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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

Why we need a Third Theory

hat is the Ancient Wisdom? 9

About Innity 12

Who or what is God? 5

Creation According to theAncient Wisdom 18

The Unfolding o the Universe 34

Mind and Consciousness 43

Where Suns, Stars andPlanets coe o 48

Huan Evoution 58

Cosic Cycles 66

The Great Equilibrium68

Where we and our lanet arenow in our volution 72

The Christ and Jesus 79

The Worship of God 83

The urpose ofLife 85



INTRODUCTION

'There are moments in evoluton when the walls

ereced by conventional concepts become hdrances.

hen the tme has come for the emancpaton of

knowledge upon the premse of personal resonsblty

for its use.

-From the boo Agni Yoga

t is time to re-think the concept of God.

We live in a world of relativity and duality where nothing ispermanent In ct, the only thng we can really be sure of ischange. imes change Thnking changes. Therefore it's a gooddea to perodically rethk all of the ingrained perceptions

which govern our lives no matter how sacred they seem to be.here is no scrpture which prohibits us om exploring new

ways to nterpret old establshed belefs Such exploraton isessenal today because nstutonalzed beles easly becomeprejudices which over tme obscure truth. Since each generation contacts truth in its own way the continuing search rtruth actually becomes a sacred duty

Because languages change meanings change and the original thoughts conveyed by writers or prophets of old become ob

scured. What was clear to ther contemporaries may now beost obliterated by layers of a changing psychology. ecause ofthis evoluton of language humanty loses much of its past witheach mllennum hus words reachng down nto our tme from

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ages ago may not be able to lly dene the ideas extant in thepochs which created them and we are le with isolated ciphers.symbols and images which can only provide conused visions

Thus, a special circumspection becomes the most useful tool forprobing old scriptures for their truthsere is a special need toda for what can best be termed re

vitalized conceptual thought concerning the foundations of ourver existence And it would e nice if this new thought couldnd comon ground among the spiritual mysteries of Religionand the hard cold cts of Science It seems that such thoughtshould also b denition e radical in the truest sense of theword-going to the roots of the denitive mindshaping con

cepts which rmulate our existence hus it can never e sacrilegious or unscientic to take everything we have een previousl taught aout eligion and Science regardless of whomor under what authority and proe its integrity and test its veracity in the light of new insights which might cast a new light onold beliefs

The Lord Buddha told his students "Believe not what ouhave heard said: elieve not in traditions merel because theyhave been transmitted through many generations believe not

merely because a thing is repeated by many persons; believe notsolely upon the authority of your masters and elders When uponobservation and analysis a principle conforms to reason andleads to the benet and welfare of all accept it and hold it' other words according to this great conceptual thier the onltime we really have to elieve anything is when we ourselves aresure of its integrity and it makes enough sense for us to know itin our own hearts to be true!

With that aim in mind this ook examines the traditional re

ligious and scientic doctrines concerning the foundations ofour existence in a new light to see if there is comon ground etween religious dogma and scientic fact We will also proposenew concepts and new thought concerning ancient ideas whichcome to us om a body of knowledge called The Acient Wisdom t is ancient only ecause it is has existed for ages butit renews itself in different ways about every hundred years inorder to illuminate in a contemporar manner the stale thinkinginto which humanit seems to periodically fall

he purpose of presenting the new concepts here is not to determine how anone should think ut to afford some aternativeideas in order to at least open up the rethiing process hisecidedly does not mean the formulation of some new religious

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doctrine or scientic hypothesis. but simply to help establis tnew evoutionary body of knowedge concerning the natur urGod and Creation to which a can contribute and fro which can earn

Although traditiona scriptura interpretations may come under attack here this shoud not be perceived as an attack on Reigion pe se Dogma, yes: Religion no Rather I hope that thisbook serves as an instrument to bring unity to eligion and Science by reentlessly pointing out th faacies and absurdities ofthe dogmas and prejudices which nw separate them

do not claim any specia truth here Wat is written speaksfor itse I ony wish to provide people with an aternate choiceof a reation Theory-ne which has demonstrabe integrity

Even though cal this a 'theory" it is well understood in thescientic comunity today that the ter theory means a well

tested idea with high predictive power The Thid heoy hasnot ony stood the test of time for mienniums. it is aso able topredict al consequences of creation therefore it is at the veryeast on the same eve as the other two

I especiay beieve that Religion and Science are really oneand the sae thing and that both are searching for the sametruth! Ad as Mme Heena P. Bavatsky so beautifuy expressed it in her magnicent book he S'ecet Doine, hereis no reigion higher than truth

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CHAPTER ONE

WHY WE NEED A THIRD THEORY

"Are we actualy to believe that God went aroundpanting ees n the Garden of Eden by hand?

-Origen3rd Century Chrsan apoogst

'In order to expan what was before the Big Bang, scencecame up with the concept o maginry Tme a theory whichproposes a unverse with no boundares and no end. n thsmanner they do not have to expain creaton

-he heor of vething1998 P 1 Program

Ther is a grat ned today fr an altrnate theory concerningthe nature o God and Creation. Since tim immorial humanity has only producd two general thories o CrationReligion's Biblical account and ciencs "Big Bang-andboth ar lld with absurdities Thin o it! Whn it comes tosuc extremly important qustions as who we ar, how we gothr whr w came rom and where we are going w ony

hav ths two thoris to choose om ach chockll ophilosophic hols Thus those who are looking r a philosophyo li ar obligd to ma do with one or th other and that usually means choosing th on which imposes th ast cognitivdissonance on ones thought processes

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The thing is: if we do not know our purpose in life. how canwe act with purpose? Everyone acts according to what they believe therefore what to believespecially when it comes tohow the universe was created-has a great deal of importance inhow we conduct our lives If we believe in Biblical Creation, weelieve in a loing. righteous Go. but are consed oer whybad things happen to good. Godfearing people If we hae faithonly in Science. we believe we are products of evolution andthat our intelligence just kind of randomly evolved therefore weare nclined to get a little nervous at the concept of 'biblicalmoral authoritv

he longsanding opposition between Religion and Science

means that if we live accoring to the dictates of either the Bibleor Science. we are bound to develop a kind of prudicial thinkinga need to defend whichever theory we may suppor omwhatever the other theory postulates But because of the inherentinconsistencies in each theory we also have to defend our particular belief om our own logical thought processes So wetend to ignore the contradictions because right or wrong. thatsall we ve got n the en we simply rese to deal with thephilosophical discrepancies and either accept what were told or

psychologically wash our hands of the whole business StilL thebasic premise of whichever theory we embraceGod or noGod/soul or no soulwill lurk subconsciousl behind all ourthoughts and therefore influence all our patterns of action

The fact is that very few people have a wellthoughtout philosophy of life They tend to latch on to whatever is given thembecause when it comes right own to it few want to make theeort to think life through Philosophy demans thought equently abstract thought, and who today is willing to spend ther

time in the ethereal realms of the abstract? s not taught ingrade schools ls not needed in business And what footballcoach is going to add a chapter on metaphysical thinking to histeams playbook?

