{"id":1528,"date":"2016-09-02T21:34:10","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T21:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prajnaquest.fr\/blog\/?p=1528"},"modified":"2016-09-02T21:35:26","modified_gmt":"2016-09-02T21:35:26","slug":"wash-rinse-repeat-the-cosmical-cycle-of-manifestation-dissolution-defined-or-redefined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/prajnaquest.fr\/blog\/wash-rinse-repeat-the-cosmical-cycle-of-manifestation-dissolution-defined-or-redefined\/","title":{"rendered":"Wash, Rinse, Repeat. The Cosmical Cycle of Manifestation-Dissolution. Defined, or Redefined"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201c. . . there never was a first Kalpa, nor will there ever be a last one, in Eternity.\u201d1<\/sup><\/p>\n

\u2014H. P. Blavatsky<\/p>\n

Georges Lema\u00eetre, a Catholic astronomer, physicist and professor, proposed in 1927, based on Einstein\u2019s theory of gravitation, the cosmos was not static and was in fact expanding and therefore could be traced back in time to a single point or primordial atom. This theory eventually became known as the \u201cBig Bang.\u201d If we were able to play the great cosmic-movie, in reverse from today, we would see the currently expanding galaxies eventually moving together or coalescing into a single point.2<\/sup><\/p>\n

The expanse of time as to when the \u201cBig Bang\u201d occurred, is somewhere in the neighborhood of 13.8 billion years.3<\/sup> The \u201cBig Bang\u201d theory is of course, the physical theory, and cannot accommodate the metaphysical realms, but nevertheless the \u201cas above, so below\u201d correspondence or analogy (the \u201cold Hermetic axiom\u201d as Blavatsky calls it) should have some validity. (However, some clues to the existence of the more subtle realms may lie in that of dark matter and dark energy.4<\/sup>)<\/p>\n

Some years ago, upon reading about the cycle of periodicity in The Secret Doctrine, i.e., <\/i>the Stanzas from the <\/i>Book of Dzyan,5<\/sup> sporadically in The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett <\/i>(for the ideas of mah\u0101-manvantara, mah\u0101-kalpa and mah\u0101-pralaya, for instance)6<\/sup> and the \u1e5ag-veda<\/i>, I found, after learning about the \u201cBig Bang\u201d theory in my science courses at the University, this science-based theory was highly incongruent and amiss, as I was expecting some correlation with the Ancients and modern science<\/b>. (I was exposed to Theosophy first<\/b> before being vulnerable to the onerous science courses which I had to take at the University.)<\/p>\n

Recently however, a new cosmical-origins theory has come to light which may appear to approach justifying H. P. Blavatsky\u2019s statement about beginning-less kalpas.<\/p>\n

In a scientific paper published last July, \u201cPerfect Quantum Cosmological Bounce,\u201d7<\/sup> the idea is \u201cthe [conventional] big bang\u201d may actually be the result of a preceding \u201cbig bang\u201d but based on a modification of the prevailing \u201cbig bang\u201d theory due to quantum mechanics. Physicists Steffen Gielen and Neil Turok, have developed a mathematical-cosmological model or simulation which indicates the present universe is the result of a previous universe. Inherent in their theory is periodicity, an endless cycle of manifestation and dissolution, with subsequent manifestations dependent upon the previous collapsed manifested universes.<\/span><\/p>\n

The predecessor universe would have contracted toward a dense state that marked its big crunch end, and our universe\u2019s big bang beginning. . . . the universe does not completely get destroyed because the effects of quantum mechanics preserves it.<\/b>8<\/sup><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What is yet to be determined is how long the collapsed state is preserved, which is a critical component of the entire theory and must eventually be resolved.<\/p>\n

Their model postulates the present condition of our universe is an expansion from a previous contraction. It is being described as an eternal bounce, built on conformal cyclicity.<\/b><\/p>\n

