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Splendours of Number – "7" |
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by "MIHIRA" |
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When a disciple meditates upon Kundalini with numeric potency of number 7, the goddess Kundalini takes regular full fledged expression. When Kundalini herself expresses as number 7, she is in the complete form of whole human constitution. When properly meditated, the whole human constitution including the physical body is but an arrangement of various sets of vibrations produced by Kundalini.
According to Patanjali, the constitution includes two halves, in fact they are counterparts. The first part is the divine spirit and the second is His Nature. His Nature includes soul and body. Soul means Buddhi, mind and the senses. The Body means the Etheric, astral and physical matter. So man is primarily two fold and then he becomes three fold. The two fold nature of man is Shiva and Shakti, meaning, God Shiva and his power. Hence the human constitution is Arthanareeswara, Divine Hermaphrodite. This is the reason Shakti is half of the body of Lord Shiva. This power with all her splendours keeps the whole constitution in equilibrium, and produces vibrations which keep the constitution of the earth in equilibrium.
It is curious to notice how, in the evolutionary cycles of ideas, ancient thought seems to be reflected in modern speculation. Had Herbert Spencer read ancient Hindu philosophers when he wrote a certain passage in his "First Principles" (P.482) or is it an independent flash of inner perception that made him say half correctly, half incorrectly, "motion as well as matter, being fixed in quantity(?), it would seem that the change in the distribution of Matter which Motion effects, coming to a limit in whichever direction it is carried(?), the indestructible Motion thereupon necessitates a reverse distribution. Apparently, the universally co-existent forces of attraction and repulsion which, as we have seen, necessitate rhythm in the totality of its changes-produce now an immeasurable period during which the attracting forces predominating, cause universal concentration, and then an immeasurable period, during which the repulsive forces predominating, cause universal diffusion-alternate eras of Evolution and dissolution".
For clearer understanding on the part of the general reader, it must be stated that Occult Science recognises Seven Cosmic Elements - four entirely physical, and the fifth (Ether) semi-material, as it will become visible in the air towards the end of our Fourth Round, to reign supreme over the others during the whole of the Fifth Round. The remaining two are as yet absolutely beyond the range of human perception. These latter will, however, appear as presentiments during the sixth and seventh Rounds respectively. These seven elements with their numberless Sub-Elements far more numerous than those known to Science are simply conditional modifications and aspects of the ONE and only Element. This latter is not Ether, not even A’kasa but the Source of these. The Fifth Element, now advocated quite freely by Science, is not the Ether hypothesised by Sir Isaac Newton-although he calls it by that name, having associated it in his mind probably with the Aether, "Father-Mother" of Antiquity. As Newton intuitionally says, "Nature, is a perpetual circulatory worker, generating fluids out of solids, fixed things out of volatile, and volatile out of fixed, subtle out of gross, and gross out of subtle. .....Thus, perhaps, may all things be originated from Ether,"
When Kundalini is meditated as Tripura, she produces seven syllables, an exoteric formula. They are HA, SA, KA, LA, HA, LA, HRIM. Esoterically these seven syllables work as six centres called Shatchakras and Sahasrara in the human constitution. They vibrate as seven ashrams on the earth and on the planets in the solar system. The Sahasrara is the culmination of the path of the Goddess, but not the ultimate goal. The esoteric key can be meditated through the book , "The Treatise of Cosmic Fire" by Alice. E. Bailey. Sahasrara is called the Head Centre, where the goddess Kundalini unfolds herself with the fullest brilliance and expression. The ultimate culmination is experienced. Then she again descends into the Heart Centre. Brilliance is not the ultimate and perfect state of creation. That is the first and last goal of the whole creation in this solar system. Heart is the seed of love.
Through these seven centres the Goddess utters forth her full expression as the human constitution. Three steps are her own expression. The three seeds are called three Abodes, three Pura, they are :
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The Base Centre, The Spleen centre and the Navel centre form the Lower triangle which is the First Centre. Instincts reflections and emotions operate from this seat of Devi. 2.
The Throat centre, the Brow centre and the Head centre form the Upper triangle which is the upper seat of the Devi. 3.
