MYSTERY OF BEING, SPIRIT DESCENDING ON MATTER
Erle Frayne D. Argonza
In this note we will add
our reflections about the mystery of Being as applied to our very own planet
which hopefully enables us to understand ourselves during this present 4th
Evolutionary Round.
At this juncture of the
discussions on Divine Wisdom, we need to refine our comprehension of the
threads that tie the ‘descended spirits’ to the Planetary Spirits or Dhyan Chohans identified as man’s
parents on Earth in the ancient wisdom. To begin with, Sloka 2 of Stanza 7, Book of Dzyan, declared thus:
THE ONE RAY MULTIPLIES THE SMALLER RAYS. LIFE PRECEDES FORM, AND LIFE SURVIVES THE
LAST ATOM (of Form, Sthula-sarira, external body). THROUGH THE COUNTLESS RAYS THE LIFE-RAY,
THE ONE, LIKE A THREAD THROUGH MANY BEADS (pearls) (a).
Helena P.Blavatsky,
noble chela of the Mahatmas of the spiritual Brotherhood, articulated more on
the same sloka, in Volume I, Secret
Doctrine, to note:
(a) This sloka expresses the conception—a
purely Vedantic one, as already explained elsewhere—of a life-thread, Sutratma,
running through successive generations.
How, then, can this be explained?
By resorting to a simile, to a familiar illustration, though necessarily
imperfect, as all our available analogies must be. Before resorting to it, however, I would
ask whether it seems unnatural, least of all “supernatural,” to any one
of us, when we consider that process known as the growth and development of a
fœtus into a healthy baby weighing several pounds—evolves from what? From the segmentation of an infinitesimally
small ovum and a spermatozoon; and afterwards we see that baby develop into a
six-foot man! This refers to the atomic
and physical expansion from the microscopically small into something very large,
from the—to the naked eye—unseen, into the visible and objective. Science has provided for all this; and, I
dare say, her theories, embryological, biological, and physiological, are
correct enough so far as exact observation of the material goes. Nevertheless, the two chief difficulties
of the science of embryology—namely, what are the forces at work in the
formation of the fœtus, and the cause of “hereditary transmission” of
likeness, physical, moral or mental—have never been properly answered; nor will
they ever be solved till the day when scientists condescend to accept the
Occult theories.* But if this physical phenomenon astonishes no one,
except in so far as it puzzles the Embryologists, why should our intellectual
and inner growth, the evolution of the human-spiritual to the Divine-Spiritual,
be regarded as, or seem, more impossible than the other? Now to the simile.
Complete the physical plasm, mentioned in the last
foot-note, the “Germinal Cell” of man with all its material potentialities, with
the “spiritual plasm,” so to say, or the fluid that contains the five lower
principles of the six-principled Dhyan—and you have the secret, if you are
spiritual enough to understand it.
“When the seed of the animal man is cast into the
soil of the animal woman, that seed cannot germinate unless it has been
fructified by the five virtues (the fluid of, or the emanation from the
principles) of the six-fold Heavenly man.
Wherefore the Microcosm is represented as a Pentagon, within the
Hexagon Star, the “Macrocosm.” (“U<2DTB@l,” a work on Occult Embryology, Book I.). Then:
“The functions of Jiva on this Earth are of a five-fold
character. In the mineral atom it
is connected with the lowest principles of the Spirits of the Earth (the
six-fold Dhyanis); in the vegetable particle, with their second—the Prana
(life); in the animal, with all these plus the third and the fourth; in man,
the germ must receive the fruition of all the five. Otherwise he will be born no higher than
an animal”; namely, a congenital idiot.
Thus in man alone the Jiva is complete. As to his seventh principle, it is but
one of the Beams of the Universal Sun.
Each rational creature receives only the temporary loan of that
which has to return to its source; while his physical body is shaped by the
lowest terrestrial lives, through physical, chemical, and physiological
evolution. “The Blessed Ones have
nought to do with the purgations of matter.” (Kabala, Chaldean Book of
Numbers).
It comes to this: Mankind in its first prototypal, shadowy
form, is the offspring of the Elohim of Life (or Pitris); in its qualitative
and physical aspect it is the direct progeny of the “Ancestors,” the lowest
Dhyanis, or Spirits of the Earth; for its moral, psychic, and spiritual nature,
it is indebted to a group of divine Beings, the name and characteristics of
which will be given in Book II.
Collectively, men are the handiwork of hosts of various spirits;
distributively, the tabernacles of those hosts; and occasionally and singly,
the vehicles of some of them. In
our present all-material Fifth Race, the earthly Spirit of the Fourth is still
strong in us; but we are approaching the time when the pendulum of evolution
will direct its swing decidedly upwards, bringing Humanity back on a parallel
line with the primitive third Root-Race in Spirituality. During its childhood, mankind was
composed wholly of that Angelic Host, who were the indwelling Spirits that
animated the monstrous and gigantic tabernacles of clay of the Fourth
Race—built by (as they are now also) and composed of countless myriads of lives.*
This sentence will be explained later on in the present Commentary. The “tabernacles” have improved in
texture and symmetry of form, growing and developing with the globe that bore
them; but the physical improvement took place at the expense of the spiritual
inner man and nature. The three
middle principles in earth and man became with every race more material; the
Soul stepping back to make room for the physical intellect; the essence of
elements becoming the material and composite elements now known.
