Besides, Blavatsky's extensively developed trinitarian philosophy based on the symbolism of father, mother and child, below are a couple of suggestive passages that evoke a cosmic and metaphysical perspective of the family, where is described a holistic, organic view of the familial unit, not unlike the symbolism of the tree, which Blavatsky, in The Key to Theosophy, uses to explain the notion of universal brother/sisterhood; also related to the concept of the Macrocosm and Microcosm Correspondence :
This mysterious process of a nine-months formation the kabalists call the
completion of the "individual cycle of evolution." As the foetus
develops from the liquor amnii in the womb, so the earths germinate
from the universal ether, or astral fluid, in the womb of the universe. These
cosmic children, like their pigmy inhabitants, are first nuclei; then ovules;
then gradually mature; and becoming mothers in their turn, develop mineral,
vegetable, animal, and human forms. From centre to circumference, from the
imperceptible vesicle to the uttermost conceivable bounds of the cosmos, these
glorious thinkers, the kabalists, trace cycle merging into cycle, containing
and contained in an endless series.
The embryo evolving in its pre-natal
sphere, the individual in his family, the family in the state, the state in
mankind, the earth in our system, that system in its central universe, the
universe in the cosmos, and the cosmos in the First Cause: — the Boundless and
Endless. So runs their philosophy of evolution:
"All are but parts of one stupendous whole,
Whose body Nature is; and God the Soul."
"Worlds without number
Lie in this bosom like children." (Alexander
Pope, An Essay on
Man, 1734)
(Isis Unveiled, Vol. I, pp. 389-90)
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