, and so on ... These are all
names of various deities which preside over the Cosmo-psychic
Powers.--("The Secret Doctrine.")

LAO. These two powers of the soul, then, never are nor can be perfect
for the object, if they refer to it infinitely?

LIB. So it would be if this infinite were by negative privation or
privative negation of the end, as it is for a more positive affirmation
of the end, infinite and endless.[Y]

[Y] "The deity is one, because it is infinite. It is triple, because
it is ever manifesting." This manifestation is triple in its
aspects, for it requires, as Aristotle has it, three principles for
every natural body to become objective: privation, form and matter.
Privation meant in the mind of the great philosopher ... the lowest
plane and world of the Anima Mundi.--("The Secret Doctrine.")

LAO. You mean, then, two kinds of affinity; the one privative, the which
may be towards something which is power, as, infinite is darkness, the
end of which is the position of light; the other perfecting, which tends
to the act and perfection, as infinite is the light, the end of which
would be privation and darkness.[Z] In this, then, the intellect
conceives the light, the good, the beautiful, in so far as the horizon
of its capacity extends, and the soul, which drinks of Divine nectar and
the fountain of eternal life in so far as its own vessel allows, and one
sees that the light is beyond the circumference of his horizon, where it
can go and penetrate more and more, and the nectar and fount of living
water is infinitely fruitful, so that it can become ever more and more
intoxicated.

[Z] "Darkness adopted illumination in order to make itself visible."
Darkness in its radical, metaphysical basis, is subjective and
absolute light; while the latter, in all its seeming effulgence and
glory, is merely a mass of shadows, as it can never be eternal, and
is simply an illusion, or Maya.--("The Secret Doctrine.")

LIB. From this it does not follow that there is imperfection in the
object, nor that there is little satisfaction in the potency, but that
the power is included in the object and beatifically absorbed by it.
Here the eyes imprint upon the heart, that is upon the intelligence, and
rouse in the will an infinite torment of love, where there is no pain
because nothing is sought which is not obtained; but it is happiness,
because that which is there sought is a