The Big Bounce theory states that the universe follows a cycle of contraction and expansion, repeated infinitely. According to this theory, the universe did not begin with a violent explosion, but rather formed as a previous universe expanded or \u2018bounced\u2019 back collapsing\u00a0during the contraction phase of this endless cycle.<\/p>\n

One of the main issues that had prevented the Big Bounce theory from securing its validity is that there was no proposed explanation as to how the universe could expand back after its full collapse.\u00a0The team\u2019s simulation suggests that once the universe reaches its smallest point, the common laws of physics governing our daily environment are abandoned and the rules of quantum mechanics come into play.\u00a0The effects of quantum mechanics would preserve of the universe, keeping it from destruction and allowing the emergence of another universe like the one we\u2019re in today.<\/p>\n

Quantum mechanics saves us when things break down,\u201d explains team member Steffen Gielen, from Imperial College London.\u00a0\u201cIt saves electrons from falling in and destroying atoms, so maybe it could also save the early Universe from such violent beginnings and endings as the Big Bang.<\/p>\n

Using quantum mechanics in a computer simulation, the team was able to formulate how the universe could spring back from deflation, even with only radiation and a little matter remaining in it.<\/p>\n

The big surprise in our work is that we could describe the earliest moments of the hot Big Bang quantum mechanically, under very reasonable and minimal assumptions about the matter present in the Universe,\u201d said team member Neil Turk [Turok], from the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Canada. \u201cUnder these assumptions, the Big Bang was a \u2018bounce\u2019, in which contraction reversed to expansion.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s next for this simulation is to find out if the entities within the universe, such as galaxies, can come into existence under these circumstances.\u00a0As technology evolves, the chances that quantum computers\u00a0could finally catch up with the enigmas of the universe are looking better and better.9<\/sup><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Although this theory has been around for about ten years now, the breakthrough is the theorists have been able to pass through an undefined singularity, not occupying space and time, which is an impossibility. Now, Turok and Gielen have been able to pass over the singularity and out the other side.<\/p>\n

Obviously, all these discoveries by science can only address the material cause, but again, but transposed, as below, so above<\/i>. This model by Gielen and Turok is at its earliest stages and future models will require more powerful quantum computers with which to expand and complete the theory and take in more variables. The Ancient\u2019s have taught, the contraction cycle is equivalent to the manifestation cycle in terms of time or duration. Hopefully this \u201cBig Bounce\u201d theory will incorporate that idea, and I have no doubt it eventually will.<\/p>\n

Metaphorically, there must be some highly abstruse system involved in any cycle or Mah\u0101-cycle, similar to the idea of a \u015bi\u1e63\u1e6da (from the Sanskrit verb root, \u015bi\u1e63, allow to remain or leave a residue) or remainder, no matter what level of consciousness we are describing. It is that \u015bi\u1e63\u1e6da of quantum mechanics which science may have begun to have discovered and I think this is quite amazing. I use the term \u201c\u015bi\u1e63\u1e6da\u201d because, it is these \u201cremainders or latent seeds\u201d which are left on a planet as the life-wave leaves that planet to pass through the round to the next of the other planets within that septenary, and once the life-wave returns again to that former planet, the \u015bi\u1e63\u1e6da-s are responsible for reinvigorating the new cycle or life-wave.<\/p>\n

What then, keeps these cycles, as far as we know based on what the Ancients describe, progressing? In the case of a human, we understand karma is a direct motivational factor. Can we then, correspondingly, \u201cas above, so below<\/i>,\u201d consider cosmic karma as responsible for the cycles of the solar systems, galaxies and universe? There would be no reason to require a cycle to repeat itself unless the fruits of a previous cycle contribute to the grandeur of a future progressive cycle.<\/b> Science however, does not go that far yet, as it does not recognize karma and can\u2019t even imagine such details of cycles within cycles of interconnectivity beyond the physical. That, is simply too vast and requires too much information from the mental, intuitional and spiritual levels, much less the divine correspondents (i.e., the seven planes of the human is but the physical plane, consisting of seven sub-planes, of the divine). But if this new finding approaches validation, I see science eventually looking to the Ancients for guidance, which is something science rarely ever probably does. That is still a long way in the future. But I do see scientists using ancient information to guide their horses; it is just that they require empirical data to hold the reins of everything.<\/p>\n

