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Wednesday, November 9, 2011

SEVEN ETERNITIES, KALPA, MANVANTARA

SEVEN ETERNITIES, KALPA, MANVANTARA

Erle Frayne D. Argonza

For this note, let me share to you the notion of eons coming from the East, a notion that is well rooted in Theos Sophia or divine wisdom. Western cultures that tend to be so materialistic have only but feeble notions about the ‘age’ of Kosmos, based on the time-space principles of 3-dimensional sciences and philosophy.

The great cycle of evolution of being (subjectivity) and forms (objectivity), of the conditions for further effectuations of precedent cause, is termed as ‘Maha-Kalpa’ in the East, alternately termed as ‘maha-manvantara’ (I wrote about the subject previously). Whether ‘eternity’ indeed prevails, as understood in the West, is something worth reflecting about, as divine wisdom speaks differently of the flow of sequential events.

Says the Secret Doctrine about the ‘seven eternities’:

(a) By the Seven “Eternities,” æons or periods are meant. The word “Eternity,” as understood in Christian theology, has no meaning to the Asiatic ear, except in its application to the ONE existence; nor is the term sempiternity, the eternal only in futurity, anything better than a misnomer.* Such words do not and cannot exist in philosophical metaphysics, and were unknown till the advent of ecclesiastical Christianity. The Seven Eternities meant are the seven periods, or a period answering in its duration to the seven periods, of a Manvantara, and extending throughout a Maha-Kalpa or the “Great Age”—100 years of Brahmâ—making a total of 311,040,000,000,000 of years; each year of Brahmâ being composed of 360 “days,” and of the same number of “nights” of Brahmâ (reckoning by the Chandrayana or lunar year); and a “Day of Brahmâ” consisting of 4,320,000,000 of mortal years. These “Eternities” belong to the most secret calculations, in which, in order to arrive at the true total, every figure must be 7x (7 to the power of x); x varying according to the nature of the cycle in the subjective or real world; and every figure or number relating to, or representing all the different cycles from the greatest to the smallest—in the objective or unreal world—must necessarily be multiples of seven. The key to this cannot be given, for herein lies the mystery of esoteric calculations, and for the purposes of ordinary calculation it has no sense. “The number seven,” says the Kabala, “is the great number of the Divine Mysteries;” number ten is that of all human knowledge (Pythagorean decade); 1,000 is the number ten to the third power, and therefore the number 7,000 is also symbolical. In the Secret Doctrine the figure and number 4 are the male symbol only on the highest plane of abstraction; on the plane of matter the 3 is the masculine and the 4 the female: the upright and the horizontal in the fourth stage of symbolism, when the symbols became the glyphs of the generative powers on the physical plane. [Secret Doctrine, Vol. I]

Within the skein of time, our civilizations and histories on the physical plane are too infinitesimal when circumscribed within the larger background of the ‘7 eternities’. By releasing the same knowledge to the public at large, the seekers are provided the core knowledge with which to reflect on their own chances of merger with the One Universal Principle in due time.

Our geologists are incidentally knowledgeable about the age of Earth or Terra, which is over 4 billion years old. That contention coincides with the estimates of spiritual masters from the East, an estimate that is based on ancient wisdom passed on as Theos Sophia by the spiritual Hierarchy.

As the mahatmas have explicated, too many souls won’t be able to make it in time during the pralaya phase of our own great cycle. Too many souls will perish by the wayside, dissolved in the process, for souls aren’t exactly imperishable. Only the Monad is imperishable, which when fully activated due to enormous efforts of the Aspirant across the eons, will be re-integrated back to ‘Godhead’ or the One Universal Principle.

