The Point born from THE ONE, a Line It became. Yet, such was Its glee and Its thrust, with a spin into a Spiral It transformed Itself. To and fro Its attraction grew for that which wasn’t Its own, bending and adding more twists to Its flow. And with this, the Two Origins were drawn to Its dancing and singing, powerless to the charm of Its coming and going.

Circles, squares and spheres, and others like these, took shape from Its coming and going. And again the Two Origins could not but follow, adding color and weight to the Symphony of light and sound the Point sang on Its own.

At each turn and a flow — order, dimension and purpose the Point gave to that which wasn’t Its own. And in each ordered sphere that so came to exist, Orders of Beings It left as Its own, to flow on their own and so add their songs to the Song born as a point, a line and a spiral.

First was the point charged to flow, then patterns had come directed to sail on the Origins’ ocean, to end in the forms known to all whose fate takes them on the journey from here to There.

And such was the song the Harbinger sang as the Morning Star rose high in the sky. It was directed to those whose heart was awake and whose mind soared the heights. Left in the Luminous Sea by the Teachers of Old, it sang of the origin of all things and beings, and of their journey through Time and Space towards that waiting Horizon the Harbinger held open to all.

Commentary

This Stanza X is deeply symbolic and not so easy to associate with its central idea — Time. Nonetheless, using geometry, the Stanza does describe the origin of Time and the consequent appearance of that which we call ‘Space’.

More evident in the Stanza is, however, a universal and powerful formula for creation — for true Magic, the magic of Thought.

Stanza X is also a good example of the timelessness of the teachings left in the Sea of Light — i.e. in the universal Light of Akasha — by the Ancient Teachers.*

During the Fourth Age this Stanza was taught to the advanced Humans of the time — who were less developed in their minds and in the use of feeling than most Humans now when the Fifth Age is ending and the Sixth Age is dawning. Unfortunately, in those older times a number of them interpreted the Stanza as a raw magical formula for the manifestation of material things — interpretation that fed in them rampant desire, and that ended in a tragic misuse of the forces of Nature. This distortion was one of the main factors that led to the great war between the Forces of Light and the Forces of Darkness, which ended with the demise of the last civilization of that Age by ‘drowning desire’ or ‘water’.

Such was the misuse of the formula in that Age that during the Fifth Age Stanza X was not revealed to Humans, waiting for the development of their minds and their hearts. During the Sixth Age now arriving, however, when ‘the heart’ in Humans is awakening and when the use of the higher faculties of Mind will become a common occurrence, the symbolism of the Stanza will be studied in its more subtle interpretations — which was the intention of the Ancient Teachers in Their task to foster the journey of identity-discovery in Humans.

The intended interpretations of this Stanza X start with obtaining an understanding, as far as one can, of the ‘Two Origins’ and of the creative process They initiated, and which we currently experience as ‘the Universe’. Once we gain some understanding of this, we can correlate it with the creative power that each of us is and for which one is fully responsible. And this is the approach we are going to take in this Commentary:

Three main ideas are contained in Stanza X: first, ‘the Point’ as an expression of THE ONE, and the nature of Its motions; second, the omnipresence of the Two Origins; and third, the creation resulting from the interaction between the Point and the Two Origins.

Let’s comment on these ideas in their order.

Space, as we know it, thanks to the advances in modern science, hasn’t existed as such since the beginning of our present Universe. No, Space is a later appearance. The Perennial Wisdom teaches that the first to appear as emanations from the Absolute Causeless Cause — i.e. The One Source of All — were two Primordial Forces. With our present mental development, these two Forces or Emanations we can discern and understand in various ways — Light and Darkness is one of them, yet not as ‘good’ and ‘evil’ but as ‘the Impulse to Be’ and ‘the Impulse to not-Be’. **

These two Primordial Forces are the ‘Two Origins’ to whom this and others of the "Stanzas of the Dawn" refer.

Some may confuse the Two Origins with the more familiar duality of Spirit~Matter. However, this duality is a later appearance in our Universe and can only be applied to the experience in Time and in Space undertaken by certain Orders of Beings, including us Humans and the many beings of the natural world that we know of.

What these two Primordial Forces — the Impulse to Be and the Impulse to not-Be — created for themselves when They came into existence was something not so easy to picture with our minds. To start with, the Two Origins didn’t interact with each other directly; there was no attraction between them, and their creation was an inchoate amalgamation of mighty forces charged with repulsion and lacking order and direction; and, of course, no forms at all were created. For the sake of this commentary we could call the product of Their creative work by the term ‘Primordial Space’, though the word ‘space’ is too generous since there wasn’t a ‘space’ at all — Theirs was a pure existence devoid of locality and dimensionality, intelligent but impulsive, and lacking in the realization of ‘a building potential’. Energy, Force, Light, Electricity and Magnetism, as we perceive and know them today, didn’t exist at all, nor had Time appeared either. Theirs was, and is, a primeval BEINGNESS as a precursor of BEING.