But, this new scientific model is the most advanced to be developed for almost 100 years.<\/p>\n

Science and metaphysics of the Ancients are slowly melding in agreement.<\/b>10<\/sup> Although \u201cas above, so below\u201d11<\/sup> nevertheless applies here, science is helping us to understand the process of the cycles of manifestation and dissolution. Obviously, due to the makeup of the matter involved, science can never empirically discern the metaphysical, but they should be able to eventually approach and prove the existence of the four etheric sub-planes of the higher physical. Over time, proof can be ascertained by various ways towards consciousness operating through the emotional and mental vehicles.12<\/sup> And, indirectly, science should be able, to determine the phenomena of clairvoyance. But, science\u2019s understanding of SPACE as an infinite extension of an eternal, unchangeable \u201centity,\u201d or \u201cEternal Parent\u201d which transcends thought, that may never come to be.<\/p>\n

The metaphysics I am referring to, citing only out of many examples, is that from The Secret Doctrine<\/i>, Proem, one of the fundamental propositions:<\/p>\n

(b) The Eternity of the Universe in toto<\/i> as a boundless plane; periodically \u2018the playground of numberless Universes incessantly manifesting and disappearing,\u2019 called \u2018the manifesting stars,\u2019 and the \u2018sparks of Eternity.\u2019 . . .<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Further, we have what I consider the most sublime creation myth or story, other than the most sublime, The Book of Dzyan,13<\/sup> is that of the \u1e5ag-veda<\/i>.14<\/sup> These hymns originated from the Vedic \u1e5ai\u1e63is of the 1st sub-race of the Aryan root stock, the 5th. They arrived into northern India or \u0100ry\u0101varta from the north, last, compared to the 2nd-5th sub-races, for various reasons.<\/p>\n

And in the \u1e5ag-veda<\/i>, Ma\u1e47\u1e0dala (Book) X, S\u016bkta (Hymn) 129 (X.129) in the tri\u1e63\u1e6dubh meter, consisting of seven mantras or verses, initially describes the state or condition prior to the first great manifestation or mah\u0101-s\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e6di. The Hymn is also known as the N\u0101sad\u012bya S\u016bkta. I should note, the tenor, poetic beauty, vibration, and content of X.129, though brief and succinct, may be compared to the more extensive and illuminating Stanzas I and II of The Book of Dzyan. In a measure, my sense is the N\u0101sad\u012bya S\u016bkta was extracted from The Book of Dzyan, long ago.<\/p>\n

The content of the N\u0101sad\u012bya S\u016bkta, written by a certain Parame\u1e63\u1e6dh\u012b Praj\u0101pati, contains:<\/p>\n

\u201c. . . in the seven mantras of this S\u016bkta we find a complete statement of Vedic metaphysics which is the quintessence of the \u1e5aigveda<\/i>. . . . The seed of knowledge lies somewhere in its heart. It is saturated with the fragrance of thought that was in the intuition of the \u1e5aishis. One may repeat the hymn and breathe its aroma even now. The words are merely symbols which explode as thought advances to more subtle sheaths of Truth. \u2018This hymn is the finest effort of the imagination of the Vedic poet, and nothing else equals it.\u2019\u201d15<\/sup><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Out of the approximately seventy-two complete or partial translations of this Hymn since 1805 (H. T. Colbrooke) I am quoting David Reigle\u2019s recent translation, as found in his Creation Stories-The Cosmogony Account from the Vedas Part 2-Translation of \u1e5ag-veda 10.129, the \u201cHymn of Creation\u201d By David Reigle on February 28, 2013 at 11-41 pm.<\/i> See sources below for the grammatical and etymological comments.16<\/sup> The mantras are written in the padap\u0101\u1e6dha. That is: a word-by-word breakdown, irrespective of sandhi rules. The Sanskrit padap\u0101\u1e6dha verses are listed first, then David\u2019s English translation.<\/p>\n