[Philippines, 27 October 2011]

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Sunday, November 6, 2011

PARENT SPACE AS PER DIVINE WISDOM

PARENT SPACE AS PER DIVINE WISDOM

Erle Frayne D. Argonza / Ra

Let us reflect on some key bits of knowledge about Cosmogenesis. The entire Volume I of Secret Doctrine, the body of spiritual knowledge / divine wisdom passed on by the Mahatmas of the Great White Brotherhood unto us, summarized the ‘parent space’ in the following statement:

The “Parent Space” is the eternal, ever present cause of all—the incomprehensible DEITY, whose “invisible robes” are the mystic root of all matter, and of the Universe. Space is the one eternal thing that we can most easily imagine, immovable in its abstraction and uninfluenced by either the presence or absence in it of an objective Universe. It is without dimension, in every sense, and self-existent. Spirit is the first differentiation from THAT, the causeless cause of both Spirit and Matter. It is, as taught in the esoteric catechism, neither limitless void, nor conditioned fullness, but both. It was and ever will be. (See Proem pp. 2 et seq.) Thus, the “Robes” stand for the noumenon of undifferentiated Cosmic Matter. It is not matter as we know it, but the spiritual essence of matter, and is co-eternal and even one with Space in its abstract sense. Root-nature is also the source of the subtile invisible properties in visible matter. It is the Soul, so to say, of the ONE infinite Spirit. The Hindus call it Mulaprakriti, and say that it is the primordial substance, which is the basis of the Upadhi or vehicle of every phenomenon, whether physical, mental or psychic. It is the source from which Akâsa radiates. [Secret Doctrine, Vol. I]

As divine wisdom says, the only true and sanguine original ‘space’ is no other than the Supreme Deity that we are aware of, yet incomprehensible to our limited, finite mind. It goes under many names. It is the Prima Causa of our ancient metaphysics, Almighty Father of Christianity, the Spirit-Force from which all consequent life-forms came from.

I still recall that famous line in the film series Star Wars: “may the Force be with you.” That is one of the articulations in post-modernity that comes closest to the same Spirit-Force in a non-dimensional ‘space’. Call it the ‘root-space’, it is the source of our being.

[Philippines, 24 October 2011]

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Thursday, November 3, 2011

OMNIPRESENCE, BRAHMA

OMNIPRESENCE, BRAHMA

Erle Frayne D. Argonza

As already articulated in earlier articles, Brahma is the deity of the physical universe. Brahma is understood differently as one crosses the divide between exoteric spirituality (religious Hinduism) and esoteric or occult knowledge, the latter now in synthesized form as Theos Sophia or divine wisdom.

Origin-wise, of the name Brahma resonates much with the term Brahm which in folk knowledge refers to priesthood. For the original sources of the terms Brahma and Brahm, let us reflect on this footnote in the Vol. I of Secret Doctrine:

* The very names of the two chief deities, Brahmâ and Vishnu, ought to have long ago suggested their esoteric meanings. For the root of one, Brahmam, or Brahm, is derived by some from the word Brih, “to grow” or “to expand” (see Calcutta Review, vol. lxvi., p. 14); and of the other, Vishnu, from the root Vis, “to pervade,” to enter in the nature of the essence; Brahmâ-Vishnu being this infinite SPACE, of which the gods, the Rishis, the Manus, and all in this universe are simply the potencies, Vibhutayah. …” for Brahma (neuter), the unmanifested, is that Universe in abscondito, and Brahmâ, the manifested, is the Logos, made male-female* in the symbolical orthodox dogmas. The God of the Apostle-Initiate and of the Rishi being both the Unseen and the Visible SPACE. Space is called in the esoteric symbolism “the Seven-Skinned Eternal Mother-Father.” It is composed from its undifferentiated to its differentiated surface of seven layers.

