Approach to the Secret Doctrine by N.C. Ramanujachary

The Secret Doctrine, the prominent work of Madame Blavatsky (1831-’91), is available to the reading public of the world since 1888. This has been commented upon, annotated, abridged and analogized by many the world over all the century and over. Numerous Texts and Discourses have been made and published.

The following ‘short-notes’ is an attempted precise of the Preface, Introductory, the Proem and the New Propositions of the Text, enabling an easy access for the Indian Readers and to inculcate enthusiasm in them to get to the original work.

The internal evidence in the text ‘The Secret Doctrine’ provides the validation of the propositions made, many of which have also been revalidated by subsequent discoveries in Science and History. Clues on the concepts were adapted by scientists and thinkers and further dis-coverage of ‘natural laws’ came out.

The impact, relevance and incidence of the text inclusively endows upon all areas of human thought, consideration. Though the work was stated then to contain what humanity needs for a century to come, it sounds today that much more could be explored and so the text is for all the time.

Among the areas of human thought, Science is considered the prominent branch today. and we shall see, in the following statements, Blavatskian Thought prophesied stand validated today:

The atom is divisible, and must consist of particles, or of sub-atoms.--- It is on the doctrine of the illusive nature of matter, and the infinite divisibility of the atom, that the whole science of occultism is built. (S.D.I:519-20)

Occultism says that in all cases where matter appears inert, it is the most active. A wooden or a stone block is motionless and impenetrable to all intents and purposes. Nevertheless and de facto its particles are in ceaseless eternal vibration which is so rapid that to the physical eye the body seems absolutely devoid of motion; and the spatial distance between those particles in their vibratory motion is – considered from another plane of being and perception – as great as that which separates snowflakes or drops of rain. But to physical science this will be an absurdity. (S.D. I:507-8)

The wave motion of living particles becomes comprehensible on the theory of a spiritual … universal Vital principle, independent of our matter, and manifesting as atomic energy only on our plane of consciousness.(SD 2:672)

Madame Blavatsky, in her Preface to The Secret Doctrine, makes certain points explicit. The book is not an amended and enlarged version of her earlier work “Isis Unveiled.” She apologizes for the delay in the production of the book. She gives two reasons: Ill-health of the writer; magnitude of the undertaking. She also states that the third and fourth volumes of the text will be released depending on the reception from the thinking world on the present two volumes. (These volumes did not come out; even their existence has become a point of debate.)Though she is a foreigner for the English language and is not sure of her literary style, she says that English is employed because ‘it offers the most widely-diffused medium for conveying the truths which it had become her duty to place before the world.’

She makes a distinction between the Author and Writer of the text, suggesting that she is only the writer or scribe while the authorship is with the Teachers that taught her and commanded her to write. This speaks volumes for her reverence and adoration of her Spiritual Teachers.

She emphatically says that the truths put forward are not ‘revelations’ and also that the mystic-lore is not made public for the first time now. Its contents can be ‘found scattered throughout thousands of volumes embodying the scriptures of the great Asiatic and early European religions, hidden under glyph and symbol, and hitherto left unnoticed because of the veil.’ She only gathered them together ‘to make them one harmonious and unbroken whole.’ What she was taught, the result of her own study and observation was put together was worked out as ‘a complete system of thought.’

The Secret Doctrine is the essence of the religious thoughts found out in all religions of the world, exclusively not possessed by any one of them. Various religious schemes that have ‘sprung from it in their origins, are now made to merge back into their original element.’

She succinctly puts the aims of the work thus: ‘to show that Nature is not “ a fortuitous (= accidental) concurrence of atoms”, and to assign to man his rightful place in the scheme of the Universe; to rescue from degradation the archaic truths which are the basis of all religions; and to uncover, to some extent, the fundamental unity from which they all sprung; and finally, to show that the occult side of Nature has never been approached by the Science of modern civilization.’

She takes full responsibility to what is stated in the text, which ‘claims consideration, not by any appeal to dogmatic authority, but because it closely adheres to Nature, and follows the laws of uniformity and analogy. She is accustomed to abuse, calumny and slander; and does not fear them.

Madame Blavatsky begins her introductory chapter with a quote from Shakespeare: ‘Gently to hear, kindly to judge.’

