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CONTENTS
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INTRODUCTION .....
VII
THE AQUARIAN RAYS
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THE BUDDHIC WAVE ....
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THE FORTY-NINE FIRES
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SATAN ......
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THE SECRET ORANGE PLANET
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THE LIFE VEHICLES ....
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THE ORIGIN AND MANIFESTATION OF MIND
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MEMORY .....
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TIME AND ETERNITY . . .
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THE SECRET OF KARMA
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THE OLD ORDER AND THE NEW .
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POLARITY .....
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THRONES .....
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THE BASIC PHYSICAL ....
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THE SECRET IN PRANA
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BAPTISM .....
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MATERIAL RICHES . . .
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TO THE WOULD-BE-PUPIL OF THE MASTERS
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THE EARTH CHAIN
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RESURRECTION .....
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THE NEW BIRTH . . .
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THE FOUNDATION ATOMS
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A MYSTERY OF RE-EMBODIMENT .
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THE RAISING OF THE DEAD .
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THE PLACE OF HIS APPEARING .
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THE AVATAR .....
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THE NEW AGE ....
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CHRISTIAN ROSENKRANZ
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THE TASK OF EMBODIED AND OF DISEMBODIED
MIND .....
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SOME ASPECTS OF POSTHUMOUS LIFE
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THE MESSAGE OF A BUDDHIC MASTER .
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THE EGOLESS BEING ....
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SPIRIT GUIDES ....
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PSYCHIC VISION ....
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THE POSTHUMOUS VIEWPOINT
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THE EIGHTH SPHERE ....
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HEART CENTERS ....
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THE GREAT BREATH ....
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THE MASTER HILARION
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ARMAGEDDON .....
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ELECTRICAL ENERGY
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THE DAYS OF THE LORD
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JUDAS .....
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SWEDENBORG AND THE ANCIENT WISDOM .
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THE UNKNOWABLE SUPREME
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AVITCHI ......
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LEVITATION .....
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ISHVARA ......
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IN CONCLUSION ....
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INTRODUCTION
IN submitting this third volume of the series begun with "Special Teachings from the Arcane Science," the author is aware that the times are not yet ready for much of its contents. Still the rapidly widening outlook of multitudes encourages the venture, and gives promise that, ere the coming of a great event — one for which in humble way this book is a preparation — certain of its chapters will be accepted, and even assimi- lated, by those whose eyes are toward the New Age now almost with us, and whose hearts are preparing for that large and complete message of which these pages contain only hints and fragments.
Should our explanations leave many matters more or less dark, it is because we ourselves have not yet come into the day, or else that the full light of explanation must await the word of mouth from the World Teacher himself.
From the title of the preceding volume, "The Heart of Things," it might be inferred that in its probings and soundings we thought to reach the central mysteries; but, like the human heart, the heart of things is seven-fold. So, despite our previous attempt, and notwithstanding our present effort, the deepest deep remains unknown.
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Far from subscribing to the theory that matter is but the three-dimensional aspect of spirit, the author holds that both spirit and matter, each in some crude condition, existed as positive and negative before time began, and, because naturally the more active, spirit has progressed enormously, though not necessarily to perfection, during unnumbered seons. On the other hand, matter, that form of electrical energy with which, on this lowly planet, man is most familiar, has reached only the condition now obtaining in our solar system and beyond it.
Furthermore, the author holds that matter shall be refined to a state of permanency as such. No doubt this matter will be quite unlike any sub- stance which man at present has knowledge of, and perhaps its permanence will not be attained until the Universe in toto has evolved to a definite degree, or even to the utmost.
The resurrected body of Jesus was the first recorded hint of the possibilities inherent in mat- ter; but, we contend, that body was only the notable beginning of a condition both of mankind and the World itself, — a condition depicted by the Revelator who saw: "the Holy City, the New Jerusalem, coming down from God out of Heaven.'* To John, this condition was an earthly one wherein "there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain, for the former things are passed away."
