Secret Doctrine Commentary (Transactions of the Blavatsky Lodge by H. P. Blavatsky)
Space
H.P. Blavatsky
". . . . Absolute Unity cannot pass to
infinity; for infinity
presupposes the limitless extension of something,
and the
duration of that 'something'; and the One All is like Space -- which is
its only mental and physical representation on this Earth, or our plane
of existence -- neither an object of, nor a subject to, perception. If
one could suppose the Eternal Infinite All, the Omnipresent Unity,
instead of being in Eternity, becoming through periodical manifestation
a manifold Universe or a multiple personality, that Unity would cease
to be one. Locke's idea that 'pure Space is capable of neither
resistance nor Motion' -- is incorrect. Space is neither a 'limitless
void,' nor a 'conditioned fulness,' but both: being, on the plane of
absolute abstraction, the ever-incognisable Deity, which is void only
to finite minds, and on that of mayavic
perception, the
Plenum, the absolute Container of all that is, whether manifested or
unmanifested: it is, therefore, that ABSOLUTE ALL. There is no
difference between the Christian Apostle's 'In Him we live and move and
have our being,' and the Hindu Rishi's 'The Universe lives in, proceeds
from, and will return to, Brahma (Brahma)': for Brahma (neuter), the
unmanifested, is that Universe in abscondito, and
Brahma, the
manifested, is the Logos, made male-female in the symbolical orthodox
dogmas. The God of the Apostle-Initiate and of the Rishi being both the
Unseen and the Visible SPACE. Space is called in the esoteric symbolism
'the Seven-Skinned Eternal Mother-Father.' It is composed from its
undifferentiated to its differentiated surface of seven layers."