Within the alcyonic globes of differentiated pranic-manasic atoms
the vibration divided them also into solid-liquid cores and
gaseous envelopes, and a kinetic skin of phenomena. And then a
new world--a world of Life, came into material existence. All
the atoms of thought or manasa, surrounding each and every pranic
atom, and making its molecule of energy, so to speak, were that
particular kind of kinetic manasa ready to change its rate of
vibration within an octave, and the forms prana assumes from the
action of thought within the kinetic belt were living and
thinking. Each pranic globe, which was a small state of product
of the manasic, consisted of two globes in coadunition--two in
one. Each pranic atom was the centre of a manasic molecule and
represented the universe. All things were two in one, created by
harmonic vibration between them, and existence by the greater
strength of the lower notes, or attraction. It was at once less
and more wonderful than the manasic world--a specialized form of
it.
When within this kinetic belt of the prana the etheric solar
globes formed here and there, they were three fold, each atom of
the new plane of matter having its surrounding envelope of prana-
manasa--a specialization of the pranic world in which (what we
call) force had been added to life and mind. The static ether,
vibrating in each of its elements through one octave, divided
into central core (our sun, and other suns) and outer covering,
with a skin or belt of kinetic energy, "as above" which developed
an etheric world. All things on this etheric world were caused
by the harmonic vibration between the etheric atoms and their
surrounding envelopes, except that while all things in this
etheric world must have life, not all need have mind. The chord
of three was not necessary to create; the chord of two was
enough, and the manasic atoms might cease to vibrate in chord
with the prana and ether without affecting the creation. Only in
the etheric world (and below it) could there be living mindless
ones. To the etheric globes the stellar pranic cores transferred
their light, which manifested itself in the solid static ether as
Attraction and in the gaseous static ether as Repulsion, within
the kinetic skin of each etheric world more specialized and less
varied than the pranic.
Our sun is not of prakriti, but of static ether, composed of the
separate and individual elementary substances of the ether, and
their compounds vibrating in the lower notes of their octaves.
It is our father, not our elder brother. Its envelope of static
ether in which the planet revolves is composed of the elementary
substances and combinations vibrating in the higher notes of
their octave. The light transferred to this etheric globe from
its mother, Alcyone, manifests itself in the lower vibration of
the sun as Attraction; in the higher vibrations of its envelope
as Repulsion, and within the kinetic skin wherein these forces
play, the prakritic globes, planets, were born.
Take our earth. Each atom is fourfold--whether of the static
core or of the static gaseous envelope. Creation on it is
limited to the kinetic skin, wherein the attraction of the lower
and repulsion of the higher notes in each octave of vibration
have full play. All things on it must have come from the
chording vibrations of the atoms of the prakritic elementary
substances and their envelope of ether. They may or may not have
life or mind the ether atom may have lost its chord with its
pranic envelope, or the pranic envelope may have lost its chord
with the manasic; but the combination must have force or energy
within it. It may have lost Mind and Life in acquiring it, or
after acquiring it; but it had to have life before it could
become prakriti.
All things in the prakritic world flow from the Life of the
etheric and the Mind of the pranic worlds. Everything in the
etheric world has life, and our unconscious personification or
"vivification" of etheric life transferred into fauna or flora,
or into force of any kind, has a natural explanation. The
thrill of vibration in one octave through the differentiated
consciousness of the universe by which the light was separated
from the darkness, the lower from the higher, was all that was
required to create each star and sun, and world, and all that in
them is. And it was all good.
Each thing on every lower world was but the translation into form
of the type of the next world (or plane) above. As each element
on this prakritic type, so each combination of those elements
into crystal or tree or animal is but the translation. The
normal earth from the crystal to (the animal) man was pure, and
clean, and holy. Sin had not entered.
How did it come?
On the vast manasic world there was "a special creation"--that
of the Angel Man. The three planes of Spirit above were
undifferentiated consciousness, but they were in different
octaves of vibration, and these working on the three highest
forms of differentiated consciousness (manasic matter) brought
them to chording Vibration so that when they combined and reached
their highest point in evolution they "created" the Angel (or
manasic) man. He was the product in kinetic manasa of the three
spiritual planes above him, precisely as the animal man was the
product in kinetic prakriti of the three material planes above
him. The latter was the "shadow" of the other.
