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)
In the Greek and Latin
churches -- which regard marriage as one of the sacraments -- the officiating
priest during the marriage ceremony represents the apex of the triangle; the
bride its left feminine side and the bridegroom the right one, while the
horizontal line is symbolised by the row of witness, the bridesmaids and
best-men.
But behind the priest there is the altar with its mysterious
containments and symbolic meaning, inside of which no one but the consecrated
priests ought to enter. In the early days of Christianity the marriage ceremony
was a mystery and a true symbol. Now, however, even the churches have lost the
true meaning of this symbolism. (The Secret Doctrine. Vol. 1 , p. 614 fn)
It is a truism of too long standing, a policy
acted upon by every civilized nation from antiquity, that the prosperity
of every state is based upon the orderly establishment of family
principles. Nor is anyone likely to deny that social ethics depend largely upon
the early education received by the growing-up generations. On whom does
the duty devolve of guiding that education from early childhood? Who can
do so better than a loving mother, once that her moral worth is recognised
by all, and that no evil report has ever sullied her fame? The youth and
his later intellectual training may well be left to the firmer hand of the
father: the care of his childhood belongs by all divine and human rights to the mother
alone; the parent who gave her offspring not only a part of her flesh and
blood, but a portion likewise of her immortal soul— that which shall
create hereafter the real man, the true EGO. This is the A B C of the
life-duties of mankind; and it is the first duty of those in power to
guard the sacred maternal rights against any brutal violation. (Our 19th Century Christian Ethics [Lucifer, Vol. II, No. 12,
August, 1888, pp. 482-484], Collected Writings, Vol. 10, p. 83)
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