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The Point Gateway to Reality - Jack Paterson |
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All Exists in a Point |
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The opening lines of the Proem in the Secret Doctrine by H P Blavatsky describe first a white disc and then the same disc1 with a dot in the centre. From this dot will emanate the whole manifested Universe. According to the esoteric tradition the whole of the Universe as we know it still exists in a point and can be withdrawn into that point when its period of existence is complete. |
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The concept of the whole being in a point is well understood by the Tibetans and used by them as an aid to meditation as Lama Govinda explains: |
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"If we speak of the space-experience in meditation, we are dealing with an entirely different dimension (in connection with which our familiar ‘third dimension’ only serves as a simile or a starting point). In this space-experience the temporal sequence is converted into a simultaneous coexistence, the side by side existence of things into a state of mutual inter-penetration and this again does not remain static but becomes a living continuum, in which time and space and integrated into that incommensurable "point like" unity, which in Tibetan is called "thig-le" and in Sanskrit "bindu". This word which has many meanings, like "point, dot, zero, drop, germ, seed, semen," etc. occupies an important place in the terminology and practice of meditation. |
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"It signifies the concentrative starting point in the unfoldment of ‘inner-space’ in meditation, as also the last point of its ultimate integration. It is the point from which inner and outer space have their origin and in which they become one again.2 |
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References |
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The Secret Doctrine, H.P. Blavatsky. T.P.H. Adyar, 1962, Vol. I p. 69. |
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© "Theosophy" (September 2000) published by The Theosophical Society in New Zealand Inc., 18 Belvedere Street, Epsom, Auckland 1003, New Zealand. Website: www.theosophy.org. Reprinted with permission. |
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