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you welcome friends to our second class in a home with theosophy we are exploring this book dat cosmos and men some selected chapters the book has more more chapters than what we are going to be able to go through but I tried to Cho Tuesday one side arm or maybe more of interest to you all so last time we talked about the celestial hierarchies of beings which it's talking a little about the the consciousness aspect of the universe and how consciousness manifests in different beings beginning from the spiritual hierarchies and then as we are going to see later down to human beings and other entities and today we are going to explore the the matter aspect of this so how the cosmic matter begins last time was the cosmic consciousness now the cosmic matter so one of the names as we are going to see today that is used for this cosmic matter is acacia acacia is a sanskrit name and and then the astral light is something that is also frequently found in theosophical literature which as we are going to see say lower aspect of Akasha so that's what we are going to explore today so let us start Jeffrey farting says occult science lays before the student certain facts of nature which are unknown to the science of today until a person develops within himself the faculties necessary to corroborate the teaching he may take these facts as hypothesis which as we will see may help to explain psychic and spiritual istic phenomena extrasensory perception and other aspects of the paranormal so this is normally the attitude recommended in theosophy which we need to always keep in mind many times we talk about things that are beyond our perception and how do do we relate to these things is this a revelation that came from God or a garland that we have to take you know just the city's given or is this something that can we take as long as it may make sense to us you know after all many of the things that we believe in are not part of our direct experience we believe the world is round and very few of us have actually seen something that that can show you in a direct way that the world is round or we believe that there are atoms but many very few of us have actually seen some direct proof of these atoms however scientists and people who research all this they have done the experiments they have gone you know to the moon for example and they have seen that the globe is actually round and we take what they say as coming from an unalloyed which may make sense or not because we have to remember that science is many times also mistaken so in a similar way all these these teachings we can take them as coming from some kind of spiritual scientists which again you may trust a personal and say if a person is saying this there must be something there but that doesn't mean that is free from mistakes or errors or that is not explained in the best possible way or that you are not understanding this in an incorrect way you cannot you know really discard all these things so the best way to approach the Theosophical teachings especially in the aspects that are we go beyond our perception he said as a hypothesis and see if this helps to have a different view of the world to understand certain things that are difficult to understand that otherwise etc so that's the foundation and he says the facts under consideration here our first the existence of a primordial substance Akasha that manifests after a long night or pralaya pralaya is also a Sanskrit word that means dissolution so there is a root substance that manifests after the long night or pralaya of the universe that is the name that the first point and second they graduate gradations of this substance throughout the place of nature causing our physical globe for example to be enveloped in the lower of these grades and turned in this literature as the astral light so the first point is that the recent primordial substance from which everything comes science is getting there at the beginning there or at the beginning meaning a few centuries ago there was the idea that there were add atoms of different elements composing everything that we saw around but all those atoms were different from each other the atom of gold is different from the other North you know silver or whatever else so then as they begin to to understand better the nature of the items they see that all atoms in and if they are different seem to be formed by the three Stein particles you know the protons neutrons and electrons and then they keep going deeper and deeper and they see different kinds of particles composing this odd years and many scientists believe that there must be a homogenous ultimate substance that is the foundation of all the diversity now theosophy proposes that that there is a root substance now that roots at root substance in the Theosophical view is not really physical it goes far deeper than the physical dimension meaning if we keep breaking down the the atoms and seen more deeper and deeper subatomic particles at some point we will get to the particle that is the the ultimate component of the physical plane but we are not going to get to the bottom of the universe we get only to the bottom of the physical plane then there are six more planes with matter in different degrees of subtle tea that that are beyond or are deeper into reality so when sometimes in quantum physics they hope to find the ultimate particle and find God or the matrix of the universe that is that may be true only in what what relates to the physical plane but there are further planes to go beyond that so that is the first point and the idea of the night of the universe in the Theosophical