The stanzas of Dzyan (From The Secret Doctrine)

3. The Universal Mind did not exist, for there were no Ah-hi Sanskrit: Celestial beings or spiritual hierarchies, also known as Dhyani-Chohans, who act as the vehicles for divine thought to contain it.

4. The Seven Ways to Bliss The states of consciousness or paths leading to Nirvana did not exist. The great causes of misery Nidanas, or the chain of causes and effects that lead to suffering in sentient life did not exist, for there was no one to produce them or be ensnared by them.

5. Darkness alone filled the boundless all; for Father, Mother, and Son were once more one, and the Son had not yet awakened for the new wheel A cycle of manifestation and his pilgrimage upon it.

6. The seven sublime lords and the seven truths had ceased to be, and the universe—the "Son of Necessity"—was...