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THE THREE FATES
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Son, is Wisdom, that all-sustaining and all-pervading power by which the universe is preserved. The Third Logos, Brahma, the Holy Spirit, is the Agent, the creative power by which the universe is brought into: manifestation. There is nothing in divine or human consciousness which does not find itself within one or other of these modes of Self-expression.
Again, matter has three fundamental qualities responsive severally to these modes of consciousness, and without these it could no more be manifested than consciousness could express itself without its modes. It has inertia (tamas), the very foundation of all, the stability necessary to existence, the quality which answers to Will. It has mobility (rajas), the capacity to be moved, answering to Activity. It has rhythm (sattva), the equaliser of movement (without which movement would be chaotic, destructive), answering to Cognition. The Yoga
