Miscellaneous.
Project Gutenberg EPUB3 edition
Blavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna)
Q. We are told thatAum“should be practised physically.”Does this mean that, colour being more differentiated than sound, it is only through the colours that we shall get at the real sound of each of us? and thatAumcan only have its Spiritual and Occult signification when turned to the Âtmâ-Buddhi-Manas of each person?
A.Aum means good action, not merely lip-sound. You must say it in deeds.
Q. With reference to the triangle, is not the Âtmâ-Buddhi-Manas different for each entity, according to the plane on which he is?
A. Each Principle is on a different plane. The Chelâ must rise to one after the other, assimilating each, until the three are one. This is the real root of the Trinity.
Q. In The Secret Doctrine we are told that Âkâsha is the same as Pradhâna. Âkâsha is the Auric Egg of the earth, and yet Âkâsha is Mahat. What that is the relation of Manas to the Auric Egg?
A. Mûlaprakriti is the same as Âkâsha (seven degrees). Mahat is the positive aspect of Âkâsha, and is the Manas of the Kosmic Body. Mahat is to Âkâsha as Manas is to Buddhi, and Pradhâna is but another name for Mûlaprakriti.
The Auric Egg is Âkâsha and has seven degrees. Being pure abstract substance, it reflects abstract ideas, but also reflects lower concrete things.
The Third Logos and Mahat are one, and are the same as the Universal Mind, Alaya.
The Tetraktys is the Chatur Vidyâ, or the fourfold knowledge in one, the four-faced Brahmâ.