A selection of quotes and aphorisms from the ancient Vedic books “Vishnu Purana”, “Akhtarvaveda”, “Hitopadesha” “Brahmanas”, “Theragatha” and “Vedas” - eternal wisdom to help eternal souls lost in the material world and identified with the body and mind.
# Time is impartial - it does not love anyone and does not hate anyone, time carries everyone away indifferently.
# Nothing threatens ripe fruit except falling; in the same way, nothing threatens the born except death.
# While a person is full of strength, he forgets about inevitable death. A fool does not ask important questions about the real problems of life
- he thinks he will never die.
Ancient wisdom in quotes, aphorisms and pictures
# The essence of millions of books is in just one verse: merit is in doing good to one's neighbor, and sin is in doing evil to one's neighbor.
# The fool fusses with all his might, starting a trifle; the smart one remains calm when taking on great things.
# Everything you plan can be achieved. What we call fate is only the invisible properties of people.
# The madman is consoled by the past, the weak-minded by the future, the intelligent lives by the present.
# Say pleasant things, but do not flatter; be a hero, but don't boast; be generous, but not to the unworthy; be bold, but don't be insolent.
# A noble man speaks only about the virtues of his neighbor, even if he is deprived of them; low only speaks of shortcomings. And although they both lie - the first goes to heaven, the second to hell.
# Even the truth should not be spoken if it will bring misfortune.
# Speak truthfully and pleasantly; do not say what is truthful but unpleasant; Don’t say something nice but untrue.
# Things should lead to happiness. But where there is no justice, there is no happiness. Therefore act justly.
# Advantages are not as striking as vices.
# All our deeds, thoughts and speeches follow us (return to us) - do good!
# Virtue is to do good to others and not to cause evil. And to do good to your neighbors is to do for them what you would like for yourself.
# Where the unworthy are honored and the worthy are despised, there hunger, fear and death find refuge.
# A splinter, a loose tooth and a bad adviser must be removed by the roots - this is a condition for peace.
# Cruelty - even towards the wicked - leads to hell. What can we say about cruelty to the good?
# Giving advice to a fool only makes him angry.
# Listen to useful speech, even if it comes from a child; do not listen to bad speeches, let them come from the elder.
# There are two remedies for physical and mental ailments: either apply counteraction, or not think about them.
# Be attentive to the guest - even if he is your enemy. The tree does not refuse shade even to a lumberjack with an axe.
# A causeless quarrel is a sign of stupidity.
# An angry person is weak. The strongest anger lies in powerlessness.
# Even the one who is far away is nearby if he lives in your heart; even the one who stands next to you is far away if your thoughts are far from him.
# Friend, wife, servant, reason and courage are known in trouble.
# A woman shines - the whole house shines, a woman is gloomy - the whole house is plunged into darkness.
# Live in your youth so that you can be happy in your old age.
# There is one life - there are many bodies, there is one truth - there are many errors, there is one knowledge - there are many heresies. What sage can sort out all the contradictions?
wise quotes and aphorisms
# Knowledge depends on learning, honor on deeds, well-being on diligence, reward on fate.
# Initially, all living beings are part and parcel of God and are connected with Him by filial ties.
# True progress involves knowing God.
# The noble should sympathize with both the evil and the good, and those who deserve death. For there is no person free from guilt.
# Avoid doing things that depend on others; strive only for what depends on yourself.
# Only one who can simultaneously understand the process of immersion in ignorance and the process of perfecting transcendental knowledge can avoid repeated births and deaths and enjoy the gift of immortality.
# Do your duty without thinking about the outcome; do your duty, whether it will bring you happiness or misfortune. He who fulfills his duty and calmly, without rejoicing or sadness, meets any consequences, is truly great in soul.
# No matter how small the benefit, it will sprout a hundred sprouts if you show it to someone worthy.
# Some things can be revealed to wives, some things to friends, some things to children - after all, they are all worthy of trust. But you can’t reveal everything to anyone.
# When a book, wife or money falls into the wrong hands, they are lost to us; if they return, then the book is tattered, the wife is damaged, and the money is in parts.
# When the wise man realized that not only old age and death, but also everything that fools are drawn to is suffering, and now he reflects, having fully understood suffering, is there greater pleasure in the world?
# The wise devote their time to poetry and science, the foolish to vices, sleep and quarrels.
# He who does not return anger with anger saves both - himself and the other.
# The wise man does not grieve for the lost, for the dead, or for the past. This is how he differs from a fool.
# There was not, is not and will not be a person worthy of only condemnation or only praise.
# He who does not respond to excessive praise or blame, who does not return blow for blow, who does not wish harm to the offender, is the envy of the gods.
# Strive for the smart and honest, be on your guard with the smart and deceitful, pity the honest and stupid, avoid the deceitful and stupid.
# The cure for unhappiness is not to think about it. When you think about misfortune, it does not go away, but increases.
# It is better to do your duty poorly than to do someone else’s duty well. He who follows his own nature does not commit sin.
# Mercy is the strength of a virtuous person.
ancient wisdom in pictures
# Don't be rude to anyone - they will answer you in kind. Angry speech hurts and you will suffer retribution.
# Peace and work are the source of prosperity.
# Hope is the source of great anxiety, freedom from hope is the source of great peace.
# Be neither too rude, nor too stubborn, nor too soft, nor too argumentative, nor too angry. Excess in anything is dangerous: rudeness irritates people, stubbornness repels, gentleness causes contempt, excessive evidence offends, blind faith makes people laugh, unbelief leads to vice.
