Blavatsky on the Force of the Mineral Monas

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky · Secret Doctrine's Third Proposition Series · 9 pages

Nine pages opened by a short abstract, with a frontispiece by Karina Eibatova, revised in June 2024. *The companion diagram is held separately in this section* as "Diagram 2 — The Force of the Mineral Monas", and the two are best opened together.

The distinction the file exists to establish is a numerical one, and it is easy to state: the Mineral Monas is one and indivisible, a form of Prakriti, whereas the higher animal and human monases are countless. From that follows the correction it is most concerned to make — that the one Monas bears no relation to atoms or molecules. Atoms and molecules are described instead as ordered and progressive manifestations of the energy inherent in the Monas, unfolding from abstract to concrete, in a Monas which has not yet become individualised. The reasoning offered is that monases are uncompounded things, so what constitutes the Monas properly is the spiritual essence and force which vivifies them in their several degrees of differentiation — and not the atomic aggregation of matter, which is only the vehicle and substance through which the lower and higher degrees of intelligence thrill. That last phrase is the one the accompanying diagram illustrates. Read beside "Adventures and Peregrinations of the Metaphysical Atom" in this section, this file gives in nine pages what that one takes a hundred and twenty-seven to develop, which makes it the better place for a reader to begin.

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