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n\u0101\u0301sad \u0101s\u012bn n\u00f3 s\u00e1d \u0101s\u012bt tad\u0101\u0301n\u012b\u1e43 n\u0101\u0301s\u012bd r\u00e1jo n\u00f3 v\u00fdom\u0101 par\u00f3 y\u00e1t<\/p>\n

k\u00edm \u0101\u0301var\u012bva\u1e25 k\u00faha k\u00e1sya \u015b\u00e1rmann \u00e1mbha\u1e25 k\u00edm \u0101s\u012bd g\u00e1hana\u1e43 gabh\u012br\u00e1m || 1 ||<\/p>\n

[1.] [It] was not non-existent, nor was [it] existent then. There was no world, nor sky, [nor] what is beyond. What moved incessantly? Where? In the abode of what? Was [it] water, dense [and] deep?<\/p>\n

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n\u00e1 m\u1e5bty\u00far \u0101s\u012bd am\u1e5b\u0301ta\u1e43 n\u00e1 t\u00e1rhi n\u00e1 r\u0101\u0301try\u0101 \u00e1hna \u0101s\u012bt praket\u00e1\u1e25<\/p>\n

\u0101\u0301n\u012bd av\u0101t\u00e1\u1e43 svadh\u00e1y\u0101 t\u00e1d \u00e9ka\u1e43 t\u00e1sm\u0101d dh\u0101ny\u00e1n n\u00e1 par\u00e1\u1e25 k\u00ed\u1e43 can\u00e1\u0304sa || 2 ||<\/p>\n

[2.] There was not death nor life (\u201cnon-death\u201d) then. There was no distinguishing sign of night [or] of day. That one breathed without air by [its] inherent power. Other than just that, there was not anything else.<\/p>\n

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t\u00e1ma \u0101s\u012bt t\u00e1mas\u0101 g\u016b\u1e37h\u00e1m \u00e1gre \u2019praket\u00e1\u1e43 salil\u00e1\u1e43 s\u00e1rvam \u0101 id\u00e1m<\/p>\n

tucchy\u00e9n\u0101bhv \u00e1pihita\u1e43 y\u00e1d \u0101\u0301s\u012bt t\u00e1pasas t\u00e1n mahin\u0101\u0301j\u0101yat\u00e1ikam || 3 ||<\/p>\n

[3.] Darkness was hidden by darkness in the beginning. All this was water without distinguishing sign. That one germ which was covered by the void was born through the power of heat.<\/p>\n

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k\u00e1\u0304mas t\u00e1d \u00e1gre s\u00e1m avartat\u0101\u0301dhi m\u00e1naso r\u00e9ta\u1e25 pratham\u00e1\u1e43 y\u00e1d \u0101\u0301s\u012bt<\/p>\n

sat\u00f3 b\u00e1ndhum \u00e1sati n\u00edr avindan h\u1e5bd\u00ed prat\u012b\u0301\u1e63y\u0101 kav\u00e1yo man\u012b\u1e63\u0101\u0301 || 4 ||<\/p>\n

[4.] Desire in the beginning came upon that [germ], which was the first seed of mind. Sages, having searched in the heart with inspired thought, found out [desire to be] the link of the existent in the non-existent.<\/p>\n

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tira\u015bc\u012b\u0301no v\u00edtato ra\u015bm\u00edr e\u1e63\u0101m adh\u00e1\u1e25 svid \u0101s\u012b\u03013d up\u00e1ri svid \u0101s\u012b3t<\/p>\n

retodh\u0101\u0301 \u0101san mahim\u0101\u0301na \u0101san svadh\u0101\u0301 av\u00e1st\u0101t pr\u00e1yati\u1e25 par\u00e1st\u0101t || 5 ||<\/p>\n

[5.] Their cord was extended across. Was there a below? Was there an above? There were seed-placers, there were powers; inherent power below, impulse above.<\/p>\n

