Early Fragments of Esoteric Cosmogony

A Himalayan Master of Wisdom and His Chelas · The Masters Speak Series · 23 pages

Twenty-three pages, the longest file in this section, opened by a contents page and train of thoughts. It has three distinct parts: the cosmogonical fragments themselves, a set of difficulties raised by a student of occultism with the answers returned to him, and a closing section on precocious minds.

The definition offered at the outset is compact enough to quote: cosmogony is the physiology of the universe spiritualised. What follows describes the two forces by their behaviour rather than by their names — the active principle attracted by the passive, and the Great Nag, the serpent emblem of eternity, drawing its tail to its mouth and so forming a circle in the incessant pursuit of the negative by the positive. The claim made about them is the one the whole section turns on: separated, the two opposing forces are unconscious and non-existent, and it is only when brought together that they become consciousness and life. From there the fragments describe the post-mortem disintegration of the constituent parts of man and the return of each to its own source, before the Great Serpent awakes. The middle section is unusually candid in form, printing a student's stated difficulty, an editorial note by Blavatsky, and a reply from a chela — so that the reader sees the objection as well as the answer. The last part is the most concrete, and gives named examples of what the doctrine calls fifth- and sixth-rounders: the Seeress of Prevorst as an example of the first and Count St Germain of the second; Confucius and Plato as fifth-rounders; and Gautama Buddha and Shankaracharya termed sixth-rounders allegorically, with the former placed higher still. It closes on a caution against reading these as separate entities at all — monads are said not to be discrete principles, limited or conditioned, but rays from one universal and absolute principle, illustrated by two sunbeams entering a dark room through the same aperture.

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