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The Twelfth Lesson: Occult Miscellany.909
Question vi: What is meant by “the Days and Nights of Brahm”; the
“Cycles”; the “Chain of Worlds”, etc., etc.?
Answer: In Lesson Sixth, of the present series, you will find a brief mention
of the “Days and Nights of Brahm”—those vast periods of the In-breathing
and Out-breathing of the Creative Principle which is personified in the
Hindu conception of Brahma. You will see mentioned there that universal
philosophical conception of the Universal Rhythm, which manifests in a
succession of periods of Universal Activity and Inactivity.
The Yogi Teachings are that all Time is manifested in Cycles. Man calls
the most common form of Cyclic Time by the name of “a Day,” which is the
period of time necessary for the earth’s revolution on its axis. Each Day is a
reproduction of all previous Days, although the incidents of each day differ
from those of the other—all Days are but periods of Time marked off by the
revolution of the earth on its axis. And each Night is but the negative side of
a Day, the positive side of which is called “day.” There is really no such thing
as a Day, that which we call a “Day” being simply a record of certain physical
changes in the earth’s position relating to its own axis.
The second phase of Cyclic Time is called by man by the name “a Month,”
by which is meant certain changes in the relative positions of the moon and
the earth. The true month consists of twenty-eight lunar days. In this Cycle
(the Month) there is also a light-time or “day,” and a dark-time or “night,”
the former being the fourteen days of the moon’s visibility, and the second
being the fourteen days of the moon’s invisibility.
The third phase of Cyclic Time is that which we call “a Year,” by which is
meant the time occupied by the earth in its revolution around the sun. You
will notice that the year has its positive and negative periods, also, known as
Summer and Winter.
But the Yogis take up the story where the astronomers drop it, at the Year.
Beyond the Year there are other and greater phases of Cyclic Time. The
Yogis know many cycles of thousands of years in which there are marked
periods of Activity and Inactivity. We cannot go into detail regarding these