INTRODUCTORY POSTULATESThe teaching which is given in this Treatise on Cosmic Fire might be formulated in the following terms.These postulates are simply extensions of the three fundamentals to be found in the Proem in the first volume of the

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by H. P. Blavatsky.1Students are recommended to study them carefully; in this way theirunderstanding of the Treatise will be greatly aided.I. There is one Boundless Immutable Principle; one Absolute Reality which, antecedes all manifestedconditioned Being. It is beyond the range and reach of any human thought or expression.The manifested Universe is contained within this Absolute Reality and is a conditioned symbol of it.In the totality of this manifested Universe, three aspects are to be conceived.1. The First Cosmic Logos, impersonal and unmanifested, the precursor of the Manifested.2. The Second Cosmic Logos, Spirit-Matter, Life, the Spirit of the Universe.3. The Third Cosmic Logos, Cosmic Ideation, theUniversal World-Soul.From these basic creative principles, in successive gradations there issue in ordered sequence thenumberless Universes comprising countless Manifesting Stars and SolarSystems.Each Solar System is the manifestation of the energy and life of a great Cosmic Existence, Whom we call, forlack of a better term, a Solar Logos.2S. D., I, 42-44.3

4 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIREThis Solar Logos incarnates, or comes into manifestation, through the medium of a solar system.This solar system is the body, or form, of this cosmic Life, and is itself triple.This triple solar system can be described in terms of three aspects, or (as the Christian theology puts it)in terms of three Persons.ELECTRIC FIRE, or SPIRIT.

1st Person

Father . Life . Will . Purpose . Positive energy.SOLAR FIRE, or SOUL.

2nd Person .

Son . Consciousness . Love- Equilibrisedwisdom energy.FIRE BY FRICTION, or Body, or Matter.

3rd Person

Holy Spirit . Form . Active Intelligence . NegativeenergyEach of these three is also triple in manifestation, making thereforea. The nine Potencies or Emanations.b. The nine Sephiroth.c. The nine Causes of Initiation.These, with the totality of manifestation or the Whole, produce the ten (10) of perfect manifestation, orthe perfect MAN.These three aspects of the Whole are present in every form.a. The solar system is triple, manifesting through the three above mentioned.b. A human being is equally triple, manifesting as Spirit, Soul and Body, or Monad, Ego and Personality.c. The atom of the scientist is also triple, being composed of a positive nucleus, the negative electrons,and the totality of the outer mani-

INTRODUCTORY POSTULATES 5festation, the result of the relation of the other two.The three aspects of every form are inter-related and susceptible of intercourse, becausea. Energy is in motion and circulates.b. All forms in the solar system form part of the Whole, and are not isolated units.c. This is the basis of brotherhood, of the communion of saints, and of astrology.These three aspects of God, the solar Logos, and the Central Energy or force (for the terms are occultlysynonymous) demonstrate through seven centres of force,–three major centres and four minor. These sevencentres of logoic Force are themselves so constituted that they form corporate Entities. They are known asa. The seven planetary Logoi.b. The seven Spirits before the Throne.c. The seven Rays.d. The seven Heavenly Men.The Seven Logoi embody seven types of differentiated force, and in this Treatise are known under thenames of Lords of the Rays. The names of the Rays areRay I Ray of Will or Power lst AspectRay II Ray of Love-Wisdom 2nd AspectRay III Ray of Active Intelligence 3rd AspectThese are the major Rays.Ray IV Ray of Harmony, Beauty and Art.Ray V Ray of Concrete Knowledge or Science.Ray VI Ray of Devotion or of Abstract Idealism.Ray VII Ray of Ceremonial Magic or Order.II. There is a basic law called the Law of Periodicity.1. This law governs all manifestation, whether it is the manifestation of a solar Logos through the