The Heart centre forms the third seat which is the centre of the interlaced triangles.
Fohat, being one of the most, if not the most important character in esoteric Cosmogony, should be minutely described. As in the oldest Grecian Cosmogony,. differing widely from the later mythology, Eros is the third person in the primeval trinity: Chaos, Gaea, Eros : answering to the Kabalistic En-Soph (for Chaos is SPACE, Xaivo, "Void") the Boundless ALL, Shekinah and the Ancient of Days, or the Holy Ghost; so Fohat is one thing in the yet unmanifested Universe and another in the phenomenal and Cosmic World. In the latter, he is that Occult, electric, vital power, which, under the Will of the Creative Logos, unites and brings together all forms, giving them the first impulse which becomes in time law. But in the unmanifested universe, Fohat is no more this, than Eros is the later brilliant winged Cupid, or LOVE. Fohat has naught to do with Kosmos yet, since Kosmos is not born, and the gods still sleep in the bosom of "Father-Mother" He is an abstract philosophical idea. He produces nothing yet by himself; he is simply that potential creative power in virtue of whose action the NOUMENON of all future phenomena divides, so to speak, but to reunite in a mystic supersensuous act, and emit the creative ray. When the "Divine Son" breaks forth, then Fohat becomes the propelling force, the active power which causes the ONE to become TWO and THREE - on the Cosmic plane of manifestation. The triple One differentiates into the many, and then Fohat is transformed into that force which brings together the elemental atoms and makes them aggregate and combine.
In India, Fohat is connected with Vishnu and Surya in the early character of the (first) God; for Vishnu is not a high god in the Rig Veda. The name Vishnu is from the root Vish, "to pervade," and Fohat is called the "Pervader" and the Manufacturer, because he shapes the atoms from crude material. In the sacred texts of the Rig Veda, Vishnu, also, is "a manifestation of the solar Energy," and he is described as striding through the Seven regions of the Universe in three steps, the Vedic God having little in common with the Vishnu of later times. Therefore the two are identical in this particular feature, and one is the copy of the other.
The "three and seven" strides refer in the esoteric Doctrine to the Seven spheres inhabited by man, as well as to the Seven regions of the Earth. Notwithstanding the frequent objections made by would-be Orientalists, the Seven Worlds or Spheres of our planetary chain are distinctly referred to in the exoteric Hindu scriptures. But how strangely all these numbers are connected with like numbers in other Cosmogonies and with their symbols, can be seen from comparisons and parallelisms made by students of old religions. The "Three strides of Vishnu" through the "Seven regions of the universe," of the Rig Veda, have been variously explained by commentators as meaning "fire, lightning and the Sun" cosmically; and as the Earth, the atmosphere, and the sky; also as the "three steps" of the dwarf (Vishnu’s incarantion), though more philosophically - and in the astronomical sense, very correctly - they are explained by Aurnavabha as being the various positions of the Sun, rising, noon, and setting. Esoteric philosophy alone explains it clearly, and the Zohar laid it down very philosophically and comprehensively. It is said and plainly demonstrated therein that in the beginning the Elohim (Elhim) were called Echod, "One", or the "Deity is one in many," a very simple idea in a pantheistic conception in its philosophical sense. Then came the change, "Jehovah is Elohim," thus unifying the multiplicity and taking the first step towards Monotheism. Now to the query, "How is Jehovah Elohim?" the answer is, "By three Steps" from below.
The Meaning is plain. They are all symbols, and emblematic, mutually and correlatively, of Spirit, Soul and Body (MAN); of the circle transformed into Spirit, the Soul of the World, and its body or Earth). Stepping out of the Circle of Infinity, that no man comprehendeth, Ain-Soph (the Kabalistic synonym for Parabrahma, for the Zeroana Akerne, of the Mazdeans, or for any other "UNKNOWABLE") becomes "One" - the ECHOD, the EKA, the AHU - then he (or it) is transformed by evolution into the One in many, the Dhyani-buddhas or the Elohim, or again the Amshaspends, his third Step being taken into generation of the flesh, or "Man". And from man, or Jah-Hova, "male female," the inner divine entity becomes, on the metaphysical plane, once more the Elohim.
To be continued....