approach sees the universe as in a kind of cyclic model so the universe develops and then it gets to a point where it begins to dissolve and then they disappear of rest and then there is a further development and then rest again so there is this kind of cyclic universe and after each period of rest this route substance manifests and is the basis for all kind of matter on all planes that we see around and one of the characteristics or one of the forms of this differentiation is what is called the astra light we are going to see later so he says the first fact affirmed in esoteric science is as given in the first fundamental principle of the secret doctrine the one absolute reality the omnipresent eternal boundless an immutable principle and manifest without attributes beyond the power of the human mind to conceive or of human language to describe so the idea here is that the beyond any cycle beyond time beyond change risa there is a foundation for reality that is immutable omnipresent eternal boundless it is this reality that shows itself in what we call space-time spirit matter but that reality always remains immutable maybe we could say if you have gold you can make many different forms out of that goal the necklace or a ring or whatever you do and they all seem different but the gold is not really affected by the form that that gold is taken you are not affecting the atoms of gold so this this ultimate reality is not really affected by how all the diversity that is that we see in the universe and this both from from the side of consciousness or matter there is also a not an absolute consciousness that is the foundation of all the different states of consciousness we go through our day and many others and this ultimate eternal immutable foundation is what we really are and part of a spiritual path is to realize that aspect of ourselves that is immutable that absolute reality in ourselves the beyond the changing thoughts that change in emotions that change in sensations so there is a question here that's the universe itself evolved in each cycle and yes the ideas at each new universe is is more evolved whatever that means at that level than the previous universe so there is a further ability to show spirit within matter after each cycle of evolution but really we cannot understand what that really means we can play with words about that but you know it's really hard to understand what a more evolved universe would be so that is the first principle then periodically he says in accordance with universal law the process of manifestation begin again the processes of manifestation begin again in a you a new universe with all the beings that comprise it emerges from the new Vanek pralaya for another period of activity so these are the two principles we were talking about there is a foundation that is immutable determine the root of everything and then periodical manifestations of these dissolute reality that manifests in different forms of matter and consciousness the originating one is described as the rootless root of all existence once we passed in thought from the absoluteness of that one then success equal doctrine duality supervenes in the contrast of spirit or consciousness and matter of subject and object these two poles these two you know opposite aspects should not be regarded as independent realities but as the two facets or aspects of the absolute in Hinduism they call parabrahman which constitutes the basis of condition being whether subjective or objective so the idea is that this oneness is the foundation of everything now whenever we perceive something whenever we are talking about duality or about diversity whenever there is a difference between subject and object subject is the the entity that perceives object is the the object of perception whenever we we come out of this absolute reality there is always duality in the universe and both duality and unity are two aspects of the reality but one is transitory the duality source for something in the ones in turn rolling on conceptual go ahead him to be a lot of concepts around it then we talk about so how do you there's a duality your paradox in that how do you address that yes yes um blah boskie was asked about that and she says this isn't unconceivable but it doesn't mean that is beyond our reach it can be she said something like sensed I guess she didn't want to use the idea of first perception because that is more to all although sensing is more or less the same but she says that can be sensed by the spiritual intuition which is a faculty that is that is beyond our dualistic minds so the idea is that the concepts about the absolute made direct our attention to look in that direction you know in the case of ourselves to look inside and look try to look in that that the direction of that which is non dual and then there can be some kind of perception some kind of realization of this non doin which is the basis of what we are so the concepts are just the finger pointing to the moon at some time city said but by means of playing with the concepts we if we stay there we will never really get what we are talking about so it's just the first step but then there is a possibility of moving forward and having some kind of direct realization of this all right so he was talking about the that whenever we perceive as subject and an object we perceive reality in a in a dualistic way duality is the basis of of diversity so nature therefore is pervaded by duality in the physical world of our experience it is recognized in the polarity of active power energy or force on the one hand and passive mother on the other in the positive and negative in electricity