She begins with the human mind which forms bias and decisive opinion without examining the subject from all its aspects. She refers to ‘Esoteric Buddhism’, a book by Mr. A P Sinnett published in 1883 and the two misconceptions it caused: ‘Limiting Theosophy to Buddhism and confounding the tenets of the religious philosophy preached by Gautama, the Buddha, with the doctrines broadly outlined therein.’ The title of the book was ‘a very unfortunate’ one, ‘because people are always in the habit of judging things by their appearance, rather than their meaning.’

Buddhism is the religious system of ethics preached by Lord Gautama, and named after his title “Buddha”(= the Enlightened). “Budh” in Sanskrit is “to Know.”

‘The “Wisdom Religion” is the inheritance of all the nations, the world over.’ But the book ‘Esoteric Wisdom’ said, no one knows this till 1883.--- ‘No theosophical book acquires the least additional value from pretended authority,’ says Blavatsky.

‘Adi, and Adhi Budha, the one (or the First) and “Supreme Wisdom” is a term used by Arya Asanga in his secret treatises. ‘This was the appellation given by the earliest Aryans to the Unknown deity. (The word Brahma was not invented by then.) The epithet of Buddha was humanized later and applied to mortals. Bodha means the innate possession of divine intellect or “understanding”; “Buddha,” the acquirement of it by personal efforts and merit. Buddhi is the faculty of cognizing the channel through which divine knowledge reaches the “Ego,” the discernment of good and evil, ‘divine conscience’ also; and ‘Spiritual Soul,’ which is the vehicle of Atma. “Bodhi” is likewise the name of a particular state of trance condition, called Samadhi, during which the subject reaches the culmination of spiritual knowledge.

Madame Blavatsky then writes about Gautama Buddha at length. She says it was “unwise” that the esoteric teachings of Buddha were derided. ‘The true philosopher, the student of the esoteric Wisdom, entirely loses sight of personalities, dogmatic beliefs and special religions. Esoteric philosophy reconciles all religions, strips every one of its outward, human garments, and shows the root of each to be identical with that of every other great religion. It proves the necessity of an absolute Divine Principle in Nature. It denies Deity no more than it does Sun. Esoteric philosophy has never rejected God in Nature, or Deity as the absolute and abstract principle. It only refuses to accept any of the gods of the so-called monotheistic religions, gods created by man in his own image and likeness, a blasphemous and sorry caricature of the Ever Unknowable.’

She has many points to relate about Buddha: “The Hindu reformer limited his public teachings to the purely moral and physiological aspect of the Wisdom-Religion, to Ethics and Man alone. Things ‘unseen and incorporeal,’ the mystery of Being outside our terrestrial sphere, the great Teacher left entirely untouched in his public lectures, reserving the hidden Truths for a select circle of his Arhats. ----

“His Secret Doctrine, however, differed in no wise from that of the Initiated Brahmins of his day. The Buddha was a child of the Aryan soil, a born Hindu, a Kshatriya and a disciple of the “twice-born’ (the initiated Brahmins) or Dwijas. His teaching, therefore, could not be different from their doctrines, for the whole Buddhist reform merely consisted in giving out a portion of that which had been kept secret from every man outside of the “enchanted” circle of Temple initiates and ascetics. Unable to teach all that had been imparted to him--- owing to his own pledges --- though he taught a philosophy built upon the ground-work of the true esoteric knowledge, the Buddha gave to the world only it’s outward material body and kept its soul for his elect.”

Explaining the true reason why ‘the outline of a few fundamental truths from the Secret Doctrine of the Archaic ages is now permitted to see the light, after a long millenniums of the most profound silence and secrecy,’ she says the following:

“Toward the end of the first quarter of this century, a distinct class of literature appeared in the world, which became with every year more defined in its tendency. Being based on the scholarly researches of Sanskritists and Orientalists in general, it was held scientific. Hindu, Egyptian, and other ancient religions, myths, and emblems were made to yield anything the symbolist wanted them to yield, thus often giving out the rude outward meaning. Works, most remarkable for their ingenious deductions and speculations, foregone conclusions generally changing places with premises as in the syllogisms of more than one Sanskrit and Pali scholar, appeared rapidly in succession, over-flooding the libraries with dissertations rather on phallic and sexual worship than on real symbology, and each contradicting the other.

“The members of several esoteric schools – the seat of which is beyond the Himalayas, and whose ramifications may be found in China, Japan, India, Tibet, and even in Syria, besides South America – claim to have in their possession the sum total of sacred and philosophical works in MSS, and type; all the works, in fact, that have ever been written in whatever language or characters, since the art of writing began; from the ideographic hieroglyphs down to the alphabet of Cadmus and the Devanagari.”

