Spiritual Inquiries: 5. Formation of Our Solar System

[Guest guest]

A recap on the last four topics we inquired into.

 

We started with vibrations and illustrated how everything in this

universe is formed by vibrations. We introduced the idea that even

our thoughts and emotions are vibrations created in subtle matter

which is not physical. Then we moved on to the physical and

spiritual atoms. We noted that forms in the physical world are made

of chemical elements which are in turn made of chemical atoms.

 

The chemical atoms are made of protons, neutrons and electrons. The

protons and neutrons are in turn made of quarks, three in each. And

the quarks are in turn are made of three numbers of the Anu, which

is the ultimate physical atom of the physical plane (UPA). Science

is yet to discover the Anu or the UPA.

 

The most surprising part of it all is that the UPA is only the

ultimate atom of the physical world, and that it is made of nearly

14 million bubbles of matter! Called ParamAnu, these bubbles are the

ultimate atom of matter of any plane. Yogis make use of the Anu and

the ParamAnu to materialize and dematerialize forms and for the

invisible travels that their tasks involve.

 

Next we turned out attention to the nature of the One God whose

manifestation is this universe and all the forms inside it. We noted

that this One God in his unimanifested state is known as the nirguna

brahman and that he manifests as saguna brahman, ensouling matter

with his consciousness or spirit, creating the Trinity and the whole

lot of the hierarchy of devas and other divine beings.

 

We noted with caution that the manifested forms create the maya. The

maya is not totally unreal but has a time frame for its reality. The

Ultimate Reality is the Brahman in his unmanifested form. The time

that limits the forms of maya flows in cycles, starting with the

conditional khanda kala known to us in the scale from seconds to

years and the cosmic cycles of time of yugas, mahayugas,

manvantaras, kalpas, pralaya and the ultimate mahapralaya, at which

time the Great Brahman would breathe back into himself all the forms

that he breathed out as manifestations.

 

Today we are going to inquire into the formation of the universe and

our solar system as manifested forms of the related deities, who in

turn are the manifestations of the One God Brahman.

 

Parabrahman-Mulaprakriti

 

"There are, assuredly, two forms of Brahma: the formed and the

formless. Now, that which is the formed is unreal; that which is the

formless is real, is Brahma, is light. That light is the same as the

sun."

 

-- Maitri-Upanishad, VI, 3

The name Brahma in the above quotation refers to Parabrahman.

 

A universe is both Parabrahman and Mulaprakriti in essence.

Parabrahman is the life or energy, Mulaprakriti his form. Without

Mulaprakriti, Parabrahman, the pure consciousness, or pure energy

would remain, but this is not possible. Without Parabrahman, the

Mulaprakriti would be lifeless and this is also not possible.

 

Therefore, energy and matter are two sides of the same thing.

Parabrahman and Mulaprakriti are two sides of the One God, who is

Parabrahman Himself, popularly called Brahman.

 

Call it space or koilon or mulaprakriti, Brahman is ultimately that

mulaprakriti. Call it energy or life force or spirit and

consciousness, Brahman hides it inside the mulaprakriti. Since

Brahman is the mulaprakriti, he is referred to as That in the

Upanishads.

 

Our body is essentially Mulaprakriti, manifesting in form.

Everything else is so: a star, a piece of wood, a beast, bird or

bacteria. As above, so below.

 

And there is a hierarchy. Everything is contained in something

greater. Every atom has its home in a molecule, every molecule in a

cell, every cell in a body, every body in a greater body, the

greater body, such as our earth, in the solar ether, the solar

system in a galaxy, the galaxy in a universe, and the universe in

THAT, the ultimate Space or Parabrahman.

 

Besides, there is a cycle of time or duration that determines the

life of a form. This we saw, originates from the Great Breath, and

operates in a constant secular cyclical diastole and systole,

similar to that of the human heart. In other words, the Cosmic Time

which is infinite, is the duration between Braman's breathing out

forms and breathing them in. The Costimc Time is infinite because

the creation cycle starts all over again after the mahapralaya.