in male and female functions in the natural world around us in the north and south poles of the magnet so it seems that whenever there is a form there is some kind of duality the manifested universe has that particular characteristic that manifestation comes in as two aspects of something in duels or in dudes so for example we have the one absolute that is beyond any duality and it is selling the philosophical literature that both what we call spirit and what we call matter they are both aspects of the absolute so the the absolute I think both beyond then after the absolute we we have these two aspects and we have that there is a kind of consciousness for example from spirit you can see that there are different aspects there so one of them is consciousness another aspect is that of subject another aspect is that of the positive pole for example positive in the sense of active another aspect is the active you know whatever is active in in nature and also mail and again again this doesn't mean mail in the sense of men and woman and the idea is that anything that is as active in in nature is normally symbolically shown as a male aspect and everything that is passive in the sense of nurturing and embracing and you know guarding that is called female it's probably the symbolism came you know in early societies because they mail is the one that went out and I don't know hunt the animals and the female stay at home and nourished everything so and the idea of matter is that it represents the other opposites to consciousness you always need a body to express consciousness a subject of perception always need an object to perceive when there is nothing to be perceived there is no consciousness there you know for example when we fall in deep sleep when there are no dreams or anything we we think that we are unconscious simply because there is nothing to be perceived so if there is nothing to be perceived we fall into unconsciousness and so the subject requires an object and positive and negative I'll give impulsive one male and female so these are tested different aspects in which this duality manifests in the universe now the idea in the you in the spiritual path as I mentioned is to move our perception up to the point of unity then we can play with the duality but we can do it from the perception of unity when our perception is rooted in the individuality then we see all in terms of opposition and you know all separation so the idea is to move from the duality to the unity but when we look at the world we can recognize that duality out there so now with that as the philosophical foundation let us explore what a cash-out or these primordial substances so Akasha sometimes spelled as a casa in Sanskrit this there is an S that sounds like the SH is the Sanskrit term that designates the primordial root substance it is defined as the saddle super sensuous spiritual essence which pervades all space so there is is there is a subtle essence beyond the senses is not cannot be perceived by our five senses pervading all space and that is Akasha just as force or energy requires a substantial connection or vehicle of expression so spirit also if it is not to remain an abstraction requires a vehicle through which to manifest you know early in the in the 19th century scientists thought that force and matter were two completely different principles matter was material and force was in material now with quantum physics now we know that force and matter are two aspects of the same reality every force is mediated by some kind of particle every particle is a manifestation of some kind of force so the force cannot manifest unless there is some substance substantial basis and substance cannot manifest without showing the manifestation of certain force so this as you get today to the bottom of each plane you get to the unity that is behind that plane so science is getting very close to the unity on the physical plane so then the the separation between matter and force begins to blur so in the same way he says that just as force requires matter then the spirit require said a body or a vehicle of consciousness to be able to express through it and he says these two principles whether we call them simply spirit and matter or use the more expressive terms as cosmic radiation and cosmic substance these two principles are the Alpha and Omega of being the two facets of the one absolute existence so just as there is a kind of cosmic substance from which everything comes at the beginning or at the root of the universe there is also a cosmic ideation a cosmic intelligence which expresses itself through all this hierarchy of beings that we have explored last week and through us through animals to all the kingdoms any intelligence that we have comes from this Universal Mind we have to be careful not to anthropomorphize the universal mind is not a like an entity that I think is the principle of intelligence that pervades the universe and that manifests in different ways through different beings so in the same way there is a principle of matter or substance that pervades the universe and it manifests in different ways the kind of manifestation we are familiar with is what we call matter which is the physical matter but there are other manifestations this is why we talk about seven planes there are seven different kinds of substances or matter the last one is the one that we call physical but there are more spiritual substances so we read the seven planes which constitute the cosmos and in fact Akasha and six differentiations of it and this same Akasha known to the aah patient and philosophers as either with all these mysterious and occult properties