from The Jewel in the Lotus, Volume One of the Seven Pillars of Ancient Wisdom, by D. Douglas Baker. First Edition, Douglas Baker, High Road, Essendon, Herts., England (no date):
from The Jewel in the Lotus, Volume One of the Seven Pillars
of Ancient Wisdom, by D. Douglas Baker. First Edition, Douglas
Baker, High Road, Essendon, Herts., England (no date):
There are seven postulates of Ancient Wisdom that are basic
to progress in the study of the occult in any sort of depth. Further,
these postulates must be lived if the life of the student is to
take the Path of Spiritual unfoldment with any real prospect of
success.
(i) Hylozism, the proposition that all things, organic or inorganic,
are filled with life from the tiniest atom to the greatest galaxy.
(ii) Each and all of these live within the body of a greater being.
(iii) Each is made in the image of "God", i.e. in the
image of the one "in whom it lives and moves and has its
being."
(iv) There is a continuim which links all living things together
so that the smallest cell does not pulsate without its effects
being felt in the furthest reaches of the solar system.
(v) Our solar system has a sepentary nature: it is constructed
out of energies which resonate to seven qualities.
(vi) The solidity and tangibleness of the material world about
us is an illusion. It is part of maya.(1) All is energy manifesting
as Fire and Form. Energy and matter are interchangeable.
(vii) There is no death, only change of state. Birth and rebirth
are endless until karma is satisified and then reincarnation ceases.
These postulates have been listed in such a way that comprehension
of the first leads to better understanding of those which follow.
Equally so, through progressive identification with them in daily
living there comes corresponding heightened spiritual awareness
and revelation.
(1) Maya: Illusion; the cosmic power which renders phenomenal
existence and the perceptions thereof possible. In Hindu philosophy
that alone which is changeless and eternal is called reality;
all that which is subject to change through decay and differentiation
and which has therefore a begiinning and an end is regarded as
maya -- illusion.
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