Of Creation and Deity

The Essence
The infinite essence of things is in its own nature, essential. All creations and existences are conditioned things existing within its nature. Creation and existence is not the dictation of an arbitrary deity, but a manifestation of principles that are inherent within existence itself and set in motion by the essence which is both inside and outside of creation. A creation, once set in motion by the ineffable calculations of the essence is eternal and inevitable so far as itself is concerned. Only the essence can dissolve eternity.

At the root of the substance of all conditioned existence within a creation - from humans to suns to galaxies - is the essence, the unconditioned nature of itself. Essence always contains within its own ineffable reason or un-reason all that can be manifested from it. Thus we can say that essence moves into the production of existences, which then each return to essence which continues. The essence transcends eternity and space, as both these are merely expressions of it There exists everywhere in the innermost parts of things and the outermost, and in all intervals between the innermost and outermost, this one indivisible essence to which the terms eternity, infinity and existence mean less than nothing.

This being, continuing forever, is the base material and earth in which its creations grow. An essential creation itself is a continual process in which the potentials of an infinite existence are gradually developed into potencies or manifestations. Consciousness as we know it is as much a conditioned state of essential consciousness as bodies as we know them are conditioned states of essential substance.

This conception forms the best foundation for the construction of a philosophic system within our particular, created existence. Systems are born as beings are born - out of a primary conviction. The primary conviction becomes the creative root of philosophy which merely expands and extends it. The primary conviction is termed a premise or hypothesis. Upon it must be built all that follows after it in terms of the detailed explanation of the processes of creation.

Creation and Existence
Throughout eternity and from that which has no beginning or end as we know it, there is, was and will be the infinite essence above described (as best as this can be done), infinitely diversified. This essence transformed what might be inadequately termed "vacuum" into a dynamic space, area or field. This field is limitless, eternal and inevitable within itself, extending beyond all potential creations of all kinds beyond the wildest imagination. This field is one potency, one dynamic invisible to us and beyond our comprehension due to its having no form or shadow by which we can see it. Its natural and inevitable state is not nearly imaginable by us. Consequently we cannot define its nature, only accept in terms of thoughts or in terms of words that there is this unconditioned eternal. This is the cause that conditioned existence as we know it can exist. Existence can exist only because Life exists, and vice versa. Life itself is one of the basic manifestations of space, and causes from its own nature all the living things that are dependent upon it for their existence. This field of eternity is what many peoples have come to know of as God. God is known, therefore known abstractly, as the mysterious unity of eternal life. God is the one that within creation permeates all. It is the one undifferentiated - that which is one in sense of total unity. From this inevitable source all things i.e. possible conditioned creations originate.

The Doctrine of Emanation
Creation goes on like a great ocean of the inevitable, watched in the minds' eye because it cannot be seen. This ocean extends through all eternity, quiet and seemingly unmoved, and yet somewhere in the apparently transparent depths of it there have to be things - seeds, lives, principles which are capable of coming forth out of this procedure under certain conditions.

How did the eternal potential of creation come to generate? How did deity which is forever itself come to give rise to something within it seeming to be a diminishment of itself? This vast ocean of potential was also ever-creating - the process of creation is as eternal as the principle of creation itself. Therefore, however far back in time the human imagination wants to go, the creating process was already in operation. There was no time when this wheel within Deity started to turn - it has always turned, for what we might term a the first impulse, first movement of things, is an eternal movement. It is first in quality rather than in time. Consequently space or eternity was forever producing being an essential part of its eternal nature.

Deity produced an infinite descent of an array of beings - divine beings - who use space as the raw material for the creation of universes and cosmic systems manufactured by their will and purpose. This chain of descending beings is also eternal - never beginning and never ending in a time-linear sense. There is in this space itself as part of its own nature an eternal descent of creators - part of space's nature is creative consciousness which manifests automatically and continually, forever.