contains in itself the germs of universal creation this upper ether or a thur or Akasha is the celestial virgin and mother of every existence existing form and being from whose bosom as soon as incubated by the Divine Spirit are called into existence matter and life force an action so here you see again the same principle in always present in the Theosophical approach from the unity you have manifestations so from Akasha there are six more plays of differentiation and a Cassius is symbolically said to be the virgin because it's that kind of substance pure substance unmodified that is the root of manifestation from which evolve or take birth all other kinds of matter so in many times you will see that the Asafa cali director interprets the idea of the Virgin Mary and the Holy Spirit impregnating Mary sa a same metaphor for a cosmic principle or a cosmic process so you see these virgins all over the world in different mythologies and that virgin state is a symbol for for a cash on its more primordial state the pure matter so if we to show a little diagram we have that Akasha is the first plane this cosmic substance which maybe we could relate it with a white light that contains all the colors in itself but only potentially when you see white light you don't see any of the colors you need to run the the white light through a prism for example and then you can see it how those colors differentiate so in the same way akasha in its pure essence contains all the possibilities of matter but none of those are manifested and in the process of manifestation the different aspects appear so we see here there is differentiation through seven planes until we come to the lowest of them which is the physical matter that form our earth so these planes should not be understood that as one being on top of the other the your interpenetrate so we put them one on top of the other just because we have to show them in a two-dimensional drawing and whatever is higher means that is suckler but it's not that reality is layered all these planes are inter penetrating so let's see now the Astra light leaving aside the lowest of these planes which was the physical plane that i showed the earth itself the next lowest is termed the astral light this is defined as the invisible region that surrounds our globe acid does every other every other globe a subtle essence visible only to avoid and I as it inter inter penetrates the grocer forms of matter on our plane it is perceptible only to the clairvoyant who's side is able to pass beyond the external form so interpenetrating everything there is the subtle kind of matter which Blavatsky used to call the astral light that is that is everywhere of course it's not physical matter therefore science cannot detect it but it's a is a matter from the next plane and it has an important impact on the life on Earth and this is why we are exploring this in particular so if we go back to our diagram the astral light would be the plane that is just above the physical and again above not spatially but at the level of subtle tea so there are you can see that there are other kinds of matters the cuttings of mother in between the Akasha and the Astra light on the physical plane so one of the characteristics of this astral light the astral light has been described as the great picture gallery of nature for own it is indelibly impressed every art and thought that occurs in the physical or psychic realm there is a faculty let me say before I go to the next paragraph there is a faculty psychometry which is this ability to touch an object and know this the history of that object so Jeffrey says thus I cometer sensitive to the astra light is able to perceive the past events in which a particular object has been involved thus a manuscript painting article of clothing or jewelry no matter how ancient conveys to the sense a vivid picture of the rider painter or we're even though he lived in the days of Ptolemy or Enoch a fragment of an ancient building will recall its history and even the scenes which transpired within or about it today we know about the what is called the akashic records and this word Akashic records was coined by by the the early members of the Theosophical Society to talk about this this quality of of the of matter of retaining impressions then they that later can be seen by a person that is clairvoyant so each plane because akasha is interpenetrating all the planes in different in different degrees of you know manifestation or diversity or becoming more and more dense but each plane has the ability of retaining a certain impression of what is going on around and people who develop the ability to to some kind of clairvoyant aveal ability they are able to see events that happened in the past now the way you see this event changes or varies with the plane which you are seeing it the lower planes like the Astra light normally is seen as a picture and it's not quite reliable because the the lower you go in the planes the more distorted that reflection is the higher you go in the place the more accurate the reflection will be so you can see some if you are a clairvoyant you can see some fat from the past but then they will be if you are looking at the astral light they will be fragmentary or distorted or or mixed up with with many things for example some people go to psychics for to doing a reading from a previous life and what most of these people if they are not trained they they don't know is that whatever they may be picking up impressions from any object around so sometimes what they are reading the impressions they are getting which are normally in people as I said unless they are trained in a