The stanzas of Dzyan (From The Secret Doctrine)

STANZA II.

1. . . . Where were the Builders, the luminous sons of the Manvantaric Refers to a Manvantara, a period of active cosmic manifestation dawn? . . . They were in the unknown darkness, in their state of absolute perfection original: "Ah-hi Paranishpanna". The producers of form from formlessness—the root of the world—the Mother of the Gods original: "Devâmatri" and the plastic essence of the universe original: "Svabhâvat", rested in the bliss of non-being.

2. . . . Where was silence? Where were the ears to perceive it? No, there was neither silence nor sound; nothing existed except the ceaseless, eternal breath, which does not know itself.