The One Ray Strides Through 7 Regions in 3 Steps

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, William Quan Judge · Secret Doctrine's First Proposition Series · 23 pages

Twenty-three pages with a full abstract and train of thoughts. Despite the Worlds of Being prefix it shares with the two chart sheets on the section list, *this one is a full study rather than a diagram*, and it is the most sustained treatment in the section of how the one becomes the many.

It opens on the first world of being as the noumenal world of truth, introduced by the image the series returns to most often — a bright star dropped from the heart of eternity, lighting a beacon of hope, on whose seven rays hang the seven worlds of being. The two questions set at the front are the ones the file answers: how the solitary ray, shooting like a falling star through the planes of non-being into the first world of being, gives birth to the Ideal Triangle before withdrawing whence it came; and why light is said to drop one solitary ray into the waters, and how that ray is represented in connection with the triangle. The Pythagorean Monas is then followed through its three steps — the steps of Vishnu — across the seven regions of the universe: the first or unmanifested Logos as The One; the question of who the Two Ones are; the Second Logos as the One made Three, concreting into the Third Logos where the Three live within the One, making up the perfect square in heaven and a cube on earth. The dotted line in the accompanying diagram is explained, Sephirah is derived from the horizontal diameter and the Sephiroth, the sevenfold Logoi, serially from the vertical, and the number three is described as striding through the seven regions. Two smaller points are made along the way that a reader will meet elsewhere in the series: that the terrestrial number two is useless and unlucky, and that twin serpents conceal the One from the many. The last section holds the summary — the sevenfold Logos vivifies the seven worlds of being, its seven rays being three principles plus four vehicles, or the seven-syllabled Oeaohoo on the material plane — with the seven worlds symbolised by the Ladder, and a comparison of Kosmos with Cosmos to close.

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