Is it possible for Brahma to “disappear” at the end of a ‘Day & Night of Brahma’? or after a very long Maha-Kalpa? Below is an excerpt from Vol I/Cosmogenesis of the Secret Doctrine, that explicates the matter:

The Occultists are, therefore, at one with the Adwaita Vedantin philosophers as to the above tenet. They show the impossibility of accepting on philosophical grounds the idea of the absolute ALL creating or even evolving the “Golden Egg,” into which it is said to enter in order to transform itself into Brahmâ—the Creator, who expands himself later into gods and all the visible Universe. They say that Absolute Unity cannot pass to infinity; for infinity presupposes the limitless extension of something, and the duration of that “something;” and the One All is like Space—which is its only mental and physical representation on this Earth, or our plane of existence—neither an object of, nor a subject to, perception. If one could suppose the Eternal Infinite All, the Omnipresent Unity, instead of being in Eternity, becoming through periodical manifestation a manifold Universe or a multiple personality, that Unity would cease to be one. Locke’s idea that “pure Space is capable of neither resistance nor Motion”—is incorrect. Space is neither a “limitless void,” nor a “conditioned fulness,” but both: being, on the plane of absolute abstraction, the ever-incognisable Deity, which is void only to finite minds,* and on that of mayavic perception, the Plenum, the absolute Container of all that is, whether manifested or unmanifested: it is, therefore, that ABSOLUTE ALL. There is no difference between the Christian Apostle’s “In Him we live and move and have our being,” and the Hindu Rishi’s “The Universe lives in, proceeds from, and will return to, Brahma (Brahmâ):” for Brahma (neuter), the unmanifested, is that Universe in abscondito, and Brahmâ, the manifested, is the Logos, made male-female* in the symbolical orthodox dogmas. The God of the Apostle-Initiate and of the Rishi being both the Unseen and the Visible SPACE. Space is called in the esoteric symbolism “the Seven-Skinned Eternal Mother-Father.” It is composed from its undifferentiated to its differentiated surface of seven layers.

[Philippines, 21 October 2011]

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Tuesday, November 1, 2011

SUPREME BEING: OMNIPRESENT, OMNISCIENT, OMNIPOTENT

SUPREME BEING: OMNIPRESENT, OMNISCIENT, OMNIPOTENT

Erle Frayne D. Argonza

In this note I will share to you some more precepts and cogitations about the ‘supreme Deity’ culled straight from the pages of The Secret Doctrine, the 2-volume monumental work that was the first synthesis of science, philosophy, and spiritual discourse, of both East and West, the foundation of Theos Sophia or divine wisdom.

To re-echo the fact, it was the Mahatmas of the Great White Brotherhood, with the greatest contributions by Mahatma KH (Kooth Hoomi Lal Singh, who had ascended as Chohan Kuthumi) and Mahatma Morya (El Morya Khan, who already ascended to Chohan), of the core spiritual knowledge passed on to their chelas. The said Mahatmas, to note, were still in physical embodiment when they conducted the collaborative works with Blavatsky & company.

The One Universal Principle—Omniscient, Omnipresent, Omnipotent—is popularly known to you as God, or Supreme Being, or Almighty Providence. Below is the excerpt from the Vol. 1/Cosmogony of the Secret Doctrine.

It is the ONE LIFE, eternal, invisible, yet Omnipresent, without beginning or end, yet periodical in its regular manifestations, between which periods reigns the dark mystery of non-Being; unconscious, yet absolute Consciousness; unrealisable, yet the one self-existing reality; truly, “a chaos to the sense, a Kosmos to the reason. “Its one absolute attribute, which is ITSELF, eternal, ceaseless Motion, is called in esoteric parlance the “Great Breath,”* which is the perpetual motion of the universe, in the sense of limitless, ever-present SPACE. That which is motionless cannot be Divine. But then there is nothing in fact and reality absolutely motionless within the universal soul.

Almost five centuries B.C. Leucippus, the instructor of Democritus, maintained that Space was filled eternally with atoms actuated by a ceaseless motion, the latter generating in due course of time, when those atoms aggregated, rotatory motion, through mutual collisions producing lateral movements. Epicurus and Lucretius taught the same, only adding to the lateral motion of the atoms the idea of affinity—an occult teaching.