Universes come and go within creation. Worlds are fashioned as men are fashioned and disappear again as men disappear. The passing of these individuals has no effect upon the process of unfolding within eternity. Space is ever begetting, ever producing, and its forms return to it in their fatigue or exhaustion, back into the principles which created them.

Creation is not only an ongoing production, but also dominated by periodicity. The so-called "creating powers" do not create continuously. They create for a certain time and then the creative principle and all its productions fade into a kind of "sleep". The life of a creating deity is also measured in time as well as eternity. This time is greater than anything we can imagine - possibly hundreds of billions of human years. Yet this being emerged by unfolding. Growth as we understand it implies the release of potential and the gradual unfolding of a state of maturity. Growth (though in another dimension) applies to deities - they come forth not from nothing but from the previous-ness of themselves. They awaken from sleep, and the intervals between the great creative cycles of a deity are referred to as intervals of sleep. The manifestation of a deity is known as its day of manifestation.

Within this pattern we refer to a "deity", which may refer to the creator of a solar system or the ruler of a vast galaxy. All the time, deities as expressions of the eternal are coming into manifestation, awakening from the sleep of ages, rousing from the seven nights of rest. For each deity there are seven nights of rest and seven days of manifestation, symbolically, to make up the life of the creating power. In its emergence, the deity takes place of another which is fading into sleep. As there are millions or hundreds of millions of such deities within space in varying states of birth, growth, maturity and decline, space itself continues to be inhabited by creations just as the Earth is continually inhabited by creatures, although none of these creatures has a continuous existence as far as we can see or tell.

Space itself is like an infinite universe of existences, and the constellations, stars and great orders of life are hosts of beings inhabiting space, subject to all the laws which in a small way Man is subject to, but still like Man having the power of perpetuating the great purpose of life despite being incapable of sustaining individual existence indefinitely. All stars, galaxies and universes must in time fade away, but as they fade others will take their places and the continual process will be unbroken. Those that fade away do not truly die. Man may fade away as far as his manifestations are concerned. The great sun at the solar system's centre will burn out, but his does not mean that it dies - it merely retreats from an objective to a subjective state again. In the process of creation there must always be this duality of motion - out-flowing and returning.

Origins of Deities in Eternal Existence
Here, there is another chain of patterns as pertain to the concept of eternity itself. Life is an infinite progression of patterns - infinite unfolding of infinite potential. None can say or even imagine what the total potential of a creation within essence is. However, it is assumed in philosophy of idealistic nature that has this potential, like the theological assumption of God, is infinite. Therefore all forms of growth which ever have been are part of it. All forms of growth that now are, are part of it. All forms of growth that can ever possibly come into manifestation are part of it. Thus, the unfolding of things in creation is an infinite progression of growths, very much like a cycle of many embodiment of man - for here the ancients made use of the concept of rebirth, that rebirth is an infinite process of a kind. This process is a continual unfolding of life. Thus in this universal concept there is not only the continuance of these things but the unfolding of their potential. Thus, in time all of these beings evolve, and even the great powers governing cosmic systems are still growing and must continue to grow. This growth began at some remote time and at some remote condition which we cannot even imagine. This growth in the end leads to no imaginable or conceivable state. It is quite possible that growth continues to the point at which there are no longer any galaxies, no longer any physical form as we know it to represent the unfolding of a divine agent - a far as we are concerned, the process continues past our conception.

Throughout history, scholars, philosophers and mystics have struggled to mentally grasp firmly the reality of something so definitely infinite, and yet in the final equation, finite. They could assume that in some way, the most advanced deities imaginable in space could have begun in some incredibly remote time to grow up as man has done, as tiny organisms upon a tiny planet somewhere. That they were at one time atoms and electrons. Somewhere and sometime they may have started as an extreme humbleness of things and gone on and on and on, past planet, star and galaxy until they became infinitely impressive, so vast that we can no longer even imagine them.