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k\u00f3 addh\u0101\u0301 veda k\u00e1 ih\u00e1 pr\u00e1 vocat k\u00fata \u0101\u0301j\u0101t\u0101 k\u00fata iy\u00e1\u1e43 v\u00eds\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e6di\u1e25<\/p>\n

arv\u0101\u0301g dev\u00e1\u0304 asy\u00e1 vis\u00e1rjanen\u0101\u0301th\u0101 k\u00f3 veda y\u00e1ta \u0101babh\u016b\u0301va || 6 ||<\/p>\n

[6.] Who really knows? Who here can say? From where has [it] been born? From where [has come] this manifestation? The gods are later than the manifestation of this [cosmos]. Then who knows from what [it] has come into being?<\/p>\n

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iy\u00e1\u1e43 v\u00eds\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e6dir y\u00e1ta \u0101babh\u00fa\u0304va y\u00e1di v\u0101 dadh\u00e9 y\u00e1di v\u0101 n\u00e1<\/p>\n

y\u00f3 asy\u0101\u0301dhyak\u1e63a\u1e25 param\u00e9 v\u00fdoman s\u00f3 a\u1e45g\u00e1 veda y\u00e1di v\u0101 n\u00e1 v\u00e9da || 7 ||<\/p>\n

[7.] From what this manifestation has come into being, whether [it] was made or whether not, its overseer who is in the highest heaven, he surely knows; or else [he] knows not.<\/p>\n

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In the seventh verse,17<\/sup> some translators use the pronoun \u201che\u201d (Sanskrit, sa\u1e25<\/i>), while others translate \u201cit\u201d as the subject, depending upon the verb \u201cdadhe\u201d and what form it takes in the sentence and whether an \u201cagency\u201d was involved for the process of creation or manifestation. David Reigle has gone over these particulars. This Hymn should not be mistakenly considered a Hymn of Creation but a Hymn of Manifestation or Periodicity. That is why I prefer to call it the Cosmogonic Hymn. Using the term Creation can imply a Creator, which further implies an anthropomorphic agent, as in the Genesis of the Bible creation story.<\/p>\n

Considering the new scientific model, out of the cycle of Periodicity the seeds of a new, future cycle are inherent in the next manifestation cycle, which empowers the continuing cycle. There is no reason to doubt cycles encompass a progressive or evolutionary effect (described by some writers as a spiral cycle). The cycles of the universe, infant and mature galaxies, and solar systems and planets and root-races and all forms of life, cyclically, s\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e6di (San.) = \u201cmanifestation or letting go\u201d and pralaya = \u201cdissolution or reabsorption,\u201d are uninterrupted and undeterred, if we can rely on the information given to us. The lessor cycles contribute to the greater cycles. Such details are, however, not indicated in the Cosmogonic Hymn in the \u1e5ag-veda<\/i>.<\/p>\n

The Hindu Vai\u015be\u1e63ika system, concurs with The Mahatma Letters <\/i>( such as letter no. 10)\u00a0 that an anthropomorphic god is not necessary for the manifestation and dissolution of a \u201csystem,\u201d whereby a \u201csystem,\u201d can range from an atom, living being, root-race, planet, solar system, galaxy or universe beyond to aditi (the unbound). Although the masses may believe in an anthropomorphic deity, evidence by extensive study has shown this is a figment of the imagination.18<\/sup><\/p>\n

Is the n\u0101sad\u012bya s\u016bkta describing periodicity other than one cycle? No, as further explanation is required. The Proem of The Secret Doctrine<\/i> indicates this, however. The topic of the big bang repeating itself does also, therefore it would go more with the Proem. The point of the \u1e5ag-veda<\/i> verses are that at the beginning, there was (an inherent state of) nothing. Actually, the Proem (b) speaks of periodicity and then nothingness, then periodicity all over again. It says nothing as to whether each successive manifestation is greater than the previous manifestation.<\/p>\n

