From the Lambdoma of the Genesis of Concepts:
4.5 Design – Design is the radiant tracing of Thought
5.4 Canon – The Canon is the harmonizing Precept
This Polarity of Concepts expresses and realizes the first relationship between:
4.4 Mannequin – The Mannequin is the reflection of Life
5.5 Manifestation – Manifestation is the emergence
of the divine Design
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On the degree of summary Considering, we attempt to perceive and dwell the quadripartite relationship between Mannequin, Manifestation, Design and Canon, that we are able to outline as a squaring of the circle, on the centre between the World of Concepts (circle) and that of Types (sq.).
Concepts are actual energies and dwelling Entities, they’re the powers that produce precipitates, and directing our contemplation and reflection to those Sources of occasions and issues raises our vibration and notion of existence.
Man attracts his conclusions from the info of life, evaluating the proof, nevertheless, with manifesta-tions already previous. The conditioning of life by solely what has been already skilled units that sluggish tempo to progress which is adopted by man. The severing of concepts from the present of life arrests humanity on the level the place it manifests uncertainty of additional progress.
Life is comprised of an everlasting succession of concepts and of manifestations of cosmic energies. How can a spirit who doesn’t mission his thought into the realm of concepts undertake the idea of Infinity! … [1]
Past all finite existences and secondary causes, all legal guidelines, concepts and rules, there’s an Intelligence or Thoughts [nous], the primary precept of all rules, the Supreme Concept on which all different concepts are grounded… the final word substance from which all issues derive their being and essence, the primary and environment friendly reason behind all of the order, and concord, and wonder and excellency, and goodness, which pervades the Universe. [2]
The Precept, one and triune, is subsequently recognized as a reference or Mannequin (4/4) that displays Life into manifestation.
The Mannequin is activated by divine Thought (1/5), the realizing energy of Life, by its incessant Vibration (2/5) or quiver of Substance, and oriented by its very important route, that Ray which initiatives it into House as Plan (3/5). Thought carves on it its personal radiant tracing, the Design (4/5) from which the Manifestation (5/5) emerges, by which Life is unfold out and conditioned advert infinitum, in response to the Canon (5/4), the harmonizing precept of the Mannequin.
The twin, manifold and multiform Manifestation, whereas unfolding within the innumerable variants of the One, stays unitary.
The Mannequin is recognised at that degree the place the world of Concepts and that of varieties come into contact and create a proper relationship: man is named to put himself on the intuitive degree, the fourth of the divine expression, with a purpose to carry out his personal activity, that’s to embody the bridge between Heaven and Earth, reflecting one into the opposite.
So work, not for pleasure however in direction of it; not for reward, however from the inside want to assist; not for gratitude, however from the urge that comes from having seen the imaginative and prescient and realisation of the half it’s important to play in bringing that imaginative and prescient all the way down to earth. [3]
There will be no goal kind on Earth (nor within the Universe both), with out its astral prototype being first shaped in House. From Phidias all the way down to the humblest workman within the ceramic artwork – a sculptor has needed to create to start with a mannequin in his thoughts, then sketch it in a single and two dimensional strains, after which solely can he reproduce it in a 3 dimensional or goal determine. And if human thoughts is a dwelling demonstration of such successive levels within the means of evolution – how can or not it’s in any other case when Nature’s Thoughts and inventive powers are involved? [4]
The Mannequin carries inside itself the common worth of concord which is measure, relationship, rightness, proportion, stability, fact, magnificence… As soon as expressed and carried out, concord eliminates conflicts, distances and any sort of separation.
Every Concept is a reference unit that focuses on the Mannequin (4/4), the reflection of Life, and identifies it inside itself.
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To realize magnificence, it’s not sufficient to compose figures in response to harmonious guidelines, simply as it’s not sufficient to repeat an impressive work with a purpose to construct in a elegant means, however it’s needed that every one the ideas, needs, motivations and actions of those that create are coherent with one another and with the common intention. Provided that these circumstances happen will the work of man resist and function in House with the constructive energy of its hearth.
The fourth, central degree will not be a spot of peace, however a state wherein concord is achieved by battle: humanity is consistently in such a context and it’s troublesome for males to acquire an actual stability however, as fourth kingdom of nature, now we have the duty of bringing all the way down to earth that concord which, with out the motion of man, couldn’t be attained.
