Key of Knowledge

SR No.: 006702
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown
Publication Year: 1919
Total Pages: 1204
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 25 MB

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THE HOLY TRINITY.
609 rent to mark the extent of reflection, is the form of thought, through it is precipitated, in the form of memory and recollection, the experience of the past which was gathered up in the liquid dynamic stream. The process is like that of the breaking up of a ray of light into the colours of the spectrum, but it is not automatic. It depends on the will, for when two or more directions are open to the activity of the ego, and it select one of them, the element of choice is there to contradict the hypothesis of automatism and chance. Intellect, the faculty of reflection and analysis, thus arises simultaneously with the creation of differences.' But it is a genesis, or creation, only if we start from the point of view of action. The triangle, the differences,
* The point and triangle of Esotericism can mean no more than this. The first Logos is Will, the energy of consciousness, conceived as engaged in unceasing activity of life, and is, accordingly, symbolized by a point in a circle. This point is next conceived as expanding, but not so as to reflect the current back on itself. This signifies the state of feeling which is the primary function of consciousness, and is represented by a diameter in a circle. The third step constituted by the act of reflection, resulting in the reversal of the current, and is represented by the cross, or the Greek tau, i.e., the letter T. Sometimes the cross is replaced by a tetrahedron, consisting in the figure of four equal and equilateral triangles. The old symbolism of a serpent entwined round a cross is another way of expressing the three movements of spiritual energy. The serpent stands for the upward going current, the energy of a self-conscious will; the transverse piece of the cross represents the idea of the diameter in the circle, as shown above, and the vertical bar points to the current being thrown back on itself. The symbol is thus designed to convey a full explanation of the origination of the universe, on the analogy of a dream, and also points to the three functions of consciousness, that is, feeling, willing aud reflecting.
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