ORIGINS

The universe and all that is in it are subject to a timeless process described as "Days and Nights", alternating periods of activity and rest. According to the occult teaching, there is no creation, in the sense of something being made out of nothing. There is indeed nothing new under the sun.

We believe in no creation, but in the periodical and consecutive appearances of the universe from the subjective on the objective plane of being. at regular intervals of time, covering periods of immense duration. [2]

There is therefore nothing that can properly be called a beginning, for what is commonly called creation is only the periodical re-emergence of things - forms or entities - which already existed. With the coming of night, every-thing seems to disappear , merged into a uniform darkness; as the sun rises, all things once more reappear - temporarily, just as their disappearance had been temporary. The time-scale may vary from the few hours of life of an insect or the three-score years and ten of the life of man to the almost incalculable duration of a sun or a universe. Nevertheless, whether the periods be long or short, the alternation remains, a manifestation of the universal law of periodicity.