THEOSOPHY – THE WORD

MOLECULES

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... how can any materialist limit the laws changing the conditions and being of the atoms in primordial chaos, or know anything certain about the capabilities and potency of their atoms and molecules before and after their formation into worlds? These changeless and eternal molecules – far thicker in space than the grains on the ocean shore – may differ in their constitution along the line of their planes of existence, as the soul-substance differs from its vehicle, the body. Each atom has seven planes of being or existence, we are taught; and each plane is governed by its specific laws of evolution and absorption.

[The Secret Doctrine Vol.I, p150]

Let the men of Science only throw a bridge half-way, and think seriously over the theories of Leibnitz. We have shown our theories with regard to atomic evolution – their last formation into compound chemical molecules being produced within our terrestrial workshops in the earth’s atmosphere and not elsewhere – as strangely agreeing with the evolution of atoms shown on Mr. Crookes’ plates. Several times already it was stated in this volume that Martanda (the Sun) had evolved and aggregated, together with his smaller seven Brothers, from his Mother’s (Aditi’s) bosom, that bosom being prima MATER-ia – the lecturer’s primordial protyle. Esoteric doctrines teach the existence of “an antecedent form of energy having periodic cycles of ebb and swell, rest and activity”...

[The Secret Doctrine Vol.I, p624]

The waves and undulations of Science are all produced by atoms propelling their molecules into activity from within. Atoms fill the immensity of Space, and by their continuous vibration are that MOTION which keeps the wheels of Life perpetually going. It is that inner work that produces the natural phenomena called the correlation of Forces. Only, at the origin of every such “force,” there stands the conscious guiding noumenon thereof – Angel or God, Spirit or Demon – ruling powers, yet the same.

[The Secret Doctrine Vol.I, p633]

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Every molecule is part of the Universal Life. Man’s soul (his fourth and fifth principle) is but a compound of the progressed entities of the lower kingdom.

[Mahatma Letters to A.P. Sinnett, Letter 66, Chronological Edition or Letter 172, Barker Numbering.]

As, in music, two different sounds may be in accord and separately distinguishable, and this harmony or discord depends upon the synchronous vibrations and complementary periods; so there is rapport between medium and “control” when their astral molecules move in accord. And the question whether the communication shall reflect more of the one personal idiosyncrasy, or the other, is determined by the relative intensity of the two sets of vibrations in the compound wave of Akasa.

[Mahatma Letters to A.P. Sinnett, Letter 68, Chronological Edition or Letter 191, Barker Numbering.]

Molecules occupying a place in infinity is an inconceivable proposition. The confusion arises out of the Western tendency of putting an objective construction upon what is purely subjective.

[Mahatma Letters to A.P. Sinnett, Letter 119, Chronological Edition or Letter 407, Barker Numbering.]

As the molecules go on rarifying, so in proportion they become attenuated and the greater distance between our globe and them – I do not mean here the region within the reach of your science – the greater the change in their polarity, the negative pole acquiring a stronger property of repulsion, and the positive losing gradually its power of attraction.

[Mahatma Letters to A.P. Sinnett, L.B.S.,App.II, p509]

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Each atom or molecule of ordinary scientific hypothesis is not a particle of something, animated by a psychic something, destined to blossom as a man after aeons. But it is a concrete manifestation of the Universal Energy which itself has not yet become individualized; a sequential manifestation of the one Universal Monas.

[C.W.V, p172]

When we speak of the modified conditions of Spirit-Matter (which is in reality Force), and call them by various names, such as heat, cold, light and darkness, attraction and repulsion, electricity and magnetism, etc., etc., to the occultist they are simple names, expressions of difference in manifestations of one and the same Force (always dual in differentiation), but not any specific difference of forces. For all such differences in the objective world result only from the peculiarities of differentiation of matter on which the one free force acts, helped in this by that portion of its essence which we call imprisoned force, or material molecules. The worker within, the inherent force, ever tends to unite with its parent essence without; and thus, the Mother acting within, causes the Web to contract; and the Father acting without, to expand. Science calls this gravitation; Occultists, the work of the universal Life-Force, which radiates from that Absolute and Unknowable FORCE which is outside of all Space and Time. This is the work of Eternal evolution and involution, or expansion and contraction.

[C.W.X, p386-7]

These Atoms are the thirty-three crores of Gods met with in Hindu books. But with all this the actual nature of the Ego cannot be understood by finite mind. The student may now better understand the statement (p. 661) that the consciousness of the senses, being that of the molecules, is in Atma-Buddhi and without Manas. The Manasic upadhi is not developed in the molecule, hence the Manasic aspect of the sevenfold Atma cannot manifest in it, and there is no self-consciousness in the molecule, or in the cell composed of molecules. Thus the cells of the legs or other parts are conscious, but they are slaves of an idea or volition.

sent to them and obey it. They are not self-conscious, and cannot originate an idea. When they are tired they can send to the brain an uneasy sensation, caused in them by exhaustion, by diminution of Pranic energy. Thus they give rise in the brain to the idea of fatigue, the Lower Manas translating the cell-Kamic sensation of exhaustion into the idea of fatigue.

[C.W.XII, p703-4]

The Kama during life does not form a Body which can be separated from the physical Body. It is intermolecular, answering molecule for molecule to the physical Body, and inseparable from it molecularly. Thus it is a form yet not a form; a form within the physical Body, but incapable of being projected outward as a form. This is the Inner, or Astral Man, in whom are located the centres of sensation, the psychic senses, and on whose intermolecular rapport with the physical Body, all sensation and purposive action depend. At death, every cell and molecule gives out this essence, and from it, with the dregs of the Auric Envelope, is formed the separate Kama-Rupa; but this can never come during life. The Blood is a good symbol of Kama-Rupa, for while within the Body, filling every portion but confined in vessels, it takes the shape of the Body and has a form, though in itself formless. If the term Kama-Rupa be used to indicate this intermolecular structure which is the Psychic Man, then the post mortem separate form must be called the Kama-Rupa-Astral, or Astral of the Kama-Rupa.

[C.W.XII, p708]

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