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why of things -- why and how things are as they are. Philosophy is one phase of a triform method of
understanding the nature of nature, of universal nature, and of its multiform and multifold workings, and
philosophy cannot be separated from the other two phases (science and religion), if we wish to gain a
true and complete picture of things as they are in themselves. It is a capital mistake of Western thought to
suppose that science, religion, and philosophy are three separate and unrelated operations of thought. The
idea when pondered upon is immediately seen to be ludicrously false, because all these three are but
phases of operations of human consciousness. Not one of these three -- philosophy, religion, or science --
can be divorced from the other two, and if the attempt be made so to divorce them, the result is spiritual
and intellectual dissatisfaction, and the mind senses an incompleteness. Consequently any philosophy
which is unscientific and irreligious, or any religion which is unscientific and unphilosophical, and any
science which is unphilosophical and unreligious, is de facto erroneous because incomplete. These three
are simply three aspects or phases of a fundamental reality which is consciousness.
Philosophy is that aspect of the human consciousness which is correlative, and which seeks the bonds of
union among things and exposes them, when found, as existing in the manifold and diverse forms of
natural processes and the so-called laws which demonstrate their existence. (See also Religion, Science)
Pitri(s)
(Sanskrit) A word meaning "father." There are seven (or ten) classes of pitris. They are called "fathers"
because they are more particularly the actual progenitors of our lower principles; whereas the
dhyani-chohans are actually, in one most important sense, our own selves. We were born from them; we
were the monads, we were the atoms, the souls, projected, sent forth, emanated, by the dhyanis.
The pitris, for easy understanding, may be divided into two great groups, the solar and lunar. The lunar
pitris or barhishads, as the name implies, came from the moon-chain; while the solar pitris whom we may
group under the expressive name agnishvatta-pitris are those dhyan-chohans which have not the physical
"creative fire," because they belong to a much superior sphere of being, but they have all the fires of the
spiritual-intellectual realms active or latent within them as the case may be. In preceding manvantaras
they had finished their evolution so far as the realms of astral and physical matter were concerned, and
when the proper time came in the cycling ages, the agnishvatta-pitris came to the rescue of those who
had only the physical creative fire, or barhishad-pitris, the lunar pitris, inspiring and enlightening these
lower pitris with the spiritual and intellectual energies or "fires."
In other words, the lunar pitris may briefly be said to be those consciousness-centers in the human
constitution which feel humanly, which feel instinctually, and which possess the brain-mind mentality.
The agnishvatta-pitris are those monadic centers of the human constitution which are of a purely spiritual
type. (See also Agnishvatas, Lunar Pitris)
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Plane(s)
This is a word used in theosophy for the various ranges or steps of the hierarchical ladder of lives which
blend into each other. There are no solutions of continuity in space, either in inner and invisible space or
in outward and visible space. The physical world grades off into the astral world, which grades off again
into a world higher than it, the world which is superior to the astral world; and so it continues throughout
the series of hierarchical steps which compose a universe such as our universe. Remember also that the
boundless All is filled full with universes, some so much greater than ours that the utmost reach of our
imagination cannot conceive of them.
To quote H. P. Blavatsky in this connection, in her Theosophical Glossary under this same head:
"As used in Occultism, the term denotes the range or extent of some state of consciousness,
or of the perceptive power of a particular set of senses, or the action of a particular force, or
the state of matter corresponding to any of the above." (See also Hierarchy)
Planetary Chain
Every kosmic body or globe, be it sun or planet, nebula or comet, atom or electron, is a composite entity
formed of or comprised of inner and invisible energies and substances and of an outer, to us, and often
visible, to us, physical vehicle or body. These elements all together number seven (or twelve), being what
is called in theosophy the seven principles or elements of every self-contained entity; in other words, of
every individual life-center.
Thus every one of the physical globes that we see scattered over the fields of space is accompanied by
six invisible and superior globes, forming what in theosophy is called a chain. This is the case with every
sun or star, with every planet, and with every moon of every planet. It is likewise the case with the
nebulae and the comets as above stated: all are septiform entities, all have a sevenfold constitution, even
as man has, who is a copy in the little of what the universe is in the great, there being for us one life in
that universe, one natural system of "laws" in that universe. Every entity in the universe is an inseparable
part of it; therefore what is in the whole is in every part, because the part cannot contain anything that the
whole does not contain, the part cannot be greater than the whole.
Our own earth-chain is composed of seven (or twelve) globes, of which only one, our earth, is visible on
this our earth plane to our physical sense apparatus, because that apparatus is builded or rather evolved to
cognize this earth plane and none other. But the populations of all the seven (or twelve) globes of this
earth-chain pass in succession, and following each other, from globe to globe, thus gaining experience of
energy and matter and consciousness on all the various planes and spheres that this chain comprises.
The other six (or eleven) globes of our earth-chain are invisible to our physical sense, of course; and,
limiting our explanation only to the manifest seven globes of the complete chain of twelve globes, the six
globes other and higher than the earth exist two by two, on three planes of the solar system superior to
our physical plane where our earth-globe is -- this our earth. These three superior planes or worlds are
each one superior to the world or plane immediately beneath or inferior to it.
Our earth-globe is the fourth and lowest of all the manifest seven globes of our earth-chain. Three globes
precede it on the descending or shadowy arc, and three globes follow it on the ascending or luminous arc
of evolution. The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky and the more recent work, Fundamentals of the
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Esoteric Philosophy (1932), contain most suggestive material for the student interested in this phase of
the esoteric philosophy. (See also Ascending Arc)
Planetary Spirit(s)
Every celestial body in space, of whatever kind or type, is under the overseeing and directing influence
of a hierarchy of spiritual and quasi-spiritual and astral beings, who in their aggregate are generalized
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