--Neophyte and Scribe

The Veil of Allegory

THE first chapter of Genesis recites the creation of the material universe; the advent of man in his material, physical
body, and the acquisition of the consciousness of himself as a separate and distinct entity. Thereafter man became
aware of his spiritual attributes. He did not ACQUIRE those attributes, for they were latent within him from his
very first incarnation. He but ACQUIRED THE CON- SCIOUSNESS of them. This is the end of mans INVOLUNTARY
EVOLUTION and the beginning of his conscious and intelligent cooperation with Uni- versal Law in ,furthering his
continuing evolution.

(p69 the lost word its hidden meaning)

-and therefore the grand

foundation on which the whole Bible system is built

up is that the Spirit which is thus continually passing

into manifestation is always the same Spirit, in other
words it is only ONE.

-Man as composed of "Spirit,

soul, and body" (I. Thess. v. 23), or in other words
as combining into a single unity a threefold nature,
spiritual, psychic, and corporeal; and the knowledge
which it proposes to give us is the knowledge of the
true relation between these three factors. The Bible
also contemplates the totality of all Being, manifested
and unmanifested, as likewise constituting a threefold
unity, which may be distributed under the terms

"God," "Man," and "the Universe"; and it occupies

itself with telling us of the interaction, both positive
and negative, which goes on between these three.
Furthermore, it bases this interaction upon two great
psychological laws, namely, that of the creative power
of Thought and that of the amenability of Thought
to control by Suggestion; and it affirms that this
Creative Power is as innately inherent in Man s
Thought as in the Divine Thought.

Originating Spirit subsists at first as simple Unity, then it differentiates

itself into the active and passive principles spoken of as "Heaven" and "Eart
h," or "Spirit" and "Water."From these proceed Light and the separation into
their respective spheres of the spiritual principles of the different planets
, each carrying with it the potential of the self-reproducing power.

(bible mystery and bible meaning)

1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit
of God moved upon the face of the waters.

3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were
the first day.

Day 1 The first step in creation is the awakening of man to spiritual consciousness, the
dawning of light in his mind, his perception of Truth through the quickening of his spirit.
Light is wisdom; and the first day's work is the calling of light or wisdom into expression.
Light represents intelligence, and darkness represents undeveloped capacity. Symbolically
these are "day" and "night."

The word God in this instance stands for Elohim, which is God in His capacity as creative power,
including within Himself all the potentalities of being. The "beginning" indicates the first concept
of Divine Mind. "Created" means ideated. The "heavens" is the realm of ideas, and the "earth"
represents ideas in expression. Heaven is the idea and earth the mental picture. A comparison is
found in the activity of our own mind: we have an idea and then think out a plan before we bring it
forth.

(Mystery of Genesis)

#7. ATMA The Divine Part

Atma (also written Atman) is the highermost and supreme part of mans spiritual being. It is pure eternal Spirit. It
is the Higher Self, the Divine Self, the Real Self of the human being and it is literally one and the same in essence and
identity as the Infinite Supreme Self. This is in accordance with the fundamental teaching of Hinduism; that our Self
(the Atman) IS the Supreme Self (Brahman). Atman literally means Self. It is the only one of our Principles to which
the unqualified term the Self may be applied.

It is not an individual thing. There is no such thing as my Atman or your Atman. The Eternal Spirit is neither
yours nor mine and is not the separate individual possession of anyone. There is neither my Atman nor your
Atman but only THE Atman, the ONE Universal Self of all. It is here that all is truly one. The golden key to
understanding universal oneness, divine allness, and non-duality (and thus the key to world peace!) is contained in
this teaching about the Atman. I am the Atman. You are the Atman. Atman is Who and What we really are. It is our
essential nature, it is our true self, it is the All IN All. In fact, It is the one and only Reality. As the Upanishads say,
This Atman IS Brahman.

The Hebrew word translated God in Genesis I: I, is Elohim. This is a plural ending and this verse should
properly read the gods,. etc.

The opening announcement that "in the beginning

God created the heaven and the earth" contains the
statement of the first of those two propositions which
are the fundamental premises from which the whole
Bible is evolved. From the Master s instruction to
the woman of Samaria we know that "God" means "Spirit"; not "a Spirit,
 "in the beginning." They may mean io Bible Mystery and Bible Meaning first
in order of time, or first in order of causation,and the latter meaning i
s brought out by the Latin version, which commences with the words "in pri
nicipio" that is, "in principle.