 

The forms manifested by the Great Breath divide cosmic time into

conditional events of the solar and other discrete units of time.

 

The pure consciousness of Parabrahman activates our body and

everything else that has form. But this pure consciousness in us

humans is clouded by our tendency to associate our Self with our

body. This tendency is due to the cycle of births and deaths we

undergo, and the carried over samskaras.

 

We think that the night and day and week and month and year flows in

discrete units of time, its stream originating from the future,

gliding along the present into the past. The same sort of ignorance

we have and cherish, in thinking ourselves as apart from the

Creator, and keeping up that status.

 

We cherish this ignorance of association with our body and lower

self because we fear that as otherwise we will lose our identity. We

lose our bodily identify anyway when we die, but maya and our

samskaras send us back on a cycle of reincarnation by which we

acquire a new body and start associating with it.

 

A number of earthern pots are kept for sale by the potter. The pots

divide the aakaasha or space among themselves. Each pot has its own

share of space. Break all the pots and the aakaasha is seen to be

the ultimate reality, whether inside or outside the pots.

 

In the same way, we in our bodies think of ourselves as discrete

entities of Parabrahman, sharing a little each of his space, time

and consciousness. If we think beyond the body, we would realise the

Reality. The pot-body analogy is a famous teaching from Sri Adi

Sankara.

 

Trinity in Divine and Human Forms

 

As we noted earlier, Brahman manifests as the Trinity Shiva, Vishnu

and Brahma. These three forms have the names the First Aspect, the

Second Aspect and the Third Aspect in Theosophy, while Brahman

himself is known as the Logos. Other religions have corresponding

names for the three forms.

 

Every god and human in the hiearchy of creation has a trinity: atma,

buddhi, manas. The Shiva aspect is Atma or Consciousness or Will

power that ensouls all forms. The Vishnu aspect is Buddhi or

Intution or Wisdom that persistently guides souls that are in and

out of forms during their evolution. The Brahma aspect is the Manas,

the thinking and creating mind that spawns both good and evil. This

may be the reason why our Puranas say that both Devas and Asuras

were spawned by Brahma.

 

Koilon and the Bubbles

 

Before the universe and our solar system came into existence, there

was only the root-matter Koilon (Mulaprakriti). The term Koilon

derives from the Greek Koilos, meaning hollow.

 

The Koilon is roughly the ether of the Science, but it should not be

confused with the etheric matter that composes the first four of the

seven sub planes of the physical plane.

 

The space occupied by Koilon appears empty to the physical senses.

In reality, it is far denser than anything we know. Professor

Osborne Reynolds, whose theory agrees with occult investigation, has

defined its density as 10,000 times greater than that of water, and

its mean pressure is 750,000 tons to the square inch. Koilon is

perceptible only to highly developed clairvoyant power.

 

Koilon filled all space and was at rest. The One God changed this

condition by pouring out His spirit or force into a certain section

of the matter, a section the size of a whole universe.

 

The effect of the introduction of this force is like the blowing of

a mighty breath. It formed an incalculable number of tiny spherical

bubbles in Koilon. These bubbles are the ultimate atoms, out of

which everything we call matter is manufactured.

 

H.P. Blavatsky in her book The Secret Doctrine calls this force

(that originally formed the bubbles) Fohat. She speaks of it as

"digging holes in space".

 

A modern equivalent of "digging holes" to create the primitives of

matter is the way audio/video data (songs, pictures, movies and

computer data) is recorded on a compact disc (CD-ROM) or a digital

dideo disk (DVD). In this case, a laser beam burns holes called pits

on a smooth surface of the disc. The pits and the raised surface

bits grouped together, create patterns of data read by a computer or

an audio/video player.

 

Man, in his creations, imitates his Creator, whose consciousness is

active in him. As above, so below.

 

The bubbles are not like a soap-bubble, which is a film of water

with an outer and an inner surface, enclosing air within it. They

are like bubbles in soda-water, or boiling water, which have only

one surface, where the air meets water.

