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	Moreover, [[The Secret Doctrine (book)\|''The Secret Doctrine'']] teaches:—		<blockquote>Moreover, [[The Secret Doctrine (book)\|''The Secret Doctrine'']] teaches:—<p>
			(c) The fundamental identity of all [[Soul\|Souls]] with the Universal [[Over-Soul]], the latter being itself an aspect of the [[Mulaprakriti\|Unknown Root]]; and the obligatory pilgrimage for every [[Soul]] — a spark of the former — through the [[Cycle of Incarnation]] (or “Necessity”) in accordance with [[Evolution#Cyclic evolution\|Cyclic]] and [[Karma\|Karmic]] law, during the whole term. In other words, no purely spiritual [[Buddhi]] (divine Soul) can have an independent (conscious) existence before the spark which issued from the pure Essence of the Universal [[Sixth principle]], — or the [[over-soul]], — has (a) passed through every [[elemental]] form of the phenomenal world of that [[Manvantara]], and (b) acquired [[individuality]], first by natural impulse, and then by self-induced and self-devised efforts (checked by its [[Karma]]), thus ascending through all the degrees of intelligence, from the lowest to the highest [[Manas]], from mineral and plant, up to the holiest [[archangel]] ([[Dhyani-Buddha]]). The pivotal doctrine of the [[Esoteric Philosophy\|Esoteric philosophy]] admits no privileges or special gifts in man, save those won by his own [[Ego]] through [[Try!#Individual effort\|personal effort]] and merit throughout a long series of [[metempsychosis\|metempsychoses]] and [[reincarnation\|reincarnations]]. This is why the [[Hinduism\|Hindus]] say that the Universe is [[Brahman\|Brahma]] and [[Brahmā]], for [[Brahman\|Brahma]] is in every atom of the universe, the six [[principles]] in Nature being all the outcome — the variously differentiated aspects — of the [[seventh principle\|seventh]] and one, the only reality in the Universe whether Cosmical or [[Microcosmos\|micro-cosmical]]; and also why the permutations (psychic, spiritual and physical), on the plane of manifestation and form, of the sixth ([[Brahmā]] the vehicle of [[Brahman\|Brahma]]) are viewed by metaphysical antiphrasis as illusive and [[Māyā\|Mayavic]]. For although the root of every atom individually and of every form collectively, is that [[seventh principle]] or the one Reality, still, in its manifested phenomenal and temporary appearance, it is no better than an evanescent illusion of our senses. (See, for clearer definition, Addendum “Gods, Monads and Atoms,” and also “Theophania,” “Bodhisatvas and Reincarnation,” etc., etc.)<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. I, (Wheaton, Ill: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 17-18</ref></blockquote>
	<~~blockquote~~>The fundamental identity of all [[Soul\|Souls]] with the Universal [[Over-Soul]], the latter being itself an aspect of the [[Mulaprakriti\|Unknown Root]]; and the obligatory pilgrimage for every [[Soul]] — a spark of the former — through the [[Cycle of Incarnation]] (or “Necessity”) in accordance with [[Evolution#Cyclic evolution\|Cyclic]] and [[Karma\|Karmic]] law, during the whole term. In other words, no purely spiritual [[Buddhi]] (divine Soul) can have an independent (conscious) existence before the spark which issued from the pure Essence of the Universal [[Sixth principle]], — or the [[over-soul]], — has (a) passed through every [[elemental]] form of the phenomenal world of that [[Manvantara]], and (b) acquired [[individuality]], first by natural impulse, and then by self-induced and self-devised efforts (checked by its [[Karma]]), thus ascending through all the degrees of intelligence, from the lowest to the highest [[Manas]], from mineral and plant, up to the holiest [[archangel]] ([[Dhyani-Buddha]]). The pivotal doctrine of the [[Esoteric Philosophy\|Esoteric philosophy]] admits no privileges or special gifts in man, save those won by his own [[Ego]] through [[Try!#Individual effort\|personal effort]] and merit throughout a long series of [[metempsychosis\|metempsychoses]] and [[reincarnation\|reincarnations]]. This is why the [[Hinduism\|Hindus]] say that the Universe is [[Brahman\|Brahma]] and [[Brahmā]], for [[Brahman\|Brahma]] is in every atom of the universe, the six [[principles]] in Nature being all the outcome — the variously differentiated aspects — of the [[seventh principle\|seventh]] and one, the only reality in the Universe whether Cosmical or [[Microcosmos\|micro-cosmical]]; and also why the permutations (psychic, spiritual and physical), on the plane of manifestation and form, of the sixth ([[Brahmā]] the vehicle of [[Brahman\|Brahma]]) are viewed by metaphysical antiphrasis as illusive and [[Māyā\|Mayavic]]. For although the root of every atom individually and of every form collectively, is that [[seventh principle]] or the one Reality, still, in its manifested phenomenal and temporary appearance, it is no better than an evanescent illusion of our senses. (See, for clearer definition, Addendum “Gods, Monads and Atoms,” and also “Theophania,” “Bodhisatvas and Reincarnation,” etc., etc.)<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. I, (Wheaton, Ill: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 17-18</ref></blockquote>

