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PROTOTYPES, FIXED

A symbol of the spiritual monads on the plane of atma.

"The first of these five planes is called the Plane of the Absolutely Invisible or the Plane of the Nebulosity,' and its world is the World of the Fixed Prototypes.' "The Sufis Doctrine of the Soul." - GIBB, Hist. of Ottoman Poetry, Vol. I. p. 55.

The highest of the five planes of manifestation is the plane of atma, the abode of the Higher Self and of the Divine "sparks” or monads of life and form which are the prototypes of all things which appear on the planes below.

“All that which is on the earth, is also found above (in perfect prototype) (Sepher Shephathal). - MYER, Qabbalah, p. 109.

“When man has moved out of himself away to God, like the image to its Prototype, he has reached his journey's end." - PLOTINUS, Enneads, V. Bk. I.

“(According to Erigena) there is a divine procession' by which God reveals Himself in an unfolding universe. cannot be seen' in Himself; He can be seen in His creation. The second of the four divisions'-that which is created and creates-is the immaterial world of Ideas, of prototypes. These perfect patterns of things have their origin in God, they are His thoughts. 'God' so Erigena says, 'does not know things because they are-they are because He knows (i.e. thinks) them.' That which is real in any object, what is called the essence of the object, is the Divine Idea which the object manifests, and this Idea, or pattern, creates the object, so that our visible world is all only a 'copy' of a perfect Divine pattern, These patterns are themselves dynamic -they are Divine wills, as well as Divine thoughts; that is to say, when God thinks, things are." - R. M. JONES, Mystical Religion, p. 125.

“The Hervey islanders speak of the things of this world as a gross copy of what exists in spirit-land,' and of the soul as an airy but visible copy of the man.'” - A. E. CRAWLEY, The Idea of the Soul, p. 195.

See Also

ARCHETYPAL MAN
ATMA
ATZEEL
BUDDHIC PLANE
COLOUR
COSMOS
CREATION
GERMS
GODDESS
GODS
HIGHER-LOWER (World)
IMAGE OF GOD
MONAD OF LIFE
SIMILITUDES
SPARK
SPERMATIC WORDS
TYPE
WORLDS (five)