- He says that the Kingdom of Heaven is within us ; in other words, that "
Heaven"is the kingdom of the innermost and spiritual, and if so, then by n
ecessary implication "Earth" must be the symbol of the opposite extreme,
and must metaphorically mean the outermost and material; the conditions ne
cessary for the doing of any work? Obviously there must be something tha
t works and something that is worked upon;an active and a passivfactor; an
energy and a material on or in which that energy operates. This, then, is
what is meant by the creation of Heaven and Earth ; it is that operation
of the eternally subsisting ONE upon Itself which produces its dual expres
sion, as Energy and Substance.

- the Bible starts us with the conception of Energy or Life inherent in su

bstance,and shows us that the two constitute a dual-unitywhich is the firs
t manifestation of the Infinite Unmanifested ONE;

- the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. Here we have two f
actors, "Spirit" and "Water," and the initial movement is attributed to Sp
irit. This verse introduces us to that particular mode of manifestation of
the Universal Substance which we may denominate the Psychic.;; "the Soul
of the Universe," or Anima Mundi, as distinguished from the Divine Spirit
orAnimus Dei, and it is the universal psychic medium in which the nuclei
of the forms hereafter to become consolidated on the plane of the concrete
and material,take their inception in obedience to the movement of the Spi
rit, or Thought. This is the realm of Potential Forms, and is the connecti
ng link between Spirit, or pure Thought, and Matter, or concrete Form,;; I
n our reading of theBible as well as in our practical application of Men
tal Science, the existence of this intermediary between Spirit and Matter
must never be lost sight of.We may call it the Distributive Medium in pas
sing through which the hitherto undistributed Energy of Spirit receives di
fferentiation of direction, and so ultimately produces differentiation of
forms and relations on the outermost or visible plane. This is the Cosmic
Element which is esoterically called "Water,;; The emphasis laid by the M
aster on the nothingness of "the flesh," and the essential ness of "Water,
" must mark a distinction of the most important kind, and we shall find it
very helpful in unravelling the meaning of many passages of the Bible to
grasp this distinction at the outset. The action of "Spirit" upon "Water"
is that of an active upon a passive principle, and the result of any sort
ofWork is to reconstruct the material worked upon into a form which it did
not possess before. Now the new form to be produced, whatever it may be,

the introduction of the firmament on the second day

indicates the separation of the spiritual principles of
the different members of the world-system from one
another,

6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the
waters.

7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters
which were above the firmament: and it was so.

8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.

Day 2 The second step in creation is the development of faith or the "firmament." The "waters" represent
the unestablished elements of the mind.

The second day's creation is the second movement of Divine Mind. The central idea in this day's creation is
the establishment of a firmament in the "midst of the waters" dividing the "waters from the waters."
"Waters" represent unexpressed possibilities in mind. There must be a "firm" starting point or foundation
established. This foundation or "firmament" is faith "moving upon" the unformed capacities of Spirit
consciousness. The divine Logos--God as creative power--gives forth the edict "Let there be a firmament."
The first step or "day" in creation involves "light" or understanding, and the second step, faith in the
knowing quality of mind.

The word is instantly fulfilled in Spirit. "And God made the firmament." This does not refer to the visible
realm of forms but to the mental image in Divine Mind, which deals only with ideas. In every mental state
we have an "above" and a "below." Above the firmament are the unexpressed capacities ("waters") of the
conscious mind resting in faith in Divine Mind. Below the firmament are the unexpressed capacities
("waters") of the subconscious mind.

#6. BUDDHI The Spiritual Part

Buddhi is the second highest Principle of mans constitution and is referred to as the Spiritual Soul, the vehicle
through which Atma (the highest Principle) radiates its light. There is nothing individual about the Buddhi principle.
As with Atma, we cannot talk in terms of my Buddhi or your Buddhi. Contrary to popular opinion, Buddhi is not
the faculty or quality of intuition and has nothing to do with this. It has nothing to do with anything except
serving as the vehicle for Atma, the Self.

The Monad (meaning ultimate unit or primary unit) is a term used to describe the conjunction of the t wo
highest Principles of the human constitution Atma and Buddhi. There is nothing higher than Atma; Atma is the
highermost and supreme part of mans spiritual being. Because Atma is literally Divinity Itself, it has to have a
vehicle through which to radiate its light to the individual soul. Buddhi is this vehicle and so the t wo in conjunction
with each other are called the Monad.

the third day sees the emanation ofEarth from "the Water," or the production
of the actual corporeal system of Nature the commencement of the process of E
volution. Up to this point the action has been entirely upon the inner plane
of"Water," that is to say, a process of Involution, and consistently with thi
s it was impossible for the heavenly bodies to begin giving physical light un
til the fourth day, for until then no physical sun orplanets could have exist
ed.