So when it comes to eveloping a philosophy of life. we either have to think it out ourselves or else go looking for guiance And when we go looking for guidance we usually end upalmost as if by esign with one of those two popular pet theories We then embrace one or the other because we hae to be

liee in something. but at the same time we coneniently shuntthe absurdities into the dark reaches of our minds where they arele to stagnate in a state of benign nelect

As we go about our aily labor. our psyches neer question

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the ludicrous conicts resting in this frbidden area o our bra1,We seem to instinctively know that to do so would cause tomuch consion n ou ves. So we quiet ou consciences wtthe thought that the sheer number o people who believe as we

do veries the trust we have placed in our selected doctrine. Buttr as we ma to become mentall secure we are still haunted bthe act that what we have put our spiitual trust into reall involves gigantic leaps o aith over chasms o absurdities.

nd we are not alone. In act this wholesale acceptance othe philosophicall absurd is constantl supported b an abundance o thinkers and writers who do nothng more than makethe ludicrous sound logical Wat a market!-millions o peoplescreaming or religious and scientic intellectuals to eep coming up with boos o theories that are no more than mental escape routes om the preposterous logic o some dogmatic beliesstem

How ludicrous is the logic o their belies? Tae Religion.The preminent religious doctrine o our time is that a semianthropomorphic (the won't sa either wa) extracosmic Godcreated the universe himsel-all the billions and billions ostars and planets-in just six 24hour das and then too a reston the seventh. He also created Adam the rst man out o thedust (cla) o the eath and then too one o Adams ribs ancreated Eve and then somehow insed brains and what manconsider a highl uestonable intelligence into each o themhen the Devil (and where did he come om?) too the orm oa serpent (magic?) and tempted ve with the uit" (and whocreated the uit?) o the nowledge o good and evil Eve orthwith ate the uit and thus ailed a big cosmic test that (oh i shehad onl known) commanded all o her subseuent descendants

(.e. anone born o woman) to be sinners at birth.Then aer millenniums o a happ sinl existence in whichpeople somehow changed into dierent colors and populatedever continent a ew communities in a little strip o land in theMiddle ast called Palestine discover that God has decided tosend his onl Son Jesus to live among them. There His Sonwill be tortued and killed or preaching Gods idea o a revolutionar doctie o lie-and that has come to mean physicalle-aer death So God puts his Son through all the miser o

crucixion (couldnt God have chosen or his onl Son a lesstorurous wa to die?) so that aer his death esus could appeato his ollowers thereb oering proo to them o the ecac othis doctrine

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Years later, a man who didn't even kow Jesus (but claimshe was visited by Him in spirit on the road to Damascus) goesaround teaching people a doctrine that says everyone who simply believes that esus is the Son of God will have all their sins

rgiven and receive eternal physical life aer death. In timethis teaching becomes a religion

These are the basics of the main stor the Christian Religionuses to hold its folowers in thralldom And doesn't Sciencewish it could develop the same kind of spell-binding power overpeople Think of it: all Science has to do is come up with oneoverpowering proof that Biblical reaton is all wet and that theBig Bang" is truth and ou can stick a fork in Religionit'sdone! Or is it? Science has already proven that its impossible to

create the universe in six 24-hour days but was there a massexodus away om Religion? No because Religion can still sayGod can do anything even create the Big Bang in six days" andget away with it So according to eligion if it pleases God tocreate a universe that dees Science thats God's Will and itshall be done Period

Although this is reall preposterous Science doesn't have answer for it et because the don't know what caused the Bigang or even what came before This has put Science in a nastycorner f it does not come up with an answer as to the cause ofthe Big Bang Religion wins God did it If Science does comeup with some knd of First Cause and it is not physical ie if itis some kind of action of some nvisible Force then Science willhave discovered God for Religion Either wa Science losesTherefore it has become Sciences task to solidify belief in itsBig Bang while downplaying what caused it or what went on before Either that or quickly come up with a new workaround.

And how's Science doing? Well it's working on what it callsts Single Theory of Eveything" This theo seeks to blendQuantum Mechanics the stud of the subatomic ream andEinsteins Theor of Relativi" into one general theory thatwill explain the creation of the universe in terms of the Bigang But while uantum Mechanics is able to solve the uniform distribution of matter smoothly it deadends at the BigBang with the unforunate result that matter is then ruled byprobabilit ie there is no ordered smmet to the expansion

of matterTo compensate for this Science has come up with the concept ofmaginary Time" This fabulous concept speculates thate live in a universe without boundaries and with no end Ths

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concept miraculously gets Science off the hook because it is nnow compelled to explain the First Cause of creation. but csimply bypass it This is the scientic equivalent to Religion sclaim that God created the world in six days!

Out of this concept of Imaginary Time has come the "SuperString Theory, that all-encompassing concept which Sciencefeels will ultimately explain the entire universe The SuperString Theory pictures the universe as a Big Bag in which littlestrings of spacetime were somehow distributed everyhereWhen these strings vibrate, they force space to bend his theoryis supposed to explain the dichotomy between force and matterand also encompass Einstein's Theory of Relativity and therefore rnish us with a universe of perfect symmetry

Stephen Hawking the Einstein of our time boils all thisdown to the visage of the universe beginning as a small peashaped pod which somehow magically appears in space and thenexplodes with a Big Bang into a huge everexpanding universeStill, even Hawking has been unable to explain what existed before the Big Bang or what caused it to bang in the rst placeThus Science has not yet been able to kill God and as long as thepossibility of a God exists and is not laid to rest Science willnd no one lighting candles to Quantum heory and worshipingpeashaped pods in its Temple of Our Universe of PerpetualMotion

But the absurdities of Science's Theory of verything aresmall potatoes when it comes to how Science explains theevolution of human beings Since Science reses to believe in

the concept of the soul, it would have us believe that we humansbegan our evolution as sea creatures who somehow wandered uponto land where we eventually evoved the ability to wa on

two feet Along the way it wants us to believe that the intelligence we have is nothing more than a random act of this evolutionary process To prove its point, Science has spent years andyears looking for some kind of fossil evidence of early man thathas # 1" written on it

Aright lets say that Science does d evidence of the rstman Theyll still have to nd real positive evidence of how manever evolved the ability to thik of what to do nextthat uniquequality of thought which lis man out of the chaos of instinctual

behavior and into the realm of ethical, philosophical and yeseven scientic thought ry ding a piece of ancient brai matter that can do that

d so today we nd Religion and Science positioning them

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selves for the ture. At stake is which theor of Creation wildominate the next millennium: who will be he ttest to carrthe keys to the kingdom Science is carving ou is piece of haction by c !aiming the physical high ground, pounding away a

the concept of al life being biological or neurological. Religion,now pushed by Science into the position of defending theologin general is hammering home the idea that whatever Sciencecomes up with is simply God's way of working through humanbeings

The stakes are so high that the Vatican is now studying theimplications of brain research and scientists are looking formoral behavior in the actions of genes As one of the organizersof the 1998 Vatican Conference said he real issue is whether

there will be room for a divine being once we can epain hephenomenon of subjective eperience through neural mechanisms or social mechanisms."

So there we have the stark reality of the dominate theoriesconcerning God creation and the undations of our eistence.Take it or leave it. Two fancil theories r us to choose omin order to be comitted to some kind of philosophy of lifeand neither one with any philosophical integrity Isnt theresomewhere else we can go?

As a matter of fact there is. If you think about it there had tobe some kind of relevant belief system in the lives of peoplewho lived in the ages before o contemporary world religioncame into being. Well there was ts called the Ancient Wisdom a body of knowledge which has eisted since time immeorial-even before Judaism Buddhism and Paganism.

It is a fact that religions no matter how old or new have aways had two teachings One was r he ignorant" masses andone was for the inner circle"-those owledgeable priestswho were charged with keeping the sacred pears of truth omthe ignorant swine It was Pope Innocent II who decared 99, the secret mysteries of the faith ought not to be eplainedto all men." Interestingly enough this practice continues eventoday Its just not generally talked about So whether we like itor not, the masses of the world are still being treated as ignoransavages by the ier ccles of the worlds religionsgivengraven images of God Jesus and the Virgin Mary for mass wor

ship while the abstract metaphysical truth behind these images iskept hidden om the word at largeBut there have always been those individual eclectic thiners

who sooner or later come to the conclusion that there is more

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going on as to the nature of the universe than beseeching a,:paying homage to a pantheon of public gods. Before Pagtimes if such a ee thinker had a strong enough esire to seeout the philosophical foundation behind the outer symbols of religion he wou utimatey n his way into what were thencae "Mystery Schoos

Thus whie the masses were given graven images whichwere outer representative symbols of the hidden trth' of lifethe stuents in the Mystery Schools were inside busy stdyingthat hidden truth directly It is this hidden truth whch compriseswhat we toda call The Ancient Wisdom

One may oner why reigions havent over the centuries

given out a itte of this truth here an a litte there as the masseshave become better educated and have had more time to thinkabout the meaning of life? here are many reasons r this Inthe rst pace al of the inner circles of religious boies were inthei begining charged with guaring the particular truthom corruption by the masses an traition sti emands theytae that charge seriosly. Secony history has shown that aer100 years or so every religion becomes political and socia andso the hidden truths become secondary to the nee to preserve

the reach an power of the church temple or mosqe Finallyand most impoantly if people had this hidden truth r themselves there would be no real need for religions!

