The occult genesis from Atom to Infinite

According to the esoteric Teaching, the Planets and the physical Sun are Sons of the Mother-Space, and the Planets, before becoming the abodes of the planetary Creators or Logoi, were comets and suns, and originally “Centers of Force, the invisible Sparks or primordial Atoms”.

From Cosmogenesis, by H. P. Blavatsky:

“In the Rig Veda, Aditi, “The Boundless” or infinite Space… is the equivalent of “Mother-Space” coeval with “Darkness”. She is very properly called “The Mother of the Gods”, DEVA-MATRI, as it is from her Cosmic matrix that all the heavenly bodies of our system were born — Sun and Planets. Thus she is described, allegorically, in this wise: “Eight Sons were born from the body of Aditi; she approached the gods with seven, but cast away the eighth, Martanda”, our sun. The seven sons called the Aditya are, cosmically or astronomically, the seven planets; and the Sun being excluded from their number shows plainly that the Hindus may have known, and in fact knew of a seventh planet, without calling it Uranus. [1]

But esoterically and theologically, so to say, the Adityas are, in their primitive most ancient meanings, the eight, and the twelve great gods of the Hindu Pantheon. “The Seven allow the mortals to see their dwellings, but show themselves only to the Arhats”, says an old proverb, “their dwellings” standing here for planets. The ancient Commentary gives an allegory and explains it:

“Eight houses were built by Mother. Eight houses for her Eight Divine sons; four large and four small ones. Eight brilliant suns, according to their age and merits. Bal-ilu [Mârttânda] was not satisfied, though his house was the largest. He began [to work) as the huge elephants do. He breathed [drew in) into his stomach the vital airs of his brothers. He sought to devour them. The larger four were far away; far, on the margin of their kingdom. [2]  [Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune – ed]

They were not robbed [affected], and laughed. Do your worst, Sir, you cannot reach us, they said. But the smaller wept. They complained to the Mother. She exiled Bal-i-lu to the centre of her Kingdom, from whence he could not move. [Since then] he [only] watches and threatens. He pursues them, turning slowly around himself, they turning swiftly from him, and he following from afar the direction in which his brothers move on the path that encircles their houses. [3] From that day he feeds on the sweat of the Mother’s body. He fills himself with her breath and refuse. Therefore, she rejected him”.

Thus the “rejected Son” being our Sun, evidently, as shown above, the “Sun-Sons” refer not only to our planets but to the heavenly bodies in general. Himself only a reflection of the Central Spiritual Sun, Surya is the prototype of all those bodies that evolved after him. In the Vedas he is called Loka-Chakshuh, “the Eye of the World” (our planetary world), and he is one of the three chief deities. He is called indifferently the Son of Dyaus and of Aditi, because no distinction is made with reference to, or scope allowed for, the esoteric meaning. Thus he is depicted as drawn by seven horses, and by one horse with seven heads; the former referring to his seven planets, the latter to their one common origin from the One Cosmic Element. 

This “One Element” is called figuratively “FIRE”. The Vedas teach “that the fire verily is all the deities”.

The meaning of the allegory is plain, for we have both the Dzyan Commentary and modern science to explain it, though the two differ in more than one particular. The Occult Doctrine rejects the hypothesis born out of the Nebular Theory, that the (seven) great planets have evolved from the Sun’s central mass, not of this our visible Sun, at any rate. The first condensation of Cosmic matter of course took place about a central nucleus, its parent Sun; but our sun, it is taught, merely detached itself earlier than all the others, as the rotating mass contracted, and is their elder, bigger brother therefore, not their father. The eight Adityas, “the gods”, are all formed from the eternal substance (Cometary matter [4]— the Mother) or the “World-Stuff” which is both the fifth and the sixth Cosmic Principle, the Upâdhi or basis of the Universal Soul, just as in man, the Microcosm, Manas [5] is the Upâdhi of Buddhi. [6]

There is a whole poem on the pregenetic battles fought by the growing planets before the final formation of Kosmos, thus accounting for the seemingly disturbed position of the systems of several planets, the plane of the satellites of some (of Neptune and Uranus, for instance, of which the ancients knew nothing, it is said) being tilted over, thus giving them an appearance of retrograde motion.

These planets are called the warriors, the Architects, and are accepted by the Roman Church as the leaders of the heavenly Hosts, thus showing the same traditions. Having evolved from Cosmic Space, and before the final formation of the primaries and the annulation of the planetary nebula, the Sun, we are taught, drew into the depths of its mass all the Cosmic [local – ed] vitality he could, threatening to engulf his weaker “Brothers” before the law of attraction and repulsion was finally adjusted; after which he began feeding on “The Mother’s refuse and sweat”; in other words, on those portions of Ether (the “breath of the Universal Soul”) of the existence and constitution of which science is as yet absolutely ignorant… the diffused matter or Ether which is the recipient of the heat radiations of the Universe is thereby drawn into the depths of the solar mass. Expelling thence the previously condensed and thermally exhausted Ether, it becomes compressed and gives up its heat, to be in turn itself driven out in a rarified and cooled state, to absorb a fresh supply of heat, which… in this way is taken up by the Ether, and again concentrated and redistributed by the Suns of the Universe.

