ADEPTS
& SECRET LAND:
INITIATION, SUPERCONTINENT, LIBERATION
Erle Frayne D. Argonza
Gracious day to thee,
enthused Aspirants to the Path!
Where is the place of
spiritual Initiation in the course of human evolution within the purview of the
evolving Globes or Evolutionary Rounds? As to the Adepts of which very little
is known by the broad public, what sayeth the Mahatmas? Does Adeptship dovetail
into the peoples of the ‘imperishable land’ as well as the supercontinent of Mu
or Lemuria?
To begin answering the
guide question, let us first note the following contention declared in Sloka 7
of Stanza 6, Book of Dzyan:
MAKE THY CALCULATIONS, O LANOO, IF THOU WOULDST LEARN THE CORRECT AGE
OF THY SMALL WHEEL (chain).
ITS FOURTH SPOKE IS OUR MOTHER (Earth) (a). REACH THE FOURTH “FRUIT” OF THE FOURTH PATH
OF KNOWLEDGE THAT LEADS TO NIRVANA, AND THOU SHALT COMPREHEND, FOR THOU SHALT
SEE (b).
As one can see, the term
‘liberation’ or ‘nirvana’ was well embedded in the very ancient text given to
mankind by the mahatmas of ages long gone. The ‘fourth path of knowledge’ is a
very intriguing principle, and will be explicated below.
HPBlavatsky, ennobled
chela of the mahatmas, articulated on the subject matter, in Volume I of Secret Doctrine, to note:
(a) The “small wheel” is our chain of
spheres, and the fourth spoke is our Earth, the fourth in the chain. It is one of those on which the “hot
(positive) breath of the Sun” has a direct effect.*
To calculate its age, however, as the pupil is
asked to do in the Stanza, is rather difficult, since we are not given the
figures of the Great Kalpa, and are not allowed to publish those of our small
Yugas, except as to the approximate duration of these. “The older wheels rotated for one Eternity
and one half of an Eternity,” it says.
We know that by “Eternity” the seventh part of 311,040,000,000,000
years, or an age of Brahmâ is meant.
But what of that? We also know that, to begin with, if we take for our
basis the above figures, we have first of all to eliminate from the 100 years
of Brahmâ (or 311,040,000,000,000 years) two years taken up by the
Sandhyas (twilights), which leaves 98, as we have to bring it to the mystical
combination 14 x 7. But we
have no knowledge at what time precisely the evolution and formation of our
little earth began. Therefore it
is impossible to calculate its age, unless the time of its birth is given—which
the TEACHERS refuse to do, so far.
At the close of this Book and in Book II., however, some
chronological hints will be given.
We must remember, moreover, that the law of Analogy holds good for the
worlds, as it does for man; and that as “The ONE (Deity) becomes Two
(Deva or Angel) and Two becomes Three (or man),” etc., etc.,
so we are taught that the Curds (world-stuff) become wanderers, (Comets),
these become stars, and the stars (the centres of vortices) our sun and
planets—to put it briefly.*
(b) There are four grades of initiation
mentioned in exoteric works, which are known respectively in Sanskrit as
“Sçrôtâpanna,” “Sagardagan,” “Anagamin,” and “Arhan”—the four paths to Nirvana,
in this, our fourth Round, hearing the same appellations. The Arhan, though he can see the Past, the
Present, and the Future, is not yet the highest Initiate; for the Adept
himself, the initiated candidate, becomes chela (pupil) to a higher
Initiate. Three further higher
grades have to be conquered by the Arhan who would reach the apex; of the
ladder of Arhatship. There are those who have reached it even in this
fifth race of ours, but the faculties necessary for the attainment of these
higher grades will be fully developed in the average ascetic only at the end of
this Root-Race, and in the Sixth and Seventh. Thus there will always be Initiates and the
Profane till the end of this minor Manvantara, the present life-cycle. The Arhats of the “fire-mist” of the
7th rung are but one remove from the Root-Base of their Hierarchy—the highest
on Earth, and our Terrestrial chain.
This “Root-Base” has a name which can only be translated by several
compound words into English”—“the ever-living-human-Banyan.” This
“Wondrous Being” descended from a “high region,” they say, in the early part of
the Third Age, before the separation of the sexes of the Third Race.