Generaly most peope beieve in the concept of One Godwho or whatever He She or It may be So if there is only OneGod-God being the Fst Case of al existence-that Godhas to be the God of all reigions his means that all religionsare realy ifferent theological systems of iscovery of the OneTruth of the One God Discover that One Truth yoursef and yo

have the key to a reigions Discover that One Truth yourselan you can bypass religions and have your own irect access toGod This is ltimately why the inner circes of various religionscontine to gard so jeaously the hidden trth because if everyone on earth ha their own drect access to od (and whynot?) the priesthoo would ose al its power and control

This is the reason there is today a ght to the eath betweenthe Reigious estabishment consistenty enying its heap ofhien trths to its worshipers in orer to maintain its formia

be power an the Scientic estabishment ot to epose Reigions hold on the masses and gain that power for itse Of thetwo Science has the more intellectually honest position; still itis hampere in its search by its own buitin prejuices against

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anythg smacking of spitualityespecially the concept of thesou.

So what about this One Trut? Does it exist? Isn't it just puremegaloania to claim that there is only One Truth? Shouldn'tanvone who claims to know this One Truth be a candidate forth loony bin? Ordinarily, yes. The thing that is different here sthat the One Truth of the Acient Wisdom is only realizable inthe heart of each individual. That is because this One Truth isdynamic, eoling with humanity, with each generation contacting this truth in its own way.

This unusual depature om the way belief God and aCreation Theory hae preiously been structed is the master

key to what we will now call "The Third Theo, that accountof Creation offered by the Ancient Wisdom The ird Theo isthe Ancient Wisdoms hidden truth as to how the unierse wascreated, how it works and how it is peopled To be honest itsounds just as absud as the theories of Religion and Science,but there is one, huge oerwhelming difference: it has completeintegrity!

The Thrd Theory warrants attention because it is the AncientWisdoms own "Theory of Eerything. t explains all facets of

Creation and unites Religion and Science in a dnamic formatwhich challenges their greatest thinkers to open new channels othought to ultimately obtain factual knowledge of how the unerse and all life were created and how one can nd ones placein it This will gie meaning not only to one's own life and thelies of others but to all isible and inisible existence Suchknowledge could be the basis of the Shared Meaning thatphysicist Daid Bohm taled about n his seminars at Ojai, California in 1989-the comon signicance alue and purpose

(that) will hold society together.The Third Theo is a dynamic abstract but t is presentedhere for the st time a linear maner that speeds understanding. Therefore let the Ancient Wisdo speak for itselfas ithas troughout the ages-to those with the ears to hear. To thosewho blindly dismiss it out of religious or scientic prejudice, itoffers the same challenge it has for millenniums: proe twrong

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CHAPTER O

WHAT IS THE ANCIENT WISDOM?

A young boy went to the ashram of an Indianguru and casually asked that he guru teach himwisdom. The guru took the boy to a

nearby

seamand proceede o hold the boy's head

under

thewater. The boy hrashed around and was abou odraw his las breah when he guru finally releasedhm.

"Wha did you want most when I released you,asked he guru.

Ar! screamed the young boy.Come back to me when you want wisdom just

as much said he guru showing him the dr.

-An Indian st _ fromthe Ancien

Wisdom

The hird heory comes to us om what has been known forages as the Ancent Wsdom, a body of knowledge of God andCreaton that has exsted for mllennums long bere the advent of Pagansm, Buddhsm Chstanty or any organzed regon. The spirtual foundatons of all exstence have alwaysbeen avalable to the spirtual seeker through ths ever-present'hdden" teachng Ths teachng has always been consderedscentc as well as sptual and above all so sacred that t wasalways hdden om general vew It s also equently referred totoday as The Mysteres or as the Wsdom Relgon"

Long ago Hgh Prests and Herophants comuncated sacred concepts to worthy asprants wthn the connes of whatwere called Mystery Schools Adttance to these schools wasnot for the fant of heart or the curous One had to demonstratethat one wanted wsdom more than anythng else Pythagorasone of the greatest thners of all tme had to wat everyday for

ten years outsde the gates of a Mystery School n reece beforethey let h n The Japanese Zen Master Bodhdharma resedto even see aspirants who wanted to study wth hm because heconsdered hs wsdom too dfcult to master e relented for

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one person only aer the young man cut off his right arm andsent it to Bodidharma as a token of his sincerity!

Once admitted to a Mystery SchooL the aspirant had to rsttake a 5-year vow of silence. That was because the aspirant usu

ally had to set aside about 90% of what he had learned of conventional wisdom up to that point in order to prepare imself toreceive a new understanding of all the metaphysical principlesof life This was especially mportant because te concepts ofGod and the science of Creation are wholl abstract and cannotbe communicated successlly by means

"of linear language

This is why sacred concepts were always done up in myth legend and especially symbolismthe language par excellence ofthe Ancient Wisdom

The whole dea of the Mystery School was to prepare the aspirant to receive an understanding of deeper, inner meanings ofthese sacred symbols troug a series of study classes testsstaged tableaus and rituals of purication At every tun the aspant was tested In one such test given in the Great Pyramid(which was a temple of initiation of the Ancient Wisdom) theaspirant found himself up against a solid wall in a dimly-lightedpassageway. His test was to get though to the other side Thosewho passed the test simply ran ll-tilt right at the wall. The wallthen disappeared in a ash just as they were about to hit it Another test placed the aspiant in a round room with 13 lockeddoors e had to nd his way out. The successl aspiants wentaround and around om door-to-door eac time pressing thehandle to try the ock Evenually one would open

This learning process went on for over 20 years Ultimatelythe tests and the rituals prepared the consciousness of the neophyte to receive an inner realization of the whole Mystery of Being and his/her place in the Cosmos It cannot be emphasiedtoo much that this realization did not come om without communicated om a High riest or a Guru for example The realizations came om within the neophyte because he/she havingconcentrated on matters of the spitual life for so long was nowable to tap into thei own Higher Sel'another term for theGod Within

This enlightenment dramatically changed the life of the aspirant He/she could now see the ll transcendent reality of the

Cosmic Plan of Creation om beginning to end and more importantly connect with ones individual part in it They wereable to see this Cosmic lan as te source of all religious practices and also as something scientically accurate Thus tey

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were literally "bor agai' om their "watery (the symbo o:eathly desies) life to oe of Fie (the symbol of God Conscousess. From the o they "had the eyes to see ad the ar

to hear-just as Jesus discipes did-ad were able to discerthe true path of light om the dark etrapmets which costituteife s iusios They were ow irevocably o the path towardsspiitual perfectioOeess with Godwhat they cosideredto be the supreme goal of life

he pupose of the Mystery Schools was to broade the idividuals perceptios of lie The Hierophats could teach adispire, but the idividual effort of the studet is what broughthi/her to successlly uderstad the iterdepedet costructs

of the Aciet Wisdom oday the world itself has become theMystery School but the studet still must do the ecessary workad make the ecessary chages What is still true today is thato oe ca experiece aothers God ad o oe should everhave to accept the word of someoe elseregardless of howworhy they may appear-as to the ature of God

I this respect The Third Theo is ot iteded as a beaLedall compass to the osmos but is meat istead to prepareoe to receive oe's ow uderstadig of the most importat

cocepts o life ad the foudatios of existece Oe should tryto trasced the symbols ad the laguage used here i order tosuperimpose one's own intuitional understanding on them.Thus isight ito the key elemets of the Aciet Wisdom maybe gaied This is the oly way it ca work because the maipriciples are abstract ad each persos cosciousess respodsi a idividual maer to abstract cocepts hats the wholeature of abstracts

his method of learig is truly what is meat by religious

eedomot ust the eedom to worship God i this or that religio, but the ability of a perso to make his/her ow coectio with God All the Mystery Schools of the Aciet Wisdomwere dedicated to this purpose Although the schools themselvesare goe om us today the old curriculum ca still be foudamog the may challeges of life ad ca today be masteredtrough a cosistet desire for broadeed kowledge ad a dedicatio to spiritual uderstadig ad service to others

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CHAPTER THREE

ABOUT INFNI

"'Is it worhwhile to speak of nfinity if it isunattainable? But it does exist; and evethinggreat, even if invisible comls us to think

about the ways to it Thus even now let usponder about the ways into nfinity for it eists

and it is terrfying f it is not cnzed.