 

To the highest sight available, the bubbles appear to be empty, with

no apparent, inherent motion or rotation. Each bubble in reality is

a point of His consciousness, and persists only so long as He wills

to keep the enveloping Koilon in tact. These bubbles are the

ultimate atoms of which what we call matter is composed.

 

Even though the bubbles appear to have no motion of their own, they

can be moved as a whole from without, singly or en masse, by an

exertion of the will. No two bubbles ever under any circumstances

touch each other.

 

Having marked a spherical limit for His activity, the One (called

Logos in Theosophy) builds the universe inside the sphere, using His

manifested form Brahma (the Third Aspect).

 

This sphere where Brahma lived to form the universe is called

hiranyagarbha in Hinduism. The Upanishads describe it as a huge

golden egg, resplendent as the sun, where Brahma lived for a year,

and then divided it into two parts by his mere thought, and with

these two he formed the heavens and the earth; and in the middle he

placed the sky, the eight regions, and the eternal abode of the

waters.

 

Hiranyagarbha literally means the golden womb and is symbolic of the

birth of Brahma from this womb by immaculate conception. Hindu

Puranas state that Brahma was born out of Vishnu, and this is

symbolised by the umbilical cord that protrudes from the navel

(nabhi) of Vishnu and carries Brahma on a lotus flower.

 

Annie Besant in her book The Ancient Wisdom, sums up the teachings

of the sages about the One that created the universe, in this

beautiful passage:

 

"Within that sphere the universe is born, is evolved, and dies; it

lives, it moves, it has its being in Him; its matter is His

emanation; its forces and energies are currents of His Life; He is

immanent in every atom, all-pervading, all-sustaining, all-evolving;

He is its source and its end, its cause and its object, its centre

and circumference; it is built on Him as its sure foundation, it

breathes in Him as its encircling space; He is in everything and

everything in Him."

 

Birth of the Solar System and the Planes

 

When the Solar Deity (a manifested aspect of the One God) begins to

make his system, he decides to use the bubbles ready at hand. He

first defines the limit of his field of activity, a vast sphere with

a circumference far larger than the orbit of the outermost of his

future planets.

 

Within this limit of his activity, he sets up a kind of gigantic

vortex, sweeping together all the bubbles into a vast central mass.

Into this stupendous revolving sphere he sends forth, acting through

His Third Aspect, seven impulses of force, gathering together the

bubbles into even more and more complex aggregations.

 

The seven impulses or "breaths" of the Solar Deity, coming one after

another, over long perioda of time, create the seven planes of the

solar system.

 

Each impulse sets up tiny vortices all through the sphere. Each of

these tiny vortices draw into itself bubbles in multiples of 49,

depending on the plane created. The bubbles drawn together are

grouped in a certain shape, which forms the ultimate atom for the

plane created.

 

The Hindu method describes this process as follows: "Each plane has

what is called a tanmatra (literally, a measure of That), and a

tattva (literally, the inherent Thatness). The tanmatra is the

modification in the consciousness of the Logos: the tattva is the

effect produced in matter by that modification. Thus every atom has

its "Thatness", the divine consciousness.

 

Science admits that the physical atoms do not touch each other, even

in the densest element. Actually, the space between the atoms is

proportionately much larger than the size of the atoms. In the same

way, there is a large space between the nucleus and the electrons in

orbit. Each atom of Science is like a speck of dust in a large hall,

such being the proportion of space around it.

 

Therefore, the ultimate atoms of the seven planes interpenetrate

each other and the physical atom, occupying the same space. Every

planet in our solar system has seven planes, occupying an identical

space, interpenetrating each other.

 

These ultimate atoms of the planes are freely intermingled, so that

specimens of each type would be found in the smallest portion of the

sphere taken at random.

 

The grossest of these ultimate atoms of the planes are the ultimate

physical atoms (UPA), containing nearly 14 million bubbles! These

are drawn together into certain aggregations, thus making a number

of different kinds of what may be called proto-elements. These again

are joined together into the various forms which are known to

Science as chemical elements.

