The Universal World-View of the Master's

George Arnsby Jones, Litt.D., PhD.

Most of the great social religions attempt to present a world-view – or theology – of the liberating force, which is God, and to relate this force to the entire which is God, and to relate this force to the entire spiritual and physical universe. The term theology presupposes both a synthesis or philosophy or religion and critical study of religious teachings. Ideally, such a theology should forth a broad statement concerning the Nature of God and His attributes and His relations with mankind. The theologies of the major world faiths contain several doctrines which are common to them all, but each one of these faiths also has garnered accretion of dogma and doctrinal argument and speculation over the course of thousand years. The theology, or universal world-view, thus set forth here will be derived from the pure teachings of the mystic adept themselves rather than from professional theologians and metaphysical scholars. At the core of they mystic adepts world view is through supreme Being, whom the mystics insist – cannot be named; thus, he is often “know” by the term Anami Purusha – “Nameless Spirit” or “Nameless One.” This is exalted, supernal Being dwells on a plane that is so spiritual that its Nature is completely beyond the comprehension of the human mind. But there are many dominions and realms below this supreme dominion of the highest Being. These dominions, “Mansions in the Father’s House,” can be conveniently divided into the four Grand Divisions of the cosmic scheme of creation. The mytic adepts set forth these Division in the following way:

The highest, Division, the purely spiritual region, is termed Sat Loka in Hinduism, Sach Khand in Sikhism, Mu-qam-I-Haq in the teachings of the Islamic sages. It is the highest and truly spiritual realm, entirely devoid of physical, mental and spiritualized matter. In the terminology of the mystic adepts it is “unchanging and eternal; all joy and all bliss; all wisdom and all love; the abode of God. here, in ineffable wonder, dwell the perfected spiritual beings and the supreme Saints of all time.” The Lord of the lowest plane of this wondrous region is known in oriental technology as sat Purusha, the true being. The esoteric scriptures of the East state that this being radiates a Light which is the equivalent of billions of the suns, although this is still a poor description of him, for he is beyond the capacity of human language or intellect to describe. Sat Purusha directs and controls the creation and the dissolution of the entire cosmic universe, but his own region is immune from any such change. This true being derives his Power from Anami Purusha, the Nameless one.

The second division is termed brahmanda ( the egg of Brahma) in the oriental teachings. It is also called because of its apparently elliptical shape. It embraces within its totally both the material-spiritual and the physical regions, but it is far more immense than the combination of both of these. In fact, the three lower divisions of the cosmic creation can be concaved of as a totality, with the summit of this region as brahmanada, the spirituo-meterial region itself, and the middle section as Anda, the oriental term for the meterio-spiritual region, and the lowest section as Pinda, the oriental term for the lowest material region –the physical universe.

The inhabitants of brahmanda, the spirituo-meterial region, are unutterably happy, but they are not immortal as are the begins in the highest region of Fach Khand. However, they live in as infinitely vaster timescale than do the beings in the lower two divisions. Brhmananda is subject to dissolution at the end of each major life-cycle. Brahmanda is the region of brahm and Par-Brahm, who are also known as kal and Maha-kal in the oriental terminology. Brham is the being who is entrusted with the direction of the material creation and is an assistant to Parabrahm. He is the ruling dirty of the three lower divisions: Brahmanda, Anda and Pinda. Par-brahma resides in the upper and more spiritual section of Brahmanda, and brahm himself resides himself in the lower, more material region. In this lower section of brahmanda, mental matter is supreme, for it is the plane of mind; mind itself being composed of a subtlized from of matter with a certain admixture of spirit. Trikuti, the oriental term for the lower section of brahmanda, is therefore the region of universal mind, which many metaphysicians and theologians erroneously conceive of as “God.”

Anda, the third and materio-spiritual region, is the nearest grand division to that of the physical universe. The central power-source of Anda is know in oriental terminology as Sahasra-dal-kanwal (the lotus of a thousand Petals), and it is from this power-source that the physical universe derives its motor energies. The time-scale in Anda is shorter than that in Brahmanda, but it is still much longer than that in Pinda, the physical universe. The region of Anda, up to and including Trikuti, goes into dissolution at the end of a lesser cosmic life-cycle, which lasts for many millions of years. The “heavens” of the world religions are located in Anda and in the lowest realms of Brahmanda. The Heaven of Christianity, the paradise of Islam and the Swargas of Hinduism are all located here. “heavens” are very beautiful, but they themselves are all subject to eventual dissolution.

