Cosmic Matter
Cosmic Matter is the first differentiation of space or pre-cosmic substance. Mahatma K.H. defined it as "the imaginary materia prima itself one of the manifestations (6th principle) of the one element."[1] This one element "not only fills space and is space, but interpenetrates every atom of cosmic matter."[2]
In its highest aspect, this cosmic matter is equated with Akasa.[3] On a lower plane, the cosmic matter is some times referred to as Prakriti:
Prakriti is cosmic matter, out of which all visible forms are produced; and Akasha that same cosmic matter—but still more imponderable, its spirit, as it were, “Prakriti” being the body or substance, and Akasha-Shakti its soul or energy.[4]
Finally, on the physical plane, this cosmic matter is the origin of the “Milky Way”, the matter we know:
This “matter,” which, according to the revelation received from the primeval Dhyani-Buddhas, is, during the periodical sleep of the Universe, of the ultimate tenuity conceivable to the eye of the perfect Bodhisatva — this matter, radical and cool, becomes, at the first reawakening of cosmic motion, scattered through Space; appearing, when seen from the Earth, in clusters and lumps, like curds in thin milk. These are the seeds of the future worlds, the “Star-stuff.”[5]
In the Theosophical view, the cosmic matter is eternal[6] and during the maha-pralaya it reverts to the state of pre-cosmic substance.
Notes
- ↑ Vicente Hao Chin, Jr. Mahatma Letters to A.P. Sinnett in chronological sequence No. 67 (Quezon City: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 184
- ↑ Vicente Hao Chin, Jr. Mahatma Letters to A.P. Sinnett in chronological sequence No. 67 (Quezon City: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 187
- ↑ Vicente Hao Chin, Jr. Mahatma Letters to A.P. Sinnett in chronological sequence No. 18 (Quezon City: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993) 63.
- ↑ Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Collected Writings vol. III (Wheaton, Ill: Theosophical Publishing House, 1954), fn. 405.
- ↑ Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine vol. I (London: The Theosohpical Publishing House, 1978), 69
- ↑ Vicente Hao Chin, Jr. Mahatma Letters to A.P. Sinnett in chronological sequence No. 90 (Quezon City: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993)