# Science leads to modesty, only a fool boasts of learning. This is how light enhances our vision and makes owls blind.
# Be neither too close nor too far from kings, fire, elders and women: if you are too close, they will destroy you; If you find yourself too far away, they will be useless to you.
# Don't take on any business - this is the first sign of wisdom. Having taken up a task, bring it to the end - this is the second sign of wisdom.
# You cannot sow one thing and receive another. Whatever seed is sown will bear fruit.
# No one is by nature either high or low - only one’s own deeds lead a person to honor or contempt.
# Hatred can be ended not by hatred, but only by love.
# It is not appropriate for a reasonable person to talk bad about another (person) in an assembly.
# Do not do anything that will torment you on your deathbed, for life is momentary.
# The one who is able to talk about other people's shortcomings or about his own virtues is insignificant. A truly worthy person speaks neither about other people's shortcomings nor about his own virtues.
# Don't do what you shouldn't do - even under threat of death; Do not put off what should be done - this is the eternal commandment.
# There is no barrier equal to the barrier of ignorance.
# There is no virtue higher than justice, no vice worse than lies.
# No good is wasted.
aphorisms and wise quotes
# One useful word, upon hearing which one becomes calm, is better than a thousand speeches made up of useless words.
# Wise instructions are of no use to those who are afraid of action. What good is a lamp in the hands of a blind man?
# Desire does not calm down from enjoying what is desired; The fire, to which oil has been added, flares up even more.
# If not today, then tomorrow our body will perish among sorrows and illnesses. What is the use of breaking a duty for his sake?
# Do not follow immoderate desires, but do not suppress all desires.
# The slave of his hopes is the slave of all people, the master of his hopes is the master of the whole world.
# A wise person will not destroy something great for the sake of something small. Preserving the great with small things is true wisdom.
# There is no friend equal to health; there is no enemy equal to disease.
# Conquering yourself is the best way to avoid being defeated.
# Defeat yourself first, and then your enemies. How can someone who does not control himself own others?
# Conquer the greedy with money, the proud with prayer, the foolish with indulgence, the wise with truthfulness.
# Conquer anger with gentleness, evil with goodness, greed with generosity, lies with truth.
# Having overcome pride, a person becomes pleasant. Having overcome his anger, he becomes cheerful. Having overcome passion, he becomes successful. Having overcome greed, he becomes happy.
# “He insulted me, he hit me, he got the better of me, he robbed me.” For those who harbor such thoughts, hatred does not stop. For never in this world does hatred cease with hatred, but with the absence of hatred it ceases...
# The world is full of joy for those who look at everyone without hostility and prejudice.
# With great difficulty we lift a stone up a mountain, but it falls down instantly - in the same way virtues pull us up and vices down.
# Rejoice at the joy that has befallen you, endure the grief that has befallen you, wait for everything that time brings, just as a farmer waits for the harvest.
# Time will pass, and a friend will become an enemy, and an enemy will become a friend. For one’s own benefit is stronger than anything else.
# Knowledge is lost without action, a man is lost without knowledge, an army is lost without a commander, women are lost without men.
# A wise person evaluates according to his own judgment, a fool trusts rumor.
# Get attached to good friends, get attached to noble people.
# What fate destined us to receive, we will receive while lying in bed. We will not receive what we have not judged, no matter what efforts we make.
a selection of wisdom, quotes and aphorisms
# Is anything beautiful or ugly in itself? What a person likes is wonderful for him.
# Reason without courage is a woman’s property; courage without reason is the quality of a beast.
# The adornment of a person is wisdom, the adornment of wisdom is calmness, the adornment of calmness is courage, the adornment of courage is gentleness.
# Look favorably at everything that exists: let every word you say be calm, friendly, supportive; let every action of yours serve for correction, for the development of good.
# Only he is truly learned who does well.
# He is great who becomes blind in front of other people's wives, lame in pursuit of other people's wealth, dumb when hearing blasphemy against others.
# He is a real person who sheds his anger, like a snake sheds its old skin.
# For someone who is sitting, happiness is always seated; for someone who is standing, it stands straight; for someone who is lying down, it lies without moving, and the happiness of the wanderer goes forward.
# The mere jealousy of a husband attracts his wife to another. A wise man protects his wife without showing jealousy.
# A good wife works for you like a servant; gives advice as an advisor; beautiful as the goddess of beauty; calm and resilient, like the earth; feeds you like a mother and delights you like a hetaera. A good wife is six persons in one.
# Virtue is a hundred times more valuable than the most valuable treasure; those who have forgotten about it are no more unfortunate.
# The value of a person is learned after his death.
# A person must work - it’s bad for him when he is inactive.
# A person who does evil is his own enemy: after all, he himself will taste the fruits of his evil.
# What will the villain do to the one in whose hand is the sword of calm? When the fire finds no grass, it calms down on its own.
# Youth rushes by in an irrevocable stream. So let us indulge in joy - after all, joy is given to mortals!
# Only to those great souls who have unshakable faith in the Lord and the spiritual master, the whole meaning of Vedic knowledge is revealed automatically.
I wish you all wisdom, love and happiness!
We live in an era of change. This is a very, very difficult time. Values and ideals are changing, exhausted people hope for the best, the ghost of happiness looms somewhere ahead, and above all this there are crows circling, having flown to the smell of carrion... Time of Troubles... Such a period comes in the fate of humanity approximately every 2000 years, when Space eras are changing.
