Cosmology and Tree of Life

Two newly revised and reprinted books by Vitvan
now available in beautiful spiral-bound 8.5 x 11 format.
Price for each: $18.00
Special price for both ordered together: $30.00

CODE TITLE FORMAT PRICE ORDER NOW BK-COS Cosmology BOOK $18.00 BK-TOL Tree of Life BOOK $18.00 BK-COT Cosmology -and- Tree of Life *special* BOOK $30.00

 COSMOLOGY

We are excited to be able at last to offer two of Vitvan’s major works. While they may seem challenging to read, Vitvan’s correlations between the self-development process and modern science provide insights not available in any other work we know of. The way in which the cosmic process and the self-development process are related is made clear and understandable. In Cosmology he reveals in detail how the forces of the psychic nature influence body chemistry and how students can develop conscious control of those forces.  Sections on cytoplasmic tectonics and colloidal dynamics provide the scientific explanation for how the psyche and the body interact. Man’s relationship to the cosmic process is also established on scientific grounds.

…One of the features held in common by plant, animal and man and which establishes man’s kinship with the other two, as well as with the World Mother, is cytoplasmic structure; for cytoplasmic structural substances can be described as the basis innate to each and every configuration (body) of plant, animal and man, and represents the cellular composition respecting the ‘bodies’ in which their respective life forces function. This feature, held in common, becomes more meaningful when we begin to surrender the concept of separateness in the realization that this organism-as-a-whole, which we call the solar system represents the World Mother in whose body the Logos now functions; in other words, these cytoplasmic cells represent structure, uniformly consistent through the organs, phases, aspects, compartments, etc., of the body of the Logos….

…The colloidal world (for it represents a world in its own right) constitutes the missing link in natural sciences between the so-called “dead world” of things and objects and the living world; the neglected connection between things and objects and the living world of feeling and thinking; or the connecting link between the chemical processes of body functions and the psychological, with a reversal of the generally accepted roles, i.e., it is the responsiveness of the surface tensions of the colloidal field to electromagnetic waves and frequencies which determines chemical functions. When these electromagnetic forces of the human psche are described in terms of qualities (gunas) and how these psychological (psychic) forces of the race play over the responsive surface of colloidal structures in a given organism, we shall then see how body chemistry is determined….

THE TREE OF LIFE

This lesson series, based on Dr. H. B. Pullen-Burry’s book, Qabalism (1925), followed the lessons on Cosmology and might be considered a companion volume, rounding out information not provided in Vitvan’s other works.Vitvan assumed that students had some working knowledge of the Tree and its interpretation, so he provided only limited explanations of it. His descriptions correlating his instruction on self-development through the awakening of the force centers of the psychic nature with the stations on the Tree of Life shed new light on both his teachings and the significances of the stations on the Tree.

Every phase in the individualizing process has a correspondence in the cosmic process. It is this relationship that we wish to stress in this series of lessons. A start has to be made on two levels; in description (mental) and in function (experience in reality); one the road map, the other the journey.

There are two statements which taken separately have very little meaning, but put together and grasped with one act of consciousness have actually worlds, beyond and within worlds, of meaning. They are: (A) No one can understand any ‘thing’ even the so-called simplest, unless he comprehends the whole of which it is the differentiated part. (B) No one can understand the synthetical Whole of any ‘thing’ unless he first grasps the structure, function and order of its differentiated parts. These two statements taken together represent the cultivated attitude that characterizes the advanced ones on the path. One’s position on the Tree of Life can be evaluated by the degree of his consciousness of these two, as functional aptitudes. This in no way disparages mental or intellectual concepts about these two; as I am a firm believer that mental information about a subject represents a most desirable safeguard to the Knowing after it has been attained. This is true whether the mental information was secured before or after that attainment called Knowledge. We go to Knowing through meditative feeling, conscious direction of creative forces, etc., but safeguard it, express it, describe it, etc., by and with the mental level faculties of conception, information, etc.

 Even though these lessons were given half a century ago, they still seem timely and vital to students seeking to understand and assume responsibility for their own self-development. It is as if the rest of the philosophical world is now catching up to what Vitvan gave throughout his lifetime in presenting the ancient wisdom teachings in language understandable by modern Occidental students.

 If you are looking for deeper insights and expanded understanding, we highly recommend these two volumes to you. Yes, they are challenging to read, but more than worth the effort.