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Rebirth of a new chain

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	Without attempting the very difficult task of giving out the whole process in all its cosmic details, enough may be said to give an approximate idea of it. When a planetary chain is in its last Round, its Globe 1 or A, before finally dying out, sends all its energy and “principles” into a neutral centre of latent force, a “laya centre,” and thereby informs a new nucleus of undifferentiated substance or matter, i.e., calls it into activity or gives it life.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 154-155.</ref></blockquote>		Without attempting the very difficult task of giving out the whole process in all its cosmic details, enough may be said to give an approximate idea of it. When a planetary chain is in its last Round, its Globe 1 or A, before finally dying out, sends all its energy and “principles” into a neutral centre of latent force, a “laya centre,” and thereby informs a new nucleus of undifferentiated substance or matter, i.e., calls it into activity or gives it life.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 154-155.</ref></blockquote>
	<blockquote>These globes are formed by a process which the Occultists call the “rebirth of planetary chains (or rings).” When the seventh and last of one of such rings has been entered upon, the highest or first globe “A,” followed by all the others down to the last, instead of entering upon a certain time of rest—or “obscuration,” as in their previous Rounds—begins to die out. The “planetary” dissolution (pralaya) is at hand, and its hour has struck; each globe has to transfer its life and energy to another planet.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. I (London: The Theosohpical Publishing House, 1978), 159</ref></blockquote>		<blockquote>These globes are formed by a process which the Occultists call the “rebirth of planetary chains (or rings).” When the seventh and last of one of such rings has been entered upon, the highest or first globe “A,” followed by all the others down to the last, instead of entering upon a certain time of rest—or “obscuration,” as in their previous Rounds—begins to die out. The “planetary” dissolution (pralaya) is at hand, and its hour has struck; each globe has to transfer its life and energy to another planet.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. I (London: The Theosohpical Publishing House, 1978), 159</ref></blockquote>
	[[File:~~Lunar~~ Chain.jpg\|right\|~~250px~~]]		[[File:Chain rebirth HPB's handwriting.jpg\|right\|300px\|thumb\|Blavatsky's manuscript version of the diagram that appears in The Secret Doctrine vol. 1, page 172]]
	She explains the process taking as an example the end of the previous chain (of which the moon was the globe D) and the beginning of the Earth-chain:		She explains the process taking as an example the end of the previous chain (of which the moon was the globe D) and the beginning of the Earth-chain:

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	==Online resources==		==Online resources==
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	*[https://www.theosophy.world/encyclopedia/ogdoad Ogdoad] in Theosophy World		* [https://www.theosophy.world/encyclopedia/chain-planetary Chain, Planetary] in Theosophy World
			* [https://www.theosophy.world/encyclopedia/ogdoad Ogdoad] in Theosophy World
	*[http://www.blavatsky.net/theosophy/judge/articles/earth-chain-of-globes.htm# The Earth Chain of Globes, Part I], [http://www.blavatsky.net/theosophy/judge/articles/earth-chain-of-globesII.htm#Part I], and [http://www.blavatsky.net/theosophy/judge/articles/earth-chain-of-globesIII.htm# Part III] by William Q. Judge		*[http://www.blavatsky.net/theosophy/judge/articles/earth-chain-of-globes.htm# The Earth Chain of Globes, Part I], [http://www.blavatsky.net/theosophy/judge/articles/earth-chain-of-globesII.htm#Part I], and [http://www.blavatsky.net/theosophy/judge/articles/earth-chain-of-globesIII.htm# Part III] by William Q. Judge
	*[http://www.blavatsky.net/theosophy/judge/articles/how-to-square-the-teachings.htm# How to Square the Teachings] by William Q. Judge		*[http://www.blavatsky.net/theosophy/judge/articles/how-to-square-the-teachings.htm# How to Square the Teachings] by William Q. Judge

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Articles

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	*[https://www.theosophy.world/encyclopedia/Chain,_Planetary Planetary Chain] in Theosophy World
	*[https://www.theosophy.world/encyclopedia/ogdoad Ogdoad] in Theosophy World		*[https://www.theosophy.world/encyclopedia/ogdoad Ogdoad] in Theosophy World
	*[http://www.blavatsky.net/theosophy/judge/articles/earth-chain-of-globes.htm# The Earth Chain of Globes, Part I], [http://www.blavatsky.net/theosophy/judge/articles/earth-chain-of-globesII.htm#Part I], and [http://www.blavatsky.net/theosophy/judge/articles/earth-chain-of-globesIII.htm# Part III] by William Q. Judge		*[http://www.blavatsky.net/theosophy/judge/articles/earth-chain-of-globes.htm# The Earth Chain of Globes, Part I], [http://www.blavatsky.net/theosophy/judge/articles/earth-chain-of-globesII.htm#Part I], and [http://www.blavatsky.net/theosophy/judge/articles/earth-chain-of-globesIII.htm# Part III] by William Q. Judge