“Creation is performed out between 4 and 5”: the Mannequin displays the Will of the Creator/Logos in response to its personal constructive Canon and initiatives it into the Manifestation by an govt Design.
4 meets 5, which within the photo voltaic system are expressed by Mercury and Venus:
Mercury expresses the fourth Ray and is that Information who confidently walks the tightrope over spatial abysses: “fantastically, rigorously, and fleetly”. He’s the stability between unmanifest and manifest and he’s the good Grasp of imitation and concord.
Resulting from its excessive frequency He’s the accelerator of evolution and his nice present is Magnificence: ruled by Mercury, all Concepts are lovely. Within the nice photo voltaic Work Mercury has the activity of reflecting the upper world, the third Degree, into the fifth, the psychological.
Venus expresses the fifth Ray, the precept of the mind, and workout routines the magic of the fifth emanation, that’s, the mysterious means to create dualism: Formulation precipitate as Types and these start to manifest their content material.
The assembly between these two central Luminaries is the important premise for the start of appearances, so far as the Plan of the System [solar, planetary or human] is worried, as a result of one is imitative (4) and the opposite constructive (5), with a purpose to manifest the legislation of the Mannequin in response to canons of Magnificence, these ‘unalterable sources of infinite meanings’.
There’s nothing that may be separated from a mannequin and there’s no mannequin disconnected from the supreme supply, Life, of which it’s the reflection and the bridge, that, by connecting excessive and low, permits the Evolution of consciousness, and that’s travelled by relentlessly descending into kind and ascending in direction of the One.
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On the base of classicism there’s the rule that underlies the stability and the indissoluble knot of Greek artwork is the Canon that permits artists to bind collectively the concord and motion of their everlasting artworks. The Canon is predicated on the elemental precept of pondus, a Latin time period that carries the worth of stathmòs, of stability, a dynamic stability as a result of the statue has its stability even when it’s in obvious movement.
Dynamic stability turns into a vital situation, which is able to reverberate all through the historical past of artwork transcending the occasions, to the purpose of being thought-about elementary even by artists reminiscent of Wassily Kandinsky who, with the pondus (weight, worth, gravitas) of the visible components on the portray, lays the foundations of summary artwork. In artwork there’s subsequently an ongoing seek for stability, for a canon that brings concord to the represented determine.
The Greek canon, subsequently, results in the proportion, in measure and weight, of the elements with the entire and right here it has been outlined as a harmonizing precept which, utilized to completely different works, makes them acceptable to their operate. By following a given canon, harmonic actions are created, proportionate to a single worth criterion.
This inevitably leads us to the golden part, the divine proportion, and to the affirmation of the connection between macrocosm and microcosm, between the complete and the half, between the higher and the lesser half, replicating itself infinitely and within the Infinite.
In boundless concord is contained the entire cosmic creativeness. Solely concord can disclose to the planet the upper spheres. Solely concord can set up the chain of aspirations to the far-off worlds. The conception of the far-off worlds ought to be utilized to all which strives towards perfection. Subsequently Our harmonies are so highly effective. The fireplace of the facilities is concord; the hearth of the spirit is concord; the hearth of the guts is concord. [5]
The artist has at all times needed to create, to start with, a mannequin in his thoughts, then to signify it by a design, in response to a canon and at last to manifest it in an goal determine: if man can do that it’s as a result of he imitates the infinite work of the common Thoughts, thus aligning with the criterion of magnificence utilized by Life to precise itself within the works of nature.
There is no such thing as a finite or primordial design, besides in relation to organized matter. The mission is Kyen, a trigger that arises from a main trigger. The underlying design has at all times existed within the one everlasting and unborn atom, or central level, which is discovered in all places and nowhere… [6]
On the foundation of the manifested Universe is Thought (1.5), the realizing energy of Life which displays its causal Gentle in House by the Mannequin, thus expressing the Plan which is the projection of divine Thought and embodies the Goal of the Lord of the World.
So the divine Goal emerges by a rhythmic, progressive, ordered and incisive Plan-Design: the Goal impresses its Design on the Plan, the radiant tracing of Thought, following the Canon, with the next emergence of the Manifestation which is realised at completely different ranges, from the extra delicate ones to the denser ones, because of the Thinkers, to the purpose of falling into the infinity of varieties wherein Life is confined for a sure time; then, we arrive on the inversion of movement wherein the method of abstraction and liberation begins, bringing the elements again to the One.