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Would that it were our privilege to amplify the few hints touching the possibilities of matter which we have dropped like seeds on the pages of this final volume of our series. Such an explana- tion would indeed be the culmination of the entire teachings. As it is, we cherish the belief that to some more worthy and capable pupil will be given much that for sufficient reasons has been withheld from us.
Yielding to the request of many readers of "Arcane Science" and "The Heart of Things," we have in "The Deeper Mysteries" often affixed the initials of certain Masters to the teachings received from them.
Edward Clarence Farnsworth.
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^ THE AQUARIAN RAYS
IN an article in "The Nineteenth Century and After" for September, 1917, Mr. A. P. Sinnett says: "The superphysical powers of good and evil are now engaged in the fiercest struggle for supremacy that has been waged in the whole history of the Solar System."
This important information, doubtless obtained from those who know, is devoid of details; there- fore let us amplify the brief statement of our dis- tinguished author.
In previous teachings of this series, we have shown our globe-chain to be the only one proper to a physical evolution of which septenary man will become the perfect product. To other worlds, our own is known as the dark star. This because of the unusual obstacles besetting the evolution of a planet destined to be the substantial base of the scheme comprising seven globe chains.
Though in large degree man rises because of his own efforts, yet in a larger he progresses through the lifting power of beings higher and higher in the scale reaching to and even beyond the lofty zodia- cal Hierarchies. With the advent of the Sun in the outskirts of Aquarius, there should descend
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from tKat constellation to our physical earth both a revelation of Truth higher than any before, and an incentive to its assimilation throughout the world.
From the Zodiac to the Solar Logos the lines of force are unimpeded; besides, the Sun is a perfect receiver. But, between the Sun and our physical globe, conditions at present are far different, and for several reasons. To begin with, our physical globe and its humanity are the most imperfect receivers of the zodiacal forces to be found in the globe chains of the septenary series. This fact is as patent to the dark hosts as to those of light and love.
Were it not for the coming Avatar, whose heart is more fit to receive the emanations of Aquarian truth than that of any other being thus far evolved on our planet, these emanations might, outside of certain quarters, prove only of slight benefit. As elsewhere explained, these emanations are in fact a buddhic fire extremely discomforting to the dark hosts who well know that should this fire find lodging, even as sparks, in the hearts of the com- ponents of the incipient sixth sub-race, those sparks will kindle and grow and, eventually, in the next cycle of Aquarius, they will become that flame which will make the sixth root race enduring throughout the remainder of the fourth planetary round.
In this accomplishment we foresee the utter
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demoralization of Earth's depraved hosts, to occur at the great cycle which, ages hence, will usher in the sixth root race. Because our opponents are aware of their immediate danger, and a greater to come, the battle is on ; a matter of life or death to the dark ones who strive, by means of infernal arts, to deflect the unstayable Aquarian Rays, and turn them into the deeps of space.
At the time of the old Atlantean struggle, the enemies of the hosts of light made no effort to deflect the zodiacal forces; but while, since then, the White Lodge has progressed greatly in knowl- edge, experience, and wisdom, the Black Lodge has gained almost equally in fiendish cunning. As result, at the outbreak of the War in Heaven, early in the first decade of the present century, the Black Lodge for the first time began its present methods.
Moreover, this body soon was enabled to enlist to its cause the brutalized kamic hosts of Mars, and those chief est of adepts in all infernal arts, the kama-manasic hosts of Saturn; whereat there sped to the rescue of Earth's imperilled humanity those Lords of the Flame the wielders of the manasic fire of Venus, and also the Manasa Putra, the Sons of Wisdom who direct the supreme buddhic fire of Mercury. Over this mightiest of strivings the Jovian Hierarchy sat seemingly aloof, but really as Judge and final Arbiter.
Thus it is plain that knowledge and strength and
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determination are by no means confined to the enemies of Right, and, as Mr. Sinnett in his article affirms, the outcome is assured. To this let us add that not again in this earth manvantara can such a conflict occur.