“It has been claimed in all ages that ever since the destruction of the Alexandrian Library, every work of a character that might have led the profane to the ultimate discovery and comprehension of some of the mysteries of the Secret Science, was, owing to the combined efforts of the members of the Brotherhoods, diligently searched for. It is added, moreover, by those who know, that once found, except three copies left and stored safely away, such works were all destroyed. In India, the last of the precious manuscripts were secured and hidden during the reign of the Emperor Akbar.”

“It is maintained furthermore that every sacred book of that kind, whose text was not sufficiently veiled in symbolism, or which had any direct references to the ancient mysteries, after having been carefully copied in cryptographic characters, such as to defy the art of the best and cleverest paleographer, was also destroyed to the last copy. During Akbar’s reign, some fanatical courtiers, displeased at the Emperor’s sinful prying into the religions of the infidels, themselves helped the Brahmans to conceal their MSS. Such was Badaoni, who had an undisguised horror for Akbar’s mania for idolatrous religions. --- the true commentaries, as well as almost all the texts, have long since disappeared from the eyes of the profane.”

“The Secret Doctrine was the universally diffused religion of the ancients and prehistoric world. Proofs of its diffusion, authentic records of its history, a complete chain of documents, showing its character and presence in every land, together with the teaching of all its great adepts, exist to this day in the secret crypts of libraries belonging to the Occult Fraternity.”

She further states: “It is not the fault of the initiates that these documents are now ‘lost’ for the profane; nor was their policy dictated by selfishness, or any desire to monopolize the life-giving sacred lore. – But this was because to impart to the unprepared multitude secrets of such tremendous importance, was equivalent to giving a child a lighted candle in a powder magazine.

“Doctrines such as the planetary chain, or the seven races, at once give a clue to the seven-fold nature of man, for each principle is correlated to a plane, a planet, and a race; and the human principles are, on every plane, correlated to seven-fold occult forces – those of the higher planes being of tremendous power.”

The documents were concealed, but not the knowledge itself or its existence. Mysteries have ever been made a discipline and stimulus for virtue, by the Temple Hierophants.

The first installment of the esoteric doctrines is based upon Stanzas, which are written in a tongue not known to any modern, in the twentieth century of our era scholars will begin to recognize that the Secret Doctrine had neither been invented nor exaggerated, but, on the contrary, simply outlined; and finally, that its teachings antedate the Vedas. [Every century an attempt is made to show to the world that Occultism is no vain superstition. Once the door permitted to be kept a little ajar, it will be opened wider with every new century. The times are ripe for a more serious knowledge than hitherto permitted, though still very limited, so far.]

She refers to the motto of the Theosophical society, adopted from the Maharajah of Benares (now Varanasi); SATYAT NASTI PARO DHARMAH ( =There is no Religion[or Law] higher than Truth, concluding an idea from Prof. Max Muller’s lecture which says that men fight on earth about religion and in heaven find that there is only one Religion- the worship of God’s Spirit.

At the end, she again refers to the “Old Book” and also to yet another book, as old as the Black Age (Kali-yuga), the dawn of the New Cycle etc.

The ‘Mundane Egg’ is a Universal Symbol, both for its form and its inner mystery. It represents the origin and secret of being. The imperceptible germ inside, without any outward interference of force, produces an active something, gradually evolving into a concrete, living creature, breaks out its shell and comes out as though it is self-generated, self-created being. The ‘first cause’ has no name. As a mysterious bird it drops an Egg into Chaos, and the egg eventually becomes the universe. Brahma, the mundane egg, is called Kalahamsa (the swan in space and time), he becomes the swan of Eternity and lays, at the beginning of each Manvantara, a Golden Egg. The egg is a symbol of the universe and its spherical bodies.

