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An Abridgement by Katharine Hillard of The Secret Doctrine
An Abridgement by Katharine Hillard of The Secret Doctrine Author:Helena Petrovna Blavatsky Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: On the Planetary Chains, etc. The doctrine of the Planetary Chains, already- referred to in the Stanzas, was at first taken in altogether too material a sense... more », and was understood to mean a string of globes, of which our earth was the lowest and most material, instead of seven states of matter and consciousness through which our earth must pass, so that the " fourth Globe " corresponds to the " Fourth Round," or Race, as a condition of being. The teaching described our Earth as on the fourth and lowest, because most material, plane of matter, and as the organs of perception are always adjusted to the thing to be perceived, it naturally follows that we can perceive only material things, unless we are gifted with those higher senses which are only to be the common possession of a future Humanity. Therefore it is impossible for us to see the higher " globes " of any " chain," and any planets or stars that are visible to us must be on the same plane of matter. " Our globe, as taught from the first,'' wrote the Teachers in answer to an inquiry, "is at the bottom of the arc of descent, where the matter of our perceptions exhibits itself in its grossest form. Hence it only stands to reason that the globes which overshadow our Earth must be on different and superior planes. In short, as globes, they are in coadunition, but not in consub- stantiality with our Earth,, and thus pertain to quite another state of consciousness." (We may have a bottle filled with sugar, into that we may pour water, and then force in a gas; those three states of matter, solid, liquid and gaseous, would be in coadunition, that is, they would be together in a common locality, but they would not be the same in substance. We could not see the water or the gas in the bottle, but none the less they would have interp...« less