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5 Planes of Existence
Introduction
Five Planes of Manifestation
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HIGHER AND LOWER WORLDS
Symbols of the inner ideal prototypal nature on
the higher planes, and its outer emanation, the phenomenal nature,
on the lower planes The lower proceeds from the higher.
"All that which is contained in the Lower World is also found in the
Upper (in prototype). The Lower and the Upper reciprocally act upon
each other." - Zohar.
"All that which exists upon the Earth has its spiritual counterpart
also to be found on High, and there does not exist the smallest
thing in this world which is not itself attached to something on
High.... When the inferior part is influenced, that which is set
over it in the Superior World is equally influenced, because all are
perfectly united together." - Zohar.
“All that which is on the earth, is also found above in perfect
prototype, and there is not anything so insignificant in the world,
that does not depend upon another above in such a manner, that if
the lower moves itself the higher corresponding to it moves towards
it." - I. MYER, Qabbalah, p. 109,
"A spiritual and invisible world preceded, therefore, this visible
material world, as its prototype. In creating the material world,
which was in reality only an incorporation of the spiritual world of
Fravashis, Ormuzd first created the firm vault of heaven, and the
earth on which it rests." - Zoroastrian System.
This refers to the fact that the Ethereal or Buddhic world, or
Universe of Spirit, preceded the physical world which was patterned
upon it. In devising the creation of the physical universe, the
Divine Will first created that which corresponds to the prototypal
evolution of the soul (potential), and afterwards the lower planes
whereon its expression might proceed. This signifies the production
of the mechanism of life and form through which the Divine power is
realised. It is analogous to a process of involution, prior to an
objective evolution.
"The whole natural world corresponds to the spiritual world, not
only as a whole, but in every part; and therefore whatever exists in
the natural world is said to be the correspondent of that from which
it derives its existence in the spiritual world; for the natural
world exists and subsists from the spiritual world, just as an
effect exists from its cause." - SWEDENBORG, The Future Life, p. 29.
"All things accordingly, that are on earth, O Tat, are not the
Truth; they're Wherever copies only of the True. the appearance doth
receive the influx from above, it turns into a copy of the Truth;
without its energising from above, it is left false" (Of Truth). -
G. R. S. MEAD, T. G. Hermes, Vol. III. p. 18.
"All (Sufi seers) agree in maintaining the pre-natal existence of
the soul, and in declaring the physical world to be but a transient
and distorted reflection of a far more glorious world, and in itself
essentially unreal." - GIBB, Hist. of Ottoman Poetry, Vol. I. p. 58.
"What is heredity but the permanence of that invisible and yet most
real type which Plato called the idea? . . . We must postulate
invisible but real types, because without them their visible effects
would remain inexplicable." - F. MAX MÜLLER, Theosophy, etc., p.
389.
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