	== Closing remarks ==		== Closing remarks ==

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	Further, [[The Secret Doctrine (book)\|the ''Secret Doctrine'']] affirms:—		<blockquote>Further, [[The Secret Doctrine (book)\|the ''Secret Doctrine'']] affirms:—

	~~<blockquote>~~The [[Eternity]] of the Universe ''in toto'' as a boundless plane; periodically “the playground of numberless Universes incessantly manifesting and disappearing,” called “the manifesting stars,” and the “sparks of Eternity.” “The Eternity of the Pilgrim”(*) is like a wink of the Eye of Self-Existence ([[Book of Dzyan]].) “The appearance and disappearance of Worlds is like a regular tidal ebb of flux and reflux.” (See Part II., “Days and Nights of Brahma.”)<br>		(b) The [[Eternity]] of the Universe ''in toto'' as a boundless plane; periodically “the playground of numberless Universes incessantly manifesting and disappearing,” called “the manifesting stars,” and the “sparks of Eternity.” “The Eternity of the Pilgrim”(*) is like a wink of the Eye of Self-Existence ([[Book of Dzyan]].) “The appearance and disappearance of Worlds is like a regular tidal ebb of flux and reflux.” (See Part II., “Days and Nights of Brahma.”)<br>
	This second assertion of the Secret Doctrine is the absolute universality of that [[Law of Cycles\|law of periodicity]], of flux and reflux, ebb and flow, which physical science has observed and recorded in all departments of nature. An alternation such as that of Day and Night, Life and Death, Sleeping and Waking, is a fact so common, so perfectly universal and without exception, that it is easy to comprehend that in it we see one of the absolutely fundamental laws of the universe.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. I, (Wheaton, Ill: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 16-17</ref></blockquote>		This second assertion of the Secret Doctrine is the absolute universality of that [[Law of Cycles\|law of periodicity]], of flux and reflux, ebb and flow, which physical science has observed and recorded in all departments of nature. An alternation such as that of Day and Night, Life and Death, Sleeping and Waking, is a fact so common, so perfectly universal and without exception, that it is easy to comprehend that in it we see one of the absolutely fundamental laws of the universe.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. I, (Wheaton, Ill: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 16-17</ref></blockquote>

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	In the Proem of [[The Secret Doctrine (book)\|''The Secret Doctrine'']] Mme. Blavatsky wrote:<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. I, (Wheaton, Ill: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 14-16</ref>		In the Proem of [[The Secret Doctrine (book)\|''The Secret Doctrine'']] Mme. Blavatsky wrote:<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. I, (Wheaton, Ill: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 14-16</ref>

	<blockquote>An Omnipresent, Eternal, Boundless, and Immutable Principle on which all speculation is impossible, since it transcends the power of human conception and could only be dwarfed by any human expression or similitude. It is beyond the range and reach of thought — in the words of Mandukya, “unthinkable and unspeakable.”		<blockquote>The Secret Doctrine establishes three fundamental propositions:—

