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PAGE 477
The difficult passage: “Bear in mind . . . . a mystery below truly, ‡ [See Page 444]
may become a little more clear to the student if slightly amplified.” (Page 532) The
“primordial Triangle” is the Second Logos, which reflects itself as a Triangle in the
Third Logos, or Heavenly Man, and then disappears. The Third Logos, containing the
“potency of formative creation,” develops the Tetraktys from the Triangle, and so
becomes the Seven the Creative Force, making a Decad with the primordial Triangle
which originated it. When this heavenly Triangle and Tetraktys are reflected in the
Universe of Matter, as the astral paradigmatic man, they are reversed, and the
Triangle, or formative potency, is thrown below the Quaternary, with its apex pointing
downwards: the Monad of this astral paradigmatic man is itself a Triangle, bearing to
the Quaternary and Triangle the relation born by the primordial Triangle to the
Heavenly Man. Hence the phrase, “the upper Triangle . . . is shifted in the man of
clay below the seven.” Here again the point tracing the Triangle, the Monad
becoming the Ternary, with the Quaternary and the lower creative triangle, make up
the Decad, the perfect number. “As above, so below.”
The student will do well to relate the knowledge here acquired to that given on p.477.
Here the upper Triangle is given as Violet, Indigo, Blue, associating Violet as the
paradigm of all forms with Indigo as Mahat, and blue as the Ãtmic Aura. In the
Quaternary, Yellow, as substance, is associated with Yellow-Orange, Life, and Red-
Orange, the creative potency. Green is the plane between.
The next stage is now explained. Green passes upward to Violet, Indigo, Blue, the
Triangle opening out to receive it, and so forming the square, Violet, Indigo, Blue,
Green. This leaves the Red-Orange, Yellow-Orange, and Yellow, and these, having
thus lost their fourth member, can only form a triangle. This triangle revolves, to point
downwards for the descent into matter, and “mirrored on the plane of gross nature, it
is reversed,” and appears as in the diagram following these words.
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