Proposition 1: The Seven Forces of Nature

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky · Secret Doctrine's First Proposition Series · 7 pages

Seven pages, *one of the shortest files in the section, drawn from Blavatsky's Collected Writings volume VII, from the paper on the classification of principles, pages 291 to 292. The frontispiece is by Vlad Studio and the illustration on page 4, Triality*, is by Globalunion.

The claim is that the one eternal law unfolds everything in manifested nature on a sevenfold principle, including the countless circular chains of worlds composed of seven globes — four graduated on the lower planes of the world of formation, the other three belonging to the archetypal universe. Only one of those seven globes, the lowest and most material, lies within our means of perception; the other six are outside it and invisible to the terrestrial eye. Every such chain of worlds is described as the progeny and reincarnation of another, lower and dead chain. The parallel the file exists to draw is between those invisible companions and what are called the principles in man: seven on three material planes and one spiritual plane, answering to the three Upādhis or material bases and the one spiritual vehicle of the human division. The second half turns to the forces. There are six forces in nature, in Buddhism as in Brahmanism and in exoteric as in esoteric teaching, emanated by a seventh — the all-Force or absolute Force which is the synthesis of them all. Nature is said to strike the keynote to this classification in her own constructive activity, and the third aphorism of the Sankhya-karika is cited for it: Prakriti, the root and substance of all things, is herself no production but the producer of seven things which in their turn become producers. The illustration given is a homely one — liquids separated from their parent mass take spheroid, triangular, hexagonal and cubical forms.

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