Later, when those two Primordial Forces settled into a dynamic equilibrium, a Third Force or Emanation from The One Source of All came into existence. This Third Force was, and is, of a different essence and nature to the Two Origins; and with our present mental development we can also discern it and understand it from various perspectives — one of them is as The Great Architect and Builder of the Universe, as it was called in ancient times, or more appropriate for the Sixth Age, as The Thinker.

This Third Force or Emanation, The Thinker, is ‘THE ONE’ referred to in the first verse of this Stanza X — THE ONE from which ‘the Point’ (i.e. Thought) was born.

It was The Thinker who gave and gives order, direction and purpose to the interaction of the Two Origins. It is The Thinker who made and makes of Their primeval BEINGNESS true BEING. It is The Thinker who drew and draws out from the Two Origins a true creative, intelligent interaction. It is The Thinker who is responsible for the appearance of Time and Space as we know them, with all the myriads of Orders of Beings and the many forms they create and experience.

Let’s study more The Thinker, since It is the key player in this Stanza — besides, as we are going to see, The Thinker is our essential Identity… It is WHO each of us truly IS.

The Thinker is, in essence, Pure Being, the Absolute Self, Pure Identity — forever an outsider to the Universe itself, yet with a boundless power to direct and shape the interaction between the Two Origins.

The Thinker’s contact with the Two Origins is represented in the Stanza by ‘the Point’.

Again, it was the action of The Thinker upon Primordial Space that transformed it into Space as we know it — with all its Orders of Beings, energies, light-fields, forces and ordering laws, producing stars, galaxies, super-clusters, the many dimensions beyond these, and the many forms and processes in them.

But before Space became the ordered system that it is today, something happened first: Time appeared! And the Stanza reminds us of this when it tells us of the motions of the Point as ‘a Line’ and as ‘a Spiral’ — motions which ended creating complex patterns of attraction.

Interpreting what the Stanza tells us using geometry, and to better grasp the nature of Time and how it precedes Space, let’s delve into the way The Thinker works — let’s grasp Its role as ‘the Third Force’ in this Universe of ours.

The Thinker, using Its own essence — Pure Identity — and drive — the Power of Imagining — casts images of Identity, or reflections of Itself, or ‘Points’, upon the ocean of interaction between the Two Origins… an infinite number of them, each one different from the others, ceaselessly and with such a rhythm and such a harmony that they constitute a true Song of songs. Through each of these images of Identity — which are the many Orders of Beings of the Universe — The Thinker interacts intimately with the two Primordial Forces, to show Them the countless possibilities of what They too can be.

Each of these images of Identity starts as a ‘Point’, who, by design, follows a journey of identity-discovery, a journey which is for the benefit of the Two Origins — as well as a path for ‘the Point’ to return to its originating Source, The Thinker. The product of this journey is, invariably, states of Consciousness/Awareness — series of them, harmonically related to each other and to the states of Consciousness/Awareness created by the journeys of the other many ‘Points’. In the process, the two Primordial Forces are compelled to follow this journey, to contribute to it, to partake of it, to explore it, and thus to experience those states of Consciousness/Awareness.

The Thinker’s Song of songs, formed by the countless journeys of Identity It creates, is that which each of The Thinker’s projected Identities — the many Orders of Beings — experience as Time.

Thus, from the perspective of the Perennial Wisdom, Time is not the passing of days and years, or the progression of spatial events, one after the other. Time is, instead, the rhythmic, harmonic and multi-dimensional journey of identity-discovery experienced by the images of Itself The Thinker casts into existence out of Its own Essence; journey which creates and is experienced as states or spheres of Consciousness.

But there is more to Time. It is this countless number of journeys of identity-discovery, and the countless number of states or spheres of Consciousness they so create, that gives order, locality, dimensionality and direction to the interaction between the Two Origins. And the result of this process between Time and the Two Origins is Space as we know it, with its order and its energies, and its forces and its light-fields, in which myriads of galaxies, multi-dimensional levels of existence, and all beings and things take form.

Thus, in the process of creation Time appears first, and Space follows it, as an effect.

