The Secret Doctrine Volume 3.pdf

1. Potentiality of Mind (Absolute Thought).
2. Thought in Germ.
3. Ideation in Activity.
Notes
Protective variation, e.g.,identity of colouring of insects and of that on which they
feed, was explained to be the work of Nature Elementals.
Form is on different planes, and the forms of one plane may be formless to dwellers
on another. The Kosmocratores build on planes in the Divine Mind, visible to them
though not to us. The principle of limitation—principium individuationis—is Form: this
principle is Divine Law manifested in Kosmic Matter, which, in its essence, is
limitless. The Auric Egg is the limit of man as Hiranyagarbha of the Kosmos.
The first step towards the accomplishment of Kriyâshakti is the use of the
Imagination. To imagine a thing is to firmly create a model of what you desire, perfect
in all its details. The Will is then brought into action, and the form is thereby
transferred to the objective world. This is creation by Kriyâshakti.
Suns and Planets
(Page 562) A comet partially cools and settles down as a sun. It then gradually attracts
round it planets that are as yet unattached to any centre, and thus, in millions of
years, a Solar System is formed. The worn-out planet becomes a moon to the planet
of another system.
The sun we see is a reflection of the true Sun: this reflection, as an outward concrete
thing, is a Kâma-Rûpa, all the suns forming the Kâma-Rûpa of Kosmos. To its own
system the sun is Buddhi, as being the reflection and vehicle of the true Sun, which is
Ãtmâ, invisible on this plane. All the Fohatic forces—electricity, etc—are in this
reflection.
The Moon
At the beginning of the evolution of our globe, the moon was much nearer to the
earth, and larger than it is now. It has retreated from us, and shrunk much in size.
(The moon gave all her Principles to the earth, while the Pitris gave only their
Chhâyâs to man.)
The influences of the moon are wholly psycho-physiological. It is dead, sending out
injurious emanations like a corpse. It vampirizes the earth and its inhabitants, so that
any one sleeping in its rays suffers, losing some of his life-force. A white cloth is a
protection, the rays not passing through it, and the head especially should be thus
guarded. It has most power when it is full. It throws off particles which we absorb, and
is gradually disintegrating. Where there is snow the moon looks like a corpse, being
unable, through the white snow, to vampirize effectually. Hence snow-covered
mountains are free from its bad influences. The moon is phosphorescent.
The Râkshakas of Lanka and the Atlanteans are said to have subjected the moon.
The Thessalians learned from them their Magic.
Esoterically, the moon is the symbol of the Lower Manas; it is also the symbol of the
Astral.
Plants which under the sun’s rays are beneficent are maleficent under those of the
moon. Herbs containing poisons are most active when gathered under the moon’s
rays.
A new moon will appear during the Seventh Round, and our moon will finally
disintegrate and disappear. There is now a planet, the “Mystery Planet,” behind the
moon, and it is gradually dying. Finally the time will come for it to send its Principles
to a new Laya Centre, and there a new planet will form, to belong to another Solar
System, the present Mystery Planet then functioning as moon to that new globe. This
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