From the beginning of man’s inheritance, from the first appearance of the architects of the globe he lives in, the unrevealed Deity was recognised and considered under its only philosophical aspect—universal motion, the thrill of the creative Breath in Nature. Occultism sums up the “One Existence” thus: “Deity is an arcane, living (or moving) FIRE, and the eternal witnesses to this unseen Presence are Light, Heat, Moisture,”—this trinity including, and being the cause of, every phenomenon in Nature.* Intra-Cosmic motion is eternal and ceaseless; cosmic motion (the visible, or that which is subject to perception) is finite and periodical. As an eternal abstraction it is the EVER-PRESENT; as a manifestation, it is finite both in the coming direction and the opposite, the two being the alpha and omega of successive reconstructions. Kosmos—the NOUMENON—has nought to do with the causal relations of the phenomenal World. It is only with reference to the intra-cosmic soul, the ideal Kosmos in the immutable Divine Thought, that we may say: “It never had a beginning nor will it have an end.” With regard to its body or Cosmic organization, though it cannot be said that it had a first, or will ever have a last construction, yet at each new Manvantara, its organization may be regarded as the first and the last of its kind, as it evolutes every time on a higher plane . . . .

A few years ago only, it was stated that:—

“The esoteric doctrine teaches, like Buddhism and Brahminism, and even the Kabala, that the one infinite and unknown Essence exists from all eternity, and in regular and harmonious successions is either passive or active. In the poetical phraseology of Manu these conditions are called the “Days” and the “Nights” of Brahmâ. The latter is either “awake” or “asleep.” The Svabhâvikas, or philosophers of the oldest school of Buddhism (which still exists in Nepaul), speculate only upon the active condition of this “Essence,” which they call Svâbhâvat, and deem it foolish to theorise upon the abstract and “unknowable” power in its passive condition. Hence they are called atheists by both Christian theologians and modern scientists, for neither of the two are able to understand the profound logic of their philosophy. The former will allow of no other God than the personified secondary powers which have worked out the visible universe, and which became with them the anthropomorphic God of the Christians—the male Jehovah, roaring amid thunder and lightning. In its turn, rationalistic science greets the Buddhists and the Svabhâvikas as the “positivists” of the archaic ages. If we take a one-sided view of the philosophy of the latter, our materialists may be right in their own way. The Buddhists maintained that there is no Creator, but an infinitude of creative powers, which collectively form the one eternal substance, the essence of which is inscrutable—hence not a subject for speculation for any true philosopher. Socrates invariably refused to argue upon the mystery of universal being, yet no one would ever have thought of charging him with atheism, except those who were bent upon his destruction. Upon inaugurating an active period, says the Secret Doctrine, an expansion of this Divine essence from without inwardly and from within outwardly, occurs In obedience to eternal and immutable law, and the phenomenal or visible universe is the ultimate result of the long chain of cosmical forces thus progressively set in motion. In like manner, when the passive condition is resumed, a contraction of the Divine essence takes place, and the previous work of creation is gradually and progressively undone. The visible universe becomes disintegrated, its material dispersed; and ‘darkness’ solitary and alone, broods once more over the face of the ‘deep.’ To use a Metaphor from the Secret Books, which will convey the idea still more clearly, an out-breathing of the ‘unknown essence’ produces the world; and an inhalation causes it to disappear. This process has been going on from all eternity, and our present universe is but one of an infinite series, which had no beginning and will have no end.”—(See “Isis Unveiled;” also “The Days and Nights of Brahmâ” in Part II.)

[Philippines, 18 October 2011]

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Saturday, October 29, 2011

LAW OF EVOLUTION

LAW OF EVOLUTION

Erle Frayne D. Argonza

From the Pearl of the Orient goes the greetings of love & liberation!

The last cosmic law that I will articulate on is the Law of Evolution. I already discussed evolution in past articles, so this piece will be a sort of a resume of all the said discourses.

As the mahatmas of the spiritual Brotherhood have elucidated to their mystic chelas, man (from manu or thinking being) was first made via projections from the One Universal Principle, in the highest dimension or plane. Then, step by step, the oversouls of man were to project God sparks down on the 5^th plane, and downwards yet to the 4^th and so on.