Foiled in its attempts to turn the buddhic Rays, the Dark Lodge achieved a minor success in that it was able to inject into the hearts of those whom, in this cycle of World Karma, retribution has left vulnerable to such attack, that malignity which was the mainspring of its efforts against the White. By linking their own Karma to that of these dupes, our opponents doomed them to overthrow. Thus does the wise and good Law sometimes accomplish its object through its sworn enemies.
H.
THE BUDDHIC WAVE
TN the book "The Heart of Things," and in the -■■ chapter "The Coming Avatar," was given, as far as permissible, the esoteric reason for the descent of an Avatar; so let us say briefly that a major Avatar is the vehicle of the principal called Buddhi, the knower of the essential nature of man's every act both in the present life and in former births. Because of the inner unity of all beings, these good or evil acts are, on inner planes, done to oneself. Impressing this fact upon the outward life of every
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incarnate being, Buddhi becomes the vehicle of karmic Law.
In the presence of Buddhi, falsehood unmasks and truth asserts itself. Thus the enmity of the Pharisees toward the Master was open; nor could it be concealed. Judas the hypocrite must reveal himself as the betrayer of his Lord. The faithful disciples must renounce worldly goods and follow the Christ. The hosannas of Palm Sunday soon sounded their true meaning in the cry: "Crucify Him ! " The saying of Jesus : " I came not to bring peace, but a sword," contained nothing of hostility, but rather the truth that, in the light of his presence, secret enmity would become open warfare.
Into the conflicts which, during certain cycles like the present one, occur between the white and the dark hosts of the invisible world, weapons corresponding with the crude ones of human war- fare never enter. Merely by their principle of Buddhi, and its emanations, the white brother- hoods would disconcert the black. These in turn seek some vulnerable part in the lower principles of their opponents, and, because with the white per- fection is by no means universal, the battle often fluctuates even as recently it did. Never since Atlantean times when victory hung long in the balance, but finally turned to the White Brother- hood, never since then have the black multitudes been conquerors. Moreover, never before has
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such warfare been as general as recently it was, and never as then were the white forces so able to cope with their adversaries.
Ever a dispenser of karmic Justice, the Buddhic Wave — that emanation from the heart of Being — is largely a trinity of Atma, Buddhi and Manas; in other words a trinity of spiritual will, pure love, and high intelligence. High intelligence guides the operation of pure love which spiritual will causes to persist. As the revealer of actual con- ditions, the Buddhic Wave, now preceding the descent of the great Avatar, threw to the surface, as the war of nations, the fact that these nations have long been at secret enmity.
In forward and retrograde passage through the twelve signs, the Sun is chief agent of Buddhi in its aspect as Karma to this world. Without the Sun's passage through the signs, Karma would be inoperative here; consequently all evolutionary progress would have been stayed at the outset.
Always the Buddhic Wave descends directly from the Sun to Earth, and, for that matter, to all planets of our system; but for Earth that wave differs in quality and degree according to the signs and the position of the Sun therein as seen by us. As the Sun approaches a sign, the Buddhic Wave begins to take on the characteristics of that sign, and to lose those of the sign in which it already is. During the Sun's forward movement, these rapid changes but little affect the lower principles of
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mankind as a whole; so the resulting Karma is to the individual, and the family, and possibly the community; but, in the retrograde two-thousand- year passage from sign to sign, ample time is allowed for world-wide influence.
Exoteric Astrology assumes that to the human race the influences of the Moon and the planets can at times be as malign as at other times they are helpful; but some little explanation will show the fallacy of this view.
The Buddhic Wave from the Sun to our Earth is seven-fold, or, more strictly, ten-fold; also it is wholly pure. Moreover, a wave of pure energy reaches Earth from each of the planets in the following order: Jupiter, Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Mars, the secret violet planet, Neptune, Uranus, and the outmost or undiscovered planet. Sooner or later the wave from every planet unites with that from the Sun, but, by the repulsion of the sun wave, any impurity emanating from any planet is thrown back upon its birthplace.