special kind of yoga these impressions are kind of chaotic and the impressions they might be getting maybe from objects around from the clothing that you have from the physical matter that you are wearing you know the atoms of your body were perhaps in a tiger before you were born and now you are born these and you attract these matters and they will tell you in your previous life you were a tiger so there is a question with this since everything around keeps a record of of whatever that matter went through and there is a whole science to attune to what particular record on what particular kind of matter you want to look that is a very complex factor but most psychic psychics don't know about that so you go if you go for a reading you don't know what you get you know provided that the person is really clear volley and some other people either just imagine it or are just you know fraud but if the person is really a clairvoyant unless that person is well trained you never know what the source what they are picking up so it's important to know about all this Madame Blavatsky draws a parallel between the invisible record made by the camera you know it's invisible until a chemical process reveals it and the record made on the tablets of the Astro light that is perceptible only to those i have the appropriate faculties so the question here would the astral light be the same as the etheric body and yes the etheric body is like a manifestation of the astral light they could say that the astral light is like a planetary etheric plane and your Astro your your etheric body or Blavatsky used to called astral body is like a personal aesthetic or astral plane so these are yeah these are these all belong to the same kind of principle but applied in more and more Universal ways so this faculty she added Blavatsky added proves that every occurrence in nature no matter how minut or unimportant lives in it it's in the indelible impress upon physical nature and as there has been no appreciable molecular disturbance the only inference possible is that these images have been produced by the invisible universal force the ether or astral light so at the time she did several experiments she could you know read many things on the astral light and she was trying to show people how these things really existed because science was very materialistic and was saying that the whole universe could be explained according to the very few laws that they knew at the time they didn't know quantum physics or relativity but they were very confident that in a few years all the universe would be explained in terms of mechanical processes so there was no room for spirituality or consciousness or God there was no need for that so blah bosque tried to show that there was far more than Stiles was aware of and that could be proven and she did some experiments on and she said you know I can see the records on different things which you cannot see that that this is really being kept in the physical aspect of the object so there has to be some other nature but the physical nature and she says it is on the indestructible tablets of the astral light that is stamped the impression of every thought we think and every act we perform and that future events effects of long-forgotten causes are already delineated as a vivid picture for the eye of this year and profit to follow so this is also a way to explain how prophecy may be possible you know there is this law of karma in the universe of cause and effect and we produce certain causes that take sometimes some time to manifest as effects but all those courses are are recorded on the astral light so many times the work out how those karmic costs are going to be worked out appear on the astral light before they actually precipitate or manifest on the physical plane so many times clairvoyance or even people people who are not necessarily clairvoyant people like us many times we we may have some kind of prophetic dream or see something that we happen in the future and then that happens so what does it mean is everything already you know said it is is fate a law in the universe or do we have free will all these questions can be understood in the face in the face of this phenomenon you know you may as I said you may dream something that actually happens and then what does it mean well the idea is that many of the causes are already on the astral light and they fix how it is going to be worked up are they are too and you can see them but the further you see in the future the more difficult it is to say whether that that is going to happen because new causes are constantly being added so things may change between the time where you saw the record how it was working out at the moment and a time when that actually happens so that's why the further you go in the future the more difficult it is to be accurate but all this has to do with you know the possibility of seeing has to do with the existence of of the astral light a question here does this mean that every thought every act of mine lasts forever and can affect in a good or bad way others long into the future yeah that is a good question yes and no I mean everything is is recorded and that that that is what people who really can see the the Astra or the astral I the Akashic records they can they can see how people who were involved in a particular situation what they felt what they thought so it is a strange-quality or you know feature of the universe but that is that is something that these clairvoyance you know they all agree that that exists so all our thoughts and emotions are recorded somewhere now they don't necessarily affect the future forever well they do in