-From the Teaching of An Ya

Go outside at night and look up into te starry cosmos andyou will experience a unique phenomenon. You will be viewing

a visible universe existing alongside an invisible one. You willsee spae and, at the same time see through space d whatsore the notingness beyond spae will seem to have no apparnt end to it. Thus you will come fae-tofae wit te mostcoon of abstratsInnity

Innity is a paradoxial conept It is not a vauum, nothingness or non-existence owever it verily exists In the AnientWisdom, Innity is te beginning o everting n fat, te veryrst tenet of te Ancient Wisdom is that nnity is the Only Re

alityAsoluteness This is wy all pysical existene is lookedupon as an illusion in Eastern Teahings not because it isnt"real but beause everything wih has existene is perishableand terefore nite; not eternal Only Innity can be Eternal,thus beause we humans exist we are nite and terefore an illusion but always an illusion that lives and moves and has itsbeing within the One eality of Innity

Try to make sense out of this and you'll see wy neither Science nor eligon reognizes Innity! Siene doesnt believe

it because it basially doesnt believe in anything that "doesntexist or cant be measured eligion on the other hand is insomewat of a bind because it wants people to believe its Godis eteaL thus innite, yet it clothes its God with all kinds of

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t1nie aribues giving i he abiliy o hink and ac and, a le'for he Chrisian God all he maerialism of a personalized bing. Under hese circumsances he Chrisian God canno be l

1nie/Eernal This is why Religion is unable o explain he mysery of God subsiuing insead a personal, anropomorphicversion-a graven image if you will-ha is wholly cionalied jus for his purpose

In order o begin o comprehend he absrac of Inniy onemus use he language of Inniy ha was employed by he Ancien Wisdom; ha of symbols myhs and meaphors One wellknown symbol is found in he saue of he siing mediaingBuddha. The Buddha we see on he ouside (Buddha means

"Ligh or "Illuminaion") is in a deep sae of mediaion hushe has no awareness of himself a all and herefore represensInniy

The Buddha goes ino his deep slee so o speak so he universe Ligh) can awaken wihin him Then a hough om deewihin he sleeping Buddha causes o arise shadows or reecions of Ligh wihin himsel These reecions of Ligh are individual ceners of His Consciousness and herefore become hecusodians of his Consciousness We, all humaniy reresen

hose ceners We are he ones who become cusodians of his orCosmic) consciousness Thus our own consciousnesses are anindividualied cener of Cosmic Consciousness

The ouer Buddha symbolizes he concep of Absoluenesshe inviolable One Realiy-sacricing is Innie Consciousness in order o allow "life o emerge wihin i so ha his lifecan obain an objecive awareness of is own selfexisenceThis, in a nushell is he whole raional for he exisence of hemanifesed universe Thus if he eernal sleeping Buddha were

o awaken all would disappearIneresingly enough Lewis Carroll made use of his concep

in "Trough he Looking Glass his sequel o "Alice in Wonderland In one vignee Alice comes upon he Red King whois asleep in he fores Tweedledum and Tweedledee ell Aliceha his sleeping chess piece is dreaming abou her "and if hele off deaming abou you hey say oud go ou-bang!jus like a candle! This is precisely he same principle as hemediaing Buddha and he living consciousnesses inside

To bring his concep closer o home imagine if you as aBuddha) were able o use your own power of will and mediaion o ransfer a poion of your consciousness hrough yourbloodsream o your righ hand which when you wen o sleep

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halting your own conscious thought was then able to experienceits own conscious existence. t would then have unti ou wokeup in the morning to realize that it's supposed sef-eXistence ibut a par o a arger existence.

Your hand now lly realizing that link, would naturallywant to nd and experience the source of its consciousness Sothe hand then begins its own spiritua journey causing its ownconsciousness to travel back through the boodstream, step bystep to ultimate union with your consciousness its "God.Then when you awoke in the morning your consciousnesswould be augmented and beneted by a new quality o knowledge about your own being Thus we have in this process a sym

bolic outline of the Spitual Path we are all destined to travelom sel-existence to Oneness with Innite God-consciousnessAll Existence whether visible or invisible is an inviolable

part of the One Reality which is Innity That is because Innityis the container of All True nnity canot be lly cognized byour nite minds. This is why in previous eras the concept of Innity was not discussed and known only as the "Great Unutterable or the Great Mystery. However the evolution o spitand science now demands that Innity at least be recognized as

a viable concept This is now necessary or two reasons: 1) humanity has grown in its awareness o space and 2) the idea thawe, ou planet our galaxy and even our universe are existing ina ail orbit in Innite Space has a sub-consciously terriingsense about it.

f we can contemplate Innity as the surrounding Onenessthat contains All then we are able to see ourselves everyoneelse and all suns planets and stars as an integral part o thisgreat allencompassing Reality Comprehending this we may

easily discover the indivisibility and the common unity o everything in the universe rather than labor over imagined separations due to imagied dierences. It is this kind o thoughtwhich the Ancient Wisdom deemed so necessay to the wellbeing of its students and as an extension to ou whole planet.

Thus Innity exists as a surrounding invisible world o another existence Can this be proven? The Ancient Wisdom approaches the question o whether ivisible worlds exist by answering "We can see wit our own eyes that they are visible

thereore they must exist

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CHAPTER FOUR

WHO OR WHAT IS GOD?

'To regad God as in intelligent spiit, and to accept at

the same time his absolute immateiality is to conceive ofa nonentity a blank void; to regad God as a Being an Egoand o. endow him wih inelligence in the face of blindbrual vil is o make of him a fiend-a most rascally God.

-The Mahatma Letters to A. P SinnettLtte No XII

God is not a personal God Neither s God an elderly Cauca

sian man with a owing white ightwig sittng on a goldenthone in soe nebulous place called 'heaven. wavng a stickwhich hell use to get you" r breang any of hs Ten Comandments God s not Jesus esus is not God

God is not Male God is not Female God is certainl not onhe ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and God is not the eclusivepropery of any religion, sect. cult or creed Nether can Godthin talk or act What s God? The Acient Wsdom has always conceived of God Dv cpl Sprit

just as

the Bible indicates in ohn 4:24 God is therefore whatever youg God to be

But even though God ay be conceived to be a etaphysicalSprt by any relgions the concept has denely becoe anthropomorphic over the last couple of mllennus There aretwo reasons for this: 1) relgions are not prone to explainng thetrue nature of God and 2) religons have und it easier to dealwith worshpers who imagine God to be a Supreme Hu Beng This is how the concept of a 'personal God wth the abilty

to thin act and react has evolvedspecally in the ChrstianWorld

Today the whole concept of God has degenerated nto noth-

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ing more than mass idol-worship and sawned an assortment ofTV evangelists prporting to speak to and for God in order totell their followers what God demands of themwhich is sually more money in the collection plate!

The God of the Ancient Wisdom has always been an immaterial, indescribale Essence (om the root esse meaning o be")which permeates the entre niverse. This Spirit, this Essence, isthe One God of Allall existence This God of the AncientWisdom is denitely Pantheistic and demands nothing bt a different way of thiking Ths if God is a Spirit the rst thing welearn is that we do not have to accept anyone else's idea of whatGod looks like or what God is said to desre. Thats why the18th Centry Deists the more prominent of whom were most of

or Fonding Fathers, viewed God solely as a First Case Thomas Paine the great revoltionary and theologian, in his sperbdiscorse on religion The Age of Reason, said:

very man is an evidence nto himself thathe did not create himself; neither cold histher make himself, nor his grandfather norany of his race; neither cold any tree plantor anmal make itself and it is the convictionarising om this evidence that carries s onas it were by necessity to the belief of a FirstCase eternally existing of a natre totalydifferent to any material existence we kow ofand y the power of which all things exist andthis First Case an calls God

Paine and the Deists believed that aer acting as the mystical

First Case of all creation the Divine Principle we call God recedes into a detached transcendence, leaving the world to worthngs ot according to natral law What is natral law? It isNatral Science. t is that which can be scientically reasonedom a philosophical approach to life a life within which moralprinciples become self-evident in an evolving society i.e. principles learned om observing life and contemplating the solnot some kind of biological inence hidden in or genes TheDeists saw Religios dogma as a misse or exageration of the

ndamental science (yes science of God and they deliberatelyshnned anyhing smacking of the revealed" word.Deists were above all rationalists. They soght God trogh

their coon sense rather than religios dogma They were in

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telectuals such as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, ohAdams and Benjamin Franklin. hey put their trust in "Natre'God which they believed was non-dogmatic. hey reasonedthat if there is only one First Cause of all Creation there can beonly One God and such a God has to be, ltimately a DivinePrinciple and therefore the God of all religions and scientictheories.