The planetary waves are by no means direct; thus the wave from Jupiter, one of pure spiritual will, is drawn to, and unites with the sun wave quite near the Sun itself. The wave from Mer- cury, one of spiritual will and pure love, unites with the sun wave a little below. The wave from Venus is three-fold, high intelligence being the new factor. Its junction with the sun wave occurs at a point somewhat lower. The wave from Saturn
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IS four- fold, purified lower Manas being the new component. Its junction with the sun wave is lower still. The wave from Mars is five-fold, purified Kama being the new component. Its junction is below that of Saturn. The wave from the Violet planet is six-fold, the astral element of purified personal will being the new component. Its junction with the sun wave is the lowest yet. The wave from Neptune is eight-fold; from Uranus nine-fold, and from the outmost planet ten-fold.
As stated in "Special Teachings from the Arcane Science," the eighth, ninth, and tenth planets are not in that system of evolution of which our earth is the base. Having as yet no planetary hier- archies, these slowly progressing planets are in the direct care of the great eighth, ninth, and tenth hierarchies of the Logos. The Buddhic Wave from each of these planets to Earth is really the over-plus of its sun wave; hence the importance of Neptune and Uranus as factors in the molding of human affairs.
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THE FORTY-NINE FIRES
IN the teaching, "The Buddhic Wave," we touched upon the warfare of the white and the dark powers of the invisible world. Also we stated that the weapons used were unlike those of earthly conflict. To understand the nature and effect of these weapons, we should discover the essential nature of desire, that principle which, like will and mind, is a component of an inseparable trinity on our planetary chain, and also on every other from that of Venus downward.
Always in this trinity the middle principle of desire is a fiery one. Not so the other two; but, as in contact with fire, metal is heated, so will above and mind below become fiery. In that reflection of this positive trinity which forms the inverted or negative triad, Kama, or selfish desire, is the fire with Lower Manas above, and the astral personal will below; both fiery through contact.
The basic physical principle is a fiery one through its union with Kama and the Astral. On each of the seven planes of our planetary chain are seven conditions of fire. These differing fires divide the total seven into forty-nine sub-planes or fires. Of the seven fires of the physical plane, Material Science recognizes only the one destructive to gross physical matter; still, as every physical being lives and moves in certain of the seven, it follows
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that a fire to which that being is adapted is not by him recognized as fire, but rather as an agreeable and life-sustaining element.
In the early planetary rounds, our race and the lower forms of life existed without inconvenience in that world-fire which, because long since largely outgrown by the changed and changing physical organisms of every species, is now destructive to them. Man still lives and has pleasure in certain aspects of physical fire which, before wholly out- grown, will to his backward look seem harmful. Moreover, perhaps to his physical body of the far future they will have become deadly as fire can well be.
Certain aspects of astral and kamic fire are below normal man, but, at death, depraved men gravitate to these olden fires once comparatively pure and even agreeable to our entire humanity, though long since polluted by the presence of the outcasts of the race. To Swedenborg, these divisions of the astral plane were hells, the habitation of devils.
The mind body of man has risen above certain fires of the lower manasic levels, but the fires of the Higher Manas are as yet unknown to the great majority. As for the buddhic fires, the source of all others, only a few advanced representatives of mankind are in other than their lower sub-divisions.
During incarnation the human physical body holds the other six principles in touch with certain physical fires. During its posthumus cycle of
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vitality, the astral body holds the other five in touch with certain astral fires. Next the kamic principle, during its cycle, holds all higher principles in touch with the kamic fires. Finally, the Higher Manas holds the two highest principles in touch with certain manasic fires.
Because the four lower principles of man are at variance with the higher three, they would humble those three to their own level. Correspondingly the hosts of darkness would debase the hosts that stand as a wall around humanity; so they breach or undermine wherever possible. During the ordeal the great Niramanakayas, the tried and proven through ages of service, stand intact in their six-fold robes of purified principles down to and including the Astral.