 

The process of formation of proto-elements and chemical elements

extended over long periods of time. As ages rolled on, the stage of

a vast glowing nebula was reached. As the sphere cooled, still

rapidly rotating, it flattened into a huge disc and broke up into

rings surrounding a central body which later formed our sun.

 

The Deity then set up in the thickness of each ring a subsidiary

vortex, collecting therein a great deal of matter of the ring, which

formed a planet round the central body. The collision of the

gathered fragments caused a revival of the heat, with the result

that the planet formed was for a long time a mass of glowing gas.

Graudally it cooled once more until it became fit for human

habitation, in the case of the Earth.

 

Each planet of our solar system is thus composed of the ultimate

atoms of the seven planes, interpenetrating each other, and sharing

the same space. The planes are called the seven planes of nature.

 

We shall discuss the details of the seven planes relating to our

planet Earth, in the next instalment.

 

Sources:

1. Theosophy Explained in Questions and Answers by P. Pavri.

2. The Solar System by Arthur E. Powell

3. Fountain-Source of Occultism by G. de Purucker

 

Vedantic Assertions:

prajAnam brahma - Consciousness is Brahman.

aham brahmAsmi - I am Brahman.

Tattvamasi - That thou art.

ayamAtmA brahma - This Atman is Brahman.

sarvam khalvidam brahma - All this, indeed, is Brahman.

 

Regards,

saidevo

[Guest guest]

Namaste,

 

Please allow me to add a few,

 

We must close our ears to really "hear"

We must close our eyes to really "see"

 

It is the Abhijit Nakshatra which provides the bridge/setu between

the vishuddhi and ham-sa on account/command of agya/ajna. Is it not?

 

Ishvar Satya Hai

Satya Hi Shiv Hai

Shiv Hi Sundar Hai

Satyam Shivam Sundaram

 

Om Shri Vishnave Prabhu Vishnave

 

Wishing all a very Shubh Deepawali,

 

Hari Om Tat Sat

 

SVC

 

, "saidevo"

<saidevo> wrote:

>

> A recap on the last four topics we inquired into.

>

> We started with vibrations and illustrated how everything in this

> universe is formed by vibrations. We introduced the idea that even

> our thoughts and emotions are vibrations created in subtle matter

> which is not physical. Then we moved on to the physical and

> spiritual atoms. We noted that forms in the physical world are made

> of chemical elements which are in turn made of chemical atoms.

>

> The chemical atoms are made of protons, neutrons and electrons. The

> protons and neutrons are in turn made of quarks, three in each. And

> the quarks are in turn are made of three numbers of the Anu, which

> is the ultimate physical atom of the physical plane (UPA). Science

> is yet to discover the Anu or the UPA.

>

> The most surprising part of it all is that the UPA is only the

> ultimate atom of the physical world, and that it is made of nearly

> 14 million bubbles of matter! Called ParamAnu, these bubbles are

the

> ultimate atom of matter of any plane. Yogis make use of the Anu and

> the ParamAnu to materialize and dematerialize forms and for the

> invisible travels that their tasks involve.

>

> Next we turned out attention to the nature of the One God whose

> manifestation is this universe and all the forms inside it. We

noted

> that this One God in his unimanifested state is known as the

nirguna

> brahman and that he manifests as saguna brahman, ensouling matter

> with his consciousness or spirit, creating the Trinity and the

whole

> lot of the hierarchy of devas and other divine beings.

>

> We noted with caution that the manifested forms create the maya.

The

> maya is not totally unreal but has a time frame for its reality.

The

> Ultimate Reality is the Brahman in his unmanifested form. The time

> that limits the forms of maya flows in cycles, starting with the

> conditional khanda kala known to us in the scale from seconds to

> years and the cosmic cycles of time of yugas, mahayugas,

> manvantaras, kalpas, pralaya and the ultimate mahapralaya, at which

> time the Great Brahman would breathe back into himself all the

forms

> that he breathed out as manifestations.

>

> Today we are going to inquire into the formation of the universe

and

> our solar system as manifested forms of the related deities, who in

> turn are the manifestations of the One God Brahman.