Thus the Deists God and the God of the Ancient Wisdomare one and the samethe God of Oneness his God of Oneness is qite different om the present God of ecclesiastical religion the biggest difference eing in where one goes to seekthis God According to the Ancient Wisdom this God will never

be fond in any principle of science or any religious dogma butonly where sch a Divine Principle can rightlly existwithinones own heart

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CHAPTER FIVE

CREATION ACCORDING TO

THE ANCIENT WISDOM

'One should always bear in mind the wo fundamental

contentions of cret (i.e., acred) knowledge, namely:1) the non-separateness and inalienabiliy of God, or theDivine Element from the Universe and 2 the unity of thebasic element SpiritMaer

"From nonrealzaton and nonacceptance of thesefundamental theses come all misundersandings anddelusions .

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-Mm. Hlna RoichLeters, Vol. I

he basis of The Thid Theory is the account o Creation according to the Acient Wisdom. reation according to the Acient Wisdom is the '"Single heory o Everything which wastaught i he ancient Mystery Schools rebuts Siences premise o the Big Bag (although it supports much o physicistDavid Bohms versio o quantum theory) and especiay contradicts Reigios idea that some extra-cosmic upreme eingcaed God personay created the heavens ad te eah Mostimportanty, being ee om eligion s philosophic absrditiesa extracosmic God or example and Sciences philosophicprejudice (they believe there is no such thng as a soul) it hascompete scientic religious and philosophic integrity

The process o Creatio according to the Anciet Wisdom isadmittedly abstract and complex his is precisely why mostpeople dot know o it Thus since we are dealing with a proc

ess wherebv a nite uiverse maniests itsel om an InniteReality ie how our existence emerges om apparent noexistence some intense study o the process may be necessary

Nevetheess the inear manner i which the process is pre-

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sented hee-using gaphics to make the abstact pocesses morconceteshould geatly faclitate undestandng. Whle eadiths pesentation, t s impotant to undestand that the pocegven hee s a format only. One is expected to ntepet it

one's own magnaton n ones own way Do not be aaid to doths because it s eally the only way it can be done

As t so happens the st few veses of the Gospel of St.John (In the beginng was the wod etc.") is a fomdableCeaton Mh. The chuch has ted to explain these passagesby declang Jesus to be he Wod" Hs teachng the Lght"and the people who cant compehend Hs teachng as beng dakness But snce all Biblcal Scptue is open to ntepetaton we may nd upon close scutiny that these wods actually contan the whole abstact pocess of ceation accodng tothe Ancent sdom Decoded t goes lke this:

"N HE BEGNNNG. (Jahn 1: I)n the begnng thee s only Innty. The tem Innty"

epesents negatve space wth no boundaies, thus a selfexstent Unity Scientcally t s a sngle uncompounded element It s depcted n the Ancent Wsdom as a dk ccle (Fg. ). The endlessness of the ccumfeence epesents nnitenessand ts dakness epesents negatve uncompounded space

F ig 1 - The symbol of Infinity

Inteestingly enough whle the majo monotheistic eligioshave no name fo Innty and Scence doesnt ecognze it as a

vable concept we nd it alve n Buddhism as Adddh"n Hndusm as Paabahm" in the Kabala as the AnSoph"and n Theosophy as The Absolute" o smply AbsolutenessIt s also the dakness" of Geness :2.

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"WAS THE WORD...(John

1:1)"The Word is not Jesus, but a divine eergy vibration within

Inity which occurs periodically as a desire for self-expressio.

It is visualized as a white disc in the middle of the dark crcle ofInity (Fig 2). Where does this desire come om? MmeBlavatsky in The Secret Doctrine, says according to esotericteaching the real cause of that supposed dese nd of all existence remains forever hidden and its rst emanations are themost complete abstract mind can conceive That is because ournite mids canot lly grasp the concept ofnnity only con

template it It's also why The Word is also oen refeed to nthe Ancient Wisdom as The Causeless Cause

Fig. 2 - ppearance of he ord within Innity

A good analogy for The Word is found in the concept othought hus The Word appes inside Inity in the same

manner as thought also an invisible unmanifested energy appears inside our consciousness Thought comes into manifestation when it is spoen as an audible word Ad this is preciselyhow The Word will later manifestas a desre for physical expression Although he Word is an energy vibration the Acient Wisdom says that it can also be considered as light or coloras well as sound all of which have vibratoy rates Thus TheWord is also known as The Light or the Keynote of Creatio

ecause of the appearance of this symbol, ths step of thecreation process is referred to as the Open Eye sigaling theawakenng of cosmic activity Since The Word is considered toe the Fst Cause of all existence the Ancient Wisdom refers

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to it as the Fst Logos. the unmanifested form of God This 1 -also considered to be the hghest realzable Concept of God aas the Fst Logos t s also 'God the Father"

he Word can also be referred to as Primary Energy Psychc

Energy, Agni Aum, Fe, he Life Force and even The Forceof the Star Wars rlogy ll these powers are synonymouswth t However he Word is such a dynamic symbol t will beused exclusvely thoughout ths treatise to represent the PrmaryEnergy of the Universe We wll nd t to be the comon basisof all forms of God and all Exstence toughout the unfoldngprocess of Creaton

"AN HE WOR WA WIH GO . (John 1:1With the appearance of he Word comes the dynamic pres

ence of Lght withn the darness In the symbols of the Ancent Wsdo Light s Sit and darkness s Matter Thus wenow have a Duad ie, two elements existng n Oneness as con-ditions of each other. How can ths be? Even though Innity snow a Duad t still remans uncondtioned because Sprt andMatter exst only in poentiali, ie, they are neither manifestednor polaried

The Ancient Wisdom rers to this uad as he Single Element Spt-Matter indicating that although the two elementsinterenetrate each other they are stll a Single Indivisble Entty The ancient Taoist symbo (ig 3) visually demonstratesths abstract relatonship Note that f the outlne of each o theblack and whte halves n the center were extended nto a ccle, each would ll the total space of the center image

Fig. 3 The Duad Spirit-Matte

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Water makes a good analogy for understanding the integrationand exibility of potential Spirit and potential Matter as a Duad.Water is made up of two different essences Hydrogen and Oxgen, yet they remain as one element (water) whether ivisible in

a gaseous state, solid in a ozen state or liquid in thei naturalstate n each of these three different states, the invisible essences of ydrogen and Oxygen remain conditions of eachother So is it also with Spirit and Matter in ther potential states.

The Duad Spiit-Matter is also symbolized in the AncientWisdom as the invisible Father-other of the visible universeThus it is this Duad of Spirit-Matter that is worshiped in Eastern Religions as the ual Origins" of all existence. And because SpiritMatter symbolizes the ultimate ather and Motherof all existence it is also considered to be the esoteric source ofmeaning behind the Biblical Commandment to onor thy ather and Mother"

The Duad Spit-Matter is referred to as the Second Logos inthe cient Wisdom the second form of God And because thisDuad is the form of God which will now, in effect give birth tothe manifested universe, it is also called God the Mother" Buteven though Spirit and Matter are One in this potential state we

nd that The Word which is energy or motion is also present asthei vehicle of expression binding them together in a trinity ofuanifested Oneness. Thus the word was with (the secondform o God"

AND THE WORD WAS GOD... (John 1:1)This sentence is so direct, it sometimes eludes understanding.

It means The Wordthe Primary Energy which unites Spiitand Matter in Oneness God Period hus everything which

will ultimately come into existence will be united in Onenesswith every other thing, all being but a differentiation of the OneDivine nergy which is The Word."

