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THE ESSENCE
"ETERNAL
DIVINE PATH"
Tablet One
<1>God
is everlasting, complete, without beginning or end. <2>He is
one and indivisible. <3>He is the source of all things.
<4>All things are made from Him.
<5>God
is the infinite consciousness. The
creative forces of this infinite consciousness are three (three
gunas).
<6>The universe consists of consciousness and
the three
creative forces
(three gunas).
<7>The three
creative forces
are the
sentient force (satva
guna), the
mutative force (raja
guna), and the static or
crudifying force (tama
guna).
<8>The
sentient force,
in the operative state, is that part in the universe which creates
the feeling of "know"-ness or "I
know" (awareness). <9>The
mutative force,
in the operative state, is that part in the universe which creates
the feeling of "doer"-ness or "I
do" (action). <10>The static (crudifying)
force, in the operative state, is that part in the universe which
creates the feeling of remembrance, or "I
have done" (memory). Also, the
static force (tama
guna) in its operative power, creates the fine ethereal factors
in the first stage of release of its operative power. Ethereal
factor is the storage place for events which happen in the universe
-- Universal Memory,
Akashic Records
(akasha means "ether").
<11>As the
crudifying
power of the
tama guna
continually crudifies the consciousness in the universe, the other
elements, namely cruder ethereal factor, aerial factor, luminous
(heat, light, fire, or the first visible factor in the universe),
liquid factor, and solid factor, will evolve.
<12>The reason for creation of different factors
in different stages is because of the presence of different
proportions of each
creative force.
<13>In the ethereal state, there is more sentient (satva)
force, <14>and in the solid factor more static (tama) force.
<15>Or in other words, the
crudifying
(centripetal) force has a greater grip in the solid factor and a
lesser one in the ethereal factor.
<16>There is not a clear-cut way to separate the
three gunas from
each other as three distinct forces, because of their
transformability to each other and their ability to mix and create
things in different stages (different factors from fine ether to the
most solid).
<17>Also these forces (three
gunas) cannot be separated from the consciousness. <18>Consciousness
and the
three gunas are the
part and parcel of one entity, and they are inseparable. The
three gunas
comprise the
creative force
of the consciousness.
<19>In brief
we can say:
Without
tama guna
there would have been no manifestation and no memory.
<20>Without
raja guna
there would have been no vibration and no movement or action (energy).
<21>Without
satva guna there would have been no
intelligence
and no decision-making.
<22>Without
consciousness there would have been no control (Logic).
<23>The circle above is the symbol for
God as the infinite
consciousness, being all, infinite and indivisible.
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