The Manifestation on Earth designs this Plan in any respect ranges and, so far as we’re involved, we should interpret and specific it in an ever extra harmonious means.
Requirements are shifting issues and alter with man’s development in direction of divinity. They range additionally in response to man’s future as it’s affected by his time and age, his nature and environment. They alter additionally in response to the purpose of evolutionary growth. The usual for attainment will not be immediately what it was one thousand years in the past, nor a thousand years therefore will or not it’s what it’s immediately. [7]
The Concept or root of each manifestation sinks into boundless areas of Actuality and horizons of Thought. In keeping with the esoteric Custom, that widespread Root of Everlasting Knowledge from which all of the mysteries, religions and civilisations of human historical past have developed, your complete universe is a manifestation and a conditioned image of the one Absolute Actuality that comprises it.
“There’s one Boundless Immutable Precept; one Absolute Actuality which, antecedes all manifested conditioned Being. It’s past the vary and attain of any human thought or expression. The manifested Universe is contained inside this Absolute Actuality and is a conditioned image of it.” On this “one Beness lies hid its coeternal and coeval emanation or inherent radiation” [8], reason behind its periodic manifestation.
The Teachings inform us that, so far as our photo voltaic System is worried, along with the seven Rays, twelve inventive Hierarchies (in assonance with the 12 indicators of the Zodiac and the planets recognised by Astrology), seven of that are “manifest and into expression at a planetary degree”, contribute to its building. Such Hierarchies are the lives and substance of all that exists.
Among the many manifest inventive hierarchies, the human being is the “least aware creator”, a monad or life which, by evolution, has acquired the capability of self-consciousness on a person degree, able to reflecting in itself the realities of creation and manifestation. Within the hierarchical scale of aware creators of the photo voltaic system, the monad or human unit is the truth is positioned on the third diploma, after the photo voltaic and planetary Logoi.
Within the means of Creation, the idea of a bodily kind marks an vital and decisive cycle: it’s the lowest level of descent so far as the manifestation of Life is worried, which, as a result of weight of its shell and the ensuing very sluggish vibration, finds a restrict that should be overcome with the activation of consciousness, which, by venturing into the cycle of existence, goals at lightening the shape with a purpose to progressively free Life.
Nature is the looks of the bodily physique of the Logos, and the legal guidelines of nature are the legal guidelines governing the pure processes of that physique. The Lifetime of God, His vitality, and vitality, are present in each manifested atom; His essence indwells all varieties. This we name Spirit, but He Himself is apart from these varieties, simply as man is aware of himself to be apart from his our bodies. He is aware of himself to be a will, and a goal, and as he progresses in evolution that goal and can turn into to him ever extra consciously outlined. So with the planetary Logos and photo voltaic Logos. They dwell inside, but are discovered with out, the planetary scheme or photo voltaic system. [9]
In an effort to attain a brand new human Tradition and, subsequently, a brand new esoteric world Faith, in response to the work pointers of the present 12 months 6.1, the synthesis of energies 4.5 – 5.4 is essential as a result of listed below are at play the divine virtues that understand the a part of the hierarchical Plan which is able to give life, consciousness and kind to the civilisation of the age of Aquarius.
The 4 produces pictures with out figures, the 5 gives for his or her formal execution and their collaboration is ideal as a result of the primary imitates the figures and the second creates them, inflicting a terrific stream of precipitates that can seem within the concrete world and modify it.
Man has the chance to actively take part within the creation of his personal future cultural state, which is able to give start to the following stream of planetary civilisation. The difficulties are many as a result of, for the reason that building of the Work is only psychological, it won’t be accepted by all these consciousnesses that imagine solely in concreteness and practicality and that admit solely in a confused means the potential of psychological constructive energy. All this, nevertheless, is going down as a result of the Educating and the upper assist are making ready us for this extra elevated type of human exercise, with out resorting to banal sensible strategies that act on the current results, relatively than collaborating to kind their causes.
Love was the impelling motive for manifestation, and adore it is that retains all in ordered sequence; love bears all on the trail of return to the Father’s bosom, and love ultimately perfects all that’s. [10]
from the Heavens to the Earth, from the Earth to the Heavens
This text is revealed in assonance with the heliocentric conjunction between Mercury and Venus, sacred to the 4th and 5th Ray.