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Notes:<\/strong><\/p>\n

1<\/sup>Blavatsky, H. P., The Secret Doctrine<\/em>, vol. I, 368.<\/p>\n

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2<\/sup> A contrasting theory, the Steady State, as theorized by astronomer Fred Hoyle, argued the universe was static and ever eternal. This theory never won out over the \u201cBig Bang\u201d theory because, over time, it has been proven there is a cosmic microwave background radiation remaining from the original big bang explosion. Hoyle coined the term, Big Bang, out of disrespect to that theory, which eventually stuck. However, behind Hoyle\u2019s argument against the Big Bang theory was his belief that the universe did not have a creator but at the same time could not be described in scientific terms, as it was irrational, since it was eternal.<\/p>\n

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3<\/sup> The quite capable Hubble Space Telescope, using a certain gravitation lensing\u00a0 technique, has been able to capture a field of galaxies (called Abell S1063) which are from the very earliest, about one billion years after the \u201cBig Bang.\u201d This is its most astounding feat so far.<\/p>\n

And yet, The Book of Dzyan indicates a period of manifestation of 311,040 trillion\u00a0years (seven eternities)!<\/p>\n

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4<\/sup>\u00a0Several excellent works, among many, have come to the forefront, hoping to crack the cosmic veil:<\/p>\n

Gleyzes, J\u00e9r\u00f4me (2016) Dark Energy and the Formation of the Large Scale Structure of the Universe<\/i>. Switzerland: Springer.<\/p>\n

Mazure, Alain (2011) Matter, Dark Matter, and Anti-Matter. In Search of the Hidden Universe<\/em>. London: Springer.<\/p>\n

Panek, Richard (2011) The 4% Universe. Dark Matter, Dark Energy and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality<\/i>. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.<\/p>\n

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5<\/sup> While my hypothesis is still in the formative states, there is evidence, for each root-race and its sub-races, there is a root teacher and a root Creation myth. The earliest Pelasgians, not the later, were the original Keltic peoples or 4th sub-race of the 5th root-race. They had their own teacher, Orpheus and there is a Pelasgian Creation story. The \u1e5ag-veda is the root text for the 1st sub-race of the 5th root-race, redacted by Vy\u0101sa and the seven Rishis (\u1e5a\u1e63i-s). I believe The Book of Dzyan, although having begun during the 4th or Atlantean root-race, is the root text for all of Humanity.<\/p>\n

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6<\/sup> From the stanzas of The Book of Dzyan, Stanza I. \u201cThe Night of The Universe. The eternal parent [mother-space], wrapped in her ever-invisible robes [root-matter], had slumbered once again for seven eternities.\u201d<\/p>\n

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7<\/sup> Gielen, Steffen and Turok, Neil (2016) \u201cPerfect Quantum Cosmological Bounce\u201d in Physical Review Letters<\/em>, PRL 117, 021301 (2016) week ending 8 July 2016, 1-5. From beginning to end, this paper is full of differential calculus and was not written for the non-professional, unsurprisingly. Since it is in copyright, I cannot supply it as an attachment.<\/p>\n

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8<\/sup> See: http:\/\/futurism.com\/new-simulation-supports-the-theory-of-the-big-bounce-instead-of-the-big-bang\/<\/p>\n

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9<\/sup> Big Bang \u2013 Or Big Bounce? | Perimeter Institute, dated July 6, 2016 at: https:\/\/www.perimeterinstitute.ca\/node\/101077<\/p>\n

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10<\/sup> Another example is the recent determination of a new, fifth fundamental force of nature (due to the discovery of a new type of boson subatomic particle) and its possible connection with dark matter (85% of the universe consists of dark matter). This would be a sector outside of the standard model of physics. Further, the dark matter theory is considering that it is a \u201cback door\u201d to the universe. All this is approaching the realm of etheric matter. Recently, Astronomers have discovered a galaxy made of 99.99% dark matter.<\/p>\n

