Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

combinations. Plato shows the deity geometrizing. The world is sustained by the same law of equilibrium and harmony upon which it was built.
As eight or nine thousand years earlier the stream of knowledge had been slowly running down from the tablelands of Central Asia into India and towards Europe and Northern Africa, so about 500 years BC, it had begun to flow backward to its old home and birthplace. During the two thousand subsequent years the knowledge of the existence of great Adepts nearly died out in Europe. Nevertheless, in some secret places the Mysteries were still enacted in all their primitive purity. The ‘Sun of Righteousness’ still blazed high on the face of the profane world, there was the eternal light in the Adyta on the nights of Initiation.
Man is the philosopher’s stone spiritually, ‘a triune or trinity in unity’, as Philalethes expresses it. But he is also that stone physically. The latter is but the effect of the cause, and the cause is the universal solvent of everything — divine spirit.
While the records of even important events are often obliterated from our memory, not the most trifling action of our lives can disappear from the ‘Soul’s’ memory, because it is no MEMORY for it, but an ever-present reality on the plane which lies outside our conception of space and time.
Man is certainly no special creation. He is the product of Nature’s gradual perfective work, like any other living unit on this earth. But this is only with regard to the human tabernacle. That which lives and thinks in man and survives that frame, the masterpiece of evolution—is the ‘Eternal Pilgrim’, the Protean differentiation in Space and Time of the One Absolute ‘Unknowable’.
Parabrahman, the One Reality, the Absolute, is the field of Absolute

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