>

> Parabrahman-Mulaprakriti

>

> "There are, assuredly, two forms of Brahma: the formed and the

> formless. Now, that which is the formed is unreal; that which is

the

> formless is real, is Brahma, is light. That light is the same as

the

> sun."

>

> -- Maitri-Upanishad, VI, 3

> The name Brahma in the above quotation refers to Parabrahman.

>

> A universe is both Parabrahman and Mulaprakriti in essence.

> Parabrahman is the life or energy, Mulaprakriti his form. Without

> Mulaprakriti, Parabrahman, the pure consciousness, or pure energy

> would remain, but this is not possible. Without Parabrahman, the

> Mulaprakriti would be lifeless and this is also not possible.

>

> Therefore, energy and matter are two sides of the same thing.

> Parabrahman and Mulaprakriti are two sides of the One God, who is

> Parabrahman Himself, popularly called Brahman.

>

> Call it space or koilon or mulaprakriti, Brahman is ultimately that

> mulaprakriti. Call it energy or life force or spirit and

> consciousness, Brahman hides it inside the mulaprakriti. Since

> Brahman is the mulaprakriti, he is referred to as That in the

> Upanishads.

>

> Our body is essentially Mulaprakriti, manifesting in form.

> Everything else is so: a star, a piece of wood, a beast, bird or

> bacteria. As above, so below.

>

> And there is a hierarchy. Everything is contained in something

> greater. Every atom has its home in a molecule, every molecule in a

> cell, every cell in a body, every body in a greater body, the

> greater body, such as our earth, in the solar ether, the solar

> system in a galaxy, the galaxy in a universe, and the universe in

> THAT, the ultimate Space or Parabrahman.

>

> Besides, there is a cycle of time or duration that determines the

> life of a form. This we saw, originates from the Great Breath, and

> operates in a constant secular cyclical diastole and systole,

> similar to that of the human heart. In other words, the Cosmic Time

> which is infinite, is the duration between Braman's breathing out

> forms and breathing them in. The Costimc Time is infinite because

> the creation cycle starts all over again after the mahapralaya.

>

> The forms manifested by the Great Breath divide cosmic time into

> conditional events of the solar and other discrete units of time.

>

> The pure consciousness of Parabrahman activates our body and

> everything else that has form. But this pure consciousness in us

> humans is clouded by our tendency to associate our Self with our

> body. This tendency is due to the cycle of births and deaths we

> undergo, and the carried over samskaras.

>

> We think that the night and day and week and month and year flows

in

> discrete units of time, its stream originating from the future,

> gliding along the present into the past. The same sort of ignorance

> we have and cherish, in thinking ourselves as apart from the

> Creator, and keeping up that status.

>

> We cherish this ignorance of association with our body and lower

> self because we fear that as otherwise we will lose our identity.

We

> lose our bodily identify anyway when we die, but maya and our

> samskaras send us back on a cycle of reincarnation by which we

> acquire a new body and start associating with it.

>

> A number of earthern pots are kept for sale by the potter. The pots

> divide the aakaasha or space among themselves. Each pot has its own

> share of space. Break all the pots and the aakaasha is seen to be

> the ultimate reality, whether inside or outside the pots.

>

> In the same way, we in our bodies think of ourselves as discrete

> entities of Parabrahman, sharing a little each of his space, time

> and consciousness. If we think beyond the body, we would realise

the

> Reality. The pot-body analogy is a famous teaching from Sri Adi

> Sankara.

>

> Trinity in Divine and Human Forms

>

> As we noted earlier, Brahman manifests as the Trinity Shiva, Vishnu

> and Brahma. These three forms have the names the First Aspect, the

> Second Aspect and the Third Aspect in Theosophy, while Brahman

> himself is known as the Logos. Other religions have corresponding

> names for the three forms.