The Divine Thought, or Universal Mind must not be regarded as a projection in the likeness of the intellectual process of man. It is the Absolute Wisdom, transcending the ideas of Time and Space. It is not resolvable into states of consciousness. The conceptions of a Personal God as changeless and infinite are unpsychological and what is worse, unphilosophical.The “ONE LIFE” is eternal, invisible, yet Omnipresent. It has no beginning, no end. It has periodical manifestations. Between the periodical manifestations, this is called Pralaya, that which rules is the ‘dark mystery of non-Being’. It is unconscious, yet absolute Consciousness; it is unrealizable, yet the one self-existing reality. It is ‘chaos to the sense, a Kosmos to the reason. ’It’s one attribute is the “Great Breath”. This is the perpetual motion of the universe. The Life and the Breath are one and the same, eternal, ceaseless Motion, ever-present SPACE.hat which is motionless cannot be called “Divine”. Within the universal Soul, there is nothing, in fact and reality, absolutely motionless. [The Divinity has Mobility and the consequence is Manifestation of Universes, Worlds etc. The connectivity of the both is because of the manifestation, which will be explained later.]Universal Motion is the only philosophical aspect of the unrevealed Deity recognized from the earlier days of ‘architects of the globe’.‘One Existence’, in terms of Occultism, is the “Deity, an arcane, living (or moving) FIRE, and the eternal witness to this unseen Presence are Light, Heat, Moisture.” These three are cause of every phenomenon in Nature. Intra-cosmic motion is eternal and ceaseless. Cosmic motion is visible and subject to perception is ‘finite and periodical’.As an eternal abstraction it is the EVER-PRESENT. As a manifestation, it is finite both in the coming direction and the opposite, the two being the poles of successive reconstructions. Kosmos has nothing to do with the causal relations of the phenomenal World.Intra-cosmic soul has never had a beginning nor will it have an end. At each new Manvantara, the Cosmic organization may be regarded as its first and final of its kind, as it evolves every time on a higher plane

3. The point is transformed into a diameter. A divine immaculate Mother-Nature within the all-embracing absolute Infinitude.

When the diameter line is crossed by a vertical one, it becomes the mundane cross.

Humanity has reached its third Root-Race; it is the sign for the origin of human life to begin.

When the circumference disappears and leaves only the +, it is the sign of ‘the fall of man into matter’. Now begins the Fourth Race.

By the third symbol – the circle divided in two by horizontal line of the diameter – the first manifestation of creative (still passive, because feminine0 Nature was meant. The first shadowy perception of man connected with perception is feminine, because man knows his mother more than his father. Hence female deities were more sacred than the male. Nature is therefore feminine, and, to a degree, objective and tangible, and the Spirit Principle which fructifies it is concealed.

The esoteric symbol of Kali Yuga is the five-pointed star reversed, thus - the sign of human sorcery, with its two points (horns) turned heavenwards, a position every Occultist will recognize as one of the ‘left-hand’ and used in ceremonial magic.

Parabrahman is not “God”, because it is not a God. “It is that which is supreme, and not supreme (paravara), explains Mandukya Upanishad (2.28). it is supreme as cause, not supreme as effect. Parabrahman is simply, as a “Second Reality,” the all-inclusive Kosmos – or, rather, the infinite Cosmic Space – in the highest spiritual sense, of course. Brahma (neuter) being the unchanging, pure, free, undecaying supreme Root, “the one true Existence, Paramarthika,” and the absolute Chit and Chaitanya (intelligence, consciousness) cannot be cognizer, “for THAT can have no subject of cognition.”

Parabrahm is, in short, the collective aggregate of Kosmos in its finality and eternity, the “THAT” and “THIS” to which distributive aggregate cannot be applied.

In the beginning THIS was the Self, one only (Aitareya Upanishad); “THIS” referred to the Universe (Jagat); the sense of the words, “In the beginning,” meaning before the reproduction of the phenomenal Universe.

Narayana moving on the abstract waters of Space, is transformed into the Waters of concrete substance moved by him, who now become the manifested WORD or Logos.

Space is called in the esoteric symbolism “the Seven-Skinned Eternal Mother-Father.” It is composed from its undifferentiated to its differentiated surface of seven layers.

It is not the One Unknown ever-present God in Nature, that is rejected, but the God in human dogma and his humanized “Word.” In his infinite conceit and inherent pride and vanity, man shaped it himself with his sacrilegious hand out of the material he found in his own small brain-fabric, and forced it upon mankind as a direct revelation from the one unrevealed SPACE. The Occultist accepts revelation as coming from divine yet still finite Beings, the manifested lives, never from the Unmanifested ONE LIFE.

Occult Science recognizes Seven Cosmical Elements – four entirely physical, and the fifth (Ether) semi-material, as it will become visible in the air towards the end of our Fourth Round, to reign supreme over the others during the whole of the Fifth. The remaining two are as yet absolutely beyond the range of human perception. These latter will, however, appear as presentments during the 6^th and 7^th Races of this Round, and will become known in the 6^th and 7^th Rounds respectively. These seven elements with their numberless Sub-Elements (far more numerous than those known to Science) are simply conditional modifications and aspects of the ONE and only Element.