The essence of this event is that the Earth's axis, as a result of the so-called anticipation of the spring equinox, leaves the first degree of the zodiac constellation Pisces and moves to the 30th degree of the constellation Aquarius.
It would seem, so what? What do we care about that? But it's not that simple. People who are at least a little familiar with astrology and astronomy know that the position of celestial bodies affects our lives. Thus, the position of the planets at the time of a person’s birth largely determines his character. The stars also determine the nature of events on the planet for a long period of time. The Age of Pisces, which began in 157 BC. and lasted 2160 years, brought a lot of grief to Earth. Remember at least two world wars, look at the current deplorable environmental situation.
How many troubles have befallen our native Earth? We, Slavs, have forgotten our history, rejected our faith, renounced our ancestors! And this is not even in 2000, but in just 1000 years! We have almost lost our essence, free and proud, fiery and at the same time tender...
Wait a minute, I think I hear puzzled exclamations? Don't you agree? Then answer a couple of simple questions. Not for me, of course. For yourself.
What do you know about your people, the Slavs? Where did they come from, how did they live? What did they believe and what did they know?
What did you remember first? Kievan Rus, princes, Mongol-Tatar invasion? What happened before that? A handful of fragmented tribes? Savages who scoured the forests in search of food? Just a few phrases, like cliches, are etched into your consciousness, and you can’t remember anything else... But after that - rapid prosperity, the adoption of Christianity, the golden domes of churches...
This is the knowledge that we are all given at school. Many people forget these little bits over time. But you, Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Pole and - SLAV - look into your soul! Do you really believe that your great-grandfathers were savages who did not know writing and worshiped wooden idols? Do you believe that the ancestors of our brilliant scientists, writers, poets, and artists were like this?
Do you believe that these were the ancestors of the Heroes of the Great Patriotic War? Do you believe that your ancestors were like this? Do you believe it? Then answer, why were the fragmented tribes of savages not captured by a more powerful power? Was it so difficult for Rome to trample the Slavs under its heel? But the Slavic lands were not captured.
You have probably heard more than once about the wild paganism of the Slavs, about human sacrifices. But where are the written sources confirming these terrible stories? There are none. But the developed philosophical system of the ancient Slavs, based on the most interesting mythology, a high culture and a rich language, is documented.
Do you believe that with the adoption of Christianity, the Slavs acquired high moral ideals and came closer to God? Locked up in magnificent temples, surrounded on all sides by feigned grandeur, the Slavs moved away from Mother Nature, but she is essentially divine. And the half-cut down sacred groves fell silent and fell asleep. Now the whispers of herbs and stones, the voices of spirits can no longer be heard... Those who survived in the world baptized by fire (and during the baptism by the “enlighteners” more than two-thirds of the population were destroyed! Didn’t you know?) became “Ivans who do not remember their kinship.” Glorious ancestors became “filthy pagans” for their descendants, and native gods became evil spirits. The richest folk wisdom suddenly dried up and was replaced by translated, church literature. Few domestic scribes, in unison with the Byzantine ones, taught people to live according to the new slave laws. Our language has lost the most beautiful words, and among them the names - Svetolika, Ladomila, Peresvet - these wonderful names created by our living Slavic soul were replaced by Greek, Jewish...
But the old faith was not completely destroyed. It is not so easy to destroy what has lived the soul of a people for thousands of years. Echoes of ancient beliefs mixed with the advancing Christian teaching, partly changing it. The baptists themselves also contributed to this, for a more lasting introduction of the new religion, timing the dates of new holidays with pagan ones, replacing the ancient gods with Christian saints.
Reader, do you believe in brownies and goblins? Did you sing carols as a child? Did you like fairy tales? (Or maybe you still love them?) Not “imported” ones, but ours, where the harmful old woman Baba Yaga, the sinister Koschey, a good fellow and a beautiful maiden are always waiting for you. This is the faith, strength and spirit of our ancestors, accumulated over thousands of years, surviving terrible persecution, undeservedly forgotten, but still dear to us.
We have forgotten about many things... that the world is alive, and Nature is divine... We are looking for something in books, not realizing that the truth is outside them... it is in the air! Not in the musty, dirty, dead city, but in the fact that each of us breathes in with pleasure, having left the city... Only in this way do we find spiritual harmony and only in this way do we know the truth... The truth that comes to us not through faith... Faith is blind... But Knowledge leads us to the truth - knowledge based on the power of Reason and Spirit on the ability to think independently.
Think about the ancient folk saying - blessed is he who believes, and strong is he who knows.
They also forgot that we are the descendants of the gods, finally!
Let's remember what has been forgotten! The era of Pisces, the era of lies and deception, illusions and misconceptions, sleep and intoxication, is passing away, and now we have entered the new era of Aquarius, the era of the spiritual rebirth of humanity. The wind of change has dispelled many obstacles on our path, but we must complete what we started. The ancient heritage of our ancestors, hidden from us by a veil of illusions, is ready to be reborn. But this is possible only when we open our eyes and, having awakened from a thousand-year sleep, are ready to rekindle in our hearts the ancient life-giving fire that burned in the hearts of our ancestors.
Slavs, brothers and sisters! In your eyes is the blue of the sky over the expanses of Rus', in your hearts is the flame of the Sun, in your veins is the blood of thousands of generations of glorious ancestors. Our time has come! Stand up, straighten up to your full height and say proudly:
“I am a Slav! I am Slavic!