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	*[~~http~~://www.theosophy.ph/~~encyclo~~/~~index.php?title=~~Chain,_Planetary# Planetary Chain] ~~at Theosopedia~~		*[https://www.theosophy.world/encyclopedia/Chain,_Planetary Planetary Chain] in Theosophy World
			*[https://www.theosophy.world/encyclopedia/ogdoad Ogdoad] in Theosophy World
	*[http://www.blavatsky.net/theosophy/judge/articles/earth-chain-of-globes.htm# The Earth Chain of Globes, Part I], [http://www.blavatsky.net/theosophy/judge/articles/earth-chain-of-globesII.htm#Part I], and [http://www.blavatsky.net/theosophy/judge/articles/earth-chain-of-globesIII.htm# Part III] by William Q. Judge		*[http://www.blavatsky.net/theosophy/judge/articles/earth-chain-of-globes.htm# The Earth Chain of Globes, Part I], [http://www.blavatsky.net/theosophy/judge/articles/earth-chain-of-globesII.htm#Part I], and [http://www.blavatsky.net/theosophy/judge/articles/earth-chain-of-globesIII.htm# Part III] by William Q. Judge
	*[http://www.blavatsky.net/theosophy/judge/articles/how-to-square-the-teachings.htm# How to Square the Teachings] by William Q. Judge		*[http://www.blavatsky.net/theosophy/judge/articles/how-to-square-the-teachings.htm# How to Square the Teachings] by William Q. Judge
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	*[http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/path/v08n06p166_esoteric-teachings.htm# Esoteric Teaching] A response to Judge's "Mars and Mercury" by A. P. Sinnett		*[http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/path/v08n06p166_esoteric-teachings.htm# Esoteric Teaching] A response to Judge's "Mars and Mercury" by A. P. Sinnett
	*[[Blavatsky Letter to Sinnett - LBS No. 39]] in [[The Letters of H. P. Blavatsky to A. P. Sinnett (book)\|''The Letters of H. P. Blavatsky to A. P. Sinnett'']]'''.		*[[Blavatsky Letter to Sinnett - LBS No. 39]] in [[The Letters of H. P. Blavatsky to A. P. Sinnett (book)\|''The Letters of H. P. Blavatsky to A. P. Sinnett'']]'''.


	== Notes ==		== Notes ==

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Controversy about Mars and Mercury

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	<blockquote>Besides the earth, which is at the lowest material point, there are only two other worlds of our chain which are visible to physical eyes--the one behind and the one in advance of it. These two worlds, as a matter of fact, are Mars and Mercury--Mars being behind and Mercury in advance of us--Mars in a state of entire obscuration now as regards the human life-wave, Mercury just beginning to prepare for its next human period. . . . The two planets of our chain that are behind Mars, and the two that are in advance of Mercury, are not composed of an order of matter which telescopes can take cognizance of. Four out of the seven are thus of an ethereal nature, which people who can only conceive matter in its earthly form will be inclined to call immaterial. But they are not really immaterial at all.<ref>Alfred Percy Sinnett, ''Esoteric Buddhism'' (London: The Theosophical Publishing Hourse LTD, 1972), 136-137.</ref></blockquote>		<blockquote>Besides the earth, which is at the lowest material point, there are only two other worlds of our chain which are visible to physical eyes--the one behind and the one in advance of it. These two worlds, as a matter of fact, are Mars and Mercury--Mars being behind and Mercury in advance of us--Mars in a state of entire obscuration now as regards the human life-wave, Mercury just beginning to prepare for its next human period. . . . The two planets of our chain that are behind Mars, and the two that are in advance of Mercury, are not composed of an order of matter which telescopes can take cognizance of. Four out of the seven are thus of an ethereal nature, which people who can only conceive matter in its earthly form will be inclined to call immaterial. But they are not really immaterial at all.<ref>Alfred Percy Sinnett, ''Esoteric Buddhism'' (London: The Theosophical Publishing Hourse LTD, 1972), 136-137.</ref></blockquote>

	~~However~~, ~~in ''~~[[~~The Secret Doctrine (book)~~\|~~The Secret Doctrine~~]]'', ~~[[H. P. Blavatsky]]~~ wrote ~~that this notion was an error~~:		Sinnett felt confident that his interpretation of the teachings was overall correct, since [[Koot Hoomi\|Mahatma K.H.]] himself assured him that there were no ''fundamental'' mistakes in his book, and that later teachings were not going to clash with what he wrote:

