from Akâsha down to the sin-laden atmosphere of our earth—
so, in its turn, each of these great planes has three aspects, based on four
Principles, as already shown above. This seems to be quite natural, as even modern
Science has her three states of matter and what are generally called the “critical” or
intermediate states between the solid, the fluidic, and the gaseous.
Now, the Astral Light is not a universally diffused stuff, but pertains only to our earth
and all other bodies of the system on the same plane of matter with it. Our Astral
Light is, so to speak, the Linga Sharîra of our earth; only instead of being its
primordial prototype, as in the case of our Chhâyâ, or Double, it is the reverse.
Human and animal bodies grow and develop on the model of their antetypal
Doubles; whereas the Astral Light is born from the terrene emanations, grows and
develops after its prototypal parent, and in its treacherous waves everything from the
upper planes and from the lower solid plane, the earth, both ways, is reflected
reversed. Hence the confusion of its colours and sounds in the clairvoyance and
clairaudience of the sensitive who trusts to its records, be that sensitive a Hatha Yogî
or a medium. The following parallel between the Esoteric and the Tântra Tables of
the Tattvas in relation to Sounds and Colours shows this very clearly:
(Page 501)
Esoteric and Tântra Tables of the Tattvas
Esoteric Principles, Tattvas or Forces, and their
Correspondences with the Human Body, States of Matter and
Colour
Tattvas
(a) Adi
Principles
Auric
Egg
States of
Matter
Priomardial,
Spiritual
Substance;
Akâsha;
Substratum of
the Spirit of
Ether
Parts of
Body
Envelopes
the whole
body and
penetrates
it.
Reciprocal
emanation,
endosmotic
and
exosmotic
Colour
Synthesis
of all
Colours.
Blue
Tântra Tattvas and their
Correspondences, with the Human
Body, States of matter and Colour
Tattvas
(a)
Ignored
States
of
Matter
Parts of
Body
Ignored Ignored Ignored
Colour
(b) Buddhi Spiritual Third Eye Yellow (b) Ignored Ignored Ignored
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