			(a) An Omnipresent, Eternal, Boundless, and Immutable Principle on which all speculation is impossible, since it transcends the power of human conception and could only be dwarfed by any human expression or similitude. It is beyond the range and reach of thought — in the words of Mandukya, “unthinkable and unspeakable.”
	<br>		<br>
	To render these ideas clearer to the general reader, let him set out with the postulate that there is one [[Absolute\|absolute Reality]] which antecedes all manifested, conditioned, being. This Infinite and Eternal Cause — dimly formulated in the “Unconscious” and “Unknowable” of current European philosophy — is the rootless root of “all that was, is, or ever shall be.” It is of course devoid of all attributes and is essentially without any relation to manifested, finite Being. It is “[[Be-ness]]” rather than Being (in [[Sanskrit]], [[Sat]]), and is beyond all thought or speculation.		To render these ideas clearer to the general reader, let him set out with the postulate that there is one [[Absolute\|absolute Reality]] which antecedes all manifested, conditioned, being. This Infinite and Eternal Cause — dimly formulated in the “Unconscious” and “Unknowable” of current European philosophy — is the rootless root of “all that was, is, or ever shall be.” It is of course devoid of all attributes and is essentially without any relation to manifested, finite Being. It is “[[Be-ness]]” rather than Being (in [[Sanskrit]], [[Sat]]), and is beyond all thought or speculation.

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	*[http://www.theosophical.org/online-programs/living-theosophy-series/2880-the-secret-doctrine-esoteric-insights-and-spiritual-practice# The Secret Doctrine: Esoteric Insights and Spiritual Practice (8 Parts)] by Pablo Sender		*[http://www.theosophical.org/online-programs/living-theosophy-series/2880-the-secret-doctrine-esoteric-insights-and-spiritual-practice# The Secret Doctrine: Esoteric Insights and Spiritual Practice (8 Parts)] by Pablo Sender

			===Audio===
			*[https://ia801506.us.archive.org/17/items/whatistheoccult/What%20is%20The%20occult.mp3# What is the Occult] by Helen Zahara

	== Notes ==		== Notes ==

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	*[http://prajnaquest.fr/blog/on-the-summary-to-the-first-fundamental-proposition/ On the Summary to the First Fundamental Proposition] by Ingmar de Boer		*[http://prajnaquest.fr/blog/on-the-summary-to-the-first-fundamental-proposition/ On the Summary to the First Fundamental Proposition] by Ingmar de Boer
			*[http://blavatskyarchives.com/firstfundamental.pdf# A Compilation on the First Fundamental Proposition] by David Reigle
	*[http://blavatskyarchives.com/sdsolitarypage1886bb.htm An Early Version of the Fundamental Propositions] at Blavatsky Study Center		*[http://blavatskyarchives.com/sdsolitarypage1886bb.htm An Early Version of the Fundamental Propositions] at Blavatsky Study Center
			*[https://www.theosophy.world/resource/whats-practical-about-them-three-fundamental-propositions-secret-doctrine-virginia-hanson# What's Practical About Them? The Three Fundamental Propositions Of The Secret Doctrine] by Virginia Hanson
			*[https://pablosender.wordpress.com/about/articles/the-secret-doctrine-as-spiritual-practice# ''The Secret Doctrine'' as Spiritual Practice] by Pablo Sender
			*[https://pablosender.wordpress.com/about/articles/meditating-on-the-secret-doctrine# Meditating on ''The Secret Doctrine''] by Pablo Sender

	===Video===		===Video===

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	Further, the Secret Doctrine affirms:—		Further, [[The Secret Doctrine (book)\|the ''Secret Doctrine'']] affirms:—

	<blockquote>The [[Eternity]] of the Universe ''in toto'' as a boundless plane; periodically “the playground of numberless Universes incessantly manifesting and disappearing,” called “the manifesting stars,” and the “sparks of Eternity.” “The Eternity of the Pilgrim”(*) is like a wink of the Eye of Self-Existence ([[Book of Dzyan]].) “The appearance and disappearance of Worlds is like a regular tidal ebb of flux and reflux.” (See Part II., “Days and Nights of Brahma.”)<br>		<blockquote>The [[Eternity]] of the Universe ''in toto'' as a boundless plane; periodically “the playground of numberless Universes incessantly manifesting and disappearing,” called “the manifesting stars,” and the “sparks of Eternity.” “The Eternity of the Pilgrim”(*) is like a wink of the Eye of Self-Existence ([[Book of Dzyan]].) “The appearance and disappearance of Worlds is like a regular tidal ebb of flux and reflux.” (See Part II., “Days and Nights of Brahma.”)<br>

