EVOLUTION OF THE ELEMENTS
Erle Frayne D. Argonza
Good day to thee!
Let it be re-echoed that the spiritually
Perfected Ones who passed on to mankind the esoteric knowledge since antiquity
yet, do not hold the notion of ‘creation’ in describing the progressive
unfolding of phenomena from the noumenon (of effects from the prima causa). Rather, evolution
is the term used to label that progression, a term that is sometimes
interchanged with emanation.
The Law of Evolution was already articulated
by this Adept of the spiritual Brotherhood in a previous article, so please
refer to that note for clarification. It is the folks and theologians who have
associated the term ‘creation’ to describe the unfolding of phenomena.
Thus, elements that comprise our very own
world—the Solar system—came to pass through evolution too. The Perfected Ones
declared in Sloka 3 of Stanza 6, Book of Dzyan, the following cogitation:
OF THE SEVEN (elements)—FIRST ONE MANIFESTED, SIX CONCEALED;
TWO MANIFESTED—FIVE CONCEALED; THREE MANIFESTED—FOUR CONCEALED; FOUR
PRODUCED—THREE HIDDEN; FOUR AND ONE TSAN (fraction) REVEALED—TWO AND ONE
HALF CONCEALED; SIX TO BE MANIFESTED—ONE LAID ASIDE (a). LASTLY, SEVEN SMALL WHEELS REVOLVING; ONE
GIVING BIRTH TO THE OTHER (b).
In her commentary on the subject, HPBlavatsky articulated in Volume I,
Secret Doctrine, the following:
(a.) Although these Stanzas refer to
the whole Universe after a Mahapralaya (universal destruction), yet this
sentence, as any student of Occultism may see, refers also by analogy to the
evolution and final formation of the primitive (though compound) Seven Elements
on our Earth. Of these, four
elements are now fully manifested, while the fifth—Ether—is only partially so,
as we are hardly in the second half of the Fourth Round, and consequently the
fifth Element will manifest fully only in the Fifth Round. The Worlds, including our own, were of
course, as germs, primarily evolved from the ONE Element in its second stage
(“Father-Mother,” the differentiated World’s Soul, not what is termed the
“Over-Soul” by Emerson), whether we call it, with modern Science, Cosmic dust
and Fire Mist, or with Occultism—Akâsa, Jivâtma, divine Astral Light, or the
“Soul of the World.” But this first stage of Evolution was in due course
of time followed by the next. No
world, as no heavenly body, could be constructed on the objective plane, had
not the Elements been sufficiently differentiated already from their primeval Ilus,
resting in Laya. The
latter term is a synonym of Nirvana.
It is, in fact, the Nirvanic dissociation of all substances, merged
after a life-cycle into the latency of their primary conditions. It is the luminous but bodiless shadow of the
matter that was, the realm of negativeness—wherein lie latent during
their period of rest the active Forces of the Universe. Now, speaking of Elements, it is made the
standing reproach of the Ancients, that they “supposed their Elements simple
and undecomposable.”* Once more this is an unwarrantable statement; as,
at any rate, their initiated philosophers can hardly come under such an
imputation, since it is they who have invented allegories and religious myths
from the beginning. Had they been
ignorant of the Heterogeneity of their Elements they would have had no
personifications of Fire, Air, Water, Earth, and Æther; their Cosmic gods and
goddesses would never have been blessed with such posterity, with so many sons
and daughters, elements born from and within each respective Element. Alchemy and occult phenomena would have been
a delusion and a snare, even in theory, had the Ancients been ignorant of the
potentialities and correlative functions and attributes of every element that
enters into the composition of Air, Water, Earth, and even Fire—the
latter a terra incognita to this day to modern Science, which is obliged to
call it Motion, evolution of light and heat, state of ignition,—defining it by
its outward aspects in short, and remaining ignorant of its nature. But that which molecule entirely homogeneous
is terra incognita in chemistry.
“Where are we to draw the line?” he asks; “is there no way out of this
perplexity? Must we either make the elementary examinations so stiff that only
60 or 70 candidates can pass, or must we open the examination doors so wide
that the number of admissions is limited only by the number of applicants?” And
then the learned gentleman gives striking instances. He says: “Take the case of yttrium. It has its definite atomic weight, it behaved
in every respect as a simple body, an element, to which we might indeed add,
but from which we could not take away.
Yet this yttrium, this supposed homogeneous whole, on being submitted to
a certain method of fractionation, is resolved into portions not absolutely
identical among themselves, and exhibiting a gradation of properties. Or take the case of didymium. Here was a body betraying all the recognised
characters of an element. It had
been separated with much difficulty from other bodies which approximated
closely to it in their properties, and during this crucial process it had
undergone very severe treatment and very close scrutiny. But then came another chemist, who, treating
this assumed homogeneous body by a peculiar process of fractionation, resolved
it into the two bodies praseodymium and neodymium, between which certain
distinctions are perceptible.