Feel how your voice merges with millions of voices of your brothers, feel how the connection between generations is restored! By gathering our forces together, we will return everything to normal. And may our NATIVE GODS help us in this!
Annie Besant
Ancient wisdom
(Outline of Theosophical Teachings)
Introduction. Basic unity of all religions
To live well, you need to think well, and Divine Wisdom - shall we call it by its ancient Sanskrit name brahma-vidya or a more modern Greek name theosophy- is precisely such a broad worldview that is capable of satisfying the mind as a philosophy and, at the same time, giving the world a comprehensive religion and ethics. It was once said about the Christian scriptures that they contain places so accessible to everyone that a child could wade, and places so deep that only a giant could swim across them.
A similar definition can be made regarding Theosophy, for some of its teachings are so simple and applicable to life that any person with average development can both understand and implement them in his behavior, while others contain such depth that the most prepared the mind must strain all its strength to master them.
In this book an attempt will be made to lay before the reader the foundations of Theosophy in such a way as to clarify its main principles and truths, expressing a coherent view of the universe, and then to give such details as might facilitate the understanding of these principles and truths and their relationships. An elementary manual cannot claim to give the reader the fullness of knowledge, but it should give him clear basic concepts that he will be able to expand over time. The outline contained in this book gives me the main lines, so that in further study it remains only to fill them with the details necessary for a comprehensive knowledge.
It has long been noted that the great world religions have many common religious, ethical and philosophical ideas. But, while the fact itself has received general recognition, the reason for it causes a lot of disagreement. Some scholars admit that religions grew out of the soil of human ignorance, caused by the imagination of the savage, and were only gradually processed from the crude forms of animism and fetishism; their resemblance is attributed to primitive observations of the same natural phenomena, arbitrarily explained, the worship of the sun and stars being the common key to one school of thought, and phallic worship the same common key to the other. Fear, desire, ignorance and surprise led the savage to personify the forces of nature, and the priests took advantage of his fears and hopes, his vague fantasies and his bewilderment. Myths were gradually transformed into sacred scriptures, and symbols into facts, and since their foundations were the same everywhere, the similarity became inevitable. This is what the researchers of “Comparative Mythology” do, and although people are not convinced of their inability, they fall silent under the hail of strong evidence; they cannot deny the similarities, but at the same time their feeling protests: are the dearest hopes and the highest aspirations really nothing more than the result of the ideas of a savage and his hopeless ignorance? And is it possible that the great leaders of the human races, martyrs and heroes lived, fought and died only because they were deceived? Did they suffer because of the mere personification of astronomical facts, or because of the thinly disguised obscenities of barbarians?
Another explanation of the commonalities in the world's religions asserts the existence of a single original teaching, protected by the Brotherhood of great spiritual Teachers, whose origins date back to a different, earlier evolution. These teachers acted as educators and leaders of the young humanity of your planet and transmitted to the various races and peoples in turn the basic religious truths in the form most suitable for them. The founders of great religions were members of a single Brotherhood, and their assistants in this great task were Initiates and disciples of various degrees, distinguished by insight, philosophical knowledge or high purity of life. They directed the activities of infant nations, established their mode of government, made laws for them, governed them as kings, taught them as teachers, led them as priests; all the peoples of antiquity revered these great beings, demigods and heroes, who left their traces in literature, architecture and legislation.
Aphorisms are wisdom in portable form, a concentrated extract of thoughts and feelings.
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If you don’t feel the beauty of flowers, if you don’t love friendship and if songs don’t make any impression on you, then you’re sick and you need to be treated.
Arabic wisdom
A fool does not know the virtues of a wise man, a healthy person does not know the sufferings of a sick person.
Eastern wisdom
A doctor should be kinder and more attentive to the patient than his father, mother, friends and mentors.
Eastern wisdom
I wanted to eat everything
And you ate through force,
Yes, I'm sick
He went to his grave before his time.
Eastern wisdom
Eat breakfast yourself, share lunch with a friend, give dinner to your enemy.
Eastern wisdom
Who knew the limit in food -
He is in power
Who ate too much -
In grave.
Eastern wisdom
Don't rely on a hot-tempered friend, even if he is a kind person by nature.
Eastern wisdom
While a person surrenders to the dominion of anger, he is not human.
Eastern wisdom
Drunkenness does not give birth to vices: it reveals them. Happiness does not change morals, it emphasizes them.
Eastern wisdom.
Drunkenness is the door that opens the door to forbidden things.
Eastern wisdom
Taking a walk after eating is better than keeping a pharmacy.
Eastern wisdom
You need a healer if you are sick.
You are sad - you need a comforter.
Eastern wisdom
If you want to be strong, run, if you want to be beautiful, run, if you want to be smart, run!
Ancient Greek wisdom
Live in your youth so that you can be happy in your old age.
Ancient Indian wisdom
Six do not remember those who helped them before: a student - a teacher, a married son - a mother, a husband and wife who fell out of love, an assistant who achieved a goal, a guide who got out of the thicket, a sick person - a doctor.
Ancient Indian wisdom
Poison is knowledge without practice,
Poison is food for those unable to digest,
Poison is a poor man's friend,
Yad is an old man for a young wife
Ancient Indian wisdom
There is no friend equal to health; there is no enemy equal to disease.
Ancient Indian wisdom
First of all, do no harm, and then heal.
Ancient medical expression
A true doctor is always and most of all a true person.
Ancient wisdom
Guard your heart more than anything else, because from it comes the origins of life.
