Starting upon the long
journey immaculate; descending more and more into sinful matter, and having
connected himself with every atom in manifested Space –
the Pilgrim, having struggled through and suffered in every form of
life and being, is only at the bottom of the valley of matter, and half through
his cycle, when he has identified himself with collective Humanity. This, he
has made in his own image. In order to progress upwards and homewards, the
'God' has now to ascend the weary uphill path of the Golgotha of Life. It is
the martyrdom of self-conscious existence. Like Visvakarman he has to sacrifice
himself to himself in order to redeem all creatures, to resurrect from
the many into the One Life. Then he ascends into heaven indeed;
where, plunged into the incomprehensible absolute Being and Bliss of
Paranirvana, he reigns unconditionally, and whence he will re-descend again . . .
-- The Secret Doctrine, i 268
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