Article selection by M. M. Phelon | Notes by H.P.B.
As a man awaking from sleep becomes settled in mentality, so the light of Creative Thought from That, reservoir of all thought,1 breaks upon the darkness, multiplying the memories of that which was by the deductions of that which may be the resultant or outcome of the long sleep or withdrawal of Brahmā.
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The Logos thinks.2 Potency vibrates ; all existence surrounding the central line of thought, the line of experience and knowledge, also vibrates. Through these vibrations, this thought, in its grosser form called Ether,3 can be recognised, understood and studied. From it spring all the phenomena that man considers the result of law.
1. In Indian philosophy this absolute Deity is always referred to as “That” (Tad) and “It.” It is “the reservoir of all thought” because it is absolute thought; which, having no relation to the finite and the conditioned, cannot be premised as something individual or separate from the universal mind, and minds. It is the causeless cause of every manifesting intellection, the eternal Source of all.—Ed. [H.P.B.]
2. Because the Logos is manifested; but the ever-concealed Deity does not, since It is absolute thought, and cannot be spoken of as we would of an individual personal Thinker. But then the Logos in the East is the synthesis, the collective aggregate of all the Gods or Powers in the manifested universe.—Ed. [H.P.B.]
3. And in its highest it is Akasa.—Ed. [H.P.B.]