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The '''Egg''' is a universal symbol representing a primordial source from which some primordial being comes into existence. In [[Theosophy|Theosophical]] literature there are several Eggs, according to the plane we are talking about. [[H. P. Blavatsky]] explained:
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<blockquote>Thus the Egg, on whatever plane you speak of, means the ever-existing undifferentiated matter which strictly is not matter at all, but, as we call it, the Atoms. Matter is destructible in form while the Atoms are absolutely indestructible, being the quintessence of Substances. And here, I mean by “atoms” the primordial divine Units, not the “atoms” of modern Science.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''Collected Writings'' vol. X (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, ???), 353.</ref></blockquote>
 
== Eternal egg ==
 
This is the Matri-Padma of the Stanza II.3 of the first volume of [[The Secret Doctrine (book)|''The Secret Doctrine'']]. [[H. P. Blavatsky]] explained:
 
<blockquote>The eternal egg is a pre-differentiation in a laya or zero condition; thus, before differentiation it can have neither attributes nor qualities.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''Collected Writings'' vol. X (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, ???), 367.</ref></blockquote>
 
<blockquote>The eternal Egg; it will become periodical only when the ray from the first Logos shall have flashed from the latent Germ in the Matri-Padma which is the Egg, the Womb of the Universe which is to be.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''Collected Writings'' vol. X (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, ???), 353.</ref></blockquote>
 
== Virgin egg ==
 
According to [[H. P. Blavatsky|Mme. Blavatsky]] "The 'virgin egg' is already qualified and therefore differentiated"<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''Collected Writings'' vol. X (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, ???), 367.</ref> This Egg corresponds, at the level of the solar system, with what at a universal level is called [[chaos]]:
 
<blockquote>The “Virgin Egg” is the microcosmic symbol of the macrocosmic prototype—the “Virgin Mother”—Chaos or the Primeval Deep.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 65.</ref></blockquote>
 
<blockquote>The Virgin-egg being in one sense abstract Egg-ness, or the power of becoming developed through fecundation, is eternal and for ever the same.  And just as the fecundation of an egg takes place before it is dropped; so the non-eternal periodical germ which becomes later in symbolism the mundane egg, contains in itself, when it emerges from the said symbol, “the promise and potency” of all the Universe.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 64-65.</ref></blockquote>
 
== Mundane egg ==
 
Also known as the "World Egg", is the virgin egg once it has been impregnated by the "ray" from the [[Logos]]:
 
<blockquote>The Mundane Egg is simply the first stage of manifestation, undifferentiated primordial matter, in which the vital creative Germ receives its first spiritual impulse; Potentiality becomes Potency.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''Collected Writings'' vol. X (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, ???), 352.</ref></blockquote>
 
The "germ" fecundated by the ray is sometimes referred to as "the point in the mundane egg."<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''Collected Writings'' vol. X (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, ???), 351.</ref> This point is the [[Logos|Second Logos]] which, after being incubated, emerges as the [[Logos|Third Logos]] or the manifested creator:
 
<blockquote>Appearing with every Manvantara as Narâyan, or Swayambhuva (the Self-Existent), and penetrating into the Mundane Egg, it emerges from it at the end of the divine incubation as Brahmâ or Prajâpati, a progenitor of the future Universe into which he expands.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 80-81.</ref></blockquote>
 
== Notes ==
 
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==Further reading==
 
*[http://www.theosophy.ph/encyclo/index.php?title=Egg# Egg] at Theosopedia
 
 
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