Selections by Vicomte de Figuanière | Notes by H.P.B.
. . . The indestructibility of Force resides in the fact that the action of the Unmanifested is ceaseless, and that Force being limited by its primordial moods,1 and no one mode being able to preponderate without a medium—whence there will always be two against one, alternately—no perfect or absolute equilibrium is verified (the so-called “perfect” equilibrium is only relatively so). . . .
1. Harmony in motion, Inertia in motion, and Activity in motion—not to be mistaken for unmanifested “action”—three in one and one in three. Or two positives and a neuter, through which the dominion of one passes to the other, the latter meanwhile acting as the negative—a mere aspect, for the negative, as such, is non-extant; till the “neuter”—as radically untrue as the negative—becomes in its turn a positive, namely the phase of attraction called gravitation—for it is only one phase of a triple fact, that is, latent will; the other two modes of attraction being manifested will, one now prevailing in organic states, whilst the third, as a dominant, is the compatibility of super-organic states.
With the latter objection we concur heartily.—Ed. [H.P.B.]
. . . We men aspire to eternity; in our blind idiocy nothing less will satisfy us. Divinity—ex-humanity—is resigned. . . ’tis not the word, rejoices; for it is at the pinnacle of Wisdom. It knows that to realize Eternity is not within the Law. It does not aspire to contradict; its happiness is to know that it knows such to be the Law. Ultimate truth must for ever remain sealed up and impenetrable to it. . . . Such is Paranirvana, not of the schools, but logically interpreted.2 . . .
2. Paranirvana, no less than Nirvana, belongs to Time, a Mahamanvantara at the longest. Is it not rather inconsistent in those who, on one hand, represent Nirvana or Paranirvana (the ultimate aim of Soul, or the Ego) to be an “eternal” state; and on the other hand, have it that the great cosmic cycle (Mahamanvantara) is only one in a sequence without beginning and without end? This involves periodic entrance into, and exit from, Nirvana. Nothing that changes can ever be eternal. Everything that changes must perforce belong to Time, or rather to times.
This is just what one of the greatest of India’s mystic sons, the late Pundit and Swami, Dayanand Sarasvati taught, and just what occult philosophy teaches.—Ed. [H.P.B.]