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working downwards, and there is the line of the 

 study of the ancient science. Working out from 

 this originally simple life into the endless multi- 

 plicity of forms, we may trace the One among the 

 many, and see the Self in all things, and all things 

 in Him. 



At the ending of a universe, the tattvas merge 

 in each other by disintegration ; Prithivi Tattva, 

 having disintegrated into atoms, these atoms are 

 themselves broken up, and the tanmatra that formed 

 them, being no longer able to express itself for lack 

 of suitable material, ceases to be a power, and 

 remains only represented by a modification in con- 

 sciousness a permanent possibility. Thus Apas 

 Tattva becomes the lowest manifestation, and, by a 

 repetition of the above process, ceases to exist. In 

 like fashion each successively vanishes. Hence, 

 Mahadeva is represented as saying in the Shtvdgama : 

 " The universe proceeded from the tattvas ; it goes 

 on through the tattvas ; it vanishes into the tattvas." 



Such is the grandiose conception of the kosmos 

 given by the science of antiquity ; one life, pulsing 

 into innumerable vibrations, and these throwing 

 matter into forms. On this was based the Pytha- 

 gorean system of numbers ; on this mathematics 

 and music were founded ; on this the " Great 

 Science," or Magic, of long-perished nations was 