The Angel-man had a material (manasic) body, but his energy life,
and mind were spiritual. The animal man had a prakritic body,
with energy, life and mind that were material.
So far all was good.
The animal man has four bodies--one of prakriti, one of ether,
one of prana, and one of manasa. It may be true, and probably
is, that his manasic body is not sounding in chord with his
prakritic body, but only with those atoms of it which are in his
brain and nerves; but that is immaterial--for future
consideration.
The Angel man had but one body, of manasa, in which the spirit
dwelt; but that body was identical in substance with the body
that made the mind of the animal man. His manasic body joined
the manasic body of the animal man, joined with it by entering
into the animal man's mind, as easily as water from one glass is
added to water in another glass, and the animal "man became a
living soul," endowed with speech, while the Angel-man was given
"a skin coat."
The prakritic body of the animal man was the result in prakriti
of an etheric-pranic-manasic, or "astral" body, formed in
accordance with the Universal Law. For what he was by nature, he
could not be blamed. He stood naked and not ashamed before the
Radiance. He did not make his astral body; he was the mere
translation of it into prakriti, as all other created things
were, and that invisible astral self (figuratively) stood at his
right hand, moulding and shaping him.
But when the Angel-man entered his mind, all this was changed.
He "knew Good from Evil." To his mind of manasa had been added
the Spirit--the Atma-Buddhi's Consciousness of the three
Spiritual planes. He has become "as one of us," said the Angel-
men of the firmament, of Heaven. He now held the seven planes
and was a creator. Each thought and desire that, when an animal
only, fell harmless, now created on the pranic and etheric world.
Soon beside him, at his left hand (figuratively) there grew up a
second etheric or astral body, that of his desires; and his
prakritic body was no longer the product of the astral body on
his right hand. It was the joint product of the left-hand Kamic
astral body he had created, and the right hand normal astral
body. He was no longer in harmony with the Radiance. He could
no longer face it. He had created discord--Sin.
The pretty legend of the two "Angels," one on the right hand and
one on the left, has its physical basis in this truth, but, of
course, as a matter of actual fact, the normal and abnormal
astral bodies are in mechanical union. It is the Kamic self-made
astral body that remains from one incarnation to another,
producing in joint action with a new normal astral body, a new
physical body for the Inner-Self, or Angel taking the pilgrimage
through the lower world.
All the Angel-men did not enter the animal men on the pranic
etheric-prakritic globes; only a few. It was a pilgrimage
through matter in which those who make it are meeting many
adventures, but the legends are many, and have no place in the
physics, although the legends are all founded on the facts of the
physics.
Of the number of monads, willing to undertake the pilgrimage,
only a few of those within the kinetic belt of the manasic globe
have reached the pranic. Only a few of those within the pranic
kinetic belts reached the etheric. And of all who have reached
this earth, only a few may win their way back before the great
day Be-With-Us.
The problem of man, and his relations to the universe, are an
entirely different line of study from that of the Spiritual
Monad, the over-soul of every prakritic atom. Each prakritic
atom has what may be called a soul, its three-fold astral cause;
and an over-soul, or the three-fold spiritual archetype, or
causeless cause.
Every combination of these atoms, whether a knife, a leaf, an
animal, an earth, a sun, or a star, has this soul and oversoul.
Once the idea of what is meant by these terms becomes clear, the
difficulty in understanding them vanishes. The study of man is
physical in its lower branches; metaphysical only in its highest
and last analysis. The study of the Monad is metaphysical from
start to finish. The two studies are apt to be confused, because
metaphysically they are often joined for study, the teacher
taking it for granted that the pupil fully understands the simple
and easy physics of the problem of humanity.
This, in crude and bold outline, is the story of creation to the
fall of man according to the ancient physics, translated into the
words and phrases of modern physics. The latter, in the latest
discoveries of modern science, seem to have stolen a shive
from the ancient loaf in the expectation that it would not be
detected. Each and every step forward that modern science has
made in the past twenty years, each and every discovery of every
kind in the physical field, has been but the affirmative of some
ancient doctrine taught in the temples of the East before "Cain
took unto himself a wife."