Ancient wisdom
The wine was asked: “Are you destroying or bringing good?”
Wine replied: “How many have been blessed - notI know, but the number of ruined ones is countless.”
Ancient wisdom
Consider work as rest when you have a great goal in front of you.
Iranian wisdom
He who drinks a lot pays later.
Spanish wisdom
The power of habit is heavy.
Latin wisdom
Hey, moaning one, work and don't cry,
For the suspicious, work is the best doctor.
Tajik wisdom
How wonderful a person would be if he improved himself with the same inspiration and tenacity as he cultivates the vine!
French wisdom
Work son! Old age will ask you where your youth was.
Yugoslav wisdom
The crucifixion in the flesh has already passed, the hour of liberation has struck, and the triumphant “it is finished!” comes from the lips of the winner. He crossed the threshold, he passed into the radiance of spiritual light, another son of the earth conquered death.
What secrets are kept behind the veil of that supreme Light - we do not know; We only vaguely feel that the higher Self has been found, that the lover and the beloved have merged into one.
The long search came to an end, the thirst of the heart was quenched forever, it entered into the joy of its Lord.
But has the earth lost its son, and humanity lost its victorious brother? No, he himself emerged from the depths of light and again stands on the threshold of Nirvana, being himself the embodiment of this light, not conveyed by mortal words, he is the manifested Son of God.
But now his gaze is turned to the earth, his eyes shine with divine compassion at the sight of the sons of men, his brothers in the flesh, he cannot leave them helpless and scattered, like sheep without a shepherd. Clothed in the majesty of complete renunciation, resplendent with the power of perfect wisdom and “endless life,” he returns to earth to bless and guide humanity as a Teacher of wisdom, the royal Teacher of man.
Returning in this way to earth, the Teacher devotes himself to serving for the benefit of the world with more powerful powers than those he possessed on the completed Path. He helps humanity and directs all the higher forces at his disposal to accelerate world evolution. He pays to all who approach the Path the debt which he assumed during the days of his own discipleship, and he helps, guides and teaches others, as he himself was guided and taught in his time.
These are the stages of human ascent from savage to perfect man. This is the goal towards which all humanity is slowly rising and which in time the entire human race will achieve.
Chapter XII
Structure of Space
At the present stage of evolution, only an approximate indication of a few points in the vast outline of the cosmic plan is possible, where our planet plays its small role. By “cosmos” here is meant a system which, emanating from the one Logos and supported by His Life, is - from our point of view - completely complete in itself. This is our solar system in which the physical sun can be considered as the lower manifestation of the Logos when He acts as the central force of His Cosmos. And all other forms are also His concrete manifestations, but the sun is His life-giving, strengthening, all-pervading, controlling, ordering and equalizing central force.
One occult commentary says: “Surya (the sun), in its visible reflection, is the first or lower state of the seventh highest state of world Presence, the pure first manifest Breath of the eternally unmanifested Sat (Being). All central, physical or objective Suns are essentially the lowest state of the first Beginning of the world Breath.”
In short, the lowest state of the “Physical Body” of the Logos.
All physical forces and energies are nothing more than transformations of life poured out by the sun, the Lord and Life-Giver of its system. Hence, in many ancient religions, the sun was a symbol of the Supreme Deity, a symbol less susceptible than others to false interpretations by ignorant people.
Mr. Sinnett expresses himself correctly when he says: “The solar system is in reality the arena of Nature, containing in itself much that only the greatest beings that our humanity can develop can know. Theoretically, we are on the right track when, looking into the night skies, we feel that our entire solar system is nothing more than a drop in the ocean of Space; but this drop in turn is an ocean, from the point of view of the consciousness of such half-developed beings contained in it as we are, and at the present time we cannot have any other idea than a vague and foggy one about its origin and composition. But however vague this idea may be, it still helps us to determine the true place of the subordinate planetary chain in which our own evolution takes place in the general system of which it forms a part, or, at any rate, to obtain a general idea of the relative magnitude of the entire system, about the size of our planetary chain and about those periods of evolution in which we as human beings are interested."
For, in fact, we cannot grasp our own place in the universe without an idea, however vague the latter may be, of our relation to the whole. While some people are able to operate within their own sphere without being disturbed by the wider spheres of the universe, other people feel a deep need to understand the all-encompassing world plan in which they take their place, and experience spiritual pleasure in rising to a height from which it is possible to survey everything. the vast field of evolution. This need was recognized and taken into account by the spiritual Guardians of humanity and gave rise to that magnificent outline of the Cosmos from the point of view of occultism, which was sketched by H.P. Blavatsky (their student and messenger) in The Secret Doctrine. This work will give more and more light as the students of the Ancient Wisdom begin to master the lower stages of our developing world.
The appearance of the Logos, we are told, is the herald of the birth of our Cosmos.
“When He manifested, everything else became manifest: after Him, through His manifestation, everything becomes manifest.” (Mundakopanishad II, ii, 10)
He brings with Him the fruits of the former cosmos, those powerful intelligent Spirits who become His collaborators and active forces in the universe He creates. The highest of them, those “Seven”, which are often called Logoi, since each of them, in its place, is the center of a certain cosmic department, just as the Logos is the center of everything.
The commentary we have just quoted says: “The Seven in the Sun are the Seven Sacred Beings, self-born from the inherent force in the womb of the Mother Substance... The energy from which their conscious existence in each Sun arises is that which is called Vishnu, which is Breath of Absoluteness. We call this the one manifested Life, which itself is a reflection of the Absolute.”