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11<\/sup> \u201cEverything in the Universe follows analogy. \u2018As above, so below;\u2019 Man is the microcosm of the Universe. That which takes place on the spiritual plane repeats itself on the Cosmic plane. Concretion follows the lines of abstraction ; corresponding to the highest must be the lowest; the material to the spiritual. . . .\u00a0 \u2018Physically or constitutionally the mineral monad differs, of course, from the human monad, which is neither physical nor can its constitution be rendered by chemical symbols and elements.\u2019 In short, as the spiritual Monad is One, Universal, Boundless and Impartite, whose rays, nevertheless, form what we, in our ignorance, call the \u2018Individual Monads\u2019 of men, so the Mineral Monad\u2014being at the opposite point of the circle\u2014is also One\u2014and from it proceed the countless physical atoms, which Science is beginning to regard as individualized.\u201d The Secret Doctrine<\/em>, vol. I, 177-8.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Universe is worked and guided\u00a0 from within outwards.\u00a0 As above so it is below, as in heaven so on earth ; and man\u2014the microcosm and miniature copy of the macrocosm\u2014is the living witness to this Universal Law and to the mode of its action.\u201d The Secret Doctrine<\/em>, vol. I, 274.<\/p>\n

The occult or alchemical process from the Smagdarine Tablet of Hermes (Tabula Smaragdina Hermetis) states: \u201cIt is true, certain, and without falsehood, that whatever is below is like that which is above; and that which is above is like that which is below . . .\u201d This work is so ancient, the speculation about it\u00a0predominantly\u00a0considers it never existed.<\/p>\n

The planetary-microcosm relation and analogy to the cosmic-macrocosm process is also found in the human-microcosm (cakras, pr\u0101\u1e47as within the n\u0101\u1e0dis, etc.) to the cosmic-macrocosm.<\/p>\n

This alchemical statement is also found in the Buddhist tantras, particularly the Hevajra Tantra<\/em> [Part II volume. iv. lines 49cd of the Snellgrove Sanskrit\/Tibetan on pages 68-9 and the English translation by Snellgrove on page 105 of Part I volume of Snellgrove, David (1959), The Hevajra Tantra. A Critical Study, Part I. Introduction and Translation.<\/em> Part II Sanskrit and Tibetan Texts<\/em>\u00a0(London: Oxford University Press)]<\/p>\n

yoginy\u0101 dehamadhyastha\u1e43 A-k\u0101rasamvarasthita\u1e43 || yath\u0101 b\u0101hya\u1e43 tath\u0101dhy\u0101tma\u1e43 samvara\u1e43 tat prak\u0101\u015bita\u1e43\u00a0 ||49||<\/p>\n

a yi rnam pa\u1e25i sdom pas gnas || sdom pa de \u00f1id rab tu phye\u00a0 ||49||<\/p>\n

We explain the internal ma\u1e47\u1e0dala as being comprised in the unity of the sound A which exists at the centre of the yogini\u2019s body, and just as the external ma\u1e47\u1e0dala (evolves from the seed-syllable), so also does the internal.<\/p>\n

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This is also quoted in Vanaratna\u2019s commentary Rahasyad\u012bpik\u0101<\/em> on K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47\u0101carya\u2019s treatise Vasantatilak\u0101<\/em>, ed. by Rinpoche and Dwivedi, 1990: 90; in Bhattacharya, B., Ed. (1972) Abhay\u0101karagupta\u2019s Ni\u1e63pannayog\u0101val\u012b, <\/em>Baroda: Oriental Institute, \u00a04 (only the first p\u0101da of the line); for the reference to the Ni\u1e63pannayog\u0101val\u012b and discussion on the analogical thinking, see: Wayman, Yoga of the Guhyasam\u0101jatantra<\/em>, 62ff.<\/p>\n

Likewise, in the K\u0101lacakra-tantra<\/em> literature we have in the K\u0101lacakra-tantra<\/em> commentary, Vimalaprabh\u0101<\/em> 3.57 (vol. II, page 57, lines 18-19 of the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies edition) the following verse:<\/p>\n

yath\u0101 b\u0101hye tath\u0101 dehe yath\u0101 dehe tath\u0101pare |<\/p>\n

[As without, so it is within the body. As in the body, so it is within the other (i.e., the ma\u1e47\u1e0dala)]<\/p>\n

