Occult Cosmology

The Fusion of the Lower Two Cosmic Planes for the higher planes. The Logos of Venus is polarised on the third subplane of the cosmic astral, while our own Planetary Logos is on the fourth subplane undergoing the Fourth or Crucifixion Initiation within the second cosmic. Thus it is the Venusian quality of love which is the most unconditional and was able to form a bridge down into the mental plane of our system to allow individualisation to take place.

The planes of the triad are the major planes of overlap between this system and the last. As the human soul begins to free him or herself from the control of the lunar pitris and become self determining, the capacity for profound self-reflection occurs.

There is the distinction between self and other—the solar and lunar lives—but there is something else: The soul is aware of itself. The knower is known. Self-awareness seeks the source of that awareness.

This leads eventually to the atmic experience where the individualised self knows itself to be the universal Self. The whole experience of self-awareness requires a duality: A self and a mirror in which to be aware of that self. The returning nirvanis of the last system provide that mirror and thus provide self-consciousness which accelerates evolutionary development and freedom from form.

The universal Self simply IS. It does not know itself to BE. For Brahman to become Atman and—via a ray of buddhi—to eventually become a human personality, it must be clothed or mirrored in a sense of ‘I’—ahamkara or self-awareness. Beneath the human experience and above it, this ‘I’ does not exist in the same way. Being ‘self-aware’ and thus able to self reflect is a particular capacity of the human soul in this second system and is brought about by the co-operation of two systems and two cosmic planes.

We see ourselves in the loving gaze of another.

The infused triad then is the bridge between the universal identity and the personal one. On the involutionary arc it enables a spark of the universal soul to clothe itself and attach through the process of individualisation to a form within that universe—in this case animal man. On the evolutionary arc it enables the expansion of that individualised consciousness through a series of initiations 248