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	~~Mme. Blavatsky writes that~~ [[The Secret Doctrine (book)\|''The Secret Doctrine'']] teaches:~~<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. I, (Wheaton, Ill: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 17-18</ref>~~		Moreover, [[The Secret Doctrine (book)\|''The Secret Doctrine'']] teaches:—

	<blockquote>The fundamental identity of all [[Soul\|Souls]] with the Universal [[Over-Soul]], the latter being itself an aspect of the [[Mulaprakriti\|Unknown Root]]; and the obligatory pilgrimage for every [[Soul]] — a spark of the former — through the [[Cycle of Incarnation]] (or “Necessity”) in accordance with [[Evolution#Cyclic evolution\|Cyclic]] and [[Karma\|Karmic]] law, during the whole term. In other words, no purely spiritual [[Buddhi]] (divine Soul) can have an independent (conscious) existence before the spark which issued from the pure Essence of the Universal [[Sixth principle]], — or the [[over-soul]], — has (a) passed through every [[elemental]] form of the phenomenal world of that [[Manvantara]], and (b) acquired [[individuality]], first by natural impulse, and then by self-induced and self-devised efforts (checked by its [[Karma]]), thus ascending through all the degrees of intelligence, from the lowest to the highest [[Manas]], from mineral and plant, up to the holiest [[archangel]] ([[Dhyani-Buddha]]). The pivotal doctrine of the [[Esoteric Philosophy\|Esoteric philosophy]] admits no privileges or special gifts in man, save those won by his own [[Ego]] through [[Try!#Individual effort\|personal effort]] and merit throughout a long series of [[metempsychosis\|metempsychoses]] and [[reincarnation\|reincarnations]]. This is why the [[Hinduism\|Hindus]] say that the Universe is [[Brahman\|Brahma]] and [[Brahmā]], for [[Brahman\|Brahma]] is in every atom of the universe, the six [[principles]] in Nature being all the outcome — the variously differentiated aspects — of the [[seventh principle\|seventh]] and one, the only reality in the Universe whether Cosmical or [[Microcosmos\|micro-cosmical]]; and also why the permutations (psychic, spiritual and physical), on the plane of manifestation and form, of the sixth ([[Brahmā]] the vehicle of [[Brahman\|Brahma]]) are viewed by metaphysical antiphrasis as illusive and [[Māyā\|Mayavic]]. For although the root of every atom individually and of every form collectively, is that [[seventh principle]] or the one Reality, still, in its manifested phenomenal and temporary appearance, it is no better than an evanescent illusion of our senses. (See, for clearer definition, Addendum “Gods, Monads and Atoms,” and also “Theophania,” “Bodhisatvas and Reincarnation,” etc., etc.)</blockquote>		<blockquote>The fundamental identity of all [[Soul\|Souls]] with the Universal [[Over-Soul]], the latter being itself an aspect of the [[Mulaprakriti\|Unknown Root]]; and the obligatory pilgrimage for every [[Soul]] — a spark of the former — through the [[Cycle of Incarnation]] (or “Necessity”) in accordance with [[Evolution#Cyclic evolution\|Cyclic]] and [[Karma\|Karmic]] law, during the whole term. In other words, no purely spiritual [[Buddhi]] (divine Soul) can have an independent (conscious) existence before the spark which issued from the pure Essence of the Universal [[Sixth principle]], — or the [[over-soul]], — has (a) passed through every [[elemental]] form of the phenomenal world of that [[Manvantara]], and (b) acquired [[individuality]], first by natural impulse, and then by self-induced and self-devised efforts (checked by its [[Karma]]), thus ascending through all the degrees of intelligence, from the lowest to the highest [[Manas]], from mineral and plant, up to the holiest [[archangel]] ([[Dhyani-Buddha]]). The pivotal doctrine of the [[Esoteric Philosophy\|Esoteric philosophy]] admits no privileges or special gifts in man, save those won by his own [[Ego]] through [[Try!#Individual effort\|personal effort]] and merit throughout a long series of [[metempsychosis\|metempsychoses]] and [[reincarnation\|reincarnations]]. This is why the [[Hinduism\|Hindus]] say that the Universe is [[Brahman\|Brahma]] and [[Brahmā]], for [[Brahman\|Brahma]] is in every atom of the universe, the six [[principles]] in Nature being all the outcome — the variously differentiated aspects — of the [[seventh principle\|seventh]] and one, the only reality in the Universe whether Cosmical or [[Microcosmos\|micro-cosmical]]; and also why the permutations (psychic, spiritual and physical), on the plane of manifestation and form, of the sixth ([[Brahmā]] the vehicle of [[Brahman\|Brahma]]) are viewed by metaphysical antiphrasis as illusive and [[Māyā\|Mayavic]]. For although the root of every atom individually and of every form collectively, is that [[seventh principle]] or the one Reality, still, in its manifested phenomenal and temporary appearance, it is no better than an evanescent illusion of our senses. (See, for clearer definition, Addendum “Gods, Monads and Atoms,” and also “Theophania,” “Bodhisatvas and Reincarnation,” etc., etc.)<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. I, (Wheaton, Ill: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 17-18</ref></blockquote>

