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'''Seven Eternities''' is a phrase used in [[Stanzas of Dzyan#Stanza I|Stanza I.1]] in [[The Secret Doctrine (book)|''The Secret Doctrine'']] to refer to the duration of a [[Pralaya|Maha-Pralaya]] and a | '''Seven Eternities''' is a phrase used in [[Stanzas of Dzyan#Stanza I|Stanza I.1]] in [[The Secret Doctrine (book)|''The Secret Doctrine'']] to refer to the duration of a [[Pralaya#Duration|Maha-Pralaya]] and a Maha-Manvantara or [[Maha-Kalpa]]. The word "[[eternity]]" is here used to refer to finite period of time. [[H. P. Blavatsky]] wrote: | ||
<blockquote>The Seven Eternities meant are the seven periods, or a period answering in its duration to the seven periods, of a Manvantara, and extending throughout a Maha-Kalpa or the “Great Age”—100 years of Brahmâ—making a total of 311,040,000,000,000 of years; each year of Brahmâ being composed of 360 “days,” and of the same number of “nights” of Brahmâ (reckoning by the Chandrayana or lunar year); and a “Day of Brahmâ” consisting of 4,320,000,000 of mortal years.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 36.</ref></blockquote> | <blockquote>The Seven Eternities meant are the seven periods, or a period answering in its duration to the seven periods, of a Manvantara, and extending throughout a Maha-Kalpa or the “Great Age”—100 years of Brahmâ—making a total of 311,040,000,000,000 of years; each year of Brahmâ being composed of 360 “days,” and of the same number of “nights” of Brahmâ (reckoning by the Chandrayana or lunar year); and a “Day of Brahmâ” consisting of 4,320,000,000 of mortal years.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 36.</ref></blockquote> | ||
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== The "Last Vibration" == | == The "Last Vibration" == | ||
The phrase "last vibration" is used in [[Stanzas of Dzyan#Stanza III|Stanza III.1]] and refers to the end of the [[pralaya]]. | |||
<blockquote>The “last vibration of the Seventh Eternity” was “fore-ordained” — by no God in particular, but occurred in virtue of the eternal and changeless Law which causes the great periods of Activity and Rest, called so graphically, and at the same time so poetically, the “Days and Nights of Brahma.”<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 62.</ref></blockquote> | |||
== Notes == | |||
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==Further reading== | |||
*[http://www.theosophy.ph/encyclo/index.php?title=Triad# Triad] at Theosopedia | |||
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[[Category:Concepts in The Secret Doctrine]] | |||
Revision as of 21:50, 27 July 2012
Seven Eternities is a phrase used in Stanza I.1 in The Secret Doctrine to refer to the duration of a Maha-Pralaya and a Maha-Manvantara or Maha-Kalpa. The word "eternity" is here used to refer to finite period of time. H. P. Blavatsky wrote:
The Seven Eternities meant are the seven periods, or a period answering in its duration to the seven periods, of a Manvantara, and extending throughout a Maha-Kalpa or the “Great Age”—100 years of Brahmâ—making a total of 311,040,000,000,000 of years; each year of Brahmâ being composed of 360 “days,” and of the same number of “nights” of Brahmâ (reckoning by the Chandrayana or lunar year); and a “Day of Brahmâ” consisting of 4,320,000,000 of mortal years.[1]
However, the phrase "seven eternities" can also be applied to the duration of a smaller cycle:
The opening sentence of Stanza I., when mentioning “Seven Eternities,” is made to apply both to the Maha-Kalpa or “the (great) Age of Brahma,” as well as to the Solar pralaya and subsequent resurrection of our Planetary System on a higher plane. There are many kinds of pralaya (dissolution of a thing visible), as will be shown elsewhere.[2]
The "Last Vibration"
The phrase "last vibration" is used in Stanza III.1 and refers to the end of the pralaya.
The “last vibration of the Seventh Eternity” was “fore-ordained” — by no God in particular, but occurred in virtue of the eternal and changeless Law which causes the great periods of Activity and Rest, called so graphically, and at the same time so poetically, the “Days and Nights of Brahma.”[3]
Notes
- ↑ Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 36.
- ↑ Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 36.
- ↑ Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 62.
Further reading
- Triad at Theosopedia