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| Tantric cosmological manuscript, 1700s |
Blavatsky and Big Bang cosmology - studies the relation between Eastern Manvantara/Pralaya cyclical theories of cosmology with modern Big Bounce cosmological theory. (Notes 5 and 13 refer to concepts from C.W. Leadbeater and not Blavatsky, but do not affect the main thesis).
Wash, Rinse, Repeat. The Cosmical Cycle of Manifestation-Dissolution. Defined, or Redefined - Robert Hütwohl
The “Big Bang” theory is of course, the physical theory, and cannot accommodate the metaphysical realms, but nevertheless the “as above, so below” correspondence or analogy (the “old Hermetic axiom” as Blavatsky calls it) should have some validity.
http://prajnaquest.fr/blog/wash-rinse-repeat-the-cosmical-cycle-of-manifestation-dissolution-defined-or-redefined/
PS – the following definitions from Blavatsky’s writing could be compared with the Bing Bang theory (as could Pythagorean or Tantric cosmologies):
Point within a Circle. In its esoteric meaning the first unmanifested logos appearing on the infinite and shoreless expanse of Space, represented by the Circle. It is the plane of Infinity and Absoluteness. This is only one of the numberless and hidden meanings of this symbol, which is the most important of all the geometrical figures used in metaphysical emblematology. As to the Masons, they have made of the point “an individual brother” whose duty to God and man is bounded by the circle, and have added John the Baptist and John the Evangelist to keep company with the “brother”, representing them under two perpendicular parallel lines (Theosophical Glossary)
Point in the Mundane Egg: the germ within the latter which will become the Universe, the ALL, the boundless, periodical Kosmos, this germ being latent and active, periodically and by turns. (The Secret Docrine Vol.I, p.1)
Article on Science and Religion article mentions Esoteric Buddhism:
Modernity and metaphysics – James Gallant
Other worlds in the chain were of a materiality too subtle for people to observe—at least most people!—and evolution was a principle at work in all of the worlds not only in animate, vegetable, and mineral life, but in humans during multiple reincarnations in various of these worlds. Across millions of years, each of the seven worlds had evolved to the point of being able to sustain life forms, before losing the capacity to do so, then regaining it once more, evolving in the process as did life forms as they moved around and around the chain.
http://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/2016/08/modernity-metaphysics/
ps- Since the famous Mars and Mercury question gets misconstrued, see link below:
http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/path/v08n04p97_mars-and-mercury.htm
Overview of reincarnation beliefs mentions Blavatsky:
An Objective View of Reincarnation - Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge
http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2016/10/25/an-objective-view-of-reincarnation-2/
Alternative medicine article mentions Blavatsky’s role in promoting Eastern philosophy:
Holistic vs. Conventional - Michael Braunstein
http://thereader.com/specials/holistic_vs-_conventional/
David Reigle
on Space in the Secret Doctrine
There's a new lengthy post at this Stanzas research blog:
http://prajnaquest.fr/blog/
Good
Video lectures on Chains and Rounds
Adam
Warcup presents a nice series of letters on the difficult subject of chains and
rounds, based on his book, Cyclic Evolution:
http://www.theosophycanada.com/adam-warcup-on-cyclic-evolution.php