9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry
land appear: and it was so.
10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God
saw that it was good.

11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit
after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.

12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit,
whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

13 And the evening and the morning were the third day.

Day 3 The third step in creation is the beginning of the formative activity of the mind called imagination.
This gathers "the waters . . . together unto one place" so that the "dry land" appears. Then the imagination
begins a great multiplication of forms and shapes in the mind.

The first day's creation reveals the light or inspiration of Spirit. The second day establishes faith in our
possibilities to bring forth the invisible. The third day's creation or third movement of Divine Mind pictures
the activity of ideas in mind. This is called expression. The formative power of mind is the imagination,
whose work is here represented by the dry land. There is much unformed thought in mind ("the heavens")
that must be separated from the formed.

In this proclamation "earth" is the mental image of formed thought and does not refer to the manifest
world. God is Divine Mind and deals directly with ideas. "Seas" represents the unformed state of mind. We
say that a man is "at sea" when he is in doubt in his mental processes. In other words he has not established
his thoughts in line with the principle involved. The sea is capable of production, but must come under the
dominion of the imagination.

#5. MANAS The Intellectual Part

Manas is the mind principle in man, the consciousness aspect, the thinker, the permanent individuality which
incarnates and reincarnates. It is in fact the human soul. Manas is the mind and the mind and the soul are one and
the same thing. It is a mistake to confuse the mind and the brain, as if they are the same thing. The brain is only a
physical organ and serves but as a physical vehicle for the mind/soul who is the true thinker to manifest through
while in physical incarnation.

In the teachings of Theosophy, the Manas principle is often called the Ego. This is using the term Ego in its true and
literal sense, of meaning the true I of our being.

With the fourth day,

however, the physical universe is differentiated into
shape ;

14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and
let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.

16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night:
he made the stars also.

17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,

18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw
that it was good.

19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.

Day 4 The fourth step in creation is the development of the "two great lights," the will and the
understanding, or the sun (the spiritual I AM) and the moon (the intellect). These are but reflectors of the
true light; for God had said, "Let there be light: and there was light"-- before the sun and the moon were
created.

The "earth" represents the more external processes through which an idea passes, and corresponds to the
activity of an idea in mind. In man the "earth" is the body consciousness, which in its real nature is a
harmonious expression of ideas established in faith-substance. "And it was so"; that is, an idea from divine
consciousness is instantly fulfilled.

The "greater light," in mind, is understanding and the "lesser light" is the will. The greater light rules "the
day," that realm of consciousness which has been illumined by Spirit. The lesser light rules "the night," that
is, the will; which has no illumination ("light" or "day") but whose office is to execute the demands of
understanding. The will does not reason, but in its harmonious relation acts easily and naturally upon the
inspiration of Spirit. Divine will expresses itself as the I AM in man.

The "stars" represent man's perceptive faculties, including his ability to perceive weight, size, color, sound,
and the like. Through concentrating any of the faculties ("stars") at its focalizing point one may come into
an understanding of its action.

#4. KAMA The Passional Part

Kama, which literally means Desire in Sanskrit, is the desire principle of the human being when in physical
incarnation. It is the source and centre of his desires, passions, lusts, and sensual nature. It is sometimes referred to
as the animal soul because it is the more animalistic and beastly part of us.

During human life this Principle is called Kama. After the lifetime has come to an end, the Kama principle forms
itself into Kama Rupa, which literally means desire form.

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on the fifth day the terrestrial waters begin

to take their share in the evolutionary process, by
spontaneously producing fish and fowl: and here we
may remark in passing how Genesis has forestalled
modern science in the discovery that birds are
anatomically more closely related to fishes than to

land animals.
20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that
may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.

21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth
abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl
multiply in the earth.

23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

Day 5 The fifth step in creation is the bringing forth of sensation and discrimination. The "creatures" are
thoughts. The "birds . . . in the open firmament of heaven" are ideas approaching spiritual understanding.

"Water" represents the unformed substance of life, always present as a fecundating element in which ideas
("living creatures") increase and multiply, just as the earth produces a crop when sown with seed. The
"birds" represent the liberated thoughts or ideas of mind (heavens).

