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THE

COSMIC DOCTRINE

IN TWO PARTS

Revised and with Additional Matter from

the same Sources.

DION FORTUNE

Revised and Enlarged

Edition

THE AQUARIAN PRESS,

LONDON.

1957

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First Published 1949

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

THE DAWN OF MANIFESTATION

II.

THE FORCES OF (NEGATIVE) EVIL

III.

THE TWELVE RAYS AND THE SEVEN COSMIC

PLANES

IV.

THE BUILDING OF THE ATOM .

ATOMIC EVOLUTION UPON THE COSMIC PLANES

VI.

THE BEGINNINGS OF A SOLAR SYSTEM

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THE EVOLUTION OF A SOLAR SYSTEM

VIII.

THE EVOLUTION OF A GREAT ENTITY .

IX.

THE CREATION OF A UNIVERSE

S.W.i.

THE BEGINNINGS OF CONSCIOUSNESS

XI.

THE EVOLUTION OF CONSCIOUSNESS

XII.

THE BEGINNINGS OF MIND

XIII.

THE EVOLUTION OF THE DIVINE SPARKS

XIV.

THE EVOLUTION OF A PLANETARY BEING .

XV.

EVOLUTION OF THE LORDS OF FLAME, FORM AND

MIND

XVI.

THE INFLUENCES OF THE LORDS OF FLAME,

FORM AND MIND

XVII.

THE LORDS OF MIND AS INITIATORS

XVIII.

INFLUENCES ACTING ON HUMAN EVOLUTION

XIX.

THE LOGOIDAL RELATION TO THE MANIFESTED

UNIVERSE

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XX.

INFLUENCES OF THE MANIFESTED UNIVERSE

XXI.

THE LORDS OF THE FIRST THREE SWARMS AND

NATURAL LAWS

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XXII.

INFLUENCES WHICH HUMANITY EXERTS UPON

ITSELF

INTRODUCTION

T HIS volume of teaching was received from the Inner Planes

XXIII.

THE LAW OF ACTION AND REACTION

during 1923 and 1924, The one who gave it is a human being

evolved to a very high level. The Personality of his last incarnation

is known but is not revealed, but it may be said that it was of a

world-famous philosopher and teacher. In the terminology which

is used in esotericism this individual is one of the " Greater

Masters."

The object of these teachings is to induce a deeper under-

standing of Cosmic Law, and to expand consciousness that it may

lift thoughts to the source from which they issued. These teachings

will also be found to form a basis upon which considerable esoteric

knowledge can be built, and to contain the explanation of much

that has hitherto been inaccessible to the general reader. On

account of the vastness of the conception, however, which is beyond

the limitations of our concrete minds, it has been necessary to

resort to the extensive use of metaphor.

The reader is advised to persevere in his efforts to gain the

utmost from these teachings by study and meditation.

The word "Master," used in esotericism, is not one I should

have chosen since it has the association of " master and servant"

as well as the association implied here of "master and pupil."

However, we inherit the expressions standardised by those who

revived the search for the "Ancient Wisdom" in the West and

must make the best of them though it is possible and desirable to

discard foreign words (usually Sanscrit or Hindu) as much as

possible and use instead our own English equivalents. "Logos"

is retained in the text since it has a clearly defined application

whereas "God" tends to be rather vague and difficult to

dissociate from sectarian convictions.

XXIV.

THE LAW OF LIMITATION—PART I .

XXV.

THE LAW OF LIMITATION—PART II .

XXVI.

THE LAW OF THE SEVEN DEATHS .

XXVII.

THE LAW OF IMPACTATION .

XXVIII. THE LAW OF POLARITY

XXIX .

THE LAW OF THE ATTRACTION OF OUTER SPACE

XXX.

THE LAW OF THE ATTRACTION OF THE CENTRE

PART II

Concerning the "Masters " or Inner Plane Adepti I should like

to make it clear that these are of a far higher stage of development

than those discarnate communicators who describe the "summer-

lands," personal "heaven-worlds," etc., of their own subjective

Inner-Plane state. The latter have little of value to tell the average

well-educated man; the former have a very great deal but usually

work only through carefully chosen and highly trained individuals

INTRODUCTION

save, of course, for the "contacts" each of us may succeed in

making for himself and which result in intuitional apprehension.

This, however, should be treated with great caution and unless

the matter given is sound should not be taken as genuine.

The Inner Plane Adepti have touched on the question of their

state and conditions from time to time and three extracts are

given below which may be of value to the reader unfamiliar with

the subject. These great intelligences have developed beyond the

need to incarnate and all the experiences of their lives on earth have

been absorbed in essence into their present make-up. Needless to

say they are no longer incarnate and the tales of their living on

the earth in remote places are quite groundless: to anyone who

knows what a "Master" is by development it is commonsense to

realise that such do not at present live on earth. There are, of course,

high adepts (highly developed and illuminated men) but these are

not yet "Masters." It may be that in the future as evolution

proceeds "illuminati" of the grade of Masters may remain on

earth instead of passing on to the Inner Planes, in full contact with

Inner and Outer Planes in order to accomplish certain work as long

as the physical vehicle remains efficient.

(2)

"What are the Masters? Human beings like yourselves, but

older. They are not Gods, nor Angels, nor Elementals but are those-

individuals who have achieved and completed the same task as you

have set yourselves. What you are now, they were once. What

they are now, you can be.