>

> Every god and human in the hiearchy of creation has a trinity:

atma,

> buddhi, manas. The Shiva aspect is Atma or Consciousness or Will

> power that ensouls all forms. The Vishnu aspect is Buddhi or

> Intution or Wisdom that persistently guides souls that are in and

> out of forms during their evolution. The Brahma aspect is the

Manas,

> the thinking and creating mind that spawns both good and evil. This

> may be the reason why our Puranas say that both Devas and Asuras

> were spawned by Brahma.

>

> Koilon and the Bubbles

>

> Before the universe and our solar system came into existence, there

> was only the root-matter Koilon (Mulaprakriti). The term Koilon

> derives from the Greek Koilos, meaning hollow.

>

> The Koilon is roughly the ether of the Science, but it should not

be

> confused with the etheric matter that composes the first four of

the

> seven sub planes of the physical plane.

>

> The space occupied by Koilon appears empty to the physical senses.

> In reality, it is far denser than anything we know. Professor

> Osborne Reynolds, whose theory agrees with occult investigation,

has

> defined its density as 10,000 times greater than that of water, and

> its mean pressure is 750,000 tons to the square inch. Koilon is

> perceptible only to highly developed clairvoyant power.

>

> Koilon filled all space and was at rest. The One God changed this

> condition by pouring out His spirit or force into a certain section

> of the matter, a section the size of a whole universe.

>

> The effect of the introduction of this force is like the blowing of

> a mighty breath. It formed an incalculable number of tiny spherical

> bubbles in Koilon. These bubbles are the ultimate atoms, out of

> which everything we call matter is manufactured.

>

> H.P. Blavatsky in her book The Secret Doctrine calls this force

> (that originally formed the bubbles) Fohat. She speaks of it as

> "digging holes in space".

>

> A modern equivalent of "digging holes" to create the primitives of

> matter is the way audio/video data (songs, pictures, movies and

> computer data) is recorded on a compact disc (CD-ROM) or a digital

> dideo disk (DVD). In this case, a laser beam burns holes called

pits

> on a smooth surface of the disc. The pits and the raised surface

> bits grouped together, create patterns of data read by a computer

or

> an audio/video player.

>

> Man, in his creations, imitates his Creator, whose consciousness is

> active in him. As above, so below.

>

> The bubbles are not like a soap-bubble, which is a film of water

> with an outer and an inner surface, enclosing air within it. They

> are like bubbles in soda-water, or boiling water, which have only

> one surface, where the air meets water.

>

> To the highest sight available, the bubbles appear to be empty,

with

> no apparent, inherent motion or rotation. Each bubble in reality is

> a point of His consciousness, and persists only so long as He wills

> to keep the enveloping Koilon in tact. These bubbles are the

> ultimate atoms of which what we call matter is composed.

>

> Even though the bubbles appear to have no motion of their own, they

> can be moved as a whole from without, singly or en masse, by an

> exertion of the will. No two bubbles ever under any circumstances

> touch each other.

>

> Having marked a spherical limit for His activity, the One (called

> Logos in Theosophy) builds the universe inside the sphere, using

His

> manifested form Brahma (the Third Aspect).

>

> This sphere where Brahma lived to form the universe is called

> hiranyagarbha in Hinduism. The Upanishads describe it as a huge

> golden egg, resplendent as the sun, where Brahma lived for a year,

> and then divided it into two parts by his mere thought, and with

> these two he formed the heavens and the earth; and in the middle he

> placed the sky, the eight regions, and the eternal abode of the

> waters.

>

> Hiranyagarbha literally means the golden womb and is symbolic of

the

> birth of Brahma from this womb by immaculate conception. Hindu

> Puranas state that Brahma was born out of Vishnu, and this is

> symbolised by the umbilical cord that protrudes from the navel

> (nabhi) of Vishnu and carries Brahma on a lotus flower.

>

> Annie Besant in her book The Ancient Wisdom, sums up the teachings

> of the sages about the One that created the universe, in this

> beautiful passage:

>

> "Within that sphere the universe is born, is evolved, and dies; it

> lives, it moves, it has its being in Him; its matter is His

> emanation; its forces and energies are currents of His Life; He is

> immanent in every atom, all-pervading, all-sustaining, all-

evolving;

> He is its source and its end, its cause and its object, its centre

> and circumference; it is built on Him as its sure foundation, it

> breathes in Him as its encircling space; He is in everything and

> everything in Him."

