Centre of the Manifested World

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky · Mystic Verse and Insights Series · 2 pages

Two pages from the Miscellaneous Notes in Blavatsky Collected Writings volume X, first published in Lucifer for December 1888. A reader's question is quoted in full before the answer, which is a single short paragraph.

The correspondent had been discussing the disputed word Theos in 1 Timothy iii, 16 across the various surviving Codices, and asked what the occult meaning of the symbol is, and in what sense St Paul and his copyists used it as an equivalent to the Ineffable God. The reply gives the symbol an occult meaning rather than a textual one. It is called the primordial Ideation, the plane for the double-sexed logos, the first differentiation of the ever-unknowable Principle or abstract Nature which is itself sexless and infinite. The point is described as the first formation of the root of all things growing out of the rootless Root, what the Vedāntins call Parabrahm, and as the periodical and ever-recurring primordial manifestation after every Night of Brahmā — potential space appearing within abstract space. The identification is then made explicit and negative before it is made positive: not Jehovah, assuredly not, but the Unknown God of the Athenians, the IT which St Paul, called here the master Mason and the Initiate, declared to them. The last line names it the unmanifested Logos.

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