a certain way because they they are the ones that determine what you are right now and what you are right now will affect the future but there are causes that takes some time to manifest and once they manifest then they are they are not active anymore it's like you throw a ball up and if somebody is just looking straight and cannot see the ball that is coming down and you say there is a ball that is going to hit you in your head and then that happens that person will think that you are some kind of Prophet well you only saw the actual causes and effects are worth taking place once the ball falls that chain of causation is over so in the same way we can see things are about to happen if we can see on the inner planes and it's not too different from what I just explained but one dose once those things happen that chain of cause and effect is exhausted although record this forever there now Globus key explained that many many of the earthquakes for example that that we have in the planet many of the illnesses many of these global things that affect the world are actually causes or effects that come from the causes that we we implanted on the astral light she says at the beginning of evolution the astral light is kind of pure but all our thoughts and emotions begin to charge this astral light and since most of knowing they as as we evolve we can most of our emotions are either aggressive or selfish or ambitious and that astra light begins to be charged with all these negative causes that then they discharge themselves in kind in a kind of natural disaster or or you know in some kind of epidemic of some illness and she said she always said the astra light today is like our worst enemy but it is our enemy because it's just a repository of what we have produced over and she's talking in that sense because an occultist before her time Eliphas Levi or levy he used to talk about the Astra light has been Satan and she said well he said it's Satan certainly is the source of many bad things but because we have created that so not because it is an an entity you know like regular Christianity interprets it um okay so let's go on let me see first so I'm bringing from from Lebowski Jeffrey farting didn't qualities but I think this adds a little to the information Blavatsky said seen in the astral light is not done through manis manis like the the mental consciousness but through the psychic senses and hence has to do entirely with sense perception we moved to a plane different from this but more illusionary the idea that you know there are two ways of perceiving something through senses whether those senses are physical or psychic or the direct perception in which consciousness perceives something without being mediated by any sense you become one with that that you are perceiving so you couldn't even call it ception perceptional always implies something that is outside outside of yourself and that you are perceiving this more spiritual perception sometimes people use an Blavatsky used the term a perception this a perception is a knowing from within so blah bosque says seen on the astral light is done through psychic senses and therefore the what you see will be distorted or will be conditioned or will be you know a source of mistake and also the astral light is very tricky because it's not very solid it changes with your own thoughts with your own emotion so when you try to look at the Astra light many times you are just seeing the projections of your mind that happens even on the physical plane you know psychology talks about this process of projection where you interpret a fact or something that happened on the physical plane but you interpret it blinded by your own psychic our psychological projections well on the astral plane where matter is far more malleable it is very easy to see what you want to see unconsciously or to see your own fears your own desires so she says seen on the astral light is very tricky the final perceiver or judge of perception is minus this this mental perception but Manus is not just the intellectual perception is the this pure reason that Kant would talk about for example and therefore the final tribe tribunal is clouded by the asteroid perception if one is not so far trained or initiated as to know the difference and be able to tell the truth from default so basically she's saying that you know unless you are really trained in a very special kind of yoga when you see through your psychic senses there will always be okay so another another aspect of the Astra light is let's see so the Astra light is lower principal than than the mana than the monastic principal yes the the Astra like you could say that the astral plane is between the physical and the monastic or the mental so it is a lower plane than the mental so the nature of memory just as we saw that the astral light is is the memory a kind of cosmic memory our personal memory is also connected to the astral light you know this is a debate among scientists whether memories are there in the brain and where they are and how they are kept you know memory is a very difficult phenomenal to explain as anything else in the realm of consciousness actually but memory is something that has puzzled people many times our scientists so memory is to the student of all philosophies merely a name to express that power which man unconsciously exerts to look with inner side into the astral light and there behold the images of past sensations and incidents instead of searching the cerebral cerebral ganglia they when they went to the vast repository where the records of every man's life as well as every pulsation of the visible called cosmos are stored up