	== Closing remarks ==		== Closing remarks ==

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	~~According to Mme. Blavatsky~~, the ~~second fundamental proposition affirms:<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The~~ Secret Doctrine~~'' vol. I, (Wheaton, Ill~~: ~~Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 16-17</ref>~~		Further, the Secret Doctrine affirms:—

	<blockquote>The [[Eternity]] of the Universe ''in toto'' as a boundless plane; periodically “the playground of numberless Universes incessantly manifesting and disappearing,” called “the manifesting stars,” and the “sparks of Eternity.” “The Eternity of the Pilgrim”(*) is like a wink of the Eye of Self-Existence ([[Book of Dzyan]].) “The appearance and disappearance of Worlds is like a regular tidal ebb of flux and reflux.” (See Part II., “Days and Nights of Brahma.”)<br>		<blockquote>The [[Eternity]] of the Universe ''in toto'' as a boundless plane; periodically “the playground of numberless Universes incessantly manifesting and disappearing,” called “the manifesting stars,” and the “sparks of Eternity.” “The Eternity of the Pilgrim”(*) is like a wink of the Eye of Self-Existence ([[Book of Dzyan]].) “The appearance and disappearance of Worlds is like a regular tidal ebb of flux and reflux.” (See Part II., “Days and Nights of Brahma.”)<br>
	This second assertion of the Secret Doctrine is the absolute universality of that [[Law of Cycles\|law of periodicity]], of flux and reflux, ebb and flow, which physical science has observed and recorded in all departments of nature. An alternation such as that of Day and Night, Life and Death, Sleeping and Waking, is a fact so common, so perfectly universal and without exception, that it is easy to comprehend that in it we see one of the absolutely fundamental laws of the universe.</blockquote>		This second assertion of the Secret Doctrine is the absolute universality of that [[Law of Cycles\|law of periodicity]], of flux and reflux, ebb and flow, which physical science has observed and recorded in all departments of nature. An alternation such as that of Day and Night, Life and Death, Sleeping and Waking, is a fact so common, so perfectly universal and without exception, that it is easy to comprehend that in it we see one of the absolutely fundamental laws of the universe.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. I, (Wheaton, Ill: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 16-17</ref></blockquote>

	'''[Footnote by the author]'''		'''[Footnote by the author]'''

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	*[http://prajnaquest.fr/blog/on-the-summary-to-the-first-fundamental-proposition/ On the Summary to the First Fundamental Proposition] by Ingmar de Boer		*[http://prajnaquest.fr/blog/on-the-summary-to-the-first-fundamental-proposition/ On the Summary to the First Fundamental Proposition] by Ingmar de Boer
			*[http://blavatskyarchives.com/sdsolitarypage1886bb.htm An Early Version of the Fundamental Propositions] at Blavatsky Study Center

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