Drawing 1: Forces and States of Consciousness

Philaletheians UK · Buddhas and Initiates Series · 1 page

A single A4 sheet, and the most densely annotated of the five Drawings. It maps three columns against each other — the macrocosmic planes as the spirit of our solar system, the prakritic planes as its body, and the microcosmic planes as the human states of consciousness on every prakritic plane — with the seven numbered stages running up each: Prakritic, Astral, Jivic, Fohatic, Mahatic, Alayic, and their counterparts.

The note to students explains why the sheet exists at all: Blavatsky left the correspondences for the student to work out, pointing only to the fact that the prakritic consciousness had its own seven stages, each forming one of the forty-nine sub-stages of the solar system. The annotation directs attention to one triangle in particular, with its apex in the Manasic state and its base in the Kama-Manasic — the apex being Manas, the Higher Ego, the Christos, which on sending out its ray becomes crucified between two thieves. One thief, the pure part of the Lower Manas, repents and goes with the Christos to Paradise; the other clings to Kama and is dissipated in Kama-Loka. It is offered as a PDF for printing and a JPG for screen.

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