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Page 42
A partial analogy may be found in the position of the astronomer with
regard to the stellar universe, or let us say the Milky Way. He can observe
its constituent parts and learn a good deal about them along various lines,
but it is absolutely impossible for him to see it as a whole from outside,
or to form any certain conception of its true shape, and to know what it
really is. Suppose that the universe is, as many of the ancients thought,
some inconceivably vast Being, it is utterly impossible for us, here in the
midst of it, to know what that Being is or is doing, for that would mean
raising ourselves to a height comparable with His; but we may make
extensive and detailed examination of such particles of His body as happen
to be within our reach, for that means only the patient use of powers and
machinery already at our command.
Let it not be supposed that, in thus unfolding a little more of the wonders
of Divine Truth by pushing our investigations to the very farthest point at
present possible to us, we in any way alter or modify all that has been
written in theosophical books of the shape and constitution of the physical
atom, and of the wonderful and orderly arrangements by which it is grouped
into the various chemical molecules; all this remains entirely unaffected.
Nor is any change introduced as regards the three outpourings from the
LOGOS, and the marvellous facility with which the matter of the various
planes is by them moulded into forms for the service of the evolving life.
But if we wish to have a right view of the realities underlying
manifestation in this universe, we must to a considerable extent reverse
the ordinary conception as to what this matter essentially is. Instead of
thinking of its ultimate constituents as solid specks floating in a void,
we must realise that it is the apparent void itself which is solid, and
that the specks are but bubbles on it. That fact once grasped, all the rest
remains as before. The relative position of what we have hitherto called
matter and force is still for us the same as ever; it is only that, on
closer examination, both of these conceptions prove to be variants of
force, the one ensouling combinations of the other, and the real "matter,"
koilon, is seen to be something which has hitherto been altogether outside
our scheme of thought.
In view of this marvellous distribution of Himself in "space," the familiar
concept of the "sacrifice of the LOGOS" takes on a new depth and splendour;
this is His "dying in matter," His "perpetual sacrifice," and it may be the
very glory of the LOGOS that He can sacrifice Himself to the uttermost by
thus permeating and making Himself one with that portion of koilon which He
chooses as the field of His universe.
What koilon is, what its origin, whether it is itself changed by the Divine
Breath which is poured into it--does "Dark Space" thus become "Bright
Space" at the beginning of a manifestation?--these are questions to which
we cannot at present even indicate answers. Perchance an intelligent study
of the great Scriptures of the world may yield replies.
* * * * *
NOTES
[1] See footnote in next Chapter.
[2] The drawings of the elements were done by two Theosophical artists,
Herr Hecker and Mrs. Kirby, whom we sincerely thank; the diagrams, showing
the details of the construction of each "element," we owe to the most
painstaking labour of Mr. Jinar�jad�sa, without whose aid it would have
been impossible for us to have presented clearly and definitely the
complicated arrangements by which the chemical elements are built up. We
have also to thank him for a number of most useful notes, implying much
careful research, which are incorporated in the present series, and without
which we could not have written these papers.
[3] The atomic sub-plane.
[4] The astral plane.
[5] Known to Theosophists as Fohat, the force of which all the physical
plane forces--electricities--are differentiations.
[6] When Fohat "digs holes in space."
[7] The first life-wave, the work of the third Logos.
[8] A m�y�, truly.
[9] By a certain action of the will, known to students, it is possible to
make such a space by pressing back and walling off the matter of space.
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