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5 Planes of Existence
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FORMS, PHENOMENAL
The vehicles or receptacles of Spirit — i.e. the
monads of life replete with qualities. The forms are compounded of
the matter of the planes, as builded by the monads of form to
receive the monads of life.
“And since these things are so, it is necessary to think that in all
the objects that are compound there existed many things of all
sorts, and germs of all objects, having all sorts of forms and
colours and tastes.” — Anaxagoras, Fairbanks, *Anc. Phil. of
Greece*.
And as the universe is so appointed of Spirit and Matter, it is
reasonable to conclude that in all nature heterogeneity now exists.
There is infinite diversity, so that with the material there has
been the spiritual involved, and within the spiritual lay
primordially the forms (archetypal) of all objects afterwards to
actualise. These perfect forms (germs) are complete in “form, colour
and taste,” that is, in their mental, astral, and physical
constituent elements.
“Zoroaster’s birth, moreover, is in answer to pious prayers
addressed by his father (Pourushaspa) to Homa.” — Zoroaster’s Life,
A. V. W. Jackson.
The Son of God comes forth in the lower nature only when the force
(love) aspect of the life below (the father) is directed to the
higher channels of manifestation, and as the aspiration of the lower
forms of life‑expression leads to some consciousness of possible
union with a higher nature or Self. All the lower forms of life are
thus dimly groping, they know not how or why, towards that Reality
which is to merge them eventually into Itself, even as the ocean
receives into its bosom the several drops which go to swell its
boundless whole. The time does arrive, however, when there is this
dim consciousness, or reflection of love from Above, in the lower
forms of life, and which then takes definite expression of yearning
for union with That Reality. This is the stage of preparation when
it becomes possible for the Son of God to come forth as he is in his
love‑nature, when, indeed, all things are drawn upwards, and when no
creature, form, or quality, however feeble and faint‑hearted,
however ignorant and unprogressed, but is made aware of its destiny
to unite with the Self of all beings — the One Sum‑total of all that
is — the outward Embodiment of the Eternal.
“In every object matter and form are to be distinguished, with which
correspond, in the Godhead, essence and the divine persons. The form
of an object is that which the object is for others; it is the
revealing element, and hence the persons of the Trinity are the form
of the essence. Form is the individualising principle (Eckhart).” —
Ueberweg, *Hist. of Philos.*, Vol. I, p. 474.
“The Cosmos hath, moreover, been prepared by God, as the receptacle
of forms of every kind” (“The Perfect Sermon”). — Mead, T. G.
*Hermes*, Vol. II, p. 312.
“Thou who createst light where there was no light, and form, O men!
where there was no form, hast been born together with the dawns.” —
Rig‑Veda, I.6.3.
“The first Light is the creative Will, the efficient faculty, which
passes into the Universal Form, the potentiality to act. Matter is
the principle of unity, Form of multiplicity. There is Universal
Matter and Form; the former corresponds with unity, and the latter
with two‑foldness, hence not unity; but the Triad is at the root of
all. … Creation with Geberol is only the impression of Form in
Matter, an impression emanating from the Will. Creation keeps within
bounds the Universal Matter and Universal Form. All the rest emanate
from these. Creation does not happen in time, but precedes it and is
in eternity. Geberol sets forth the Will or Divine Word as the
intermediary and bond of the Universal Matter and Form. Yet they
also are bound together and exist in the Divine for they were born
simultaneously. The Will is one, the Matter and Form two, together
the Triad, but they have never been separated.” — I. Myer, *Qabbalah*,
pp. 153–4.
“Matter and form can only be separated in thought; in logical
analysis, but not in fact.” — H. M. Gwatkin, *The Knowledge of God*,
Vol. I, p. 70.
“Any form the life of the universe takes here is for the sake of the
acquisition of qualities which will inhere in the spiritual
substance when it has reached its highest degree of manifestation,
which will certainly not be on the earth plane. God throws it into a
form and withdraws it, throws it into another and withdraws it
again, and again, and again, until by its sojourn and experience in
form after form, it at length becomes capable of expressing in
fullness the highest it contains. The breaking of a form does not
matter much; it only means withdrawing the life that indwells it,
that it may function through new and higher instrumentalities.” — R.
J. Campbell, Serm., *The Seeming Waste of Life*.
“The form perishes, but the divine essence that made it is only
withdrawn to re‑express itself in other and higher forms.” — R. J.
Campbell, Serm., *God’s Use of Time*.
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