This Third Race is sometimes called collectively
“the Sons of Passive Yoga,” i.e., it was produced
unconsciously by the second Race, which, as it was intellectually inactive, is
supposed to have been constantly plunged in a kind of blank or abstract
contemplation, as required by the conditions of the Yoga state. In the first or earlier portion of the
existence of this third race, while it was yet in its state of purity, the
“Sons of Wisdom,” who, as will be seen, incarnated in this Third Race, produced
by Kriyasakti a progeny called the “Sons of Ad” or “of the Fire-Mist,”
the “Sons of Will and Yoga,” etc.
They were a conscious production, as a portion of the race was already
animated with the divine spark of spiritual, superior intelligence. It was not a Race, this progeny. It was at first a wondrous Being, called the
“Initiator,” and after him a group of semi-divine and semi-human beings. “Set apart” in Archaic genesis
for certain purposes, they are those in whom are said to have incarnated the
highest Dhyanis, “Munis and Rishis from previous Manvantaras”—to form the
nursery for future human adepts, on this earth and during the present cycle. These “Sons of Will and Yoga” born, so to
speak, in an immaculate way, remained, it is explained, entirely apart from the
rest of mankind.
The “BEING” just referred to, which has to remain
nameless, is the Tree from which, in subsequent ages, all the great historically
known Sages and Hierophants, such as the Rishi Kapila, Hermes, Enoch, Orpheus,
etc., etc., have branched off. As objective man, he is the mysterious
(to the profane—the ever invisible) yet ever present Personage about whom
legends are rife in the East, especially among the Occultists and the students
of the Sacred Science. It is he
who changes form, yet remains ever the same. And it is he again who holds spiritual sway
over the initiated Adepts throughout the whole world. He is, as said, the “Nameless One” who has so
many names, and yet whose names and whose very nature are unknown. He is the “Initiator,” called the
“GREAT SACRIFICE. For, sitting at
the threshold of LIGHT, he looks into it from within the circle of Darkness,
which he will not cross; nor will he quit his post till the last day of this
life-cycle. Why does the solitary
Watcher remain at his self-chosen post? Why does he sit by the fountain of primeval
Wisdom, of which he drinks no longer, as he has naught to learn which he does
not know—aye, neither on this Earth, nor in its heaven ? Because the lonely,
sore-footed pilgrims on their way back to their home are never sure to
the last moment of not losing their way in this limitless desert of illusion
and matter called Earth-Life.
Because he would fain show the way to that region of freedom and light,
from which he is a voluntary exile himself, to every prisoner who has succeeded
in liberating himself from the bonds of flesh and illusion. Because, in short, he has sacrificed himself
for the sake of mankind, though but a few Elect may profit by the GREAT
SACRIFICE.
It is under the direct, silent guidance of this
MAHA—(great)—GURU that all the other less divine Teachers and instructors of
mankind became, from the first awakening of human consciousness, the guides of
early Humanity. It is through
these “Sons of God” that infant humanity got its first notions of all the arts
and sciences, as well as of spiritual knowledge; and it is they who have laid
the first foundation-stone of those ancient civilizations that puzzle so sorely
our modern generation of students and scholars.*
Although these matters were barely hinted at in “Isis
Unveiled,” it will be well to remind the reader of what was said in Vol.
I., pp. 587 to 593, concerning a certain Sacred
Island in Central
Asia, and to refer him for further details to the chapter in Book
II. on “The Sons of God and the Sacred Island.”
A few more explanations, however, though thrown out in a fragmentary form, may
help the student to obtain a glimpse into the present mystery.
To state at least one detail concerning these
mysterious “Sons of God” in plain words.
It is from them, these Brahmaputras, that the high Dwijas, the initiated
Brahmins of old justly claimed descent, while the modern Brahmin would have the
lowest castes believe literally that they issued direct from the mouth of
Brahmâ. This is the esoteric
teaching, which adds moreover that, although these descendants (spiritually of
course) from the “sons of Will and Yoga,” became in time divided into opposite
sexes, as their “Kriyasakti” progenitors did themselves, later on; yet
even their degenerate descendants have down to the present day retained a veneration
and respect for the creative function, and still regard it in the light of a
religious ceremony, whereas the more civilized nations consider it as a mere
animal function. Compare the
western views and practice in these matters with the Institutions of Manu in
regard to the laws of Grihasta and married life. The true Brahmin is thus indeed “he whose
seven forefathers have drunk the juice of the moon-plant (Soma),” and who is a
“Trisuparna,” for he has understood the secret of the Vedas.
