The Evolution of Man: From Theosophy’s Sacred Teachings in “The Secret Doctrine” Volume 2, Part 1 of 2

Today it is a pleasure to present selections from “The History of the Fourth Race” in “The Secret Doctrine, Volume 2,” in which Blavatsky explains the concept of a “Central Sun” that emits Light. The text discussed the creation of the Universe, human beings, consciousness, and spiritual evolution, comparing Eastern esoteric philosophy with the teachings of the Kabbalah.

Stanza 10. The History Of The Fourth Race.

“[…] Esoteric Philosophy maintains that during the Sandhyâs, The ‘Central Sun’ emits Creative Light— passively, so to speak. Causality is latent. It is only during the active periods of Being that it gives rise to a stream of ceaseless Energy, whose vibrating currents acquire more activity and potency with every rung of the Group of Seven ladder of Being which they descend. Hence it becomes comprehensible how the process of ‘creating,’ or rather of fashioning, the organic Universe, with all its units of the seven kingdoms, necessitated intelligent Beings —who became a Being or Creative God collectively, differentiated already from the One Absolute Unity, unrelated as the latter is to conditioned ‘creation.’ […]

Thus even the exoteric Kabbalistic teachings speak of a ‘Central Sun,’ and of three secondary Suns in each Solar System— our own included. As shown in […], ‘New Aspects of Life and Religion,’ which is a synopsis of the views of the Kabbalists in an aspect deeply thought out and assimilated: The central Sun ... was to them [as much as to the Âryans] The center of rest; the center to which all motion was to be ultimately referred. […]

Explain, or complete the teaching of the Seven Suns with the seven systems of Planes of Being, of which the “Suns” are the central bodies, and you have the seven Angelic Planes, Whose ‘Host’ collectively are the Gods thereof. […]

Group Three, the Equatorial Sun, cements the Buddhi to Âtman and the higher attributes of Manas; while Group Four, the Spirit of our visible Sun, endows him with his Manas and its vehicle, the Kâma Rûpa, or body of passions and desires —the two elements of Ahamkâra which evolve individualized consciousness, the personal Ego. Finally, the Spirit of the Earth, in its triple unity, builds the Physical Body, attracting the Spirits of Life to it and forming his Linga Sharîra.”