for all eternity so the idea that when we remember something what we are actually doing is automatically looking at the at the astral record of of what we went through when we do something and we produce all these records the there is like a kind of magnetic link to those records that make make it very easy for our is to to look at those records and the experience that we described in in looking at these records is that of remembering now when a person wants to look at records where there are no magnetic links with them then it is more difficult because it's something that our personal consciousness has not gone through so you have to develop these dis clairvoyance but when it is a question of your own records then the you can you can many times go to them and and that is what we call remembering something now again there are many things that we don't remember and there are many things we remember in a distorted way because it all depends on how well this mechanism of with India this Astrid the tablets on the Astra light as Blavatsky would call them how well that mechanism is working in us of course a physical brain has to be in a good state of health to be able to bring the image down to the physical level if the physical brain is not is damaged then then the the image that that consciousness is seeing cannot be brought to the brain but the the idea is that memory is not within the brain memories just the connection the ability to read the records that we went through and those people who have this photographic memory our people that have developed or that were born for some reason with a very very good skill to read the records so they they actually can see the image of whatever they went through because they can they are they are seen clearly or more clear than than many others the record that is related to that so it's actually photographic memory is quite you know quite right that name because you are seeing the photograph of what you went through or what your weight or what you saw so that is a just you know another interesting aspect the blob asked you wrote an article on the nature of memory that relates this to the astral light that is very interesting so then let's see a little more that that's like the general aspect between about a cache and the astral I now let's see another interesting feature of hot kasha Akasha is related to space actually in Sanskrit the translation of acacia into English is space or you know space or sky or something like that okay so the other aspect is Akasha when related to space the Sanskrit translation of Akasha is space or skype and there is a relationship between these two principles so let's see a definition Akasha the subtle super sensuous spiritual essence which pervades all space enters into every feature of the manifold universe in the literature it appears on them under many guises and the terms used to define it will differ according to the particular aspect under consideration it is the universal space in which lies inherent the eternal ideation of the universe in its ever-changing aspects on the plains of matter so that is a the philosophical view space is not empty it's not this this void what we call space is actually this substance that that we are calling Akasha here so space / substance are the same principle this is not too deep different from what what Einstein proposed you know several decades or after blah bosque talked about this because when Einstein shows space it also shows with some kind of of structure you can then displace the spells can be deformed you can you know you go there are different ways of going through space so the the space in Einstein's view is not an empty but it's something that has its own structures its own matrix and this is what theosophy is said from their very beginning that space is this substance is not at a kind of empty space and today also with when they the scientists begin to see the idea of what they call the dark matter and the dark energy and dark energy seems to be an energy that is inherent to space because when they stretch space they multiply the energy that is there so they are beginning to think that there is actually an energy in what they thought was empty space and same with the dark matter they don't know what dark matter is they cannot detect that's why it is called dark any object while they are it seems to be part of space itself so all those scientific discoveries seem to support this idea that space is Akasha that space is substantial and that within that substance that is force there is energy so this is why then not within that we have within the space substance we have within the space this energy or force but also we have within this space intelligence so these three aspects intelligence force matter are all intrinsic to space and to everything else in the universe so this is why he says it is the universal space in which lies in current the eternal ideation of the universe the ideation like this cosmic intelligence in its ever-changing aspects on playing of mother so this akasha has it within itself these three aspects an aspect of intelligence of force and of substance or matter his space is ordinarily regarded as a three dimensional void whereas in occult ism is space is entirely non dimensional space that he's talking about the pure space the Akashic space is beyond any dimension and as that manifest in more and more concrete ways we we get to the lower planes where there are more dimensions this unknown sons something the abstract space that we are talking about is invisible in palpable and because invisible and impalpable therefore in cognizable always through the senses he is talking