Privación

Privación es un termino usado esporádicamente por H. P. Blavatsky en sus escritos para referirse al "ideal abstracto", "molde sutil" o "prototipo astral" o de todo lo que ha de manifestarse. Toma esta palabra de la filosofía de Aristóteles, pero la interpreta de una manera diferente a la que se entiende habitualmente en la erudición actual.

Traditional understanding

In chapter I.7 of his book Physics Aristotle says that, in order to understand how something can change, we must take into account three elements: matter (an object or subject), a form (or quality), and a privation (or lack). What comes to be is a new form in the matter that persists through the change. This new form comes to be in what was previously lacking, that is, the privation of the form. Thus, for example, in the case of a person that did not know music and later he learns, the three elements would be: