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5 Planes of Existence
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Five Planes of Manifestation
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BUILDERS OF THE UNIVERSE
Those Devas or Arch-angels who become the
first-born children of the manifesting God, i.e. who come forth
first upon the highest planes in order to commence the structure of
the innermost invisible universe of the solar system.
"To whom then will ye liken me, that I should be equal to him? saith
the Holy One. Lift up your eyes on high, and see who hath created
these, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all
by name; by the greatness of his might, and for that he is strong in
power, not one is lacking." - Is. xl. 25, 26.
In the emanation of spiritual intelligences, the monads of life
(stars) are produced in their differentiations (names) and in the
order of their greatness.
"Nature, according to the Zohar, is the garment of God; it is that
in which He appears and wherein He is veiled, so that we can look
upon Him in His vestured aspect; but it is not the body of God—which
is more properly Shekinah, at least in one of her aspects-and it is
still less God manifest. It is that which He took upon Himself for
the purpose of appearing. (Footnote.) In the transcendence God and
Elohim are inseparable, being male and female, and the first
movement towards the production of a manifested universe was to send
forth their living images below. That which was of the nature of God
became of the nature of the Cosmos." - A. E. WAITE, Secret Doctrine
in Israel, p. 59.
The "Holy One" and "Shekinah " are symbols of Buddhi; "Elohim " of
Atma-buddhi, Love-Wisdom, "male and female."
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