This one “manifested Life” is the Logos, God manifested.
From this primary division our cosmos receives its septenary character, and all subsequent divisions in their descending order reproduce the same septenary order. Each of the minor seven Logoi presides over an entire descending hierarchy of Spirits that govern His kingdom. Among them are the Lords of Karma (Lipika), this kingdom and all beings imprisoned in it, and the Devarajas, who oversee the fulfillment of the karmic law; and vast hosts of Builders who build all forms according to ideas residing in the treasury of the Logos, the World Mind. These ideas pass from Him to the "Seven", each of whom designs his own area under His supreme direction, while at the same time giving to that area his own individual coloring. H. P. Blavatsky calls these seven Kingdoms that make up our solar system the “seven centers of Laya.” She says:
“The seven Laya centers are the seven zero points, using the expression Zero in the same sense in which chemists use it. It signifies the point from which in esotericism the scale of calculus of differentiation begins. Proceeding from these centers, beyond which esoteric philosophy allows us to discern the vague metaphysical outlines of the “Seven Sons” of Life and Light, the seven Logoi of the Hermetic and all other philosophies, begins the differentiation of the elements that enter into the construction of our solar system.
Each of these kingdoms is a majestic planetary evolution, a vast field on which the stages of life are being lived out; an example of a transitory incarnation of such a stage can be a physical planet like Venus.
To avoid confusion, we will call the Leader of each kingdom the planetary Logos. He extracts from the matter of the solar system, poured out by the central Logos himself, all the raw materials necessary for Him and works on them through His own vital energy. Thus, each planetary Logos specializes the matter of its kingdom, taking it from the general supply. Since the atomic state of each of the seven spheres (planes) of His kingdom is identical with the matter of the corresponding division of the entire solar system, thereby continuity is maintained throughout the entire universe. As H. P. Blavatsky notes, atoms change “their combining equivalence on each planet,” but the atoms themselves remain identical, and only their combinations differ from each other.
She continues:
“Not only the elements of our planet, but also the elements of the other planets of the solar system differ in their combinations, as significantly from one another as from the cosmic elements outside our solar system... Each atom has seven planes of being or existence, as we are taught”...
Those. the seven sub-planes, as we call them, of each cosmic plane.
In the three lower spheres of His developing kingdom, the planetary Logos forms seven spherical worlds, which for convenience we will call globes A, B, C, D, E, F. These will be seven small rotating wheels, of which one gives rise to the other, as they say in Stanza VI of the book Dzyan. He builds them in the likeness of the previous wheels, establishing them in unchanging centers.
Unchangeable, for each wheel not only generates the next one, but is itself embodied in the same center, as we will see below.
These balls, or globes, can be depicted in three pairs arranged along an elliptical arc with the middle globe at the middle lower point. Globes A and G, the first and seventh, are at the level of arupa (without form) of the mental sphere; globes B and E, second and sixth, at the rupa level of the same sphere; globes B and D, third and fifth, in the astral sphere; globe G, fourth, in the physical sphere.
H. P. Blavatsky speaks of these globes as “transitional on the four lower planes of the world of forms,” i.e. in the physical and astral spheres and in two divisions of the mental rupa and arupa. They can be depicted like this:
This is the typical order, but it changes at certain stages of evolution. These seven globes form a planetary chain, and if we consider it as a whole, as a single planetary life or individual, then this chain can be said to pass through seven different stages during its evolution. The seven globes as a whole form its planetary body, and this body disintegrates and is formed again seven times during the entire planetary life. The planetary chain has seven incarnations, and all the results obtained in one are transferred to the next incarnation.
“Each such chain of worlds is the generation and creation of another lower one in an already dead chain, its reincarnation, so to speak”...
These seven incarnations constitute "planetary evolution", the realm of the planetary Logos. Since we have seven planetary Logoi, it appears that seven similar evolutions, all different from one another, constitute our solar system. In one occult commentary this origin of the Seven Logoi from One and the appearance of seven successive chains, each of which has seven globes, is described as follows:
“From one Light there are seven Lights; from each of the seven, seven times seven”...
Considering the incarnations of the planetary chain, its manvantaras, we learn that they are also divided into seven steps. The wave of life emanating from the planetary Logos circles around the entire chain, and seven such life waves, each of which is technically called a "circle", complete one manvantara. Thus each globe passes through seven periods of activity during one manvantara, and each such period becomes in its turn a field for developing life.
Considering a single globe, we find that during the period of its activity, seven indigenous human races develop on it, together with other non-human kingdoms, one dependent on the other. Since these seven kingdoms contain representatives at all stages of evolution, and all of them are subject to further development, the developing forms of one globe pass to another in order to continue their growth on it when the period of activity of the previous globe comes to an end; Thus, the developing forms move from globe to globe until the end of the complete “circle”. He continues his development, circle after circle, until the very end of the seven circles, or manvantara, that is, until the reincarnation of their planetary chain is completed, and all the results of planetary evolution are collected by the planetary Logos. Of all this incomprehensible world work, inaccessible to our earthly consciousness, only a few outstanding points have been indicated by the Teachers of the Wisdom.
