INTRODUCTORY POSTULATES
The 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 Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky.1 Students are recommended to study them carefully; in this way their
understanding of the Treatise will be greatly aided.
I.
There is one Boundless Immutable Principle; one Absolute Reality which, antecedes all manifested
conditioned 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, the Universal World-Soul.
From these basic creative principles, in successive gradations there issue in ordered sequence the
numberless Universes comprising countless Manifesting Stars and Solar Systems.
Each Solar System is the manifestation of the energy and life of a great Cosmic Existence, Whom we call, for
lack of a better term, a Solar Logos.
2 S. D., I, 42-44.
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A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE
This 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-
Equilibrised
wisdom energy.
FIRE BY FRICTION, or Body, or Matter.
3rd Person
Holy Spirit . Form . Active Intelligence . Negative
energy
Each of these three is also triple in manifestation, making therefo