And, to this day, such Brahmins know that, during
its early beginnings, psychic and physical intellect being dormant and
consciousness still undeveloped, the spiritual conceptions of that race were
quite unconnected with its physical surroundings. That divine man dwelt in his
animal—though externally human—form; and, if there was instinct in him, no
self-consciousness came to enlighten the darkness of the latent fifth principle. When, moved by the law of Evolution, the
Lords of Wisdom infused into him the spark of consciousness, the first feeling
it awoke to life and activity was a sense of solidarity, of one-ness with his
spiritual creators. As the
child’s first feeling is for its mother and nurse, so the first aspirations of
the awakening consciousness in primitive man were for those whose element he
felt within himself, and who yet were outside, and independent of him. DEVOTION arose out of that feeling, and
became the first and foremost motor in his nature; for it is the only one which
is natural in our heart, which is innate in us, and which we find alike in
human babe and the young of the animal.
This feeling of irrepressible, instinctive aspiration in primitive man
is beautifully, and one may say intuitionally, described by Carlyle. “The great antique heart,” he exclaims, “how
like a child’s in its simplicity, like a man’s in its earnest solemnity and
depth ! heaven lies over him wheresoever he goes or stands on the earth; making
all the earth a mystic temple to him, the earth’s business all a kind of worship.
Glimpses of bright creatures flash in the common sunlight; angels yet hover,
doing God’s messages among men . . . . . Wonder, miracle,
encompass the man; he lives in an element of miracle * . . . .
A great law of duty, high as these two infinitudes (heaven and hell),
dwarfing all else, annihilating all else—it was a reality, and it is one:
the garment only of it is dead; the essence of it lives through all times and
all eternity!”
It lives undeniably, and has settled in all its
ineradicable strength and power in the Asiatic Aryan heart from the Third Race
direct through its first “mind-born” sons,—the fruits of Kriyasakti. As time rolled on the holy caste of Initiates
produced but rarely, and from age to age, such perfect creatures: beings
apart, inwardly, though the same as those who produced them, outwardly.
While in the infancy of the third primitive race:—
“A creature of a more exalted kind
Was wanting yet, and therefore was designed;
Conscious of thought, of more capacious breast
For empire formed and fit to rule the rest. . . . . ”
It was called into being, a ready and perfect
vehicle for the incarnating denizens of higher spheres, who took forthwith
their abodes in these forms born of Spiritual WILL and the natural
divine power in man. It was a child
of pure Spirit, mentally unalloyed with any tincture of earthly element. Its physical frame alone was of time and of
life, as it drew its intelligence direct from above. It was the living tree of divine wisdom; and
may therefore be likened to the Mundane Tree of the Norse Legend, which cannot
wither and die until the last battle of life shall be fought, while its roots
are gnawed all the time by the dragon Nidhogg; for even so, the first and holy
Son of Kriyasakti had his body gnawed by the tooth of time, but the roots of
his inner being remained for ever undecaying and strong, because they grew and
expanded in heaven not on earth.
He was the first of the FIRST, and he was the seed of all the others. There were other “Sons of Kriyasakti”
produced by a second Spiritual effort, but the first one has remained to this
day the Seed of divine Knowledge, the One and the Supreme among the terrestrial
“Sons of Wisdom.” Of this subject we can say no more, except to add that
in every age—aye, even in our own—there have been great intellects who have
understood the problem correctly.
How comes our physical body to the state of
perfection it is found in now? Through
millions of years of evolution, of course, yet never through, or from, animals,
as taught by materialism. For, as
Carlyle says:—“. . . The essence of our being, the
mystery in us that calls itself ‘I,’—what words have we for such things?—it is
a breath of Heaven, the highest Being reveals himself in man. This body, these faculties, this life of
ours, is it not all as a vesture for the UNNAMED?”
The breath of heaven, or rather the breath
of life, called in the Bible Nephesh, is in every animal, in every
animate speck as in every mineral atom.
But none of these has, like man, the consciousness of the nature of that
highest Being,* as none has that divine harmony in its form which man possesses. It is, as Novalis said, and no one since has
said it better, as repeated by Carlyle:—
“There is but one temple in the universe, and that
is the body of man. Nothing is
holier than that high form . . . . We touch heaven when we
lay our hand on a human body!” “This sounds like a mere flourish of rhetoric,”
adds Carlyle, “but it is not so.
If well meditated it will turn out to be a scientific fact; the
expression . . . of the actual truth of the thing. We are the miracle of miracles,—the great
inscrutable Mystery.”
[Philippines,
28 April 2012]
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