Among these great ones are certain who in historic times were vulnerable to attack; and even more there are who, in the Atlantean struggle, were badly worsted. Such being the case, what must be the partial weakness of thousands of the ordinary champions of Light? Concerning weapons that have wrought discomfort and defeat among the black and the white hosts, let it be said that they are certain of the forty and nine fires.
Man's physical body can be tortured by ordinary fire because, having passed out of its old fiery con- dition, that body has not yet evolved to a state of immunity, of unawareness of the existence of ordinary fire as such. Certain astral and kamic
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fires are harmful to the ordinary individual dis- embodied and on the astral and kamic planes. These fires he avoids, even as on earth he avoided physical fire: but, were he wholly purified in his astral and kamic bodies, such fires would to him be quite harmless. When purified in his manasic bodies, he cannot suffer from the grosser manasic fires.
To the black brotherhood, the polluted and harmful kamic fires are natural and agreeable elements constituting effective weapons against certain of the white brotherhood. The high and pure fires of Manas and Buddhi are, in turn, tor- turous to the black since they are fallen beings once to some extent partakers of these fires, even as we now are through the higher triad of princi- ples. If to one evolving from a gross fire, it in time become harmful; so, to one fallen from a pure fire, that element will eventually be equally so.
The wily black magician attempts not the conquest of the wholly purified white. On the contrary, he fears and flees from his buddhic fire. Those of the white who as yet have not wholly purified their astral and kamic bodies, are more or less vulnerable to the gross astral and kamic fires of the enemy; and always they shrink, and often they flee from the intolerable burning. Selfish pride, and lust of power and possession, are manasic fires somewhat less gross. When insinuated by the black into their victims, these seem pleasant
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and life-giving even as on earth, but, to the some- what purified white, they are malodorous and stifling.
In the warfare described, the weapon really effective is the pure, buddhic fire; that which adds to itself from the purified lower principles an indescribable luster and a determining energy. Having in superlative degree both that luster and energy, the great Captain of the white company is already wielding, as invincible weapon, that zodiacal fire the resplendent truth of Aquarius.
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SATAN
SATAN, that black and hideous being, is not a product of our world, and to him neither human shape nor physical body were ever given. Coming to this earth from another, now in pralaya, he arrived as chief and almost sole survivor of his dark company; one since recruited from human kind. As an astral entity, he at once began to prey upon our earliest races. This from two causes, one easily seen, to wit, pure malignity; the other deeply occult, and requiring explanation. Debased Kama and selfish, obdurate personal will were his dominant principles, in fact his life as a self-conscious entity. Such gross principles are of course perishable, the higher triad — atrophied in him — being necessary to real immortality.
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How to prolong his astral and kamic life was a problem solved in a way worthy of Satan's devilish cunning. He became a vampire feeding on what in man corresponds with his own perverted princi- ples. Henceforth he strove to reduce the human race to his own level. Imagine him desperately active in a cycle of mature world Karma, and we account for the horrors of the war now passed through. In a large view, our common enemy was unwittingly the instrument of Justice to every nation involved, all of whom were more or less guilty as history shows. The Pisces Avatar came at the time of a judgment more circumscribed. The fall of Jerusalem and the dispersion of the Jewish people, though momentous to themselves, were not then important events, however large appearing in subsequent history.
Touching further upon the past and the present of humanity's old adversary, let it be said that while in former times his acts were inspired by fear and hatred, those of to-day are born of despera- tion, since for him the descent of the Major Avatar means greatly enfeebled powers during a thousand years; after which the force generated by the Avatar will subside gradually for another thousand years Of one fact we are assured, Satan cannot survive the rise of the sixth root race, because the principle of Buddhi, therein resident, will act as poison on his principles, unless he retire to some restricted department of the sub-astral plane.
