(Mother shows Satprem some pamphlets printed during Theon's time, "Fundamental Axioms of Cosmic Philosophy," which have just been found among some old papers:)
This is pretty funny! (Laughing, Mother reads:)
In his physical state, man is the supreme evolutor.
There is but one law, the law of Charity, and it is one with Justice.
There is but one disequilibrium: the violation of this law.
The cause of disequilibrium is excess.
Perpetual evolution towards perfection.
Mortality is the result.
Mortality! What a word!
Infant mortality!
Mortality is the effect whose cause is disequilibrium. It is accidental and temporary.
According to Theon, you know, the world has been created and destroyedcreation and pralayasix times. And each time, a particular attri bute was manifested, but since that attri bute couldnt reach fulfillment, the world was swallowed up again. Now its the seventh time, and the attri bute is Equilibrium. And when Equilibrium is established, there will be uninterrupted progresswith no disequilibrium, naturally: that is, a deathless state, with no disintegration.
(Satprem continues the reading:)
There is but one royalty, one aristocracy: the royalty and aristocracy of intelligence.
There are four classifications of terrestrial formations: mineral, vegetal, animal, and psycho-intellectual or human-divine. Among the four, in order, there are no divisions.
Divine unity, embodied and manifested by collective humanity.
It was in both French and English. He called it Fundamental Axioms of Cosmic Philosophy. It was the work of a certain French metaphysician who was well known around the turn of the centuryhis name began with a B. He met Theon in Egypt when Theon was with Blavatski; they started a magazine with an ancient Egyptian name (I cant recall what it was), and then he told Theon (Theon must have already known French) to publish a Cosmic Review and the Cosmic Books. And this B. is the one who formulated all this gobbledygook.
There used to be the name of the printer and the year it was printed, but its not there any more.
Yes, it is: The Little Tlemcenians Press.
It comes from Tlemcen?
Yes.
This B. seems to have had the idea that the perfect man, the immortal man, would be spherical! And then Thon always used to say (he told me the whole story himself): I told him it wasnt possible, it would be too impracticalpeople couldnt kiss! His idea of a joke. Thon also told me that when B. came to Tlemcen (they first met in Egypt, then again in Tlemcen), he saw the house Thon was building and asked, Why is your house painted red? Does it have some mystical significance? And Thon replied, No, its because red goes well with green! So you get the picture. But I dont remember his name any more; in his time he was very well known, he was a contemporary of the fellow who wrote The Great Initiates.
Schur?
Yes, Edouard Schur. He was a contemporary of Edouard Schur, a bit older (I met Schur, by the waya rather hollow individual). His name began with a B and hes the one who formulated these Axioms.
You once mentioned someone called Barley.
Ah, thats it! Barley. Yes, it must be Barley.
Madame Thon, who was English, was the one who wrote, but she used to write stories, while this this looks like Barleys work to me, because I read something at the end, on the last page, which is rather. Its pathetic, actually, its all really pathetic.
(Mother leafs through the pages, laughing as she reads:)
The only legitimate cult is the cult of man.
Yes, thats the superman, whom he calls psycho-intellectual. The superman the only legitimate cult.
It all seems a bit flimsy.
Very. I dont think its worth wasting your time on. But it was interesting to find these first pages because look at the symbol (Mother shows Satprem the first page).
Yes, I saw it!
The symbol is interesting.
It looks like Sri Aurobindos.
I am the one who designed Sri Aurobindos, and I adapted it from this one.
Look, they made the central square very elongated. The one done here is more correct: Pavitra made all the sides equal. But the one for the Cosmic Review was elongated, with the lotus in the center.
Its the same [as the one for the Cosmic Review], only elongated so that the two triangles meet and form a square.
I am keeping this to show Pavitra, because thats what I had first tried to make. But obviously the one we have now is correct.
It was Theon who told me it was Solomons seal.
Now then, did you bring your book?
(Unenthusiastically.) Yes.
(Mother starts leafing through the Axioms again)
They make all kinds of recommendations here: for instance, when you go out of your body you should wear a loose-fitting robe, a robe kept specially for that.
Why is that? Whats the idea?
A question of aura. The idea is that the forces accumulate. And she even used to say it was preferable not to wash the robe!