Pinda, the fourth and lowest Division of creation, comprises the entity of our physical universe: all the planets, sun, stars, solar system, galaxies and cosmic schemes know and unknown to modern astronomy. Matter in our physical universe in its most coarse, most dense form, with a very limited admixture of spirit substance, just enough to vivify matter and maintain life. The physical structure of our universe is the lowest projection of a cosmic idea channeled through the medium of universal mind. At some primordial point in what we call space-time the first downward wave of energy from Brahmanda and Anda differentiated that primal matter (know in some esoteric literature as “fire-mist”) into the first worlds of physical creation. That mass of fire-mist which was to become our Earth was once floating near to the great sphere of its Sun. Its mass of primal atoms were multiplying at a tremendous rate, and the formation of that planet upon which we now dwell was in progress. This creative process was speeded up, through aeons of time, by reproductive principles immanent in the primal life-forces emanating from Anda and Brahmanda. Waves of cosmic force were descending the spiral of creation, and the planet Earth evolved upon one of the wave-lengths of the Being who controls all the order of manifestation within all life-forms.

This downward-flowing cosmic force, which impels living souls into lower creation, is the negative pole into lower creation, is the negative pole of the same audible life stream which – in its upward-surging, positive manifestation –can liberate souls from bondage to mind and matter. This negative aspect of the primal spiritual forces was necessary to the purpose of universal creation; through its pulsating flow that primordial fire-mist, eventually to become our home, increased its density and gravities toward the sun. The Sun’s magnetic power molded the fire-mist into a flat, disc-like condition, and this Sun-Earth relationship continued through further epoch of time. Then the Sun gradually impregnated the primal atoms of the fire-mist with the Tranmutative atomic potentialities of the mineral and gases, which now constitute our present planet and its surrounding atmosphere. The fire-mist now rapidly increased its density and began to experience the attractive force within its own nucleus. The inner vibratory activity caused the spherical shape of the Earth and it began to whirl away into space away from the Sun. it became a self-motivating system, thus preventing its continuing movement away from the Sun, and it began to form its present functional relationship with the sun and with the other planets which comprise this solar system. The negative pole of the cosmic creative force keeps the earths in its present elliptical relationship with the sun. thus the creation of this tiny speck of dust in the vastness of Pinda – the primal home of mankind. The mystic adepts teach that this planet is a vast complex of living souls. There are degree of soul-consciousness functioning through all grades of matter: through neutron, proton, electron, atom, molecule, cell, colloid, and onward and upward on and ascending scale of life until man himself is reached. How long has man been on this Earth? And how much longer will he elect to stay?

Man is still chained to the lower three division of mind and matter by the negative pole of the cosmic life stream. Gross matter is cosmic energy at its lowest vibrationary level, and subtle energy is matter at its highest point in the spiral of creation. Matter and energy are in constant interaction in the three Divisions – Brahmanda, Anda and Pinda – and this state of affairs has gone on for countless aeons; there is no escape from the continual cycle of ascending has merged his consciousness fully with the upward-surging, spiritual current that leads to man’s True Home, the abode of bliss. It has been said by some metaphysicians that matter can be liberated” by speeding up its vibrations, so that it is transformed into energy. Likewise, say these wise ones, man can transform himself into higher “energy” There is a half-truth here, for the “energy”. There is a half truth here, for the energy spoken of is still that of the materio-spiritual or – at its best – the spiritio-material world. Matter is real despite the negations on this subject so beloved of certain religious school of thought – but with all its reality, matter is still impermanent and ever changing because of the continuing forces of the evolutionary process. And the same truth applies to the subtlized forms of matter in the second and third divisions of creation. Therefore, what is know as the illusory Nature of our external world can be seen as the impermanence of creation of three lower Division of the cosmic universe.

Man had to have this planetary home in order to evolve to a state of self-consciousness and self-realization. He was given an intelligent planet on which to achieve his goal. When the Earth took its present orbit in the solar system it was in a super-heated condition. This concentrated heat caused a release of energy form the radiant sphere, and this energy produced a cloud-mass which completely surrounded the Earth. This cloud-mass, consisting of several gases which have been created by the cooling process of the planet, eventually became transformed into the present atmosphere. Through the intelligence immanent in all creation, this early cloudmass served as a protection for the evolving earth-sphere from the powerful cosmic radiation of the highly condensed stars. The present atmosphere surrounding the Earth, with its highly advanced degree of innate intelligence, now filters out these outer cosmic radiation in a far more efficient manner than did the primodial cloud-mass. The solar sphere then focused its beneficial sunlight through the cloud-mass, and thus enabled the infant-earth to attain the stage where it could produce organic form.

Through the cooling process it had undergone, the Earth reached that temperature whereby primodial species of vegetation could come into being. These early forms of vegetation and crude mosses and peat possessed rudimentary morphic delineation. The early animal forms were also cumbersome and grotesque. The morphic principle inherent in the downward-flowing creative forces gradually evolved finer structural development in mineral, vegetable and animal forms. And soon the planetary stage was set for the eventual type of physical organism which would house the highest ensouled entity – man. and man himself has now moved through many epochs of human history, experiencing so many things in the outer world that he forget that he was an outgoing spark of the divine Flame before he became an ensouled body. It is time for him to remember that the summum bonum of all his earthly existence is that point where he is ready to return to the True Home as a fully conscious and liberated soul.

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