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Virtually this will be the chaining of Satan men- tioned in Revelation. Undoubtedly the inception of the sixth sub-race is a menace to his activity.
The kamic principle of gross desire cannot endure contact with the buddhic principle of pure compassion: hence the coming of the Major Avatar arouses the ire of the entire dark host. Least of all this host, can the Prince of Darkness enter the presence of the Prince of Light. So Satan incites his company to aggression. Only with those of the human species who most resemble him, has he personal contact. War's unspeakable horrors in every age originated in his attempt to increase numerically the victims of his dreadful vampirism.
As for Satan's followers, each according to his rank becomes an astral ghoul who imperils the reincarnation of his victims. This for two reasons : first, because these victims are drained of neces- sary vitality, and, second, because gradually they lose human shape and intelligence, thus becoming nondescripts, or, rather, reversions to, types now extinct on our globe. Nevertheless the good Law does not cut off such beings for, by a merciful pro- vision, they are to be transferred to a planet of as yet low development, though of lofty destiny. This planet is known to Astrologers as the higher Venus, and as such to Initiates, because with almost Divine Wisdom it rescues, and sets securely on a low rung of the long ladder of life, those whom other evolutions have failed to reclaim.
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Since the dawn of the twentieth century, the world more and more has been in that wave of spiritual energy which precedes the re-embodi- ment of the Aquarian Avatar. As the result of this influx, the virtuous are increasingly incited to virtue, while the wickedness of multitudes is reaching that culmination which means their dis- appearance from our evolution. The beneficial effects of this general weeding out will be realized in succeeding centuries. On the other hand, the buddhic wave is energizing great multitudes to noble deeds of self-sacrifice.
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THE SECRET ORANGE PLANET
TV /TANY critics of Occult Science imagine that, ^^^ whereas, by slow and laborious inquiry, Physical Science has accumulated a mountain of proveable fact, the other, because jumping at conclusions, gives out as truth a jumble of absurd theories which, if tested by the methods of Physical Science, would be wholly discredited.
Speaking for Occult Science, we repeat what often has been said to wit: painstaking research was its invariable procedure ages before Physical Science began initial, crude investigation. Organic and inorganic Chemistry, those branches of Material Science to which the modern world is
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greatly indebted, had origin in the experiments of the old Alchemists who were themselves stimu- lated often to feverish activity by certain mis- understood half truths gleaned from the ancient Arcanum pf the Initiates. With this much as preliminary, let us proceed to the exposition of further occult truth.
That in its early rounds our Earth was a fiery globe is an ancient teaching quite in accord with the finding of modern Material Science: but, in the further statement that in its culminating round this Earth returns to the fiery state, the old science abruptly parts company with the new.
From a previous teaching was gathered some- what concerning the forty-nine fires, seven of which are proper to the physical plane. Aided by this knowledge, we shall now unveil the truth beneath the exoteric statement that in its latest round our Earth is again a fiery globe.
Though now a dead world, the physical Moon in its early rounds was fiery through contact with the fire of the predominating astral principle of the moon chain. During ages of evolution, this astral principle was dividing gradually first into the pure and enduring astral fire of what would become the secret violet planet and, second, into the gross and perishable astral fire which finally united with the dying physical Moon. The purified astral fire of the seventh lunar round greatly differed from the original astral fire, and vastly more so from the
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astral residuum now in pralaya. No separation of fires took place on the physical plane, since the evolution of the moon chain was based on the astral.
In passing let it be said that, because more ethereal than the purified astral of our planet, that of the moon evolution is visible only from the highest level of our astral world and, even there, only masters and advanced chelas can see what therefore is denominated the secret, violet planet.
As the evolution of our chain is based on the physical, it follows that physical fire is much nearer to our humanity than ever it was to the lunar fathers. It follows further that the basic separa- tion of fires, to be consummated in our seventh round, occurs on the physical plane. That part of our physical globe which, since the early rounds, has cooled and solidified, is largely residuum from which, in the seventh round, all life-sustaining power shall have departed. What then will be the condition of seventh round humanity, and that of the physical sub-planes proper thereto?
