The ideas that are elaborated here find their corroboration in
certain facts that are stated in the occult literature now extant. These facts are three
in number, and are as follows:
- In the creation of the sun and the seven sacred planets composing our solar system, our
Logos employed matter that was already impregnated with particular qualities. Mrs. Besant
in her book, "Avataras," (which some of [3] us think the most valuable of all
her writings, because one of the most suggestive), makes the statement that "our
solar system is builded out of matter already existing, out of matter already gifted with
certain properties... " (page 48). This matter, therefore, we deduce, held latent
certain faculties that were forced to demonstrate in a peculiar way, under the law of
Cause and Effect, as does all else in the universe.
- All manifestation is of a septenary nature, and the Central Light which we call Deity,
the one Ray of Divinity, manifests first as a Triplicity, and then as a Septenary. The One
God shines forth as God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, and these three
are again reflected through the Seven Spirits before the Throne, or the seven Planetary
Logoi. The students of occultism of non-Christian origin may call these Beings the One
Ray, demonstrating through the three major Rays and the four minor, making a divine
Septenary. The Synthetic Ray which blends them all is the great Love-Wisdom Ray, for
verily and indeed "God is Love." This Ray is the indigo Ray, and is the blending
Ray. It is the one which will, at the end of the greater cycle, absorb the others in the
achievement of synthetic perfection. It is the manifestation of the second aspect of
Logoic life. It is this aspect, that of the Form-Builder, that makes this solar system of
ours the most concrete of the three major systems. The Love or Wisdom aspect demonstrates
through the building of the form, for "God is Love," and in that God of Love we
"live and move and have our being," and will to the end of aeonian
manifestation.
- The seven planes of Divine Manifestation, or the seven major planes of our system, are
but the seven subplanes of the lowest cosmic plane. The seven Rays of which [4] we hear so
much, and which hold so much of interest and of mystery, are likewise but the seven
subrays of one cosmic Ray. The twelve creative Hierarchies are themselves but subsidiary
branches of one cosmic Hierarchy. They form but one chord in the cosmic symphony. When
that sevenfold cosmic chord, of which we form so humble a part, reverberates in synthetic
perfection, then, and only then, will come comprehension of the words in the Book of job:
"The morning stars sang together." Dissonance yet sounds forth, and discord
arises from many systems, but in the progression of the aeons an ordered harmony will
eventuate, and the day will dawn when (if we dare speak of eternities in the terms of
time) the sound of the perfected universe will resound to the uttermost bounds of the
furthest constellation. Then will be known the mystery of "the marriage song of the
heavens."
The reader is also asked to remember and weigh certain ideas prior to taking up the
study of Initiation. Due to the extern complexity of the matter it is an utter
impossibility for us to do more than get a general idea of the scheme; hence the futility
of dogmatism. We can do no more than sense a fraction of some wonderful whole, utterly
beyond the reach of our consciousness, - a whole that the highest Angel or Perfected Being
is but beginning to realize. When we recognize the fact that the average man is as yet
fully conscious only on the physical plane, nearly conscious on the emotional plane, and
only developing the consciousness of the mental plane, it is obvious that his
comprehension of cosmic data can be but rudimentary. When we recognize the further fact,
that to be conscious on a plane and to have control on that plane
are two very different conditions, it becomes apparent how remote is the possibility of
our approximating more than the general trend of the cosmic scheme.[5] |
