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the divine Saptaloka are purely subjective, and begin with the psychic Astral Light
plane, ending with the Satya or Jîvanmukta state. These fourteen Lokas, or spheres,
form the extent of the whole Brahmânda (world). The four lower are transitory, with all
their dwellers, and the three higher eternal; i.e., the former states, planes and
subjects, to these, last only a Day of Brahmâ, changing with every Kalpa: the latter
endure for an Age of Brahmâ.
In Diagram V. only Body, Astral, Kâma, Lower Manas, Higher Manas, Buddhi and
Auric Ãtmâ are given. Life is a Universal Kosmic Principle, and no more than Ãtman
does it belong to individuals.
In answer to questions on the diagram, H.P.B, said that Touch and Taste have no
order. Elements have a regular order, but Fire pervades them all. Every sense
pervades every other. There is no universal order, that being first in each which is
most developed.
Students must learn the correspondences: then concentrate on the organs and so
reach their corresponding states of consciousness. Take them in order beginning
with the lowest, and working steadily (Page 570) upwards. A medium might irregularly
catch glimpses of higher, but would not thus gain orderly development.
The greatest phenomena are produced by touching and centering the attention upon
the little finger.
The Lokas and Talas are reflections the one of the other. So also are the Hierarchies
in each, in pairs of opposites, at the two poles of the sphere. Everywhere are such
opposites: good and evil, light and darkness, male and female.
H.P.B could not say why blue was the colour of the earth. Blue is a colour by itself, a
primary. Indigo is a colour, not a shade of blue, so is violet.
The Vairâjas belong to, are the fiery Egos of, other Manvantaras. They have already
been purified in the fire of passions. It is they who refused to create. They have
reached the Seventh Portal, and have refused Nirvâna, remaining for succeeding
Manvantaras.
The seven steps of Antahkarana correspond with the Lokas.
Samâdhi is the highest state on earth that can be reached in the body.
Beyond that the Initiate must have become a Nirmânakâya.
Purity of mind is of greater importance than purity of body. If the Upâdhi be not
perfectly pure, it cannot preserve recollections coming from a higher state. An act
may be performed to which little or no attention is paid, and it is of comparatively
small importance. But if thought of, dwelt on in the mind, the effect is a thousand
times greater.
The thoughts must be kept pure.
Remember that Kâma, while having bad passions and emotions, helps you to evolve
by giving also the desire and impulse necessary for rising.
The flesh, the body, the human being in his material part, is, on this plane, the most
difficult thing to subject. The highest Adept, put into a new body, has to struggle
against it and subdue it, and finds its subjugation difficult.
The Liver is the General, the Spleen is the Aide-de-Camp. All that the Liver does not
accomplish is taken up and completed by the Spleen.
H.P.B was asked whether each person must pass through the fourteen states, and
answered that the Lokas and Talas represented planes on this earth, through some
of which all must pass, and through all of which the disciple must pass, on his way to
Adeptship. Everyone passes through the lower Lokas, but not necessarily through
the corresponding Talas. There are two poles in everything; seven states in every
state.
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