And even if we come to that planetary evolution in which our own world is one of the stages, we remain completely ignorant of the processes through which its seven globes passed during the first two “rounds” or manvantaras; and of the relative third "circle" or third manvantara, we know only that the globe which is our visible moon was globe G of this planetary chain. But this fact may help us to understand what is meant by these successive reincarnations of the planetary chain. The seven globes of which the lunar chain consisted passed in their time through a septenary evolution; seven times the life wave, the Breath of the planetary Logos, passed around the entire chain, causing life successively on each of the globes. It was as if the Logos, directing his kingdom, directed his attention first to globe A and, thanks to this, countless forms arose on it, constituting in their totality the whole world. When their evolution reached a certain stage, He directed His attention to globe B, and then globe A began to fall into a peaceful sleep. Thus, the life wave passed from globe to globe until one “circle” ran around the entire chain, ending with globe G. This was followed by a period of rest, during which external evolutionary activity ceased. At the end of the period of rest, external evolution resumed, a second life wave arose, starting again from globe A.
The same process is repeated six times, but when the turn of the last, seventh “circle” comes, a new condition appears. Globe A, having completed its seventh life period, gradually disintegrates, but the imperishable center of life (laya centre), which was discussed, remains intact; from it, at the dawn of the subsequent Manvantara, a new globe A will develop, like a new body, in which all the “beginnings” of the previous planet A will reside. We only want to give an idea of the relationship that exists between globe A of the first and globe A of the second Manvantara. But the very nature of this relationship remains unknowable.
We know a little more about the connection between the globe G of the lunar manvantara (our moon) and the globe G of the earthly manvantara (our earth); in his book "The System to which we belong" Mr. Sinnett gives a good summary of our little knowledge on this subject. He says:
“The new nebula from which the earth arose developed around a center which stood in approximately the same relation to the dying planet as the centers of the earth and moon now stand. But in a nebulous state, this accumulation of matter occupied an infinitely larger volume than the dense matter of the real earth. It spread so far in all directions that it also embraced the old planet in its fiery embrace. The temperature of the new nebula, apparently, significantly exceeded those temperatures of which we have any idea, and thanks to this the surface of the old planet was heated to such an extent that all the water and all the volatile substances contained in it came into a gaseous state and were thus made accessible to the influence of the new center of gravity, which formed in the center of the new nebula. Thus the air and seas of the old planet were, as it were, drawn into the composition of the new planet, and that is why the moon, in its present state, is a barren mass, devoid of clouds, uninhabited and unfit for the existence of any physical beings. When the present manvantara approaches its end, during the seventh round, the disintegration of the moon will be completed, and that matter which still holds it in conjunction will turn into meteoric dust."
The third volume of The Secret Doctrine, which contains some of the oral teachings that H. P. Blavatsky gave to her most advanced disciples, says:
“At the beginning of the evolution of our planet, the moon was much closer to the earth and was larger than it is now. It retreated from us and greatly decreased in volume (the moon gave all its origins to the earth...). A new moon will appear during the seventh circle, and our moon will finally disintegrate into its component parts and disappear.”
During the lunar manvantara, evolution produced seven classes of beings, technically called "Fathers" or Pitris, for from them descended the beings of the earthly manvantara. In the Secret Doctrine they are called "Lunar Pitris".
Greater development than the latter were distinguished by two other classes, called variously: sometimes Solar Pitris, sometimes people, sometimes Lower Dhyanis, who were already too advanced in their development to enter earthly evolution at its early stages. The highest of these two classes consisted of beings who had achieved individuality, similar to animals, who possessed rudimentary souls, therefore they also had “abiding bodies” (corps causal). The second class was only approaching the organization of the first. The first class of “Lunar Pitris” already showed intelligence, while the second and third classes had only a passionate (karmic) beginning.
The seven classes of “Lunar Pitris” were the fruits that the lunar chain handed over for the further development of the earthly chain, the fourth incarnation of our entire planetary system. Like Monads, who have already mastered the beginning of reason in the first grade, with a developed beginning of passion in the second and third grades, with the rudiment of passion in the fourth, and only approaching the rudimentary state in the even less developed fifth grade and with a completely imperceptible rudiment in the sixth and seventh class, the “Lunar Pitrices” entered the earthly chain to inspire the “elemental essence” and those forms that were created by the Builders. The name “Builders” covers a countless number of disembodied Spirits, entire hierarchies of beings of various levels of consciousness and power, who are busy building forms in all spheres of the universe. The higher ones direct and control, while the lower ones build according to ready-made models.
Now we see the meaning of successive globes in the planetary chain. Globe A is the world of primary forms; models of forms that will develop during the subsequent manvantara are built in it.
The Mind of the planetary Logos gives the highest of the “Builders” the primitive Ideas, and they guide those Builders who, at the level of the arupa mental sphere, develop the prototypes of all forms for the emerging manvantara. On globe B, these prototypes are reproduced in various forms from mental matter by “Builders” of the lower category, after which they begin to slowly develop along various lines until they become capable of receiving particles of denser matter (the process of infiltration); after this, the work of the “Builders” begins in astral matter and on globe B the construction of astral forms with more elaborate details appears. When the construction of forms is completed, as far as astral conditions allow, the “Builders” of globe G take upon themselves the task of constructing physical forms from the lowest form of matter, with the forms reaching their greatest density.
Here evolution reaches its turning point, and then its entire character changes somewhat. Hitherto, on the descending arc, all attention has been directed to the construction of form; on the ascending arc the main attention is paid to the use of form as a conductor of developing life, and in the second half of the evolution on globe G and on globes D and E consciousness is expressed in the physical, astral and lower mental spheres through the equivalents of those forms that were developed on the descending arc of evolution .
