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COSMOS (HIGHER ASPECT)
A symbol of the Archetypal Form-universe, or the
Monad of Form. It is the spiritual universe which is the formative
pattern of the mental, astral and physical universes. Cosmos is the
Macrocosm.
"Cosmos is second God, a life (living thing) that cannot die; it
cannot be that any part of this immortal life should die. All things
in Cosmos are parts of Cosmos, and most of all is man the rational
animal after the image of the Cosmos made and having mind beyond all
earthly lives' (Corpus Hermeticum, VIII). - MEAD, T. G. Hermes, Vol.
II. p. 125.
“The Archetypal Pattern, or Life and Form Scheme of the solar
universe, represents the Second Logos, or second Divine outpouring
of Life on the higher planes. This spiritual Pattern is fixed and
permanent and not subject to successive changes of state ;
consequently it is free of time. (Time only enters into
manifestation when the Pattern is reproduced bit by bit on the lower
planes. This is very plainly taught in the same treatise,--" God,
maketh on; Æon, Cosmos; Cosmos, Time; and Time, Becoming." - Ibid.,
p. 175.)
All things manifest are in degrees of representation of the Divine
Pattern above. In humanity there is the greatest number of degrees,
for mind is present in man. The human soul is the microcosmic unit
of the Macrocosm, and possesses the Divine Spark which is beyond all
lower lives.
The basic element of most of the ancient, and to this day of many of
the modern, religions of the world is, the idea of a perfect
invisible universe above, which is the real and true paradigm or
ideal model, of the visible universe below, the latter being the
reflection, simulacrum or shadow, of the invisible perfect ideal
above. . . . The idea of the Upper ideal but real and true, and the
Lower apparently real, but in truth changeable and untrue, goes
through the entire Apocalypse of St. John, is in St. Paul, and in
the Epistle to the Hebrews." - I. MYER, Qabbalah, pp. 108, 109.
"The lower world is made after the pattern of the upper world;
everything which exists in the upper world is to be found, as it
were, in a copy upon earth, still the whole is one." - SOHAR, ii.
20a. GINSBURG, The Kabbalah, p. 104.
"In the Zohar it is said, the form of man is the image of everything
that is above and below.'" - Jewish Enc. art. Cabala.
“The universe did not begin with atoms and electrons; its basis is
not material but spiritual; and if we could break our way through
the whole phantasmagoria- the tremendous drift and play and clash
and scream of force and life against life- we should know that the
real is also the eternally perfect, and that nothing can be added to
or taken away from that perfection; not even infinite wisdom and
omnipotence could improve upon it, for it is itself the sum of
these, and the home and reservoir of everything they could produce.
It is the state beyond both good and evil, for evil cannot be felt
or known in a state in which all fullness dwells. . . . If we could
only get out and up to that state of being which is the antecedent
cause of everything in the visible universe, we should find that by
its very nature, it is a state of absolute felicity, bliss, and
completeness; it must be all that we dimly visualise when we strive
towards what we call the good; the ideal and the real are one. I
insist that the real could not be anything else than the ideal, for
it is at once the infinite source and the perfect satisfaction of
everything that every soul can possibly aspire to." - R. J.
CAMPBELL, Serm., he Two Orders.
Language is, of course, quite inadequate to describe noumenal
actualities and their phenomenal correspondences. Statical phenomena
are always imperfect in every respect, and can bear only a grotesque
resemblance to their prototypes on the plane of But suffice it to
say that science and philosophy recognize archetypal causation.
Professor Wm. James observed
“The widest postulate of rationality is that the world is rationally
intelligible throughout, after the pattern of some ideal system. The
whole war of the philosophies is over that point of faith." -
Principles of Psychology, Vol. II. p. 677.
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