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The Secret Doctrine Volume 3.pdf

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Taking this figure to represent the human Principles and planes of consciousness,<br />

then<br />

Differentiation (Page 557)<br />

7, 6, 5, represent respectively, Shiva, Vishnu, Brahmâ being the lowest.<br />

Shiva is the four-faced Brahmâ; the Creator, Preserver, Destroyer, and Regenerator.<br />

Between 5 and 4 comes the Antahkarana. <strong>The</strong> △ represents the Christos, the<br />

Sacrificial Victim crucified between the thieves: this is the double-faced entity. <strong>The</strong><br />

Vedântins make this a quarternary for a blind: Antahkarana, Chit, Buddhi, and<br />

Manas.<br />

Manvantaric Aspect of Parabrahman and Mûlaprakriti<br />

N.B. <strong>The</strong> number<br />

of rays is arbitrary<br />

and without<br />

significance.<br />

Perceptive life<br />

begins with the<br />

Astral: it is not our<br />

physical atoms<br />

which see, etc.<br />

Consciousness<br />

proper begins<br />

between Kâma and<br />

Manas. Ãtmâ-<br />

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