“ORIGINS OF LIGHT AND DARKNESS There is no boundary for light. It was unknown when it began. Nothing was when light was not. Nothing was when radiance was not. Nothing was when life was not. There was never a boundary for light. Nothing was when water was not.

“WATER IS PRIOR TO DARKNESS Water is prior to darkness. Prior to darkness is water. Nothing is without an end. No number is before the Uthras were. Light beings are prior to darkness. Prior to darkness are Uthras and older than their inhabitants. Goodness is prior to the malice of the place of darkness. Gentleness is prior to the bitterness of the place of darkness. Living fire is prior to the consuming fires of the place of darkness. Praise is prior to the practice of sorcery and witchcraft. Hymns and books are prior to the sorcery of Hewath, the terrible woman¹.

“DARKNESS Water doesn’t mix with tar, and darkness can’t be measured by light.” -The Ginza

No Boundary for Light

In the Bible, God says “Let there be Light,” and light is created. But that creation is actually the creation of the physical universe by the false god, the Demiurge. In the spiritual realm, Light is infinite. It had no beginning and no end. Time has no meaning in the spiritual realm so Light always was and always will be.

Nothing Was When Life Was Not

The author of the Ginza can say this because he understands that the Spiritual Light is itself a living thing. It may not be living in the same way as a physical being, but it is alive. This Spiritual Light is a part of God. Various scriptures say that God is Light, and it is this Spiritual Light they are talking about. So if God is alive, so is the Spiritual Light of Heaven.

Water Prior to Darkness

Lakes and rivers did not come before darkness, but the spiritual “water,” which is the flow of God’s Word and God’s Grace did. Just as with the Spiritual Light, this water, being spiritual in nature, has no beginning and no end. It always was and always will be.

Nothing is Without an End

This statement can be misleading. It needs another word added to it. It should read “Nothing physical is without an end.” Everything in the physical realm has a beginning and an end. Some people will say that, according to the laws of science, matter, and energy cannot be destroyed, only changed. While that is true as long as the physical universe exists, when that universe ends, so will everything in it, at least from a conventional point of view. In actuality, the physical universe won’t be destroyed, it will be gradually transformed from matter back into spirit, so it will go on, but in a very different form.

Prior to Darkness are Uthras

Uthras is a name for Beings of Light, more commonly called Angels. They did exist before Darkness because they are part of the Spiritual Realm, and therefore, immortal. As the quote says, goodness and gentleness were also prior to Darkness. Love could be added to that list. They are aspects of God, the Beings of Light, and Heaven, or the Realm of Light. Like everything else in that realm, they existed before Darkness.

Inferior Darkness

Darkness in the spiritual sense doesn’t refer to the night or to a rook with all the lights turned off. It refers to the realm of matter created by the Demiurge, or the fallen angels. This realm is inferior to the realm of Light because it is mortal and everything in it is mortal. It is the realm of death, disease, suffering, pain, and hunger. None of those unpleasant things exist in the Spiritual Realm created by the real God. Because the real of matter was created by the false god, it is defective and has all those horrors and more. So it should be obvious that Light is greater than Darkness, and at some time in the future, Darkness will end and all will be Light.

“Recent discoveries made by great mathematicians and Kabalists prove, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that every theology, from the earliest and oldest down to the latest, has sprung not only from a common source of abstract beliefs, but from one universal esoteric, or ‘Mystery’ language. These scholars hold the key to the universal language of old, and have turned it successfully, though only once, in the hermetically closed door leading to the Hall of Mysteries. The great archaic system known from prehitoric ages as the sacred Wisdom Science, one that is contained and can be traced in every old as well as in every new religion, had, and still has, its universal language – suspected by the Mason Ragon – the language of the Hierophants, which has seven dialects, so to speak, each referring, and being specially appropriated, to one of the seven mysteries of Nature. Each had its own symbolism. Nature could thus be either read in its fullness, or viewed from one of its special aspects.

“The proof of this lies, to this day, in the extreme difficulty which the Orientalists in general, the Indianists and Egyptologists especially, in interpreting the allegorical writings of the Aryans and the hieratic records of old Egypt.”

–H. P. Blavatsky

Common Source

It is true that all the ancient schools taught essentially the same methods and beliefs. This will probably come as a surprise to those who insist there are many paths to enlightenment. As for a universal language, I am not sure that is true, except in the allegory and symbology used to teach the techniques. We know, for example, that the Hero’s Journey was common to many places all over the world in slightly different forms, but all are allegorical and really represent the quest for spiritual enlightenment.

Scholars Hold the Key

This may have been true in the distant past, but I think it is fair to say that the scholars of today know little, if anything, about spiritual development, and most of them don’t want to learn. If by scholars, Blavatsky means the spiritual Master who ran the Mystery Schools, then she is correct.

Seven Dialects

Blavatsky says that while the Mystery Schools had a universal language, there were seven dialects of that language, one for each of the “Mysteries of Nature”. What those seven mysteries are, she doesn’t explain, at least not in the chapter of the book from which the above quote was taken. We can say, though, that Mystery schools in various places and times probably had slightly different teachings and language that was suitable for the time and place. It is the same in Cosolargy, where Gene Savoy, Sr. updated the ancient teachings and techniques to account for our modern times when people can’t simply drop out of society and enter a monastery. We also have the advantage of computers and the internet that the ancients didn’t have. On the other hand, Savoy did warn us that we are being harmed to some degree by radiation from television, cellphones, computers, and other modern electronics. He also told us that practicing our spiritual development techniques regularly helped shield us from that radiation.