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trividham ma\u1e47\u1e0dalam j\u00f1\u0101tv\u0101 \u0101c\u0101ryo ma\u1e47\u1e0dala\u1e43 likhet ||<\/p>\n

[Having understood the three-fold ma\u1e47\u1e0dala, the teacher should draw the ma\u1e47\u1e0dala (the macrocosm).]<\/p>\n

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The K\u0101lacakra-tantra<\/em> contains in chapter I, the cosmogenesis chapter (lokadh\u0101tu pa\u1e6dala) and in chapter II is the anthropogenesis chapter (adhy\u0101tma pa\u1e6dala). They thus work together to cohere and explain the \u201cas above, so below\u201d relating the cosmos (macrocosm) to the human (microcosm).<\/p>\n

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12<\/sup> Depending upon which nomenclature one prefers to describe the bodies or vehicles of consciousness, there are the ko\u015ba-s, up\u0101dhi-s and \u015bar\u012bra-s<\/em>. Thus the etheric body is sometimes referred to as the pr\u0101\u1e47amaya-ko\u015ba, higher sth\u016blop\u0101dhi, li\u1e45ga-\u015bar\u012bra, etc.<\/p>\n

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13<\/sup> I don\u2019t italicize the title, as we don\u2019t really know its real title, however there is no question to me as to its existence. But my question is how it can be conveyed into a language such as Sanskrit. I think that, however, has already been done and awaits the day, when Humanity is ready for it. From, Annie Besant, D. L. and The Rt. Rev. C. W. Leadbeater, \u201cThe Book of the Golden Precepts or Voice of the Silence\u201d in Talks on the Path of Occultism – Vol. II. A Commentary on \u201cThe Voice of the Silence<\/em>:<\/p>\n

The book has, however, several peculiarities which she does not there [The Secret Doctrine<\/em>] mention. It appears to be very highly magnetized, for as soon as a man takes a page into his hand he sees passing before his eyes a vision of the events which it is intended to portray, while at the same time he seems to hear a sort of rhythmic description of them in his own language, so far as that language will convey the ideas involved. Its pages contain no words whatever \u2013 nothing but symbols.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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14<\/sup> The most recent complete translation, devoid of the Vedic Sanskrit verses and also without grammatical justification, is: Jamison, Stephanie W., Brereton Joel P., Trans. (2014) The Rigveda. The Earliest Religious Poetry of India<\/em> (3-Volume Set) New York: The University of Texas South Asia Institute and Oxford University Press.<\/p>\n

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15<\/sup> Agrawala, Vasudeva S. (1983) Hymn of Creation (N\u0101sad\u012bya S\u016bkta, \u1e5aigveda X. 129<\/em>) (Varanasi: Prithivi Prakashan), viii.<\/p>\n

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16<\/sup> David Reigle is, as far as I have researched, the only translator who has thoroughly documented his work for the translation process of this s\u016bkta. Grammatically, his work is impeccable. Among the many translations available for the Cosmogonic Hymn, most translators, with a few exceptions, do not justify their work. David has compiled a large number of sources, i.e, Sanskrit and\/or English translations. See next footnote. See the series of articles on this website and his: http:\/\/prajnaquest.fr\/blog\/creation-stories-the-cosmogony-acount-from-the-vedas\/<\/p>\n

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17<\/sup> See David Reigle\u2019s articles on the Creation Stories: The Cosmogony Account from the Vedas, especially a survey of the Cosmogonic Hymn, listed here chronologically:<\/p>\n

Creation Stories: The Cosmogony Account from the Vedas. Part 1: Introduction<\/p>\n

By David Reigle on January 27, 2013 at 12:08 am<\/p>\n

Creation Stories: The Cosmogony Account from the Vedas<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n