Growth going on and on forever gives the impression that at some point in creation there will be such an enormous number of incredibly vast beings that even space will be exhausted by them. An infinite ultimate in which all things become infinite themselves becomes a rather complex problem for the mind. Philosophers therefore came to the conclusion that at some point or at some time things fulfil their archetypes, and that fulfilling its archetype a creation fulfils the being that created it - the parts becoming equal to the whole, each creature from the star system to the grain of sand finally becoming identical to the creative power which fashioned it. The creature and the creator no longer have an interval of difference between them. In the very last of everything, it is the Deity of the entire creation, encompassing universes, which evolves, finally returning to the essence as creation resolves and the created world comes to a final closure.

The Solar System
The solar system is a pattern and an archetype, which exists in the conditioned consciousness of its creating power, which has existed before and created before, being held within the eternity of space itself. In the area in which the solar system is to arise, all is placid and there is no hint of activity, of what is to come. Then, a motion or an activity begins. This activity is like the germination of a seed, and the field of space is said to curdle as activity arises within its own eternity, the re-emergence of a creating power. This re-emergence takes place over a vast span of time - millions of years upon millions of years more. There emerges within the curdled field the beginnings of an organised existence.

At the very start of things, the egg is fashioned as the deity which is to become the solar system is awaking from the seven nights of rest. Its conditioned consciousness descends the Ineffable Word as a ray which strikes the mysterious, albuminous substance of space and fecundates it, setting it aside for the creation of a world. This is the first step of the deity's own incarnation into a body or form. The ray causes the division of the primary ultimates of spatial conditioning. Space, ultimately, can therefore come under two conditions, which become the basis of polarisation, which is itself the beginning of the world's creation, and also the beginning of death. Consequently objectification emerging from subjective consciousness by its first movement determines its own end. The moment duality appears from homogenous space, the disintegration of the compound is inevitable. The conditioned states of space are known as Aether and Chaos. These conditions allow for existence to come as a result of Striving.

Striving denotes polarity operating upon itself, and the initial action of Aether and Chaos upon one another produce a motion analogous to that of a whirlwind. With the coming of this initial motion, time and dimensions were born, durations established and the inevitable incarnation of the deity itself was decreed. Out of striving there was fashioned a boundary - the allotment of space set aside for a solar system, which varies from system to system. The greater the creating power of the deity, the greater the allotment it is allocated for incarnation. The vast globe of the boundary divides space into two kinds of space - the space in the outside which remains unconditioned and from which other worlds can come, and the conditioned pace on the inside which is set apart. It is set aside as the potential body of the incarnating solar deity or solar logos. The circumference of an allotment is established before the centre. When the entire allotment has been permeated with the energy which the deity causes to flow into it, there is established a space condition in which there is an eternal life and a limited, enclosed space allotment in which there is a non-eternal life-force, now operating. The empty area becomes a solid world. In the coming of existence, abstract space has disappeared into the conditioning of concrete space. Concrete space is less than the abstract space which precedes it - more of a vacuum or unreality than a reality.

Once the mysterious alchemical bubble floating in eternity is established, the logos imposes itself upon creation in the form of the Cross. The logos impinged itself upon the sphere at the north pole, here taking up its original and primary position. From this point it begins the problem of conquering the field of its own manifestation. Projection of four line of fission begin the creative process - an infinite fragmentation within the sphere. The globe and each planet within it has its own polar continent where the gods first descend. This island is the first imperishable link between deity and incarnation. Coming into creation-consciousness, the deity falls asleep with respect to its eternal space-consciousness. As deity awakens into objectivity, its orders of hierarchs emerge with it. In man, seven spirits incarnate along with the sovereignty of the divine soul itself. These spirits take up the seven vital functions of the body, becoming symbolically represented in objectivity by the seven vital organs as linked by the seven units of the endocrine chain and also by the seven points in the brain called the "reichi" or governors. The same thing happens in the development of the solar system - the point at the north pole of the egg is the Miru or "Mountain of the Gods", and it is from here that all the great creative processes take place. In the development of this being, those manifestations of its own consciousness which are primarily first come into manifestation after itself. It gradually turns creation over to these secondary powers, for the only way in which it can release them is to go to sleep in them.

