Squaring the Circle in Heaven, or Sphering the Cube?

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky · Secret Doctrine's First Proposition Series · 40 pages

Forty pages, opened by a full abstract and train of thoughts, and *the largest file in this batch by size at over four megabytes*. Its subtitle states the moral rather than the geometry: the soul-ennobling struggle of animal man to reclaim his divinity by surrendering his material nature to the behests of his own spirit, with unselfish love of all that lives and feels, and needs help and kindness.

It opens with the same overview of the primal symbols of cosmogenesis that stands at the head of "Proposition 1 - The Rope of the Angels" — the two files share that section almost word for word, some three thousand characters of it, so a reader who has one has that part of the other. The First One is a ray from Parabrahman; the Second One, the Logos Demiourgos, is a mere reflection of the first; the Virgin Matrix of the universe is cold fire, cool radiance, colourless, formless and devoid of every quality. Where this file goes its own way is in pursuing the figure through its transformations, and the questions it sets are the clearest statement of what the First Proposition is about: how the triangle becomes a square, and the square a six-faced cube; what the key is to the septenary significance of the primordial circle; and what the four cardinal points are upon which the rock-cut temples of India were built. The Four Maharajahs or Great Kings are introduced as the divine instructors of nascent humanity and the agents of Karma on earth, distinguished from the Lipikas, who are concerned with humanity's hereafter; and Pistis-Sophia is brought in to expound the geometrical symbolism of the circle. The second movement takes the Pythagorean Monas as a solitary ray striding through the seven regions of the universe in three steps — the steps of Vishnu — with the unmanifested Logos as the First One, the Second Logos as the One made Three, and the Third Logos as the point where the Three live within the One, making up the perfect square in heaven and a cube on earth. Sephirah is derived from the horizontal diameter and the Sephiroth, the sevenfold Logoi, from the vertical. Both single-sheet drawings held in this section are reproduced within the file.

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