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when He desires to convey the idea of the nature of 

 the universe, and its relation to the Supreme 

 What does He say ? 



Mama yonir Mahad Brahma tasmin garbham 

 dadamyaham. 



Sambhavasarva bhutanam tato bhavati Bharata 

 " I place the germ in the womb of Mahad Brahma." 

 What do these words imply ? for the whole 

 turns on our understanding of that word " germ." 

 Mahad Brahma is the matter of the universe, 

 vivified by Brahman in His third aspect that 

 which Theosophists call the Third Logos, which in 

 the Trimurti is spoken of as Brahma. Looking on 

 Brahman as the One, Mahad Brahma is the third 

 aspect of His revealing, which vivifies and makes 

 atomic the matter of the universe, the womb of the 

 seed of the Eternal Life. In that, brought into 

 manifestation by Brahma, or the Third Logos, the 

 Second, the generating Father, Vishnu, places that 

 germ of life that therein it may develop ; not Him- 

 self in all the might of His Deity, not Himself in the 

 force of His unfolded powers, but the seed of His 

 life capable of evolution, containing everything 

 within it potentially, but showing forth nothing in 

 manifestation at the beginning of the universe. 

 True, the child is the father revived ; true, the child 

 is the same as the father. None the less, the life 



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