On the descending arc the Monad impresses itself, as far as possible, on the developing forms, and these impressions express themselves vaguely as sensations, intuitions, etc.; on the ascending arc the Monad expresses itself through forms as their inner commanding principle. On globe G, the perfection of this circle has been achieved; the Monad inhabits the forms that were ideal prototypes on globe A, and uses them as its vehicles.
At all these stages, the “Lunar Pitris” acted as the souls of the emerging forms, first overshadowing them, and then making their abode out of them. The most difficult work during the first three “circles” falls to the lot of the first category of “Pitrises”; “Pitrises” of the second and third categories are infused into the forms developed by the first category; This first category prepares the forms, inspires them for a while, and then leaves them to the second and third categories to own.
By the end of the first circle, the prototypes of the forms of the mineral kingdom reach the lower plane and are subject to further development during subsequent “circles” until they, in the middle of the fourth “circle,” reach their greatest density.
The element of this first circle is Fire.
In the second circle, the first category of “Pitris” continues its human evolution, but at its most primitive stage, similar to that which in our time is a human embryo; while the second category of “Pitris”, by the end of the circle, reaches only the very beginning of the human stage. The task of this second “circle” relates to the prototypes of plant forms, which reach their perfection only in the fifth “circle”. Air is the “element” of this fifth circle.
In the third circle, the first class of “Pitrises” finally achieves a human form; and although their bodies are gelatinous in composition and gigantic in size, they nevertheless reach such a density on globe G that they can stand. During this period, the human form resembles a monkey and is covered with hairy bristles. At the same time, the third class of “Pitris” reaches the beginning of the human stage.
During the same circle, the second category of "Solar Pitris" appears for the first time on globe G and takes upon itself the leadership of human evolution. The animal prototypes descend to develop to perfection at the end of the sixth circle. The characteristic “element” of the third circle is water.
The fourth, the middle of the seven circles that make up the earthly manvantara, is predominantly human, while in the previous ones the evolution of the animal, vegetable and mineral kingdoms took place.
All the rudiments of human forms appear already in the fourth circle, but their full realization will occur only in the seventh circle. The "element" of this circle is earth, the densest and most material of all the elements.
It can be said that the "Solar Pitrices" of the first order rush around globe G during the fourth round, but they do not fully incarnate until the third great outpouring of the life of the planetary Logos, which occurs in the middle of the third race, and only from that time do they begin slowly and little by little to incarnate, increasing the number of incarnations along with the development of the race. Incarnations begin in large numbers only at the beginning of the fourth race.
The evolution of humanity on our globe, on globe G, represents in strictly marked lines the sevenfold division of our solar system, which was discussed. Seven human races had already appeared during the third round, and in the fourth this basic difference was already fully revealed on globe B, on which seven embryonic races developed, each with its own sub-races. On globe G, the first root race arises at seven different points, “seven of them each in its own place.” These seven types, appearing simultaneously, constitute the first root race, which in turn is divided into seven sub-races. From the first root race, which consisted of gelatinous amorphous creatures, a second root race with a more definite body composition develops, and from it comes a third root race, ape-like creatures of gigantic size. In the middle of the evolution of this third root race, called the Lemurian, there appeared on earth (from another planetary chain of Venus, which was incomparably further advanced in its evolution) representatives of the highly developed humanity of this chain, light beings who are referred to as the Sons of Fire, due to their brilliant appearance , and who represent one of the highest ranks among the Sons of Reason. They settle on earth as Divine Teachers of young humanity, and some of them act as vehicles for the third wave of the life of the Logos, introducing into animal man the spark of monadic life from which the “corps causal” is formed. Thus, the first, second and third classes of “Lunar Pitris” receive individuality. Ordinary humanity appears. The two classes of "Solar Pitris", having already previously achieved individuality (the first of them before leaving the lunar chain, and the second later), form the two lower orders of the Sons of Reason; the second of them incarnates in the middle of the third race, and the first appears later, mainly in the fourth Atlantean race. The fifth or Aryan race, which now stands at the head of human evolution, was descended from the fifth sub-race of the Atlanteans, the most prominent families of which were isolated and installed in central Asia, the new racial type developing under the direct supervision of a High Being, technically called Manu.
From central Asia, the first sub-race of the fifth root race crossed into India and settled south of the Himalayas, divided into four stages: teachers, warriors, merchants and workers; it became the dominant race on the vast Hindustan Peninsula, subjugating to its power the peoples of the fourth and third root races who inhabited India at that time.
At the end of the seventh race of the seventh circle, that is, at the end of our earthly manvantara, our earthly chain will transmit the fruits of all its experiences to the subsequent chain; these fruits will be divinely perfect people, Buddhas, Manus, Teachers, ready to take upon themselves the leadership of a new evolution at the direction of the planetary Logos, together with a whole host of less developed beings of all levels of consciousness, who still need physical experience to improve the divine inherent in them makings. The fifth, sixth and seventh manvantaras of our chain are still in the depths of the future, which will come at the end of the current fourth manvantara, when the planetary Logos will collect all the fruits of evolution and enter, together with its children, into a period of peace and bliss. We not only cannot speak about this high state at our stage of development, we are not even able to imagine its inexpressible glory and bliss. We have only a vague presentiment that our enlightened spirit will enter into the joy of the Lord and, resting in Him, will see stretching out limitless vistas of divine life and love, the heights and depths of such power and such joy that are as limitless as the One Being, as inexhaustible, as One Entity.