	<blockquote>This was a great mistake. But the blame for it is to be attached as much to the vagueness and incompleteness of the Master’s answer as to the question of the learner itself, which was equally vague and indefinite.<br>		<blockquote>Be certain, that with a few undetectable mistakes and omissions notwithstanding, your ''Esoteric Buddhism'' is the only right exposition — however incomplete — of our Occult doctrines. You have made no cardinal, fundamental mistakes; and whatever may be given to you hereafter will not clash with a single sentence in your book but on the contrary will explain away any seeming contradiction.<ref>Vicente Hao Chin, Jr., ''The Mahatma Letters to A.P. Sinnett in chronological sequence'' No. 113 (Quezon City: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 389.</ref></blockquote>

			However, a few years later [[H. P. Blavatsky]] wrote in ''[[The Secret Doctrine (book)\|The Secret Doctrine]]'' that the notion that Mars and Mercury are part of our Chain was a "great mistake":

			<blockquote>This was a great mistake. But the blame for it is to be attached as much to the vagueness and incompleteness of the Master’s answer as to the question of the learner itself, which was equally vague and indefinite.<br>
	It was asked: “What planets, of those known to ordinary science, besides Mercury, belong to our system of worlds?” Now if by “System of Worlds” our terrestrial chain or “string” was intended in the mind of the querist, instead of the “Solar System of Worlds,” as it should have been, then of course the answer was likely to be misunderstood. For the reply was: “Mars, etc., and four other planets of which astronomy knows nothing. Neither A, B, nor YZ are known nor can they be seen through physical means however perfected.” As to Mars, Mercury, and “the four other planets,” they bear a relation to Earth of which no master or high Occultist will ever speak, much less explain the nature . . . 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.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''Secret Doctrine'' vol. I, (Wheaton, Ill: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 163</ref></blockquote>		It was asked: “What planets, of those known to ordinary science, besides Mercury, belong to our system of worlds?” Now if by “System of Worlds” our terrestrial chain or “string” was intended in the mind of the querist, instead of the “Solar System of Worlds,” as it should have been, then of course the answer was likely to be misunderstood. For the reply was: “Mars, etc., and four other planets of which astronomy knows nothing. Neither A, B, nor YZ are known nor can they be seen through physical means however perfected.” As to Mars, Mercury, and “the four other planets,” they bear a relation to Earth of which no master or high Occultist will ever speak, much less explain the nature . . . 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.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''Secret Doctrine'' vol. I, (Wheaton, Ill: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 163</ref></blockquote>

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			[[File:Planetary_chain_in_LBS-39.jpg\|right\|180px\|thumb\|Blavatsky drawing of a chain in a letter to Sinnett]]
	A '''Planetary chain''' is a group of seven "[[globe]]s", "spheres", or "planets" linked together into a single scheme of evolution. According to [[H. P. Blavatsky\|Mme. Blavatsky]] "there are seven [chains] in our system."<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. II, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 311.</ref>		A '''Planetary chain''' is a group of seven "[[globe]]s", "spheres", or "planets" linked together into a single scheme of evolution. According to [[H. P. Blavatsky\|Mme. Blavatsky]] "there are seven [chains] in our system."<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. II, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 311.</ref>

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	File:Perkins Chain 4.jpg\|Chain 4: The Human Kingdom.		File:Perkins Chain 4.jpg\|Chain 4: The Human Kingdom.
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	~~== Notes ==~~
	~~<references/>~~

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	*[https://cdn.website-editor.net/e4d6563c50794969b714ab70457d9761/files/uploaded/Siftings_V5_A15b.pdf# The Planetary Chain] by G.R.S. Mead		*[https://cdn.website-editor.net/e4d6563c50794969b714ab70457d9761/files/uploaded/Siftings_V5_A15b.pdf# The Planetary Chain] by G.R.S. Mead
	*[http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/path/v08n06p166_esoteric-teachings.htm# Esoteric Teaching] A response to Judge's "Mars and Mercury" by A. P. Sinnett		*[http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/path/v08n06p166_esoteric-teachings.htm# Esoteric Teaching] A response to Judge's "Mars and Mercury" by A. P. Sinnett
			*[[Blavatsky Letter to Sinnett - LBS No. 39]] in [[The Letters of H. P. Blavatsky to A. P. Sinnett (book)\|''The Letters of H. P. Blavatsky to A. P. Sinnett'']]'''.


