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.
The Genesis explained on the light of the Divine Wisdom, is quite useful to see the unique concept of the Great Initiates about the Universal Creation.
Here the first ten verses of the Genesis, first chapter, are explained.
A new day of cosmic existence begins.
Just as the night darkness disappears at dawn with the quiet luminosity of the day on boundless space, so “Non-Being” becomes “Being”.
The expansion drove away the darkness on the heavenly vault, and the wonderful race of the Creation, that of the First Manifestation started.
Three points traced on the virgin space make this Manifestation:
Three Creators, three Builders and nine Architects make the Universe.
The Divine Mother covers Her First-born Child with Her mystical veil, and cosmic powers form invisible spheres by marking steps on the immeasurable circle; and numberless stars of planetary systems will be fixed upon their hypothetical surfaces (zero points, cosmic laya centres).
The great Creational Work is made; one after another, vast cosmic flames gradually form numberless planetary chains.
Do these wheels of worlds possess a definite number, or are incalculable?
There is consciousness behind every atom, behind every form and behind every being.
There is a living being behind every Planetary Wheel, behind every star, behind every sun, and behind every world.
“Eloquence (oratory)”, Kant says, “is the art of giving to a serious exercise of the understanding the character of a free imagination game; poetry is the art of giving to a free imagination game the character of a serious exercise of the understanding.
As we said in the first Teaching of this course, an orator could get little fruit from his natural qualities when he has not cultivated them and, in this sense, in relation to the need of cultivating those qualities that one receives, we can adhere to the Latin motto: Poeta nascitur, orator fit.