Have you so little belief in the survival of bodily death that

you cannot conceive of the existence of the Masters? Have you.

so little belief in the doctrine of evolution that you cannot conceive

of human beings as greatly superior to yourselves as you are to

the animals? Have you so little knowledge of the power of the

mind that you do not believe in the possibility of communication

between you and them ? If there is nothing higher than yourselves

what hope have ye? And if you accept the possibility why should

you not try it? And if you try for it why should you not expect

that your first achievements will be rudimentary and imperfect and'

inaccurate? But if you never make a beginning you will never

arrive at completion. You must be content to speak in broken tones

before you can speak fluently. If you do not so essay you will

never learn to speak. We shall teach you the language."

Extracts:

(3)

" The Masters as you picture them are all ' imagination.' Note

well that I did not Say that the Masters were imagination; I said'

'The Masters as you picture them.' What we are you cannot

realise and it is a waste of time to try to do so but you can imagine

us on the astral plane and we can contact you through your

imagination, and although your mental picture is not real or actual,

the results of it are real and actual.

The Masters as they are supposed to be in popular would-be-

esoteric thought are pure fiction ; but as long as you are a ' concrete '

consciousness you will have to use the astral to reach the abstract.

It is the laws of the astral thought form that are taught in occult

science.

The difference between the man who touches astral imagination'

only, and the man who by astral imagination touches spiritual

actualities, is that the former in his concepts can rise no higher

than the astral imagination and the latter has in his soul spiritual

realisation and aspiration which he brings through into 'brain-

consciousness' by means of the astral imagination."

" If a man sets out to look for the Path he evinces a desire.

That desire will be noted by those who watch on the Inner Planes

and he will be ' assigned to a class' according to his temperament.

After he has gone a certain way under that tuition he will be put

in the care of what is called a 'guide' ; this is the first work

souls are employed on when they take up work on this side. The

guide will try to impress the teaching he wishes to convey on the

soul of his pupil by telepathy, and the pupil must try to catch

what is 'said.'

Later the pupil will be put into touch with one of the Lesser

Masters and be one of a number of pupils for whom that Master

is responsible. A guide has only one pupil at a time but a Master

has many. As the pupil advances further he will be passed to

Masters of higher grade. His problem will always be to catch what

his Master says. The higher the grade of the Master the further he

is away from Earth."

INTRODUCTION

The Master responsible for the teaching set out in this volume

prefaced his first lecture by the following foreword: " I am inter-

ested and concerned in teaching and I have always been concerned

with students. It is not the easiest thing to give an ordered

cosmogony and Science of Man and I may well be somewhat dis-

connected ; but it is enough if you have the matter. There are

various textbooks of the Ancient Wisdom extant but those books

are mainly for those following their particular line of development

because books speak not only to the conscious mind but also to

the sub-conscious. They lift thought to the source of the concepts.

Knowledge falls into two divisions—the record of facts and

the explanation thereof. Knowledge can only consist of that which

is present in the mind. That which does not enter the mind cannot

be known. Therefore you can only know that which you have

senses to interpret to you. As new senses open up more planes of

existence can be known. There is, however, a limit to the know-

ledge possible — the finite. Perception ceases at the barrier of

manifestation. Of that which lies beyond we can only know by

analogy."

In such abstruse matters allowance must be made by each

reader for difficulties of communication and it must be kept in mind

that the communicator is trying to find the most suitable metaphors

to convey transcendental ideas. Each one should use his imagination

and intuition in reading, for this is not a simple statement of the

solution of an elementary theorem but an endeavour to convey

very abstract ideas in reasonably concrete form to those still in

incarnation by one who has long finished with the need for a

physical body.

The Society of the Inner Light, founded by Dion Fortune,

has courses for those who wish seriously to pursue the study of

the Western Esoteric Tradition; there is also a comprehensive

library. Enquiries should be addressed to: —

CHAPTER I

is not. Although it is not manifest, it is. IT is the source

from which all arises. IT is the only " Reality." IT alone is sub-

stance. IT alone is stable ; all else is an appearance and a becoming.

Of this Unmanifest we can only say " IT IS." IT is the verb

"to be" turned back upon itself. IT is a state of pure "being,"

without qualities and without history. All we can say of IT is

that it is not anything that we know, for if we know anything it

must be in manifestation for us to know it, and if it is in manifesta-

tion that proves that it is not Unmanifest. The Unmanifest is the

Great Negation; at the same time IT is the infinite potency which

has not occurred. It is best conceived of under the image of inter-

stellar space.

In these occult teachings you will be given certain images,

under which you are instructed to think of certain things. These

images are not descriptive but symbolic, and are designed to train

the mind, not to inform it. Therefore, you may think of the

Unmanifest as interstellar space; and of the Logos as a Sun

surrounded by Its Solar System of Planets; and of the emanations

of the Logos as Rays. The Unmanifest is the only Unity. Manifesta-

tion begins when duality occurs.

The prime duality is "space" and "movement:" The first

manifestation was a current in space—the metaphor I must use

may convey nothing to your mind. All I can say is that "space"

was moving: you will find these words the clue to much.

Now, when space moves it has this peculiar quality—being

frictionless it never loses momentum, but continues to flow. When

space moves, two forces are at work :—

(a) The force which causes it to move, being the desire of

space for momentum.

(b) The force which has hitherto caused it not to move, being

the desire of space for inertia.

These two factors are present in all motion, but the desire for

movement, being the stronger, overcomes the desire for inertia, and

the desire for inertia continues as a check upon the movement.

The Secretary,

The Society of the Inner Light,

3, Queensborough Terrace,

London W.2, England.

THE DAWN OP MANIFESTATION

T HE Unmanifest is pure existence. We cannot say of it that it

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