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	[[Category:Concepts in The Secret Doctrine]]		[[Category:Concepts in The Secret Doctrine]]
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	A '''Planetary chain''' is a group of seven "[[globe]]s", "spheres", or "planets" linked together into a single scheme of evolution. According to Mme. Blavatsky "there are seven [chains] in our system."<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. II, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 311.</ref>		A '''Planetary chain''' is a group of seven "[[globe]]s", "spheres", or "planets" linked together into a single scheme of evolution. According to [[H. P. Blavatsky\|Mme. Blavatsky]] "there are seven [chains] in our system."<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. II, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 311.</ref>

	== Planetary Chains ==		== Planetary Chains ==

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	A '''Planetary chain''' is a group of seven "[[globe]]s", "spheres", or "planets" linked together into a single scheme of evolution. According to Mme. Blavatsky "there are seven [chains] in our system."<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. II, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 311.</ref>		A '''Planetary chain''' is a group of seven "[[globe]]s", "spheres", or "planets" linked together into a single scheme of evolution. According to Mme. Blavatsky "there are seven [chains] in our system."<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. II, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 311.</ref>

	== Planetary Chains ==		== Planetary Chains ==
			[[File:Chains and Rounds.JPG\|right\|250px]]
	The concept of Planetary chains was first published in 1883 by [[Alfred Percy Sinnett]] in his book [[Esoteric Buddhism (book)\|''Esoteric Buddhism'']]. He wrote:		The concept of Planetary chains was first published in 1883 by [[Alfred Percy Sinnett]] in his book [[Esoteric Buddhism (book)\|''Esoteric Buddhism'']]. He wrote:

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			A '''Planetary chain''' is a group of seven "[[globe]]s", "spheres", or "planets" linked together into a single scheme of evolution. According to Mme. Blavatsky "there are seven [chains] in our system."<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. II, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 311.</ref>

	== Planetary Chains ==		== Planetary Chains ==

	The ~~phrase "planetary chain" refers to a group~~ of ~~seven "[[globe]]s", "spheres", or "planets" linked together into a single scheme of evolution. According to Mme. Blavatsky "there are seven [~~chains~~] in our system."<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. II, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 311.</ref>~~		The concept of Planetary chains was first published in 1883 by [[Alfred Percy Sinnett]] in his book [[Esoteric Buddhism (book)\|''Esoteric Buddhism'']]. He wrote:

	~~The concept~~ was published ~~for the first time~~ in 1883 by [[Alfred Percy Sinnett]] in his book [[Esoteric Buddhism (book)\|''Esoteric Buddhism'']]. He wrote:

	<blockquote>The life and evolutionary processes of this planet . . . are linked with the life and evolutionary processes of several other planets. . . . One globe does not afford Nature scope for the processes by which mankind has been evoked from chaos, but these processes do not require more than a limited and definite number of globes. Separated as these are, in regard to the gross mechanical matter of which they consist, they are closely and intimately bound together by subtle currents and forces, whose existence reason need not be much troubled to concede, since the existence of some connection - of force or ethereal media - uniting all visible celestial bodies, is proved by the mere fact that they are visible. It is along these subtle currents that the life elements pass from world to world.<ref>Alfred Percy Sinnett, ''Esoteric Buddhism'' (London: The Theosophical Publishing House Ltd, 1972), 29.</ref></blockquote>		<blockquote>The life and evolutionary processes of this planet . . . are linked with the life and evolutionary processes of several other planets. . . . One globe does not afford Nature scope for the processes by which mankind has been evoked from chaos, but these processes do not require more than a limited and definite number of globes. Separated as these are, in regard to the gross mechanical matter of which they consist, they are closely and intimately bound together by subtle currents and forces, whose existence reason need not be much troubled to concede, since the existence of some connection - of force or ethereal media - uniting all visible celestial bodies, is proved by the mere fact that they are visible. It is along these subtle currents that the life elements pass from world to world.<ref>Alfred Percy Sinnett, ''Esoteric Buddhism'' (London: The Theosophical Publishing House Ltd, 1972), 29.</ref></blockquote>
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	<blockquote>Now, the congeries of the star-worlds (including our own planet) inhabited by intelligent beings may be likened to an orb or rather an epicycloid formed of rings like a chain — worlds inter-linked together, the totality representing an imaginary endless ring, or circle.<ref>Vicente Hao Chin, Jr. ''Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett in chronological sequence'' No. 18 (Quezon City: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 64.</ref></blockquote>		<blockquote>Now, the congeries of the star-worlds (including our own planet) inhabited by intelligent beings may be likened to an orb or rather an epicycloid formed of rings like a chain — worlds inter-linked together, the totality representing an imaginary endless ring, or circle.<ref>Vicente Hao Chin, Jr. ''Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett in chronological sequence'' No. 18 (Quezon City: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 64.</ref></blockquote>
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	These globes are not all on the same [[plane]] of perception. [[H. P. Blavatsky]] explains:		These globes are not all on the same [[plane]] of perception. [[H. P. Blavatsky]] explains: