That Pure Desire, of Whom Love Is Born

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky · Higher Ethics and Devotion Series · 20 pages

A twenty-page compilation opened by an abstract and train of thoughts with page references. The running head names its three subjects: magnetic affinity, attraction, affection.

The argument opens by identifying what the ancients meant by their own vocabulary — that what science calls gravitation, they called magnetism, affinity and attraction. Kama-Deva is then defined at length, and the definition is the heart of the file: the first conscious all-embracing desire for universal good, for love, and for all that lives and feels and needs help and kindness — the first feeling of infinite tender compassion and mercy to arise in the consciousness of the Creative Force, which came into being by a single ray of Light and Truth. From that pure desire, of whom Love is born, affection is said to descend. Pythagoras follows, his Primeval Monad flashing out like lightning from the Central Point, thrilling through the Germ and retiring into darkness as the Rootless Root of all things, with the note that the Pythagorean system rests entirely on sacred numbers, harmony and correspondences. The physical account is then given in the same terms: space filled with atoms in ceaseless rotationary motion, aggregated atoms producing lateral movements of affinity through mutual collision. Sounds and colours are called spiritual numerals, the splendour and variety of colours lying deep in the affinities of nature, with a singular alliance between colour and sound; and the Creative Force is said to produce colours, sounds and numbers as rates of vibration which compound and dissociate atoms. The closing section states the doctrine of correspondence outright — that terrestrial natures receive the plenitude of the celestial, and the celestial of the supercelestial.

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