Here the trinity of creative powers comes into play. The supreme power goes to sleep in so far as its unity is concerned and becomes aware of itself in its three creating aspects as a trinity. The trinity therefore then become the creative power - that is, the ruler of all processes of creativity, the protector and enlightening power and finally the reproductive and destructive power of crystallisation or transformation by means of which the entire pattern is prevented from being rapped in an eternal stasis.

The Process of Involution
The three powers now unlock the hierarchs which are locked within their own consciousness, each going to sleep in turn within these orders of existence Vishnu the Preserver in releasing the ten Avatars goes to sleep in the ten embodiments of itself. The continuous involutionary process by which the solar system becomes recognisable as it is today is always a process of consciousness going to sleep in embodiment. Always a process of unities being broken up into diversities. The nadir is reached when the deepest descent possible of deity into manifestation is reached. At this point we have the solar symbol system of infinite diversity, within which each fragment appears to be completely isolated, in which every substance and conditioned consciousness has its own life and purpose. In which there are countless manifestations of creatures and creations, but no longer conscious communion between these creatures, except instinct and intuition. This is the solar system as ours appears to be today, in which we see all types of insects, fishes, birds, mammals, flowers, trees and even the magnificent evolving processes in the crystallisation of rocks. Above them all is the mysterious power of Man, who has also a manifestation of this infinite division of consciousness.

As unfoldment continues, we see the emergence of the planetary system, that from the sovereignty of the Sun's consciousness comes forth the consciousness of planets, that these planets are miniatures of the solar system each with their own magnetic field within the greater field. Each has its own Miru at the northern pole, producing of itself a recapitulation of the seven continents, seven great oceans, seven orders of life beginning with the mineral and the seven races of Man. All of these septenaries arise from the same septenary principle that brought forth the creation of the worlds in the first place. Musical harmonies, chemical affinities - all these things parallel the ancient septenary in every possible respect.

Gradually the mysterious globe in space begins to fill in many ways. As a result of this development, a new centre was established, necessary for the formation of the coming physical world. This centre is above the true centre of the Egg. In Man, three centres are recognised as coming into existence - the heart (the spiritual core), the brain and the reproductive system. These three become Man's manifestation of the deity's trinity of creative powers. The entire solar system has its own manifestations of them as well. Near the centre of the Egg an extension of Life moves from the imperishable centre to a new central point, here coming to draw from the entire area of the sphere all energy by a spiritual attraction from circumference inwards to the centre. The centre, having then been formed by the complete privation of the Egg's interior, forms a kind of "yolk" of condensed spiritual power. What is left without the yolk is now in fact called the Privation, and it now cries out for Life. Psychic pressure at the yolk forms the magnetic body of the Sun.

The Sun, therefore is the total energy of the entire area set aside within creation for the generation of the solar system. It becomes the sovereign power of the Egg, and has no sovereignty beyond the wall of the Egg. It may here be seen, but has no propriety over the evolutionary process. Once the central Sun has been created, we come to the Pythagorean and Ptolemaic theory. Here the Egg was illustrated containing within it the concentric rings of the planetary orbits. However at this time the orbits do not exist. The orbits of the planets signify the seven degrees of privation. In our solar system, the orbit of Saturn is the outermost - the first to be privated and the last to be compensated for. The orbits form by the retiring of the energy, degree by degree, towards the centre. The first orbit is that of Saturn, the second that of Jupiter, and the third of Mars. The fourth orbit was attributes to the Sun, which functioned in the ancient systems as a cover for a planet which they did not know. The fifth orbit is that of Venus, the sixth that of Mercury and the seventh is the orbit of the Moon, which is the body closest to Earth. The Ancients had their own private system of astronomy, but the concept is that the Earth was to them the physical body, corresponding to the human heart, which was set up in the midst of the planets and around which the Sun, as a superior energy, also rotated.