… Occultism explains it by “the dead breath” given back by Mârttânda and his feeding on the “sweat and refuse” of “Mother Space”. What could affect Neptune, Saturn and Jupiter, but little, would have killed such comparatively small “Houses” as Mercury, Venus and Mars [and the Moon (the primordial Earth according to Theosophy)? ed]. As Uranus was not known before the end of the eighteenth century, the name of the fourth planet mentioned in the allegory must remain to us, so far, a mystery.

The “Breath” of all the “seven” is said to be Bhâskara (light-making), because they (the planets) were all comets and suns in their origin. They evolve into Manvantaric [manifested – ed] life from primaeval Chaos (now the noumenon of irresolvable nebulae) by aggregation and accumulation of the primary differentiations of the eternal matter, according to the beautiful expression in the Commentary, “Thus the Sons of Light clothed themselves in the fabric of Darkness”.

They are called allegorically “the Heavenly Snails”, on account of their (to us) formless Intelligences inhabiting unseen their starry and planetary homes, and, so to speak, carrying them as the snails do along with themselves in their revolution. The doctrine of a common origin for all the heavenly bodies and planets, was, as we see, inculcated by the Archaic astronomers, before Kepler, Newton, Leibnitz, Kant, Herschel and Laplace. Heat (the Breath), attraction and repulsion — the three great factors of Motion — are the conditions under which all the members of all this primitive family are born, developed, and die, to be reborn after a “Night of Brahma”, during which eternal matter relapses periodically into its primary undifferentiated state.

The most attenuated gases can give no idea of its nature to the modern physicist. Centres of Forces at first, the invisible sparks of primordial atoms differentiate into molecules, and become Suns — passing gradually into objectivity gaseous, radiant, cosmic, the one “Whirlwind” (or motion) finally giving the impulse to the form, and the initial motion, regulated and sustained by the never-resting Breaths — the Dhyân Chohans [the Logoi – ed].”

Each invisible Spark, the Monad or Unit of conscious life, or the primordial Atom of the Mother-Space, is a Center of Force destined to govern cosmic abodes that are increasingly organic or consciously coordinated with the evolution of the universal Order.

The monads of the Fourth human Hierarchy, the atoms or conscious units of the planetary Logoi, we in Essence, are walking the middle way between being primeval Sparks and the universal Consciousness of the central spiritual Suns.

“The Doctrine teaches that, in order to become a divine, fully conscious god, — aye, even the highest — the Spiritual primeval INTELLIGENCES must pass through the human stage. And when we say human, this does not apply merely to our terrestrial humanity, but to the mortals that inhabit any world, i.e., to those Intelligences that have reached the appropriate equilibrium between matter and spirit, as we have now, since the middle point of the Fourth Root Race of the Fourth Round was passed. Each Entity must have won for itself the right of becoming divine, through self-experience. … This explains also the hidden Kabalistic meaning of the saying: “The Breath becomes a stone; the stone, a plant; the plant, an animal; the animal, a man; the man, a spirit; and the spirit, a god.” The Mind-born Sons, the Rishis, the Builders, etc., were all men — of whatever forms and shapes — in other worlds and the preceding Manvantaras.

Are we able to support this vision and awareness in the here and now of our daily lives? Sometimes, never, always.

Recognising Space as the Mother of Manifestation, Matter/Substance as the divine Abode of the Spirit and we as Atoms of the living Space, unveils our real potential and power, and reveals the sublime nature of Appearance as veil of the Infinite.

We are Infinite.

 

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[1]  The Secret Doctrine teaches that the Sun is a central star and not a planet. Yet the ancients recognised and worshipped seven great Gods, excluding the Sun and the Earth. Who was that “mysterious God” that they set apart? Of course not Uranus, discovered only in 1781 by Herschel. But could it not be known under another name? Ragon says: “Since Occult Sciences had discovered, through astronomical calculations, that the number of planets must be seven, the ancients were persuaded to introduce the Sun into the scale of celestial harmonies, making it fill the vacant place. So whenever they perceived an influence that did not belong to any of the known planets, they attributed it to the Sun… The error seems important, but it was not such in its practical results, if the astrologers replaced Uranus with the Sun, which is a central star, relatively motionless, which rotates only on its own axis, regulating time and measure; and which cannot be diverted from its true functions”. (Maçonnerie Occulte, p. 447). The naming of the days of the week is also wrong. “The Day of the Sun (Sun-day) ought to be Uranus-day (Urani dies, Urandi)”, adds the erudite writer.

[2] The Planetary System

[3] The Sun rotates on its axis, in the same direction in which the planets travel on their respective orbits; this is what astronomy teaches us [counterclockwise].

[4] Occult Science teaches us that this essence of comet matter differs totally from any chemical or physical characteristic known to modern science. It is homogeneous in its primitive form beyond the Solar Systems and differs entirely as it crosses the limits of the region of our Earth; altered by the atmospheres of the planets and the already complex matter of the interplanetary fabric, it is heterogeneous only in our manifested world.

[5] Manas – the Principle of the Mind, or Human Soul

[6] Buddhi – the Divine Soul