The Stanzas given treat only of the Cosmogony of our planetary System and what is visible around it, after a Solar Pralaya. That which is given relates only to our visible Kosmos, after a “Night of Brahma.”

(a) An Omnipresent, Eternal, Boundless, and Immutable PRINCIPLE on which all speculation is impossible.

There is one Absolute reality which antecedes all manifested, conditioned, being. It is of course devoid of all attributes and is essentially without any relation to manifested, finite Being. It is “Be-ness” rather than Being (SAT), and is beyond all thought or speculation.

This latter aspect of the One Reality is also symbolized in the term “The Great Breath”.

Thus, the first fundamental axiom of the Secret Doctrine is this meta-physical ONE REALITY – Be-ness – symbolized by finite intelligence as the ‘theological Trinity’.

Parabrahm (the One Reality, the Absolute)is the field of Absolute Consciousness, i.e., that essence which is out of all relation to conditioned existence, and of which conscious existence is a conditioned symbol. But once we pass in thought from this (to us) Absolute Negation, duality supervenes in the contrast of Spirit (or Consciousness) and Matter; [Subject and Object].

Spirit and Matter are not independent realities, but are two aspects or facets of the absolute (Parabrahm), which constitute the basis of conditioned Being whether subjective or objective.

The ‘great breath’ assumes the character of pre-cosmic Ideation. It supplies the guiding Intelligence in the vast scheme of cosmic Evolution. On the other hand, pre-cosmic root-substance (Mulaprakriti) is that aspect of the Absolute which underlies all the objective planes of Nature.

Pre-cosmic Ideation is the root of all individual consciousness and pre-cosmic Substance is the substratum of matter in the various grades of its differentiation. The contrast of these two aspects of the absolute is essential to the existence of the “Manifested Universe.” The manifested Universe is pervaded by duality, which is, the very essence of its Ex-istence as “manifestation.” In the manifested universe there is ‘that’ which links spirit to matter, subject to object. Occultists call ‘that’ by a term “Fohat”. Fohat is the bridge by which the ‘ideas’ existing in the ‘Divine Thought’ are impressed on Cosmic substance as the “Laws of Nature.” Fohat is the dynamic energy of cosmic ideation; the guiding power of all manifestation, the “Thought Divine” transmitted and made manifest through the Dhyan Chohans, the Architects of the visible World.

From spirit, or Cosmic ideation, comes our consciousness; and from Cosmic Substance the several vehicles in which that consciousness is individualized and attains to self, or reflective, consciousness. Fohat is the mysterious link, in its various manifestations, between Mind and matter, the animating principle electrifying every atom into life.

2. The first manifestation, unmanifested Logos, the precursor of the manifested.

3. Spirit-Matter, Life; the ‘spirit of the universe’, the Purusha and Prakriti or the second Logos.

4. Cosmic Ideation, Mahat or Intelligence, the Universal World-Soul; the basis of the intelligent operations in and of Nature, also called MAHA-BUDDHI.

b) The Eternity of the Universe in toto as a boundless plane; periodically “the playground of numberless Universes incessantly manifesting and disappearing,” called “manifesting stars,” and the “sparks of eternity.

The second assertion is the absolute universality of that law of periodicity recorded in all departments of nature.

c) the fundamental identity of all souls with the Universal Over-Soul, the latter being itself an aspect of the Unknown Root; and the obligatory pilgrimage for every soul – a spark of the former – through the cycle of Incarnation ( or “Necessity” ) in accordance with Cyclic and Karmic law, during the whole term.

No purely spiritual Buddhi ( divine soul ) can have an independent (conscious) existence before the spark which issued from the pure Essence of the Universal Sixth principle, – or the OVER-SOUL, - has

a) passed through every elemental form of the phenomenal world of that Manvantara, and

b) acquired individuality, first by natural impulse, and then by self-induced and self-devised efforts (checked by its karma), thus ascending through all the degrees of intelligence, from the lowest to the highest Manas, from mineral and plant, up to the holiest archangel (Dhyani-Buddha).

There are no privileges or special gifts for man, except those won by his own Ego through personal effort and merit throughout a long series of metempsychoses and reincarnations.

The One Principle under its two aspects (of Parabrahmam and Mulaprakriti) is sexless, unconditioned and eternal.

Space is called the “Mother” before its cosmic activity, and Father-Mother at the stage of re-awakening.