Further, we even now have no certainty that neodymium and praseodymium
are simple bodies. On the
contrary, they likewise exhibit symptoms of splitting up. Now, if one
supposed element on proper treatment is thus found to comprise dissimilar
molecules, we are surely warranted in asking whether similar results might not
be obtained in other elements, perhaps in all elements, if treated in the right
way. We may even ask where the
process of sorting-out is to stop—a process which of course pre-supposes
variations between the individual molecules of each species. And in these successive separations we
naturally find bodies approaching more and more closely to each other.”
(Presidential address before the Royal Society of Chemists, March, 1888.)
modern Science seems to fail to perceive is that, differentiated as may have
been those simple chemical atoms—which archaic philosophy called “the creators
of their respective Parents,” fathers, brothers, husbands of their mothers, and
those mothers the daughters of their own sons, like Aditi and Daksha, for
example—differentiated as these elements were in the beginning, still, they
were not the compound bodies known to science, as they are now. Neither Water, Air, Earth (synonym for solids
generally) existed in their present form, representing the three states of
matter alone recognised by Science; for all these are the productions already
recombined by the atmospheres of globes completely formed—even to fire—so that in
the first periods of the earth’s formation they were something quite sui
generis. Now that the
conditions and laws ruling our solar system are fully developed; and that the
atmosphere of our earth, as of every other globe, has become, so to say, a
crucible of its own, Occult Science teaches that there is a perpetual exchange
taking place in space of molecules, or of atoms rather, correlating, and thus
changing their combining equivalents on every planet. Some men of Science, and those among the
greatest physicists and chemists, begin to suspect this fact, which has been
known for ages to the Occultists.
The spectroscope only shows the probable similarity (on external
evidence) of terrestrial and sidereal substance; it is unable to go any
farther, or to show whether atoms gravitate towards one another in the same way
and under the same conditions as they are supposed to do on our planet,
physically and chemically. The
scale of temperature, from the highest degree to the lowest that can be
conceived of, may be imagined to be one and the same in and for the whole
Universe; nevertheless, its properties, other than those of dissociation and
re-association, differ on every planet; and thus atoms enter into new forms of
existence, undreamt of, and incognizable to, physical Science. As already expressed in “Five Years of
Theosophy,” the essence of Cometary matter, for instance, “is totally different
from any of the chemical or physical characteristics with which the greatest
chemists and physicists of the earth are acquainted” (p. 242). And even that matter, during rapid passage
through our atmosphere, undergoes a certain change in its nature. Thus not alone the elements of our planets,
but even those of all its sisters in the Solar System, differ as widely from
each other in their combinations, as from the Cosmic elements beyond our
Solar limits.* Therefore, they cannot be taken as a standard
for comparison with the same in other worlds.† Enshrined in their
virgin, pristine state within the bosom of the Eternal Mother, every atom born
beyond the threshold of her realm is doomed to incessant differentiation. “The Mother sleeps, yet is ever breathing.”
And every breath sends out into the plane of manifestation her Protean
products, which, carried on by the wave of the efflux, are scattered by Fohat,
and driven toward and beyond this or another planetary atmosphere. Once caught by the latter, the atom is lost;
its pristine purity is gone for ever, unless Fate dissociates it by leading it
to “a current of EFFLUX” (an occult term meaning quite a different process from
that which the ordinary term implies); when it may be carried once more to the
borderland where it had perished, and taking its flight, not into Space above
but into Space within, it will be brought under a state of differential
equilibrium and happily re-absorbed.
Were a truly learned Occultist-alchemist to write the “Life and
Adventures of an Atom” he would secure thereby the eternal scorn of the modern
chemist, perchance also his subsequent gratitude.* However it may be, “The
Breath of the Father-Mother issues cold and radiant and gets hot and corrupt,
to cool once more, and be purified in the eternal bosom of inner Space,”
says the Commentary. Man absorbs
cold pure air on the mountain-top, and throws it out impure, hot and
transformed. Thus—the higher
atmosphere being the mouth, and the lower one the lungs of every globe—the man
of our planet breathes only the refuse of “Mother;” therefore, “he is doomed to
die on it.Ӡ
(b) The process referred to as “the small
wheels giving birth, one to the other,” takes place in the sixth region from
above, and on the plane of the most material world of all in the manifested
Kosmos—our terrestrial plane.
These “Seven Wheels” are our planetary chain (see Commentary Nos.
5 and 6). By “Wheels” the various
spheres and centres of forces are generally meant; but in this case they refer
to our septenary ring.
[Philippines, 10 April 2012]
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