The Process of Evolution
The gathering of the seven degrees of substance was from circumference to centre. Once all energy had reached the Sun, the physical structure of the solar system was born. All energy had been contracted and the solar Logos came into embodiment. Then was the "Quickening" and fro that point forth the solar power was no longer operating from outside, from above or from a conscious, separate understanding of the creative process. It then incarnated, according to the Ancients, in the Sun itself, and began the great evolutionary part of its existence. Maturity of embodiment would be achieved now by gradually releasing resources into the vacuum created by the privation of energy in the first place. The privation was now to be populated by energy which had passed through and been conditioned by its own consciousness. From this became the bodies of the seven planets or seven "Logoi", "Vowels" or "Elohim" of the first chapter of Genesis, who moved upon the face of the Deep. Having built all of this structure of creation into a consistent pattern, the solar Logos gradually comes to achieve maturity, producing a structure in which the consciousness of the solar deity became permeating throughout the entire area. From this time on, it gradually took hold of its own body as we do in growing up until the body would become a complete agent for the unfolding of various forms of life.

Each form of life unfolded from a collective superior to itself. From a planetary deity unfolded all the life of the planet. From a particular group, race or species type unfold all of the separate manifestations of the different kingdoms of nature. All are emanations of a completely rational process, perfectly ordered and ordained. The development of the solar system finally results in a group of planets all with their own evolving forms of life, all of the nourished by the one solar principle, all of them dependent upon solar consciousness for their consciousness, solar mind for their mind, solar emotion for their emotion and solar energy for the preservation of their bodies. All of these aspects are principles - only the body is a receptacle and not a principle.

Man in the Solar System
Man gains the ability to perfect himself in arts and crafts and skills through the process of embodiment, learning eventually the great lesson of this solar field of which he is a part, for the solar power has impressed a purpose upon the entire procedure, and all creatures within the solar system are working towards the fulfilment of that purpose. Man, at various times in his life experiences changes within his own qualities and nature. He finds, for example, that under certain conditions he is inclined to attempt to improve his nature. He disciplines himself and integrates his own purposes. He dedicated his efforts to purposes proper to him. In the solar procedure something of this nature occurs also - the solar Logos, using the entire solar system as its physical, emotional and mental organism becomes like the compound individual - a series of bodies, factors and forces. There is solar mind, which although great and exalted is not perfect, in comparison to the great pattern of things within a creation. It is less perfect still when its principle powers have been obscured by the coming of matter. As it descends into matter it loses a certain amount of its clarity by restoring its total consciousness and entering its own selfless state. This final stage of a solar system's development is due in part to the production of forms or vessels capable of receiving what is gained by the release of higher modes of consciousness. Man is currently held as the being in possession of the immediate resources capable of further liberating solar consciousness. We consider here the secret rituals of the ancient mystery rites - namely that deity "dies" i.e. goes to sleep in Man and that the resurrection of deity takes place through the release of its consciousness through Man. As fast as this consciousness is released, it is available again to total experience, and that through this process the deity passes through its own kind of ignorance to its own kind of total illumination for itself.

In order to achieve this, the solar being subjects its various bodies to discipline, and this is a very interesting point. The solar Logos, having entered into the chaos of infinite potential and matter, evolves by evolution and comes to the point of imposing self-rulership upon self. This is discovered to the Logos by and through Man's discovery of it to himself. Such self illumination is a release not of Man's consciousness, which is merely a fragment of the solar consciousness, but of a release of the solar consciousness itself. Thus every being that arrives at illumination arrives at the solar consciousness, and the bodhisatvas represent the fact that true perfection of deity is achieved only when every creature within it attains liberation. At this point of Final Balance, the resurrection of the Logos is achieved.