Now as the driving energy behind Creation The Word willpropel the Single Element Spiit-Matter out of nnity and intomanifested existence. But when Sprit-Matter emerges intomanifestation it will still be as One Sgle Unit together withThe Worda Triad of Divine orces which will then take theform of the hird Logos or the Son of God" How will this

trinity of Spirit, Matter and The Word be thrust into manifestation? By the unique process ofmaculate ConceptionThe concept of mmaculate Conception has nothing at all to

do with the supposed virgin birth of Jesus o Mary. t is in

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the Ancient Wisdom, a highly esoteric and scienticay accurate representation of the exact creative process by whch rpotentia orces emerge as a nit into manifested beng.

The exact process is actally a form of condensation Jst asinvisible forces in the atmosphere work to prodce a raindropot o thin air and gravity propels it downwards so does TheWord ot of its inherent desre or expression propel itself andSpirit-Matter "down into maniestation A myth om the Ancient Wisdom details the process t states: The Virgin Moherefses ot of her sinless Oneness her own Son Decoded themyth means

The Virgin (ncomponded spaceInnity)Mother (the Dad SpiritMatter pls "The Wordeffuses out ("The Word propels SpiitMatter into

maniestation)of her sinless (The Mother remains nimpregnated)Oneness nnitenessher own Son a maniested niverse

Here's a inear depiction of this whole process step-bystep

Fig 4 ).

F. 4 - " ma a "by Immaca Ccp

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Notice that n the symbolism of Fig. 4 the three forces whchcomprise the "Son are manifested in what is called "PrimordiaChaos. According to the Ancient Wisdom, Primordial Chaos sthat boundless endless presence of manfested space. This doesnot mean that there already exist suns planets and stars but simply the invisible presence of atomic substance. he fact is theAncient Wisdom says that noting in the universe is created /ut of nothing-so the "Son has to emerge into"something and that something is this vast atomic substancecalled Primordial Chaos Were does t come om? It is alwaysthere in a state ofnnite nonexistence when there is no DivineEnergy present and "appearing te exact instant that Spirit

Matter and The Word emerge om InnityIn Biblical terms te atomic substance of Primordial Chaosis "he Waters' of Genesis l :2 and the emergence of The Wordinto manifestation om Innity represents the "Spirit of odwhich in the last sentence of that same verse, "moved upon theface of the waters

he "Son comprises the entire manifested universe to bel ture Creation of fors will now take place within the connes of existence of this "Son .

It is the Third Logos or the

tird form of God, because it is consubstantial (of the same substance) with the previous two ogoi Thus it is in fact the "Sonof God or to be even more specic, the "Only begotten Son ofGod his represents the structural basis of the Biblical conceptthat he Son is in the Father and the Father is in the Son.

he work of Creation is not yet over however. Although heWord came into manifestation with SpiritMatter from the Duad"Mother SpritMatter still exists in a latent state. Now for thework of Creation Spirit and atter must become individualized

and polaried entities. The way this happens is quite unique andthe process itself is vey important to understand because the integrity of the whole manifested universe is dependent upon ithus, the Son rst differentiates itself amoebaelike to becomets own "Father or manifested Spirit (Fig 5-see next page).

Although a process which has the Duad "Mother efsingout of herself her own son who then becomes its own father isconsing at rst it has a solid metaphysical background AMme Helena Roerich te ighlyrespected Russian metaphysi

cian explains ..in the Eastern religions, one oen comes acrossthe denitions given to al the highest Gods, he Consort ofis Mother and he Son of the Immaculate Conception Invery religious system the gods sed their nctions of Father,

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Fig. 5 - The "Son becomes its own Father whic

then becomes Spirit in manifestation

Son and Consort into one nction. In each cosmogony, the Sons consdered 'The Consort of His Mother." Thus in ths manner the Masculne Principle comes into exstence

Now that Spit s manifested and indvdualized, the nexstep s the nvdualzaton an polarization of Matter To accomplish this the Duad Mother wthdraws her creative forceout of manfestaton an back into Innity. Metaphorically she

vels herself (the well-known Vels of Iss) om her SonThus the Son s now out on ts own Ths allows PrimordalChaos to become by default manfeste Matter and thus polarized om alreadymanifested Spit (Fig 6see next pageThus we now have Sprt as postve energy (he Word n manfestaton) and Matter as negative or receptive, substance Thusthe Femnine PrincipleMatters brought nto manfested exstence

Ths process of the Dua Mother withdrawing Her energy

to allow Her Son to become an Indvidualized Oneness of polarze Sprt and Matter may sound somewhat overly complcated but t s an accurate an detaled nterpretaton of Geness1:67 whch tells us And God said Let there be a rmament n

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Fig. 6- The Duad "Mother withdraws

leaving her Son on its own

the midst of the waters. and let it divide the waters om the waters Ad God made the mament and then divided the waterswhich were under the mament om the waters which wereabove the rmament: and it was so" The withdrawal of theMother om manifestation aows this division to take place

In the Ancient Wisdom. water has always been a metaphor

for either the darkness of Innity and/or Primordial Chaos Thermament' is subjective space which is Primordial Chaos before it is polarized Fmament means a sky viewed poeticayas a solid wall" and that is just what rimordial Chaos is-am barrier, or membrane between Innity and manifestationhus the other's withdrawal separates the darkess (waters)of Innity, which is above the rmament om the darknesswaters) of manifested Primordial Chaos which is beow the mament

Now that a polarized manifested universe has emerged othe surrounding Innity we come to the Master Key to a metaphysical thoughtthat sacred knowledge without which therecan be very little understanding of the real meaning behind the

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entire process of Creation according to the Ancien Wisdom.That Master Key is: even in polarized anifestaion Spirit anatter are stil One Eleen united b the Transcendent -sence of The Word And the will cotinue to be One evenough to the physical anifestation of suns planets, sts andhuan beings

Thus, every anifested thing in the universe will be triune nature, having (1) objective physical for, 2 subjective consciousness and 3 an invisible Essence which is Innite andTranscendent To put it another way each for will have bodyind and spirit Even so o the physical to the TranscendentSpirit and Matter will retain thei Oneness as a condition of each

other forever preserving the coplete integrity of the universeWe can better see how this is all laid out by studying thegraphic depiction of the foundations of existence as they haveevoved in the Ancient Wisdo's forat of reation (Fig 7.

fig. 7 - The Ancient Wisdom's ormat o Creation

This is the forat and structure of reation according o thAncient Wisdo The rst thing we observe is that all theeLogoi are derivatives, or dierent fors o The Word This

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shows us that God is indeed a Trinity of 1) Innite Essence 2subjective invisible energy, and 3) physical objectivity. TusThe Word (the 1st Logo was wit God the 2nd ogo andten became God the 3rd ogo). Whats more All collectivelyis God This thoroughly demonstrates the philosophical rationaler the Pantheistic belie that Go is Everyhing and also a partofEverthing Created

The two triads also show that the manifested universe is aphysical duplicate of the potential energies which created itThis is the esoteric meaning of the famous Hermetic Principle:"As above so below.

We can rther see that the link between the potential creative forces above and the potent creative forces below is nowever since the withdrawal of the Mother's force a Transcendentone Thus while the lower triad may appear to be cut of omthe upper there is always a transcendental (or spiitual link between the two connecting them in Oneness

This is the same kind o spiritual link which exists o at leastshould exist between a ather and mother and th son oraughter ie the parents create the child and then withdrawthe own energy when the child is able to be on its own How

ever they continue to support and inuence the child troughlove a subjective energy which unites them as familyThe manifested universe we have now seen created as the

Son of God is not without its parallels in other religions. t isknown as the "Demiurgos in the Greek philosophical systemthe Adam-Kadmon in the Kabala and Brahma in the Hindureligion.

Thus in all religious systems whether they say so drectly ornot we nd that the physical presence of manifesation is al

ways a result o an invisible abstract cause and that the two arealways inseparably line together Oneness and Being.

