Mal Cosmique
Mal Cosmique.
en cours de traduction
Source du Mal (leçon 120)
You will make a grievous mistake by considering the entities of the
various Degrees and Orders of the White Lodge as finished products of
Life, that is, as perfected beings in the sense that God is perfect, for so
long as the Ego retains a body, whether that body is spiritual, astral, superastral,
or physical it cannot be perfect in the sense that the Absolute is
perfect. The gulf between spirit and matter is impassable ; matter must be
reduced to pure energy before that gulf car be crossed.
So long as man retains the qualities of material existence, so long will he be dominated, to a greater or less extent, by the force of Jealousy ; he frequently confuses that force with the force of Zeal, which is rot surprising, as Zeal is the positive aspect of the force of which Jealousy is the negative aspect, and even a high Initiate may be jealous in the sense that Moses proclaims God to be jealous, that is, jealous for good instead of jealous of good.
I refer to this particular force among the many which are active in matter, for the reason that it is of the form of energy which is the basic principle of what man calls Evil.
The word Inertia comes nearer to expressing an idea of the character of the energy from which the qualities termed evil may develop than any other word in common use, and its purpose in the scheme of manifestation should be evident to the deep student of the mysteries of physics and metaphysics.
In one of the recent inventions of man, the phonograph, you have somewhat of an illustration of the processes of creation and manifestation of life by means of the creative impregnating energy of Sound.
The atomic substance of a note or a single utterance, traveling on etheric waves, is gathered up in a funnel shaped instrument of wood or metal and condensed to a single point. The concentrated force thus gathered is rot only powerful enough to make a visible indentation on some soft material but also carries and deposits the very substance of the utterance (the sounds), within the indentations. The sounds may be later reproduced when the point of another instrument attached to a corresponding funnel contacts the indentations which in the meantime have been transferred to a denser, heavier body termed a record. When the condensed sound stored up in the minute section of space created by the note or utterance meets the point in the second instrument by the action of friction it at once commences to expand, and finally comes forth through the second funnel with the same volume and force of its original utterance.
Correspondingly, the creative energy of Sound carried by Light is condensed, conserved and stored up in an infinitesimal point and deposited in the spaces surrounding the molecules of the vital essence of the semen of the mate and the ovum of the female.
These spaces partake of the nature of vortices and give entrance to or egress from interior states of life and also correspond to funnels. When the vital essence is deposited in the female uterus (which also corresponds to a funnel), the Inertia which has hitherto restrained it by shutting off the pranic forces in the spaces has been overcome, the two vital points have been released by physical contact and conception is concluded.
The principle of Form, impelled by Fohat (Sound), then guides the formation of the foetus to maturity.
The forbidden fruit of the Edenic Tree, the tree of good and evil, has its correspondence in the energy of Inertia. It is rot difficult to see how the mind of the student almost invariably rushes to the subject of creative power and function at the mention of the Tree of good and evil, though he may not be able to give a logical reason for it.
To render this truth comprehensible to those who are not analytical by nature is somewhat difficult, yet some concept of it is requisite to an understanding of the mystery of life. To gain this concept you must first consider all matter, force, and energy as in a state of pralaya and then imagine the effect of the first thrill, the action of Fohat (the concealed energy of sound), as all the hitherto composite, sleeping energies are aroused to action by "the Word", and separation between the different forms of energy occurs in perfect sequence.
Space as known to man had no existence previous to the action of sound – the Word – but commences to manifest with the expulsion of the first separated energy, and continues to grow with each release of energy until the first half of a. Manvantara is completed when with the indrawing of these expelled energies space also disappears. But what is more germane to our present subject – the source of Evil – is the Tact that Inertia is the first one of various forms of energy to be released in the process of the creation of Space.
We cannot consider either spiritual Light or Sound as forms of energy possible of release in any one world period in considering this particular subject, for spiritual Light is the revealing power of Sound ; the two are indissolubly united – they are the universal Androgyne. In other words, Light carries the creative word or sound which produces the thrill before mentioned at the commencement of such a world period.
As Light, impregnated by Sound, is breaking away from (darkness) Pralaya it meets the power of resistance stored up in Darkness, and in the great effort to overcome that resistance the energy of Inertia is brought forth from the same potential source, and this also must be struggled with and overcome before mass motion can be fully established and Light and Sound be left free to continue their function of creation in other fields throughout the cyclic round of Time.
Between the close of the third cyclic round and the beginning of the fourth round of every cosmic age, that which may be designated as the universal world germ is created as a result of the interaction and struggle of the aforementioned powers and energies within space.
As has been previously stated by me, impregnation is requisite to manifestation, whether that manifestation be the energies of Light and Sound, a cell of primordial matter, the form of a man, or any other thing or creature, and the universal world germ is conceived as a result of the impregnation of Space by the energies released in the before-mentioned struggle with Inertia.
The world germ contains in embryo the substance of all the world's suns, stars, and planets which will later come into manifestation as matter on the physical plane, within Space and Time, by means of the great Androgyne – Light and Sound.
All the processes, energies and functions instrumental in the creation of the world germ are latent in every differentiation of that germ and their action in such creation and differentiation is repeated and reproduced in each embryo when it is separated from the parent germ, and commences to build its individual world in whatever kingdom it is first to enter in natures realms.
Therefore each embryonic world must pass through a like struggle with Inertia in a condition corresponding to darkness – a negative state and in the struggle the forces which subsequently manifest as evil qualities in matter are pet free, and subsequently attracted to the forms of life in process of creation and they are thus attracted to the latter as a result of past karma ; consequently in our search for the ultimate source of evil we cannot stop short of the energy of Inertia.
(source : Les Enseignements du Temple de Maître Hilarion)
Mal Cosmique.
(en cours de rédaction à partir des oeuvres d'Alice Bailey)
Voir aussi
- Magie Noire (oeuvrant à l'inverse de la Magie Blanche)
- Loge Noire (oeuvrant sur d'autres plans que la Fraternité Blanche)