you know as Pulaski out by using the senses you can never see it this kind of space but of course with the spiritual faculties that space can be sensed and this income nuys ability has led to the error of supposing it to be a simple void a mirror receptive capacity it is called the substance principle for it becomes substance on the plane of the manifested universe which ultimately speakers and elude speaking is an illusion because the substance appears when the universe manifests and then it will disappear and then the absolute reality will remain they are unaffected and he says it remains as a principal in the beginningless and endless abstract visible and invisible space so the idea of principle is the beginning of something a cash as a principle is always is the eternal seed for space and matter and force and then Akasha substances the manifestation and because Akasha has these qualities of of having energy there Akasha is related to magic Akasha is the power he says which lies layton at the bottom of every magical performance you see a cache is related in Hinduism with the the idea of sound and also him in the Greeks the Greeks would talk about the logos and the idea of logo see is either you can translate it as reason or as a voice sound even when when it is said that that Jesus or that God is a verb and that in Jesus the verb is made flesh they are talking about this God as this sound and not as a physical sound symbolically speaking this vibration this energy this dis unmanifested energy and Jesus is that vibration made matter made flesh so because Akasha is has this intrinsic energy any operation of what can be called magic real magic involves the manipulation of Akasha so you direct the Akashic currents from one place to the other and different effects are are produced you know if you know how to manipulate Akasha and then he says in another aspect it is Kundalini the occult electricity what the alchemy is called Alka hist in one sense it is the anima mundi on the higher plane as the astral light is on the other the idea of animal moon d was that this vitality that keeps the world alive the soul of all things so Akasha works as as this soul that is beyond the physical plane for the world and and if we compared it to a cash and the astral item we are finishing here and these are like two aspects of the same principle but one is on the highest plane and the other is on the lowest so there is a great difference between the Astra light and the Akasha which must be remembered the ladder is eternal Akasha the former is periodical the astral and the astral light stands in the same relation to Akasha a Satan stands to the deity this is a philosophical concept as I said Eliphas Levi was talking about this and blah basically would say Satan is God in inverted because the spiritual principles when those spiritual principles have to act through blind matter many times the spiritual principle that is you know the divine becomes a source of error so to say you're becomes conditioned and limited when having to work through matter so whatever we call evil on this plane is not different from the Divine Spirit it is the same divine spirit which acting on it on such a dense plane as this may appear as evil so this is an important concept so that we don't generate this duality between you know good and evil of course evil is something that is not right but it's not intrinsically evil whatever is evil is is an inadequate expression of the divine so there is no real difference so blah busty would always say Satan is called inverted or God on the lower planes so he's referring to this and and says that the astral light is like the Etosha inverted or is the lower expression of acacia they are one on the same thing seen from two aspects the spiritual and the psychic the latter being the connecting link connecting link between mother and pure spirit so you could say that Akasha is this period the astral light or or they all matter is the body and the astral light is in between is the link between the spiritual and the physical so here question Akasha is the same as prana and not quite I mean you could say prana is one of the forces that differentiate within us Akasha differentiate since Akasha in its pure aspect is the origin of all substance and forces or energies are aspects of substance then you could say that you know prana is a manifestation of a casual or within Akasha from if you go to the bottom of things all forces all kinds of energies come from Akasha so yes but prana is like the manifestation on the lower planes of what we could call a universal life that takes place on the higher planes on the Akashic plate so planner is more related to the astral light and then you could say that one life is related to to Akasha is there any other question or comment about this the idea of this webinar is to set up a certain fundamental principles in the esoteric philosophy eventually we want to start a class on the secret doctrine so all this will be a good foundation for for that class but I hope you you can see also some not only the theory behind this but some interesting aspects related to how we see the universal how we we regard things around so is there any comments or questions about this alright if there is nothing then and we'll send you an email with the link and I hope to see you next week we'll see what happened with the connection we I hope we can fix this so that next week we don't have this problem but then in the recording will with our later on we'll try to edit it so that this problem is not there in the recording alright so thank you everybody have a great week and I will send you the link good night