"THE SAME WAS IN TE BEGINNING WITH

GOD..." (John 1:2)If we take a look at the symbolism of the creative process just

presented we nd again that he Word is Go whether in theorm o a Spirit the Duad other or as the Son of Godthemanieste universe Thus through the tee steps of the crea

tive process The Word has not only been the driving force butthe container of all other forces herefore he same was the beginnng with God i.e. the invisible forces and ther visile manifestations are always and in every polarized diferentia-

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tion. One Essence-The Word

"ALL THINGS WERE MADE BY HIM AN

WITHOUT HIM WAS NOT ANYTHING MADE

THAT WAS MADE...(John 1:3)

The "Him' in the above vese is he Wo a The Wo ismotion, enegy. o a ceative viation t is this etenal motion:the etenal chuning an e an ow of space and time whichwill e esponsible fo the ceatio of foms withi the manifested univese The Wo is also the epositoy of Cosmic Conscousness the Univesal Intelligence of all existence antheefoe the Fountain Souce of the myia foms pouce

Thus the Son of Go-the manifeste univese-is actuallya selfcontaine spheica matix of Spiit Matte an otion.existing in complete selfcontaine unity an in pefect equilibium with its nite Souce In sho thee is tuly only Oexistence-One Go

n The Secret Doctrine Mme Blavatsky sums up this "Oexistence thusly "Deity is an acane living o moving FIREan the etenal witnesses to this unseen Pesence ae Ligh eatand Moistue-this tinity incluing an being the cause of

evey phenomenon in NatueEven the Bile suppors this concept Thee s a remakaepassage Luke 20-2, whee Jesus was aske to explain the"Kingom of Go' ie . the natue of the universe e eplied"to what shall compae the Kingom of God? t is like a leavenwhich a woman took and hid in thee measues of ou Till itwas all leavene

hus The Wo is the "leaven an it is hidden invisily ithe hee Logoi ie in ( nity in (2 invisile (potential)

Space an in ( Visile xistence which ae the thee measuesof ou "ill it was all leavee means that he Wo is istiute evenly thoughout the totality of all thee existences

Since eveyhing is a iffeentiation of The Wod an TheWod is Go an all life in the univese "lives moves an hasits eing within this Go then "All things wee made by hima without him was not anything mae that was made

"IN HIM WASLIFE;

AND THE LIFE WAS THE LIGHT

OF MENJohn 14)

f we stuy closely the whole pocess of ceation we will seethat eveything visile an ivisile is ut a eivative o iffeentiation o an poceeds om he Wod Thus The Wod is

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the Life' or Li Force." if vou wil of he unierseNotice also that Blaatsky sed the metaphor of Fire for

God That is because e is boh inisible and isible For example strike a match Where does the e come om? Yes, imaniests as a resu of a chemical reacion bu where does it

come om ow blow it ot Were did it goIn actaliv it returned to its inisibe sae readv o be called

rh once again Ths re is a mos apt meaphor or God becase it represents the inisibe essence which is behind and partof each isibe manistation

Fire is aso ery big in the cosmogony of the Hebrew KabalaThe ebrew etter Shin has long been used o sybolize (Fig) the inisibe th three empty crcles) and the isible wordsthe ame-ike points of the gure)

Fig 9 - he Fiery riad in the ebrew letter hin

Ad what is re if no Light? This is precisely tha Ligh ofGod which is part and parce o the essenia nature of All Being Yes we are a children of God and our ner Light is orgide o he ature and Sorce of A Existence his Liingire or Li within us is trly the Light of Men a humankind

'AND THE LIGHT SHINET IN DARKNESS AND TEARKNESS COMPREHENDED IT NOT." (John 1:5)

his is probably the mos misundersood passage in he Bi

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ble. Theologians commonly interpret this passage as Jesus e1\the "Ligh and those in sin as representing the darkness hthey conclude that ther sin prevented them om comprehendiJess' message. Not even close.

This verse has to do solely with understanding the relationsip o the maniested universe to Innity. As sch it s one ofthe most proond illstrations o metaphysical thought in thscriptures.

Fig. 10 - The manifested universe (Light) suspended

in the darkness of Infinity

Let s imagine the maniested universe as a hge ball o Lightsuspended in space (Fig. 0-above), surrounded by the darkness onnity. Since Innity is a separate reality om all existence it cannot know o any eistence. This is what makes it In

nity. Ths anything that exists ie is condiioned cannot brecognized y Innity nnity simply has no way o acknowledging the eistence o anything nite thereore nnity cannotknow that anhing nite even exists.

Since innity is actally Absolute Darkness and the maniested niverse is Light this Light will now shine in the darkness and the darkness will not even indeed cannot even knowits there! Ths the light shineth in darkness; and the darknesscomprehended it not.

These rst ew verses o St. Jon are an ecellent example o

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how the abstract creation process is hidden in my and symbolin the Bible.

Creation according to the Ancient Wisdom because it s totally abstract process is usually completely understood only

aer much contemplation But even though it may be difcult tounderstand at rst there is much to be gained by comprehendingit because it shows that despite wat Religion wants you to believe God is a Spit a Divine Essence and is watever you conceive God to be

od is and always will be a spiitual abstract Thus Creationaccording to the Ancient Wisdom is not a religion not a philosophy, not a teaching not even a thesis t is a symboicmodel a pattern of symbolic procedues over whic one can impose one s own understanding because real understanding cancome only om within

If you will read and study this process over and over againmeditate on it and imagine it all developing symbolically in yourmind you will eventually come to recognize its ll meaning nfact it will become a living reality in your consciousness Disciplined concentration always penetrates and opens up tat wicat rst seems consing Such discipline is the price we pay for

our knowledge and wisdomBut to do this you ave to put everything you've ever learnedom Science and Religion aside and think principally in termso Spit and Matter being higer and lower conditions of eachother-One and the same Element-always despite all appearances in complete Oneness

This represents a brand new paradigm for the foundations ofexistence for most people especialy the concept of God beingan impersonal Trinity of Energies This more realistic kind of

ThreeinOne concept may also be too unusual for one to contain immediately because the curch has proclaimed for undreds of years now that the Trinity is an allmale hierarchy ofFather, Son and Hoy Gost This was obviously done to facilitate the fabricated doctrine of Jesus as God ncaate; to bridgethe gap between the Divine and the earhly in order to supporthe allmale hierarchy of the church as the selected keeper of theKeys to the Kingdom on eath Neveheless truth will out

ts important to always understand that according to the An

cient Wisdom the keys to the ingdom of God are in every oneof ods Creations and are available to everyone free of charge!The Ancient Wisdom has always taught that God is not insideinstitutions but inside human beings

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Many years ago the Ancient Wisdom summed p this wo kprocess in one paragraph:

"God is the only One, He who exists in

essence the only one living in substancethe sole generator in heaven and on earth

who is not Himself engendered. At onceFather Mother, and Son He engenders

brings to birth and is perpetually and

these three persons far from dividingdivine nature work together to His infiniteperfection.

-Histoire ancienne des peuples de /'Orient

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CHAPTER SIX

THE UNFOLDING OF THE UNIVERSE

"'Look around you and see the myriad manifesationsof life so infinitely mutiform: of life of motion. of changeWhat caused these? From what inexhausible source camehey by what agency?

"'Out of the invisible and subjecive they have enteredour itle area of the visibe and objective

"'It is motion with its resuting confic neuralization,equiibration correation to which is due the infinite

variey which prevailsWe say this perpetua motion is the ony eterna anduncreaed Deity we are abe to recognize

-The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett

Leter No XII

According to the Ancient Wisdom. The Son of God-theaifested universenext unlds its energies within itself intoseven pnes of existence (Fig 11ext pge) om Inityth Pe to the objective 1s Pe where Mtter is visibeThis costittes n iplosio o descending pes within theifested uiverse om Pure pirit to porzed Mtter echstep succeedingly lower d denser vibrtion of "'od-heWord

he different shdes of blck demonstrte tht ech plne is ower vibrtion of the one bove it The 7th Plne is not enosed becuse it represents llencompssing ity Heree is nother grphic depictio othe Mster Key to l met

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physical understanding-that although Spiit and Mattr mwdierentiate nto relative polar opposites on the 1st Plane. th)are still One; still conditions o each other throughout the mafested universe and contained ithin the surrounding Innity

Fig. 11 - The manifested universe unfolds inwardly intAn implosion of graded planes of energy

This unolding is almost completely unknon today becausemainstream religions do not provide any structure to the universe In act, most theological cosmogonies exist today ith absolutely no connecting links beteen Innity and the physica

planes All the links have been summarily iped out o all religious learning! hus the orld has become accustomed to visualizing th universe only terms o "God" bing something upthere somehere and earh and humanity being 'don hereith maybe a e angls roaming around somehr in beteen