The teaching is that while five of the seven sub- planes or fires of the physical globe cannot be assimilated, the two upper divisions will be purified into a resplendent globe, self-luminous by means of the planetary fires from that of Buddhi down- ward. The physical bodies of seventh round humanity will glow like the earth itself with living fire which to our senses would not now be recog-
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nized as such. This fire is a union of the seven pure spectrum colors, with the orange predomi- nating.
Thus we interpret the Arcane Teaching which furthermore states that our planetary fire will culminate in a seven-fold glory outvieing the six- fold brilliancy of the violet planet, the future five- fold beauty of Mars, the future four-fold of Saturn, the future three-fold of Venus, the future dual of Mercury, and the future single atmic glory of Jupiter.
As for the after condition of our planetary chain, we have used the history of the Moon Chain as illustration. The time is coming when a secret orange planet will be added to the number already in the minor subdivisions of the Logos.
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THE LIFE VEHICLES
A KAMI LIAR occult teaching is that during its entire life period, every globe chain in our solar system experiences seven incarnations, each a Manvantara, or man-perfecting epoch. Our earth chain is now in the fourth of its seven. Previous Earth Manvantaras perfected for their humanities permanent robal coverings of but the seventh or highest division of physical body sub- stance. The present Manvantara will perfect for
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its humanity a permanent physical robe of a portion of the sixth division.
The fifth Manvantara is to perfect for its humanity a physical vehicle of the sixth and seventh divisions entire. Succeeding Manvan- taras will only refine for their humanities these two divisions. The next lower division of physical body substance is to be perfected on the eighth planetary chain, the destined place of the eight- principled animal evolution, and also the place of regeneration and rise of all human failures rejected during this Manvantara of our planetary chain.
Analysis of the quality of the life vehicles on any planetary chain reveals to a nicety the status and ultimate condition of their owners. Into the exposition of this arcane teaching let us to some extent enter.
In Vol. 1 of this series, "Special Teachings from the Arcane Science," and in the chapter, "The Planetary Process," it was found that the simple one-principled atmic lives emanated to the Jupiter chain were of seven degrees of fineness; also that eventually the coarser and coarser atmic lives dropped to their proper globe conditions in the chain, and therefrom were carried by lower and lower life-waves until Atma became the highest principle on every lower globe chain. What was true of Atma was correspondingly so of successively denser principles, until each chain became the home of its appropriate principle,
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The wave of physical life which swept through the physical globes of every chain down to this, sowed no seeds of normal physical life before reaching our world. The seeds deposited here were of seven kinds; and in kind the fruits thereof are unchangeable forever. The physical body of man was the highest fruit; one not to be con- founded with the animal; hence while the eating of animal flesh is of common occurrence, canni- balism to all but the most degraded savage is a loathsome crime.
During the first human root race of every round of our globe chain, the physical vesture of every creature whatsoever is, in composition, nearly identical with that of the first round; but, until the middle of each round beginning with the second, and especially until the middle of the fourth round — that which corresponds with the kama-manasic principle — every living creature adds to its physical vesture grosser and grosser atoms then to be discarded gradually until the previous minimum is reached.
As the physical vehicle of man incorporates the highest grade of its appropriate substance, where- as that of the animal kingdom incorporates the grade below, so is it with the human astral and every higher human body; and so is it with the corresponding animal bodies. Between the normal human kind, and the animal, there is an abnormal kind whose tendency, while never upward, is in
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extreme cases toward the brute level. This variety is that of derelicts and outcasts, the unelect of the Pauline doctrine which its initiate author could not unveil to the Piscean age. As revealed on our planet, the Christos reaches not down to this class who, by the Divine Wisdom and Mercy, are there- fore transferred to a planet wherein a more funda- mental exposition of the Christos will lay hold of and lift them to their place in the Cosmic Scheme. That the luna pitris, incarnating as human in the early rounds of our globe, were of the Moon's animal evolution is but an exoteric statement veiling the truth that these were failures represent- ing an intermediate principle analogous to the one above mentioned; in fact they were impervious to refining Truth as revealed to the moon humanity. In this lower planet, after temporary failure, they would rise to their peculiar destiny. This fact is beneath the ancient and deeply occult doctrine of that original sin which exoteric Jewish theology laid upon Adam.