Ideas.
Theres something true behind.
She also used to say that to stay in your body you should cover your feet with a piece of blue cloth (when you sleep, of course, your feet are bare); put a piece of blue cloth over your feet and it keeps you in your body.
???
Its the result of Madame Thons occult experiences, from which they made a general rule.
But the reason for a loose-fitting robe is obvious: its important not to get cold during such experiences, and there shouldnt be anything hampering you. And also, its important that nothing interfere with your circulation, which diminishes greatly and must be protected.
These things are practical, but.
On the whole its pathetic.
All those things put so neatly into paragraphs always look a bit flimsy and dogmatic.
Yes, theyre stupid. They are affirmations of contradictions I mean affirmations aimed at contradicting certain things. Its not meant at all to affirm something that has been SEEN, seen and transmitted, but to contradict all the stories of original sin and all the religions, which, according to Thon, always address themselves to more or less hostile beings.
Theon also used to say that man was born perfect, but had taken a tumble.
The story of the earthly paradise?
No, Theon always said that the Serpent had nothing to do with Satan, it was the symbol of evolution (Theon was entirely pro-evolution), the spiral path of evolution, and that the earthly paradise, on the contrary, was under the domination of Jehovah, the great Asura who claimed to be unique, who wanted to be the only God. For Theon, there is no such thing as a one and only God: there is the Unthinkable. Its not a God.
But to me this seems to come from his Jewish background. Because Thon was Jewish, even though he never mentioned the fact (the Tlemcen officials made it known: when he arrived he had to tell them who he was). He never spoke of it and he had changed his name. They said he was of Jewish origin, but they could never say whether he was Polish or Russian. At least the person who told me never knew. But for the Jews its the Unthinkable, whose name must not be uttered (it is uttered only once a year, on the Day of Atonement; I think thats what its called). Its the word Yahveh, and it must not be uttered. But the prayers speak of the Elohim, and the Hebrew word Elohim is plural, meaning the invisible lords. So there was no one and only God for Thon, only the unthinkable Formless; and all the invisible beings who claimed to be one and only gods were Asuras.
He used to call Christ That young man! (Laughter) It was very funny.
Anyway, thats the story. I found this again, and it amused me.
Im going to read it.
But its pretty poor stuff.
Its succinct.
(Laughter) Its very meager.
It was obviously a tool for demolishing old notions. Its the idea that man is divine, that he can become divine again through evolution: he was originally immortal and is to be immortal again.
One wonders how people in Europe can break through that Christian carapace; it seems extremely solidits terrible, really!
Oh, indeed it is.
Even in America, mon petit, theyre in its grip. Theyre always falling back into their Christianity.
Its going to be very hard.
I dont know why, but every time I come into contact with a Christian thought, it fills me with anger.
Oh, I understand! Because its true, you know, that an Asura is behind it allnot Christ! Sri Aurobindo considered Christ an Avatar (a minor form of Avatar). One emanation of the Divines aspect of Love, he always said. But what people have made of him! Besides, the religion was founded two hundred years after his death. And its nothing but a political construction, a tool for domination, built with the Lord of Falsehood in the background, who, in his usual fashion, took something true and twisted it.
Its a real hodgepodge, that religion the number of sects! The only common ground is the divinity of Christ, and it became asuric when he was made out to be unique: there has been but ONE incarnation, Christ. Thats just where it all went wrong.
Well see.
It is resisting, resisting everywhere. Its even more resistant than materialism.
Of course! Nothing is more terrible than idealists, theyre the worst. Theyre worse than the bad people.
Oh, if you mean the puritans, the Protestants dreadful! Theyre the worst. Catholicism still retains something of the occult sense, and after all, they have a certain adoration for the Virgin, which keeps them in contact with something thats not asuric.
The last Pope, whos dead now [Pius XII], had broadened both his own mind and Church doctrine a lot: he was a devotee of the Virgin.
But the Protestants turned back to the Father, and so their worship became exactly the worship of a one and only, personal God, an asuric God. And they have fabricated and distorted everything: like asceticism, for instance, and all that sort of thingeverything they touched was twisted and spoiled.
Oh, read me your book!
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December 12, 1962
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