There e sveral apparent reasons hy rligions have nottaught the concept o a structure o the universe: an implosiono dierntiatd energies is too much o an abstract to explain to

people 2 it is one o those concepts the inner circles anted tokeep hidden on only to themselves 3 the masses ere notgenerally educated enough to understand it 4 undrstanding iould compltly do aay ith any kind o priestly intercession

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between God and Humankind, and 5) a lack of structure focusesattention on the more simplistic "One God concept which inturn lends suppor to the more uncomplicated monotheisticdogma.

hile disregarding the structure may have made things easierto explain for religions it had the distinct disadvantage of making God into an extra-cosmic Personal Deit, ie some Being outside the universe pulling strings so to speak Thus religions have been forced to live and make do with this illogicalconcept, trying desperately to make sense of it always sktingincredulity by passing it off as simply a "mystery However asMe Blavatsky so succinctly put it "An extra-cosmic God isfatal to philosophy. An intracosmic God is a philosophical necessity'

While the concentric circles provide a good mental iage ofthe process of the implosion of the energies in the unfolding ofthe universe a linear depiction (Fig 12 shows how the densityof Spit and atter changes with each level

RIMORIALCHAOS

Infinity

fig. 12- A lnear depiction o the unolding o the universe

ere we can see The Word emerging into Priordial Chaosand unlding into graded and differentiated planes of existence

he point where The Word emerges into manifestation is thatighest Point of Manifested Spirit or The Light of the Universe The unfolding in this example proceeds in the shape of ayramid because it dstinctly shows that the farther away om

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The Light that differentiation occurs, the more relativey po1-ized becomes the SingleElement SpiritMater

Thus the lowest (st) plane (the plane we and our earth anow on) is where Spirit and Matter are at ther farthest point oseparationinto visible and invisible attributes. Still both thevisible and invisible are One conditions of each other.

This is why the st Plane is called the "Plane of Appearances in the Ancient Wisdom; because we only see oneseventhof every visible manifestation. What we don't seewhat is invsible to the eyeactually constitutes the real life. The visible then is a shadow of the invisible therefore an illusion.

In the Ancient Wisdom each of these seven planes has a

denite conecting nction in the internal structure of the manifested universe therefore they have been given names (Fig. 13)in order that these nctions can be more clearly understoodhese names not only stand for Principles of Creation but alsoconstitute Principles ofEvolution

th Plane - Ama

Fig. 13- ci Wisdo's dsigios for Svs of Exisc

The names given to these seven planes by the Ancient Wisdom also carry denite meanings many of which may be familiar as they are conected toEasern religions and teachngs

The 7th PlaneAtmaAtma sometimes Atman is a Transcendental ssence the

Universal Principle of God Consciousness that which perme

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ates all atoms in the Universe, visible and invisible. t's Essencis oen referred to as the Spirit of Fe" which is the invisiblesource of ame Atma is the synthesis of all other states of consciousness (planes of existenc

-e) and is, r all intents and pur

poses, Innit

The 6th Plane-Buddhi

Buddhi is Light or Illumination. It is the vehicle of Atma orAtma in Universal Manifestation Thus it is the highest fested plane of Spiitual Consciousness Buddhi is referred to aFame which of course is the phsical manifestation of the invisible Spiit of Fire" This combination of the 7th and 6th

Principles AtmaBuddhi) is called the Monad" in the ncientWisdom ach persons soul contains a monad which containsthe Seed of the Spiit," the core of individualized Being achatom in the universe also has its monad The Atmic and BuddhicEssences of the monad comprise the Fier Spirit," or GodWithin."

The 5th PlaneManas

Manas is the plane of Universal Mind. It is that plane of Cos

mic ntelligence which also permeates the entire Universe and isthe caier of Cosmic deationthe Cosmic Plan of image andorm. Atma Buddhi and the higher aspects of Manas togetherconstitute the Higher Triad" of existence which in human

terms would translate into ones igher Sel

The 4th PlaneKama

The term Kama" means desire" so this is the plane wheredesies begin to take form. t is the middle therefore a kind of

pivota and transitional plane between the three igher and thethree lower panes. When a constructive cosmic thought originates in the Higher Panes of Manas 5th) it produces an invisible prototpical form on this pane From here the form willeventuall be replicated downward through denser prototpes onthe 3rd and 2nd planes bere becoming a visibe object on thephsical 1st) plane

The 3rd PlanePrana

Prana is the Life Principle" or Life Force" which is insedinto eve atom of the manifested universeanimal, vegetableineral, human. t is subjective in manifestation and is similaro the principe of vitait. When a phsica object is destroed

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by burnng, for example the atoms of prana are released and istantly re-jon te subjectve cosmc mass. 'Jva" s anotname for ths Prncple

The 2nd Plane-AstralThe Astral Plane beng the closest to the physcal objectve

plane s were the nvsble prototype of a person object orthng reaches ts nal subjectve form before appearng on thephyscal plane. Thus everytng n physcal manfestaton asprevously had ts own Astral Archetypal mage exactly as Platotaught

The 1stPlane ObjectiveThe Objectve Plane is the materaL physcal planewhere

Matter s densest Although everythng n physcal manfestaton(that whc can be seen) s objected on ths plane all of theother Prncples om te sx Hgher planes are also present ieach manfestaton ncludng human bengs he objectveplane s also the Ert Plane whch we are on now.

The manner n whch the manfested unverse unfolds Fg12) shows agan the nature of the Master Key to all sprtual understandng: that everyng whch exstsvsble and nvsbles but an ndvduazed dfferentaton and graded vbraton of a sngle Energy Source The Word

Ths s te basc cosmc nastructure of all exstence and wewll return to t n dfferent ways as other aspects of Creaton unfold hus we human bengs share a common unty not only

wt each other but wth anmals the vegetable kngdom planets and stars all vsble and nvsble space and even our homesautomobles and lawn mowers The bottom lne All s One.

hese Seven Planes o Exstence consttute te vast dspersalof he Word as the vehcle and contaner of Spt and Matterno a format whch wll manfest all forms In ths unfoldng ofthe unverse we are able to detect the Judac doctrne of emanatons wth he Word beng the rst Sepha he Word alsocorresponds to the Sanskt term Agn whch means the Crea

tve re of the unverse It s also the great AUM the threesacred letters sgnng Sprt Matter and The Word

he unfoldng of the unverse s dvded nto Seven Planes bythe Ancent Wsdom n order to more easly show te septenary

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nature of all existence, but in actuality the unfolding is seamless and this seamless inastructure we will also nd the space-time continuum of Albet Einstein's General Theo of Relativiy

We will also nd in this unfolding of the universe the seamlessblending of the implicate and explicate orders which Physicist DavidBohm employed to describe the wholeness of all beng. Bomsunique quantum theory portrayed the universe as a "holomovement inwhich there was a deeper, invisible reality behind visible existencewith the manifestation of visible existence being a result of a continuing interplay between the two Whether he knew it or not, ohms"Holographic Universe"as it has come to b calledan easily beseen in the gradation and differentiation of forms due to the unfolding

of Spit (the invisible) and Matter (the visible) within the Oneness ofThe WordIt was the Apostle Paul a gied theologian wo rst divided the

seven planes of the manifested universe into tree distict sectionscalled Body (the physical plane), Mind (the invisible spheres of the2nd to 4th lanes) and Spirit (the igher Divine Energies of the 5th6t and 7th Planes) in order to make them more understandable toearly Christians (Fig 14)

fig. 14- The Seven Planes o Existence divided intoBody, Mind and Spirit

owever while the above division is quite proper and makes thetree major divisions of life easier to visualize, the Ancient Wisdomgroups the Seven lanes to two geometric gures, the top teelanes as a Triad and the bottom four as a Quaternary (Fig 5)

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Atma

uddhi

Fig. 15- The Seven Planes grouped as a Tradand a Quaternary

The above division of the panes is a more accurate representation of the principles of the cient Wisdom. The upwardpointing Triad encompasses the panes of Atma Buddhi andManas and is thus kown as the "Word ofFire This representsthe Trinity of Creative Forces-The Word Spirit and atterin manifestation Nothing of denite for can exist in thesetree panes his conguration is aso kown-as wi beshown in foowing chapters-as the "Higher Triad or the

"igher SeThe Quaternary (square) represents t

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