The Secret Doctrine Volume 3.pdf

The head should not be covered in meditation. It is covered in Samâdhi.
The Dhyân Chohans are passionless, pure and mindless. They have no struggle, no
passion to crush.
The Dhyân Chohans are made to pass through the School of Life. “God goes to
School.”
The best of us in the future will be Mânasaputras; the lowest will be Pitris. We are
seven intellectual Hierarchies here. This earth becomes the moon of the next earth.
The “Pitris” are the Astral overshadowed by Ãtma-Buddhi, falling into matter. T he
“Pudding-bags” has Life and Ãtmâ-Buddhi, but no Manas. They were therefore
senseless. The reason for all evolution is the gaining of experience.
In the Fifth Round all of us will pay the part of the Pitris. We shall have to go and
shoot out our Chhâyâs into another humanity, and remain until that humanity is
perfected. The Pitris have finished their office in this Round and have gone into
Nirvâna; but they will return to do the same office up to the middle point of the Fifth
Round. The Fourth or Kâmic Hierarchy of the Pitris becomes the “man of flesh.”
The astral body is first in the womb; then comes the germ that fructifies it. It is then
clothed with matter, as were the Pitris.
The Chhâyâ is really the lower Manas, the shadow of the higher Mind. This Chhâyâ
makes the Mâyâvi Rûpa. The Ray clothes itself (Page 560) in the highest degree of the
Astral Plane. The Mâyâvi Rûpa is composed of the astral body as Upâdhi, the
guiding intelligence from the heart, the attributes and qualities from the Auric
Envelopes.
The Auric Envelope takes up the light of Ãtmâ, and overshadows the coronal circling
round the head.
The Auric Fluid is a combination of the Life and Will principles, the life and the will
being one and the same in Kosmos. It emanates from the eyes and hands, when
directed by the will of the operator.
The Auric Light surrounds all bodies: it is the “aura” emanating from them, whether
they be animal, vegetable, or mineral. It is the light, e.g., seen round magnets.
Ãtmâ-Buddhi-Manas in man corresponds to the three Logoi in Kosmos. They not only
correspond, but each is the radiation from Kosmos to Microcosmos. The third Logos,
Mahat, becomes Manas in man, Manas being only Mahat individualized, as the sunrays
are individualized in bodies that absorb them. The sun-rays give life, they
fertilize what is already there, and the individual is formed. Mahat, so to say fertilizes,
and Manas is the result.
Buddhi-Manas is the Kshetrajña.
There are seven planes of Mahat, as of all else.
The Human Principles
Here H.P.B drew two diagrams, illustrating different ways of representing the human
principles. In the first:
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