Man is not, nor could he ever be, the complete product of the “Lord
God”; but he is the child of the Elohim, so arbitrarily changed
into the singular masculine gender. The
first Dhyanis, commissioned to “create” man in their image, could only throw
off their shadows, like a delicate model for the Nature Spirits of matter to
work upon. (See Book II.)
Man is, beyond any doubt, formed physically out of the dust of the Earth, but
his creators and fashioners were many.
Nor can it be said that the “Lord God breathed into his nostrils the
breath of life,” unless that God is identified with the “ONE LIFE,” Omnipresent
though invisible, and unless the same operation is attributed to “God” on
behalf of every living Soul—or Nephesch, which is the vital
Soul, not the divine Spirit or Ruach, which ensures to man alone a
divine degree of immortality, that no animal, as such, could ever attain in
this cycle of incarnation. It is
the inadequate distinctions made by the Jews, and now by our Western
metaphysicians, who, not knowing of, and being unable to understand, hence to
accept, more than a triune man—Spirit, Soul, Body—thus confuse the “breath of
life” with immortal Spirit.* This
applies also directly to the Protestant theologians, who, in translating verse
8 of Ch. III. in the Fourth Gospel, have entirely perverted the
meaning. Indeed the verse is made
to say “The wind bloweth where it listeth,” instead of “the Spirit
goeth where it willeth,” as in the original and also in the translation of the
Greek Eastern Church.
Thus the philosophy of psychic, spiritual, and
mental relations with man’s physical functions is in almost inextricable
confusion. Neither the old Aryan,
nor the Egyptian psychology are now properly understood. Nor can they be assimilated without
accepting the esoteric septenary, or, at any rate, the Vedantic quinquepartite
division of the human inner principles.
Failing which, it will be for ever impossible to understand the
metaphysical and purely psychic and even physiological relations between the
Dhyan-Chohans, or Angels, on the one plane, and humanity on the other. No Eastern (Aryan) esoteric works are so
far published, but we possess the Egyptian papyri which speak clearly of the
seven principles or the “Seven Souls of Man.”* The Book of the Dead
gives a complete list of the “transformations” that every defunct undergoes,
while divesting himself, one by one, of all those principles—materialised for
the sake of clearness into ethereal entities or bodies. We must, moreover, remind those who try
to prove that the ancient Egyptians knew nothing of and did not teach
Reincarnation, that the “Soul” (the Ego or Self ) of the defunct
is said to be living in Eternity: it
is immortal, “co-eval with, and disappearing with the Solar boat,” i.e.,
for the cycle of necessity. This
“Soul” emerges from the Tiaou (the realm of the cause of life)
and joins the living on Earth by day, to return to Tiaou every
night. This expresses the
periodical existences of the Ego. (Book
of the Dead, cvxliii.)
The shadow, the astral form, is annihilated,
“devoured by the Uræus” (cxlix., 51), the Manes will be
annihilated; the two twins (the 4th and 5th principles) will be scattered; but
the Soul-bird, “the divine Swallow—and the Uræus of Flame” (Manas and
Atma-Buddhi) will live in the eternity, for they are their mother’s husbands.†
Like alone produces like. The Earth gives Man his body, the gods
(Dhyanis) his five inner principles, the psychic Shadow, of which those gods
are often the animating principle. SPIRIT
(Atman) is one—and indiscrete. It
is not in the Tiaou.
For what is the Tiaou? The frequent allusion to it in the “Book of
the Dead” contains a mystery. Tiaou
is the path of the Night Sun, the inferior hemisphere, or the infernal region
of the Egyptians, placed by them on the concealed side of the moon. The human being, in their esotericism,
came out from the moon (a triple mystery—astronomical, physiological, and
psychical at once); he crossed the whole cycle of existence and then returned
to his birth-place before issuing from it again. Thus the defunct is shown arriving in the
West, receiving his judgment before Osiris, resurrecting as the god Horus, and
circling round the sidereal heavens, which is an allegorical assimilation to
Ra, the Sun; then having crossed the Noot (the celestial abyss),
returning once more to Tiaou: an
assimilation to Osiris, who, as the God of life and reproduction, inhabits the
moon. Plutarch (Isis and Osiris,
ch. xliii.) shows the Egyptians celebrating a festival called
“The Ingress of Osiris into the moon.” In chapter xli. life is
promised after death; and the renovation of life is placed under the patronage
of Osiris-Lunus, because the moon was the symbol of life-renewals or
reincarnations, owing to its growth, waning, dying, and reappearance every
month. In the Dankmoe, (iv.
