III. COSMOLOGY 



The power that was active in the formation of the world 

 was God ; the Supreme Cause and Essence of all things, 

 being not only the Father of the Son, but of all created 

 things that ever were, that are, or will be; the Yliaster,^ 

 the primordial and original Cause of all existence. This 

 Power is, was, and will be the eternal Constructor of the 

 world, the " Carpenter " of the universe, the Sculptor of 

 forms. Creation took place through the inherent Will of 

 that Creative Power being expressed in the " Word " ^ or 

 Fiat (active and efficient thought), in the same manner 

 as if a house would come into existence by a breath.^ 

 The cause of the beginning of creation was in the eternal 

 inherent activity of the immaterial Essence, and all things 

 were invisibly or potentially contained in the First Cause, 

 or God. 



When creation took place the Yliaster divided itself; 

 it, so to say, melted and dissolved, and developed out of 

 itself the Ideos or Chaos (Mysterium magnum, Iliados, 

 Limbus major, or Primordial Matter). This Primordial 

 Essence is of a monistic nature, and manifests itself not 

 only as vital activity, a spiritual force, an invisible, in- 

 comprehensible, and indescribable power ; but also as 

 vital matter, of which the substance of living beings 

 consists.* In the Limbus or Ideos of primordial matter, 



* From (JX'»7, forest, and astra, stars or worlds. 



* The X070J. 



* By the breath (out-breathing) of Brahma. 



* This means that Life is the cause of matter and force. Force and 

 matter are originally identical ; they are only two different modes of one 

 and the same cause or substance which is called Life, and which is itself 

 an attribute or function of the supreme cause of all existence. Modern 