The stanzas give an abstract formula which can be applied to all evolution: to that of our tiny earth, to that of the chain of planets of which that earth forms one, to the solar Universe to which that chain belongs, and so on, in an ascending scale, till the mind reels and is exhausted in the effort.

The seven stanzas are the seven terms of this abstract formula. They refer to, and describe the seven great stages of the evolutionary process, which are spoken of in Puranas as the “Seven creations.”

Stanza I: The history of Cosmic evolution. Describes the state of ONE ALL during Pralaya, before the flutter of re-awakening manifestation.

Stanza II: This is so nearly identical to the first one, to express the idea of its difference needs a long treatise. So, it is left to the intuition and higher faculty of the reader.

Stanza III: Re-awakening of the Universe to life after Pralaya. Emergence of Monads; Formation of the worlds. [The term Monad will apply equally to the vast Solar System or the tiniest atom.

Stanza IV: Differentiation of the “Germ” of the Universe into septenary hierarchy of conscious Divine Powers, who are the active manifestations of the One Supreme Energy. This stage in Hindu mythology is known as “Creation of the Gods.”

Stanza V: Process of world-formation. Diffused cosmic matter forming a nebula, Formation of a Solar universe, a planetary chain, or a single planet, as the case may be.

Stanza VI: Subsequent stages in the formation of the World, evolution up to the period we are living now.

The Proem is intended for preliminary understanding of the Text, and it becomes pregnant because of the ‘Three Fundamental Propositions’, which is the Mainstream and Conventional Philosophy, stated unconventionally.

Madame Blavatsky in her second volume of The Secret Doctrine called “Anthropogenesis” makes Three New Propositions, as to the Evolution of Mankind, on this Globe.

She prefaces that these propositions will be of ‘direct antagonism to modern science as well as to current religious dogmas’. But statements are from Archaic Records, as usual.

1. The simultaneous evolution of seven human groups on seven different portions of our globe.

2. The birth of the astral, before the physical body: the former being a model for the latter.

3. Man, in this round, preceded every mammalian – the anthropoids included - in the animal kingdom.

The progenitors (the Pitris, or Elohim=the group of collective agencies) have formulated the Seven primordial Men. All the human groups emanate from them. The Globe, propelled onward by ‘spirit of Earth’ and his six assistants, gets all its vital forces (life and powers) through the Seven Planetary Dhyanis from the spirit of Sun. The Seven Planetary Spirits (Dhyanis) are the Messengers of Light and Life. Each of the Seven first born (primordial human groups) receives its Light and Life from its own Dhyani (Spirit), the Seven Races are born of it.

1^st race receives from Sun, the 2^nd from Jupiter, the 3^rd from Venus (Lohitanga), the 4^th from Moon(Saturn, Asita=Dark) and 5^th from Mercury (Budha). About 6^th and 7^th, we do not as yet know.

The spirit of Earth is subservient to the Spirit of Venus. They are ‘twins.’ Earth is the adopted child and younger brother of Venus. Our Wise-men are from the 2 globes. Their symbols are like this: 0 with + underneath is Venus; + above and O underneath is Earth.

[Sukra is the son of Bhrigu, one of the 7 Prajapathis, the Founder of Bhargava Vamsa (Race) in which Parassu-Rama was born. Race can be translated as Vamsa in the Indian context of Dynasties (Raghu vamsa, Chandra vamsa etc.). Bhrigu cursed Vishnu, for killing Sukra’s mother) to be born on Earth Seven times.]

We are familiar with the ‘physical form’ of man and so are prone to think that it is the beginning of the ‘bodies of man’. The fact is that life passed through ‘3 elemental kingdoms, the mineral, plant and animal kingdoms’ before the human form is thought of. Individualization is the name we give to the first process of the life-giving on to ‘a particular person’, who reincarnates according to the Karmic Law till such time he liberates from the bond or wheel of birth and death.

The physical form is a ‘copy’ in physical matter of the ‘astral form’ that is designed and formulated by the celestial-beings in charge of that work. We have a series of ‘bodies’ working together and aiding in the ‘monadic evolution’ of the individual is common knowledge now.

As suggested above, the human form is a cumulative effect of life passing through different kingdoms of Nature. It is not that the human form has evolved from the ‘ape’ form. It is the Life that makes on the forms that suit for its continuance and not that one form evolves from the other. The primordial form for the man on this globe is termed the ‘Heavenly Man.’ (Purusha or Virat-purusha – is the term in the Indian System.)

Approach to “The Secret Doctrine”