>

> Birth of the Solar System and the Planes

>

> When the Solar Deity (a manifested aspect of the One God) begins to

> make his system, he decides to use the bubbles ready at hand. He

> first defines the limit of his field of activity, a vast sphere

with

> a circumference far larger than the orbit of the outermost of his

> future planets.

>

> Within this limit of his activity, he sets up a kind of gigantic

> vortex, sweeping together all the bubbles into a vast central mass.

> Into this stupendous revolving sphere he sends forth, acting

through

> His Third Aspect, seven impulses of force, gathering together the

> bubbles into even more and more complex aggregations.

>

> The seven impulses or "breaths" of the Solar Deity, coming one

after

> another, over long perioda of time, create the seven planes of the

> solar system.

>

> Each impulse sets up tiny vortices all through the sphere. Each of

> these tiny vortices draw into itself bubbles in multiples of 49,

> depending on the plane created. The bubbles drawn together are

> grouped in a certain shape, which forms the ultimate atom for the

> plane created.

>

> The Hindu method describes this process as follows: "Each plane has

> what is called a tanmatra (literally, a measure of That), and a

> tattva (literally, the inherent Thatness). The tanmatra is the

> modification in the consciousness of the Logos: the tattva is the

> effect produced in matter by that modification. Thus every atom has

> its "Thatness", the divine consciousness.

>

> Science admits that the physical atoms do not touch each other,

even

> in the densest element. Actually, the space between the atoms is

> proportionately much larger than the size of the atoms. In the same

> way, there is a large space between the nucleus and the electrons

in

> orbit. Each atom of Science is like a speck of dust in a large

hall,

> such being the proportion of space around it.

>

> Therefore, the ultimate atoms of the seven planes interpenetrate

> each other and the physical atom, occupying the same space. Every

> planet in our solar system has seven planes, occupying an identical

> space, interpenetrating each other.

>

> These ultimate atoms of the planes are freely intermingled, so that

> specimens of each type would be found in the smallest portion of

the

> sphere taken at random.

>

> The grossest of these ultimate atoms of the planes are the ultimate

> physical atoms (UPA), containing nearly 14 million bubbles! These

> are drawn together into certain aggregations, thus making a number

> of different kinds of what may be called proto-elements. These

again

> are joined together into the various forms which are known to

> Science as chemical elements.

>

> The process of formation of proto-elements and chemical elements

> extended over long periods of time. As ages rolled on, the stage of

> a vast glowing nebula was reached. As the sphere cooled, still

> rapidly rotating, it flattened into a huge disc and broke up into

> rings surrounding a central body which later formed our sun.

>

> The Deity then set up in the thickness of each ring a subsidiary

> vortex, collecting therein a great deal of matter of the ring,

which

> formed a planet round the central body. The collision of the

> gathered fragments caused a revival of the heat, with the result

> that the planet formed was for a long time a mass of glowing gas.

> Graudally it cooled once more until it became fit for human

> habitation, in the case of the Earth.

>

> Each planet of our solar system is thus composed of the ultimate

> atoms of the seven planes, interpenetrating each other, and sharing

> the same space. The planes are called the seven planes of nature.

>

> We shall discuss the details of the seven planes relating to our

> planet Earth, in the next instalment.

>

> Sources:

> 1. Theosophy Explained in Questions and Answers by P. Pavri.

> 2. The Solar System by Arthur E. Powell

> 3. Fountain-Source of Occultism by G. de Purucker

>

> Vedantic Assertions:

> prajAnam brahma - Consciousness is Brahman.

> aham brahmAsmi - I am Brahman.

> Tattvamasi - That thou art.

> ayamAtmA brahma - This Atman is Brahman.

> sarvam khalvidam brahma - All this, indeed, is Brahman.

>

> Regards,

> saidevo

>