The stanzas of Dzyan (From The Secret Doctrine)

STANZA III.

1. . . . The last vibration of the seventh eternity thrills through infinity. The mother swells, expanding from within outward, like the bud of the lotus.

2. The vibration sweeps along, touching the whole universe and the germ that dwells in darkness with its swift wing—the darkness that breathes over the slumbering waters of life.

3. Darkness radiates light, and light drops one solitary ray into the waters, into the mother-deep. The ray shoots