A Page Missing from Volume III (1897) of "The Secret Doctrine"

Below is a transcription of the above manuscript page in Madame Blavatsky's handwriting:

"The seven [regions] (1) of Bhumi, hang by golden threads [beams or rays]
from the Spiritual central Sun [or "God"].
Higher than all, a Watcher for each [region].
The Suras (2) come down this [beam].
They cross the six and reach the Seventh [our earth] .
They are our mother earth's [Bhumi] supporters [or guardians].
The eighth watches over the [seven] watchers (3)."

To make it clearer: in each of the seven Root-Races, and in every one of the seven regions into which the Occult Doctrine divides our globe, there appears from the dawn of Humanity the "Watcher" assigned to it in the eternity of the Aeon. He comes first in his own "form," then each time as an Avatara. ________________________________________________________________________________

(1) In every ancient cosmography the universe and the earth are divided into seven parts or regions.

(2) Suras are in the Vedas deities, or beings, connected with the Sun; in their occult meaning they are the seven chief watchers or guardians of our planetary system. They are positively identical with the 'Seven Spirits of the Stars." The Suras are connected in practical Occultism with the Seven Yogic powers. One of these, Laghima(n) or "the faculty of assuming levity," is illustrated in a Purana as rising and descending along a sunbeam to the solar orb with its mysteries; e.g., Khatvanga, in Vishnu-Purana (Book IV, ch. iv). "It must be equally easy to the adept to travel a ray downwards," remarks Fitzedward Hall. And why not, if the action is understood in its right and correct sense?

(3) Eight great Gods are often reckoned, as there are eight points of the compass, four cardinal and four intermediate points over which preside also inferior Lokapalas or the "doubles" of the greater Gods. Yet, in many instances where the number eight is given, it is only a kind of exoteric shell. Every globe, however, is divided into seven regions, as 7 x 7 = 49 is the mystic number par excellence.

It is suggested that the text from the above missing page should be inserted into the text on page 369 as found in Volume 3 of THE SECRET DOCTRINE:

The theory of rebirth must be set forth by Occultists, and then applied to special cases. The right comprehension of this psychic fact is based upon a correct view of that group of celestial Beings who are universally called the seven Primeval Gods or Angels - our Dhyani-Chohans - the "Seven Primeval Rays" or Powers, adopted later on by the Christian Religion as the "Seven Angels of the Presence." Arupa, formless, at the upper rung of the ladder of Being, materializing more and more as they descend in the scale of objectivity and form, ending in the grossest and most imperfect of the Hierarchy, man - it is the former purely spiritual group that is pointed out to us, in our Occult teaching, as the nursery and fountainhead of human beings. Therein germinates that consciousness which is the earliest manifestation from causal Consciousness - the Alpha and Omega of divine being and life forever. And as it proceeds downward through every phase of existence descending through man, through animal and plant, it ends its descent only in the mineral. It is represented by the double triangle - the most mysterious and the most suggestive of all mystic signs, for it is a double glyph, embracing spiritual and physical consciousness and life, the former triangle running upwards, and the lower downwards, both interlaced, and showing the various planes of the twice-seven modes of consciousness, the fourteen spheres of existence, the Lokas of the Brahmans.

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The reader may now be able to obtain a clearer comprehension of the whole thing. He will also see what is meant by the "Watchers," there being one placed as the Guardian or Regent over each of the seven divisions or regions of the earth, according to old traditions, as there is one to watch over and guide every one of the fourteen worlds or Lokas. But it is not with any of these that we are at present concerned, but with the "Seven Breaths," so-called, that furnish man with his immortal Monad in his cyclic pilgrimage.

The Commentary on the Book of Dzyan says:

Descending on his region first as Lord of Glory, the Flame (or Breath), having called into conscious being the highest of the Emanations of that special region, ascends from it again to Its primeval seat, whence It watches over and guides Its countless Beams (Monads). It chooses as Its Avatâras only those who had the Seven Virtues in them in their previous incarnation. As for the rest, It overshadows each with one of Its countless beams. . . . Yet even the "beam" is a part of the Lord of Lords.