5) it is said:—“Oh, Osiris-Lunus! That renews to thee thy renewal.”
And Safekh says to Seti I.
(Mariette’s Abydos,
plate 51), “Thou renewest thyself as the god Lunus when a babe.” It is
still better explained in a Louvre papyrus (P. Pierret, “Etudes
Egyptologiques”): “Couplings and
conceptions abound when he (Osiris-Lunus) is seen in heaven on that day.”
Says Osiris: “Oh, sole radiant
beam of the moon! I issue from the
circulating multitudes (of stars) . . . . . Open me the Tiaou, for
Osiris N. I will issue by day to do what I have to do amongst the
living” (“Book of the Dead,” ch. ii.),—i.e.,
to produce conceptions.
Osiris was “God manifest in generation,” because the
ancients knew, far better than the moderns, the real occult influences of the
lunar body upon the mysteries of conception.* Later on, when the moon
became connected with female goddesses†—with Diana, Isis, Artemis, Juno, etc.,
that connection was due to a thorough knowledge of physiology and female
nature, physical as much as psychic. But,
primarily, the Sun and Moon were the only visible and, so to say, tangible
[by their effects] psychic and physiological deities—the Father and the Son,
while Space and air in general, or that expanse of Heaven called Noot by the
Egyptians, was the concealed Spirit or Breath of the two. These “Father and Son” were
interchangeable in their functions and worked harmoniously together in their
effects upon terrestrial nature and humanity; hence they were regarded as ONE,
though TWO in personified Entities. They
were both males, and both had their distinct and also collaborative work in the
causative generation of Humanity. So
much from the astronomical and cosmic standpoints viewed and expressed in
symbolical language—which became in our last races theological and dogmatic. But behind this veil of Cosmic and
Astrological symbols, there were the Occult mysteries of Anthropography and the
primeval genesis of man. And in
this, no knowledge of symbols—or even the key to the post-diluvian
symbolical language of the Jews—will, or can help, save only with reference to
that which was laid down in national scriptures for exoteric uses; the sum of
which, however cleverly veiled, was only the smallest portion of the real
primitive history of each people, often relating, moreover,—as in the Hebrew
Scriptures—merely to the terrestrial human, not divine life of that nation. That psychic and spiritual element
belonged to MYSTERY and INITIATION. There
were things never recorded in scrolls, but, as in Central
Asia, on rocks and in subterranean crypts.
Nevertheless, there was a time when the whole world
was “of one lip and of one knowledge,” and Man knew more of his origin than he
does now, and thus knew that the Sun and Moon, however large a part they do
play in the constitution, growth and development of the human body, were not
the direct causative agents of his appearance on Earth; these agents being, in
truth, the living and intelligent Powers which the Occultists call Dhyan
Chohans.
As to this, a very learned admirer of the Jewish
Esotericism tells us that “the Kabala says expressly that Elohim is a ‘general
abstraction’; what we call in mathematics ‘a constant co-efficient’ or a
‘general function entering into all construction, not particular; that is, by
the general ratio 1 to 31415, (the astro-Dhyanic and) Elohistic figures.”
To this the Eastern Occultist replies:
Quite so, it is an abstraction to our physical senses. To our spiritual perceptions, however,
and to our inner spiritual eye, the Elohim or Dhyanis are no more an
abstraction than our soul and spirit are to us. Reject the one and you reject the
other—since that which is the surviving Entity in us is partly the
direct emanation from, and partly those celestial Entities themselves. One thing is sure; the Jews were
perfectly acquainted with sorcery and various maleficent forces; but, with the
exception of some of their great prophets and seers like Daniel and Ezekiel
(Enoch belonging to a far distant race and not to any nation but to all, as a
generic character), they knew little of, nor would they deal with, the real
divine Occultism, their national character being averse to anything which had
no direct bearing upon their own ethnical, tribal, and individual
benefits—witness their own prophets, and the curses thundered by them against
the “stiff-necked race.” But even the Kabala plainly shows the direct
relation between the Sephiroth, or Elohim, and men.
Therefore, when it is proved to us that the
Kabalistic identification of Jehovah with Binah, a female Sephiroth, has still
another, a sub-occult meaning in it, then and then only the Occultist will be
ready to pass the palm of perfection to the Kabalist. Until then, it is asserted that, as
Jehovah is in the abstract sense of a “one living God,” a single number, a
metaphysical figment, and a reality only when put in his proper place as an
emanation and a Sephiroth—we have a right to maintain that the Zohar (as
witnessed by the BOOK OF NUMBERS, at any rate), gave out originally, before the
Christian Kabalists had disfigured it, and still gives out the same doctrine
that we do; i.e., it makes Man emanate, not from one
Celestial MAN, but from a Septenary group of Celestial men or Angels, just as
in “Pymander, the Thought Divine.”
[Philippines, 04
May 2012]
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