All Forms of Life Follow
The Same Universal Laws
Steven
H. Levy
An article published in “The Aquarian Theosophist”, August 2013, begins
with the ancient teaching that the earth and other planets of our solar system
are conscious entities. [1] As such,
they have inner principles that are undetectable by physical senses. The
visible planet and its inner principles, or six companion globes, are called a
Planetary Chain.
As mentioned in “The Secret Doctrine”, the
planets of our solar system are visible to us because they are on the same
plane of materiality as our objective earth. Like our physical earth, they are
representatives of their respective planetary chains on this most material and
dense plane of substance.
Planets such as Mars, Mercury, etc., are
the Globe D’s (the fourth) of their sevenfold planetary chains and do not
belong to the earth’s planetary chain. As the upper globes of the earth chain
are invisible to us while we are conscious on this plane, the upper globes of
the Mars and Mercury planetary chains are also invisible to us.
Besides the planets recognized through
physical means by astronomy, there are four other planets that belong to our
solar system that have a mysterious relation to Earth; however, they and their
planetary chains are invisible to us on this plane.
There are other and innumerable planetary
chains both in and outside our solar system, visible and invisible to us, which
bear intelligent Beings.
How can we possibly check, test, and
verify these planetary mysteries taught in “The Secret Doctrine” if we have not
yet developed the senses and mental faculties to confirm them through direct
knowledge and personal experience?
First, we may apply the Three Fundamental
Propositions outlined in “The Proem”. They are beautifully condensed within one
sentence by W.Q. Judge on page 2 of “The Ocean of Theosophy”; “…all is soul and
spirit ever evolving under the rule of law inherent in the whole.” The manifested
universe is embodied intelligence, or soul, of innumerable degrees working
through different degrees of substance. A planet, or intelligent life-bearing
globe, is a focal point in space where evolution of spirit, intelligence, and
substance proceeds under universal law. As there are states of matter and forms
of life undetectable to our physical senses on Earth, it is not difficult to
understand that in the infinite universe there would be forms of life and
degrees of substance unknown and undetected by us. Yet, all the forms of life
and degrees of intelligence known to us follow the universal laws of
periodicity, re-embodiment, cause and effect.
Second, the principle of unity in
diversity is observed in every department of nature detectable by us, and
recognized to be a fundamental law of life. Every science of physical nature
relies on the formulation of general principles that govern relationships
between phenomena, so that one precise mathematical formula describes and
predicts a multitude of phenomena. The basic formula of the occult sciences is
that everything in the universe has evolved from the Unknowable Absolute Unity
in a sevenfold manner giving everything from an atom to a solar universe a
sevenfold nature.
Third, the principle of correspondence and
analogy based on unity in diversity gives rise to the Hermetic formulation “as
above, so below”. Metaphysics is the science of first principles. That which
exists as a reality on the metaphysical planes is reflected in the processes of
nature on the physical planes. The creative powers and forces in the cosmos are
mirrored in the human being. As a community’s affairs and conditions are
affected by different neighboring communities with their present and previous
inhabitants, the earth is affected by visible and invisible planets in the
solar system. We may only sense the physical body of another human being, but
we know we are impressed and affected by their lower and higher principles
which are invisible to us.
The student of “The Secret Doctrine” needs
to rely on personal experience and the applications of universal principles to
check, test and verify the reasonableness of these planetary mysteries since
they are not reconcilable with the modern theories of science whose best
telescopes and instruments are useless outside the world of gross physical
matter.
H. P. Blavatsky presents the problem faced
by all those who try to solve these planetary mysteries only relying on their
physical senses.
“Let it now be distinctly stated, then,
that the theory broached is impossible, with or without the additional evidence
furnished by modern Astronomy. Physical Science can supply corroborative,
though still very uncertain, evidence, but only as regards heavenly bodies on
the same plane of materiality as our objective Universe. Mars and Mercury,
Venus and Jupiter, like every hitherto discovered planet (or those still to be
discovered), are all, per se, the
representatives on our plane of such chains. As distinctly stated in one of the
numerous letters of Mr. Sinnett’s ‘Teacher’, ‘there are other and innumerable
Manvantaric chains of globes which bear intelligent Beings both in and outside
our solar system’. But neither Mars nor Mercury belong to our chain. They are, along with the other planets, septenary Units in the great host of ‘chains’ of
our system, and all are as visible as their upper
globes are invisible.” (SD 1, p.164)
Nevertheless, it makes a difference in our
lives to consider that there are other planets in our solar system capable of
bearing intelligent life. Where there is life and intelligence, there is
consciousness. These are the representations to our mind of the all-pervasive
universal One Life. We live and have our being in that ocean of life as do all
the intelligent beings in the universe. The concerns of our personal lives are
momentarily forgotten as we gaze into the vastness of the night sky full of
stars. The awareness of separateness fades as our consciousness is united with
awareness of the Divine in all.
NOTE:
[1] “Companions in the Struggle of Life”, by
Steven H. Levy.
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The
above article was first published at the October 2013 edition of “The Aquarian
Theosophist”.
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On the role of the esoteric movement in
the ethical awakening of mankind during the 21st century, see the book “The Fire and Light of Theosophical
Literature”, by Carlos Cardoso Aveline.
Published in
2013 by The Aquarian Theosophist,
the volume has 255 pages and can be obtained through Amazon Books.
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