When the human mind, flying toward high regions of the universal formation, focuses the first Divine Thought –which created the Universe or from which the Universe emerges– this mind gets lost in a dreadful abyss beyond description, and goes astray in the vast waters of the Eternity.
HE IS NOT.
The Non-Manifested One does not admit definition; His definition would be His negation. HE IS ONE.
The manifestation is Unity, totality of the Universal Spirit. ALL ARE ONE IN HIM.
“HE IS NOT.”
As universal foundation, God cannot be defined. To define it would mean to negate him; one would limit it by attributing qualities. If the human spirit could reach Him, this spirit would be unable to describe Him because it would be absorbed into the Eternal One at once.
“NOW HE IS AT UNIVERSAL WORK; HE GOES BACK TO THE MANIFESTATION.”
In Universal Manifestation, separations become visible and tangible. Seemingly Omnipotence, Omnipresence and Omniscience are separate and form independent states for the order of the Cosmic Work.
“HE MADE THE WORLDS.”
God made the Universe and maintains it in order to recognise in Himself His potential and active Divinity; so, when a man sees how his ideas are achieved, he recognizes their worth.
“HIS EXTREMITIES ARE FOUR: THEOGONY, COSMOGONY, THEURGY AND PHYSICS.”
When the Sacred Triad is completely materialized, It becomes a square symbolizing weightiness of the human life. Ideas take form and aspects of gods, or Theogony; powers of Nature, ideas-mothers of the Cosmos, remain veiled behind symbols and obscure sentences in religious Genesis, or Cosmogony.
These wonderful symbols are emblems of NON-BEING, BEING AND NON-BEING; they are emblems of AWAKENING and PRIMARY MANIFESTATION; they are emblems of UNIVERSAL CREATION AND FORMATION OF PLANETARY SYSTEMS; and finally, are emblems of HUMANITY with the foot aiming at the last stair, in order to return to all above mentioned and to be re-absorbed in the NON-BEING.
If this was a right teaching, it could not have anything besides the above designed drawing.
But by explaining this teaching here, the student can understand why a human mind cannot account for the Non-Being.
The limited human mind just can imagine Non-Being as the Absolute One, “Being and Non-Being”; while Being is everything existent, the entire wonderful variability and continuous transformation of the Great Work.
When Helen Petrovna Blavatsky says, “once more, the Absolute One, covered by His invisible clothes, slept during Seven Eternities”, “clothes” mean God as Manifestation. The Divine Manifestation –which really is not separate from the Unconditioned One– expresses Itself on the Universe divided into three great stages.