Till finally, during the 4^th Evolutionary Round, to which we are still properly situated, it was time to evolve man on the surface. The first root races thus appeared on the human canvass, and onwards till today, whence the 5^th ‘root-race’ called Aryan is almost on the terminal phase of its mandated incumbency.

Two more sub-races of the Aryans will appear on the historical canvass. After which the next two (2) root-races will appear, each root-race to manifest in seven (7) sub-races. The last two (2) root-races will be the last ones for the 4^th Evolutionary Round or the devic-man phase of evolution.

To encapsulate the law, let me quote Guru Felix Fojas, my initiating guru in the Great White Lodge, in the manual of mysticism workshop he prepared for my batch of Initiates (1994), to wit:

Law of Evolution – Everything in the universe evolves physically as well as spiritually. The ultimate goal of evolution is spiritual perfection. There is also the Law of Involution and the Law of Devolution. [End of quote]

What has been explicated by the mahatmas was that man evolves simultaneously in the spiritual, mental, and physical domains. Man was first very highly spiritual and very effulgent a being, but mentally feeble and materially undeveloped. In order to evolve, man has to move down to the astral, etheric, and finally the physical realms.

Man has to be physically perfected and then mentally developed prior to the ascent back to the higher domains. That is the rationale for man’s descent to the physical plane, face risking the disconnection from the higher spheres, and expand on the development of the mental faculties to enable a greater capacity for absorption of knowledge and wisdom.

As to the ultimate goal of perfection, let me re-echo past articulations on the matter. Self-realization—activation of the Soul or higher Self so that it will govern the lower self or psyche—is just but the beginning of a long process yet of spiritual awakening. One becomes a spiritual master upon soul awakening or moksha, is enabled to tap higher wisdom directly, yet isn’t spiritually perfected yet.

The realized Self qualifies one to end the cycles of rebirth, so that later re-births will be more a matter of volunteer decision as a way to enact the liberated person’s mission. Upon becoming a master, one must strive further till perfection is achieved, where 100% balance and harmony is attained and grasp of spiritual knowledge is full and complete. The person thus becomes a mahatma or ‘great soul’.

As one gets perfected, there are still spaces for continuous evolution. From being mahatma, one can evolve to a chohan. From that phase onwards, the liberated master can evolve to a Dhyan Chohan, which enables the Perfected One to qualify to be re-integrated to the Supreme Being and yet permitting the authentic identity to remain intact, at the end of the dissolution (pralaya) phase of the manvantara (great cycle of out-breath and in-breath of the Supreme Being).

Upon the start of the next manvantara, the Perfected One can be re-awakened, being then evolved into a Deity who is mandated to co-govern a realm. The Archangels and Archaias (female archangels), or Dhyani–Buddhas, are among the great souls who attained perfection during the previous manvantara yet. And so are all the deities we know today.

[Philippines, 15 October 2011]

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Wednesday, October 26, 2011

LAW OF REINCARNATION

LAW OF REINCARNATION

Erle Frayne D. Argonza

Kapayapaan at pagmamahal! Love and peace!

This White Robe and servant of the spiritual Hierarchy had already discoursed on reincarnation in diverse articles. Let me share additional notes on the subject in consonance with the articulations on the cosmic laws.

To begin the reflection, let me quote from Guru Felix Fojas, my Initiating Guru in the spiritual Brotherhood, in the manual of mysticism workshop he prepared for us, to note: “Law of Reincarnation – Every spirit-entity regularly incarnate into bodies of flesh to be able to operate in the physical world and learn earthly lessons as well as perform a spiritual task.”

Upon greater elaboration on the subject by the mahatmas of the Brotherhood, the chelas immediately meditated and did research on it. There was, for instance, the repetitive reminder about a group of divine beings that dispense with karma—the Karmic Board—that then becomes the basis for deciding on when and what contextual arrangements will the incarnating ego embody.

