Theos-Talk Archives (December 2006 Message tt00560)

H.P. Blavatsky wrote in 1877:

"The one infinite and unknown Essence exists from all eternity, and 
in regular and harmonious successions is either passive or active. 
In the poetical phraseology of Manu these conditions are called 
the 'day' and the 'night' of Brahma. The latter is either 'awake' 
or 'asleep.' ... Upon inaugurating an active period, ... an expansion 
of this Divine essence, from within outwardly, occurs in obedience to 
eternal and immutable law, and the phenomenal or visible universe is 
the ultimate result of the long chain of cosmical forces thus 
progressively set in motion.  In like manner, when the passive 
condition is resumed, a contraction of the Divine essence takes 
place, and the previous work of creation is gradually and 
progressively undone. The visible universe becomes disintegrated, its 
material dispersed; and 'darkness,' solitary and alone, broods once 
more over the face of the 'deep.' ... An out breathing of 
the 'unknown essence' produces the world; and an inhalation causes it 
to disappear. This process has been going on from all eternity, and 
our present universe is but one of an infinite series which had no 
beginning and will have no end."   

ISIS UNVEILED, 1877, Volume II, pp. 264-265

Daniel
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