More precisely, first is The Thinker, picturing or imagining an expression of Itself (i.e. the Point, a Thought). Then, The Thinker casts Its image-creation (i.e. the reflection of Itself endowed with a particular Identity) upon the ocean of existence (i.e. the interaction of the Two Origins). And the result is an Identity who journeys through that ocean of existence, impressing motion, direction and purpose to it, and by so doing, creating its own Time (or timeline). Lastly, what is perceived of that journey of identity-discovery and of the reaction of the Two Origins to it, is what we call Space.

Time is, then, a creation and an experience in consciousness exclusive to the Identities projected by The Thinker (i.e. Selves or Mind-Souls). Energy, in its many modalities, which is of Space, doesn’t experience Time.

More specifically, it is the Identities projected by The Thinker (i.e. our Selves and the many other Orders of Beings) who impress their flow and changing states of consciousness/awareness upon that which They appropriate, touch and use from the ocean of existence during their journeys of identity-discovery, and thus create Space. And to make this process closer, it is in fact us who create Time as we go and who, by doing that, create and attract to us the energies and forms we want to experience, and how we want to experience them.

To grasp these ideas on Time and Space takes some pondering and abstract thinking (that is, non-materializing thinking) since, evidently, they don’t match the notions on Time and Space held by contemporary Science, nor the notions of Religion about us, Humans, and about Divinity. However, we need to notice that our present perception and understanding of Time and Space are based on our current understanding of life — which is materialistic and limited to that which we perceive with our physical senses and their extensions, the instruments of Science, and which we interpret with a mind that concretizes all thinking into material representations. All this is the product of the Fifth Age; it is the product of the development of mind attained during the Fifth Age. Yet, nothing is wrong with how our minds work today. It is just a stage on the journey.

We also need to keep in mind that Science and Religion, as are also Philosophy and Art, in their current state are not more than crude tools to delve into the mysteries encountered along our journey of identity-discovery at the stage we are at. They too need to change, expand and become more refined, and will change and expand and become more refined as we become ‘more’, as we discover ‘more’ of us with every step ahead.

As the Sixth Age unfolds, a growing and large number of Humans will develop their extended senses (capable of perceiving higher forms of energy and higher states of Being), and their minds will be able to deal with abstract (non-concretizing) and exalted thinking. These developments will make of the creative process (true Magic, true Thinking) an everyday reality for each of us. It will then become a daily experience for most the fact that we do create Time and Space. It will become a daily experience the fact that every creation, and every being and thing in existence (including our persona) starts with a Thought (the Point), a thought that, as we build it, creates its own timeline (the Line), and that we cast into the ocean of manifestation by our very desire to make of it an experience (the Spiral).

Those developments of our senses and our minds will not happen overnight. They will take decades and centuries to happen. Nonetheless, the main reason this Stanza X is now made public, at the Dawn of the Sixth Age, is that it has a direct application in the lives of those who today seek the Light — those who seek to ‘be more’. The Stanza enjoins us to grasp the fact that life for each of us is a journey of identity-discovery, that each of us creates its own journey as one travels, and that each of us is directly responsible for all the experiences one has along that journey.

The Stanza enjoins us to see our bodies, our relationships and our daily experiences as our own creation — a creation that follows a clear and a precise process: first is an idea followed by the thought that builds it, then is the projection of that thought in a specific direction or goal, followed by the infusion to it of an actual desire to see it into manifested existence. Once we follow this process, nothing and no one can arrest our experiencing that creation. On the contrary, the great ocean of Primordial Forces will rush to comply with our fiat.

Thus, controlling our thinking in all our waking moments is the central key for becoming the masters of the experiences we want to have during the journey of identity-discovery we are traveling. Seeing our lives as a creation one is responsible for — and not as the product of circumstances beyond our control, or of others’ doings — is what the Stanza enjoins us to acknowledge. But the Stanza doesn’t end with this exhortation. It gives us one more clue. It tells us that the more we love all beings and things, without waiting for anything in return, and the more our mind focuses on that which is uplifting, positive and joyful, the easier and faster one becomes in fullness The Thinker, the Creator, the true Magician. The Stanza gives us this clue in the words:

And such was the song the Harbinger sang as the Morning Star rose high in the sky. It was directed to those whose heart was awake and whose mind soared the heights.

* See Commentary to Stanza I.

** ‘The Impulse to Be’ and ‘the Impulse to not-Be’ are the root of all perceived and experienced dualities, including that one which religion on Earth has so much misrepresented — so called ‘good’ and ‘evil’ — ‘misrepresented’ since neither ‘good’ nor ‘evil’ exist as such. Only that root duality exists, and only for the period of this Universe.