However, there is no definite
species of the universe. I speak according to the figure and mass; there
is no definite species of the intellect; the affections are not a
definite species.
[X] Fire, Flame, Day, Smoke, Night, and so on ... These are all
names of various deities which preside over the Cosmo-psychic
Powers.--("The Secret Doctrine.")
LAO. These two powers of the soul, then, never are nor can be perfect
for the object, if they refer to it infinitely?
LIB. So it would be if this infinite were by negative privation or
privative negation of the end, as it is for a more positive affirmation
of the end, infinite and endless.[Y]
[Y] "The deity is one, because it is infinite. It is triple, because
it is ever manifesting." This manifestation is triple in its
aspects, for it requires, as Aristotle has it, three principles for
every natural body to become objective: privation, form and matter.
Privation meant in the mind of the great philosopher ... the lowest
plane and world of the Anima Mundi.--("The Secret Doctrine.")
LAO. You mean, then, two kinds of affinity; the one privative, the which
may be towards something which is power, as, infinite is darkness, the
end of which is the position of light; the other perfecting, which tends
to the act and perfection, as infinite is the light, the end of which
would be privation and darkness.
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