In connection with the body, "water" represents the fluids of the organism. The "sea- monsters" are life
ideas that swarm in these fluids. Here is pictured Divine Mind

creating the original body idea, as imaged in the 20th verse. In the 2d chapter of Genesis we shall read of
the manifestation of this idea. Idea, expression, and manifestation are the steps involved in bringing
anything forth under divine law. The stamp of good is placed upon divine ideas and their activity in
substance.

In the fifth day's creation ideas of discrimination and judgment are developed. The fishes and fowls
represent ideas of life working in mind, but they must be properly related to the unformed (seas) and the
formed (earth) worlds of mind. When an individual is well balanced in mind and body, there is an equalizing
force flowing in the consciousness, and harmony is in evidence.

#3. PRANA The Vital Part

This is the Life Force, Vitality, or Energy which keeps the physical body alive. It is the Life Principle, the breath of
life in the individual. A person remains in physical incarnation for as long as Prana remains active within them. As
soon as Prana departs and ceases to flow, the physical body has no other option than to die, since it is the force of
Prana which keeps it going.

24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing,
and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.

25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that
creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the
fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every
creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created
he them.

28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth,
and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every
living thing that moveth upon the earth.

29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the
earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.

30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the
earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.

31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the
morning were the sixth day.

Day 6 The sixth step in creation is the bringing forth of ideas after their kind. When man approaches the
creative level in his thought, he is getting close to God in his consciousness, and then the realization that he
is the very image and likeness of his Creator dawns on him. This is the consciousness in man of Christ.

On the sixth day of creation ideas of life are set into activity. "Cattle" represent ideas of strength
established in substance. "Creeping things" represent ideas of life that are more subtle in their expression,
approaching closer to the realm of sense. They are the micro-

organisms. The "beasts" stand for the free energies of life that relate themselves to sensation. Divine ideas
are always instantly set into activity: "and it was so."

Underlying all these ideas related to sensation, which in their original purity are simply ideas of life
functioning in substance, is the divine idea of life. When life is expressed in divine order it is pronounced
good. What is termed "sense consciousness" in man is not to be condemned but lifted up to its rightful
place.

#2. LINGA SHARIRA The Astral Part

Linga Sharira called the astral body is the subtle, unseen double of the dense physical body. It is the form,
mould, and blueprint upon and around which the dense physical body is built. It comes into existence before the
physical body and it only fully fades out and dies when the very last remaining particle of the deceased physical
body disappears and disintegrates, excepting the skeleton.

Its main connection point with the physical body is in the area of the spleen and these t wo bodies that we have are
connected with one another throughout each lifetime by a sort of unseen umbilical cord which some have called the
silver thread or silver cord.

*It was the Fall of Spirit into generation, not the Fall of mortal man. Man and woman on the side of the Father
(Spirit) refers to Primary Creation; and on the side of the Mother (matter) to the secondary. The t wo-fold man is
Adam Kadmon, the male and female abstract prototype and the DIFFERENTIATED Elohim. Man proceeds from the
Dhyan-Chohan,13 and is a Fallen Angel, a god in exile, as will be shown.

the ONE-ness of the Divine Spirit and the Creative Power of Man s Thought, wh
ich the Bible expresses in its two grand statements, that "God is ONE," and t
hat Man is made "in the
image and likeness of God.

2 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day
from all his work which he had made.

3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work
which God created and made.

4 These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the
LordGod made the earth and the heavens,

Day 7 The seventh day refers to the mind's realization of fulfillment, its resting in the assurance that all
that has been imaged in it will come forth in expression.

To hallow the seventh day is to rest in the stillness, quiet, and peace of the silence of Mind. "Be still, and
know that I am God." To hallow means to keep holy. Holiness is resting in the conviction that there is no lack
in the absolute law that is the law of God. One creates first in mind by idealizing the desired object and
then resting in the assurance that the law of manifestation is being fulfilled. God has finished creating His
universe, including man, and is resting in His perfect idea. God rested on the seventh day.

#1. STHULA SHARIRA The Physical Part

Sthula Sharira is the Sanskrit name for the dense physical body. It is not in strict truth a Principle in itself but is
simply the vehicle of all the other Principles during physical incarnation. Sthula Sharira is described as being the
child of Linga Sharira (its mother) by conception of Prana (its father). It is our outer shell and really nothing more.
We often place far more importance and emphasis on our outer shell than is really necessary or worthwhile.