H.
THE ORIGIN AND MANIFESTATION OF MIND
MATERIAL Science fails to explain the fact that the functions which it labels "instinct " appear in the very young animal, whereas the human infant is bom mentally a helpless creature that must await the slow unfolding of mind, that
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gift supposedly God-bequeathed only to the human species.
The notion that mind is the possession of man alone, originated in the dogma that the gift of immortality, or even the possibility of attaining it, is the peculiar birthright of the one genus endowed with mind. It is repugnant to the idea of Divine Justice, that any being capable of thought, however circumscribed, should be doomed to utter extinction through death of the physical; so, in lieu of mind, mere "instinct" — whatever that may be — was allowed to the brute kingdom.
Our philosophy teaches that Mind, as one aspect of that all-pervading Trinity, — Will, Desire, Thought, sleeps in the mineral, wakes in the plant, becomes more or less active in the animal, and fully alert in man, the crown and culmination of Nature's efforts. During the long and slow ascent from the lower kingdoms to civilized beings, indwelling mind is ever striving to individualize itself, and take the shape of the physical body. In the humbler species the result is a most rudimentary mind body; one dissipated at death, or soon after; but as for the higher animals, especially the domesticated horse, cow, elephant, dog, and certain others; these, through association with man, and because of their efforts to understand his wishes and commands, have developed mind bodies which, in certain instances, will persist, and even re-incarnate in a way analo-
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gous to the mind bodies of their higher brethren of the human race.
The wide adaptabiUty of mind to its environ- ment is not conceded by those who, naming a cer- tain aspect of it "instinct," marvel that, for instance, the young whale from the moment of birth can both swim, and feed from the teat of the mother; whereas the human infant would die were not its mouth guided to the nipple. In the human infant, hunger urges the principle of desire to immediate expression, but because the mind of the mother takes upon itself the duties proper to that of the infant, Nature has for ages accom- modated itself to this fact. No doubt many more ages would be necessary to bring the infant mind to that precocity which, from necessity, is usual in the lower species.
To those of circumscribed vision, the fact that Nature is red in tooth and claw, seems an indict- ment of that Love which supposedly is sovereign over all our world. Throughout the animal king- dom. Nature is striving to the end that an individ- ualized and permanent mind body may be the property of its every entity. The sluggish minds of the lower orders must be roused by means necessarily harsh. Love of life, the fear of all that threatens it, the desire for food, and the consequent matching of cunning against cunning, are the only possible means by which the lower orders can be stimulated to think in the narrow circles to which
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they have thus far attained. So the cost of immortahty is tremendous; but the result will be priceless.
Long ago man passed through his fiery struggle for immortality, but more or less of the evil ten- dencies then engendered yet cling to him. Because of these evils, exoteric religions condemn certain of the human race to everlasting punishment; but these religions fail to see that the higher virtues are chiefly the evolution of their once necessary opposites. Thus, cunning like that of the fox becomes the craft of the savage, which in turn becomes the intelligence of the average civilized man, and finally this widens into the wisdom of the sage. Again, ferocity like that of the tigress defending her young, evolves to the love of the human mother for her child; and such love event- uates in that compassion for the entire human race which distinguished both Buddha and the Galilean Master.
H. P. B.
MEMORY ^
MEMORY is that faculty of the mind by which it retains knowledge of association with persons, things, and events. While the apparent office of memory is universally familiar, it has an interior use which, though known to the few, is undreamed of by the many. In this brief
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