HP Blavatsky, Rev. Leadbeater, and Annie Besant, among the foundational leaders of the Theosophical Society, wrote voluminously about karma and reincarnation, the two metaphysical or cosmic laws that go hand in hand. A book was devoted to a particular person alone, tracing back the person’s lives in the past and treating each life as one book chapter, to substantiate the law.

The mystical chelas of the masters clarified that reincarnation takes place every 3,000 years on the average. This is particularly true for the mass of evolutionary laggards, who keep on coming back to learn the same sets of lessons that they failed to learn in their previous embodiments.

The exceptions are the evolved souls, who are returned to the physical plane pronto in order to help humanity to evolve on both personal and collective levels. They are the exemplars of productive behavior for the laggards. They are also the ones who introduce breakthroughs in the arts, science & technology, and philosophy that become powerful motors for social change and for elevating the collective consciousness.

Earth is indubitably a school of life, a hub where different soul types and variegated awareness levels are sent forth to learn lessons and grow in awareness. It is akin to the term ‘social laboratory’ that is used in development language, though its purposes go further than the social.

Due to the sterling behavior of Earth herself, the planet will also evolve in due time. She has become an exemplar for other physical plane planets or ‘3^rd dimensional’, and so Earth will ascend soon as a reaping of good karma for her feats. In the very long term, Earth or Terra will continue to move up the ladder of liberation, until she will become a Sun, thus privileged to support many planets with her light and love.

[Philippines, 12 October 2011]

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Sunday, October 23, 2011

LAW OF LOVE

LAW OF LOVE

Erle Frayne D. Argonza / Ra

Magandang araw! Good day!

Before we forget the greatest cementing force ever, let us iterate the law right away: Law of Love. Coherent with the articulations on the cosmic laws, I will focus on the Law of Love for this note.

“All we need is Love, all we need is Love, all we need is Love Love, Love is all we need!” says the very popular song by the Beatles. Love operates at many levels, we grow up to learn to love and feel the love of others toward us. Yet in the world we live in, there is so much superficiality about love.

It is the driving motive for the One Universal Principle—God of our daily living—to produce beings of all kinds and the objective worlds that can nurture the said beings’ needs. As the Guru Felix Fojas summarized the said law, in his manual on mysticism offered to my batch of mystics (1994), to wit: Love is the greatest force in the universe. God created the universe out of love.

All the beings, from mineral to sentient, were endowed with capacities for love. As the different beings evolve, they will also grow in love, grow in each one’s capacity to love, till the most evolved ones become perfected, by which the capacity for loving is endless compassion.

Losing the capacity to love, engaging in manipulative pursuits that enchain others, destructive in every way that the being bars others from moving up in the evolutionary path, doesn’t bode well with the Supreme Being. Like any father who will be saddened by the distancing and wayward behavior of an offspring, the Supreme Being’s infinite love works so strongly so as to give this being the space to come back.

True love is a liberating force, while false love tends to bind and enslave. True love is self-less and boundless, false love is selfish and narrow.

It is love that fuels devotion or bhakti, a theme or divine ray that I already articulated in other articles. Bhakti is centered in the heart chakra, and bhakti can propel an Aspirant to be liberated or attain Self-realization along very steep climb. That’s how wonderful bhakti is, that the granting of divine grace by the Supreme Being is willingly done to the most enthused practicing bhaktha.

Being so all-powerful, I even went to opine that the Rule of Love should govern the economic life of humanity. Today’s Rule of Reason has become suspect, as reason is being used to advance the selfish interests of very greedy elites. Transcendent a force, love is more potent than reason to guide action and decisions in the economic domain, as I said in past articles on economics.

Corrupted reason makes persons very dangerous, and reason itself is on the plates of agenda for reform. Spiritualized reason, reason immersed in love, is true reason, and so love and reason could be the behavior guides for the future worlds in a new global context or New Earth.

[Philippines, 08 October 2011]

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