The individual in life goes out to seek help and teaching, and finds that at the same time something else has been seeking him. This "thing" is the great order of world saviours, which represent the release from within the deity of the great powers of enlightenment which were also locked within it. For when the previous incarnation of the deity went to sleep it took with it the sages, the arhats and the ones who guard the world during the intervals between buddhas. The bodhisatvas and liberated ones went with it also, alongside the great buddhas of compassion. These were the spiritual force, the moral character and the insight of the solar Logos, and when it began to emerge and unfold again here a certain degree of development was reached at which these great sages and teachers began to embody also.

The Law Givers
The government of the solar system is entrusted to three forces. First it is entrusted to the great manus, or Law Givers. These are the exactitude of the solar mind. The solar mind in the beginning when it first contemplated embodiment trusted its entire future upon the laws, which were a mysterious network of inevitables extending beyond the solar system to come and all universes in space. These laws were set within creation by the ineffable Essence for its own mysterious purposes, and will proceed until the Essences' purpose has been fulfilled, at which point they themselves will return to it, along with concepts such as order and chaos, right an wrong, past and future, peace and suffering. Until this wondrous happening occurs, the laws hold true, and thus when the solar power went to sleep it went to sleep in the law, with the perfect certainty that the tides of eternity would bring it back to its natural state within creation, as had been intended by the Essence when it initiated creation of space and eternity. There could be no doubt of this and so it had complete and total faith. The Law Givers were therefore the royal powers of deity.

The Lords of the Heart Doctrine
The second order of protectors were the Lords of the Heart Doctrine. These represented the entire gamut of idealistic conception. All religions, ideals, hopes, faiths, beauties and creative arts - all that must inevitably lead to the perfection of human insight in terms of adoration, veneration and respect. All of these powers were invested in the Lords of the Heart Doctrine, those who became the shepherds of men. They administered love before there were hearts to feel it. They brought out of the growth of things natural and kindly regards which would erase the perceived pains and wrongs of the past. They also brought forth the great saintly teachers of human benevolence, those who gave all of themselves by an instinct which they could not completely rationalise to the service of mankind. All such dedicated individuals were seed lives carried over from the deity's previous embodiment. They were not all fashioned here, but some were fashioned here - two orders are recognised therefore: the Celestial bodhisatvas and the Terrestrial bodhisatvas. The former will retire when the latter are able to sustain and enrich human culture.

The Philosophers
The third order were the administrators of the scientific and civil qualities of mankind. Like the saints and seers these also were carried over - philosophers and scientists of tremendous quality.

The coming of a new wave of life means the calling upon of another set of resources within the solar power itself. All lives and principles are within the solar power. Orders, creatures, objects and lesser gods are all individualisations of the solar deity's energy. All manifestations of the great Vairocana Buddha, or of God. Every colour, odour, taste and everything we can touch is a form of Sun energy or Sun structure. The germinal rays of the Sun pouring into the vacuum of privation fill it, will be represented not only by faculties or powers or certainties but also as spiritual, living beings. They represent creative energies as specialised beings. There is no energy that is not embodied in something. All solar energy is in the form of hierarchs, evolving lives which are the channels of this energy. Eventually all hierarchs are drawn back into the eternal nature, carrying their growth with them.

The End of Creation
The back and forth motions of solar systems, of galaxies and of universes within creation are an exercise in uceasing awakening to realities. As the higher solar reality is realised by its evolving parts, they each return to it in the parinirvana - returning the hierarchs to the great orders they belong to. This restores the consciousness of the solar Logos, and when the many return to the twelve, the twelve to the seven and the seven to the three, the trinity restore the one and the solar system has completed a lifetime, awaking from embodiment much enriched. The globe allotment disappears, leaving only the imperishable island floating in unconditioned space, which then itself returns to subjectivity.

In the final creation of things, utterly inconceivable to us, everything culminates in the waking up of all things, everywhere into pure, divine consciousness. At this point the creation within the Essence has reached completion. If the end goal of creation is inconceivable to the human mind, then the reason for the Essence's creations is utterly beyond reason itself - its reasons, if such a term can be applied, are its own and its being, or lack thereof, is All, beyond eternity and space.